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That is an understatement. i guess. >> reporter: project healing waters is brainchild of nicholson who after being treated himself at the walter reed medical center reached out to a younger soldier and invited him to go fly fishing and that simple invitation led to outreach for injured soldiers and veterans primarily in the washington, d.c. region and has now spread to the veteran administration hospitals across the country in four short years. >> were in about 60 some of them now. we dont stop ...

The cancer expert that estimates three months to live for the locker by bomber says he could live ten years. he has prostate cancer. he was freed from a scottish prison on so-called compassionate grounds last year and sent to libya. and one of the accused russian spies could be released from jail today. p prosecutors have until this afternoon to appeal the $250,000 bail or she will be released into house arrest. the judge said pelez did not appear to be trained as a spy. >> yeah. thats an unde...

That is an understatement. i guess. >> reporter: project healing waters is brainchild of nicholson who after being treated himself at the walter reed medical center reached out to a younger soldier and invited him to go fly fishing and that simple invitation led to outreach for injured soldiers and veterans primarily in the washington, d.c. region and has now spread to the veteran administration hospitals across the country in four short years. >> were in about 60 some of them now. we dont stop ...

To say steve martin is a man of many talents, well, that would be an understatement. hes a comedian, an actor and a writer. then theres a skill you may not know about. he plays a mean banjo. he sat down -- we sat down with steve martin at the arts festival where he played with the steep canyon rangers. ♪ >> ive loved the banjo for a long time ever since i was a teenager. i grew up in orange county, california, and there was a lot of folk music in those days. and they played the banjo in a very...

Retrofitted with all of the slots around the bow, that could reputedly skim successfully 400 to 500,000 barrels of oil a day, translating to 21 million gallons a day. it is being tested right now, today and tomorrow, about 6 miles away from the actual disaster site, of april 20th, where the oil rig blew up, and well know in the next come kxtf days if it will work and the coast guard authorizes them to sweep up around the gulf, scientifically it has a lot of promise. >> lets hope so, they have to...

Obamas push for a reset in u.s.-russian relations. so far no official statement from the president again. the latest we have is this wire citing a senior state official unname that no change in relations are expected. were waiting for the daily white house briefing. well take you there as news breaks on this russian spy case. president obamas plan to beef up our border security today getting a big thumbs down from arizonas governor. president obama and governor brewer met earlier this month in t...

State. financial reform is something that could be on hold a little bit of time at least because of the passing of senator byrd. >> theyll need the vote. i guess scott brown has indicated he wont go for it which means that they dont have the filibuster proof majority that they need to pass the thing. and it will depend to some extent on how quickly the democratic governor can appoint a successor and whether indeed the successor will do what the democrats want him to do and im sure theyre gonna b...

Evening. were doing two shows tonight. >> would you mind autographing? >> oh, my goodness, yes, of course. >> every night im in new york, i work at some tiny little club where i can practice my act. i just talk about everything and anything that annoys me. >> thank you. >> you dont get the recognition that you deserve. >> damn right, william. see, i have a fan. i have william. >> larry: were back with joan rivers. to say that shes inspired a lot of funny women to give comedy a shot is an underst...

To say that shes inspired a lot of funny women to give comedy a shot is an understatement. heres one of her biggest fans who does not overstate joans influence. watch. >> hey, joan, its my, kathy griffin. first of all, congratulations on all the success youre having, again. the documentary is fantastic. youre great. so they asked me to ask a question of you. and i thought, what havent i asked you? what havent we talked about? and then i thought, get ready, what do you do when you run into somebo...

Effort is in trouble. nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel is joining me now. good day to you, richard. >> good day to you. >> you know, we had what gates said, which was that things are going going slower and harder than anticipated. that sounds a lot like bogged down to a lot of people. what is the sense that youre getting there? >> well, i think slower and harder would be the understatement of the century. it has been nine years of this war and theres a sense here that we are startin...