experts believe israel may be behind a bombing and assassination campaign that is targeted iran yan nuclear scientistses and facilities in an attempt to slow down the program. yesterday a scientists became the latest victim whether his car was bombed during morning rush hour in tehran. the killing set off a new round of accusations between the islamic republic and the west which is locked in a tense standoff over economic sanctions, energy policy and potential of new atomic weapons in the region. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel reports. >> reporter: around 8:00 a.m., an iran yan nuclear scientists on his way to work witnesses say two attackers on a motor cycle eased up behind him, slapped a small bomb to his car with a magnet and then slipped away in traffic. the scientists and his bodyguard driver were both killed. the target, this 32-year-old. he worked at iran's uranium enrichment site. two weeks ago this week another sicientists was assassinated. at least five have been killed including a missile expert at this test facility which mysteriously blew up last november. iran

. >> the big goal of the studio is this sort of pragmatic utope yan approach to give the students thekills to approach the sort of almost the unimaginable or like the wildly creative with a very practical and straightforward approach. the more wild ideas you want to realize, the more drive and rationale and professional and rigorous you have to be in your approach. if you're going to do the standard solution you will be quite lazy and nobody will question anything so you can just do it. if you want to go beyond the conventional path you have to try hard to convince a series of authorities and also clients and investors and neighbors that this is actually feasible. >> i think it's kind of fun especially in school to make these more utope yan out there projects that push the boundaries of what may be possible or what could be. >> he's annoyingly young and annoyingly brilliant. when you first meet him you want to dislike him for those reasons. he's a charming person and so open that you just can't help but like him. >> and also in copenhagen this building called the aid house, which is a

i'm an american flagpole now pledge a liege yans or else. >> (laughs). >> stephen: (cheers and applausewhat do you think? >> i like it. >> stephen: can i get that as a blurb. >> absolutely. >> stephen: "the sad thing is i like it." >> it's a good blurb. and what you need to do is get a popular illustrator who has a horrible sense of design, no taste for type, nothing about the aesthetics of what a picture book would look like and you will probably make a lot of money. >> stephen: would you teach me how to draw? >> no. >> stephen: so this is where you do all your work? >> yeah. >> stephen: i'm trying to figure out how to draw a pole. i'm not very good a drawing. let me try a pole here. >> be careful. i assume you were huffing these when you draw "where the wild things are." >> ♪ i remember pearl harbor..." (laughter) that just pulled the song right out of me. >> stephen: right out of you. >> right out of my nose. >> stephen: we got a mountain. a cloud. a polish woman holding a pole. (laughter). >> stephen: it could be a polish stripper. >> that's what i think. >> stephen: any advice here

. >>> the governor spoke at the 24th national conference on lez bee yan and transgender equality saying it's important not to let passionate views not to let people prompt -- >> we are your neighbors. we are your coworkers. and most importantly, we are your family members. >> this is the seventh state admitted to the union by ratifying the constitution to have united states and we believe that with your help and the hard work of people throughout the state of maryland, we can also be the seveningth state to to pass a civil marriage equality law. >> same sex marriage legislate passed the state legislature last year but then stalled. >>> brooks robinson is still at a florida hospital this hour after falling friday night. he was in florida attending an event raising money for a children's center in hollywood florida and was about to get off the stage when he leaned against the curtain thinking it was a wall and fell backward. he hurt his shoulder but was alert when take on the the hospital. we all know he's had serious health problems so this is yet another worry for his family. >> we'll k

it's the same type of attack that's killed two other iran yan signingtists.ran has blamed the u.s. and israel for those bombings. both countries deny involvement. >>> here's a look at some other stories making news early today in america. a coalition of civil and human rights activists joined for the firing of teachers at a georgia school over outrageously worded homework assignments. accusations of racism have been levied against the teachers for basing math questions on slavery and slave beatings. >>> a bus passenger's confrontation with police on a california bus turned violent. moments after a woman refused officers' request to get off the bus, she began cursing at them and was then struck. an l.a. county sheriff's department official says the incident is being investigated. >>> a wave of vandalism threw a monkey wrench into roanoke's track pickup service. official were forced to cancel collection on tuesday. garbage pickup will resume today. >>> and finally a california pre-teen's attempt to keep her sister out of her room helped police nab a thief. the

yan was dug up by a companion who had not been caught up in the avalanche rescuers found three more men buried under the snow they were dead quite often it takes several days to find victims buried in an avalanche for me to long proops they used to dig into the snow this is the only method to find a free rider unless he has a radio beacon on it. when the probe hits something soft it's clear that it's a victim the sound produced by the probe in that case is also helpful so we begin digging right there and then fairly sure is a doctor with the local rescue team he always joins the team on duty when they go to help avalanche victims his eight kilogram kit contains all the necessary equipment for on site reanimation though in practice he rarely needs it. before committing to statistics if victims are stuck in an avalanche for fifteen minutes their chances of survival of fifty percent any longer and there is a sharp drop in the chances of survival in the ability of the wolf we haven't recovered a buried survivor from an avalanche around here in the past ten years. intense preparations for th

my name is steve chessen, president of california yans for electoral reform. we're statewide organization that works on rank choice voting and other electoral reforms and we passed the rank choice voting in 2002 and will help to defend it. aren't you glad today wasn't election day but i guess i have to say yesterday wasn't election day because it's past midnight and to the folks at home, aren't you glad yesterday wasn't election day, as well? i certainly am. under the old system which supervisors elsbernd and farrell would have us return to, yesterday would have been election day. we would have had six weeks of three very nasty campaigns because one-on-one races always become nasty, and according to the ethics commission, we'd have seen four times as much money spent on independent expenditures as we saw in the run-up to the november election. instead, we had a thanksgiving weekend without robo calls and our mailboxes are filled with holiday cards and shopping catalogs instead of campaign mailers. so i'm really glad yesterday was not election day. we want to s

joe yan newhouse says news of the crime has caused concern in the neighborhood. >> i think residents are concerned but we are also aware that the police are investigating this and i think they are reacting cautiously. we'll wait to see what happens. >> iter the police report indicates that the woman was driving a car with ohio plates. aaron and jim back to you. >> thank you. >>> police say a dispute between brothers ended with one man dead and another wounded. that happened this afternoon on eagle harbor road. investigators say after an argument the an shot his younger brother in the back before taking his own life. the younger brother is expected to recover. a third person in that home was grazed by a bullet but not seriously hurt. >>> a man who worked as a vendor in the even market in d.c. is the city's first murder victim of 2012. he is 56 years old. his body was found in the park in northeast d.c. on december 31st. but it wasn't until the next day, january 1st that the medical examiner ruled the death a homicide. he was beaten and strangled. his brother believes that money was th

zi yan? >> all right, jake, what a contrast in the pictures, before and now. and rick santorum riding the last minute rocket fuel. so, where does this leave mitt romney? abc's anchor, david muir, has been with him today. david? >> reporter: diane, make no mistake about it. this is a huge night for mitt romney. a chance for him, finally, to close the deal here in iowa, to rewrite the headlines of four years ago, that disappointing ross back then. he appeared very confident and acknowledged he's near the top of the pack. he was very careful not to say he's at the top. i wanted to show you a moment that happened today. janine wilson, she said she can barely find work, her husband is out of work, they have no health care. she said, if he's elected, here was her plea to governor romney. >> please, if you win, if you go to washington, d.c. -- >> a very personal moment there this morning here in des moines. the governor telling her that's why he's best suited to be president. creating jobs if he's elected. i should point out that romney is here with his family, await

a reasonable and fair plan for kanld yans as well as for themselves to consider. >> the honorable member. mr. speaker, i had not expected such a response. already we can see irresponsible cuts by government having aa negative impact on people. we can think of those who are involved in the endless red tape and immigration system people have to wait weeks to get benefits and the government should understand that a false majority does not give them the right to cut the majority of programs. why is this government persisting in compensating major corporations profitable not creating jobs here instead of protecting the services that people need. >> the honorable trez of the treasury board. i said mr. speaker it's essential to have an action plan with regard to the cuts in order to improve the situation with regard to the deficit, that is our plan. it's a plan that we talked about during the previous election campaign, and this was part of our 2011 budget. it's essential for this country to have an action plan. >> we'll do to in a reasonable ernment has money for its friends but not for ordina

the ind neez yans, what are we doing with them. and i wonder how this new budget information will impact those relationships. i'm not quite sure what innovative partnerships mean. and i my third set of concerns hinges on this word reversib reversibility. it use today be in vogue to use transformation. what does reversibility mean? when you're talking about early retirement, how do you unretire something? if you're talking about slowing procurement, i can maybe see trying to reenergize a production line. but from an industrial perspective, what does reversibility mean? is it possible? did defense officials walk the factory floors and go okay, if we slow procurement, and you have to slow down your production line, how fast can we revitalize it if we need to? this was something we saw, obviously, with up armoring humvees not too long ago. and having members of congress go out and walk factory floors. bob simmons takes great pride in talking about really focusing the executive branch on what it means to use the industrial base. i know

this is yan. this is ameche. ashley, kevin ryan hoist an artist on my record label and this is jasmine. >> fantastic. >> we were like, is this the right waned? tell bus the new album. >> this is called the return of the sparrow and i want to say hello to all the sparrows, that's what i call my supporters. this is just great. >> you know, we are all familiar with your music. we're going to get the same rich sort of r&b feel to it. i like to call it a fusion of rock and r&b. >> you are working on some other project. are you working on a reality show? >> i'm. >> we just shot an it sewed for reality show. it's going to be on viral reality tv show. we are using a lot of outlets that independent artists are out. i love it when independents are good. >> what are you going to do for us? >> we're going to do "i am love" ". she's going to be in blues alley on tuesday. >> yes. >> here is many love. ♪ here we are in the place where time stands still for us. ♪ ♪ you are shivering and together, we can bring back what the world

teams of capitol hill police officers and si vail yan employees are taking part in a weight loss challengeth a weigh-in. there are teams of four competing to lose the greatest percentage of weight. contestants hit the scales for a final weight check on march 30th. the winning team doesn't get a prize, they get bragging rights, which might be more valuable. >>> apparently, it does matter which side of the bed you wake up on. british hotel chain, premier inn, studied the sleeping happen bits of 3,000 people. those sleeping on the left side of the bed are happier with a more positive outlook on life. they can attack heavy workloads. the study found the people who sleep on the right side tend to make more money. the left and right sides of the bed are determined from the vantage point of lying on your back in bed. >> we determined most of the women in the control room and elsewhere are right ciders and most of the men are left sideers. >> very unscientific survey. >>> what's coming up? >> coming up in sports, la jollas ready for a top 20 match up. hard lock in the big easy. oo big night for ni

repd rescue i yan yan fishermen held by pirates. >>> there are reports out of north korea that before kim jong il's death the u.s. had provided, had offered to provide, food aid to the country if it stopped its uranium enrichment program. a statement from the foreign ministry spokesman criticized the u.s. for politicizing food shipments. reportedly the discussions were suspended after kim jong il's death >>> 7:17. today, first lady michelle obama will announce a new project of her joining forces campaign to help current military troops and veterans. more than 100 u.s. medical schools will commit to training future doctors who will treat veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. the joining forces campaign is designed to gain support from citizens, businesses and community groups to support military families >>> well, a lockdown at a washington state army base has now ended. however, the search for some missing equipment is going on. the base has been shut down for almost a week since some valuable weapons accessories disappeared. they include things like scopes and night

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he worked at a iran yan nuclear facility. >>> dive teams are searching for a toddler whose been missing are searching the river in waterville, maine where a 20-month-old was reported missing. her disappearance has been declared a crime. >>> the city of cordova, alaska is waiting for extra shovels to dig out of the snow they received. they reached out to other cities for help. when no one came, they called a manufacturer who promised new shovels delivered this weekend. it's cut off several roads around the state leaving them to induce avalanches with explosives. >>> outrage across mississippi after hailey barbour handed out 200 pardons before leaving office. questions about how family members of victims should feel about his decision to be lenient to a group that includes four convicted murderers who worked at the mansion. brett favre's brother was one among those pardons. david joins me now. he introduced a bill that would change things and how they operate there. it's nice to have you on with me. explain how shocking it is to communities across the state and what do you think drove the

. >> having a candidate who goes out and calls obama a ken yan colonialist or a socialist, that's not what you need. at the same time, with newt gingrich, you get the name calling for the president. very popular with the tea party crowd in south carolina. not so popular with independents. but he won't put a fence on the border. but he took money from freddie mac. with newt gingrich, you e throw out the baby and keep the bath water. >> here's elliot iowa brams. e he wrote "mr. gingrich often spewed insulting rhetoric at reagan and his policies to defeat communism. such was gingrich's faith in president reagan he called the meeting with the the soviet leader the most dangerous summit from the west since hitler met with chamberlain." this stuff is being dug up. ann is very smart but radical. all these people are really afraid. >> this reminds me of, do you remember delaware when mike castle was supposed to cruise to the nomination. everyone was throwing rose pe talls at him. then the tea party candidate named o'donnell jumped in the race and suddenly up ended the whole had thing. the est

. ♪ if you want a lite bang and ying yan g come.then we roll down to kansas and there scared the hell out of marlin manson . the party started happening. hey. ♪ in the middle of the night. we went ran into jessica white and had moon shine. ♪ ♪ oh, we'll be in your city. ♪ we'll be partying. ♪ if you want a little bang and yini can't think come. ♪ we brote down in greenville in the middle of the hay field and a bud lite truck helped us out. ♪ we headed up to the village and partying down like a hill bill yedrop the music down and rock it out. ♪ and you going when we are up in buffalo. ♪ don't you know those yankovics - yankees are drinking. ♪ we are coming to your city. ♪ going to play our guitar sing you a country song. ♪ we'll be all be partying and higher than a round up. ♪ if you want a little bang come along. cowboys. ♪ from tennessee to >> y c x. don't shake it keep it on fox news. for 20 12. ♪ you got 15 dollar drinks in san antonio. ♪ it is a wild wild rodeo. ♪ put your hand in the the air. ♪ phoenix, arizona. we drink corona

se bas yan younger has covered the war extensively.ave spent so much time in afghanistan, in helmand province. does the video surprise you? >> sort of yes and no. war brings up a lot of very powerful emotions. we have read the illiad. that's part of war. but the u.s. military really has to be held to the highest standards and obviously, that's not it. >> obviously, to the best of our knowledge and this has been confirmed, the men in the footage are snipers and they are a different breed. a different kind of training, different kind of mentality. what kind of mind set do they have and how would that benefit from the snipers you spend time with? >> the more intimacy you have with the enemy, the more you understand they are human. they have a very hard job. they are killing specific people they can see from a distance and psychologically, it's very hard. i can imagine that part of what was going on was them tryinging to figure out the relationship with the people they seemed to have just killed. >> in your time in afghanistan, did you eve

if brian ross is telling the reporters we need to take this information with a yan of salt why are youhe first place. >> bill: i told him on this program last night i would have not have done the interview and run it the reason is there is no corroboration for the personal attack launched at the speaker by his former wife. this is the key. this is the key. and goldberg knows this because both bernie and i came up the old fashioned way. any gutter snipe in the world, and they do it on television and radio every single day in this country and it's disgusting can attack somebody personally. and get somebody to back it up. i saw o'reilly do this. i heard o'reilly do that. but you -- if you don't have corroboration independently as marianne gingrich absolutely does not. absolutely there is no corroboration, it's her and her agenda alone that abc news got behind. all right? and then the damage to a human being, whether you like him or not, is significant. in my con conscience, i can't do that i understand could of reporting. i'm not putting brian ross down and abc news down. i can't do it. >

the victim was a lat vito yan immigrant first reported missing in august.is our royal correspondent and we asked him about what happens now. >> well, police want to hear from anyone who had organized functions or events in the area at the beginning of august, beginning of september. they've spoken to royal staff including the game keeper and estate manager and the queen who's staying on the estate hasn't been questioned, but is being kept informed. >> a 25-year-old florida man charged with plotting a terrorist attack says he did it to avenge muslims. a naturalized u.s. citizen allegedly planned to bomb nightclubs, a sheriff's office and heavily populated areas of tampa. he had been banned from two mosques and was arrested on saturday and charged with the attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. paul, appreciate you taking the time. what happened today with this charge? >> well, he was arrested on saturday and finally produced before a federal judge in florida today. for basically a bond hearing to determine how much bail should be set on the case. the

the victim was a lat vito yan immigrant first reported missing in august.him about what happens now. >> well, police want to hear from anyone who had organized functions or events in the area at the beginning of august, beginning of september. they've spoken to royal staff including the game keeper and estate manager and the queen who's staying on the estate hasn't been questioned, but is being kept informed. >> a 25-year-old florida man charged with plotting a terrorist attack says he did it to avenge muslims. a naturalized u.s. citizen allegedly planned to bomb nightclubs, a sheriff's office and heavily populated areas of tampa. he had been banned from two mosques and was arrested on saturday and charged with the attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. paul, appreciate you taking the time. what happened today with this charge? >> well, he was arrested on saturday and finally produced before a federal judge in florida today. for basically a bond hearing to determine how much bail should be set on the case. they appointed a federal public defender an

what you are looking at there is a real iran yan navy boat going toward a military ship. what happened, coming up next. >>> well, check out this cool time lapse video taken from an i-reporter. west mosley from byron, illinois shot this from his kitchen window. this was the first accumulating snowfall of the season. this time lapse contained 2900 individual photos taken over a ten-hour period. it's been a mild winter for most of the country. winter finally arrived in the midwest. not the kind of thing you want to see there, that truck. we are keeping an eye on all this. we got a break for the most part this winter, i think. >> absolutely. places like chicago usually december 9 see their first two-inch snowfall. haven't seen it at all. finally, 4.6 inches of snow yesterday. temperatures have been mild. records across the board day in and day out. we are ready for winter, right? >> we need to break out the new sleds. >> right. i'll show you what's cooking. here is the radar picture. what's cool is this is lake-effect snow, lake ontario and lake erie. lake erie is the shallow

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. ♪ if you want a lite bang and ying yan g come. we roll down to kansas and there scared the hell out of marlin manson . the party started happening. hey. ♪ in the middle of the night. we went ran into jessica white and had moon shine. ♪ ♪ oh, we'll be in your city. ♪ we'll be partying. ♪ if you want a little bang and yini can't think come. ♪ we brote down in greenville in the middle of the hay field and a bud lite truck helped us out. ♪ we headed up to the village and partying down like a hill bill yedrop the music down and rock it out. ♪ and you going when we are up in buffalo. ♪ don't you know those yankovics - yankees are drinking. ♪ we are coming to your city. ♪ going to play our guitar sing you a country song. ♪ we'll be all be partying and higher than a round up. ♪ if you want a little bang come along. cowboys. ♪ from tennessee to >> y c x. don't shake it keep it on fox news. for 20 12. ♪ you got 15 dollar drinks in san antonio. ♪ it is a wild wild rodeo. ♪ put your hand in the the air. ♪ phoenix, arizona. we drink corona and