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extremely complex as it would have been for this syrian president to leave damascus and somehow get to moscow. we don't know quite how it happened. perilous journey indeed. it is a big moment indeed in terms of moscow showing how much in control they feel they are now. >> fascinating. it's seven past in new mexico. and a four-year-old girl shot and killed on i-40 in albuquerq albuquerque. conflicts statements left the police without any suspects. el chapo back on the run. officials say the fugitive drug lord broke his leg and bruced his face earlier this month. his body guards carried him away
he turbo clean. 6x the cleaning power in ½ the time time is running out for police, desperate to stop a stolen school bus on a collision course with rush hour traffic. >> we're getting into the city. this guy is not stopping. albuquerq albuquerque, new mexico, just after dawn on friday, march 9th, 2012. police dash cameras roll as state troopers race to interstate 40. >> one tire is blown at this time. 65 miles per hour.
>> outside the city, a man is speeding east in a stolen school bus straight toward the city line. the bus is stolen from this albuquerque bus yard. the suspect drives 80 miles west on i-40 to the city of grant. before turning around and heading back to albuquerque. >> negative. just the driver. >> as for now, just one male driver. that's all we have. now state, city and county law enforcement are in hot pursuit. determined to stop the empty bus before it reaches albuquerque's morning rush hour. the plan, stop the vehicle with spike belts, also known as stop sticks, strips of metal bar
designed to puncture tires. mile marker 137 is 13 miles for the albuquerque city line. at 6:27 a.m. the bus appears. the bus barrels over the spike belt. but does not slow down. police deploy more spike sticks over the next several miles. >> struck another spike belt. i believe it's in the truck tires now. has no front tires anymore. he's running on the rims. >> but the driver speeds on. >> we're getting into the city. this guy is not stopping. >> the school bus is now inside the city line. just miles from albuquerque's most congested areas. a state police cruiser attempts to ram the bus off the road with a pit maneuver.
before. adults should know better. i think another good tip is when there's snow, walk on snow, don't walk on the ice. >> crunch through the snow, the ice -- >> exactly. a big stretch of the country will need to remember that advice today. a new round of snow starts in eastern kansas. it spreads to new york. by tonight, rain along the gulf becomes a wintry mix along the mid-atlantic states overnight. clear and mild in the west through parts of the pacific northwest. they will see some snow. >> 41 in portland. albuquerq albuquerque, 42. dallas, 48. minneapolis getting hammered with a high of only 12, chicago, 28. we all know james bond loved his booze. a new study of his drinking habit is stunning. after looking at what bond drank in the original novels, researchers say he sucked down more than four times the limited recommendation for men. >> shaken not stirred i believe. they say he would have enjoyed 31 martinis, shaken not stirred, a week. 31 a week. >> wow. >> some may be able to do that. they note drinking too much and
the western myth has pretty much captured the american imagination. none of us can escape it. for ages, we identified ourselves with the image of the lone cowboy, the perception of frontier values, self-sufficiency, rugged individualism, the freedom of wide open spaces. few places in america still manage to embody that mythic landscape of the imagination like the state of new mexico. what does freedom mean? it's different things to everybody, it seems, but something about this place manages to capture the overlap between a whole hell of a lot of very different cultures. old route 66 runs through new mexico like a collapsed vein, right through santa fe and albuquerque. it must have seemed like magic once. families loaded in a massive
alien visits like in america, there's always anal penetration involved. >> i've never heard that before. >> really? >> am i new to that? >> but the pig. what about that body in the desert? some say the tradition dates back to moorish times. but a bit of history we can verify, this pig has been cooked slow over hot coals for the last 17 hours. >> i got a peek of its ass. looks delicious. >> frank here, he knows. he runs poncho's barbecue in albuquerq albuquerque. i stepped in to help frank break my piggy friend down into its parts. first, off go the legs. what you call your fresh ham. then your four quarter, your shoulders and whatnot.
>> 1947, roswell incident. >> that's right. that's still a mystery. >> some say. you notice how they always say that in those dubious cheaply reenacted doc shows. some say it was the remains of an alien spacecraft. anywho, back then they were working on some pretty cool stuff. some pretty cool stuff. for instance, a mylar-like weather balloon. they would pancake out like a flying saucer. might that explain the excessive zeal and mysterious behavior? if one of these things crashed in the desert, you can understand a whole bunch of sinister-looking bodies would show up. >> it's hard to say, but any military could create a cover story for anything. >> any pocket of, like, cyborgs or aliens? >> i heard that there is and then i've heard there isn't. >> we're taking you to a place, an undisclosed location, what's known as albuquerque's own area
we are back with our education nation initiative. all this week we're focusing on our nation's schools and how to help our children succeed. we look now at the crisis involving hispanic students. one of the issues president obama addressed during his backyard conversation in albuquerq albuquerque, new mexico, earlier this week. >> african-american students, latino students, we're doing worse in science and math than the overall average. so america is 21st and 25th. if you looked at performance and of latino and african-american students it would be lower. that's inexcusable. that's the fastest growing portion of our population. >> nbc news education correspondent rehema ellis joins us with more on this. i imagine it's hard to target one group. you have to find the unique
covering for you today. one of the sttop stories, the mayor has been arrested on charges from bribery, theft and money laundering. the 29-year-old was arrested this morning. the mayor's father was indicted in that. president obama is on a cross country campaign swing this week hoping to help democrats in november midterms. he met with a family in albuquerq albuquerque. then he held another backyard chat with neighbors where he suggested republicans are not serious about governing. take a listen. >> this is the greatest country and will continue to be the greatest country on earth as long as we can go ahead and handle serious problems that we have. instead of playing political games all the time. when you look at the choices before you, you have to ask who is a offering serious answers? >> the president granted an