use boats to rescue young people from utoya. the young people from the work league themselves demonstrated great courage in rescuing their companio companions. you were there in a moment of need. you saved many lives. thank you each and every one of you. i would like to convey the norwegian people sincere thanks to the queen and king and to the crown prince and crown princess. you is shared our sorrows. when we have lacked words, you have conveyed our thoughts and feelings. i know that i speak for a unified parliament and for the entire nation when i pay a special thanks to the prime minister and his government. in the way they have led the nation in the most critical situation, during times of peace. the government quarter may be wrecked but our country's government is in tact. i also would like to express our gratitude for the all-party solidarity we have seen from the leaders of all political parties. the government and auf were the targets of terror. but all of our democratic parties feel its impact. one of the things that h

we are bearing our debt from the government quarter and utoya. as some are waking in hospital beds, many are crying, hearts are bleeding. we will continue to comfort those who mourn. to take care of those who are struggling. honor the dead. but now it's also time to say thank you. i would like to thank his majesty, the king, his royal highness, the crown prince and the whole royal family for the warmth and compassion they have shown. i would like to thank those for the willingness and ability to stand together at a time when the nation needed unity. there are many other who deserve our gratitude. the police. the fire and rescue services. health personnel. the armed forces. the civil defense. the norwegian church and other religious and belief communities. volunteer organizations, and those who provided valuable assistance. and employees in the effective ministries. the staff of certain hotels. all of those around the lake who provided action. men often put their own lives at risk. on sunday, august 21, we will pay tribute to their courage at a na

he admitted to shooting and killing 68 young people on the island accused utoya. he also planted a bomb in the government district that killed another eight people. >> this perpetrator is a highly unstable person and a megalomaniac who actually believes he can gain an audience for his delusions' by massacring innocent young people. that is extremely destructive. it points directly to his psychological personality defects of the kind you see with all extreme criminals including the ideological ones and, like we know from historical narcissism as well. >> he pieced is ideology together printing's he found on the internet. he copied parts of his rambling 1000-page manifesto for right wing blogs and internet forums. he posted his own extreme anti- muslim rand for years without attracting attention. >> these guys can get radicalized through the internet and that it is really difficult to follow them because they use nicknames and anonymity. >> generally, right wing extremists have been less active in norway than other scandinavian countries. on the other hand, the righ

jay gray, nbc news, just off utoya island. >>> back in this country tonight, rescuers have found the body of a fourth victim after flash floods outside pittsburgh. seemingly out of nowhere, the streets there filled with water in some places up to nine feet, washing away cars and in some cases, leaving people to swim for their lives. nbc's michelle franzen has the latest. >> reporter: swept away. flash floods killed four people outside pittsburgh, including a mother and her two daughters, who were trapped inside their submerged car. today search and rescue crews recovered the body of a fourth victim, an elderly woman who was reported missing. nearly a dozen others stranded in their vehicles say they barely had time to escape when water swallowed a section of road. >> i couldn't open my doors. i had to climb out through the window and sit on my roof. >> i called 911. they said, try to swim. but the water was over my head. >> reporter: amy says the low-lying stretch is known for flooding but has never seen anything like this. >> the road just exploded. water just started -- it was like

this weekend they took him back to utoya to re-enact events there and confirm details for his trial. twin attacks have plunged norway into mourning with politicians and the royal family joining in an outpouring of grief. on friday, in washington, norway's foreign minister jonas gahr store met with secretary of state hillary clinton, who expressed her sympathies. i spoke with minister store a short time later. mr. minister, thank you very much for joining us. your country went through such a terrible shock. in a nation with fewer than 5 million people where so many must know one another, is it harder to get through something like this? >> well, i think it's hard for any country experiencing the effects of terror on civilians. the strength of my country i believe is that we come out with a sense of togetherness when something like this happens because the killed ones came from all over norway so almost every community in one way or another was affected. so there was a strong sense, you know, quite quickly that immigration? >> that's democracy. i think it's fair to have questions and fa