this crash site is in the small town of nightson. the train collided with the trailer after 7:00 this evening, amtrak 718 from oakland to stockton to bakersfield. remarkably, both the truck driver and his passenger were not injured. of the 204 passengers reported on the train, at least 35 of them are being treated for minor to moderate injuries. once again, no serious injuries as far as we know. it s still an active scene as you can see from our video on the site and transportation is being arranged for passengers to return to oakland. it was panic. everyone is wondering what s going on, what s going on. no one heard anything for about 10, 15 minutes when they announced it on the speakers. so we started seeing all the ambulances. we kind of panicked first, but we managed to get through. reporter: have you heard about other passengers? i m not sure. it was all frantic and everything shut off, so we grabbed our stuff and just came out. everything at this point has bee
from nbc world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. for almost ten years osama bin laden taunted his viewers with video tirades against the west. tonight the tables are turned and there is growing reaction to those newly released bin laden videos that he apparently did not want the world to see. those videos of bin laden in hiding are now central to an american campaign to unravel his mystique and demoralize his followers. those videos, of course, are just part of a major intelligence find from bin laden s pakistan safehouse that the u.s. is rapidly trying to exploit. nbc s jim miklaszewski joins us from washington with the latest. good evening, lester. u.s. intelligence officials are calling this the biggest haul of secrets from a top terrorist leader ever. it includes bin laden home videos which they were very eager to release. reporter: this is the video the white house wants the world to see. osama bin laden, once the world s most n
from nbc world headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. for almost ten years osama bin laden taunted his viewers with video tirades against the west. tonight the tables are turned and there is growing reaction to those newly released bin laden videos that he apparently did not want the world to see. those videos of bin laden in hiding are now central to an american campaign to unravel his mystique and demoralize his followers. those videos, of course, are just part of a major intelligence find from bin laden s pakistan safehouse that the u.s. is rapidly trying to exploit. nbc s jim miklaszewski joins us from washington with the latest. good evening, lester. u.s. intelligence officials are calling this the biggest haul of secrets from a top terrorist leader ever. it includes bin laden home videos which they were very eager to release. reporter: this is the video the white house wants the world to see. osama bin laden, once the world s most n
someone like anwr al awlaki, who s more dangerous? who do we actually need to go and find? is it al awlaki who has ties to the ft. od shooter, who at least was inspiring to the christmas day bomber sorry, to the times square bomber and had also had ties with the christmas day plane hijacker? well, there s no doubt about the fact that symbolically bin laden is still in a class by himself. but i do think you make an important point. over the years we have eliminated or incapacitated the operational leaders, and now, of course, we see replacement leaders coming up. taking out that level of leadership is a critical part of the strategy because they are the most experienced planners, they are the people who have schemes and train and launch the atcks.ke so while we d all like to get bin laden, the fact is getting these operational leaders is a critical part of success. and al awlaki is on the internet.
through in the next years. there is always going to the potential for an individual or a small group of indivials, if they are willing to die, to kill other people.s nine years after 9/11, the threat has changed, but it remains. today, an anxious anniversary with homeland security secretary janet nanapolitano, former homeland security secretary michael chertoff, and former white house counterterrorism adviser, fran townsend. then 51 days out from the midterm elections. politics with house democratic leader steny hoyer. and the battle for the soul of the gop with former house republican leader dick army and form former senate leader trent lott. i m candy crowley and this is state of the union. this 9/11 was remarkable for its divisiveness. protests over a planned islamic cultural center blocks from ground zero. protests from a pastor i florida. protests in afghistan and pakistan. we are seeing today riots in kabul, riots in afghanistan that threaten our young men and