RAANANA, Israel (JTA) – What caught Crystal Frant’s eye about the Rastafari skater she spotted on the beach outside Rio de Janeiro back in 2006 wasn’t his muscular body or
time with their parents. right, fine, thank you. you ve got to try to do the piano. a glimpse into their royal family life. today, monday october 3rd, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a monday morning. i m matt lauer. that was pretty cute with the princes at the piano. he keeps hitting the keyboard. meantime it s a pretty emotional day in perugia. amanda knox has been fighting back nerves and tears as she addressed the court radioment in italian this morning, proclaiming innocence for a murder she did not commit. she called the charges totally unfair and said the past four years have caused her to lose friends and trust in authorities. we expect a verdict in a matter of hours. nbc s lester holt was inside the courtroom as amanda spoke. he ll have the latest live from perugia just ahead. also ahead the tragedy has struck anderson cooper s new show. a teenager lies in a coma after he was asked by a p
which runs the kabbalah center, has enriched themselves not just with raising malawi funds but across the board with the funding of the kabbalah center which is based in l.a. but has 77 centers and study groups around the world. wayne, to be fair madonna released a statement after the school project collapsed. in that statement she said my original vision is now on a much bigger scale. i want to reach thousands, not hundreds of girls. i want to do more and i want to do it better. is there a way out of this scandal for madonna and i guess the bad press that s coming out of it for her and as well as the stress that has to be coming out from some type of federal probe. it s a broken promise. i have talked to a dozen people in malawi who are just embittered. i think she s making another promise that will not be now she s talking about helping with 100 schools or something across the country, contributing to community schools. well, there s no real plan for that. the government doesn
guess, extra scrutiny and a lot of people wondering what they ve poured their money into and where has it gone? when we talk about the millions of dollars, where did it go? i don t think anybody really knows, and the feds are looking. and there s no question but that there s an ongoing federal investigation. the one i focus on in this story is the irs investigation of the kabbalah center which is the religious organization that madonna has been identified with since 1996, and it s the organization that brought her to malawi all those years ago, and they ve been raising money in the name of this school h t, th kabbalah center itself, as well as an organization madonna formed called raising malawi. millions and millions of dollars has been raised and only $3.8 million has been spent which is a lot to consider it s only dirt in malawi. no one knows where the $3.8