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Ragtime music, with its syncopated or "ragged" rhythms, is considered by many observers to be the first purely American form of popular music. Drawing on a diversity of styles, ragtime emerged from Black communities in cities like St. Louis toward the end of the 1800s, and one of its most famous composer-performers, Scott Joplin, had plenty of ties to both St. Louis and Sedalia. In Sedalia in 1899, Joplin often played piano in a downtown saloon to help pay his way through college. While doing so, Joplin composed and copyrighted a song, "Maple Leaf Rag," that became the model for much ragti...

explain what's happened to the suspect. >> reporter: good afternoon. when you think what happened in this neighborhood, you think what was this person thinking? san jose police still don't know the answer but the details are chilling. >> the suspect enters the house and confronts the mother and actually tries to take the child out of her arms by force and the mother is fighting her off. >> reporter: san jose police jose garcia is referring to what a 26-year-old san jose woman attempted. officers say she tried to lure a 3-year-old with candy from her sister. when the teenager ran out ...

we begin this morning with asking for trouble. a development that is certain to increase tensions between washington and islamabad. "the new york times" is now reporting pakistan has arrested several cia informants who provided information that led to the killing of osama bin laden. for more on the report, we go to nbc's tracie potts. she's in washington for us. tracie, good morning. >> good morning. there were five cia informants arrested in pakistan, including one pakistani army general who copied license plate numbers going in and out of osama bin laden's compound and turned them ...