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captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to "today" on this thursday morning, im meredith vieira. >> and im matt lauer. nearly seven years, five months after the u.s.-led invasion of iraq got under way. the final american combat brigade left that country overnight crossing into kuwait just before dawn. >> historic moment that comes nearly two weeks ahead of president obamas august 31st deadline. 50,000 troops will stay in iraq for at least another year, serving in no...

and dozens of spectators are nursing their injuries today, thursday, august 19th, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television this thursday morning, im meredith vieira. >> and im matt lauer. nearly seven years, five months after the u.s.-led invasion of iraq got under way. the final american combat brigade left that country overnight crossing into kuwait just before dawn. >> historic moment that comes nearly two weeks ahead of president obamas august 31st deadline. 50,000 troop...

this thursday morning, im meredith vieira. >> and im matt lauer. nearly seven years, five months after the u.s.-led invasion of iraq got under way. the final american combat brigade left that country overnight crossing into kuwait just before dawn. >> historic moment that comes nearly two weeks ahead of president obamas august 31st deadline. 50,000 troops will stay in iraq for at least another year, serving in noncombat roles. well have the latest in a live report from kuwait straight ...

david natalie is following it for us live in atlanta. lets start with the rescue efforts. what is the latest with that? >> well, kiran, so far, the coast guard has suffered 1,100 square miles. the missing 11, that search is going to resume in an hour and half from now. in the meantime, the fire is still burning. look at the video we have. theyve been pouring water on it constantly from early yesterday morning. the platform is leaning, or listing, pretty badly on its side but dont think...

focused on three priority areas, securing critical fund -- not front-line states, meeting urgent global challenges and enhancing aid effectiveness and accountability. allow me to summarize each briefly. first and critical front-line states we propose spending $7.7 billion in state in usaid assistance in support of development efforts in afghanistan, pakistan and iraq. we have made some progress in each of these countries but we realize the significant challenges remain. over the past s...

searches on google and yahoo!. today im going to demonstrate this form of censorship not only continues but in many cases is worse. let me start, if i can do this. . . what youre looking at here on th n l google.com search for the word tiananmen. youll find pictures of the famous tiananmen square protest in 1989. especially the iconic photo of a demonstrator standing in front of several tanks. now what you see is google.cn, googles china search engine, and a search for the same word. t...