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[0:00] all a part of his campaign to win over

[0:01] the hearts and minds of the Muslim

[0:03] world.

[0:06] >> And he brought it home at the Turkish

[0:08] Parliament, a symbol of one of the

[0:10] world's largest Muslim democracies.

[0:12] >> Some people have asked me if I

[0:16] chose to continue my travels to Ankura

[0:19] and Istanbul to send a message to the

[0:21] world.

[0:23] And my answer is simple.

[0:25] Evette, yes. The president didn't have

[0:28] just one message, but several. There was

[0:31] the elevation of Turkeykey's place on

[0:32] the world stage.

[0:33] >> This is not where east and west divide.

[0:36] This is where they come together.

[0:38] >> Urging Turks to unite against Iran's

[0:40] nuclear ambitions.

[0:41] >> This part of the world has known enough

[0:43] violence. It has known enough hatred. It

[0:45] does not need a race for an ever more

[0:47] powerful tool of destruction.

[0:49] >> Pushing for Middle East peace and

[0:51] reminding this Muslim nation of his own

[0:54] Muslim ties. The United States has been

[0:56] enriched by Muslim Americans.

[0:59] Many other Americans have Muslims in

[1:02] their families or have lived in a Muslim

[1:04] majority country. I know because I am

[1:06] one of them.

[1:07] >> Finally, offering reassurance

[1:09] >> and the United States

[1:11] is not and will never be at war with

[1:15] Islam.

[1:16] >> Because this is a volatile region,

[1:17] security is tight. Mr. Obama visibly

[1:20] flinched during a ceremonial cannon

[1:22] salute.

[1:26] Also missing from this leg of the trip,

[1:28] the crowds that came out to see the

[1:30] president in Europe. Here in Turkey,

[1:32] it's tougher to take that chance. The

[1:34] president flying solo now after wife

[1:37] Michelle flew home is scheduled to start

[1:38] the school week with their two daughters

[1:40] is overnighting in Istanul where tonight

[1:43] he had a private working dinner with key

[1:45] Turkish and Armenian leaders.

[1:48] Now, Brian, speaking of the Armenians,

[1:50] uh the president sidestepped this

[1:52] controversial issue about whether Turkey

[1:54] should recognize in a way of calling

[1:57] calling it genocide, the slaughter of

[1:59] millions of Armenians during the fall of

[2:02] the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Tomorrow,

[2:05] he's going to meet with young college

[2:06] students here, which should be a very

[2:08] interesting meeting.

[2:09] >> All right, Chuck Todd in Istanbul for us

[2:11] tonight. Chuck, thanks. We have more on

[2:13] the Obama administration tonight and

[2:15] these massive financial bailouts of

[2:17] late. It was revealed this weekend the

[2:19] president's chief economic adviser,

[2:21] Larry Summers, earned nearly $8 million

[2:25] last year working for a hedge fund and

[2:27] giving speeches to financial

[2:29] institutions. And some of that money

[2:31] came from the very banks that have now

[2:34] been bailed out by taxpayers. The story

[2:36] tonight from our senior investigative

[2:38] correspondent, Lisa Meyers.

[2:41] from getting

[2:41] >> the president's economic adviser,

[2:43] Lawrence Summers, has long been

[2:45] considered an economic and intellectual

[2:47] heavyweight. We now know just how highly

[2:49] his advice is valued on Wall Street.

[2:52] Documents made public by the White House

[2:54] revealed that Summers received about

[2:56] $5.2 million last year from a hedge

[2:59] fund, De Shaw, for what was described as

[3:02] a part-time job, offering advice and

[3:04] interacting with traders, clients, and

[3:06] investors. Summers also pulled down $2.7

[3:10] million in speaking fees from big Wall

[3:12] Street firms, many which have since

[3:14] received bailout money, including more

[3:17] than $200,000 from Goldman Sachs and

[3:20] 99,000 from Croup. Some analysts see a

[3:23] problem in Summer's close financial ties

[3:26] to Wall Street. The problem is that you

[3:28] become captured by the Wall Street

[3:30] perspective, by the bank's interests,

[3:32] and you lose the ability to give

[3:34] objective advice to the president.

[3:36] Critics say Summers and the Obama

[3:38] administration have been too willing to

[3:40] prop up bigname Wall Street firms.

[3:42] >> Everybody's doing a great job

[3:44] representing the bank's interests, but

[3:45] not the taxpayers.

[3:46] >> Summers also has drawn criticism for

[3:48] comments on AIG bonuses, which he called

[3:51] outrageous, but suggested initially were

[3:54] beyond the administration's reach.

[3:56] >> The government cannot just abregate

[4:00] contracts.

[4:01] >> Still, Summers has a reputation for

[4:03] prickly independence. And while he once

[4:05] helped deregulate Wall Street during the

[4:07] Clinton years, he now is pushing for

[4:09] more regulation of hedge funds and Wall

[4:12] Street banks, which paid him those

[4:14] handsome fees. Today, a White House

[4:16] spokesman said Summers have exactly the

[4:18] blend of business and government

[4:20] experience and the knowhow needed to fix

[4:23] this mess and to be sure it doesn't

[4:26] happen again. Lisa Meyers, NBC News,

[4:29] Washington.

[4:30] Defense Secretary Robert Gates is

[4:33] recommending a deep slice into some

[4:35] major US weapons programs. Among them,

[4:37] he would haul production of F-22 fighter

[4:39] jets, which cost $140 million each. He

[4:44] would also scrap plans to build a new

[4:46] fleet of helicopters for the president,

[4:48] as the president himself has suggested.

[4:50] He says he wants to shift priorities

[4:52] from fighting conventional wars to

[4:54] fighting the newer threats posed by

[4:56] insurgents in places like Iraq and

[4:59] Afghanistan. Meanwhile, for the first

[5:01] time since the first Bush

[5:03] administration, Americans are now able

[5:06] to see for themselves the solemn

[5:08] homecoming for a fallen member of the US

[5:11] military. Air Force Staff Sergeant

[5:13] Philip Meyers was killed by a bomb in

[5:16] Afghanistan on Saturday. Our Pentagon

[5:19] correspondent Jim Mlashevsky has our

[5:21] report.

[5:23] >> Late Sunday night, in a somber military

[5:25] ritual at Dober Air Force Base in

[5:27] Delaware, Staff Sergeant Philip Meyers

[5:29] came home from the war. And it's the

[5:31] first time in 18 years the American

[5:33] people are able to see the ceremony.

[5:37] A demolition expert who had earned a

[5:39] bronze star in Iraq, Meyers was killed

[5:41] dismantling a roadside bomb in

[5:43] Afghanistan. His return was the first to

[5:46] open the cameras since the Pentagon

[5:47] ended its ban against media coverage of

[5:50] these ceremonies. Defense Secretary

[5:52] Robert Gates lifted the ban.

[5:54] >> The overriding principle is that

[5:56] decisions about media coverage should be

[5:58] made by those most affected, the

[6:00] families.

[6:02] >> These ceremonies used to be wide open as

[6:04] when President Reagan honored the 241

[6:07] Marines killed in the Beirut bombing.

[6:09] That all changed in 1991 at the start of

[6:12] the Gulf War. The first President Bush

[6:15] banned all media coverage at Dover and

[6:17] it's been upheld ever since. Critics

[6:19] claim the decision was strictly

[6:21] political over fears that media coverage

[6:23] of mounting American casualties would

[6:25] turn the public against any US war. The

[6:28] constant uh exposure

[6:31] uh to the thousands of killed and

[6:34] wounded and I underscore wounded uh

[6:37] would decrease support for the war.

[6:41] But even out of public view, the

[6:42] military cared for America's war dead

[6:45] with the same dignity and precision of a

[6:47] full and open honor ceremony. Before

[6:49] lifting the ban, Secretary Gates went to

[6:51] Dober to see for himself. I went to the

[6:54] uh back of the plane by myself and spent

[6:59] time uh with each of the transfer cases.

[7:04] I think I'll stop them. Today, the Air

[7:07] Force gave Staff Sergeant Meyers a

[7:08] second Bronze Star. Another public

[7:11] tribute to one of America's fallen. Jim

[7:13] Mlashesky, NBC News, the Pentagon.

[7:17] When Nightly News continues on this

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[9:58] >> After a big budget defeat, is the GOP

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[10:03] >> Who's running this party?

[10:04] >> Countdown with Keith Overberman. Tonight

[10:06] on MSNBC,

[10:10] the Obama administration is calling for

[10:12] greater protection of the Earth's polar

[10:15] regions, including limits on tourism.

[10:18] Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made

[10:20] the proposals at a global summit in

[10:22] Washington. Coincidentally, it comes two

[10:25] days after a crucial icebridge collapsed

[10:28] at the South Pole, effectively changing

[10:31] the map of that part of the world. The

[10:33] story from our chief environmental

[10:35] affairs correspondent Anne Thompson.

[10:38] >> From polar bears in the north to

[10:41] penguins in the south, thinning ice at

[10:43] the poles means more climate trouble for

[10:45] the planet. In the Arctic Ocean, a

[10:48] government report out today shows ice

[10:50] cover this winter was the fifth smallest

[10:52] on record. And the ice that's there was

[10:55] the thinnest ever. Ice accumulated over

[10:57] the years, the thick stuff marked in red

[11:00] on this map, makes up a record low 10%

[11:02] of the ice cover. The orange area is

[11:05] firstear ice. Thin ice, the vast

[11:08] majority of this winter's ice cover and

[11:10] most susceptible to summer melting. It's

[11:12] not a matter of if we're going to have

[11:14] an ice-free ocean in the Arctic during

[11:16] the summertime, but when.

[11:18] >> Arctic ice acts as a reflector for the

[11:20] Earth, bouncing back heat and energy

[11:22] from the sun into space. Without the

[11:24] ice, the ocean absorbs the heat, raising

[11:27] temperatures that could speed the melt

[11:29] of land ice in Greenland and raise sea

[11:32] levels. At the bottom of the world, the

[11:34] ice bridge at Antarctica's Wilkins ice

[11:36] shelf collapsed over the weekend.

[11:38] Scientists feared the Wilkins, stable

[11:40] for much of the past century, could now

[11:42] break free.

[11:43] >> Good morning.

[11:44] >> Today, in an international meeting on

[11:46] polar issues, Secretary of State Hillary

[11:48] Clinton said more must be done to

[11:50] protect these areas. With the collapse

[11:53] of an ice bridge that holds in place the

[11:56] Wilkins ice shelf, we are reminded that

[11:58] global warming has already had enormous

[12:02] effects on our planet and we have no

[12:04] time to lose in tackling this crisis.

[12:08] It's a crisis that may seem far away,

[12:10] but the poles are like thermostats for

[12:12] the planet and changes there could

[12:14] affect the weather everywhere people

[12:16] live. The science is telling us that we

[12:19] are actually in a much worse situation

[12:21] than we would think we would otherwise

[12:23] be.

[12:23] >> A situation made worse by man-made

[12:25] global warming that now needs a man-made

[12:28] solution. Anne Thompson, NBC News, New

[12:31] York.

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[15:28] Memorial services took place yesterday

[15:30] and today in Bingmpington. The gunman

[15:33] Jimberly Wong killed immigrants from

[15:35] eight different countries Friday before

[15:37] killing himself. His sister said on the

[15:40] Today show this morning his family had

[15:41] no idea he was about to snap. She said

[15:44] he was depressed about job loss and his

[15:46] limited ability to speak English.

[15:48] Thankfully, we have something of a

[15:50] positive milestone to report here

[15:52] tonight. US highway deaths fell last

[15:55] year to their lowest level in almost 50

[15:57] years in this country. Preliminary

[15:59] figures show just over 37,000 people

[16:02] died in motor vehicle accidents.

[16:04] Remember that's an improvement. The

[16:06] theory here is the recession and $4 a

[16:08] gallon gasoline had people driving less.

[16:11] The annual report on the quality of

[16:14] airline service in this country is out

[16:16] tonight. Improvement is the key word. In

[16:18] fact, the airlines overall scored their

[16:20] highest marks in four years. Smaller

[16:23] appears to have done better. Hawaiian

[16:25] Airlines was the top rated carrier,

[16:27] followed by Discount Airlines, Airran,

[16:30] formerly Value Jet, and Jet Blue.

[16:33] Northwest, which is now a part of Delta,

[16:35] was fourth, the only of the big

[16:37] traditional so-called legacy carriers to

[16:40] place near the top of the list. First

[16:42] day of baseball season has arrived. That

[16:44] means ceremonial first pitches thrown by

[16:47] people who are, shall we say, beyond

[16:50] their prime baseball playing years.

[16:52] Among the hurlers today, the vice

[16:54] president, he threw out the first pitch

[16:56] in Baltimore as the Orioles hosted the

[16:58] New York Yankees today. And former

[17:00] President Bush did the honors in

[17:02] Arlington, Texas, where the team he used

[17:04] to run, the Rangers, took on the

[17:06] Cleveland Indians. He threw what was

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[19:53] >> Next on Mount Hood, two skiers narrowly

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[20:03] Temperatures back up into the mid70s

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[20:57] stimulus money that we know is on the

[20:59] way. But a lot of localities can't

[21:01] afford to wait for the money. They've

[21:03] launched efforts on their own. Like a

[21:05] program in California that's making a

[21:07] difference. Our report tonight from

[21:09] NBC's Lee Cowan.

[21:12] >> Economically speaking, going local in

[21:15] Lancaster

[21:17] sounds pretty good. In this California

[21:19] city, if you hop in a new Harley

[21:23] or you drive off in a new Toyota,

[21:25] >> they will reimburse you this amount.

[21:27] >> The city will repay your registration

[21:29] fees in coupons to be spent at local

[21:32] businesses.

[21:32] >> I'll probably spend it on my grandkids.

[21:34] I always do.

[21:35] >> Like here at Giovani's restaurant.

[21:38] >> It's like the community uh reaching out

[21:42] to help each other. It's just one of a

[21:44] host of creative finance ideas hatched

[21:46] by Lancaster to pull itself up by its

[21:49] own economic bootstraps. Why?

[21:52] >> Washington is not going to pull us up

[21:54] out of anything.

[21:54] >> With unemployment here hovering at a

[21:56] whopping 15%, the city was growing

[21:59] impatient, waiting for the federal

[22:00] so-called shovel ready projects to

[22:02] create jobs. So instead, the city

[22:04] council came up with some of its own. It

[22:07] put contractors and engineers to work

[22:09] building a new city park and playground.

[22:12] and it bought and remodeled 100

[22:15] foreclosed homes. Some are already back

[22:17] on the market. In Texas, the city of

[22:19] Carolton tapped the Lonear budget to

[22:22] create 200 local jobs. They're

[22:24] temporary, but for Trevan Brewer, it's

[22:27] something.

[22:27] >> Might move me into something a lot

[22:29] brighter instead of being in a dark

[22:32] cave.

[22:32] >> 16 states and at least 30 cities and

[22:35] counties are working on these mini new

[22:37] deals. Effective in the short term, say

[22:39] some economists, but may be lacking in

[22:41] the long term.

[22:42] >> We've got to focus on strategies like

[22:44] the emphasis being placed on small

[22:45] business growth, entrepreneurial

[22:47] development that creates new wealth.

[22:50] Best thing that ever happened to me in

[22:51] life was getting fired.

[22:53] >> It's that teach a fisherman how to fish

[22:55] idea that New York Mayor Michael

[22:57] Bloomberg is seizing on. His city is

[22:59] offering classes on how to become

[23:01] entrepreneurs. 200 people applied for

[23:04] just 27 spots. It's not just about like

[23:07] creating something that's uh like a job

[23:10] for me now, but really just carrying a

[23:12] career, something I can look forward to.

[23:14] >> Homegrown solutions to an economic

[23:16] crisis that Main Street hopes to fix one

[23:19] street at a time. Lee Howen, NBC News,

[23:22] Lancaster, California.

[23:24] >> And that's our broadcast for this Monday

[23:26] night. Thank you for being with us. I'm

[23:28] Brian Williams. We of course hope to see

[23:30] you right back here tomorrow evening.

[23:32] Good night.

[23:39] plot unraveled inside juvenile court.

[23:43] Four teens 14 14 and under are charged

[23:45] with a Coline style murder.

[23:47] >> All I know is that um there's kids that

[23:49] threatened to kill me and my friends.

[23:52] >> Tonight, hear from a family friend of a

[23:54] suspect on why these charges are

[23:56] overblown.

[23:58] Rock climbing tragedy. A deadly fall at

[24:01] a popular site in the gorge. Two people,

[24:04] aggression detective and his

[24:05] sister-in-law killed. How this site shut

[24:08] down. Close call. Two skiers watch an

[24:12] avalanche come crashing down around

[24:14] them. How they escaped and why experts

[24:16] warn this danger is still with us.

[24:19] >> From the KGWHD

[24:21] studios,

[24:24] where the news comes first. News Channel

[24:27] 8 at 6 starts now.

[24:30] >> Hello, I'm Laurel Porter in tonight for

[24:32] Tracy. and I'm Joe Donlin. First at 6,

[24:34] was it a Coline style plot? Stunned

[24:36] students and parents walk away from

[24:38] juvenile court where four teens are

[24:40] accused of planning a school massacre.

[24:42] News Channel 8's Randy Ne is here with

[24:43] their first appearance before a judge.

[24:45] Randy.

[24:45] >> Joe. A very stern judge asked the four

[24:48] teenagers if they understood the

[24:50] seriousness of the murder conspiracy

[24:52] charges against them. Parents, even

[24:54] alleged victims were there in court to

[24:57] witness the reading of the charges. The

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