staying with his mother in the same house where the alleged altercation took place and that s where his family believes he should be. they would like to see the charges go away. prosecutors talk like this was really brutal, this fight. yeah, they ve called it a drunken rage and said the father was pushed and pushed into a wall. there were pictures coming off the wall. he was grabbed around the neck and it crushed part of his larynx, there was a fracture. the mother called 911 and police arrived. mark kerrigan said his father was faking it. daniel kerrigan died about an hour later. shepard: iran is celebrating a so-called nuclear day, unveiling the latest atomic break through today. why the united states and allies may not be celebrating.
connection with the death of his 70-year-old father. he is now facing manslaughter charges. he previously pleaded not guilty to assault and battery. the kerrigan family has rejected all of these charges saying this, we are deeply disappointed at the continued prosecution of mark kerrigan. we disagee with the decision to indict and look forward to the facts being considered by an impartial jury. the most anticipated first round ever at the masters. tiger woods teeing off in the tournament for the first time since news of his sex scandal broke. tiger woods! he received a warm reception throughout the day and his game on fire. he shot a four under 68. his best opening round ever at augusta. the round included two eagles. woods is currently in seventh place trailing leader fred couples who s 50, by the way. he s up by two shots. not everyone was thrilled with
smoke indicating there is a fire. right now they cannot risk the lives of these rescue crews, so it will be sometime before they can go back in and even begin the recovery of the miners, the 25 of them who are confirmed dead and the four who are still missing. contessa. hopefully when they drop a camera into that hole, as they expect to do later today, we ll be able to get some sign of what rescue crews might find when they go in. thank you. figure skater nancy kerrigan s brothers pled not guilty to a charge in a massachusetts courtroom. he s accused of causing his father s death. he flew into a drunken rage set off by an argument over the family telephone. it was back in january 70-year-old daniel kerrigan was killed. mark kerrigan has been staying at his family s home and his family insists mark is not responsible for the death. sarah palin and congresswoman michelle bachmann, two of the most popular conservative women in politics,
mutual interest there. this occurred while a charge d affaires met privately with the opposition leader, former foreign minister. these are all people we have had contact with for man years. they are not, this is not some antiamerican coup that we know. this is not a sponsored by the russian coup. officials added they have no indication that the kyrgyzstan military played anything meaningful role in this but they said it is not clear exactly who is in charge right now. thank you, james, from the north lawn of the white house. she was at the center of a major sports scandal and now figure skater nancy kerrigan faces another tragedy: her brother charged with manslaughter in the death of their father. prosecutors accusing the 45-year-old mark kerrigan of attacking his dad during an argument if january over the use of the family phone.
near boston. the family has insisted they do not blame mark kerrigan for the death of his father who had a preexisting heart condition. that s breaking news we wanted to get to you at this hour. tiger woods is now playing in his first golf tournament since his sex xanscandal broke e than four months ago. he teed off at the masters 20 minutes ago. nbc s kerry sanders joins us from the augusta national golf club in georgia. what are you hearing? well, it s a little early to say he s living up to the legendary focus but when he got up to the tee today there was a large crowd obviously there, a lot of cheers, a lot of collapscollapslaps and then silence as he put the ball down and teed it off. it was a straight drive, hard down the fairway, landed just short of the green. then he got it up on the green and putted in two for par. so he certainly has shown that he is the tiger woods we have seen in the past. nothing exemplary considering the other people he s here playing with, but certa