never. >> matt williams disagrees. >> what we do is we use this to flatten large areas. i'll use this foot. >> for 20 years he's been making crop circles and he has the conviction for causing criminal damage to prove it. >> a complex design would start around 10:00 at night. and working until 4:30 in the morning when it gets light. >> this night vision video shows matt and fellow circle maker terry roderick making the famous serpent circle which fooled believers in july 2011. >> you use one person as a center point and hold the end with tape measures. and sidestep to scribe the foot lines. then you use geometry or you can improvise and be more free with it. start creating the pattern. >> but even they don't know who or what created the famous oliver's castle formation. >> i think one of the interesting things about this controversy is that it's gone on for so long. i mean, here we are a decade and a half on and still nobody has definitively nailed this as a fake. and i'm willing to believe either. i'm willing to believe it could be a fake, it could be real. but i've neve

and when that older boy matt williams, you know, tried to socialize himself, tried to join the navy and go out to seattle and live a real life he failed. he ended up going back home and he ended up to you know, spiraling down into a very spooky extremism and drew a long this and the scent put upon dominated brother so it really is an interesting parallel pending all discoveries about what this case really is. >> thank you. however like to turn to questions for each of you. before we will -- we will get to questions from the audience. be patient. as he has already. let me start. you said that the lust grows is the most important of your box. so why'd you say that? also, how is it that given all the work you have done, you can't enjoy this book a particular? >> well, i don't know if any of you are familiar with the case. if you live in san diego, it was pretty much the biggest murder case we ever had, and it was partly because it involved these two teenage girls. fourteen years old to amber duvall and about a year later chelsea king, 17 years old. very close properly within about 10 miles

matt and savannah, back to you. >> where does this investigation go from here? nbc's justice correspondent pete williams has been working this story tirelessly around the clock. pete, good morning to you. >> matt, good morning. the justice department says it intends to put dzhokhar tsarnaev on trial in a regular civilian court using the rules that apply in any criminal trial and that's renewing a debate about how to try terrorists on american soil. as soon as he is physically ready, dzhokhar tsarnaev will be subjected to questioning by federal authorities but in the beginning he will not be given the usual miranda warning about the right to remain silent. instead, the government will invoke a rule that allows questioning a suspect without giving advice of rights. >> there is a public safety exemption in cases of national security and potential charges involving acts of terrorism and so the government has that opportunity right now. >> reporter: the government invoked the same rule in the case of the so-called underwear bomber. as in his case it allows questioning to learn of any potential plots or accom

this time the network of brian williams and matt lauer, they give us another gem.a new promo on the peacock network, she claims the community opens your children. not ygaa">w)w7ég break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. once it's everybody's responsibility and not just the household, then we start making better investment. >> sean: so the left is claiming you are not responsible for your own children what, are you responsible for? anything? earlier today, after the widespread backlash harris perry responded in an article she wrote, quote, those of you who are alarmed by the ad can relax. i have no designs on taking your children. please keep your kids. but i understand the fear. we do live in a nation where slave holders took the infants from the arms of their mothers and sold them for their own profit. we live in a nation where the government snatched american indian children from their families and reeducated them by forbidding them to speak the

the network of matt lauer, brian williams, nbc news that operates under the guys of journalism is puttingissa harris perry to tout the leftist agenda. watch this. >> america will always want some level of -- people who work hard, sacrifice and saab their money and make major contributions, we think they should earn a little more and have more resources and that's fine. but we also, however; to have a floor under which nobody falls. if you are below that, especially if you are a child and you are below that, we are not going to accept that. you do have the right to healthcare and to education and to decent housing and to quality food at all times. >> obama phones, obama food, obama housing. only hardworking people. you just get a little teensy, m. and the promo we heard last night, let's remind our audience of the linecy that's being pro no, sirred by nbc news. >> we have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we've had a private notion of children. your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. we haven't had a very collective notion of these are our chil

matt? >> pete williams, thank you very much. edward davis, commissioner of the boston police department, joins us now. commissioner, nice to see you. good morning. >> good morning, matt. >> you've got a suspect in the hospital in critical, but stable, condition. unable to speak, but answering preliminary questions in writing. based on those early answers, are you 100% confident there is no future or further threat to boston in terms of accomplices or unexploded devices? >> this is very early in the investigation. we're satisfied that the two main actors, the people that were committing the damage out there, have been either captured or killed. there's still an open question as to exactly what happened in this investigation and there are enormous investigative resources being poured into that right now. we can't say with 100% certainty that -- anything actually at this point. >> do you know if this suspect has in any way given any indication of what the motive was for these attacks? >> no. it would be impossible for me to discuss

. >> sean: listen, i say to brian williams, you proud of this? i say to matt, are you proud of the things that are being said under the brand name that you try to build? tom brokaw. i can't imagine he would be. speaking of nbc, jay leno is my favorite late night host. i think he's the funniest, an equal opportunity comedian and he's out. and he's the highest rated. let's roll the tape. >> over the weekend, president obama, you know president obama played golf with tiger woods and tiger said the president was a very good golfer for a guy who only plays five days a week, you know. that's pretty good. [ laughter ] actually you mow what the president's handicap is in doesn't understand economics. [ laughter ] that's the handicap. ground breaking move, the associated press, the largest news gathering outlet will no longer use the term illegal immigrant. that is out. no longer illegal immigrants. they will use the frame. undocumented democrat. that is the new term, undocumented democrat. >> sean: he's funny. he's rated number one. this is the second time they've tri

matt barnes is open. clippers take game one. >> nets making their first playoff since 2007 again but a better result against the bulls. darrin williamsam, high 22. nets shot 66% from the field. portland takes game one in a blowout. >> celtics and knicks in madison square garden. jury've - -- jr smith. carmelo anthony, top dog in this one. knicks take game one. all the home teams won. >> we'll take a brief time-out before we hit the diamonds. tim lincecum's best outing of the >> mike: giants finally got a decent outing from tim lincecum. they take their second straight from the padres. men in black in mccovey's cove. tim gave up only four hits. santo -- sandoval gets the team on the board. 2- 0. padres threatened in the eighth. runners on the corner, but the inning-ending double play. in the nine. romo gets his eighth save of the season. giants win. >> a's and tampa. reddick showing his mom his newly shavedder into hair. bottom two matt joyce facing parker. that out of here. parker falling to 0-3, lock gore ya with the popup. people are scrambling. donaldson over the shoulder, and is a lip reed longoria, he caught that? >> this sports

matt barnes is open. clippers take game one. >> nets making their first playoff since 2007 again but a better result against the bulls. darrin williamsam, high 22. nets shot 66% from the field. portland takes game one in a blowout. >> celtics and knicks in madison square garden. jury've -- jr smith. carmelo anthony, top dog in this one. knicks take game one. all the home teams won. >> we'll take a brief time-out before we hit the diamonds. tim lincecum's best outing of the >> mike: giants finally got a decent outing from tim lincecum. they take their second straight from the padres. men in black in mccovey's cove. tim gave up only four hits. santo -- sandoval gets the team on the board. 2- 0. padres threatened in the eighth. runners on the corner, but the inning-ending double play. in the nine. romo gets his eighth save of the season. giants win. >> a's and tampa. reddick showing his mom his newly shavedder into hair. bottom two matt joyce facing parker. that out of here. parker falling to 0-3, lock gore ya with the popup. people are scrambling. donaldson over the shoulder, and is a lip reed longoria, he caught that? >> this sports r

william and kate were married two years ago today. seems so recent. >>> here's a look at what's coming up later on "today." matt goes one on one with marsha stewart about her work, life and her search for love. >>> and olympic gold medalist gabby douglas opens up about her life in the spotlight in her new book "raising the bar." keep it on this channel for news, weather, sports and more. i'm richards lui along with dylan dreyer. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. have a great start to the week. . . . >>> a northern california town on edge. >>> finally headed to trial, accused serial killer gets ready to defend himself in court. >>> south bay businesses teaming up and talking about a lawsuit against major league baseball. >>> right now, a quick live look outside. try to get your monday jump-started here. a live look at the bay bridge in san francisco. it is day one of the workweek, monday, april 29th. this is "today in the bay."

williams. he has new information on that investigation. pete, good morning. >> matt, good morning.nt officials say they have begun their interrogation of dzhokhar tsarnaev, but not in the way they had planned. they say he has a hard time speaking with a gunshot wound to the throat. federal prosecutors plan to file terrorism charges today against the younger of two brothers accused of planting bombs at the boston marathon. dzhokhar tsarnaev lies under guard at a boston hospital with a bullet wound in his throat. some investigators say it might be the result of a suicide attempt on friday night as he lay in a boat on a backyard trailer in watertown just before he was arrested. he's now being questioned for

the world should know where we stand on these issues in william do you want to jump in here to actually go into first second i want to risk ok matt i want likely respond to that go ahead i think. i absolutely sympathize with the muslim expert who just spoke and i think that he's absolutely right that right now the muslim community in the united states is under the lens they were before but particularly so in light of the bombings and the fact that the presumed perpetrators are muslim. and what i would what i want to stress from here more generally is that terrorism is politically counter productive and so when when people use terrorism to advance their given political cause it frequently backfires based i mean details are still sketchy about what's going on with with the boston bombing but my understanding at least based on what the perpetrators. seem to have said is that it was done in the name of at least their interpretation of islam but in reality terrorism is detrimental to islam and indeed it's detrimental to the causes professed by any terrorist perpetrators william you want to apply that i wish i wish we could all stick t

the world should know where we stand on these issues in william do you want to jump in here to actually go in for a second i want to risk ok matt i want likely respond to that go ahead i think. i absolutely sympathize with the muslim expert who just spoke and i think that he's absolutely right that right now the muslim community in the united states is under the lens they were before but particularly so in light of the bombings and the fact that the presumed perpetrators are muslim. and what i would have what i want to stress from here more generally is that terrorism is politically counter productive and so when when people use terrorism to advance their given political cause it frequently backfires based i mean details are still sketchy about what's going on with with the boston bombing but my understanding at least based on what the perpetrators. seem to have said is that it was done in the name of at least their interpretation of islam but in reality terrorism is detrimental to islam and indeed it's detrimental to the causes professed by any terrorist perpetrators william you want to point out i wish i wish we could all sti

the world should know where we stand on these issues in william do you want to jump in here to actually go in for a second i want to risk ok matt i want to like when respond to that go ahead i think. i absolutely sympathize with the muslim expert who just spoke and i think that is absolutely right that right now the muslim community in the united states is under the lens they were before but particularly so in light of the bombings and the fact that the presumed perpetrators are muslim. and what i would what i want to stress from here more generally is that terrorism is politically counter productive and so when when people use terrorism to advance they're given political cause it frequently backfires based i mean details are still sketchy about what's going on with with the boston bombing but my understanding at least based on what the perpetrators seem to have. is that it was done in the name of at least their interpretation of islam but in reality terrorism is detrimental to islam and indeed it's detrimental to the causes professed by any terrorist perpetrators william you want to point it out i wish i wish we could stick to

matt? >>> a new suspect charged in connection with the ricin-tainted letters to president obama and other officials appears in federal court today. pete williams has the newest developments. pete, good morning. >> matt, good morning to you. the man who will stand before a federal judge will be formally charged and is the second person arrested in the case. the first suspect has been released with his charges dropped. investigators say their relationship is a part of the case. >> reporter: federal prosecutors now accuse a former martial arts instructor, 41-year-old james everett dusky of tupelo, mississippi, containing the deadly poison ricin to the white house and senator roger wicker of mississippi. both letters were stopped at federal mail screening centers where the hazardous contents were detected. dusky was arrested over the weekend after federal agents spend days searching his house. law enforcement officials said they found traces of ricin in his possession but he has insisted he had nothing to do with the letters. did you ever handle ricin? >> hold on a second. no. i wouldn't recognize ricin if i saw it. would you? >> reporter: 12 days

matt. >> anne thompson in boston. thanks very much. pete williams is in washington with new details on the investigation. pete, good morning. and let me ask you about the charges. unlawfully using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death and malicious destruction of property. anything surprise you with what he has been charged with and hasn't? >> reporter: no, not what he has been charged with. this is fully what we expected. it's a charge that could carry the death penalty in the federal system. massachusetts doesn't have the death penalty in the state system. he is a ehe's not charged with killing the campus policeman. they could possibly include it in a later indictment or perhaps the state could bring charges. >> so the suspect is gravely injured. he's in a hospital bed and he is's answering did we act alone, were we affiliated with any larger terror group. he says no to that question. do the authorities think his answers are credible? >> reporter: well, they don't know. this is one thing they're going to have to che

williams is nbc's just correspondent. pete. good morning. >> good morning, matt. the fbi is very eager to identify, find and talk to two young men who displayed the behavior they're looking for, someone who walks up to the spot, leaves a backpack away and walks away just before one of the bombs goes off. the fbi says it has pictures from several different sources showing the same thing happening at the spot where one of the bombs exploded. the sequence of explosions, 13 seconds apart can be heard on this videotape of universal sports network technicians making final preparations to cover the end of the marathon event. a key image investigators say was captured by a surveillance camera with a bird's-eye view mounted high up across the street from the second bombing site. officials say it shows a young man talking on his cell phone who sets down what appears to be a heavy backpack and dashes away moments before the second bomb goes off. because he was on a cell phone, investigators are checking the logs of the hundreds of people using their phones in the moments bef