tom costello, nbc news, washington. >> shows just how dependent we are on that little thing. >>> now here's a look at some other stories making news early today in america. a 70-year-old woman could go to prison for five years for attacking a teen on a florida school bus. footage of the attack captured on camera last june shows the former school bus attendant attacking and biting the boy after separating him from another child. the woman says the 14-year-old has threatened her in the past. and is claiming self-defense. >>> the owner of a myrtle beach restaurant drew backlash from his multicultural community after posting this controversial sign. it reads, if you can't read this, go back to your crappy country. well, the owner known for putting up humorous signs realized he offended people and quickly changed it. >>> a strip club on wheels has made its last run in detroit. authorities impounded the party bus known as the booty lounge after observing illegal activity, claiming various city ordinances were violated during the detroit lions monday night football game. >>> and finally, it

nbc's tom costello has the story. >> reporter: from coast to coast, a day of aggravation and frustration for blackberry users, from air travelers in l.a. -- >> so phone calls work, text messages work but no e-mails. >> reporter: to new york's rockefeller plaza. >> i couldn't use it for a couple hours. really wasn't too happy with the service. >> well, you know, if you can't count on it, i need a business tool that i can count on. >> reporter: to the halls of congress and a mom in atlanta who missed a kid's activity. >> i don't have time to go home and check my e-mail. >> reporter: blackberry's most serious disruption in years began overseas on monday when a router switch failed then a backup system crashed. >> i have had no communication or e-mails for two days. >> reporter: the company insists it wasn't hacked and the problem is fixed, but the data traffic jam is massive. >> the backlog of messages, the things, the traffic they missed is making the system go down in bits and pieces as well. and apparently that's the reason why it spread through the united states today or last night. >>

our report from nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: the latest aaa foundation drive cam video underscores distraction and inexperience are the consistent problem factors in teenaged driving. ♪ from loud music and a missed stop sign to texting with mom in the car. >> don't text while you're driving. >> reporter: speeding through a school zone. >> whoa! don't hit me car. >> reporter: talking on the phone, driving down the middle of the road, even unbuckling and reaching for a bag while making a turn. new aaa research shows that teens are 50% more likely to have a crash in the first month driving without a parent on board than they are after driving with a full year of experience. >> but as soon as that parent leaves the car and the child starts driving by themselves the risks jump up dramatically. >> take it easy on the corner. >> i am. >> reporter: aaa's cameras followed 38 teens from permit to full license. chuck atotti saved his daughter, leah, from a very serious accident. >> whoa, stop! hit your brakes. >> daddy, what were they doing? >> they completely ran a red light. go now. go now.

>> tom costello at a bank of america branch in washington. tom, thanks. >>> we have breaking news out of the white house about that controversial half billion dollar taxpayer loan to a solar energy company that the president highlighted and then it later went bankrupt. nbc's chuck todd with us from the white house. chuck, what's this all about? >> reporter: good evening, brian. it's a classic friday news dump. here's the back story. in august, that solar energy company, solyndra, which president obama had once visited and touted as a poster child for a clean energy job boom filed for bankruptcy prompting a federal raid and it cost u.s. taxpayers about a half billion dollars. solyndra received a government loan from the energy department, part of the 2009 stimulus bill. now, the bankruptcy quickly turned into a political hot potato. reports surfaced that some administration officials may have exerted influence in an attempt to expedite the taxpayer loan to solyndra. at the same time others in the administration were raising red flags questionin

tom costello, nbc news, seattle. >> we'll take a break.hen we come back in a moment, the news from netflix today deciding the customer was right. >>> his next birthday will be his 70th. while paul mccartney has had more yesterdays than he'll have tomorrows and while the golden years for him will differ from other folks', at least sir paul mccartney is once again a happily married man. he married his long-time girlfriend, nancy shevell, a businesswoman who is barbara walters's second cousin, by the way. they married in london on what would have been john lennon's 71st birthday. >>> speaking of london, big ben is leaning. the top of the spire is about a foot and a half out of plumb and while it was never perfectly straight, thanks to some inexact victorians, it's gotten worse to the point where some tourists who take pictures of it notice it's not perfectly straight. researchers say the ground is shifting beneath it, and it may soon be visible to the naked eye. >>> consumers spoke. netflix listened. they have caved in to pressure against the

it's where we begin tonight with nbc's tom costello in washington. om, good evening. >> reporter: hi, brian. bank of america says it is keeping the fees, but it will drop that debit card fee for customers who use direct deposit on their paycheck, who use a bank of america credit card and also who maintain a minimum balance. no word on what that minimum balance might be. in the past it's been thousands of dollars. for a quick sampling of public opinion about those debit card fees look no further than youtube. >> i have a bone to pick with bank of america. >> pay off whatever checks you have and withdraw all of your money. >> bank wars! >> reporter: while bank of america, wells fargo, sun trust and regions financial are sticking with their plans to charge customers a monthly fee for debit card purchases some of their biggest competitors have decided not to go along including u.s. bancorp., pnc, citi. chase is abandoning its plans. >> this was a netflix moment for bank customers. they have been hearing about one new fee after another and this one was the

tom costello in d.c. tonight, thanks. >>> from south carolina tonight, there are troubling questions about justice. there's a new effort to right what many believe was a terrible wrong that dates back 67 years, when a 14-year-old african-american boy was executed after a hasty trial and no defense. the story reported on our partner website thegrio.com generated so much interest, we sent our own mark potter to talk with some people who are trying to clear the child's name. >> reporter: for years, george friarson has been haunted by the case of george stinney, jr. the youngest person executed in the united states in the 20th century. >> everyone wanted blood. and they got blood. >> from a child? >> from a 14-year-old child. >> reporter: in the spring of 1944, in the tiny milltown of alcolu, south carolina, stinney was accused of brutally beating to death two white girls, ages 11 and 7, who were picking flowers along the railroad tracks that separated the white and black sections of town. >> their bodies wer

our report from tom costello. >> reporter: 28 days until thanksgiving. 59 days until christmas.each passing week, airfares inch higher. two hikes totaling $20 in the past two weeks alone. >> par for the course. it's the state of the economy now. everybody's trying to make a dollar. >> reporter: united continental is trying to raise fares by $2, $3 and $5 each way depending how far you're traveling. delta is also hiking fares by $5 on all flights longer than 1,500 miles. not all carriers are going along with the hike. this year they have attempted 18 fare hikes. half have stuck. >> for the holidays there is just not enough seats for everybody and demand is good. >> reporter: over the past 12 months, air fares are up $80 on average. example -- round trip d.c. to san francisco costs $592 a year ago. today it's $686. chicago to orlando costs $486 a year ago. now $544. denver to new york from $493 last year to $576 this year. the airlines blame economics. over the last ten years they have lost $50 billion. in just the first six months of this year they lost $290 million. while all th

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> the so-called occupy wall street protesters were out in force in san francisco today. and several were arrested for shutting down the entrance to the wells fargo bank headquarters there. the march also forced a temporary suspension of one of the city's famous cable car lines. the group said in a statement they want wells fargo to pay its fair share of taxes and to be held accountable for its roll in the financial meltdown. here in new york, by the way, a protest group today marched to the headquarters of jpmorgan chase. central to these protests, persistently high unemployment in this country. there are no shortage of reminders of that. our report tonight from nbc's mark potter. >> reporter: 800 miles from capitol hill there were long lines this week at a jobs fair in south haven, mississippi, with more than 2,500 people applying for work. glen jenkins is among the faces of joblessness in america. >> i just don't know how much longer i can maintain hope. ♪ >> reporter: near detroit, michael mccowan is also worried. after teaching music for 17 ye

nbc's tom costello reports o tonight on what's going on withr blackberry.or >> reporter: from coast to coast, a day of aggravation and frustration for blackberry users from air travelers in l.a. >> phone calls work, text messages work, but no e-mail. >> reporter: to new york's rockefeller plaza. >> i could have used it for a couple of hours. wasn't too happy with the service. >> if you can't count on it, i need a business tool i can count on. >> >> reporter: to the halls of congress and a mom in atlanta who missed a kid's activity today. >> i don't have time to go home and check my e-mail. >> reporter: blackberry's most serious disruption in years began overseas on monday when a router switch failed. then a backup system crashed. >> i have had no communication or e-mail for two days. >> reporter: the company insists it wasn't hacked and the problem is fixed, but the data traffic jam is massive. >> the backlog of messages, the traffic that they missed is c making the system go down in bits and pieces as well. and apparently that's the reason why it spread to the united states today or l

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> now we turn to the drama that's been playing out at the south pole where an american woman had to wait seven weeks to get out to get medical care for an apparent stroke she suffered while on the job. tonight, she is out. nbc's anne thompson picks up the story. >> reporter: the final taxi of the military plane ended renee-nicole douceur's struggle to get proper treatment for a suspected stroke. >> i had lost half my vision and that was with both eyes. it's come back now. but i have difficulty reading. talking, i tend to jumble words sometimes. >> reporter: the 58-year-old's calm demeanor after landing masked her fear during weeks isolated at the south pole. she ran the base for the ratheon polar services and the national science foundation. she fell ill at the end of august and asked to be airlifted out but they refused climbing her condition wasn't life threatening after consulting with doctors and that the extreme cold posed too great a risk to the rescue crew. instead, she had to wait for the first regularly scheduled cargo flight of the warmi

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> speaking of flying, a new chapter in aviation history was written. the boeing dreamliner is now a reality. it flew its first real flight with paying passengers on board today -- tokyo to hong kong -- on the 53rd anniversary of the first 707 flight. while we are not flying faster today, the dreamliner is a modern and efficient plane and the cabin pressurization is designed to make flying less taxing on passengers. >>> here's all the evidence you need that the u.s. space program is done for now, idle. the massive vehicle assembly building at the cape in florida will now be open for public tours because they are not working on any spacecraft in there anymore. think of it this way. it was built to house the space race with the russians originally. right now, american astronauts depend on the russians when they need a ride into space. >>> when we come back here tonight, news tonight about the science behind gaining weight after you lose weight in the first place. se weight in the first place. americans are always ready to work hard for a better future. s

the story tonight from nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: in a pitch-black plane with babies crying, no food, no water, no working toilets. a jet blue pilot pleaded with the tower. >> i have a paraplegic on board that needs to come off. i have a diabetic on here that's got an issue. >> reporter: for seven hours they waited, tempers boiling over. >> i've got a problem on the airplane, i need to have the cops on board. >> reporter: when the police arrived, applause. >> when power went out it was very, very dark and quite scary. kids screaming, people yelling and screaming, panic attacks. >> reporter: in all, at least three jet blue flights diverted from new york were stranded for hours at hartford. a diverted american airlines flight from paris sat for hours because there were no customs officers on duty at hartford. but this isn't supposed to happen. the new tarmac delay rule requires airlines to provide food, water and access to working toilets after a two-hour delay. and allow passengers off the plane after three hours. airlines that violate that rule face a fine of up to $27,500 per p

here is nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: it is one of those rituals of daily life that people eitherr hate. >> junk mail has to go. the purpose of getting the po box was to eliminate all of it. >> i don't like it. it goes from the mailbox to the trash or to the recycling bin. >> reporter: the first thing you need to know about junk mail is that it is not junk to the postal service. it is serious money at a time when the usps is running an $8.5 billion short fall. while the volume of first class mail, personal letters to bills, dropped 7% last year, and a whopping 26% over the last four years, advertising mail increased 3% last year, now making up nearly half of all mail. and the postal service is running a series of tv ads urging businesses to send even more, with the reminder that mail rarely gets hacked. >> it is good for your business. and even better for your customers. >> reporter: so why in a digital age are advertisers even turning to the mail? because it turns out a catalog is a lot harder to delete than an e-mail and chances are you'll sit at home and flip through it. >> the

nbc's tom costello has more on this new fine print. >> reporter: for christina cayoza it was a one call her freshman year in college. with a boyfriend in another city her first cell phone bill was $360, $300 more than normal. >> for someone in college especially it was so much money that i didn't have. >> reporter: in wyoming, the christofferson family was nearly $800 after 13-year-old dina sent out 10,000 text messages. her father reacted by taking a hammer to the phone. >> i felt really bad. i have learned my lesson. >> reporter: they are not alone. nationwide there are 300 million wireless use rs. consumer reports magazine conducted two surveys and found 20% of those asked experienced cell phone bill shock. the fcc found 23% of those had unexpected charges of $100 or more. today, with the fcc considering regulations against excessive charges the wireless companies announced they are acting on their own. >> the solution will give consumers the information they need to save money on their monthly wireless bills. >> reporter: the carriers agreed that within 12 months they must warn cust

the accident killed 50 people, and as nbc's tom costello report, it appears the airline had concerns about the pilot. >> reporter: within months of the crash of continental connection flight 3407, flown by colgan airline, investigators zeroed in on the captain and copilot. >> they went from complacency to catastrophe in 30 seconds. >> reporter: they failed to monitor the air speed of the dash q-400 turboprop. when the plane began to stall, captain renslow pulled the nose up, causing the plane to crash. just six months before the crash, colgan airlines i was was concerned about renslow and didn't think he was qualified to upgrade to go from saab turbo problem to the bigger q-400. one manager says you might want to check the training records. there is something in the back of my mind about renslow. you are correct. he had a problem upgrading. then the vice president of operations weighs in, saying anyone that does not meet the minimums and had problems training before is not ready to tackle the q. the chief pilot replies, he is already off the list. in fact, renslow had failed multiple

tom costello is in washington, d.c. looking for answers. hey, tom. >> hi, craig, good day to you.time, carry them on planes, of course. the potential for them to cause interference is why we aren't allowed to turn them on when the plane is below 10,000 feet and the cell transmitter must remain off. we all have them. blackberrys, cell phones, iphones, ipads, laptops. >> all cellular phones need to be in off position and properly stowed. >> can they really upset a modern aircraft radios and flight instrumentation? >> i don't have any idea whether it would or not. >> to find out, we came to seattle. a special boeing test center where engineers laid out a variety of mobile devices, and scandinavia the room for interference or noise. within seconds, that noise was showing up in red. >> there is a potential for these signals to cause interference to the radio. >> the radio on the plane. >> the radio on the plane. >> and that's serious? >> that may or may not be. >> may or may not be. turns out, this is a very tricky problem. that interference is coming from the video screens and interna

for "today," tom costello, new york, new york. >> now here is amy. >>> now to the troubling new report on vitamins and the health risk they may cause. for adult women, taking supplements could lead to unhealthy levels of vitamines and minerales and result in an early death. dr. lamb, good morning. >> good morning. >> a lot of people, myself including, with take multi vitamins are suddenly saying, yikes, is this a problem? give us some perspective here. i know this study was for women over 62. how seriously should we take a study like this? >>el with, i think we're always looking for evidence in medicine. we always knew the secret to longevity is not going to be found in a vitamin bottle. there are a lot of people who may benefit from vitamin d or calcium or folic acid if you're pregnant. you have to be patient specific. i have no hesitation for a younger woman to take some iron supplements. an older person, maybe not. i would reduce the copper. that was the only thing that struck me in the study. copper is associated with about an 18% risk. beyond that, i think it's way too early to dr

tom co >> reporter: tom costello, nbc news. >> we are joined by sue pash. her older sister mary was a passenger on the plane. thank you for joining us. >> you're welcome. >> i want to ask you about the e-mails. the e-mails say "renslow had a problem upgrading, and anyone who doesn't meet the minimum standards and had problems in training is knottnot ready to h the q. what was your reaction to the e-mails? when his immediate supervisor had questions about his ability to fly the plane? >> i was ecstatic that it was now out in the open and it was just a confirmation of what we all suspected all along, and that is colgan air neglected to train that pilot properly and he should never have been flying the q-400. >> your family is one of the few families refusing to settle with this airline. do these e-mails perhaps help you feel vindicated in any sort of way? >> well, sure. it does, but yet we're still going to push forward and our number one concern here is aviation safety. it's not about the case. it's about making sure our skies are safer for everyone. >> i wa

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these gadgets has contributed to a crash or even a serious problem during a flight but as nbc's tom costello there is a reason for the warnings. >> there is a lot of interference. >> there is no conclusive evidence. there is stories that when followed through we have been unable to prove. >> experts say safety demands little to no electronic interference during takeoff and landing. >>> coming up tonight a rescue squad putting on a fundraiser. but this time the cops shut them down. >>> purse snatchers hit a group of women celebrating a big day. you won't believe where they pulled off the heist. that's still ahead. >>> we're going to meet the woman who gave birth hours after running the chicago marathon. >>> we saw fantastic weather again today. but don't get used to it. take a look. there is rain on the radar. looking at georgia and south carolina. but moving to the washington, d.c. area you bet we are looking at [ male announcer ] one-hundred-nineteen data points. this is what we can gather from an ordinary crash test dummy. two million data points. this is what we can gather from a lexus cr

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> now here's your "first look" at other news going on around america today. a 70-year-old woman could go to prison for five years for attacking a teen on a florida school bus. footage of the attack captured on camera last june shows the former school bus attendant attacking and biting the boy after separating him from another child. the woman says the 14-year-old has threatened her in the past and is claiming self-defense. >>> well the owner of a myrtle beach restaurant drew a lot of backlash from his community after posting this controversial sign. you can see it reads, if you can't read this, go back to your crappy country. well the owner, who is known for putting up humorous signs realized he offended people and he quickly changed it. >>> a strip club on wheels has made its last run in detroit. authorities impounded tmpounded bus known as the booty lounge. after observing illegal activity claiming various city ordinances were violated during the detroit lions "monday night football" game. >>> and it's beginning to look a lot like christmas in new yo

nbc's tom costello has more. >> reporter: within months of the crash of continental connection flightflown by colgan airlines, investigators zeroed in on the actions of captain marvin rens low and copilot rebekah shaw. >> we think this crew went from complacency to catastrophe in 30 seconds. >> reporter: investigators determined the crew's own actions caused the crash. they failed to monitor the the air speed of the dash q 400 turbo drop. then when the plane began to stall, captain rens low pulled the nose up, causing the plane to crash. now new e-mails revealed on a lawsuit suggest that just six months before the crash colgan airlines itself was concerned about rens low and didn't think he was qualified to upgrade from flying a smaller saab tu turbo problem to the bigger plane. in one note "you might want to check the training records. there is something in the back of my mind about rens low". the response "he had a problem upgrading". then the vice-president weighs in "nun that does not meet the mims and problems training before is not ready to tackle will the q the". ru the attorne

our report from tom costello. >> you don't have to take your laptops out any more. >> reporter: at a checkpoint in atlanta today, a sudden change. new security requirements for the most frequent flyers, shoes, belts and jackets can stay on. laptops can stay zipped up, and a dedicated express screening lane. >> we'll scan your boarding pass, if you're eligible on that day, you will be allowed expedited screening processes. >> reporter: the tsa calls it precheck. only offered to elite frequent flyers on delta airlines at its hubs in atlanta and detroit. elite american airlines in dallas and miami. and anyone already in the government's trusted traveler programs. in atlanta, we timed frequent flyers moving through the expedited lane in just 15 seconds compared to 1:40 in the regular lane. >> it's fantastic. >> really? >> oh, my god, it was so easy. >> reporter: those passengers who participate provide the tsa with their name and date of birth, agree to a full security background check. >> if you've been traveling for 25 years and we -- you're willing to share that information with us, w

tom costello reports. >> for a quick sampling of public opinion about those debit card fees, look no further than youtube. a bone to pick with bank of america. >> what you withdraw all of your money. >> bank wars. >> while bank of america, sun trust and regions financial are sticking with their plans to charge customers a monthly fee for debit card purchases, some of their biggest competitors have decided not to go along, including pnc financial, citigroup and keybank. chase says it's abandoning its debit card fee plans. >> this was a netflix moment for bank customers. they've been hearing about one new fee after another and this one was the one that tipped them over the edge. >> but experts warn, look out for so-called stealth fees, fees for receiving a paper statement, fees for using a teller, fees for not using your account enough and fees for not maintaining a large, minimum balance. >> given a bank that doesn't increase the fee, if they increase the balance requirement, that's a health fee right there. >> those are fees that wealthier customers can often avoid. many are at it af

nbc's tom costello is at reagan international airport with hopefully a possible answer. >> reporter: all have the devices, nobody wants to take a chance and that's why you keep them off below 10,000 and the transmitter must remain off. we all have them, blackberries, cell phones, iphones, ipads, ipods, laptops. >> all cellular phones need to be in the off position and properly stowed. >> reporter: can our small battery devices upset a modern aircraft's radios and flight instrumentation? to find out we came to seattle and a special boeing test center, engineers laid out a variety of technology and within minutes the noise was showing up in red. >> there is a potential to cause interference to the radio on the plane. >> reporter: that's serious? >> that may or may not be. >> reporter: may or may not be, turns out this is a very tricky problem. that interference is coming from the video screens and internal computer chips, not the cell transmitt transmitters. turning on the cell phone creates more noise. investigators have never been able to find a concrete link between the pilots' comp

. >> nbc's tom costello joins us live from washington. s, the cute little leprechaun, count chocula. >> i mean, seriously. >> tony the tiger. >> this is like 100 voices in my head. i can't -- trying to follow this. but you -- >> this is the exact debate on capitol hill that they have been having for the last day or so. you know, nutrition experts, they warn us about the villains, the fast food, sugary cereals, the drinks, the fake food, the snacks, too much salt, everything that's in joe's diet. >> wait. did you say fake food, because let me tell you something, tom costello, you look at the chemical breakdown of crunch berries, and i will tell you, those are packed with seven essential vitamins. but go ahead. >> you just ruined my roll cue. so let me -- >> hey, tom -- >> are the cute characters. pushing us to eat stuff we shouldn't buy. >> yes. >> going cuckoo for the great chocolatey taste of cocoa puffs. >> for anyone who feels a bit of nostalgia for the cocoa puffs birds -- >> cuckoo for cocoa puffs -- >> the lucky charms leprechaun. >>

nbc's tom costello shows us the research. >> reporter: the latest video underscores how distraction anderience are the consistent problem factors in teenage driving. from loud music and a missed stop sign to texting with mom in the car. speeding through a school zone. talking on the phone, driving down the middle to have road, even unbuckling and reaching for a bag while making a turn. now new aaa research shows that teens are 50 mernt more likely to have a crash in the first month of driving without a parent on board than they are after driving with a full year of experience. >> but as soon as that parent leaves the car and the child starts driving by themselves, the risks jump up dramatically. >>> aaa cameras followed 38 teens from permit to full license. chuck saved his daughter from a very serious accident. >> whoa. stop. hit your brakes. >> they completely ran the red light. go now. completely ran the red light. >> reporter: today all 50 states and d.c. ease teens into the driver's seat with graduated driver's licenses. usually including restrictions on nighttime driving and passen

nbc's tom costello has the details on this. good morning. >> reporter: hey, matt.teresting, the statistics say that within the first month of driving, teenagers are at a greatly increased risk of having an accident. that's what happened to me, 16 years old, two weeks after i got my license, i had an accident. a week later i had another accident. it's a wonder my parents didn't take my license away. from the aaa foundation, new teenage drive cam video of a teen blowing through a stop and into a left-hand turn. >> the shoe boxes -- >> reporter: another teen blowing through a stop sign into a right-hand turn. ♪ speeding through a school zone. >> whoa, don't hit me car. >> reporter: even texting with mom in the car. >> don't text while you're driving. >> reporter: whether it's loud music, conversation, texting or phone calls, researchers say distraction is the biggest problem for teen drivers, who all too often act completely differently once parents are no longer along for the ride. >> but as soon as that parent leaves the car and the child starts driving by themselve

there's a report out yesterday that mika brought to our attention with the help of tom costello that they're trying to ban some of these adorable characters from advertising. they want to get rid of tony the tiger and lucky charm guy and everything else. >> what are you doing? >> i didn't even get my bowl yet. >> if you don't think i won't take the cereal out of there and eat it -- >> trust me -- >> you don't know me too well. >> as i hold on to my lucky charms, you're not going to get ahold of my lucky charms. >>> texas governor rick perry travels to pittsburgh today where he's set to give his first major policy address. the focus of the speech is expected to be energy. but the event may offer a chance to refocus a presidential campaign that has taken just a few hits after perry's performance in recent debates. the dallas morning news reports that perry's far-reaching plan would spark job growth by expanding oil drilling and pipelines and loosen environmental restrictions. perry offered a few more details of his proposal in a cnbc interview last night. >> we're sitting on a treasure