good morning. thanks for being with us at 11:00. i m marla tellez. and i m jon kelley. johanes mehserle is back in court, facing new allegations of abusing a b.a.r.t. rider. this time, it s not oscar grant, but a different rider who is claiming he was abused weeks before he shot and killed grant. christie smith joins us live. reporter: jury selection is under way here in san francisco. and those jurors are being questioned by the judge this morning. they re being asked questions like this case is not tied to the oscar grant grant case. can you separate the two? about 20 feet away from a pool of about 32 potential jurors this morning in a federal civil rights case brought by kenneth caruthers, who says he was roughed up by mehserle. seeking damages against mehserle and four other offib.a.r.t. officers, saying he was hog tied. the defense says that s not true. his feet were restrained only after he attacked an officer. he is serving a two-year sentence for the shooting
inspire magazine. that is the al qaeda magazine, an online magazine, which tells interested people how to do these kind of things. we are told by the source that the man had acquired all material and was even going so far as to drill holes in a pipe bomb. he was going to use homemade ingredients in order to detonate this device and the device, had he put it together correctly, would, in fact, have worked. we re being told that he planned to target service men, men service men and women returning from iraq. he also intended on targeting police stations or post offices, and again, this is a pipe bomb and had it gone off, it could have killed close to a dozen people, especially if he attached things like nails. he was following instructions from this al qaeda-based magazine on this website. we are told that there was an informant who was monitoring this person, who was involved. this is the man who has been on the nypd radar for about two years, don, and they decided to go i
if they fail and that s expected what happens? reporter: it seems that despite the very we call it the super committee and they had super powers. this committee written in law had the power to bypass many of the procedural hurdles that slow down and hold up legislation up here on capitol hill. despite having the power these 12 committee members were not able to bridge the gap on a philosophical difference on what they believe. a big issue that s held up negotiations to this point, the issue of taxes. democrats increase the tax revenue increased taxes need to be part of any final deficit deal, any deal to reduce the deficit as part of a balanced approach as they like to say. it s no surprise republicans on the flip side are very opposed to tax increases unless it is part of a broader effort to reform the tax code that would bring down tax rates. that s really what it seems this has come down to. they were not able to bridge the divide on that issue. if they don t reach
taxes. nbc capitol hill correspondent kelly o donnell joins me now. any hope of a last-minute deal or meeting to achieve anything as we tick down to the wire here, or are they throwing their hands up in this early defeat? reporter: thomas, after so much presumption of failure in the last 12 hours or so, there is a breaking development where a group from both parties are are meeting right now. aides say they re taking one more look, one more pass to see is there anything they could try to salvage from some of the discussions they ve been having over the last few months? is it a sign of good faith or a p.r. move to make it look like they filled all the time available? we don t know. they are meeting, and we will await any outkocome. they re cleared their schedules. the reason there s so much expectation of failure is that the order is so tall for the super committee. they needed to have it done by the end of today a bill in writing with an official numeric score. how much w
taxes. nbc capitol hill correspondent kelly o donnell joins me now. any hope of a last-minute deal or meeting to achieve anything as we tick down to the wire here, or are they throwing their hands up in this early defeat? reporter: thomas, after so much presumption of failure in the last 12 hours or so, there is a breaking development where a group from both parties are are meeting right now. aides say they re taking one more look, one more pass to see is there anything they could try to salvage from some of the discussions they ve been having over the last few months? is it a sign of good faith or a p.r. move to make it look like they filled all the time available? we don t know. they are meeting, and we will await any outkocome. they re cleared their schedules. the reason there s so much expectation of failure is that the order is so tall for the super committee. they needed to have it done by the end of today a bill in writing with an official numeric score. how much w