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Was ayman mohyeldin who reported what was happening there. >> and it is even bizarre of what is happening here, is that the same insurgents in the syria and the iraq militants and we want iran's help in iraq or iraq wants iran's help, but only to the point, because iran is on the other side of the conflict as far as the united states is concern concerned with what is going on inside of syria, and so it is -- look, this is a 1,000-year religion-war between shia and sunni and the borders be damned. >> and we will weigh in with jim mi miklaszewski. and you are hearing that it may be the worst bes...

The new supercool gadget. jim goldman is live at an apple store in palo alto, california, jim, there had been controversy whether people that paid in advance for their phones were able to get the phones. what's the scoop there? >> reporter: talk to the folks who have been waiting in line here some since 3:00 yesterday afternoon. by the time the stores opened in palo alto, in the shadow of apple itself, there were 1,500, 2,000 people, and this is the device that people are trying to get their hands on. this is the iphone 4 released today. 6,000 preorders, some analysts expect the company to sel...

Cleaned up more than 400 tons of tar balls all along this coastline. >> michelle, thank you very much. coming up in 30 minutes msnb environment and science expert jeff will join me in what happened to the oil-soaked pelicans after they are rescued and cleaned. now to the change of command in afghanistan, general david petraeus will have a swift confirmation by the senate as he is now positioned to lead the war effort in afghanistan. petraeus was, of course, named by president obama yesterday to replace general stanley mcchrystal following mcchrystal's comments in a "rolling stone" article....