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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...

Transportation safety board issue a press release and determine that matthew devlin, the tug boat operator towing the barge hit the duck boat because of distractions while using his cell phone and computer to deal with a family emergency. according to the reports, during 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 i...

larry says his nephew is constantly talking about violence and fights during the school day. >> there are a lot of kids that are scared to go to school. >> i am concerned. my son goes to school here and i want him to be safe. >> the building hosts to make schools. school officials say both the victim and the suspect attend civitas. the 14-year-old suspect was taken into custody immediately after the stabbing. the victim is in stable condition. >> they are kids. that is ridiculous. how can he have a knife in school? how many other kids have knives and guns? what is he afraid of that m...

>> there's nothing entertaining about what just happened to victor booth. he's -- a federal jury in new york convicted the so-called merchant of death. he tried to sell anti-aircraft weapons to a colombian rebel group that wanted to shoot down u.s. forces fighting the drug war in south america. he faces life in prison and his sentencing in february. >> tugboat captain sentenced to one year in prison for plowing a barge into a duck boat near philadelphia killing two tourists. prosecutors releasing horrifying new video of the crash. it showed the stalled duck boat didn't have a chance. the tugbo...

undercurrent -- overturned car. the one person had to be rescued out of the overturned car. there are two vehicles. traffic is backed up from this location all the way down to 695. very slow going here. we have video to show you of a light rail accident we just covered up at no. ave. a victim was struck by a light rail train out there. when we got there, we saw a man lying alongside the train. he was being attended to by paramedics. he was transported to a local hospital. it is under investigation. >> tonight, an independent report spreads plenty of blame for the january shooting out...