are judiciary sources as well as government sources, are telling nbc news that the release of these two american hikers is still expected to happen in just a matter of days. thomas, i want to bring in our teheran bureau chief, ali arouzi who is herings because he can talk to how similar this is to the third american hiker sarah shourd and what happened in her case. like these two young men, she, too, was picked up by a plane from ayman and like these two young men her bill was also set at half a million dollars and paid not by the families, but by a source that is still unknown. ali can speak righnow of how it worked for sarah shourd, and if in fact this plane is coming from iran and whether it has taken off or not, it might be in fact coming from iran, oman, then we might be able to get the sense of how it would play out. ali is here now, and ali, explain how it played out for sarah in a way that it might be happening in this case. yes. good morning, thomas. there is a lot
that whatever chaos has been behind the scenes, and whatever disgruntled negotiations have been going on behind the screens between the judiciary and the government of president ahmadinejad, that it is simmering down and we are moving to the completion of that effort to calm that down. currently, officials in iran are still saying that our sources are telling nbc news, and these are judiciary sources as well as government sources, are telling nbc news that the release of these two american hikers is still expected to happen in just a matter of days. thomas, i want to bring in our teheran bureau chief, ali arouzi who is herings because he can talk to how similar this is to the third american hiker sarah shourd and what happened in her case. like these two young men, she, too, was picked up by a plane from ayman and like these two young men her bill was also set at half a million dollars and paid not by the families, but by a source that is still unknown. ali can speak right no
going to take it anymore. in nevada, rick amodei will take over that democratic seat. and let s bring in mark murray, and lot of people are expecting the results out west in nevada, but a position held by a democrats in the past for decades in new york now, and how much of this is a referendum on president obama? well, it was clearly a blow to president obama and democrats in the house and the white house, but there was a confluence of events that led to the democrats defeat and the republicans victory and one of course is the president s poll numbers that have been sinking particularly in polls taken in that particular congressional district representing queens, new york. and one thing is that the incumbent voted for a gay