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i'm steve handlesman, nbc, washington. >>> osama bin laden's son-in-law took the stand if his own defense. he is on trial in charges that he conspired to kill americans and help al qaeda as a spokesman for the terrorist group. he talked about his father-in-law recruited him in june of 2001 to speak to men at his training camps. three months later on the night of 9/11, bin laden summoned him to a cave, told him about the attack and claimed responsibility. he warned there would be more attacks on americans and tried to inspire others to join al qaeda. he claimed today that the videos were religious. >>> now information about a teen who slipped past security and climbed to the top of the word trade center. he made it past the guard on the 104th floor and climbed all the way to the top of the tower's spiral and took pictures with his phone. an officer arrested him two hours later and he faces charges of trespassing. >>> the u.s. announced today new sanctions. president obama added more names to the list of russians who will no longer be allowed to do business with any american companies. >> w

i'm steve handlesman, nbc news, washington. >>> bigger than anyone first thought, details about alzheimer's impact on women, a south bay woman shares her own experience. >>> and good evening, a beautiful day across the bay, plenty of sunshine but the one thing that maybe aggravating you is that pollen. take a look at this forecast through thursday at high levels. it will likely stay like that through friday and also saturday. meanwhile, right now a little cloud cover moving in. we'll let you know what that will do for the first day of spring tomorrow in just a few minutes. >>> in health matters tonight, it seems women carry a bigger budd burden with alzheimer's, as patients and caregivers. women are more likely to be diagnosed and end uptaking care of spouses and family members who have the disease. one san jose woman dip into they are retirement savings to care for her husband. >> it's a big burden. there is not enough homes that are affordable. there is not enough of them that take medicare or medicare. >> that number is expected to more than triple by 2050. >>> getting enough sleep is es

steve handlesman joins us with the latest.e. >> no, they don't. experts are warning this could be a false alarm. that these images, in fact, might not show plane debris. but after so many days with nothing, these photos are energizing this probe. here they are. satellite photos incidentally by a u.s. sat lithe company for the australian company. they were taken four days ago. and this might be pieces of the boeing 777 of malaysian air flight 370. the malaysian government calls this credible evidence. the effort now is to put human eyes on the possible debris. that resumes in a few hours. u.s. and australian search plane crews head out to what is a vast, vast area west of australia to look for plane pieces, if they're there, maybe no bigger than 60 feet. perhaps a wing that would be buoyed up by its empty fuel tank. the plan is to locate the debris, calculate where it drifted from in the 12 days since the impact, and then eventually descend down submersibles to try to get the two black boxes from the plane and to bring up piece