Treasure sec jack lew has been mercilessly mocked for his signature. some sate looks like a slinky. some say it looks like sally brown s hair in the cartoon. i was looking forward to seeing the curly q on the dollar bill but when it came time to put his name on paper money, he wimped out. check out the signature that will start getting printed on bills this summer. jack, be true to yourself. coming up, top secret government programs, gathering information about phone calls and internet usage, all exposed by a hacker. if you ask president obama, that s trance parents. we ll ask two whistleblower as what they think about the nsa snooping scandal. in the namee and sophistication. but to us, less isn t more.
Government permit to go in for just two hours. we drove through desolate roads, half collapsed homes, and this, an elementary school where we found the graduation sign still hanging from march 11th. it s tough to describe. reporter: on the roof, a clear view of the fukushima nuclear plant. 3,000 people still work there preparing to remove fuel rods from reactors. workers complain about the stress and low pay, and the world health organization says a third of them now face increased risk of thyroid cancer and leukemia from radiation exposure. radiation fears have already driven thousands of namee families out of the region. they hope these photos will one day lure them back.
Neiman sketched hockey star wayne gretzky two years into his legendary career. and you ll see roger clemens during his run with the yankees. his portrait, the rocket, hangs in the background. leroy neiman survived by his wife of 55 years. he was 91. i thought that was awfully generous of him to you know, i was going to say i know. you didn t no, you didn t see vile vials and needles nex the clemens shot. i think there s a white that blue splotch, he must have gotten the vials. especially behind neiman s head. it s actually in the painting, you can t see it in that picture. coming up next, top stories. wait a minute. everybody on the planet knows, right? my little dog fido knows. that roger clemens was lying through his thicken tongue before congress. everybody knows that. everybody knows he was lying.
And yet, he gets off. how willie, you are now officially nbc news, now that dan abrams has left, you are nbc news s chief legal correspondent. savannah has stepped aside. savannah stepped aside. you are now nbc news chief legal correspondent, what happened? pete williams what happened here? why did they quit the thick tongued liar. i won t bore you with the or cane details. i know you wouldn t understand. go to two people. the two witnesses who helped him the most. andy pettitte. and the other one? mcnamee s wife. what did mcnamee s wife say? she basically said whatever he said came in the mail, now, from roger clemens the needles and everything, they were for here, they weren t for clemens. really? the wife. botox? divorced wife. so she s covering up for
good morning, we re happy you re with us this morning. welcome to early start , i m zoraida sambolin. we re bringing you the news a to z, get it? big story in d.c., roger clemens to be judged by a different group of people, baseball writers, the men and women who choose the hall of famers after he was acquitted on all of the charges in his perjury trial yesterday. the rocket denying all along he ever used performance enhancing drugs. yesterday his attorney insisted again that his legendary pitching career is not tainted. i hope those in the public that made up their mind before there was a trial will now back up and entertain the possibility of what he has always said, using steroid and hgh is cheating and totally contrary to his entire career. joe johns is live in washington and so, joe, long fight, four years, millions spent. big investigation. big prosecution and i suppose a big headline today a bad two weeks for the doj, first john edwards and now this. it has be