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while some provisions go into effect today key parts have been blocked, staged for a lengthy court battle. nbc's tracie potts is in washington with the story. tracie, good morning. >> lynn, good morning. this is a showdown arizona has been waiting for for a couple of months. sb-1070. not quite as tough as it was intended to be. from the white house to california to the hot seat of this issue arizona people are furious over the state's immigration law and the judge's decision to put the most controversial provision on hold. >> i found the judge's decision absurd. >> we want to be ther...

backed the obama administration's high-stakes challenge of arizona's immigration law just hours before it was set to become law. while some provisions go into effect today key parts have been blocked, staged for a lengthy court battle. nbc's tracie potts is in washington with the story. tracie, good morning. >> lynn, good morning. this is a showdown arizona has been waiting for for a couple of months. sb-1070. not quite as tough as it was intended to be. from the white house to california to the hot seat of this issue arizona people are furious over the state's immigration law and th...

plea. this morning we have a before better idea where he was head with a truck full of weapons and ammunition and what he planned to do with it. teresa garcia is live in oakland. >> point blank, suspect said it himself, he was on a mission to kill. take a look at bullet holes. pretty much penered. you have windshield covered. luckily the officers were not seated in there. some of these may be difficult to see but all of this is result of 12-minute gun battle between the suspect and officers sunday morning on 580 in oakland. with so many rounds, you see piercing through the cars, it's...

that we wanted. we go back on as business as usual. >> reporter: white house officials say the deal had been in the works for nearly a month. experts say the swap allowed moscow the chance to avoid ten spy trials in the u.s. that would have potentially spilled embarrassing details of how the agents who posed as ordinary citizens, even raising families here apparently uncovered little of value but managed to be watched by the f.b.i. for years. johnson says it's a black eye for russia's spy agencies. >> what we saw is the overall level of competence of these people was very amateurish,...

world and probably will have his fair share of all-star games in the future. strasburg has just six games under his belt and national league manager charlie manual says he would like to see the rookie settle in his role as an ace before making the all-star game. he is one of the very best in the league. 53 strikeouts and ten walks, through 32 innings. 75 percent said no, maybe next year. >> i'm not surprised or disappointed. i think there is going to be some all-star games in his future. hopefully he'll stay healthy and represent the nationals in the future along with some of our oth...