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[0:00] when the Federal Reserve did. They say

[0:02] that AIG is so big and complex it has

[0:04] more than 100 different compensation

[0:07] packages and that Secretary Geithner had

[0:09] been focused on the top level executives

[0:11] pay and not this lower ranking retention

[0:14] bonus. David?

[0:15] >> Kelly O'Donnell on Capitol Hill. Kelly,

[0:17] thanks. Tonight President Obama is far

[0:19] from Washington at a town hall meeting

[0:21] in California, but mindful that the

[0:23] outrage over AIG could complicate his

[0:26] administration's plans for economic

[0:27] recovery, he tackled the topic head-on.

[0:30] NBC News White House correspondent

[0:32] Savannah Guthrie is in Costa Mesa,

[0:33] California now with the latest.

[0:35] Savannah?

[0:37] >> Well, good evening, David. For all the

[0:39] talk about anger at AIG, we heard

[0:41] precious little of it today. Not one

[0:43] question at this town hall was about

[0:45] AIG, but maybe that's because the

[0:47] president beat them to it. He brought it

[0:49] up himself and he talked about how

[0:51] there's so much anger out there and

[0:53] though he did not authorize these bonus

[0:54] payments, he said the buck stops with

[0:56] him.

[0:58] >> And I know Washington's all in a tizzy

[1:00] and everybody's pointing fingers at each

[1:02] other and saying it's their fault, the

[1:03] Democrats' fault, the Republicans'

[1:05] fault. Listen, I'll take responsibility.

[1:07] I'm the president.

[1:12] >> Well, the president took questions for

[1:14] about 45 minutes and you know,

[1:15] California's been really hard hit by

[1:17] unemployment. The unemployment rate here

[1:20] is 10% and two of the eight questioners

[1:23] today said they had been laid off. One

[1:25] of them said he had been laid off and he

[1:27] had a felony on his record and that made

[1:28] it very hard to find work.

[1:31] >> I can't get no work.

[1:33] I have a family to support.

[1:35] What do I do?

[1:37] >> Man,

[1:38] it is a very difficult thing. I mean, I

[1:40] know that I take great pride in,

[1:42] you know, taking care of my family and

[1:45] it's hard when you lose your job.

[1:50] >> And there was an interesting exchange

[1:51] with the first questioner today who

[1:53] asked the president about a subject

[1:54] that's probably near and dear to his

[1:56] heart, his re-election.

[1:59] >> Do you have intentions of

[2:01] when the re-election comes of uh

[2:04] running for president again?

[2:06] >> You should hold me accountable and

[2:07] measure my success. And if I don't

[2:09] deliver on those things 4 years from

[2:11] now,

[2:13] then I think you will be answering the

[2:15] question of whether I run for

[2:16] re-election or not.

[2:18] Because ultimately, I'm answerable to

[2:20] you. I'm your employee, okay? All right.

[2:25] >> Well, the president is out here making

[2:27] his case directly to the American people

[2:29] for his sweeping reforms that are in his

[2:30] budget, as well as his plan to fix the

[2:32] economy. He'll be here tomorrow to

[2:34] another town hall and do something

[2:36] that's a presidential first. He'll tape

[2:38] of an appearance with The Tonight Show

[2:39] and Jay Leno, David.

[2:40] >> And Savannah, to that point, an

[2:42] appearance on The Tonight Show, the need

[2:44] to engage Americans more directly. How

[2:46] concerned is the White House about the

[2:48] political damage that AIG and the

[2:51] controversy surrounding the bonuses

[2:52] could do to their overall efforts to ask

[2:55] for more money to bail out banks?

[2:58] >> Uh there's no question this is the heart

[2:59] of the matter. Uh the president finds

[3:01] himself in a difficult position. He

[3:03] wants to to channel that anger. He knows

[3:05] people are mad. He doesn't want them to

[3:07] think he doesn't get that. At the same

[3:09] time, he knows he has no choice but to

[3:11] fix this financial system, and that will

[3:13] likely mean asking for more bailout

[3:15] money. In fact, it's already been

[3:17] budgeted for. So, this is a tightrope

[3:18] that the White House finds itself having

[3:20] to walk.

[3:20] >> All right, Savannah Guthrie with the

[3:22] president tonight in California. Thanks.

[3:25] The Federal Reserve today rolled out

[3:26] some big guns in its continuing effort

[3:28] to lower interest rates and give the

[3:29] economy a boost. The Fed said it would

[3:31] pump more than a trillion dollars into

[3:33] the mortgage and treasury treasury bond

[3:36] markets. The goal, lower borrowing costs

[3:38] for businesses and individuals. The Fed

[3:41] also said today it would keep its

[3:42] benchmark interest rate at a record low

[3:44] level. The short-term federal funds rate

[3:46] will stay between 0 and 1/4% for what

[3:49] the Fed called an extended period of

[3:51] time. That news helped Wall Street

[3:53] continue its recent rally, the Dow today

[3:55] gaining almost 91 points.

[3:58] We got word late today that Natasha

[4:00] Richardson has died. The Tony

[4:02] Award-winning actress suffered a

[4:04] traumatic brain injury Monday after

[4:05] falling on a ski slope in Canada. She

[4:08] was brought to a New York hospital last

[4:10] night surrounded by family, including

[4:12] her husband actor Liam Neeson and mother

[4:14] Vanessa Redgrave. Tonight in a statement

[4:16] the family asked for privacy during what

[4:18] it called "quote this very difficult

[4:21] time."

[4:21] More now from NBC News medical editor

[4:24] Dr. Nancy Snyderman.

[4:25] >> Simplest of accidents, a fall on a

[4:27] beginner's ski slope in Canada while

[4:29] under the supervision of a ski

[4:30] instructor.

[4:31] But Natasha Richardson's family is now

[4:33] in mourning and the death of the Tony

[4:35] Award-winning actress is raising

[4:37] awareness of traumatic brain injury.

[4:39] According to the Centers for Disease

[4:41] Control, these injuries affect 1.4

[4:44] million people in the US each year.

[4:46] 50,000 people die. 1.1 million are

[4:49] treated and released from an emergency

[4:51] department. When the head is hit with

[4:53] force, a blood vessel on the surface of

[4:55] the brain can be torn and begin to

[4:57] bleed. If the bleeding is brisk, a clot

[5:00] can form compressing brain tissue

[5:02] against the rigid skull and putting a

[5:04] person at great risk. Symptoms of head

[5:06] trauma can include headache, confusion

[5:09] and drowsiness, one-sided weakness or

[5:11] paralysis, convulsions and coma. The ski

[5:14] patrol reported that Richardson, who was

[5:16] not wearing a helmet, was joking after

[5:19] the fall and signed a release refusing

[5:21] medical care. She complained of a

[5:23] headache and not feeling well shortly

[5:25] after.

[5:26] Richardson's death has also reignited

[5:28] the debate over the question of whether

[5:30] to require skiers to wear helmets. 11

[5:33] years ago, Sonny Bono and Michael

[5:35] Kennedy both died in separate skiing

[5:38] accidents. Neither was wearing a helmet.

[5:41] Studies suggest helmets can reduce the

[5:43] incidence of closed head injuries by 35

[5:45] to 50% at lower speeds. Natasha

[5:48] Richardson, dead at the age of 45,

[5:52] leaves behind husband Liam Neeson and

[5:54] the couple's two teenage sons. Dr. Nancy

[5:57] Snyderman, NBC News, New York.

[6:01] >> A White House plan to change the way

[6:02] veterans pay for their health care came

[6:04] under intense fire today in Washington

[6:06] and in American Legion halls across the

[6:08] country. NBC's Pentagon correspondent

[6:10] Jim Miklaszewski now with a late

[6:12] development in the story.

[6:16] >> At American Legion Post 231 on Chicago's

[6:18] South Side, President Obama's proposal

[6:20] to make veterans pay for their health

[6:22] care put these veterans in the middle of

[6:25] a political firefight.

[6:26] >> I think it's it's absurd. How can they

[6:28] possibly get away with it?

[6:29] >> The veterans took care of this country.

[6:32] The country should take care of the

[6:33] veterans.

[6:33] >> Currently, veterans with war or

[6:35] service-related injuries receive care

[6:37] from the Veterans Administration at no

[6:39] cost. Under the White House proposal,

[6:42] those services would have been billed to

[6:44] a veteran's private insurance instead.

[6:46] The plan would have saved nearly $500

[6:49] million per year. Wounded Iraq veteran

[6:51] Sunny Coronado, who receives VA

[6:53] treatment for traumatic brain injury,

[6:55] had some harsh words for the president.

[6:57] >> The backbone of the country is your

[6:58] service, the service man and woman, and

[7:01] he's turning around and

[7:04] screwing them over.

[7:05] >> The outrage in Washington exploded. In

[7:07] an open letter to President Obama, 11

[7:09] veterans organizations called the

[7:11] proposal wholly unacceptable and

[7:13] unconscionable. They claim the White

[7:16] House proposal would break the nation's

[7:18] sacred covenant to care for its wounded

[7:20] veterans.

[7:21] >> It is the one solemn responsibility the

[7:23] federal government can never renege on.

[7:26] >> On Capitol Hill, Democratic Senator

[7:28] Patty Murray said the proposal would be

[7:30] dead on arrival.

[7:31] >> I believe, first of all, that our men

[7:33] and women who have served us have

[7:34] already paid the price. They shouldn't

[7:36] be paying for it again.

[7:37] >> Veteran sources tell NBC News even the

[7:39] new head of the VA, General Eric

[7:41] Shinseki, was strongly opposed. And late

[7:44] today, faced with another political

[7:46] firestorm, the White House put out this

[7:48] statement, saying the president had

[7:49] retreated and dropped the proposal.

[7:52] But back in the president's hometown,

[7:54] Chicago, it's left political wounds that

[7:57] may not easily heal. Jim Miklaszewski,

[8:00] NBC News, the Pentagon.

[8:02] >> When NBC Nightly News continues in a

[8:04] moment, the simple blood test that

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[10:52] >> Two big studies on prostate cancer out

[10:54] tonight, each attempting to determine

[10:56] once and for all just how effective are

[10:59] regular screenings for prostate cancer.

[11:01] The big question, do the benefits of

[11:03] screening outweigh the risks? Some

[11:05] answers tonight from NBC's Chief Science

[11:07] Correspondent Robert Bazell.

[11:10] >> The two gigantic studies out today look

[11:12] at one of the longest-running

[11:14] controversies in medicine, routine PSA

[11:16] blood test to screen for prostate cancer

[11:19] in healthy men.

[11:20] Most major medical organizations do not

[11:23] recommend for or against the test.

[11:25] >> The question we should now be asking is,

[11:28] are do the harms of screening justify

[11:30] the benefits of screening?

[11:32] >> The National Cancer Institute followed

[11:34] more than 76,000 healthy men age 55 to

[11:37] 74 for 10 years. Half got regular PSA

[11:41] tests and a needle biopsy if the level

[11:43] was elevated. The others got normal

[11:46] medical care without the test. The study

[11:48] found that men who got the PSA tests did

[11:51] not live any longer. A similar study of

[11:53] 182,000 European men found that 20% more

[11:57] of the men who got the PSA survived. But

[12:00] it also found that for every life saved,

[12:03] 47 men were treated unnecessarily, often

[12:06] with the common side effects such as

[12:08] impotence and incontinence.

[12:09] >> That means for every man who's thinking

[12:12] about getting screened, there's 47 times

[12:14] the chance that screening will harm him

[12:17] versus save his life.

[12:18] >> Prostate cancer can indeed be deadly,

[12:20] but it can also occur in a form that

[12:22] does not threaten a man's health. And

[12:24] doctors often lack tools to tell the

[12:26] difference. So the treatment can be

[12:28] worse than the disease.

[12:30] >> There's a lot of over-diagnosis as a

[12:32] result of PSA-based screening.

[12:34] >> Rue Harris, an award-winning

[12:36] photographer, got a PSA test on his

[12:38] doctor's advice followed by a needle

[12:40] biopsy. There was no evidence of cancer.

[12:43] His doctor told him to keep getting PSA

[12:45] tests.

[12:46] >> I [snorts] was getting caught up in the

[12:47] system of over-testing. Oh, we got to do

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[12:51] >> Harris says he wants no more PSA tests.

[12:54] And with these latest studies, more men

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[12:58] Robert Bazell and NBC News, New York.

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[15:56] >> With the steady drumbeat of bad economic

[15:58] news lately, NBC News has been taking a

[16:00] look at job prospects across the

[16:01] country. And it turns out, things are

[16:03] not so grim everywhere. As of January,

[16:06] there were 2.9 million job openings out

[16:09] there. So, where are they? Here's CNBC's

[16:11] Carl Quintanilla, in-depth.

[16:14] >> Got some meds for you, okay?

[16:15] >> Help is still wanted in this country,

[16:17] and Ashley Thomas is a witness.

[16:20] >> Can you raise your legs at all?

[16:22] >> The 22-year-old nurse searched for 4

[16:24] months before finding a job at Chicago's

[16:26] Northwestern Memorial Hospital in

[16:28] January.

[16:29] >> I finally have this job now, and

[16:32] it's time to be a nurse, so it was good.

[16:35] >> Good is a relative term after losing 4

[16:38] million jobs in this recession, but some

[16:40] of the country's largest employers are

[16:42] hiring by the hundreds, sometimes

[16:44] thousands. Engineers at Google, managers

[16:46] at Ernst & Young, financial advisors at

[16:49] Edward Jones. AT&T is adding 3,000

[16:52] employees to its wireless division.

[16:54] Target's opening 27 stores, like this

[16:56] one in Cincinnati. In fact, retail,

[16:59] along with business services, education,

[17:01] and health, has the most job openings.

[17:03] Construction and manufacturing, the

[17:05] fewest.

[17:06] >> There are opportunities out there.

[17:08] You got to work much harder in this kind

[17:10] of economy to make those opportunities a

[17:13] reality.

[17:14] >> Good luck.

[17:14] >> That isn't easy. This job fair in Denver

[17:17] last week was supposed to be aimed at

[17:19] teenagers, but adults crashed it.

[17:21] >> I'm coming anyway. I need a job.

[17:23] >> The stimulus package, it's saving some

[17:26] jobs, but many are either highly

[17:27] specialized like rebuilding this bridge

[17:30] in Missouri, or low skill clearing brush

[17:33] for a state agency in California.

[17:35] Overall, government is hiring at the

[17:37] Census Bureau, the FDIC, and the FBI.

[17:41] Another bit of good news, the percentage

[17:43] of private companies planning more

[17:45] layoffs is down from 26% last fall to

[17:48] just 13. And at those that are hiring

[17:51] like Mesero Financial,

[17:52] >> the quality of the people we're seeing

[17:54] is really extraordinary. It's

[17:55] unprecedented.

[17:56] >> One silver lining in an economy where

[17:58] there are jobs if you know where to

[18:00] look.

[18:01] Carl Quintanilla, CNBC, New York.

[18:04] >> And Carl will have much more on all of

[18:06] this in a special program, Where the

[18:08] Jobs Are. It's tonight at 10:00 p.m.

[18:10] Eastern on CNBC.

[18:12] This week marks the onset of March

[18:14] Madness, and not just because spring is

[18:15] coming. It's time for the NCAA

[18:18] basketball tournament starting tomorrow,

[18:20] and America's first fan has taken

[18:22] notice. President Obama shared some

[18:24] expert analysis with ESPN's Andy Katz at

[18:27] the White House Tuesday. His picks for

[18:29] the Final Four? The president likes

[18:30] Louisville, North Carolina, Memphis, and

[18:33] Pittsburgh. And the winner? The

[18:35] president first chose Louisville, but

[18:37] settled on North Carolina.

[18:40] Back in a moment with a great old story

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[19:49] >> What does that mean?

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[21:17] >> This is a KGW News Channel 8 update.

[21:20] >> Next, the bank robbery that ended with a

[21:22] chase, a bomb, and a car that flipped on

[21:25] a country road. And coming soon to

[21:26] Portland, Major League Soccer. The

[21:28] timetable just ahead.

[21:31] >> And I'm Matt Zaffino. After a beautiful

[21:32] day today, you're probably wondering how

[21:34] long this will last. I'll have the

[21:35] answer for you at 6.

[21:39] >> Finally tonight, a classic American

[21:41] story retold. Broadway has always

[21:43] celebrated a good revival. Now playing,

[21:46] a modern version of an iconic American

[21:48] musical that looks and sounds quite

[21:50] unlike the original.

[21:52] Here's NBC's Mike Taibbi.

[21:57] >> You may know the sounds.

[22:00] That music.

[22:02] Those finger snaps.

[22:03] And you may know the story line,

[22:05] forbidden love in the world of gang

[22:07] warfare, the Sharks and the Jets. But

[22:09] this

[22:12] isn't the original West Side Story or

[22:14] the Oscar-winning movie starring Natalie

[22:16] Wood.

[22:17] >> Would you mind translating that into

[22:18] Spanish?

[22:19] >> In this revival, 91-year-old director

[22:22] Arthur Laurents, who wrote the original

[22:24] more than 50 years ago, says having his

[22:26] Hispanic characters often speak and sing

[22:29] in Spanish is the only way to make this

[22:31] West Side Story believable.

[22:33] >> The way it's told now, you couldn't tell

[22:34] them in '57.

[22:36] >> So the new Anita warns Maria of a boy

[22:39] like that this way.

[22:43] And the celebration [music] of new love

[22:45] by the movie Maria

[22:48] is now this

[22:52] >> [singing]

[22:53] >> in the version sung by Josefina

[22:55] Scaglione, who says audiences so far

[22:58] have loved it because they get it.

[23:00] >> They understand that I feel pretty. So,

[23:03] >> [laughter and gasps]

[23:03] >> that's the whole meaning. They don't

[23:05] need to understand each word.

[23:07] >> Another change, the translations are

[23:09] crafted to make bigotry and violence the

[23:11] enemy, and not just the Puerto Rican

[23:13] Sharks.

[23:14] >> It really makes them human. But they

[23:15] were sort of a menace in the background

[23:17] in earlier incarnations.

[23:18] >> But even with all that magic on stage,

[23:21] will there be people sitting in these

[23:22] seats, some of them critics, with a

[23:24] single question. Why mess with a

[23:26] classic? Lawrence says he doesn't care,

[23:29] that only a new West Side Story would

[23:31] work.

[23:32] >> Even in the age of Obama, people don't

[23:34] want change.

[23:36] They want it the way it was. Well, it's

[23:38] not the way it was.

[23:40] I would like them to like it, but if

[23:41] they don't, they don't.

[23:44] >> So far, so rave reviews and advance

[23:46] ticket sales are the highest ever for a

[23:49] revival in any language. Mike Taibbi,

[23:51] NBC News, New York.

[23:55] >> That's Nightly News for this Wednesday

[23:56] night. Thank you for being with us. I'm

[23:58] David Gregory in for Brian Williams.

[24:00] Hope to see you back here tomorrow

[24:01] night. Good night.

[24:06] >> [music]

[24:13] [music]

[24:18] >> Getting our kicks, the city council has

[24:20] signed off. All we need now is to net a

[24:22] team. While the signs for pro soccer

[24:25] coming to Portland point to yes. At a

[24:27] crossroads, an Oregon lawmaker wants to

[24:29] give cyclists the go ahead to roll

[24:31] through certain stop signs. But is the

[24:33] idea losing momentum in Salem?

[24:36] >> I'm a little nervous on this whole bill

[24:38] and what we're going to do [music] with

[24:39] children.

[24:39] >> And heavy reading.

[24:43] >> Libraries are being urged to remove

[24:45] certain children's books. Now, some say

[24:47] the ink could pose a health hazard.

[24:51] >> From the KGWHD

[24:52] Studios.

[24:55] Where the news comes first. NewsChannel

[24:58] 8 at 6 starts now.

[25:01] >> Hello, I'm Joe Donlon.

[25:02] >> And I'm Tracy Barry. First at 6, it

[25:05] worked. Portland's efforts to lure a pro

[25:07] soccer franchise will pay off Friday

[25:10] morning. Our city beat reporter Randy

[25:12] Nems has confirmed the news with sources

[25:14] at City Hall. Randy, how and when will

[25:16] the league make this official?

[25:18] >> Well, Tracy, I've learned two city

[25:20] leaders have been asked to clear their

[25:21] calendars and join Major League Soccer

[25:23] downtown Friday morning for an important

[25:25] announcement. This means, we're told,

[25:28] Portland is getting a pro soccer team

[25:30] here at a soon-to-be renovated PGE Park.

[25:34] PGE Park's conversion into a Major

[25:37] League Soccer stadium is now more

[25:38] tangible than ever.

[25:40] >> We've worked very hard on this.

[25:42] >> Portland City Commissioner Randy Leonard

[25:43] is thrilled to hear MLS took the bait.

[25:46] Friday morning, City Hall sources

[25:48] confirmed the league will give its last

[25:50] available soccer franchise to Portland

[25:52] after city leaders promised to team up

[25:54] with private investor Merritt Paulson to

[25:56] finance the deal. Vancouver, BC, and

[25:59] Seattle have already scored franchises.

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