tonight terror takedown, a major al qaeda leader in u.s. hands after a daring mission, american special forces hit two terror targets halfway around the globe. >>> collision course, the dramatic crash on the race track, the superstar driver and more than a dozen spectators injured. are fans getting too close to the action? >>> unbreakable, our exclusive interview with malala who defied the taliban because she wanted to go to school. her impossible story of survival after she was shot and the message she brings tonight for everyone about home and staring down fear. >> i am malala. >> i am malala! >>> good evening on thon

the safety spotter who apparently didn't see the takedown came up with that. >> now during the spotter's testimony, osha pushed him to say he wasn't really sure it was her ponytail that was in the whale's mouth, that he just saw her underwater and he assumed it was the ponytail. osha contends that the whale came up and grabbed on brancheau's arm, saying that was another level of aggressiveness. seaworld is saying it was not an aggressive move. one of seaworld's top curator's said when dawn brancheau was pulled off the ledge it wasn't necessarily aggressive by the whale. >> the initial grab was not an act of aggression. this is not a crazed animal. >> the industry has a vested industry? spinning these so they continue to appear like cuddly teddy bears that are completely safe. it sells a lot of shamu dolls. it sells a lot of tickets at the gates. that's the story line they're going to continue to stick with for as long as they can. >> recognize that those that say this is a crazed animal that acted out and grabbed dawn that maliciously, they want to prove the theory that whales in captivi

pat sims with the takedown, right to the midsection and rivers felt that one. >> ian: third and goal now for san diego. eighth play of the drive. trailing by ten here in oakland. play clock down to two. rivers. hooks a pass -- intercepted! it's picked off dby d.j. hayden! first career int for the rookie! rivers turns it over. >> dan: rivers looking for the other rookie, keenan allen. watch allen on the post route here. he's open right away. calling for the ball. doesn't get it. great response by hayden. closing speed to get his first nfl interception. fourth turnover of the night for san diego. and this one is fatal. >> ian: the second int for rivers. and it comes with 1:48 to play and rivers knows that that will just about do it. allen had his man beat. the recovery and the pick by hayden. on first down. marcel reece. they push the pile. reece keeps on moving the legs and reece out across the 25 for seven. >> dan: just two time-outs to work with. and now just one. >> ian: ken whisenhunt and frank wright, the quarterback coach, meeting with philip rivers after the int. hey, nfl fans,

tonight terror takedown, a major al qaeda leader in u.s. hands after a daring mission. american special forces hit two terror targets halfway around the globe. >>> collision course, the dramatic crash on the race track, the superstar driver and more than a dozen spectators injured. are fans getting too close to the action? >>> unbreakable, our exclusive interview with malala who defied the taliban because she wanted to go to school. her impossible story of survival after she was shot, and the message she brings tonight for everyone about hope and staring down fear. >> i am malala. >> i am malala!

. >>> the takedown. a major bust by the fbi. heroin, cocaine and murder for hire. they say all available on one easy to access website. >>> and the chase. news tonight about the video getting so much attention. the scary scene on a new york road repeat ed across the country. >>> and the death of one of the best selling authors of all time. "nightly news" begins now. >>> good evening. they are talking tonight in washington, but nothing is moving. the shutdown continues. so does the anger across this country and the frustration with congress. the president expressed his exasperation at the defiance in washington. it is where we begin again tonight with nbc's chuck todd in the briefing room of the west wing. we are still expect ed to hear the president tonight. chuck, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. i guess the good news is they are still talking in there. it is the four congressional the leaders -- speaker john boehner, nancy pelosi, mitch mcconnell and meeting in there. the staff are not in there. theet meetings in the past haven't led to a lot of br

the wild takedown at wild wings that has some outraged. it's the video that will have you saying -- >> what is going on here? >> what knocked a couple of dudes right off the couch. plus a trumpet player is driven off by a sidewalk troll. >> and he wants to go out. she doesn't. >> let's go out to dinner. >> i don't go out to dinner with people. >> see the surprise ending off the big brushoff. >> it is wonderful that rescue teams exist, especially when they're called to rescue a sheepdog, a collie named chip because chip got himself stuck in a crevice. >> oh! >> his owners suddenly discovered he was missing, went to look for him, heard that he was in the crevice and that's when he called the rescue team. it is extremely narrow and about 82 feet long. these guys know what they're doing. they hook on to the rope and down one of the rescuers goes. but halfway down he became stuck. >> we got a dog and a guy stuck in here now. >> fortunately he's tied to the rope. so they are able to pull him up. the vet, the smallest person on the crew, she gets

tonight terror takedown, a major al qaeda leader in u.s.ds after a daring mission, american special forces hit two terror targets halfway around the globe. >>> collision course, the dramatic crash on the race track, the superstar driver and more than a dozen spectators injured. are fans getting too close to the action? >>> unbreakable, our exclusive interview with malala who defied the taliban because she wanted to go to school. her impossible story of survival after she was shot and the message she brings tonight for everyone about home and staring down fear. >> i am malala. >> i am malala! >>> good evening on this monday night filled with bold new details about america's two secret missions this weekend. daring warriors, the delta team and navy s.e.a.l. team six took the fight against terror straight to the enemy. here's the map. one, a surprise raid in libya, the other a raid by night in somalia. now a major al qaeda figure is captive and abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here with this new captor on the war. >> repor

she sees that camera, she's running. >> the team must now scramble to make two simultaneous takedowns. >> all right. unit on outside, we have possibly two girls in this hotel. outside unit, be aware. he's talking to the girl. she's right around here somewhere. so keep an eye out. >> the woman directs the undercover to room number a-3 just as sergeant walker spies a man who may be her pimp exiting the same room. >> and he has something to do with her. >> as the undercover makes his way to a-3, the suspected pimp walks to a car next to our camera. >> put the camera down. >> the car next to you. a white dodge charger. he's getting into the vehicle now. >> the unusual circumstance temporarily blocks our view of what happens next. as the woman in a-3 is arrested for prostitution and the man in the white car is cuffed for pimping. the young woman is brought into the processing room, where she is identified as a 21-year-old from toledo, ohio. >> basically, i went into the room. she told me to take and put the donation on the desk. on the table. okay? and she told me on the phone it was $200

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. >> i wasn't an apologist for wikileaks but from his perspective the movie is a takedown. >> the fifth estate's creator says the movie was never supposed to be taken literally and have even given assange's character the last word. >> if you want the truth you have to seek it out for yourself. >> kelley cobiella, london. >> axelrod: they lost a dog and an employee has found a doghouse. the airline lost an italian greyhound named larry when handlers let him out of his crate in the san francisco airport. when cbs asked how it could handle they sent back an e-mail complaining, quote, their entire government is shut down and this is how the u.s. media spends its time. larry is still on the loose but,, are guy's note has gone viral and he says, quote, i guess i am the poster child now for be careful with e-mail. coming up, hunkering down for disaster in style. >> llo. >> axelrod: we want to close tonight with a profile of a true underground movement. there is nothing new about predictions that end of the world is upon us, but as carter evans shows us there is plenty new of how some people ar

. >>> takedown. two convicted killers caught at a motel by police, back in custody. this morning, the search for the people that forged the documents to get them out of jail. authorities racing to find out who else may have used this same scheme. >>> breaking new details on this international mystery. who is this 4-year-old maria, found with a couple claiming to be her parents? dna tests prove they're not. thousands of calls from around the world and the u.s. >>> no apologies. lady gaga lashes out. her epic rant overnight, taking on everyone who has ever criticized her, including madonna, declaring she will not be stopped. why gaga is doing what she wants this morning. ♪ >> starting this week with new music from lady gaga. everybody have a good weekend? yeah. we're going to hear from the president later today. a lot of americans signing up for health care frustrated. so the president is expected to address that later today. >> lots of glitches. the fixes slow in coming. >>> let's get right to the latest on the scare in mid air. severe turbulence walloping a passenger

danny returns, a government recruit hired to takedown a mexican arms dealer. the cast also includes mel gibson. >> i always wanted to be part of his movies. he has a different way of making movies. >> reporter: it opens next friday, october 11. jone jet is out with her first cd of all original miesk in more than seven years. she calls it the most intro expectative album she's ever made and still has her signature sound. jone jet and the black hearts have upcoming tour dates in texas and oklahoma. that's your eye on entertainment entertainment. >> she looks awesome. we do recognize the face, a great bad guy. >>> thank you for watching wusa9 at 5:00 a.m. good morning. i'm andrea roane. >> you must be watching so good morning, danny. >> hello, danny. how are you? >> you're a great good guy. >> you're a great bad guy, danny. yeah. he really is. >>> weather wise we've been doing well. a little bit dry. the folks with the gardens, the farmers are telling me and i know and i hear you, we need rain. i don't make the rain. i just tell you when it's going to rain. that'

what the crowd did moments before that sparked an ugly takedown. is ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, of hand at saturday's home . general noise ot this >>> an oakland a's fan had to be tased after he got out of hand at saturday's home game. [ yelling ] >> someone in the stand shot this video in oakland. you can see the man in the sweater scuffle with the coliseum security and police, who tased him. >> tase him, tase him! >> ah!! >> that got the man into a position where officers finally got to put the handcuffs on him and remove him. >>> a robbery goes sideways and 50 people are taken hostage. it's known as the good guys standoff. to this day, it's one of the most high-profile hostage takeovers in american hit. one of the survivors tells tony lopez about how she survived. >>> reporter: this is the moment lisa joseph thought she was dead. >> so i just closed my eyes and i was thinking, okay, this is it. >> reporter: it was a feeling the then 22-year-old had more than a few times that day, april 4, 1991. >> begged, pleaded. i pleaded with that gunman to please just le

. >> terrorist takedown. the top secret raid that nabbed one of the fbi's most wanted. >> and in the weather department, we got away with another warm day in the bay area. but that's not going to last long. tomorrow we are going to cool it down by about 8 degrees for the bay area and then even more midweek. we have the forecast coming up after a break. >> the deli worker dodges a robber's bullet. he pulled out a machete to defend himself. ,, ,,,,,, a project that is close to s heart. today he joined habitat for humanity volunteers in oakl kpix-5's mark ke >>> former president jimmy carter is in the bay area tonight. he brought his wife with him today. >> smart man. he joined habitat for humanity volunteers in oakland. mark kelly shows us at 89 years old, mr. carter rolled up his sleeves and fired up the skilsaw. >> reporter: they say a home of your own is the american dream. of course, not too many can say an american president actually built their homes but this family can. >> thank you very much for working

tonight terror takedown, a major al qaeda leader in u.s. hands after a daring mission. american special forces hit two terror targets halfway around the globe. >>> collision course, the dramatic crash on the race track, the superstar driver and more than a dozen spectators injured. are fans getting too close to the action? >>> unbreakable, our exclusive interview with malala who defied the taliban because she wanted to go to school. her impossible story of survival after she was shot, and the message she brings tonight for everyone about hope and staring down fear. >> i am malala. >> i am malala! >>> good evening on this monday night filled with bold new details about america's two secret missions this weekend. daring warriors, the delta team and navy s.e.a.l. team six took the fight against terror straight to the enemy. here's the map. one, a surprise raid in libya, the other a raid by night in somalia. now a major al qaeda figure is captive, and abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here with this new chapter in the war on terror. >> reporter: tonight

true on his ground game and what's even more important to develop his takedown defense to feel more confidentand win is tactically given all that he can go very far in the business this week japanese welterweight used to being a model he's arguably one of the most effective why there is ever to have brought he said all skills to russia the twenty nine year old was grounded and one google jumpin in two thousand and eleven after joking out russia's chemise that would have been a rematch and last june the two met for the third time at the flight nice twelve tournament and then the model was victorious again. from the body it's. a motto was a very gifted fighter we've always liked him i'm glad he settled the score with inside the fight nights cage and his attitude on the whole showed we can count on this fighter he is definitely going to be one of our top dogs for the next year and then you know more to wants to make it to the u.f.c. and we'll do our best to help him make it happen to those who are just some of the next set of they stopped as the countdown zone for ministers red green the yellow

. >> reporter: at this florida motel, frightened guests hid behind windows recording the takedown, police guns drawn, the two escaped prisoners already face to the ground and the agents rushing into their room. >> those are u.s. marshals. >> reporter: today we learned police are trying to lift prints and dna from the pages of those forged documents that someone filed with the court which set the convicted murderers free. >> we will be backtracking to those who send carry out this fraud and we will be looking closely at anyone who may have helped harbor these fugitives. >> reporter: charles walker and joe jenkins are back behind bars tonight and will serve out their life services for murder. today outraged lawmakers demanded an investigation. >> it is embarrassing. >> reporter: police here continue to question the men, did they've help and did they pay to have the documents made. the judge whose signature was forged on those documents says there must be more arrested. >> they did not walk into the orange county courthouse and file the documents themselves. >> reporter: we reached out to pr

for whatever reason that is not privy to it we don't know but it seems that it was a deliberate takedown in the market ok so isn't this a form of what we call price propaganda in other words or on wall street i remember when i was a broker we have something called painting the tape or banging the clothes where you're pushing the price around to send a message to other players in the market is that just a case of somebody trying to encourage other sellers into the marketplace there's no real fundamental economic reason for this to take place especially given the backdrop of increased in such a bank intervention and bomb crisis and currency crisis correct yes i guess the standard market makers practice if they see the stops or you know stop orders as it were on a full they can think what we can take this on it by banging the market with us a perspective for a second because let's talk about the global gold supply versus the demand in china and its size of this size to give people an idea because it's not just about an over the counter market maker banking some five dollars stock at the clo

for whatever reason that is not privy to it we don't know but it seems that it was a deliberate takedown in the market ok so isn't this a form of what we call price propaganda in other words or on wall street i remember when i was a broker we had something called painting the tape or banging the clothes where you're pushing the price around to send a message to other players in the market is that just a case of somebody trying to encourage other sellers into the marketplace there's no real fundamental economic reason for this to take place especially given the backdrop of increased is such a bank intervention and bond crisis and currency crisis correct yes i guess the standard market makers practice if they see the stops or you know stop orders as it were on a fool they can think what we can take this on it by banging the market with us a perspective for a second because let's talk about the global gold supply versus the demand in china and a size of this size to give people an idea because it's not just about an over the counter market maker banging some five dollars stock at the close

. >>> the takedown. a major bust by the fbi. heroin, cocaine and murder for hire.y say all available on one easy to access website. >>> and the chase. news tonight about the video getting so much attention. the scary scene on a new york road repeated across the country. >>> and the death of one of the best selling authors of all time. "nightly news" begins now. >>> good evening.

motivated removal of eight united states attorneys and before he came to washington i saw hyped enron's takedown of california's electric system and spent over a million dollars of his own money on advertisements to destroy and discredit governor gray davis' governorship because he was planning to run against davis in the recall election that he helped make happen but those efforts. fruitless and he broke down into public tears when he learned that enron's ken lay secretly been meeting and working with arnold schwarzenegger to help schwartz a nigger become governor and that schwarzenegger had filed his papers. and painted by today the san diego republican was rushing back out of his own dream to become governor it's nights like. this. so knowing the truth about congressman darrell i say we really want this generation's joe mccarthy leading yet another taxpayer funded which up on capitol hill let's rubble. is wednesday ready to rumble join me for a long liberal rubble chris allman conservative commentator and activist and conservative commentator and editor of the guns and patriots news letter th

the latest on the dramatic takedown ahead. >>> more than one year after the terror attacks in benghazi>> the two most important questions he did not answer, first off, who gave the order to stand down. >> you'll hear from the father of one of the americans murdered there. >>> it's a question we all ask, what makes

. >>> takedown. two convicted killers caught at a motel by police, back in custody.g, the search for the people that forged the documents to get them out of jail. authorities racing to find out who else may have used this same scheme. >>> breaking new details on this international mystery. who is this 4-year-old maria, found with a couple claiming to be her parents? dna tests prove they're not. thousands of calls from around the world and the u.s. >>> no apologies. lady gaga lashes out. her epic rant ov

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by the account of his wife, who witnessed his takedown, it was a clean sweep, a fast sweep.s on his way back from morning prayers saturday about 6:00, 6:30 a.m. in the morning. in his car n his vehicle, pulls up on the side of the road, ten men rush in, before can reach his pistol in the glove box of his vehicle, he is pulled out of the car, overpowered, taken away in three vehicles. all taking place in less than a minute. how valuable is he? alleged to have played a role in the 1998 attack on the u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania. what does he know about al qaeda in north africa since the overthrow of gadhafi in libya, the former dictator there, the country has been awash with jihadists, al qaeda has been trying to establish camps there. does he have information about that? clearly that will be on those list of questions that he'll be facing right now, carol. >> and i know he's being questioned on u.s. navy ship right now. i would assume the questions are being asked by who, like the cia? and then he'll be sent to new york for civilian trial? is that how it will work? >>

according to al libi's wife who saw the takedown at their house in tripoli. he was on his way back from prayers early saturday morning when ten men rushed his car. and before he could snatch his pistol from the glove box, he was overpowered. it was all over in seconds driven away in three cars. the united states says it's a lawful arrest. >> the united states of america will not stop for those who conduct acts of terror. for those membered of al qaeda literally run and hide. >> reporter: but it may not be so simple, the libyan government is demanding answers calling al libi's capture a kidnapping. questions also about al libi's current al qaeda credentials, believed by this former colleague to be retired from terrorism. >> i don't it's a valuable source of confirmation. i still believe he was a very low -- >> reporter: he said al libi returned to tripoli two years ago living in plain sight of the weak libyan authorities, at the time when al qaeda was setting up training camps, ramping up operations in the aftermath of the overthrow of libyan dictator moammar

. >> this is a brutal takedown.ontinue. >> i'm toast. >> but it was your tone and i think what people trust about you is your sobriety. people think you're a liberal, and that's because reality has a well known liberal bias. but you do your job and i appreciate that. i just felt like live blogging your attempt to reach somebody on the phone and complaining about if lack of hold music crossed over. >> this is really important. i hope i have a reputation from the readership of being sober about these things. i think it's really important to keep your head about you when these things are going on. when i called the system, it's because president was saying call the system that day. the system dropped the call twice because it was so overwhelmed. i am trying through this reportage to convince people, to persuade them something has gone wrong here. you know, chris, i don't think anybody that wasn't literally writing the law that wrote much more about the law in the construction phase n the legislative phase and what we h

there may be more arrests after a major takedown. >>> health care hangups.eral web site that keeps crashing as americans try to sign up for obama care. who's taking action today over an issue that has divided washington. >>> courtroom controversy. the mother of a newborn in trouble during jury duty. how the judge cracked down as she tried to breast-feed her baby. >>> making a statement. what lady gaga is revealing about herself as she releases a new song. it's in the "the skinny" on this october 21st. ♪ >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now" with john muller and diana perez. >>> dying to see this lady gaga story. >> i know. you seem very interested. >> intrigued by our own tease. like what's up with that. >> i don't know. where did her eyebrows go, by the way? >> i don't know. i don't know if i have ever seen them before. it is the clearest shot of what i have seen of what she looks like. >> good point. let's get started. >>> more arrests are in expected in the case of the two florida convicts who used forged documents to get out of prison. we

. >> reporter: at this florida motel, frightened guests hid behind windows recording the takedown, police guns drawn, the two escaped prisoners face to the ground and the agents rushing into their room. >> those are u.s. marshals. >> reporter: today we learned police are trying to lift prints and dna from the pages of those forged documents that someone filed with the court which set the convicted murderers free. >> we will be backtracking to those who helped carry this out and we will be looking closely at anyone who may have helped harbor these fugitives. >> reporter: charles walker and joe jenkins are back behind bars tonight and will s out their life services for murder. today outraged lawmakers demanded an investigation. >> it is embarrassing. >> reporter: police continue to question the men, did they have help the judge says there must be more arrested. >> they did not walk into the orange county courthouse and file the documents themselves. >> >> reporter: we rernd in several states they're required to verify all judge's orders to release proisoners. >>> a milestone today, chris ch

military forces doing a takedown in tripoli.well executed and i assume a lot of cooperation from the libyan government. they have to get him back to the united states and they are going to put him on trial. this raises a lot of questions, don. is he going to be afforded the rights of a u.s. citizen? will he have access to legal counsel? will we be allowed to interrogate him? he's a gold mine of information. how much can we extract from him under the u.s. legal system? this is just starting to unfold. this is a major, a major get for the intelligence community and the u.s. special operations community. >> okay. let's -- can we go back to libya now, lieutenant? >> caller: that was libya. >> let's talk about libya now. >> caller: okay. >> how much are we going to lean on, the u.s. government lean on libya to figure out if they knew al-libi was there and what does that mean, the difference of whether or not they knew? >> caller: i think, of course, they knew. i'm assuming from what i'm reading between the lines we have been working

. >> the team scrambles to prepare for two simultaneous takedowns. >> are you guys good? >> yeah, we're good. >> let me know, are you going to hang out in the lobby, then if. >> it's always feast or famine. we'll have nothing. we'll make the phone calls. we'll put the ads on. in the space of a half hour, we'll have five people show up. it's critical that when we take this guy down, we get him out of here, bring him immediately. >> arresting officers huddle in the next room. >> he's here. >> eyeballing the jon's approach in the hallway and waiting for a hit on the panic pager to signal that the deal for sex has been made. >> police. get your hands out of your pocket. you're under arrest. >> the stunned jon is quickly cuffed and hustled into a processing room. >> get him out of here. quick. hurry up. >> officers reset a trap for a call girl who is only moments away. >> hey, how you doing, honey? police. >> oh. >> real quick. >> all right. we're the police. okay? just so you know. you're under arrest. >> okay. >> okay. >> the team now has two in the bag and their operation h

♪ can i get a heldo ♪ because we're going to keep a shut down ♪ >> "saturday night live" does a takedowndoing whatever we want ♪ ♪ and we did stop and we did stop ♪ ♪ >> the number two trender. kitchen conspiracy. >> it's called a progressive dishwasher. you would think if you're a dishwasher, you would think maybe it would be the new conservative dishwasher. conserve water. >> glenn beck pushes progressive paranoia. >> i'm looking for some paint. i'm not kidding you, progressive paint. so now it's progressive paint, progressive appliances. look how they are just imbedding this everywhere. to make sure that you always understand that progressive is a good thing. >> because you know, that's crazy talk. >> and today's top trender, c is for compromise. ♪ c is for cookie >> marsha blackburn makes a sweet deal with president obama. >> president obama wants to work with you. >> come on down. i'll bake him cookies. >> i'm not sure about these cookies. we are greeting him with open arms and an invitation. >> i'm pretty partial to those mint -- those mint -- ♪ sugar ♪ oh honey honey >> joining me

of john boehner and mitch mcconnell has a serious brand problem because of its strategy over this takedown. 70% saying the republicans are putting their party politics over strong leadership for their country, and 60% of those asked say they would vote out and replace the entire congress if they could. >> this has been a disastrous move. you just wonder who are the people that are still adhering to this strategy? why haven't -- why haven't they come out and held a press conference and said we screwed up. >> joining me right now, nbc white house correspondent kristen welker and nbc news senior political editor mark murray. kristen, let me start with you because the buses just rolled up a moment ago. the senators are making their way in and it's a rainy day there in washington, d.c. >> reporter: it certainly is, thomas. but the tone has changed here in washington, d.c., after that meeting that you talked about last night between president obama and house republicans. we are told that house speaker john boehner put an offer on the table essentially to increase the debt limit without reopening