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>> this witness is not going to advance the prosecutions cause here because they have to prove more than john edwards knew money was going to hide this affair. they have to prove that john edwards believed that money, um, thought of that money as campaign money, that he was trying to avoid campaign finance laws, not that it was simply personal money being donated to help him hide an affair from his family. and the, and the lawyer, the estate lawyer for bunny mellon got on the stand and said exac...

committee. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. bill: that is area of expertise for you. what more can you add? >> well have update later today on the intelligence committee from updates from the cia i think the secretary of state and the defense secretary hit it right. this is new threat coming to the united states and potentially around the world and we must make surere that this does not happen. our defenses have to be such that we can keep the american people safe. we have t...

everybody, im jenna lee. jon: im jon scott. right now investigators are working to determine whether an updated underwear bomb could have gotten past airport security. u.s. officials say the device was seized before it posed a threat to any airliner. were toldets an upgraded version of the bomb used in that failed attack on a detroit-bound plane back in 2009 on christmas day and it contains no metal parts, making it difficult to detect. >> it probably would mean that an individual carr...

there is reason to believe more bombs may be out there. the drone strikes sunday in yemen that targeted operative who met with mutallob is part of the ongoing operation focused on al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula. >> for instance, the killer of the leader over the weekend was tied to this operation. this is more than just one person, one bomb. this is a larger scale operation. >> reporter: the device now analyzed by the f.b.i. lab in quantico, virginia, is a gold mine of information. ...

it got more heated. they say suspect mcmillan got into her chevy suv and took off, and as she did, she struck and killed shalinda arrington. the charge, felony hit and run. >> detectives do not have evidence to support that the suspect did this intentionally. >> reporter: the big break. shortly after the incident, police put out a lookout for a black chevy suv spotted leaving the scene. it had paper tags. but they only had had three of the numbers on the tag. that turned out to be just...

and welcome to "today" on this tuesday morning. im ann curry. >> and im matt lauer. we had a recent assessment by the obama administration that said al qaeda is a shadow of its former self. but this latest thwarted attempt shows that the network is still making a lot of efforts to attack. >> absolutely right, matt. because on monday we learned that a covert cia operation in yemen stopped a suicide mission that planned to use an upgraded underwear bomb, containing no metal at all, on a ...

passengers are in the car, we see the risk quadruple. >> reporter: when someone over age 35 is on board, the risk drops 62%. >> unfortunately, when the parents leave the car, we see the risk go up dramatically. >> reporter: transportation secretary ray lahood says its time for peer pressure. >> when youre in a car with a friend, and you see them with that cell phone in their ear or the texting device, you ask them to put it away. >> reporter: 17-year-old elliot johnson got whibehind th...

>> from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and ann curry live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> welcome to today on this tuesday morning. i am ann curry? i am matt lauer. we had a recent assessment by the obama administration that said al qaeda is a shadow of its former self. the latest thwarted attempt shows that the network is still making a lot of efforts to attack. >> absolutely right. on monday we learned that a covert c.i.a. operation in yemen stopped a suicide mission...

and three-times the charge. "dancing with the stars" triples. maria and daniels crowd-pleasing jive, that brought the audience to its feet. those trios were something on "dancing with the stars." >> they really were. >> and a little bit of -- last night. >> what do you mean last night? a lot to get to this morning, including the bomb plots that are probably headed here. the bomb plot at the center of the investigation, is being looked at quantico. >> and people are wondering is thi...

and welcome to "today" on this tuesday morning. im ann curry. >> and im matt lauer. we had a recent assessment by the obama administration that said al qaeda is a shadow of its former self. but this latest thwarted attempt shows that the network is still making a lot of efforts to attack. >> absolutely right, matt. because on monday we learned that a covert cia operation in yemen stopped a suicide mission that planned to use an upgraded underwear bomb, containing no metal at all, on a ...