captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry. >>> and today we begin with new rules for this new year. under a policy implemented just this morning, travelers from more than a dozen hand-picked nations will be facing stepped up security measures when flying into the united states. with global threats rapidly emerging, the list targets old foes from libya, iran, pakistan and iraq. nbc's brian mooar reports. >> reporter: passengers flying into the united states from other countries will face tougher random screenings, including full body scans. travelers from seven high-risk countries, including nigeria and yemen, will be getting full body patdowns and hands-on luggage inspections. it's the latest fall out from northwest flight 253, a plot allegedly hatched by al qaeda. >> part of something larger from al qaeda. >> reporter: on the sunday talk shows, white house counterterrrorism adviser, john brennan committed the nation's intelligence agencies had but failed to connect a series of dots. still, he insists the system wasn't

let me begin across time when we submitted the manuscript to princeton university press for an review. peter lynn heart jujuy thank and acknowledged he was one of the, we were lucky to get his excellent advice and he was one of the reviewers. he sent me a copy of an advertisement for standard statistics that said we don't have to invest in doubles anymore we are not the unsophisticated masses of the south sea bubble in the early 1800's in britain. we have statistical analysis that can allow us to discern valuation. this was an advertisement for standard statistics which was based in new york. and this advertisement appeared in the saturday evening post in september of 1929. weeks before the crash. so you see where i'm going i hope with the "this time is different" syndrome. a very important example of the "this time is different" syndrome was the year was 1995. how many of you remember mexico's peso crisis in 1994, 1995? mexico almost approach to default and what was then a large bailout package was put together from the imf and the u.s. and other of the g-7 economies, and mexico after all was in

president, i also, as i mentioned a minute ago, want to talk about the lynn university students. many folks watching this on television today have seen the parents of these students. now, there were 12 there with faculty members, and some of them were able to get home. they were recovered and returned, but alive, but now we know that there are four students still missing and two faculty still missing, and we remain hopeful that these young ladies and their two faculty members will make it home back to florida. we have christine giancasi, stephanie crispanelli, courtney hayes and britt jengle along with two faculty members. i have been talking to dr. ross, the president of lynn university, and my office along with other members of congress have been trying to assist in the efforts to find these students that were in the hotel montana which fell shortly after the earthquake. mr. president, yesterday i sent a letter to secretary clinton, administrator shaw, and secretary gates, and i would ask unanimous consent that a copy of this letter dated january 21, 2010, be entered into the r