this morning local time a grenade was fired from the qwest by the pirates. immediately thereafter gunfire also erupted inside the cabin of the qwest. >> reporter: scrambling into small boats and approaching without firing a shot. two pirates were already dead. most of the rest came out on deck with their hands up. the seals searched the yacht and found two more killing both of them, one with a knife. inside the cockpit they found the four americans more tally wounded. >> my aunt was not dead when the navy seals arrived on the ship. she had been shot. she was not dead at that time and they did try to save her but they were unsuccessful. >> reporter: so what went wrong? one u.s. official says we couldn't keep peace among the pirates. they were arguing among themselves and that apparently provoked the shooting. >>> the california supreme court upheld the death sentence for a man who killed three people more than 30 years ago. this is the third time the same court has ruled that this man should die. but he is still alive. tonight robert lyles looks into the case

qwest, can i get a drum roll. [ drum roll ] audience, let's hear it. give him the gauc! [ cheers and applause ] there you go. looking good. oh, man! there you go. there you go! looking good! he did it. [ cheers and applause ] got to feel good about that. look in the camera right there. look at this one. looking good, buddy. [ laughter ] fantastic. he's a newlywed. i love this. and newly divorced. okay. [ laughter ] [ audience aws ] you're a good man. no, congratulations. go towel off over there please. your wife won't want to see this. our next contestant, how is it

qwest, can i get a drum roll. [ drum roll ] audience, let's hear it. give him the gauc! good. oh, man! there you go. there you go! looking good! he did it. [ cheers and applause ] got to feel good about that. look in the camera right there. look at this one. looking good, buddy. [ laughter ] fantastic. he's a newlywed. i love this. and newly divorced. okay. [ laughter ] [ audience aws ] you're a good man. no, congratulations. go towel off over there please. your wife won't want to see this. our next contestant, how is it going, buddy? >> how are you doing, jimmy? >> jimmy: doing great. you know what you have to do? >> i know what i got to do. >> jimmy: hit the board, land on something worth more than three points. >> you got it. >> jimmy: you ready? >> i'm ready. >> jimmy: take the gun, stand behind the firing line, take aim at the board of insanity. initiate the board of insanity. ♪ don't shoot yet. go! puppy chow for five points. higgins, what's puppy chow all about? >> steve: well, jimmy, tonight's contestant will have to lie down, lift up his shirt and have an entire

she was sailing aboard the qwest when the boat was hijacked. >> they had inquired and been told thatince the oil tanker was taken, they felt that the pirates would hey off the small ships and it would be okay. >> reporter: her daughter was smart and experienced from her south san francisco home, she shared the last e-mail her daughter sent. >> we have made an unscheduled stop in mumbai. >> reporter: she says her daughter tried to ease fears back home suggesting the pirates had moved on. now condolences pour in from those who can't believe the adventurer is gone. >> the world is an empty place without her. >> reporter: in south san francisco, christy smith, nbc bay area news. >>> east bay police think they finally have their thief. police arrested a man believed to be responsible for as many as 20 robberies. hayward police say the man struck this walgreen's on jackson street monday night robbing a cashier at gunpoint. police spotted the get-away car and arrested the suspect and a woman driving that get-away car. they say the man confessed to eight robberies in hayward alone over the p

our grasp of them is actually poorer than qwest would civilian death, especially in the soviet side. the number of soviet soldiers who dies just not known. we don't know how much of the demography was covering for the loss of the 1930s. there was a period when stalin wanted numbers to be too low and 90. later in the 70s for the numbers were wanted to be too high. and the people who actually worked on this on the record keeping was incredibly anything. but in general, that the only reason i didn't include it. but you're right. if you put a military vestige of this as well, by my calculation, about half of the deaths in the entire second world war, including the specific theater happened in the blood plans as well. so we are looking at a catastrophic loss of life. but on the talk about memory. i don't talk about memory because i thought for a couple of reasons i thought it dilutes the overall project. i thought if any of my entries about memory of the unknown, then people would read the history in terms of what i have to say about memory, which is the very last thing i wanted among oth

only competition possible is a wire line to wire line and then in its decision, it essentially said qwest is going to remain highly regulated in the phoenix market and the cable companies that compete against them are not going to be regulated at all and we're going to ignore the fact that customers of both are free to drop wire line entirely and use wireless. this makes no sense. we can't expect the wire line bureau itself to reach a conclusion that in essence raises questions about its own relevance going forward. this is something that the congress has to do, i think, or at least the five commissioners that govern the agency. >> thank you, jim. now we just have time for one more question and then we're going to have to end the session. but, you know, it is fair to say i do have now several more questions for commissioner mcdowell that probably were better than the ones that i had originally thought of myself. this has been useful. steve, it is just a question, we're going to do it very quickly because i promised our moderator that we're going to get the next panel up and running on tim

only competition possible is a wire line to wire line and then in its decision, it essentially said qwest is going to remain highly regulated in the phoenix market and the cable companies that compete against them are not going to be regulated at all and we're going to ignore the fact that customers of both are free to drop wire line entirely and use wireless. this makes no sense. we can't expect the wire line bureau itself to reach a conclusion that in essence raises questions about its own relevance going forward. this is something that the congress has to do, i think, or at least the five commissioners that govern the agency. >> thank you, jim. now we just have time for one more question and then we're going to have to end the session. but, you know, it is fair to say i do have now several more questions for commissioner mcdowell that probably were better than the ones that i had originally thought of myself. this has been useful. steve, it is just a question, we're going to do it very quickly because i promised our moderator that we're going to get the next panel up and running on tim

holding four americans on a yacht and the pirates claim it is nearing the coast of somalia, they seized qwestn. the couple who own the boat, have been sailing around the world for the past six years. two other americans are believed to be onboard. the u.s. military is

qwest applied rightly for relief of regulatory obligations there on the basis that the markets esseially is competitive now. they have lost about a quarter of lines to wireless only, as almost all of us have and they have lost about half of what remains to t cable company in terms of voice service. and the wire line bureau in examining their forbearance petition essentially declined to consider wireless substitution, which honestly is truly unfathomable and ignores all logic. it is acting as if the only competition possible is a wire line to wire line and then in its decision, it essentially said qwest is going to remain highly regulated in the phoenix market and the cable companies that compete against them are not going to be regulated at all and we're going to ignorehe fact that customers of both are free to drop wire line entirely and use wireless. this makes no sense. we can't expect the wire line bureau itself to reach a conclusion that in essence raises questions about its own relevance going forward. this is something that the congress has to do, i think, or at least the five com