13th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning and welcome to today on a friday morning. Friday the 13th. Im Savannah Guthrie along side matt lauer and al roker. You were up all night downloading songs. 14 new songs from beyonce. And video. She just dropped it. It was cool. I like how you used the lingo. Yeah, a little marketing by no marketing. Its interesting. News that the longest held hostage in u. S. History that disappeared in iran seven years ago was, in fact, working for the cia. This was something the government always denied. Nbc justice correspondent Pete Williams is on the story this morning. Pete, good morning. What can you tell us . Reporter well, savannah this information does shed new light on what bob levinson, a former fbi agent was up to when he vanished in iran in the spring of 2007. Turns out he was doing contract work for the cia. Since the day Robert Levinson went mis
Ladies and gentlemen, governor Mike Huckabee. applause thank you. Thank you, and welcome to huckabee for the fox news studios in new york city. President obama is just out there shaking down fat cat donors for the democratic party. How about a combination of boss hogg and daddy warbucks. And it seems like he doesnt have interest in doing the job. His awol indifference to a world in crisis makes his leadership model likeenero and he fiddles and golfs while the world burns. In israels fight for survival. The Administration Policy is embarrassing. It attempts to equate a terror group target of civilians and a government seeking to protect the civilians and children. The deaths of israelis and innocents in gaza is terrible. But equating israel with the inhumane acts of hamas is ridiculous of Franklin Roosevelt saying the brits and nazis were about the same. I made my first trip to thegu middle east and tried to be sympathy and wanted to believe that everyone there wanted peace. But several
glor: and good evening, everyone, i m jeff glor. after months arguing from a distance president obama and mitt romney meet face-to-face on wednesday. their first debate is scheduled for denver. 90 minutes focusing on domestic issues. nancy cordes is on the campaign trail tonight in las vegas, nancy, good evening. reporter: good evening, jeff. and to give you an idea of just how much is riding on this first debate the president is here in nevada for three full days but he s only holding one rally tonight at this las vegas high school. the rest of the time he ll spend cramming for the debate and governor romney will be doing the exact same thing in denver. the president chose to do his debate preparation in a battleground state, nevada. and this is where he will be holed up at the westin lake resort in henderson outside las vegas. and this morning on abc obama campaign strategist david plouffe tried to lower expectations. now challengers tend to do really well in debates.
this is the captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. jeff: and good evening, everyone, i m jeff glor. after months arguing from a distance president obama and mitt romney meet face-to-face on wednesday. their first debate. it s scheduled for denver. 90 minutes focusing on domestic issues. nancy cordes is on the campaign trail tonight in las vegas, nancy, good evening. reporter: good evening, jeff. and to give you an idea of just how much is riding on this first debate the president is here in nevada for three full days but he s only holding one rally tonight at this las vegas high school. the rest of the time he ll spend cramming for the debate and governor romney will be doing the exact same thing in denver. the president chose to do his debate preparation in a battleground state, nevada. and this is where he will be holed up at the westin lake resort in henderson outside las vegas. and this morning on abc obama campaign strategist david plouffe trie
san francisco was approached by a stranger who tried to get her into his van. it happened in the city s bayview district. and ultimately was not touched. he is described as a hispanic male the screen images of 27 and 30 years old. he was last seen wearing beige pants into an orange t-shirt. again, police say he was driving in orange fan. justine: the berkeley police chief is once again under fire. he was criticized for setting an officer to reporters home because he was unhappy with the story that was printed on line. now, the chief is under the microscope again for having berkeley police officers investigate his sons stolen iphone. we told you about this story yesterday. now dan kerman reports some are calling this preferential treatment but the chief says this is the case. in january the police chief says son had his eye folds to live. the phone was equipped with tracking software. there were four detectives sent out to track down the phone. for four tran treatment