north korea has detained at least seven americans since 2009. weeks ago it did release 85-year-old merrill newman, a korean war vet, who was held for weeks for alleged crimes committed during the 1950s. before him, former president clinton won the release of journalist lisaling after she and a colleague inadvertently crossed into north korea. bae has diabetes and high blood pressure. he was hospitalized in august. his family in the u.s. want him released on humanitarian grounds. at least at this point, they re willing to play ball. all right. william, thanks for that report. vicious street battles breaking out between protesters and police. ahead, why things have gone from bad to worse in a capital city. plus, new documents shedding light on the collaboration between the nsa and the fbi. but has it actually prevented any terror attacks? and president obama says pot is no more dangerous than alcohol. so we want to know what you think. do you think weed smoking should be legal? y
boston bombings. tamerlan tsarnaev posted pictures of him on his youtube channel, and he went to the region, although it s not publicly known whether he trained with the group. the state department is taking the unusual step of warning americans the games are an attractive target for americans and just in the last few minutes, the pentagon is confirming it s moving two ships to the black sea to be available for evacuations or other contingencies. thank you. another day of serious violence in ukraine. anti-government protesters clashed with police in kiev. that followed a night of vicious street battles after the gove sweeping anti-protest law. ukraine has been in turmoil since the cancellation of an economic treaty with the european union in november. president obama says marijuana is not more dangerous than alcohol. but he does not necessarily want his two children to follow in his footsteps of teenage pot use. it s just the latest mixed message from an administration
bigger and facebooking is going public. it s time 0 play reporting roulette. first up, we ll begin with suzanne kelly in washington. she s following these hearings over cyberattacks. officials are warning they could be the number one security threat to the nation. so suzanne, what would the worst scenario be? well, the worst case scenario is going to be an instant loss of life, something like an attack on a nuclear facility or an attack on the air traffic control system. things like that which have the immediate impact. cyberthreat does go on in the economic world, too. you could definitely feel the effects of that coming. imagine for a second what this is like if you could imagine there s a criminal or terrorist already living in your house with you. but you don t know they re there. that s sort of how lawmakers and how the administration officials are looking at the cyberthreat now. okay, so how exactly are we going to fight these threats? that s a great question. and
we heard reports that that may be a place where people have been sheltered where, in fact, the bodies may have been stored. buff i cannot confirm those reports that was kind of rumors we ve been hearing from up here. so what are you expecting, ivan? what is your plan in the next couple of hours? reporter: good question. i was frankly, when the vicious, vicious street battles were going on, i really did not think that these activists could hold out against the onslaught. and i have been really stunned how tenacious they ve been. you can see in this image, there are people, a number of people with bandages on their heads walking around, and they managed to hold onto this territory. which is really kind of remarkable, and the question is, is what will the government do next?
colleagues in hotels overlooking the other side of the square, anderson. perhaps they can glean what is going on from that side, from that vantage point. anderson? ivan, does it seem like the wounded people are coming from the area around the egyptian museum? reporter: yeah. they do seem to be coming from that direction. there are one or two side streets over there, as well. but no, they are coming from the direction of those barricades where we saw fires breaking out from your end earlier in the evening. right. for our viewers who have been watching throughout the day, the area around the egyptian museum has been the scene of some of the most fierce pitched battles and that area was won back, if you will, by the anti-mubarak supporters late in the evening and they have a barricade erected and they are manning and will man and will likely continue to until they can no longer do that. and that is the scene of some of