After lots of wrangling a meeting of the minds in peru as countries come together to lay out a plan to fight Climate Change. Welcome to our viewers around the world and in the u. S. Im natalie allen. The right our top stories. An american man in north korea has publicly denounced the u. S. Political and economic system. Martinez from el paso, texas gave a lengthy statement in a bizarre and rambling News Conference in pyongyang sunday pep said he illegally entered the country and plans to seek asylum in venezuela. His mother tells cnn her son is quite intelligent but has bipolar disorder. We have more on this. You have traveled to north korea and certainly north korea riveted to what this man had to say, will. Reporter it seems to be yet another example of many things that happen. In this case you have a young man 20 years old from el paso, texas, who according to his mother had tried to cross once illegally into that country. He was turned away. Hospitalized for a time but got out of t
at 7:00. we go to john susoki is live with the story. reporter: as the dow jones lost 512 points one trader called today a massacre. ring the bell already. reporter: the day finally ended with a loss of 4% of market value. that means the dow jones lost 10% in two weeks. we are seeing people say i am going to take money off of the shelf and try to find some sort of protection. you see people going back into the dollar. you see people going back in treasure bond. reporter: after the trading carnage we walked out to the street to see how the crash was effecting people s confidence. i think it is scary. i think any movement downward in this economy it is scary. reporter: that man says he should be already retired. i think like a lot of people i am piling it on and trying to build whatever i have. reporter: people said they are confident the market and the economy will bounce back, eventually. i think we are in the right direction but too many things happen. th
$4.75. and shanghai is down 1.7%. it s all about confidence. reporter: as the dow jones lost 512 points one trader called today a massacre. the day finally mercifully ended with a loss of 4% off market value. that means the dow has lost 10% in just the past two weeks. you ve seen people saying, i m going to take some money off the shelf, i m going to try to find some sort of protection. you see people going back into the dollar, you see people going back into treasury bonds. reporter: we went to the streets to see how the nose dive was affecting people s confidence. i think it s scary. i think any movement downward in this economy is scary. reporter: that man says he should already be retired. i think like a lot of people i m kind of piling it on and trying to build whatever i have. reporter: but people said they re confident the market and economy will bounce back eventually. i think we re in the right direction but too many things happening that you have deb
one else was in trouble. now the cause of this deadly collision is under investigation. the u.s. coast guard will be trying to determine who is at fault. now that motorboat is registered in oregon. reporting live in south san francisco, nbc bay area news. a very tragic story. thank you very much. antioch police say a teenager who set off an amber alert actually faked his own kidnapping to pull off a robbery. his arrest surprised and disappointed many people including a local barber who not only was his boss but his mentor. let s bring in nbc bay area s jodi hernandez who joins us in antioch where this is all unfolding. aside from this twnl case now, this is a case of betrayal, isn t it, for the barber? reporter: that s right. the man feels very betrayed in a big way. al holmes, the barber who owns this shop, had been mentoring the teenager for the past couple of years. he said he did his best to steer him in the right direction. so learning that the boy was allegedly
case against the former presidential candidate. why they say what he did may not have been against the law today. monday, june 6, 2011. from nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and meredith vieira, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, welcome to today on a monday morning, i m matt lauer. i m meredith vieira. details coming in about what happened in iraq. we have more from the pentagon. what can you tell us? reporter: good morning, meredith. this is the single worst if not one of the single worst attacks on u.s. military forces in iraq since the official end of formal compat operations there in iraq last august. according to u.s. military and iraqi officials, five u.s. service members were killed in a rocket attack on a u.s. military base, one of many, in or around baghdad this morning. now the timing of this attack cannot be dismissed because this comes at a time as the u.s. military is, in fact, preparing to withdraw all combat forces,