two sports where two teams have already advanced in the ncaa tournament. nc state qualifying for the first round of 64 by beating xavier last night in the first round. it was a pretty tight game. nc state pulled away to take the 74-59 win. they ll match up with st. louis come thursday. earlier in the evening albany taking on mount st. mary s. this one would go down to the wire with albany s peter houle giving them a three-point lead. the last chance down three. less than 25 seconds to play. julian norfleet with a chance to tie hits the back iron. yeah, albany gets its first ncaa tournament win, 71-64. up next for the great danes, the top seeded florida gators on thursday afternoon. that will be a tough one. the president has a lot on his plate but that does not mean he doesn t have time to fill out
the morning. i m john roberts. i m kiran chetry. thanks you re joining us. here are the big stories we ll be telling you. first, a major blow to the taliban. its top military commander and close associate of osama bin laden is said to be in u.s. custody or in the custody of u.s. and pakistani intelligence officials. they say that interrogations are underway. we re live in afghanistan with why his arrest matters. right now there s a man trapped in the mouth of mount st. helen s, a volcano that s still active. rescue crews in washington state are waiting for the sun to come up and for the winds to die down so that they can go back up to the crater and try to get the fellow out. we ll tell you exactly how it happened and how they hope to get him out coming up. we re also on the gun trail this morning. many gun control advocates are saying it starts here in georgia where control is weak. how to know if guns are in good hands and whether it will stay in those hands. we look at how t
go. it s you know, if we have to do it, we ll do it. thousands of people climb to the crater s rim every year, although a warning on the u.s. forest service web site says it s unstable and can be hazardous at any time. well, that hiker has reportedly climbed mount st. helen s before, 65 times s. the coast guard, though, says it has lowered survival equipment into the crater in the meantime near the area. they re not sure if it reached the hiker. again, as we said, they will try again at sunrise today when it gets lighter and the winds die down to rescue him. other stories at six minutes after the hour. in a few hours time president obama is expected to announce plans to break ground on construction. the first new nuclear reactors in nearly 30 years. federal loan guarantees will pave the way for two nuclear reactors to be built at a georgia power plant. the white house says nuclear initiatives are a sign that the president is willing to work with republicans on solutions to our
like this. if you ve paid for them, yes, you can eat your peanuts. i still get free peanuts. you do? they must really like you. maybe you have the gold card. i fly a lot. 30 minutes past the hour. other stories new this morning, the taliban is denying it, but u.s. officials tell cnn they ve captured the taliban s number two and he s talking to investigators. mullah addul ghani baradar is said to have been nabbed several days ago in karachi, pakistan. officials are hoping that the capture will lead them to the taliban s spiritual leader, mullah omar or even give them clues as to the whereabouts of osama bin laden. rescue crews waiting for the sun to come up and the extreme conditions to wind down on mount st. helen s so they can go back in to try to rescue a hiker who fell 1,500 feet of the crater. they came to within 15 feet of the hiker yesterday but had to turn back. today president obama is
thus also what information they get, how credible that information is, and how well that information can then later be used, john. all right. inevitably that information, you know, whatever they get from him may only be realized when we hear of major operations underway. frederick pleitgen, thank you very much. it s four minutes past the hour. right now a man is trapped in the mouth of an active volcano. rescue crews in washington state are going to try to go back again this morning to reach the hiker who fell into mount st. helen s during a climb. his partner says the man was literally over the lip of the crater and didn t know that the only thing under him was snow until it gave way. i think somebody was taking a picture of him when the it was a large one, it gave way, he disappeared over the edge. a 1,500-foot fall into the mouth of an active volcano. it was pretty much snow free, lots of boulders, lots of rocks. and the hiker was no longer