a cease-fire seems to be holding with thousands of people celebrating in the streets. the country s president ali abdullah saleh is now in saudi arabia. he s had two operations there after he was wounded during an attack on his palace. his supporters, though, are vowing he will return. mow mam head jamjoon is live in abu dhabi this morning. the u.s. not so sure he s ever coming back. growing concerns about the void left by his departure and who might fill it, right? oh that s right. as so many concerns right now, you ve got people in yemen speculating as to whether president salah will come back. right now the vice president is nominally in charge. you have to remember in yemen even though the vice president has taken the raines of the country the head of the central security forces there, the counter terror unit, that s ali abdullah saleh s nephew. the head of the republican guard, that s president salah s son. so a lot of power still concentrated within the hands of the
after immigrating from italy. molly line has more. hi molly. reporter: hey jenna. this is where rick santorum is set to make his announcement, this is where his grandfather immigrated from fascist italy and worked in the coal mines, retiring in his 70s and this is the former senator s kind of nod to the american dream, how his family came to be and how ultimately he was able to step to the podium and announce his run for presidency of the united states. this is really no surprise because he s been making a considerable amount of travel over the country, spending time in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, those early states, spending 45 visits to those states. he ll be heading to iowa actually after he finishes his announcement and about be on with greta van st usern van u.s.ern. he s facing an uphill battle in respect to where he stands in the polls, the latest gallup poll had him at about 2 percent and he doesn t have the name recognize some of the other gop contende
case against the former presidential candidate. why they say what he did may not have been against the law today. monday, june 6, 2011. from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and meredith vieira, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, welcome to today on a monday morning, i m matt lauer. i m meredith vieira. details coming in about what happened in iraq. we have more from the pentagon. what can you tell us? reporter: good morning, meredith. this is the single worst if not one of the single worst attacks on u.s. military forces in iraq since the official end of formal compat operations there in iraq last august. according to u.s. military and iraqi officials, five u.s. service members were killed in a rocket attack on a u.s. military base, one of many, in or around baghdad this morning. now the timing of this attack cannot be dismissed because this comes at a time as the u.s. military is, in fact, preparing to withdraw all combat forces,
laden. neither the u.s. or pakistan has confirmed a drone strike even occurred. gunfire sends demonstrators scattering in western syria. this is hama, syria, where police fired indiscriminately into this massive crowd of anti-government protesters. arwa damon is watching events in syria from lebanon. reporter: what we saw on friday was tens of thousands of people, according to activists and eyewitnesss, gathering in various neighborhoods, trying to converge on the main square in hama when eyewitnesss tell us syrian security forces as they have repeatedly in the past according to eyewitnesss, indiscriminately opened fire on people peacefully demonstrating, people who were unarmed. a human rights group estimates 80 people were killed in that crowd yesterday. arwa was reporting from lebanon because the syrian government does not allow cnn to report from there. turning to u.s. news, jurors in the casey anthony murder trial are getting an education in forensic science. ant
how about that? he got it back. be sure to watch more about technology developments every saent sand at 2:00 p.m. eastern in the newsrook. an e. coli outbreak has killed at least 18 people in europe. cucumbers, lettuce, and tomatoes imported from spain and europe will be tested, but here is a tip. it comes from three main places for a consumer, number one, it s often present on meat, raw beef, particularly. make sure you cook those hamburgers properly, especially as we re headed to the summer season. second risk is on fruits and vegetab vegetables. if they come already washed, you re fine. if nots, wash them. if you can peel them, peel them. the third is milk. make sure it s pastorized and not raw. four american have gotten sick but that was aftercoming back from europe. nato officials now confirm they used precision strike helicopters against targets in libya overnight. these are apache helicopters li leaving a french assault ship. they targeted a libyan radar in