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captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this friday morning. i m meredith vieira. i m ann curry in this morning for matt who apparently wanted to work on his tan in cannes this morning because he didn t make it back. you mentioned this plane crash and there is a miraculous as the survival of this 9-year-old boy was, he s got some very tough days ahead. very tough. apparently he still does not know that both his parents and his older brother died in that horrific crash. they were returning home from a dream vacation in africa and now we are seeing our first photos of the family in happier times on that trip. we ll have more on that little boy s amazing survival. his name is rubin and just what he endured in that crash in a moment. the tragic murder in mexico of an 18-year-old texas girl. the family and friends was an above-average student says she was a promising future getting ready for a high school graduation but her death has revealed she was living a shocking double life, including a job as an exotic dancer. we ll hear from her family. then on a much, much lighter note, as it special friday for us. the start of our summer concert series. we have a big crowd out on the plaza to check out sting live in concert in our 8:30 half-hour. he s taking over the whole half-hour. we ll begin with the latest on those men being held as part of the investigation into that failed bombing in times square. nbc s justice correspondent pete williams is in washington with more. good morning, pete. reporter: good morning. these searches were done to follow up on what officials say faisal shahzad has told the fbi, that he had money sent to him from pakistan through cash exchanges and couriers in the u.s. now the question did anyone here know what he was up to? dozens of fbi agents and local police swarmed around a house in suburban boston just after dawn thursday and at a gasoline station nearby looking for evidence that two men there helped faisal shahzad receive cash from overseas. officials say two pakistani men there, and another in maine, now held on immigration charges, helped him receive money transfers. but investigators stress that so far, they have no evidence to suggest that the men had any idea that shahzad was planning to drive an suv loaded with bomb materials into times square. there s at least a basis to believe that one of the things that they did was to provide him with funds and so we are trying to trace back to see what exactly was the nature of those transactions. reporter: related searches were carried out in southern new jersey and on new york s long island. federal investigators say shahzad has told them that he took the train to long island in april and received $4,000 in cash from a money currier there. meantime, president obama was in new york to thank first responders who found the bomb made first and evacuated times square. you have saved an awful lot of lives, and so my main message to you is that the country s proud of you. i know your mayor and your commissioner are proud. your president is proud of you. reporter: now the fbi hopes that these searches can help them trace the money back to pakistan to discover who was giving him money on that end of these cash exchange. meredith? pete williams, thank you very much. it is 7:04. once again, here s ann. british petroleum has come up with yet another new option to try to stop the flow of crude oil that s already leaked more than 4 million gallons into the gulf of mexico. we ll talk to the man in charge of bp s clean-up efforts in just a moment. but first, nbc s chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson is in venice, louisiana with the latest on this story. anne, good morning. reporter: good morning, ann. bp says the price tag for the clean-up of this spill so far is $450 million, and increasing at a rate of $10 million a day. but there is one company involved in this accident that wants to make sure it pays a far smaller sum. this is what bp still can t control. the oil leak roaring at the bottom of the gulf. engineers are now considering two options. the top hat containment dome which is on the sea floor, or an insertion tube, using this technique, a new riser with a narrower pipe inside would be sent down to the leak site. the tapered end would be placed in the hole in the broken riser, then the oil, suctions to a tanker vessel on the surface. as the spill spreads and many louisiana fishermen begin a third week out of work, transocean, the company that owns the oil rig that burst into an inferno, wants a federal court to limit its liability to just $27 million. the request is sparking new outrage from some of the families of the 11 men who died. don t go around telling everybody that you re going to take care of them and we re going to treat you right when you re down in houston federal court filing a lawsuit saying you re not responsible for anything. reporter: the spill is now hitting seafood sellers like this store. merlin says he s seeing prices jump as the supply of oysters, shrimp and crabs falls. for adult crabs and baby crabs, if they get caught at all, there won t be any. this is not just a job, this is a way of life. this is this is in my heart. this is this saltwater runs through my veins. reporter: now he wonders if the seafood will continue to run here in southeastern louisiana, a part of the world he calls god s country. i know how to build out the storms. i can do that. i don t know what to do with an oil spill. i never had to experience anything like this before. reporter: that sinking feeling is spreading here along the louisiana coast. it s a feeling that only plugging that well a mile below the surface can fix. ann? anne thompson, thank you. british petroleum s chief operating officer doug suttles is overseeing the clean-up. good morning. at last report, you were weighing two new solutions on parallel tracks, the so-called top hat over the leak, and also an insertion tube to siphon out the oil. why would either of these untested solutions work when all others you ve tried have failed? well, ann, i think you know we re going to try everything we can to stop this thing. but these two techniques in theory should work. we ve got the same challenge we ve had since the beginning, which is the 5,000 feet of water. what we re trying to do is, we have to find a way to keep these gas hydrates from forming. we think both of these techniques should help with that. in the meantime, we re seeing stunning new images, doug, about how the oil is impacting the coastal waters. scientific experts are questioning whether your condition has again underplayed the size of this leak. some suggest it could be up to 26,000 barrels of oil, five times a day your current estimate. are you guessing? and if you don t know the true volume of this leak, how can you stop it? well, ann, since the very beginning, we ve said it is highly uncertain. the two things we can do is we can watch what we observe on the sea floor and we can see what happens on the surface. what we do know is when we get good weather and can apply all of our techniques, we can actually slink this spill. we ve actually done that. we re putting every resource against this problem. it isn t related to the amount coming out. we re actually applying everything we can. we ve mounted the largest response effort ever done in the world. but is it possible that you are actually leaking more than 5,000 barrels a day? yes or no. i think, ann, it could be higher or lower. i don t think it is wildly different than that number. we ve said since the beginning, it can be a bit above or below. a congressional hearing on wednesday revealed human and also mechanical errors contributed to this disaster. including a failed battery on what s called a blow-out preventer which is supposed to be the failsafe that s supposed to prevent something like this from ever happening. how could it be, given the risks, there could be a faulty battery on this blow-out protector, sir? well, ann, i m only involved in the response. my focus since two hours after this thing began has been about how do we get this thing brought to an end and how do we minimize the impact let me interrupt that. i know that. but i m saying, you re not involving so you don t know as a ceo why there would be a faulty battery on this blow-out preventer? actually, ann, i don t. the investigate i m sure will find that out. if that was part of the factors. but i actually don t know. part of what relates to you here is that there is a u.s. representative, bart stupak, who suggests now that your company, and also transocean, we should also add inadequately maintained the blow-out preventer, at the very least. do you sort of want to respond in terms of how your company operates with this kind of thing? you know, ann, what i think i need to do and what the people of this region want me to do is bring this flow to a stop and actually minimize the impact. that s what i work on every single day. there are other people worried about this investigation and i m sure they ll get to the bottom of it. the clean-up costs alone is now supposed to cost about $450 million. there are liability claims in addition to this, sir, as you well know, people who have been hurt by this spill. so the question as a ceo i need to ask you this morning i know you re involved with the clean-up, but dealing with the price tag of this thing, you know, do you are you now willing this morning to agree that your company is willing to go beyond the $75 million cap on these kinds of claims, these liability kinds of claims? you know, ann coo. i m sorry. yes, ann. as of yesterday we had already spent over $460 million. we are a putting every resource to this. we re doing everything we can. the $75 million cap isn t actually material. we re doing everything we can. we ve applied money, people. we have over 13,000 people working on this thing right now. i just don t think it is a relevant issue. so you re saying that there is no cap on how much you are willing to spend, not just for the clean-up, but for all of those people who say they ve been hurt by this spill. you know, since the beginning, ann, we ve said we re going to make this thing right. we re going to deal with the impacts, we re going to do what it takes to clean this thing up and stop the flow and we ve said that since the beginning and we re still saying it. i think our actions back that up. you know, the pictures that we re showing, i want to show people again about the environmental impact. because we don t know how much this thing is going to cost. dolphins and turtles have washed up dead on shore. scientists are trying to determine whether or not they died of this oil contamination. but given the long-term impact from this spill, are you now, as the c.o.o. of british petroleum, prepared to apologize to this country, to the american people, sir? you know, ann, i think what i m asking people to do is judge us on our actions. we re out there doing everything we can, working with the government, working with the coast guard. and i d actually ask people to say look at what we do. we re mounting the largest response ever. we re trying to immediately get money in people s hands right now to offset some of the impact. we re trying to employ the people who live in this region, the families that are impacted, put them to work so that actually we minimize those impacts. i think our actions is how we should be judged. so that s not an apology this morning. you know, ann, i think as we look at this, we ll find out who was at fault. we ll find out ultimately what went wrong. i think what people want to know is that we act responsibly. that s what the rules say and that s who we are and that s what we re going to do. british petroleum c.o.o. doug suttles, thank you so much for joining us this morning and good luck in your efforts. thanks, ann. once again, here s meredith. that oil slick is just one of the situations that s landed on president obama s desk. he s also pushing financial reform legislation and shepherding his second supreme court nomination through the senate. jonathan altar is a newsweek columnist and author of the new book, the promise president obama year one. jonathan, good morning to you. let s start with this nomination to the supreme court of elena kagan. what do you think drew the president to her? well, i think they share something in common that relates to harvard university, of all things. when obama was the president of the harvard law review, he brought liberals and conservatives together. he was a consillater. and when elena kagan was the dean of harvard law school, she did the same thing. he mentioned this, obama did, when he announced her appointment. so i think they also connected in that he wanted somebody who was not already on the bench. every other supreme court justice has been a judge prior and he wanted somebody with broader experience, which she has. when you were writing this book, he had the task of getting justice sotomayor confirmed so you learned a lot about the process and the president s role in it. what can you tell us about that? well, first of all, he has a very rigorous disciplined process, whereas president clinton took three months, was going back and forth, this nominee, that nominee. and president bush operated on instinct. with obama it s almost corporate, very structured. but he also would be sort of rye in the middle of it. at one point when they were talking about another possible nominee, he said, you know, i couldn t get confirmed for the supreme court nowadays. i have too much of a paper trail. so we ve got to nominate somebody who would have a better chance of senate confirmation than i would. so he s always trying to kind of interject a bit of a rye tone amid the discipline. that lack of a paper trail worked for him with regard to yeah. yeah, that helped. what i try to do in this book, meredith, this is the first book about the obama presidency. there have been a lot about his campaign, his background and so forth. i wanted to take people behind the closed doors of the oval office, into the situation room, really give them a sense of what s this guy like when he s operating, not just what s he like on the basketball court, or the playing poker, but what s he like making decisions, how does he reach out, call on the person who is sitting in the back row, doesn t think they re going to get called on suddenly the president saying, what do you think, meredith? if you re not prepared, you might not be invited back to the next meeting. why do you think based on the latest nbc/ wall street journal poll his approval rating is hovering around 50% which is where it s been since last summer, given the amount of anger that s out there in terms of elected officials in general? why is he staying strong? that s exactly right. it is this fascinating gap that we also saw with ronald reagan where the policies are not tremendously popular, but the president remains well respected. i think for obama, the key is authenticity. he just doesn t seem like a phony and the people who deal with him every day feel this way. he s got a kind of psychological health to him and even if you don t like what he s doing, and i try to assess where he s succeeded and where he s failed, you have to respect the man. he brings a thoughtfulness to the process. and he does try to drill down into these decisions. even on afghanistan, which is not working very well right now, but they really examined the policy. they didn t want to just stumble into this. and they had the most thoreau policy review since the cuban missile crisis in 1962 of what to do. there is always a back story, meredith what happened that we don t know about. that s where i tried to get at in this book. for all your analysis of the president, it s mrs. obama and that story involving her and the first lady of france that s getting the most buzz right now. well, you know, when they first met, carla bruni, the first lady of france, said, my husband and i do not have sexual relations as much as we would like because of the duties of office. but we did keep a foreign leader once waiting for one hour while we finished making love. did you ever do that with the president? and michelle obama kind of embarrassed said, uh, no? but she s a fascinating figure, i found, as i was researching this book. some people on the white house staff call her the supreme leader, because even though she doesn t sit in on policy meetings the way hillary clinton did, she s very influential behind the scenes, and she s focused on some of these new issues, obesity and so forth, and it is a formidable figure. jonathan alter, thank you so much. by the way, the promise comes out on tuesday. now let s get a check of the rest of the morning s top stories. natalie morales is in at the news desk for ann. good morning. we begin with violent clashes continuing in thailand s capital that have forced the u.s. embassy and four other foreign embassies to close their doors this morning. gunfire and explosions could be hear near bangkok s business district today as troops battle anti-government protesters. the clashes are now ongoing for six weeks and turned bloody late thursday when the opposition leader was shot in the head and critically wounded. the family of that 13-year-old boy in houston who was shown on classmate s cell phone video being beaten by a teacher is now suing the teacher and the school. the parents say the boy suffered a black eye and bruising. the teacher has been fired. the space shuttle atlantis is set to blast off this afternoon from the kennedy space center to the international space station. this is atlantis final voyage before nasa retires the shuttle program. and a buffalo woman is all the talk this morning after she flirted with president obama thursday while he stopped for lunch at the city s famous duck s wings. she told the president, you re a hottie with a smokin little body. the president apparently took it all in stride and gave her a hug. boy, she s got a lot of h chutzpah. are you sure that wasn t carla bruni? you re a hottie with a good morning. 61 degrees. we have clouds around baltimore and a little bit of drizzle. strong thunderstorms in pennsylvania. a little thundershower in oakland right now. during the day today, clouds and sunshine and that s your latest weather. al, thanks. as the 9-year-old survivor of that deadly plane crash in libya slowly recovers in the hospital, there are new details this morning about what he endured when the plane went down. here s nbc s stephanie gosk. reporter: they found him still strapped to his seat. semi-conscious with badly broken legs. but alive, miraculously alive. 9-year-old rubin was a half-mile from the plane s tail section. investigators believe he was sitting up front. afriquiyah airlines flight 771 from south africa crashed just before the runway in tripoli, libya. 103 people were killed. everyone except rubin. his entire family, mom, dad and older brother enzo, are dead, but officials say he still hasn t been told. an aunt and uncle flew to libya as soon as possible to be at his side. actually, i ve seen for myself that he is okay. he s awake. he s talking. reporter: over the phone, rubin told a dutch journalist my legs hurt a lot. i don t know how i got here. i really want to go home. the family was flying home from a once in a lifetime african safari. rubin s father blogged about the trip. older brother, enzo, spotted the first elephant. this is a picture of the two brothers by a waterfall. the worst thing that happened to them, he writes, is a flat tire in the middle of nowhere. back in holland, the tragedy and the miracle are starting to sink in. flowers have been placed by the family home. rubin s classmates say they didn t believe it was him at first. he laughs all the time. he plays a lot with lego in the classroom. he has a lot of friends. everyone in class likes him. doctors say rubin is doing well but still in a state of shock. how could he not be? the cameras, the pain and a steady stream of officials, including libyan president moammar gadhafi s son at his bedside. investigators have retrieved the black boxes which could reveal what brought the plane down. what they may never know is how this 9-year-old little boy managed to survive. for today, stephanie gosk, nbc news, london. just ahead, the california man who admits to murdering two teenage girls meets face to face with the mother of one of his victim just ahead, will your kids score better in tests in high school if they go to daycare as a toddler? the surprising new results of an interesting new study. but first, our summer concert of the season sting live on our plaza stage after concert of the season sting live on our plaza stage after your local news. count on. like these consumers digest best buys. and all backed by a 100,000 mile powertrain warranty. discover for yourself, and see why over a thousand people a day are switching to chevy. during the spring event, qualified lessees now get a 27 month, low mileage lease on this malibu ls for around $199 a month. call for details. the switch to chevy starts at chevy dealer dot com. and we ve got some deep rollbacks! like crest with scope. now $1.50. that s almost a buck less. i ve never seen rollbacks like this before. my name is darrell, and i save people money so they can live better. live, local, latebreaking. this is doubly pal tv 11 news today in baltimore. wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am stan stovall here is sarah caldwell. northbound 29, left lane is closed here. watch for possible delays and lane closures. you may find some delays around pimlico. shot down in advance of preakness. those closures will be in effect until saturday 9:00 p.m. continued closure is that closures at this intersection. at old eastern and essex, a water main break blocking those roads there. in upperco, we have an accident still clearing. so far, so good on the harrisburg expressway. on the beltway, you will top the brakes approaching the beltway. 29 at 108. next exit is 100. no sign of delays here. you may find them just approaching 100. so far so good on the west side. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. 61 degrees. we take a look at the cloud radar. a couple of showers. thundershower near oakland. heaviest storms to the west, northern pennsylvania. take a look at this forecast. scattered showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon and evening hours. otherwise, a mixture of clouds and sunshine. 79 to 84, high temperature. we are in the slight risk category for potential severe weather. we should check the bottom of your screen for updated news and traffic information back and 25 minutes with another live update. 7:30 now on this friday morning, may 14th, 2010. and this is what we like to see the plaza packed to the brim for the start of our summer concert series. some of these folks drove all night, including one couple from cleveland just to catch sting live in concert. we ll get to that in one hour from now. inside studio 1a, i m meredith vieira, alongside ann curry who is in for matt. just ahead, a serious and tragic story. the brutal murder of an 18-year-old texas girl has revealed a secret life that almost no one knew she was living. we ll have details coming up. plus, this morning, do children who are placed in daycare at an early age have an advantage or disadvantage over their classmates when they reach high school? we ll have the results of most comprehensive study on this topic. plus a special series starting next book called today looks back, the stheeories tha have stayed through a years. the story i selected was shortly after i started here in 2006, about tragedy turned into hope and the power of the human spirit. the one i picked is sort of a today show first. it s i think one of our executive producers and seniors best and most favorite moment. however, it is a story that still haunts me today. we ll get that about next week. but other things we ll revisiting stories with matt and al who will share their picks as today looks back. we begin with sentencing day for the california man who admitted killing two teenagers in cold blood. here s nbc miguel almaguer. reporter: when john gardner faces a judge today, he ll also face the families of the two young women he raped and murdered. 17-year-old chelsea king, and 14-year-old amber dubois. at sentencing hearing, the families will have a chance to speak directly to their daughter s killer, a man who s already broken his own silence about the brutal crimes. are there other victims? good try. reporter: in a telephone interview with san diego television station kfmb, gardner spoke of a building anger before his murders and regret after. i mean i was aware of what i was doing, and i could not stop myself. i was in a major rage and pissed off, and pissed off at my whole life and everybody that s hurt me and blew up. and i hurt the wrong people. reporter: after king s body was discovered in a san diego park march 2nd, the convicted sex offender was questioned in her disappearance and quickly arrested for her murder. in a plea bargain with police, gardner confessed to chelsea s murder and led investigators to dubois body, missing for a year. leaving her parents, even today, searching for answers. week amber s mother approached gardner s mother outside a san diego county jail. i m not here to harass you. i want to talk to your son. and find out why he murdered my daughter. reporter: she wanted gardner s mother to give up visitation time so she could question the man who killed her daughter. on wednesday, gardner agreed to talk with her for 30 minutes behind bars. afterwards, she would not share the details of the difficult talk. yes, i met with gardner. yes, we talked. i got my answers. i got my closure that i needed. reporter: when gardner is expected in court today, dubois father is expected to read a statement blasting prison and parole officials for allowing gardner to be out on the street. now with our last hope for justice, we depend on the prison community to slowly and painfully cause his remaining days on this earth to be a living nightmare. as for gardner there is no kaeg bataking ba i did. if i could, i would. i was out of control. this call is being recorded. i would have. reporter: now gardner won t be able to stop what happens later today. he faces two life sentences and the two families whose lives he destroyed. for today, miguel almaguer, nbc news, los angeles. pat brown is an investigative criminal profiler and author of the profiler. pat, good morning to you. as we just saw in miguel s report, gardner seems almost remorseful at points in that interview. he says at one point everything that i ve done is horrible, what am i supposed to say? did i try to prevent it? yeah, i did. do you believe him when he says he understands what he did? no. you don t. blah blah blah. no. it hurts my little heart no. this is a psychopath who is enjoying the limelight and he enjoy is manipulating those who are listening to him. he s trying to get sympathy of the people around him. he s blaming the system for what he did. everybody has done these terrible things to him, that s what caused him this rage, he s a victim, too, so feel sorry for me. hey, ladies, when i m in prison, start writing me those love letters, start writing me those letters that say i can find god, start being my friends. of course he doesn t say any of that in that interview, but he does no, he doesn t. but that s what he s planning. pat, he claims that he has a mental illness that he s schizophrenic and he s got ahdh or i think he said he was bipolar. that s kind of the new one that a lot of or adhd. he says when he was 5 years old he was diagnosed as bipolar. in a sense i believe that, because psycho pathy starts very, very young and is often misdiagnosed as bipolar. you can understand where i m coming from, i have these mood swings. sometimes i m dr. jekyll, then my mr. hyde comes out. can t help myself. chemical imbalance in the brain. not my fault. not to defend him here, but he says he tried to get help repeatedly, mental health, and it failed, nobody was willing to help him. do you think if he d gotten help no, he s a psycho path lying. he s lying to the psychiatrist. he even says i wasn t able to be open because basicallify told them the truth, thet s rat me out to law enforcement so i couldn t get any help. that s a psychopathic normal exclues for what they do and why they couldn t get help. it s their fault again, everybody else s fault. i think one of the more disturbing things about the interview is not what he said but the tone, the fact that he sort of giggles through it. at one point he says i m normally not all chipper sounding. i m really not happy anymore. i might laugh on occasion. i m just explaining to you what s going on. i don t think anything is funny. there is not much more i can say. yeah. well he actually is enjoying the limelight. this is what happens with our serial killers who get life sentences. for one thing he says, you know, he finally confessed. he was willing to confess. he didn t confess. they had his dna so of course he s going to then say, well you ve already got me. secondly, he was plea bargaining for a life sentence instead of the death penalty so he was clearly getting a deal on that. now he s moved on to his next game which is, enamour himself with the community, make people like him and start getting those deals he ll get in prison, get along with the guards, get women to write him, get a girlfriend or two, that s what these psychopaths do when they get in prison which is one of the reasons life sentence doesn t do enough harm to them, because they usually get along very well. chelsea and amber s parents will confront him at this sentencing. you sigh there. is that not a good thing for them to do? i think almost every parent feels the need to do that because it is a pandora s box. he s there. they want to go forth. they think there might be an answer somewhere behind that face of his. but what he s doing is continuing his manipulations. they might even think they get closure temporarily. but later on they ll look back and think, that guy was just enjoying it and he s still lying to us and he really doesn t give a darn. they re hoping somehow they ll break through to a human being that will truly feel remorse. but they can t get there from a person like this so it is a very hard thing for families to have to go through. it is very sad. pat brown, thank you so much. now let s get a check of the weather from al. today s weather is brought to you by chico s. some women are destined to wear chico s. good morning. let s look at the afternoon temperatures. what you can expect as far as conditions around today. you are looking at mild conditions in the plains with the jet stream, slight risk of strong storms, heavy rain down in texas all along a frontal system, all the way into the northeast. as we move into the weekend, you re going to be looking at those temperatures and storm track working its way on into the east and moving up to the north, we ve got a little bit of a bubble out west. that s allowing that really toasty weather through the clouds and drizzle this morning, and an approaching cold front will increase the range chances. maybe some strong storms this afternoon and evening. in the low eighties for highs. that s your latest weather. meredith? al, thank you. now to a new twist in the case of a florida woman accused of hiring a hitman to kill her husband. she was arrested last year in an elaborate undercover sting operation. now we are learning about another man in her life. nbc s kerry sanders is in boy ton beach, florida with details. reporter: good morning, meredith. dalia dippolito thought she had the perfect plan to make her husband go away. allegedly hire a hitman. turned out he was an undercover police officer. and now there is new evidence in the case dozens of text messages that she allegedly sent to her lover the week before her arrest. she played the part like a professional actress. dalia dippolito broke down when she arrived home last august. police were everywhere. they said her husband had been murdered. but the elaborate scene was all part of a police sting operation caught on hidden camera. the hitman was really an undercover police officer, hired, authorities say, by dalia dippolito. she was arrested an charged with solicitation to commit first degree murder. now, prosecutors have revealed new evidence in the case. 49 single-spaced pages of text messages sent a week before her arrest. messages between dippolito and a california businessman. in one message, dippolito professed her love to the man saying, when i saw you, the chemistry was mind-blowing. in another she texted, ur the man of my dreams, my prince charming. cell phone records reveal dippolito even plotted to get her husband arrested. she texted i told you we need drugs in the car and it will put him away for a while. the sooner he gets jammed up, the sooner we can be in paradise island, baby. the latest texts are the latest against dalia dippolito. last year police released this recording of an undercover agent posing as a hitman. after the staged murder scene, police sprung it on dippolito that her husband wasn t really dead. oh, my god! mike, come here! come here, please! come here! why not? i didn t do anything! reporter: michael dippolito has since filed for divorce. last year he told matt he was still processing the idea his wife allegedly tried to have him killed. you got to understand, matt, i didn t want to believe it was her and i had a hard time thinking this. we were so close. i can t make sense of it. i can t make sense of any of it. reporter: dalia dippolito is out of jail on bond. if she s convicted on these murder-for-hire charges, she could face up to 30 years in prison. we contacted her attorney about this new evidence, the text messages. he said he had no comment. meredith? kerry sanders, thank you very much. up next want your kids to do better in high school? maybe you should send them to daycare. the controversial findings of a major new study right after this. had a passion for pink. and pearls. i was a sucker for sequins. always knew what i loved, and insisted on wearing it. 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[ male announcer ] there s only one place you can get a clarity commitment for your mortgage or credit card. bank of america. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am stan stovall. time for another check of the morning commute with sarah caldwell and traffic pulse 11. really has not been all that bad in terms of the delays. we have some incidents. 100, left lane closed with an accident there. everything looking good on i-70 towards the beltway. was such delays on a 40. west side delays on a 40. rogers ave and winner avenue, watch for closures in effect until saturday night due to preakness. if you are heading out in bowling scores road, watch for clues to to fire activity. watch for closures due to fire activity. rte. 30 and upperco, continued closures due to accident being cleaned up there. harrisburg expressway and no major delays elsewhere. doing well on the west side at north side. 11 minutes on southbound 95 from the beltway southwest down at 32. no sign of any delays on the northbound direction going away from us towards the accident scene. at a team looking good as research over to a live view of liberty. everything looking good as we switch over to a live view of liberty. clouds and drizzle. you can see it on the camera lens is there on the traffic cameras. clouds in the area, especially west of the bay. the heavier storms are way, way to our north right now. the forecast for today calls for a little bit of sunshine to break through. we could see some late today storms. 79 to 84 for the high. westbound wins from 10 to 15 miles per hour. check the bottom of your screen for updated news and traffic information. we are back in 25 minutes with another live update. 8:00 now on this friday morning, the 14th of may, 2010. there is extra excitement on the plaza this morning because we are just 30 minutes away from the start of our summer concert series, an entire half-hour of live music from sting. i m meredith vieira, along with ann curry and al roker back from l.a. yes, thank you. so excited about sting. this is going to be a different way we ve heard him. oh, absolutely. by the way, this crowd get a load of this! i know matt is bummed that he is not with us today. he ll be back on monday. in this half-hour, today s commuter challenge. that s right. matt, meredith and i conducted a little unscientific experiment to try to find the best way to work. we each chose a different mode of transportation, meredith went with the car, matt hopped on the subway, the bus. i looked like a geek. you re not pedaling that fast. also on a very serious note, we ll talk about this tragic murder of an 18-year-old girl from texas. she was just weeks away from graduating from high school. now an investigation has uncovered that she was actually living a double life, look working as an exotic dancer. her parents didn t know about it. we ll hear from her family. first let s get a check of the morning s top stories. natalie morales is filling in for ann. good morning. fbi is investigating possible connections today between three pakistani men arrested in the u.s. thursday and the attempted car bombing in times square. the men were taken into custody on immigration charges during fbi raids of homes and businesses from new jersey to maine. investigators are looking into the exchange of money between the men to bombing suspect faisal shahzad. president obama is meeting today with his top advisors to discuss the leaking oil well in the gulf of mexico and its impact on the economy and the environment. this as bp says under sea robots are trying to insert a tube into the leaking pipe so oil can be siphoned to a tanker ship above. meantime, a victory for shell oil company. appeals court has given the okay for the company to drill exploratory wells in the waters off alaska, despite opposition from environmental groups. ntsb investigators will be in libya today on the scene of that plane crash that hild kill3 people. a dutch boy, the sole survivor, could return home to the netherlands this weekend. officials say he was found a half-mile from the crash site still strapped into his seat. overseas markets are mainly down this morning. cnbc s erin burnett is at the new york stock exchange for us this morning. erin, what s the market outlook for today? so natalie, we ll have a little bit of pressure in the early session. real reason is fear that europe is falling back into a recession. the so-called double-dip scenario which could hurt america since american companies sell more to europe than they do anywhere else overseas. former fed chief paul volcker, a close advisor to president obama, says he s worried the european union could break apart. oil a bright spot though, we could see lower prices at the pump by memorial day. back to you. erin burnett at the new york stock exchange, thank you. facebook is rolling out some new security measures to protect users from internet criminals. the measures include notification when an account is accessed from an unknown mobile device or accessed from different parts of the world at the same time. sounds like a good idea. 8:03 right now. back outside once again to al, get a check of the weather. thank you so much, natalie. a lot of sting fans here. it s your birthday. what s your name? lori. lori, sting is throwing a concert just for you. yes, he is. it s my birthday. happy birthday. let s check your weather. pick city of the day, lacrosse, wisconsin. scattered clouds, 69 degrees. for the weekend, wet weather, strong storms in texas into the mid plains. beautiful weather along the east coast. mild out west. sunday sunday mild eight east, lot of rain in the clouds and drizzle this morning. a cold front out west moves in late this afternoon and evening. thunderstorm chances go up later today. around 80 for the high. that s your latest weather. still ahead, sting kicks off our summer concert series. but up first, a texas teen s double life uncovered in the wake of her tragic death. her family speaks out right after this. 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elisabeth once told her sister she wanted to be what s called a coyote, smuggling people into the u.s. for money. her sister thought it was a joke. i don t think she went to go smuggle immigrants. reporter: similar sentiments at school. she was a great girl. and she was a good friend. and all this other side stuff, it wasn t really like her. reporter: elisabeth lived at home where her family runs a stable and where it seemed she was like so many of her friends. she had the regular teenager life. she played soccer. i just looked at her progress report. it was all as, maybe one or two bs she was going to graduate. reporter: she will be in graduation only in the hearts and minds of her classmates who turned the parking lot full of tributes to a fallen friend. this has been so difficult for the family first learning the details about elisabeth they did not know, then losing her. the case is under investigation in mexico but there have been no arrests. ann, back to you. janet schamlian, thanks. former fbi profiler clint van zandt is now an nbc news analyst. he joins us now. good morning. this doesn t make a lot of sense. based on what you know, based on your experience, what do you think happened to this girl? well, it sounds like she was living life on the wild side a little bit. she had this secret life we re toll. she was a stripper in this topless bar. a one-star topless bar, but she was picking up money. it may not have been money. it may just have been the excitement. at 18 you think you re bulletproof. for her it may have been a short step from working in a topless bar to finding something else exciting, perhaps bringing illegal aliens into the united states. either because she thought it was the right thing to or she wanted to pick up some money. but it looks like she got together with the wrong men to do this. you talk about the wrong men. talk about this. you say that the real because the family obviously wants to know what happened, why she is no longer alive. you say one of the ways to do that is to follow the trail of these two men who were found murdered with her. yeah. these two men, at least one that had a criminal record. they were both obviously twice or more her age. i would suggest she probably met them in or around this gentlemen s club that she was working in. they probably offered her some incentive to go down to mexico. realize, she went down there tuesday, she wrote on her facebook account that she was in fact down there. so i would think if the authorities are able to determine not only who these two men are, but what their associates were in mexico, what they were doing down there, that would give us a better picture of what brought elisabeth dn there with them. you talk about the investigation. a lot of murders in mexico go unsolved. at what point do you think the u.s. can, and should, get involved in this, and what about the way they die, the fact that they were beaten to death? what does that tell us? a number of things. one, in certain parts of mexico, it is a dangerous place. early part of this year in one day, 70 murders took place in an area of mexico. 70 in just one day. tens of thousands take place on a yearly basis. so life in many areas of mexico can be very, very cheap. the way she was murdered, ann, i think is investigators have to take a hard look at that. as janet set-up piece said, it was staged to look like an accident, but what happened was that elisabeth and these two men had been brutally beaten to death. their bodies placed in this pickup truck, and then somebody, ann, had to drive the truck, put a rock on the accelerator pedal, probably jump out at the last second and let this truck run into the back of another vehicle to simulate an accident. so again, the forensic evidence potentially could be there. whoever set that truck up, hairs, fibers, fingerprints. but again, do the mexican authorities have those capabilities, and, ann, they are so overwhelmed with homicide investigations, is this one more homicide investigation going to receive attention when they have police officers and public figures being murdered every day. on that question we ll have to leave it. clint van zandt, thank you so much this morning. coming up next on a lighter note, matt, meredith and al face off in today s commuter challenges. who can get to work the fastest. that s coming up next. how many cups is it? 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what s the easiest part, what s the hardest part about taking the subway in new york. hardest part is pay 2ing $2.. oh, my gosh! how are you? little less hair now. you got a little less weight. sons of xavier, here we go! i think i passed al. have no idea what matt s doing on the ground. sure he s up to no good. that biker cut me off. hey, watch it. i m taking a bus. why, you don t think i look like the bus type? no. bike lanes now all the way down broadway. my man, mayor mike, taking care of the bikes. whoa! behind you! hello, sir. they serve snacks or anything on this? no? all right, one block to go. no sign of meredith. hey, happy cinco de mayo. yeah! bye! see? new yorkers are so nice. all right. here we go. nbc, baby. hey, good to see you zblimpbls where you been? where s meredith? no meredith to be seen. honest to good, we re doing a shoot. between the taking pictures, it was crazy. you want it with the first place finisher, second place finisher or the loser. special thanks to transportation alternatives for helping us with our little bike race. just for the record, i would not have been the loser. ann was on assignment that day. she was supposed to be the driver of the car. so you re both losers. sorry i wasn t there to help you. let s bring in the editor in chief of self magazine. 50% of americans, five miles or less to work every day. why not take a bike? listen. if you just bike three times a week, you re going to lose ten pounds in a year. you ll save gas, your body and the planet. and you can actually find bikes to match your outfits. any tips for finding a bike for commuting? go to a bike store with a budget and they ll set you one a lightweight bike. this starts at $350. that one is about $500. can you step it up to a greaseless chain. people worry about getting grease on their clothes. that s a greaseless chain. you have the folding bike. this one actually you can win at self.com because we want people to bike to work. put it in your cubicle, fold it up, bring it upstairs. you know your seat is adjusted right if the ball of your foot is on the pedal? you want a little bit of a bend in the knee. they ll fit you for a bike. there should be no pain. what about carrying stuff. of course you don t want it on your arm. a backpack is a great idea. you can get these flats or folding ones. our director joe michaels has these. in that color. they fold up. you need a jacket. this folds up into a ball. you definitely need a helmet. that s serious business. some places it is required by law. some places it is not. that s right. but nutcakes makes them more $50. this is aerated. this actually holds your hair in place. you need a bell. you need sunglasses. obviously we ve tricked up this really cute bike here with the right seat and a lock and your water bottle. it s so simple, so easy. and it is safe if you stay in the slow lane or the bike lane. all right. again, next friday s national bike-to-work day. that s important to remember. that s right. go online and see all the support. there will be a little pit stop in times square by transportation alternatives. they ll hand out little things. everyone should do it next friday. just try it. good advice. thanks very much. now we ll go from riding bikes to riding horses. the 135th running of the preakness stakes tomorrow right here on nbc. nbc sports donna brothers is at pimlico race course in baltimore with a preview. donna, good morning. good morning, al. how are you? i m doing great. the preakness, weather s going to be perfect for it. who s the favorite? or is there a favorite? wide open? well, it is wide open. super saver is going to be the favorite. winner of the kentucky derby, comes back into the preakness stakes. he s going to be the favorite for the race but there s five horses that come back from the kentucky derby into the preakness stakes off that short two-week turn-around so it will be tough on them. seven newcomers coming to the preakness stakes. there is a little genre that s developing. looki lookin at lucky comes back into the preakness stakes. in the interrum, lucky s trainer fired the jockey garrett gomez, unhappy with the ride he got in the kentucky derby. he rides martin garcia on lookin at lucky. gomez picks up dublin who s already won the preakness five times. i m confused. now donna, last time i saw you at the kentucky derby, my horse kind of spooked your horse and hill later ensued. luckily you were okay. i mean you were right back up. i m glad you took the blame for it. but, no, i was fine. not a scratch on me. thank you for asking. i thought you should know, we talked about it that day, that my mom was a jockey and she said that if you re going to ride horses you re going to fall off. but the thing is, you got to get back on your horse and you got to practice. so with that in mind, al, i found a horse i think i m going to be able to ride. i don t think i m going to fall off of this one. this is for equestrians to practice riding. i got to go, al. see you tomorrow. 4:30. preakness stakes. local news is next. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am mindy basara. let s get a final check on the morning commute with sarah caldwell. we have not done all that bad this morning. we have some incidents. this one cleared at 100 off to the side. in the meantime, rogers ave and winter avenue, and now closed in advance of preakness. we have a closure due to water main break. aboard air road and rte. 30, upperco, an accident still clearing. the rest of the roadways are still in good shape. baltimore national pike is filtering out quite nicely on the west side. we will switch over to a live view on harford road. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. now we go over to john. on our radar-clout domination, satellite, nation, low clouds and drizzle over us. biggest arms up in pennsylvania. big storms up in pennsylvania. humidity is up and brought it is up in southwest winds at 10 miles per hour. mixture of clouds and sunshine. temperatures warm up. maybe a thunderstorm or two, possibly a stronger severe storm. west, southwest winds at 10 to 15 miles per hour. looks like it will be generally partly cloudy. heights and the low seventies. ideal weather. another update at 8:55. 8:30 now on this friday morning, may 14th, 2010. we have a big crowd on hand for the kickoff of our summer concert series. they re in for a big treat sting is here to get things started with an entire half-hour of music. we have a great lineup throughout the summer from teen sensation justin bieber who lady gaga. the list goes on and on and on. of course, this morning it is all about sting. absolutely. he has a little explaining to do. we ll ask him why this picture of him appeared in yesterday s paper. why was he dressed like that? actually, this morning s paper. little heavy on the rouge, i think. so he was wearing makeup on thursday. yet hoda and kathie lee were not. they declared the fourth hour a makeup-free zone. this is us. huge response! ladies, good morning. hello, everybo. they have their makeup on. were you guys surprised by the response? yes, i really was. i was, too. i thought it was one of those deals, it seemed like a good idea when we were leading up to it. when it sunk in about the whole hd situation when we actually stopped to think it through, it wasn t such a good idea. it is one thing not to wear makeup, but it is another thing on national television under those harsh lights. you guys joined us in solidarity except for you. i waen evsn t even here! you always have excuses. you know what frank said to me as i was leaving the house? i hope you re wearing makeup today. nice! a majority of women agree with you guys, they want to do the same thing. we should have a national no makeup day where everyone walks out of the door fresh-faced and goes to work. you guys start it then. go ahead! you know what s interesting about it? it makes you wonder what else you re hiding. what else are we putting a mask on. having gone through this, what is the feeling after having gone through that entire hour. relief. no. but at first were you really i could see you were a little nervous. i think the thing was, it actually started to become fun. what was weird was when you were sitting opposite someone who was fully made up, you felt like the person who showed up at a formal dinnerwaring sweats. you felt a little like that. you re brave. now to someone who really clouds and drizzle this morning, and an approaching cold front will increase the range chances. maybe some strong storms this afternoon and evening. in the low eighties for highs. we got a very exciting announcement. today has partnered with four-square. if you don t know what four-square is and none of us do we re square it is a social utility on your cell phone that lets your friends know where you are and what you re doing, assuming you have friends. at such locations, including our plaza, you can win different rewards. if you visit us this summer, bring your phone and make sure to check in on foursquare. good luck. there you go. now we re in the know. are you guys ready? 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i think i will write some new material for this kind of thing when i m inspired to. but i ve rediscovered some old songs through playing with the orchestra. it is fantastic. do you think were your fans will be surprised by these arrangements? you go on tour in june. i always want my fans to be surprised, whatever i do. that s the whole element. surprise and normality. do you have a favorite? englishman in new york. which happens to be what you re about to perform. take it away, sting. i don t drink coffee i take my tea my dear i like my toast done on one side and you can hear it in my accent when i talk i m an englishman in new york see me walking down fifth avenue a walking cane here at my side i take it everywhere i walk i m an englishman in new york whoa i m an alien i m a legal alien i m an englishman in new york whoa i m an alien i m a legal alien i m an englishman in new york if manners makeeth man as someone said then he s the hero of the day it takes a noon suffer ignorance and smile be yourself no matter what they say whoa i m an alien i m a legal alien i m an englishman in new york whoa i m an alien i m a legal alien i m an englishman in new york modesty propriety can lead to notoriety you could end up as the only one gentleness, sobriety are rare in this society at night a candle s brighter than the sun takes more than combat gear to make a man takes more than a license for a gun confront your enemies avoid them when you can a gentleman will walk but never run if manners maketh man as someone said then he s the hero of the day it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile be yourself no matter what they say be yourself no matter what they say be yourself no matter what they say be yourself no matter what they say be yourself no matter what they say be yourself no matter what they say be yourself no matter what they say be yourself no matter what they say i m a alien i m a legal ill yen i m an englishman in new york whoa i m an alien i m a legal alien i m an englishman in new york whoa yeah yeah whoa yeah yeah whoa yeah yeah i m an englishman in new york sting, thank you! back in a moment. this is today on nbc. now singing next to you, once again here s sting. note he still has roxanne to sing. that s coming up after these messages. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am mindy basara. series a look at one of our top stories. of mourning for people living in an apartment bill a rough morning for people living in an apartment building as a fire swept through that building at white pine road and hill river bridge crews arriving at the scene saw the building a fully scene saw the building a fully engulfed in hit it! see, other machines only go in circles. this kenmore elite has multi-motions for a custom clean. it scrubs to help lift stains, rolls to wash gently, swings.steps. and tumbles. better than just circles. pbht! what?! sorry. [ male announcer ] save up to 20% off all appliances and floor care plus up to an additional $250 instantly with sears appliance trade-in program. sears. life. well spent. now let s take a look at the forecast with john collins. temperatures this morning are beginning to go up to the 50 s at now. later today, a cold front moves in. we are back on the warmer, more humid air. developing scattered showers and thunderstorms activity dry weather comes in for the weekend. 79 to 84 is the temperature range, with a mixture of clouds and sunshine. west and southwest winds at 10 to 15 miles per hour. there is a slight chance that one or two of the storms could become severe. for preakness saturday, partly cloudy skies. great racing weather. much the same on sunday, with a high in the low 70 s. we will have another update at 9:25.