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Oops, that's problematic because they play in north carolina. 7-year-old brain cancer survivor jack hoffman, he had a touchdown run at last april's spring football game. last night at the espys last night, that was named the best moment of the year. jack was there to accept the award. >> this is super duper awesome. thanks for the trophy. i'm glad that you are all now on team jack, and i know with you we can't lose. thanks. >> love that. >> thanks so much, betty. turning back now to top political stories, joining me for our "first look" at politics, is syndicated columnist bob franken. let...

0 at the espys absolutely ran away with it. gives us an opportunity to tell this story yet again. because it's a little slice of awesome. i absolutely love that story. we begin in washington, d.c., not a bad story, don't look now, i appears that the senate may actually be functioning, that's right, first bipartisan plan to reform the immigration plan passed last late month and they hammered out a deal on the president's nominee. yesterday, they got together to address the soaring rates for student loans. a number of republicans have been meeting with president obama's team for weeks in order...

0 this hearing, mike? >> reporter: jon, it promises to be interesting as we hear the washington irs and cincinnati irs field office perspectives from two key witnesses. the house oversight committee will hear from a total of five witnesses today but a lot of focus will be on carter hull, who recently left the irs in washington as tax law specialist and they did not like being scapegoated for the irs mess. >> chichi was there early on and it was quickly sent to washington where the orders continually seemed to come to do what the former acting commissioner called, not distressing. you know the ...

0 who five or six or seven years ago was a well-liked kid who could have ended up in a rock and roll band and the terror is within. we move on two months later he was a terrorist which of course he was. the frightening part of it is he does look like a kid that would end up on the cover of "rolling stone." that is the outrage. >> they also call him a monster. the article is very well researched. i'm not here defending "rolling stone" at all. i'm saying you put it all in perspective. i understand the visceral shock of that cover. i think that is the shock to say he looked like a kid that could ...

good morning. welcome to "today." it's 7:00 a.m. on the west coast on thursday. >> i'm matt lauer along with al roker and natalie morales. there is growing concern over the health of nelson mandela. after visiting with him south africa's president says mandela is showing signs of improvement. >> president obama offered his prayers where he is kicking off a week-long trip. we want to get to the hospital in pretoria. what is the family saying about the health of mandela? >> reporter: hey, good morning, savannah. earlier among these out here we saw some of the grandchildren collect some...