migrant charged in the rape of a 13-year-old girl. they set a trap for this guy. moments ago this is the mug shot that we ve been awaiting and now we await for the news today and that will be an appearance in court. good morning, everybody. dana has the day off today. i m bill hemmer in new york. why i m sitting here. great to be here back for day two. i m martha maccallum. this is america s newsroom. this group of neighbors basically knew the bodega where they expected he would return as they did. they stopped him as soon as he came out and held him down between two vehicles until the police arrived. the new york post calling it a town haul. authorities are looking for him since thursday. that is the day that the police believe that this man went into a park, found a 13-year-old girl hanging out with her friend, had a machete that he says he found, held them at knife point, raped this poor young girl in broad daylight and the nypd are now praising these neighbors for t
on those who found it. nbc s keir sim mns is in london with more. this is a story somewhere something good came from the worst kind of tragedy. james proser one of too many young men lost to the war in afghanistan. because of his family and an unexpected turn of events, what his life meant has not been lost. his family wrote a message to their fallen son and brother and threw it into the ocean. they never imagined that 1300 miles away, people who never knew james would make an amazing discovery. greetings from horn island, mississippi, usa where your bottle of message washed ashore on the 15th of july, 2010. reporter: james proser was killed in afghanistan last year. he was just 21. rather than face christmas without him, his family went to barbados. it was there they wrote their heartfelt letters, sealed them in a bottle, and cast it away.
do you really think, pat, back in 1961, that some woman in kenya who gave birth to a baby said, now, we have to plant a story somewhere, somewhere. let s pick honolulu and two newspapers and put two notices in the newspaper because someday, this little kid who is an hour old is going to run for president of the united states and has to have some evidence that he was born in this country? that s good question, pat. do you believe it? no i said i think the guy was born in honolulu but i want to know why the press corps doesn t take one question to the press secretary and we have, pat. we have. tell me, bill, you say to jay carney, jay why doesn t the president just release the birth certificate? get this over it with? it is an enormous distraction for the country? msnbc is transfixed with t they ought to focus on the issues you talked about libya and iraq. please, jay ask the president to