lester is on the right. that's martha gelhorn, to be wife number three, not yet wife number three, with them on the boat. so they go off. the boat is outfitted. here's another shot of the same. when i first looked at this shot, it was much smaller and i thought only lester had an adult beverage. but in the blow-up here, you see that ernest and martha most probably also have adult beverages while they're outfitting this boat. so they cruise around the caribbean. they are looking for places where nazi sub mar rihannas might refuel and might have come up, might have enlisted the inhabitants of the area, to run these places in stockpiles, oil supplies, whatnot. they think they've found a lot and they write various reports. one of the reports goes to the office of naval intelligence. another one gets disseminated in a highly secret publication known as "reader's digest." so at the end of the day here, you've got lester thinking that he's got a lot to offer in the field of intelligence. he goes, unbeknownst to his

thank you for calling lester. lester is not available to take your call. am working for kraft macaroni and cheese. i have a sober living coach. >> i am so glad you have found some equilibrium. what is the takeaway? what do you want people to take away from your story? >> hope, redemption, second chance, spirit ality, a sense of how to give. not what to give, but how to give. no strings attached. and no expectations out of giving. i want people to just give. give and take it to god after that. >> great message. glad you're well. >> thank you, lester. >> ted williams, the book is "a golden voice." back, right after this. [ female announcer ] letting her home be turned into a training facility? ♪ this olympian's mom has been doing it for years. she's got bounty. in this lab demo, one sheet of new bounty leaves this surface cleaner than two sheets of the leading ordinary brand. bounty has trap and lock technology to soak up big spills and lock them in. let the spills begin. p&g. proud sponsor of the olympic games. [ slap! ] [ slap! slap! slap! slap! ] [ male a

lester? >> john yang in chicago. as those clashes continue in the streets tonight, president obama and other world leaders are attending that high stakes meeting inside. discussing the war in afghanistan and international security. our chief white house correspondent chuck todd joins us with the details. chuck, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. as you know, this is actually the second summit in as many days that president obama is hosting. actually, it was a fear of escalated protests as to one of the unstated reasons why they moved the g-8 summit to camp david. nato, they thought, would be a little less violent. of course, the focus here with this meeting of nato nations is on one thing, how to wind down the war in afghanistan. the 60 invited heads of state gathered today to discuss funding and implementing long-term security arrangements for afghanistan but even before formally opening the summit, the president huddled with hamid karzai. >> we are working with the afghans over the next several years

lester?> michelle franzen, thanks. and for more on that tropical storm about to make landfall down south, we're joined by weather channel meteorologist jim cantore. he's at st. simons island, georgia. how is it looking out there? >> reporter: well, lester, after we talked to you this morning, we had a nuisance tropical storm, now you've got something that's potentially a game changer and potentially intensifying to being close to a hurricane, believe it or not. that means we have a whole new set of problems to expect, especially as packed as these beaches are. dark and ominous skies behind me. that means the storm is coming in. right around midnight, we expect landfall. the center of this thing, about 100 miles offshore right now. so it's coming in fast and furious. and the weather will, too. we're talking about power outage, very, very heavy rain in through here. and of course, anybody that didn't tie down their boats now has to be racing to do that, as these winds have notched up to 65. the

courtney. >> hi, lester.vivors after dozens of exotic animals were turned loose on the community months ago, right before their owner committed suicide. and now that these animals are back home, the community is speaking out. we should warn that you some of the images you are about to see are disturbing. >> i think popular opinion of our citizens is they really don't want them back here. >> the animals arrived caged in a horse trailer. it was a tame homecoming compared to the wild scene back in october when police were called to hunt down and kill dozens of exotic animals after their owner, terry tomorrhompso opened their cages before killing himself. lions, tigers and bears were roaming free from thompson's farm, terrified neighbors called 911. >> yeah, there's a lion on mt. perry road. >> i'm pretty sure i just saw a wolf. >> we live next to terry thompson and there's a bear and lion out. >> locals have been complaining about thompson for some time. he had been convicted of animal cruelty and on weapons cha

i'm lester holt. >> and i'm jenna wolfe. you can see that video a thousand times, and each time it will just terrify you. >> there is a reason they put landing gears on airplanes, so you don't have to jump out of the airplane. >> and i get it. you would never jump out of a plane. i would. and after seeing this, i, i -- it just absolutely blows my mind. >> but the first part of the video, i think we'll show it later on, is she doesn't want to get out of the airplane. it looks like she's kind of pushed. her knees kind of locked up. but yeah, it all turns out safely, but my goodness. >> oh, it's hard to watch it . >> but we'll show you more of that. >> in case you haven't seen it enough. >> and we're going to hear from her about this adventure, what she wants to do next. >> we should mention she is okay, thankfully. >> it is memorial day. going to be a washout in parts of the country, some news you probably didn't want to hear. subtropical storm beryl is expected to hit the east coast later today, already bringing high surf and

>> i think it will be, lester., the law says you have to have something nr than a conviction. you have to have some other evidence. now the criminal justice system is going to say, well, he talked about killing somebody as late as two years after etan disappeared, he's made other statements. but, again, as ron allen suggested, this is somebody who supposedly has mental health issues, has cancer, has hiv. so all of this is going to play in. the bottom line is does he have unique information that anyone else in the public wouldn't have from a very detailing search of the media the last 33 years. >> we're still learning about pedro hernandez. he was 18 at the time. clint, you have studied the minds of a killer. how is it that someone who would kill a child would not have a preev history of victimizing children? >> i think that's the challenge we're going to have to look at. all of us remember the case of jonbenet ramsey. we had john carl stand up and say, i was with her when he died. everyone jumped on him. he had nev

i'm jenna wolfe alongside lester holt.his half hour, we're talking more about the john edwards trial. >> the prosecution rested last week their case in this campaign corruption trial. the former presidential candidate could spend decades behind bars if convicted, but tomorrow, his lawyers begin telling his side of the story. and the question is, will edwards, who is by the way, also a former trial lawyer, take the stand and try to convince the jury? we'll get into that, coming up. >>> also, it's been a pretty busy week for celebrities, and especially celebrity moms, moms like jessica simpson and reese witherspoon. we're going to look at what's happening in pop culture during our "week in buzz." >>> and it's almost the moment we've been waiting for. yesterday, we surprised three deserving moms with head-to-toe makeovers for mother's day. they have new hair, makeup and clothes and are getting ready for their big reveal on national tv. in a few moments, we'll see how their families react to their new glammed-up look. exciting

david, thanks. >> thanks, lester. >> here's jenna. >> lester, thank you. >>> he's gone from opening bells to wedding bells. in a silicon valley surprise -- to us, not him -- facebook ceo mark zuckerberg got married on saturday, just days after his company went public. kind of a good week for him. nbc's veronica de la cruz has more. veronica, good morning. >> hey, good morning to you, jenna. the wedding was a surprise to zuckerberg's millions of followers and even to the guests invited to the young billionaire's home. the photo was poe posted on his own facebook page just after 6:00 p.m. pacific time saturday. mark zuckerberg's relationship status had changed, and now he was married to his longtime girlfriend, priscilla chan. it was a simple ceremony in the backyard of zuckerberg's palo alto home, and also a surprise. the 100 or so invited guests thought they were going to a party celebrating chan's graduation from medical school. >> it's definitely outside the box, which seems actually pretty characteristic, so that's good, you know? that's silicon valley. >> reporter: within hours of his

i'm lester holt. >> and i'm jenna wolfe. remember last week, you took the redeye back from los angeles because you got your "doctorate"? >> yep. >> and i had no sympathy for you. you know, you were up all night, you were exhausted. i had no sympathy. last night, i got in from the derby around 1:00 a.m. i'm exhausted. i apologize profusely for how tired you must have been last week. >> no, no worries. tell me about the derby. >> unbelievable. >> can you get the same sense of the come-from-behind thing when you're watching in person? >> absolutely. you feel it. you get excited. you know, you feel like you're racing along with them. and you should see the people in the audience. they're whipping at random things and they're yelling and screaming. it was such an explosion of excitement to be there. i advise everyone to get to one of these triple crown races at least one time. just an unbelievable experience. >> it was very cool. how they know when to make their move. >> a lot of strategy. >> nice to have you back here. >>> also

. >> reporter: good evening, lester. the french wanted fresh blood, and tonight they got it, francois hollande, the leftist who has never held a cabinet post is the first socialist president of france in almost a generation. in the end, it was close but hollande held off a late comeback by incumbent nicolas sarkozy. we're no longer doomed to face austerity, hollande told his supporters. but many french tonight would argue that sarkozy beat himself. i bear responsibility, he said. i didn't succeed in making the values we share win. middle-class french like dan and his partner, celine, both upwardly mobile, voted for sarkozy in 2007, before the recession. but like so many others, they grew tired of his brash style, his rich friends, his celebrity wife carla bruni at his side. but most of all they rejected the failure of his austerity plan to get france out of its economic doldrums. >> i cannot believe he could win when over two-thirds of the country hate him so much. >> reporter: they voted for hollande. it was a tough dec

i'm lester holt. >> and i'm jenna wolfe. you can see that video a thousand times and each time it will just terrify you. >> there is a reason they put landing gears on airplanes so you don't have to jump out of the airplane. >> i get it, you would never jump out of a plane. i would. after seeing this, i -- it just absolutely blows my mind. >> but the first part and i think we'll show it later on is she doesn't want to get out of the airplane. it looks like she's kind of pushed and her knees kind of locked up. it all turns out safely. >> oh, this is hard to watch it. >> we'll show you a little bit more of that. >> if you haven't seen it enough. >> and then we are going to hear from her about this adventure. >> we should mention she is okay, thankfully. >>> it is memorial day, it's going to be a washout in parts of the country. subtropical storm beryl is due to hit the southeast coast later today. she's already bringing dangerous surf and drenching rains along beaches from northeast florida to south carolina. we've got it all

lester after the war -- lester is always the little brother. he's got to keep quiet, but after the war, lester says ernest got the idea from me. we can't prove that, but there is circumstantial evident to that effect. so ernest, though, he's going to go one -- he's going to go do his brother one better. he's going to outdo his brother by not only finding the germans. okay, reporting their presence, doing the naval intelligence thing. but he's going to sink submarines as well from the pielar, and the idea is that the pielar is going to pretend to fish and that's going to be its cover, there's going to be fishing. he had another cover as well, which was doing oceangraphic research for the natural museum of history in new york there. were a couple instances that he was aware of german submarines approaching fishing boats and saying we'll take your catch and your fresh food. so ernest says i'll wait for them to come alongside and then my high lie play rers going to lob hand grenades down the open hatches and the other members of the crew are going

lester? is. >> thank you. the white house sd is welcoming a diplomatic solution to tension with china. the blind activist that we've been followed for several weeks was put on a plane from beijing to newark, new jersey, to begin a new life. we get the report now from michelle franzen. >> reporter: before chen guangcheng received final word that he and his family were allowed to board a plane to the u.s., there was a delay. but freedom, now a reality. >> he and his wife and two children had been ordered back so house confinement by the chinese government. that will finally end and i think that is kind of a relief, i can tell. >> reporter: a relief after seven years for what he described as systematic abuse. chhen was jailed per accusing china of forcing women to have abortions as part of their one-child policy. he remained under house arrest until last month when he made a daring escape, scaling a wall and taking refuge at the u.s. embassy. the times was just as hillary clinton was headed to that to talk about

i'm lester holt. >> and i'm jenna wolf. remember last week you took the red eye back from los angeles because out got your doctorate? i had no sympathy for you. you were up all night, i had no sympathy. last night i got in from the derby around 1:00 a.m., i am exhausted. i apologize profusely for how tired you must have been last week. >> no problem. tell me about the derby. can you get the same sense when you're there in person. >> you feel like you're racing along with them. you should see everyone in the audience. they're whipping at random things. they're yelling and they're screaming. it was such an explosion of excitement to be there. i advise everyone to try to get to one of these triple crown races at least one time. >> it was very cool. how do they know when though make their move, anyway smp. >> there's a lot of strategy involved. >>> also ahead this morning, president obama officially kicked off his campaign recollection on saturday. six months to go before the election. how will this campaign shape up in the mon

lester? >> all right, bill. thanks. the financial world is shaking over jpmorgan's $2 billion bet gone wrong. what happened? andrew ross sorkin of cnbc has more on the latest and is the author of the book "too big to fail." >> it's been four years since banks were bailed out for making risky business gone bad. now the largest bank, jpmorgan bank lost $2 billion through a risky trade has revived the debate, has anything really changed on wall street. jpmorgan's big trading loss is drawing attention on wall street because they've been one of the biggest. he's long been considered the best at managing risk. the s.e.c. is investigating the loss. >> he apologized calls the mistake grieves and self-inflicted. >> it put egg on our face. >> concerned about his brazen $100 million bet by a trader nicknamed the london wail calmed it down by callinging it a tempest in a teapot. >> we know we were stupid. we know it was a bad juchlkt we don't know if any of that is true. of course, regulators should look

lester. >> kerry sanders in florida tonight. thanks, kerry. >>> health news tonight, and a sweeping new proposal aimed at america's millions of baby boomers. the cdc wants all boomers to be tested for a dangerous viral infection many don't know they have. hepatitis c. more now from chief science correspondent, robert bazell. >> under the proposed cdc guidelines, those in their 40s, 50s, and 60s should get a hepatitis c test at least once. more than 3 million americans already have hepatitis c, a liver illness transmitted by contaminated needles, blood transfusions prior to 1992 when widespread screening for the virus began, and possible sex wbl contact. and 75% of those are baby boomers. born between 1945 and 1965. according to the cdc, 1 in 30 boomers has been infected with hepatitis c and most do thought know it. the virus can cause serious liver diseases. including cirrhosis and liver cancer. still, people can remain without symptoms for decades. cdc officials estimate that the new recommendations for testing could detect hun

here's lester. >> all right, ann, thanks. the music world paid tribute to robin gibb at last night's billboard music awards. wund of the founding members of the bee gees died sunday at the age of 62 following a long battle with cancer. nbc's jim maceda is in london with more on gibb's career and music. >> that's right. tributes are pouring in for robin gibb from fans and colleagues around the world, after the death of the bee gee with that signature voice. ♪ >> reporter: the bee gees were rock 'n' roll hall of famers whose music sold hundreds of millions of albums and now the gibb family has lost another one of its own. robin gibb following his younger brother andy and his twin maurice died after a long battle with cancer leaving fans stunned. >> they have such tragedy in the family. the three youngest siblings gone. this is not as nature intended. >> reporter: the british trio crossed over genres and in many ways defined the disco era. as its lead singer, robin gibb made his mark with a distinct voice. ♪ >> reporter: his son

i'm lester hold, in for brian tonight. amid the intermalsh outcry over the massacre of over 100 villagers in syria last week, u.n. observers announced the massacre of 13 other people. with the situation inside syria tumbling out of control and growing fears of an all-out civil war, the obama administration today moved to tighten the economic screws on the assad government while casting doubt on the prospect of a negotiated peace. how far will and can the u.s. go. arming rebels is off the table. andrea mitchell has been following details from washington. >> as more atrocities akerr each day, the obama administration today imposed new sanctions on syria but said rebels would cause a bigger war. another atrocity today. 13 bodies, hands bound, found in a village. and for the first time, they led reporters into no man' land. we won't show you all of what they saw. women with their faces slashed, children with their eyes gouged. they chant, we'll cut assad's throat, claiming the killers who ravaged this predominant lly sui villa

i'm lester holt, in for brian tonight. amid the international outcry over the massacre of over 100 villagers in syria last week, u.n. observers today reported the apparent mass execute of another 13 people in another part of the country. their bodies found bound and blindfolded. with the situation inside syria tumbling out of control and growing fears of an all-out civil war, the obama administration today moved to tighten the economic screws on the assad government while casting doubt on the prospect of a negotiated peace. how far can and will the u.s. go to end the violence? tonight at least one option, arming the rebels, has been taken off the table. nbc's andrea mitchell is following developments from our washington newsroom this evening. good evenening. >> as more atrocities occur each day, the obama administration today imposed new sanctions on syria but said arming the rebels would only create a wider war. another atrocity uncovered today. 13 bodies, hands bound, found in a village far from hula. and for the first t

. >> reporter: good evening, lester. the french wanted fresh blood, and tonight they got it, francois hollande, the leftist who has never held a cabinet post is the first socialist leader in france in almost a generation. hollande held off nicolas sarkozy. we're no longer doomed to face austerity, hollande told his supporters. but many french tonight would argue that sarkozy beat himself. i bear responsibility, he said. i didn't succeed in making the values we share win. and this man and his partner both upwardly mobile voted for sarkozy in 2007, before the recession. but like so many others, they grew tired of his brash style, his rich friends, his celebrity wife carla bruney at his side. but most of all they rejected the measure of his austerity plan. >> i cannot believe he could win whenever over two-thirds of the country hate him so much. >> reporter: it was a tough decision. >> i think he's an honest guy, a good guy. but i'm not sure he will be able to run the country. >> reporter: hollande has promised to trigger g

to the mound opposiie wei-yin chen...lester pitthedd 4 no decisions against the o's - in 18 starts..ff his only win in chicago...first ittseems a legendaryycareer will not be over...yankees closer maaiano rivera tore his a-c-l last night as he jumped practice... whileethe 42 year old is done for this season... a return will happen. .mo released this statement. iim coming back... write it down in big letters... iim not going out like this.he's the p08. the avens have already said their days of training camp t mcdaniel college in ravens will be t owings mills. trying their best to make up for it.baltimore announcing three open practices for this season's camp... at three diiferent locations..they're all free and open to fans.on saturday, august 4th... at m&t bank stadiim.just like they did last season..then sunday, august 12th the ravens head to navy marine-corp memorial at - stadium.and the final date... one week later at stevenssn university ustang stadium. find out how you can watch the ravens at owings mills...nolln reimold appears to be headinng for the d-l...plus loyola's in the

[ cheers and applause ] lester holt! i got it, david.uys ready? balls to the wall. get in position. clean game. [ whistle blows ] whoa, get it away from me. oh, holt blocked it. gregory's got it. oh, out of bounds. >> get him, david! >> steve: back in bounds! [ whistle blows ] [ cheers and applause ] >> whoo! >> jimmy: he's blocking the goal with his bubble! referee! >> call defense. [ whistle blows ] >> jimmy: lester holt! [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: one minute. one minute warning. balls to the wall, gentlemen. hey, whoa! ♪ [ whistle blows ] last minute. [ light laughter ] last minute. two balls in play. [ whistle blows ] he's getting it -- whoa. missing it. oh! going. going. there you go. kick it out to you like -- oh, it's ugly in this corner. there you go. back over that way. two players down. fallon is kicking the ball. fallon kicked the ball in the corner. there's two balls -- two balls. red ball in place. oh, almost! oh! he scored a goal on himself. >> whoo! [ whistle blowing ] >> steve: and that's it! [ buzzer ] [ cheers an

but right now it's up to aceves to save it for jon lester. hunter pence is first up.: hunter pence has been known to lay down a bunt in this situation with the phillies trailing by two. >> joe: and he shows it, pushes it, right side, and aceves can't make the play! you called it, and aceves could not get to it. the leadoff man is on. >> tim: had too much to do to get the speedy hunter pence. and the base hit. a bunt base hit brings up the potential tieing run for the phillies. >> joe: we've got the team's leading home run hitter, hunter pence, who can run, and he showed it there. bunting to start the inning. it hasn't been a problem for philly to get runners on. it's been a problem for them to bring them home. here is ruiz, who is hitless on the night. bottom of the ninth. 7-5 game. they inherited a runner to score last inning. strike 1. came at him with a 93 mile-an-hour fastball. ruiz with seven home runs. represents the tieing run at the plate. and this will not be an easy one tonight for aceves. they rarely are. hard-hit. line drive. and that will be a double play