they are the hottest item at the company's flagship store in midtown manhattan near central park. block as fans waiting to get their hands-on one. laura engel outside 5th avenue. how is it going? >> reporter: very busy day earlier this morning we were here when it went on sale at 9 a.m.. you would have thought they were giving away bon jovi tickets for free. we are going to walk up the steps and take to you the front door of the apple store to show you how many people are still cuing up and getting in there. we've got in live look here. many people in line earlier today have preordered their ipads. just couldn't wait to get them they to be down here and get in first. the hand-held device looks like a big ipod touch apples boasts i it does more. weighing in at a pound and may have, 9.7 inch screen. it lets you surfed the web, view movies, play games, read e books and magazines. others have been critical of the ipad saying it should be -- should have a webcam and a usb port and say it is a little pricey for those who always have a smartphone and/or land top. critics have mixed revie

. >> couric: but he got his first break when he was accepted at the actor's studio in midtown manhattanon brando, james dean and paul newman were trained in method acting, which teaches actors to draw on their own life experiences. do you think you'd be successful if this place hadn't been here in new york? >> pacino: well, i think it had a lot to do with my success, because when i was younger, they weren't hiring people like me to play in shakespeare, or anything else, or moliere or noel coward. you could do everything here. but you just keep going. >> couric: on the streets of greenwich village today... >> pacino: hi, how are you? >> couric: ...walking with al pacino feels like old home week. >> pacino: hi. sorry for the intrusion. hey, hi, guys. >> couric: does this happen wherever you go? >> pacino: if i go with a big camera and you, i think then it might happen. >> couric: his mother never lived to see moments like these. she died when he was 21. was it hard that she never saw you attain success? >> pacino: yeah, it was. and my grandfather, too, who raised me. those are the two mos

the empire state building and all of midtown manhattan had vanished.n its place was black smoke and thousands of sheets of drifting paper. it gave will the sense of the magnitude of what happened. the smoke and debris was to travel 50 or 100 yards from the other tower to so thoroughly obscure the view. people were jumping up, sere leaped like a contagion. calmed down, calm down, chris shouted, it is in the other building. like a vacuum, the windows drew will and brad and frick. the harvick spectacle of the smoke and the breach was irresistible. but as the tide of people drew well to the window and knocking came to the door through the small hallway. it was a decisive moment. i can't believe someone forgot their past, he thought. the desperate binging escalated. the connection demanded his attention. will didn't want to answer the door but he happened to be the one closest. it placed the obligation on him. his connections with his friends called him towards the windows but the plea from the door pulled him in the other direction. it broke him away from

the empire state-building and all of midtown manhattan had vanished.n its place was black smoke and thousands of sheets of drifting paper. it gave will the sense of the magnitude of what happened. the smoke and debris must have traveled so, so thoroughly obscure the view. chaos erupted. people were jumping up. fear like a contagion. calm down. it is in the other building. like a vacuum, the windows drew will and brad and rick. the horrific spectacle of the smoke and debris was irresistible. but as the tide of people drew will toward the windows a frantic knocking came from the door through the small hallway. it was a decisive moment. i can't believe someone forgot that pass key will thought. the desperate banging escalated. will didn't want to answer the door but he happened to be the one closest to it. it placed an obligation on him. his connections with his friends pulled him toward the windows but the plea from the door pulled him in the other direction. it broke him away from the tide. he went to the hallway and opened the door. as he left the main

a search is underway for a couple who ditched a missing 3-year-old boy in midtown manhattan. he was found inside a st. patrick's cathedral last night. a note in his pocket gave his name and the name of a detective in florida looking for him. he was reported missing in florida monday after his mother was arrested on counterfeiting charges. the little boy is in the industry of child services. his mother says she wants her son back. >> i want my son safe. and people make mistakes, it doesn't mean they are a mistake. megyn: authorities are taking a closer look at secure camera footage to see the man and woman seen with him before he first disappeared. starting monday one group in washington will kick to what could be the toughest job in the country, figuring out how to slash $13 trillion in federal debt. that's the tab for the president's debt commission. wendell goler is at the white house. what is the president going to tell the commission? what do we expect to happen here? >> reporter: the big issue is whether the debt commission will recommend tax increases. the president say

. >>> welcome back to midtown manhattan after the president's remarks on financial regulation, we want to take you across the country to san francisco where our own simon hobbs is at a derivatives conference and they have been lisening to the speech, obviously, with great, great interest. simon, what's their take? >> well, i think the most important thing to say first off is if you look at the bill that went from the agriculture yesterday to the senate there was provision in that, but the derivatives funk s functions ofp five banks had to be earned off. people around here shuffled and they smiled and they just hope that isn't true and obama is true to his word and that the lobbyists and republicans will ultimately be able to plot that. two elements of the provision that will buy, carl. that is the idea that these trades should go through clearing houses so they will achieve margin and guarantee the trades and people will be held responsibility for that in the open and choose a systemic risk. the other area much more controversial is that the idea of derivative trades would have to go t

the empire state building and all of midtown manhattan had vanished. in its place was black smoke and thousands of sheets of drifting paper. it gave will the sense of the magnitude of what happened. the smoke and debris was to travel 50 or 100 yards from the other tower to so thoroughly obscure the view. people were jumping up, sere leaped like a contagion. calmed down, calm down, chris shouted, it is in the other building. like a vacuum, the windows drew will and brad and frick. the harvick spectacle of the smoke and the breach was irresistible. but as the tide of people drew well to the window and knocking came to the door through the small hallway. it was a decisive moment. i can't believe someone forgot their past, he thought. the desperate binging escalated. the connection demanded his attention. will didn't want to answer the door but he happened to be the one closest. it placed the obligation on him. his connections with his friends called him towards the windows but the plea from the door pulled him in the other direction. it broke him away fro

a beautiful spring morning here in midtown manhattan.riday. not exactly sure the reason for it, but we will take it. we're loving it. >> i think they're huddling for warmth. >> it will warm up. >>> i'm matt lauer, along with ann curry. meredith is off today. natalie morales and al roker are here as well. coming up in this half-hour, an adorable little girl. man, is she talented. this is 6-year-old clara. she is a piano prodigy who has already shared her talents at the world famous carnegie hall. >> she practiced, practiced, practiced. >> she's going to be talking to us in just a couple of minutes and playing some more. >> wow! >> 6 years old! >>> also this morning, a youtube sensati sensation. have you heard of tillman, the skateboarding bulldog? you have now. look at him! >> he ran out of plaza. >> tillman has done the rose parade two years in a row. last year, this past year he was actually snowboarding. >> he's also a fan of matt's. we'll get to the bottom of that this morning. >>> speaking of animals, we're going to go inside a sanct