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thieves with her purse. shes brought her handbag with her today, february 16, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to "today" on this wednesday morning. im meredith vieira. >> im ann curry. our crew is staying way back, i noticed. >> shes actually a sweetheart, until you get on the wlorong si of her. >> dont do that. you talked about bernie madoff. big news. this mornings new york times, he makes a strong assertion contending that unidentified banks were co...

The answer, why did you title the series this way? >> well, what we wanted to do is take that negative connotation of the blacklist, and this was clearly the brain child of elvis mitchell and timothy, whos here, and turn it into a positive. there are so many stories that need to be told. so many stories of african-american achievement that you dont hear about. that the notion of pulling together this collection of just extraordinary people clearly intrigued me and my partners. and we were fortun...

haiti with scraps from the rubble. julia lira. you got to see this piece again. carnival samba queen. rio chooses a 7-year-old for a job usually held by nearly naked women. and the world gasps. good morning, everyone. im tony harris. and you are in the "cnn newsroom." so after some of the heaviest snow in years, mid-atlantic states are digging out. the snow is 2 to 3 feet in some areas. dulles airport got 32 inches shattering the old record. the region is about to get hit again. are ...

this program was funded in part by a ready to learn, no child left behind grant from the us department of education through the public broadcasting service. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> rose: welcome to the broadcast. tonight maziar bahari the "newsweek" reporter who was held in a tehran prison for 118 days. >> they arrested me because i was a filmmaker and a journalist. so by arresting me they were going to teach a less on to journalist...

>> rose: welcome to the broadcast. tonight maziar bahari the "newsweek" reporter who was held in a tehran prison for 118 days. >> they arrested me because i was a filmmaker and a journalist. so by arresting me they were going to teach a less on to journalists and film make ares. and at the same time i was working for the american media and the british media. so they were teaching a lesson to the british and american media. also, i had some friends inside the iranian government, inside ...

>> rose: welcome to the broadcast. tonight maziar bahari the "newsweek" reporter who was held in a tehran prison for 118 days. >> they arrested me because i was a filmmaker and a journalist. so by arresting me they were going to teach a less on to journalists and film make ares. and at the same time i was working for the american media and the british media. so they were teaching a lesson to the british and american media. also, i had some friends inside the iranian government, inside ...

>> rose: welcome to the broadcast. tonight maziar bahari the "newsweek" reporter who was held in a tehran prison for 118 days. >> they arrested me because i was a filmmaker and a journalist. so by arresting me they were going to teach a less on to journalists and film make ares. and at the same time i was working for the american media and the british media. so they were teaching a lesson to the british and american media. also, i had some friends inside the iranian government, inside ...