america stood with the people of oklahoma city. ll the letters i got was from the one that you quoted. the whole issue is how is the city, how will the state, how will victims respond. the nation was pulling for them, wondering what they would do. essentially, the pan am 103 widow told them that was ok to keep on living. the only with a that honor their loved ones is to keep living life and to what they're lost loved ones would have done. it was better than anything i could have said and she had more credibility in saying it. i think it helped not all the victims and their families in also helped everybody else. after oklahoma city, what happened? at one level, we did rational things. i went back to congress and ask them to. bob dole was great. we had a real sense of bipartisan mission. we disagreed about whether chemical tags should be put in fertilizer, but as a scientific matter, it is hard to do anyway. we did not abolish all our disagreements, but there was a sense that this is something we had to do together. that is exactly w

oklahoma forever. it bothers me when i see these things happening in my city order of your city. t know how to root that out. it would be wonderful. i have many good friends in the oklahoma legislature. it would be wonderful if they came together and said that that is not acceptable. i don't know how we make that happen. >> and want to look at it another way of looking at the spike in the activity. we are going through a democratic change. we also have economic strains on average families. some people have been strained pretty much since the 1970 cost. under george bush, all the demographic changes were continuing and we did not see this kind of wave as we did in the 1990's. to what extent is this not a long-term change in america kind of phenomenon? when you have a democratic control of government and they are seeking to advance the kind of programs that democrats want to advance which typically involve a more assertive role for the federal government. there are some that rockwell from this, is this more was a political or demographic phenomenon? >> i think it's that the debate f

america stood with the people of oklahoma city and maybe the most important letter i got out of all theletters i got. was the one that you quoted. because the whole issue was is how will the city, how will the state, how will the victims and their families respond? a heart-broken nation was looking at them and pulling for them and wondering what they would do. and essentially the pan am 103 widow told them, it was ok to keep on living. the only way7$ honor their lost loved ones was to reclaim life. and do with life what their lost loved ones would have done. it was better than anything i could have said, and she had more credibility saying it. and i think it helped not only the victims and their families, it also helped everyone else. so after oklahoma city what happened. well, at one level we did rational things, i went back to congress and asked for the legislation i sent them. bob doyle was great, we had bipartisan mission, we disagreed about fertilizer and regarding a mission, and scientifically it's hard to do. but there was a sense that this is something that we had to do togethe

not, family members are the living legacy of the lost and as nbc's janet shamblian reports from oklahoma cityt one victim would probably like what she sees just fine. >> reporter: the farms and ranches of rural oklahoma are where you can find rosalyn bigs. as a veterinarian for the u.s. department of agriculture. >> he's really big. >> reporter: you might say the job is in her genes. it is the very same position her mom held until 15 years ago today. >> there is some kind of explosion downtown. >> reporter: dr. peggy clark was among the 168 victims of the oklahoma city bombing. the irony, hers was a field job. she rarely used her office in the murrah federal building but when she stopped in for a few minutes that day, three girls lost their mom, rosalyn 15, blaine 13 and chelsea only 6. >> horse. horse. >> reporter: today they are grown. blaine has a son. together they have a mission. for every mother and father who died here there was college money for their children. dr. clark's daughters would use it to follow the career paths of their mom. at the state capital blaine helps shape farm legi

he had the whole route mapped out from previous trips to oklahoma city. he knew exactly how he was going to get to the murrah building. >> as a military man, you do dry runs of operations. i knew what route i was going to take. i had contingency plans in case i would have had a flat tire, in case i would have been pulled over by a cop, in case the road had been closed and had to go around, i knew the roads, i wouldn't need to look at a map. >> after nearly two hours of farmland, the city's skyline comes into view, and mcveigh steels himself for action. >> you try not to let your mind stray too much. it is just like going into combat. if you start thinking too much about things you should have already thought about prior to, it's going to distract you. there's time to think about that, and it's not during the mission, because it's going to distract you. it's all on procedure. i'm going to put my earplugs in here when i pull off the exit. at harrison street. >> mcveigh gets off the highway a few minutes before 9:00 a.m. upon entering downtown, there are mom

the history of oklahoma city will not be written by this attack as this memorial and museum at test, ory of this city and its people will be written by what came afterward and by what is yet to come. by the tremendous outpouring of community support that became known as the oklahoma standard, by the demands relief operations which included support from over 12,000 federal, state, local, and community participants, including 665 fena employees -- fema employees. but the difficult lessons learned about how we need to steal our defenses against terrorism and that we have to improve how we protect our country and by the unwavering determination to seek a justice of the perpetrators of this crime. as a governor -- as the governor mentioned, i was privileged to help lead a portion of the criminal investigation into this attack as i was serving as the united states attorney for arizona. arizona alone, 150 agents were assigned to the case and for a full six weeks, we maintained a command post to ensure that every legal tool available to us would be used to support the investigation. i wish it

department of homeland security secretary janet napolitano and brad henry will be here and the mayor of oklahoma city will be here to talk about how this city and state have moved on collective together, as well as our nation. but i want you to remember, 168 people, as you mentioned, martha, were trangcle killed, their ages ranged from three-months old to 73 years old, you mentioned 19 kids under the age of five were among the dead, they were playing in a dare care -- day care center on the second floor of the murrah building and every year following that attack on this date the family and friends of those killed, they come here to remember and reflect, along with complete strangers. in fact just last week, we had the opportunity to visit with jamie cubberdale, we folded her to a cemetary where her two youngest grandchildren were laid to rest in 1995, back then she had full custody of those boys, aaron was five years old, his little bon, elija hsm was two years old, they were among the 19 killed, they were in that day care center, and since that time, their grandmother tells me she has never and will

remember oklahoma city? yeah, i do. also remember the waco barbecue that your attorney general gave us. thanks a lot. we're in a war. the other side knows they're at war because they started it. they're coming for our freedom, for our money, for our kids, for our property. they're coming for everything because they are a bunch of socialists. >> it is strategically easier to complain about being accused of inciting violence unfairly when you are not at the time speaking to a crowd carrying signs threatening to shoot the president. we'll be right back. (announcer) we believe in giving every investor a lot more for a lot less. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 that's why, at schwab, tdd# 1-800-345-2550 every online equity trade is now $8.95 tdd# 1-800-345-2550 no matter your account balance, how often you trade tdd# 1-800-345-2550 or how many shares... tdd# 1-800-345-2550 you pay what they pay what everyone pays: $8.95. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 and you still get all the help tdd# 1-800-345-2550 and support you expect from schwab tdd# 1-800-3

earlier this month, i signed a measure to ensure that the oklahoma city bombing is included in the historylum of all oklahoma students. students entering high school this year were born after 1995 and we have a duty to ensure that future generations remember those lost and injured here, that they understand the lessons of this vital part of our shared history to ensure that love and goodness shall continue to prevail over hatred and that similar atrocities can be prevented in the future. pslam 46, verse 5, it tells us that to god is in the midst of the city. it shall not be toppled. by the very grace of god, we oklahomans conquered evil with good. we overcame in despair with hoped. we will continue to honor those taken from us and we will continue to build a better community and state by building on the good news and hope that springs from these sacred grounds. the oklahoma standard is not a past event. it is part of the character and fabric of the people of this city and state. god bless us all. thank you. [applause] >> our office -- our special guest and keynote speaker is familiar with

82 people died at the ranch at the branch davidian compound in waco, texas and two years later oklahoma cityy. frank keating is the former governor of oklahoma and president of the american council of life insurers and kevin jackson is the author of "the big black lie" and peter wood is the author of "a bee in the mouth anger in america now." this is a little different than what happens on cable tv. i'll challenge each of you to play a little bit of the other side. maybe there are two sides to a lot of views. maybe purple is a sexier color than blue or red. former governor keating i want to start with you. president clinton came out and said that, you know, there is a lot going on right now that feels preoklahoma city, then of course rush limbaugh came back at him and said it's all on your shoulders from here on in. what do you see today versus what you felt in the days, weeks, months leading up to that horrible tragedy? >> donny, with all due respect to president clinton i as a former fbi agent, i was the first ranking u.s. attorney confirmed and supervised most of the federal law enforceme

this is the oklahoma city memorial, oklahoma city, this is the site where we are going to see. it is okay. we can go back to that live picture. we are making adjustments there. that's the podium where the ceremony is going to take place. several speakers are going to take to the stage thichlts the 15th anniversary of the oklahoma city bombing. they are getting set for the ceremony to start. it is gog start at 9:55 eastern time. they are going to commemorate the moment when the bomb went off at the federal building there in oklahoma city, which was at 9:02 central time, some 15 years ago. it took the lives of 168 people, among them 19 children as well. injured another 600 others. it forever changed the way that people in this country think about terrorism, domestic terrorism and what we are all no l longer immune to. that was the worst in this country's history, an act of domestic terrorism at the time. we saw the other bombing of the 9/11 attacks, which came some years after. this was a home grown terror that got to people and shook people and still reverb dearate through this

you can politicize, you know, oklahoma city or anything, even the educational special we did.ut some things are not right and left. some things are just about truth. listen, what is the truth everyone's trying to figure out when it comes to leaders, congressmen being spat upon? that's the accusation. or bad things being said about them, racial epithets. i want you to listen to ann coulter on "larry king live" on thursday night and then we'll talk about it. >> there's a $100,000 offer, if anyone can produce a tape, and there are photo cameras all over those people walking out. if you can show somebody saying the "n" word, well, then you can win $100,000 if you can produce that tape, because there is no tape of it. >> okay, listen, john. we have the tape here at cnn. i saw it on cnn's "state of the union," where they highlighted it, where he walks by -- congressman cleaver walks through the crowd and he moves like someone is spitting on him and then the police officer goes back. the person was, i think, taken into custody, but then they decided not to take charges. so what do yo

oklahoma city won their first ever playoff. game four's tomorrow night. >>> to chicago, the bulls made a win over the cavs. he made lebron james look like another player. bynum got the tough layup. the bulls held on for a 108-106 win. >>> nhl, the flyers the last team to make the playoffs. now they're the first team to advance to the second round. phillies scored three minutes in. >>> in pittsburgh it took three overtimes but somebody finally won game five between the penguins and senators. that's your game winner. senators survived to play another game. they won it 4-3 in triple overtime. pens lead the series, 3-2. >>> curt suzuki grounded one to alleex rodriguez. he started a 5-4-3 triple play. one swing, three outs, but all for naught. the a's won it 4-2. that's your early look at sports on "early today." have a great weekend. i'm fred roggin. >>> will a hold over box champ come back to surprise everything this weekend? your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >> from the country, they may not have much

. >> next, anniversary of the oklahoma city bombing prompts some in the press to make comparisons that seem anything but fair and balanced. >> 15 years ago an act of terror rocked our nation. now some in the media trying to link that crime to a popular political view? iran's nuclear threat grows. memo from defense secretary reveals a weak plan on how to deal with that threat. is the media paying attention? answers next on news watch. may i help you? hi, i need to start saving on car insurance. money a bit tight? yeah, i've had to cut back, sell some stuff. like his watch. oh. we can help you save. because we instantly compare your progressive direct rate with rates from other top companies. watch this. [ beeping ] nice savings. this means i can buy my watch back. oh, this watch? yeah. not for sale. [ gasps ] that's cold. making sure you get a great deal. now, that's progressive. call or click today. >>> when i went back and started preparing for the 15th anniversary of oklahoma city, i realized there were a lot of parallels between the early 90s and now. the rise of identity politics.

this is the anniversary of the, you know, bombing in oklahoma city.ing about this. does that worry you? >> well, i mean, i guess there are things to be concerned about, but i think we have to pay attention to the right things. we have had a tendency in the last ten years to be really very concerned about insurging violence. sometimes what we forget is that state-sponsored violence can be much more devastating. it seems to me that we do have some degree of revival in the militia movement, which emerged in the 1990s and then really went dormant during the bush administration. we do see some increase in the number of militia group, but nothing close to what was happening in the 1990s. so there again, although there are groups like the southern poverty law center that are ringing the bells of warning, i think they're exaggerating the actual degree of what's happening. >> robert churchill, we really appreciate your time. our apologies to our viewers and you as well that our other guest didn't show up. many thanks. >>> we are going to take a look at whether

he found the climate was similar to the pre-oklahoma city bombing of '94.you find that in people's feelings about government? >> well i think it's very tempting to say that the poll findings here are a measure of the degree of dangerous extremism. but i think you have to take some pause. first of all, 99.999% of these people who say they're angry are not violent and disposed to violence. second people are entitled to express angry opinions. the real problem is there's now a larger audience for emotional , radical statements about government. that can unsettle the unsettled. i'd say it's really hard to parse that issue. >> warner: so i know predictions are very difficult. i'm not asking you to predict but what can you glean from all this data in here that might impact the november elections? i mean you said both parties come in for it in this. what can you tell? >> what we see is that the independents who are the swing voters , a segment of them who are most energized are those who are frustrated with government and the people who are frustrated with governm

the anniversary of oklahoma city? >> part of it is just the anniversary. part of it is some of the kind of rhetoric we've heard sarah palin say that her supporters shouldn't relax or retreat, they should reload. >> greta: a very alaskan-type term one we don't use in the lower 48. >> she was to the talking about people getting guns and attacking someone. there has been this intense rhetoric. and there are some -- fringes, i guess of the tea party movement people who talk of revolution and things like that i think is more of an effort to try to sort of pretar the tea party movement with the label of being violent. when nothing in fact has happened. >> greta: which is also dangerous. >> it is. >> greta: is also wrong. the violence is wrong. provoking violence is wrong. and using our fears from past events is wrong too. >> you shouldn't put things in people's minds. that's all there is to it. there has been i think since the beginning, there were talks about how president obama was facing more threats than any other president in history. the secret service sai

on the 15th anniversary of the oklahoma city bombing, thousands of sick advocates are touting firearms, took part in gun rights rally in northern virginia. i guess it makes them feel better. a couple hundred more protested without their guns on the national mall. hold it right there. here's the thing. why didn't they do this in the last eight years? why now? what has barack obama done? what have the democrats done? what have the liberals done? they don't even know why they're upset. government takeover of health care. is that it? wall street. okay, well figure this out. the democrats want to reel in wall street and the republicans are against it. where do these tea bag nut jobs stand on that one? former alabama minuteman leader mike vanderbow told the crowd armed confrontation should only be used when the government threatens people's lives but he left the door open for violence if people refuse arrest for refusing to buy health insurance. i can't believe i'm quoting this guy tonight. "if i know i'm not going to get a fair trial in federal court, i at least have the right to have an un

i don't want another oklahoma city to ever take place again. will not give aid and comfort to al-qaeda let us not allow the words of elected leaders to give excuses to extremists bent on violence. >> sean: democrats asked the republicans to shut up. joining me is one of those pesky republicans she was probably talking about congresswoman bachmann. you can't be critical. you can't say socialism. i thought was the highest form of patriotism when the criticism was aimed at george w. bush. something has happened, i must have missed. what happened? >> apparently it is hate speech when it is on the right and not when it is on the left -- on the left. go figure where that comes from the main thing is the government takeover of private induce one sector after another. the worst is this new financial regulation bill where the federal government wants to decide who will get credit in the future of the united states. what a bank teller in illinois will make and give permanent bailout authority to the federal government and bypass congress that is the fede

it had with the militia movement even before oklahoma city. it's also the 235th anniversary of lexington and concord. but there's a history. waco occurred on april 19. that is what inspired timothy mcveigh to murder 168 men, women and children in oklahoma city. and a long series of events. the larger themes are one of resistance, and vulnerability. but we have an obligation to learn from our history. it's not enough just to say it's a coincidence. it's about accepting responsibility for decisions made and learning from mistakes of our past and realizing the last time we saw a massive increase in militia movements, it did not end well. we need to be careful about the forces we're playing with sometimes. >> just for accuracy, they were saying it's because of patriots day they were protesting on. >> that's right. >> which you mentioned are the battles of lexington. >> that's exactly right. you do see, they wrapped themselves up in the american flag, as defenders of the american revolution, true defenders of the american revolution. the problem wi

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proceeded oklahoma city and warning against some of the political rhetoric now.s what the former president had to say today. >> before the bombing occurred, there was a sort of fever in america. the fabric of american life had been unraveling. there was a lot of violence in our cities. there was a rise of gang violence in particular. what we learned from oklahoma city is not that we should gag each other or that we should reduce our passion for the positions we hold, but that the words we use really do matter because there are, there's this vast echo chamber and they go across space and they fall on the serious and the delirious alike. >> in a reference in a "new york times" article yesterday proceeding this event today, he talked about some of the rhetoric frankly, from the protests, the tea party protests, and michele bachmann. her particular use of the word, gangster, to reflect our government. this was michele bachmann yesterday. >> i think they don't realize that your iq scores are way above average. we're on to them. we're on to this gangster government. he

highly recommend folks to come to oklahoma city to see this memorial. tamron. >> yes, it is. ron, i read interesting information that more than 200 children had parents killed in that awful attack. of those, many of them received scholarship money and two-thirds have gone on to college and other educational programs. in the midst of all this pain and sadness, i wanted to point that information out to the audience. some of those children were able to go forward and get an education and move forward with their futures. >> reporter: right. one thing to remember, the heart heals over time but there's always a hole that time cannot fill. there were some speakers that got up, one young man talked about his mom, passed on but not forgotten. a sister that read the name of her sister with a lot of emotion. that pain is still there, although they have had the time to heal as much as they will heal. >> it will never go away completely. ron, thank you very much. >>> rachel maddow's special reports, mcveigh tapes, confessions of an american terrorist at 9:00 p.m. ea

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. >> brown: and we mark the 15th anniversary of the oklahoma city bombing with excerpts from today's ceremony. >> we come here to remember those who were killed, those who survived, and those changed forever. >> brown: that's all ahead on

oklahoma city restaurant owners gave first responders free meals. blood drives forced the city to have blood donors wait for the next drive. workers actually left their boots on site after response crews ran out of work boots. with the collective sacrifice and outpouring of support earned the moniker oklahoma standard which describes the extraordinary spontaneous outpouring of community support in times of tragedy. thank you again, congresswoman fallin, our colleague, for introducing this resolution, which i am a proud co-sponsor, and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee rise? mr. roe: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he may consume. mr. roe: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in support of house resolution 1206, remembering the victims of the attack on the alfred p. murrah federal building in oklahoma city, oklahoma. 15 yea

i think that is a stretch to relate present anger to the oklahoma city bombing. i think these articles can do more harm than good. instead of looking it like we are putting our chest out and moving forward it makes us look vulnerable still. i don't think we should ever put that out there to the public because our enemies can read that and say, they are still reeling about this. this is great. >> that's a very per accept tiff point. diana, weigh in. >> i think bill clinton is an eloquent speaker. he usually can service his audience and everybody likes to hear what he has to say. this is the wrong time and wrong place. i understand where the sentiment was. >> quick question, does he text you as well? >> actually yes. about meditation and yoga. >> he feels your pain. >> we try to work out as much as possible. name dropping greg and i are together. >>> what do we have to gain by listening to more train? try everything, you stupid jerk ingrates. >> you are so skinny. 245* song has been downloaded about 57 million times. a million of those were me. it is that good. als

learned through the events that culminated in the oklahoma city bombing, which killed 185 people, that you have to pay attention not only to groups, but to individuals, that you have to infiltrate early. they also have said in a bulletin as recently as six months ago that as good as they are at getting into these groups through electronic means, the groups have gotten better at encrypting their communications and making it harder for the government to track. the government has new weapons as well, thanks to the war on terror. >> michael, there are some people who felt that at some psychological level, the aftermath of the oklahoma city bombing was where bill clinton found his footing, his comeback, in the struggle he was undergoing with republicans about the size and role of government, whether that was fair to republicans or not. do you see any evidence that this movement, in the absence of anything approaching what's happened in oklahoma city, will have a political impact, anything that democrats want to try to use or that republicans fear in terms of being associated somehow with pe

the survivors, family members, and hundreds of others gathered in oklahoma city to commemorate the in a richer. the ceremony began just before the time that the bomb went off in 1995. 168 people were killed when a truck bomb exploded in oklahoma city. amanda knox is filing a fresh appeal in her murder conviction in italy. she is convicted of murdering her roommate while studying abroad. she questions the basic tests used, including the dna found on the knife. just last week the italian prosecutor asked to increase her sentence to life in prison. president obama will speak in new york city later this week, laying out his case for a new crackdown on wall street. the plan for financial reform includes a $50 billion billion fund paid for by the banks in the event another institution to develop. it also creates the consumer protection office, and more regulation for complex securities. the democrats insist they have the votes to pass it, but not a single senate republican supports the bill. >> present bill is not good. >> the american people say that we do not want another bailout. >> the

. >> mike: and the other thing, oklahoma city thunder. moon with the basket, missed it.a performance last night. they're 2-the with the lakes. >> hubie: their defense against the triangle, terrific. the open floor fast break game hold the lakers to one shot. absolutely ran them out of the gym. their fast break was excellent. the transition game was terrific. just loved it. i'm happy for the population there. they have supported these kids. they play hard every possession. >> mike: former spur, devin brown, from san antonio. high school and college. got the rebound. pargo knocks down the three. the final number will be 121-98. a 23-point win for cleveland. the last time the bull fans will see their team this year unless they win this cleveland. the cavaliers, with great performance by james within one of moving on to the second round. 37, 12, and 11 for lebron. here's heather cox. >> heather: lebron, before the game, jamison said the look in your ice was scary. one he had not seen before. describe the focus coming in? >> it's about business. the most important game for ou

. >>> timothy mcveigh's account of the seconds after he bombing a federal building in oklahoma city. >>> a 70-year-old good samaritan interrupting a robbery. >>> another cool morning, we have frost on the flowers west and rain on the flowers everywhere coming up this week when news4 at 11 returns. >>> a gunman opened fire at a hospital in knoxville, tennessee, killing one woman and injuring two others before killing himself. a s.w.a.t. team locked down the hospital. it soon became clear there was only one gunman. all three victims worked at the hospital. but the gunman did not. his motive isn't yet clear. police say he took a taxi to the hospital before the shooting. >>> hundreds of people rallied in washington and northern virginia to remind the government about their constitutional right to bear arms. one group rallied in alexandra. many of the speakers carried loaded guns. that is because of a new law that allows weapons in national parks. at the washington monument those in attendance were unarmed. they said their concern is not about race or political background, but rather prot

lakers began their title defense against the young and upstart oklahoma city thunder. we'll get right to it. there were many questions surrounding the champs. the biggest play by andrew bynum. after missing 13 games bynum started strong. the dunk put l.a. up by 17. he finished with 13 points and 12 boards. kobe bryant and company smother the league's leading scorer kevin durant. kobe a huge block. durant just 7 of 24 from the field. in the fourth quarter, kobe from downtown drilled a three in lakers' face. lakers took game one, 81-79. # game two is tomorrow. >>> spurs and mavs. this one, dirk nowitzki. he's mr. everything for the mavs. he had 36 in game one. dirk with the dagger. nearly impossible to stop the seven-footer when he's shooting like that. mavs won it 100-94. >>> we go to orlando. magic and bobcats. jameer nelson threw it up at the buzzer. nelson led all scores with 32. in the fourth quarter off the miss. howard was there to throw it down. he did have nine blocks. magic took game one by a score of 98-89. >>> the celts will be without kevin garnett for tomor

there is nothing like oklahoma city in terms of the left-wing criticism of the president.s is nothing like militia movement, ruby ridge, all of that, something we know historically has atasmed itself to strong vehement violent rhetoric coming from the right. what president clinton said in his remarks is there is a lot of unemployment right now. we have the biggest amount of long-term, six months or plus unemployment in american history. and a will the of people are angry, upset, especially. >> bill: yeah, but, juan, look, look, you are making a big mistake here, juan, i'm going to have to scold you here. forget about the weather underground in the 60's? forget about the environmental nuts who are burning houses down and all of that? >> no, you are right. >> bill: nuts are nuts, loons are loons. you forget about the guy who put the bomb in the mailboxes, the unabomber. i mean, nuts are nuts. now, in this case, mary katharine, you got a former president of the united states saying whoa, wait a minute now, tea party people and radio commentators, you may create another tim mc

the silence that comes with loss. >> alvin jay justice. >> today, hundreds gathered in downtown oklahoma city to honor the victims of the bombing at the murrah federal building. >> kay dotson. >> 168 died in the attack. 19 of them children. >> anthony christopher cooper ii. we've come here to remember those who were killed. >> we have chosen strength, we have chosen optimism, we have chosen freedom and we have chosen to move forward together. >> each step in that journey, taken. with the memory of that day. >> kimberly clay character. >> with the memory of those gone. >> sergeant benjamin laronzo davis. >> never again. never forgotten. >> jay gray, nbc news. >>> tonight on "nightly news" with brian williams, audiotapes in the oklahoma city bombing will be herd publicly for the first time. pete williams has a special report about the taped confessions of convicted bomber timothy mcveigh. that's tonight at 7:00. >> there was a tribute today to 97 american men and women who served in the vietnam war and who died prematurely as a result of that service. their names are not among the 58,261 names

the standards are alarming -- >> it didn't lead to another oklahoma city bombing.t happens with timothy mcveigh or -- >> i know, but at the time if they believed this sort of language could lead to that sort of thing, they should have said something. >> millions of people have been to tea party rallies. how much violence has there been? it's amazing. i'll make the opposite point. this is one of the most peaceful, civic, civil organization of mass citizens in the united states. can you find one or two citizens in recent history in the united states? attacking them in this way is really wrong. not just foolish, but an attempt to demonize and discredit the movement. >> chris: let's put up the "new york times" poll. it's quite interesting. put it up on the screen. they found 18%, 18% of americans now identify themselves as tea party supporters. other polls have it higher. and it also turns out that they are wealthier and better educated than most americans. i mean this is not a lunatic fringe. >> no. you know what that means? that means they are more likely to vote. be

we will go to oklahoma city for the memorial service. first, and of different c-span radio. >> cloudy weather over florida will keep the space shuttle discovery over orbit one extra day. the next attempt to bring discovery and its seven astronauts home will come shortly after sunrise tomorrow. the shuttle can remain in orbit until wednesday. the number -- a number of -- a member of iraq's parliament said that those will be recounted. analysts think a recount would be a significant boost for mr. on how he was battling to hold onto his office -- mr. how malikmaliki, who is battling tod on his office. transportation department says toyota knew about the sticking gas pedals and the camera, but did not issue a recall until january. -- in september, but did not issue a recall until january. and the pure research centers of public confidence in government is at one of the lowest point in 50 years. analysts say what happens in washington negatively affects their lives. those are some headlines on c- span radio. >> part of why internet freedom is

first playoff win since they moved to oklahoma city. they're on the board in the series. down 2-1 games. >>> sens and pens. sidney crosby and company with a chance to close out ottawa. the third, evgeni malkin, the shot. puck goes right to sidney crosby, who scores while falling down. sidney crosby with his fifth goal of the series. the pens up 3-2. this game went to triple-overtime. matt carriker, his first playoff goal is a game-winner for the spence they stay alive in the series. they force game six saturday in ottawa. >>> one other note from the nfl draft. tim tebow, who won two national titles in florida, taken 25th overall by the broncos. now, back to you. >>> spongebob, apparently doing a lot more than entertaining kids across the country. >> the cartoon character is being credited with helping to save a life. a new york seventh grader knew just what to do when her best friend started choking on her gum in music class. >> her hand's around her throat. and she's turning purple. and i'm going oh, my god. >> and miriam, she goes, allie, are you choking? >> the 12-year

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. >>> it has been 15 years sin the oklahoma city bombing. on this day today, 168 people including 19 children were killed when a truck bomb went off outside the alfred p. murrah federal building. timothy mcveigh was convicted of federal murder charges and executed. today, 168 seconds of silence will be held starting at 10:02 this morning. >>> toyota will apparently pay up rather hand fight. an official in the transportation department says toyota is expected to agree to pay a record $16.4 million in fines over those tea detective gas pedals rather than go to court. toyota wait waited four months to tell federal officials about the problem and under a recall. >>> >>> coming up next, which airlines say they will not be charging customers the controversial extra cash to bring your bag on the plane. >>> the pope talks to a group of sex abuse victims in what was said to be an emotional meeting. ♪ spread a little love today ♪ spread a little somethin' to remember ♪ ♪ spread a little joy and see ♪ need a little happiness to be ♪ ♪ living the life w

one of the good stories is the youthful and speedy oklahoma city thunder team versus the experienced l.a. lakers led by kobe bryant. christian star and kevin durant making his nba playoff debut in los angeles. kobe bryant, a rare miss here but the thunder cannot corral the rebound. kobe does. he scores the uncontested dunk. brian 21 points but he was just six of 19 shooting. durant had 24 points. he was harassed all day. this time ron artest get him tied up. the lakers take game one 87-79. >>> tonight's geico 15 minutes of fame takes us back to last night in atlanta for the rockies and braves. colorado jimenez on the hill for colorado. they lead 4-0 in the bottom of the 9th. a no hitter for jimenez, the first of the season. but more importantly the first in rockies franchise history. he turns tonight's geico's 15 minutes of fame. >>> when we return, honesty still exists, at least on the golf course. we'll be right back.  >>> welcome back. pga tour stop in hilton head. brian davis and jim furyk would need a playoff. davis looking for his first pga tour title with a pro shot

at this hour of the morning, we are tracking strong thunderstorms in oklahoma city, kansas city as wellso, some moderate to heavy rain into kentucky. the lightning is incredible. click this on so you can see the realtime flashes of lightning in kansas and oklahoma. kansas, oklahoma, and colorado have 32 reports of tornadoes yesterday. that is an incredible number. i'm anticipating the same thing to happen today but a little bit further eastward. right now the rain is coming down into lower sections of ohio, kentucky. so just grab your umbrella if you're heading out in louisville this morning or cincinnati. also grab the light jacket. it's pretty chilly out there in grand rapids, michigan. it's also cold in upstate new york, syracuse, and buffalo. erie, pennsylvania, cleveland, ohio, temperatures have dropped below 40. some are even below 32. it's 30 in marquette, michigan, this morning. a brisk one out there across syracuse as well. the temperature in new york city, for example, 45. so it's not quite as cold. here's a look at today. the severe storms, the darker color indicates where we

. >> now today is the anniversary of waco and the oklahoma city bombing. but the organizers of this rally say that had nothing to do with why they picked this date. they are actually commemorating the 235th anniversary of the start of the revolutionary war. tracie potts, nbc news, washington. >>> planes are finally flying again in europe as the volcanic ash that brought air travel to a standstill begins to clear. airlines in europe expect to fly more than a quarter of their 28,000 scheduled flights today. air space in southern europe is now open. british officials, however, say their air space will remain closed till at least tomorrow. meanwhile, those officials are warning that the ash could reach the east coast of north america sometime this afternoon. >>> and it isn't volcanic ash but rain and clouds keeping the space shuttle in orbit for another day. nasa decided to post phone today's celled landing. the weather is expected to be better tomorrow in florida. the shuttle could also touchdown at the taerlt landing site in california. this is "discovery's"

. >> reporter: today is the anniversary of waco and oklahoma city bombing but organizers say that's not why they picked this day. it's also the 235th anniversary of the start of the revolutionary war. from the national mall in washington, i'm tracy potts, nbc news. >>> 4:38 is your time. 47 degrees. still ahead, a former mortgage giant now the focus of a criminal investigation. >>> plus, deadline day for toyota. will the company pay up on that record government fine? >>> toss out the calendar. it doesn't feel like an april morning out there a check of weather and traffic next. >>> weather and traffic on the 1s. it's 4:41. chilly 47 degrees in washington. and it's in the mid 40s in prince george's county. arlington, fairfax, montgomery county now in the low 40s. quite a chilly start this morning. we have it down into the 30s in prince william, culpeper. this zone here may be getting scattered frost so if do you have any tender plants, any house plants you set outside early this season, bring them in. and southern maryland now in the 40s as well as northern neck and eastern shore. now ove

today marks the 15th anniversary of the oklahoma city bombing. 128 people died that day at the federal building. they were honored at the site, which is now home to a tribute to the victims. grex 15 years ago, terror was not a catch phrase -- >> 15 years ago, terror was not a catch phrase or even a concern. and then this happened. >> eventually, something must fill the silence that comes with loss. >> today, hundreds gathered in oklahoma city to honor the victims of the bombing of the federal building 168 died in the attack. 19 of them were children. >> we come here to remember those who were killed, those who survived an those changed forever. >> because of their sacrifice, the city and some say, our nation, has survived. >> we have chosen strength. we have chosen optimism. we have chosen freedom. and we have chosen to move forward together. >> each step in that journey taken with the memory of that day, with the memory of those gone. >> never again. never forgotten. >> >sunshine on a beautiful spring day. maybe a bit cooler than normal, but close to what the normal would be. skies wi