our report tonight from tom costello. >> reporter: it was ben edleman who noticed something was fishy. when he clicked on the ad, the company then had access to his facebook page. >> reporter: private information like name, age, date of birth, address, even family photos. facebook hasn't been alone in sharing its users' personal information. but with nearly 500 million users worldwide, facebook is the largest social networking site. many people insist they can't live without it. >> my information is probably out there for anybody to see. >> reporter: facebook makes changing your privacy settings difficult, with more than a hundred difficult settings you can select. who you want to share your information with, friends or total strangers. facebook users have even created their own page to rail against privacy. users want simple and easy ways to opt out of sharing personal information. >> when facebook has 2.6 million users joining a group complaining about facebook's privacy settings, they know they have a problem. >> reporter: the latest cover stories are all about online insecurity. >

tom costello, nbc news, beckley, west virginia. >>> in news from overseas the long running civil war in somalia heated up more today. a rebel group with ties to al qaeda says it intends to attack the presidential palace, home of the u.s.-backed government there. this comes after the group seized much of the capital city of mogadishu. somalia has been out of the news but everyone is about to learn all over again why many people call the horn of africa the most dangerous place in the world. richard engel is one of the few western journalists to report from there. tonight first of his two reports. >> reporter: after 19 years without a functioning government, somalia is in ruins. the 5,000 african peacekeepers here are overwhelmed. as we watched the peacekeepers set up a new base in what was once mogadishu's fipest hotel, the colonel says he needs thousands of soldiers to fend off al qaeda militants. your biggest problem is lack of troops? >> yeah. yeah. >> reporter: washington won't likely be sending any troops. not again. in 1993 u.s. forces invaded to stop clan warfare. american helic

the government is taking steps to keep that from happening again and nbc's tom costello who looks at transportation for us is here on that. he got on the plane after he was on the list. so what are they going to do to tighten that up? >> this is a little bit confusing. here's the bottom line. they put his name on the list at 12:30. he was on an overnight flit leaving at 11:30 leaving for dubai. the airline did not check to see if there had been an update to the terror watch list. they were required to check it every 24 hours. and they did. but it was, obviously, before he -- put his name on the list. so -- because of that, as of now, the tsa set new rules. airline must check that terror watch list within two hours of getting a notice that a new immediate ad has been put on the list. urgent ad, in other words. then they must try to match their passenger manifest up against that terror watch list. there are about 400,000 names on the terror watch list and it is constantly updated by the tsa. >> so -- how do they enforce that? i mean, what happens to an airline that does not do this? ho

let's bring in tom costello. just announced today and how will they address what happened on pond at the airport? >> so a couple of points to clarify. first of all, the airlines are the one who have to check their passenger manifests every 24 hours against the watch lists. they have to update their list against the watch list. that's every 24 hours. his name was added at about 11:00 a.m. they had not apparently updated tear watch list yet in their 24-hour cycle. the new rule states if you get an electronic notice sa with an urgent add to the watch list, you must check your passenger manifests against that list within two hours. so that would hopefully tracy this issue. there's another bigger issue that's happening here. that is that at the moment, the airlines must check their man te fests against the watch list. however the tsa is assuming that role. they're almost done taking over that responsibility for all domestic flights. by the end of the year, they hope to take over responsibility for all international fl

. >>> nbc's tom costello with more on the hearing. hi, tom. >> reporter: good afternoon. in fact, several former employees and urnt current empl said the same thing. they would quickly scramble and fix things that were not proper. we heard emotional testimony as well from family members that were still grieving several weeks after this terrible disaster that killed 29 people. the worst mine disaster in 40 years. interestingly, they have still not gotten into the mine. investigator says the air inside the mine is still too poisonous. they can't get in. they're hoping to get in the wednesday after memorial day. but investigators came here, congressional investigators came here because they wanted to hear exactly what the family members had to say and they also wanted to hear what the miners had to say about the state of the mine and about massey energy's overall record. wendy, so many different employees pointed the finger at massey and said they were running an unsafe operation. at the end of the hearing, the chairman of the hearing warned mat see if they tried to retaliat

. >> tom costello helping us out from d.c., our washington correspondent. nation's capital where you see testifying at had homeland security committee hearing that is the new york city mayor michael bloomberg. msnbc reporting faisal shahzad, his arraignment will not happen today. we're back with more live coverage next. [ crowd cheering ] [ male announcer ] competition... it pushes us to work harder. to be better. to win. but sometimes even rivals realize they share a common goal. america's beverage companies have removed full-calorie soft drinks from schools, reducing beverage calories by 88%. together with schools, we're helping kids make more balanced choices every day. ♪ >>> a little bit of an odd political twist right now. more than a year after barack obama came america's first african-american president, today's "new york times" reports at least 32 black americans are running for congress this year as republicans. nbc's luke russert saw this one for us, joining us live. wasn't since four years ago, jc watts, the last african-american to serve in the

. >> tom costello, thanks. >>> university of virginia commencement ceremonies, yeardley love was awardedccepted by her cousin. >>> iran has threatened to scrap the deal if the security council moves forward with a fourth round of sanctions which could be adopted as early as next month anchts 13-year-old boy from california has become the youngest climber to reach the highest summit. jordan romero reached the top of mt. everest, more than 29,000 feet, with his father over the weekend. he is just one climb away from his quest to summit the highest peaks on all seven continents. >>> it is now 8:04. let's get another check of the weather with al. >> hey, ann, we are in triplicate here. who do we have here? >> michelle and lisa clark. we're from california. >> who are these triplets? >> alana, jeremy, and trevor. >> and your beautiful 2 1/2-year-old? >> this is bethan. >> they're so cute. let's check your weather, see what's going on. we'll show you our pick city of the day, manhattan near in new york, nbc 4, morning clouds, afternoon sun, 74 degrees for a high today. as we look at the rest o

. >> tom costello, thanks. >>> university of virginia commencement ceremonies, yeardley love was awarded her cousin. >>> iran has threatened to scrap the deal if the security council moves forward with a fourth round of sanctions which could be adopted as early as next month anchts 13-year-old boy from california has become the youngest climber to reach the highest summit. jordan romero reached the top of mt. everest, more than 29,000 feet, with his father over the >>> good morning. we had the low clouds producing scattered sprinkles and light showers and they continue to see the specks of blue in culpepper county and mad county. elsewhere there may be scattered drizzle and low clouds and temperatures in the 60s. 67 in washington. highs into the low 70s and there is a small chance of a passing shower and maybe a little sun as well. partly sunny and warmer and getting summer-like wednesday and thursday. >> don't forget, you can get your weather any time of day or night weather channel on cable or weather.com online. matt? >> thanks very much. >>> rock star and champion bret michaels on hi