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decide what, in any, actions to take today, tuesday, april decide what, in any, actions to take today, tuesday, april 17th, 2012. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a tuesday morning. i m matt lauer. good morning, everyone. i m savannah guthrie, in for ann this morning. that secret service scandal is moving well beyond embarrassing now. with word that those agents had sensitive information in their possession. so imagine you re in a hotel room, you re a secret service agent, and you re there with a prostitute. somewhere nearby in that room is a copy of the president s exact itinerary. what would happen if that itinerary fell into the wrong hands? well, an investigator from the u.s. is now in colombia to interview potential witnesses. we re also hearing that even more agents and military personnel may have been involved in this than originally thought. coming up we ll talk about the fallout with new york congressman
out we can see that the landing gear is down on the 747 as it approaches landing at dulles airport. discovery left the kennedy space center at 7:00 this morning. about a half an hour ahead of schedule. it took an extra lap around the nation s capitol. almost preening for the crowd, allowing everyone to get their historic shauts and delighting people who had gathered very early. not only on the national mall, but at the stephen udvar-hazy center in dallas and it as it approached dallas, it took another lap around that area as well. now we see that it s on its approach to landing. the landing gear down there on that 747. we call it discovery. the folks at nasa call it orbiter vehicle number 3. discovery has a better ring to it. this is their pride and joy for certain. the construction began in 1979 on this orbiter. it was completed four years later and deliberated to the kennedy space center in october of 1983. almost a year later it went out on its first mission and for