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That point. >> this is freedom, we have people in the water. looks like they got run over by a barge. one of the duck boats. i'm going to pick them up. >> the crash claims the lives of two hungarian students, szabolcs prem and dora schwendtner. but somehow 35 people are pulled to safety. many need medical attention, including ruby, who suffers from shock. in philadelphia, the mayor holds a press conference. >> this is a very serious situation and we're going to do everything we can to, obviously, get to the bottom of it. >> investigators at the national transportation safety board issue a pres...

The minutes leading up to the crash, he left his post in the upper wheel house of the tug boat and his vision of anything in front of him were completely obscured by the barge. >> anything you want to say at all? >> not at this time. >> devlin pleads guilty to one count of misconduct of a ship operator resulting in death and is sentenced to a year and a day in prison. ride the ducks president, chris herschend defends the captain of the boat who follows protocol. it manslaughter understanding that he followed all of the regulations required of a captain in that situation. >> but for kevin, it...

and welcome to "today" on this tuesday morning. i'm ann curry. >> and i'm matt lauer. we had a recent assessment by the obama administration that said al qaeda is a shadow of its former self. but this latest thwarted attempt shows that the network is still making a lot of efforts to attack. >> absolutely right, matt. because on monday we learned that a covert cia operation in yemen stopped a suicide mission that planned to use an upgraded underwear bomb, containing no metal at all, on a flight headed here to the united states. we're going to get more on this from president obama's to...

passengers are in the car, we see the risk quadruple. >> reporter: when someone over age 35 is on board, the risk drops 62%. >> unfortunately, when the parents leave the car, we see the risk go up dramatically. >> reporter: transportation secretary ray lahood says it's time for peer pressure. >> when you're in a car with a friend, and you see them with that cell phone in their ear or the texting device, you ask them to put it away. >> reporter: 17-year-old elliot johnson got whibehind the wheel soon as it was legal in south dakota. >> thinking about it now, it's scary knowing that i ...

>> from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and ann curry live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> welcome to today on this tuesday morning. i am ann curry? i am matt lauer. we had a recent assessment by the obama administration that said al qaeda is a shadow of its former self. the latest thwarted attempt shows that the network is still making a lot of efforts to attack. >> absolutely right. on monday we learned that a covert c.i.a. operation in yemen stopped a suicide mission that planned to use an upgraded underwear bomb containing no metal at all on a flight headed to the...