america this summer, while back at home the future queen of england shocked the world as she's caught grocery shopping, today, may 6, 2011. captions paid for by nbc-universal television welcome to "today" on this friday morning. i'm meredith vieira. >> i'm david gregory in for matt lauer. president obama heads to fort comp be campbell, kentucky, today to meet with some of the members of s.e.a.l. team 6. >> ander more information about what the s.e.a.l.s recovered during the raid. there was talk of an attack on september 11 this year involving trains in the u.s. >> and what's the best way to reach kids about the dangers of obesity. a controversial new campaign is using brutally honest images and messages cliek chubby kids may not outlive their parents but some experts say it crosses the line. >> plus, do you want to own a piece of hollywood history? the house made in the christmas classic "home alone" is up for sale. [ screaming ] >> and it will cause you to scream. this is exciting. we'll unveil the star-studded summer concert series line up. >> we begin with serious news and the latest on the raid and killing of osama bin laden. ann curry is in abbottabad again this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, meredith. a few hours ago, a u.s. drone attack with multiple missiles fired was reported. this is likely to further inflame the already tense situation here. also today, a major push-back from the army. roads cleared, reporters, every cleared from osama bin laden's compound as officials here want this embarrassment to end. this morning, new video emerged, shot by pakistani intelligence services inside osama bin laden's compound. this as u.s. officials release initial details of what special forces found there on laptops, papers and cell phones. no references to specific plots. but, they say, it appears al qaeda operatives weighed options as far back as february 2010 as to whether or not they should attack trains on the september 11 anniversary as they have in britain, spain and india. embarrassed about the way the u.s. took down osama bin laden on thursday the most powerful man in pakistan called sunday's raid a misadventure warming in a statement that any similar action violating the sovereignty of pakistan would jeopardize the level of military/intelligence cooperation with the united states. a respected pakistani journalist and bin laden expert says security is gathering intelligence from three of bin laden's wives taken into custody at the compound. >> i think they can provide information to the investigators which areas where he was hiding, what kind of people he was meeting, and especially from how long he was hiding in pakistan. >> reporter: u.s. analysts piecing together the life of one of those wives, amal asada was just 18 when she was married to osama bin laden then at 43 becoming his last and favorite wife. she was known to be devoted to him. she lunged forward seemingly to protect osama. she was shot in the leg. she was in the room when her husband died. she's from yemen, a country osama considered his homeland. she was like him -- simple, pious and not interested in luxury like his other four wives. it appears she lived her life on the run. >> she traveled with bin laden during one of the most difficult parts of his life when he was mostly on the run traveling across pakistan, afghanistan with few luxuries yet she stuck by him. >> reporter: there are reports that amal, now in custody, has told interrogators that osama bin laden and family members had been living in the compound for the past five years. she will know details about the life of the world's most wanted man and u.s. officials will want to speak with her. pakistan security is reportedly considering lettinging u.s. officials have access to osama bin laden's wives but not to hand them over. also there is a report in the washington post that the cia had a safehouse here used to monitor movements at the osama bin laden compound. if so, locals here still don't know where that safehouse was. david, back to you. >> all right, ann. thank you very much. reporting from pakistan this morning. president obama will meet today with the navy s.e.a.l. tale that carried out the raid on osama bin laden's compound. this after making his first visit to ground zero as president on thursday. savannah guthrie is here in new york with the details. good morning. >> good morning. the president will meet with some of the s.e.a.l.s. fort campbell is the training base for the helicopters that took part in the raid to kill osama bin laden. with the president's visit to ground zero and the trip today, he's trying to mark a moment in american history. one day after laying a wreath at 9/11's hallowed grounds, the president will travel today to fort campbell, kentucky, and meet face to face for the first time behind closed doors with some of the navy s.e.a.l.s who raided osama bin laden's pakistan compound, killing america's most wanted terrorist. on thursday in new york, the president told 9/11 first responders what the s.e.a.l.s did last weekend was for them. >> when those guys took the extraordinary risks going into pakistan they were doing it, in part, because of the sacrifices that were made in this state. they were doing it in the name of your brothers that were lost. >> reporter: the president's visit to new york was low key. he mettle privately with 9/11 families, visited firefighters and a ground zero police precinct, trying to recreate the spirit of unity that reigned on 9/11. >> we did what we said we were going to do, and that america -- even in the midst of tragedy -- will come together across the years, across politics, across party, across administrations, to make sure justice is done. >> reporter: but the administration still faced questions over why early accounts of how bin laden was killed were wrong. the white house acknowledging in the rush to get information out some facts were inaccurate. >> i think it's an embarrassment to the white house and the optics of it. look, the big issue is an extremely daring, risky raid carried out nearly flawlessly hundreds of miles from the launch point and finally achieving an objective we tried to carry out for ten years. >> the white house says accounts changed as more s.e.a.l.s were interviewed and aides say there is no question that sometimes these things change over time and that the administration deserves credit for trying to correct the record as quickly as possible. david? >> security analyst peter bergen produced the first television interview with osama bin laden in 1997. his book is called "the longest war, the enduring conflict between america and al qaeda." good morning. >> good morning. >> the details we are learning about a potential plot against america for the tenth anniversary of 9/11 or another major holiday against trains, against the rail system. what details have we learned about that? >> i think this was, like a lot of al qaeda plots, very much in the blue sky category. they had been thinking about a lot of things. >> still a focus on the spectacular attack. >> what was interesting was the cities they were targeting -- new york, los angeles, washington, chicago. you know, they are not going to attack sioux city or des moines or less of an american city. people of influence have never heard of des moines. it's the iconic cities that are targets. >> presumably we'll learn from evidence compiled from the scene but there was a picture of osama bin laden in more direct command and control. do you think that's what we can glean from this? >> that's unsurprising. when you join al qaeda you don't swear oath of allegiance to al qaeda. it's to osama bin laden. replacing him will be difficult. they pledge to osama bin laden personally. >> we hear about al qaeda being a franchise operation, more decentralized but he was the figurehead. >> yeah. in the u.s. military there is a thing called commander of intent. general petraeus puts out a general order. that's what bin laden would do. attack westerners, attack jews. sometimes he would add something like, let's take revenge for the danish cartoon of the t prophet mohamed. we have seen a lot of activity trying tole kill the cartoonist responsible. >> you are talking about the cult of personality surrounding bin laden. so the number two who is still at large, ayman al zawahiri, can he take over? >> he'll run it into the ground. he's not well liked in his own group. he doesn't have the stature bin laden has. he's a divisive figure. i know friends, family, who have nice things to say -- humble, modest. no one describes feelings of love for ayman. love is a strong verb. >> what about the terrorist threat we face as a country? you wrote this week, between the arab spring and the death of bin laden it is hard to imagine greater blows to al qaeda's ideology and organization. >> it had nothing to do with the spring. people are not carrying pictures of osama bin laden, demanding a taliban theocracy. they want accountable government, everything we want. al qaeda the organization was founded by bin laden. he's the intellectual 9/11. he's irreplaceable. if we spent hours thinking about t what better way to end this thing and the arab spring and the death of bin laden are big. it's a major national security problem for the united states, this thing is receding. >> that's a significant statement. >> i think it's true. we are in new york, almost ten years later. most americans would have wanted it to have succeeded by now. >> as you look back and in the new book you talk about the mistakes bin laden made that led to his downfall. what are the top ones? >> first of all, attacking the united states was dumb. he got an 800-pound gorilla riled up. people within al qaeda understood this was a mistake. we have recovered things on the battlefield where they say, hey, that was dumb. bin laden bought into his idea that the united states was as weak as the former soviet union, that our activities would be explained by the pull-out of vietnam. we weren't going to pull out after being attacked there. it was a misanalysis of what the united states responses were. that was the big bad idea. he should have stuck with trying to overthrow the saudi regime which was his initial aim. >> thank you, peter. the killing of bin laden and how it shape it is war on terror and the world, we have a speciale hour of "meet the press" this sunday. among the guests, michael chertoff, michael hayden and white house national security adviser tom donilon. now we want a check of the top news stories with natalie at the news desk. >> more members of the mississippi delta are being forced to evacuate as the water is rising and the river rushes south. ron mott is in memphis, tennessee, with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. a lot of damage has been done in the north. here in memphis and points south, people are bracing for much of the same. for the second straight spring john and dora richards have watched as river water inched toward the their house. unlike last year when flooding seeped inside the home they are feeling lucky. >> the last two years you thought, well, in the morning am i going to put my feet in water. >> reporter: the worst appears to be behind residents and businesses here with the river cresting thursday, the situation upstream is more dire, especially for farmers who make their living along the mississippi. the army corps of engineers breached the river intentionally blowing up the levees at three points along the big muddy. first at cairo, then new madrid and then hickman, kentucky, sending water onto prime farmland. the levees were blasted to protect people and property, but farmers say it will cost them millions. >> it's amazing that one boom can put this much water through here and devastate this many lives. >> reporter: the richards are counting their good fortune, but they are concerned about flood victims and those to come down river. >> i feel for them. really, i do. i do. i feel for them. i know what they're going through. it's heart-breaking. >> reporter: the river is expected to crest in memphis on wednesday, very close to an all-time high. officials say 2,800 residences and businesses are in the flood zone perhaps threatening to flood. back to you. >> ron mott in memphis, tennessee. thank you. as the flooding threatens the mississippi delta, a major swath of texas is undergoing a severe drought. the drought-stricken area is larger than pennsylvania, maryland, new jersey and delaware combined. some schools received suspicious letters containing white powder prompting concern and several school evacuations. initial testing finds the powder to be nontoxic. investigators believe the letters are a hoax. the fbi will test the powder today. tensions are mounting again today in syria where demonstrators promise another day of defiance. lee cowan is on the syrian border with the latest. lee, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it's shaping up to be another deadly day for those protesting in syria. word from across the border indicates at least 1,000 people have gathered in damascus but the military has tanks and troops to intimidate them or worse. since the uprising began six weeks ago, more than 500 demonstrators have been killed, thousands taken into custody and the most recent is an american reporter from seattle named dorothy parva. she was working for aljazeera english at the time. she arrived about a week ago. no one has seen or heard from her since. syrian authorities say they have her in custody. so far, calls for her release have gone unanswered. natalie? >> lee cowan, thanks so much. now to wall street. mandy drury is at the new york stock exchange. how will the week turn out, do you think? >> it's often billed as the mother of all data but the monthly jobs report is very much the focus of the markets, just as investors started to fret that economic news is starting to weaken. the good news here is, natalie, remember the plunge in crude oil prices i was talking about yesterday? we saw a $10 plunge which also brought wholesale gasoline prices down 20 cents a gallon. we hope that translates into a halt in the rise we have been seeing in retail prices that we pay at the pump. coodities like oil, gold and silver and copper really taking a hit this week as economic news is starting to weaken. they had risen too far and too fast. back to you. >> mandy, thank you. it took three years of planning to make one spectacular leap. chilean base jumper julio munoz revved his motor bike into the andes. he free falled about 3,000 feet before opening his parachute. the bike smashed to pieces but he landed safe and sound along with all of the cameras mounted to his body to capture the feat. that's stunning and unbelievable and frightening. >> crazy. >> all at once. >> i was training to do that. >> next where in the world is matt lauer. all the cameras. we want to see that. >> we get to push him off the cliff. oh, my gosh. >> amazing. >> that's on a list of things i don't want to do. >> exactly. >> one more thing we will not be doing. thank you. >> sure. >> mr. roker didn't make it this way but he made it to louisville for the kentucky derby. >> lots of sunshine. a little chilly. 43 is the temperature, light westerly winds. winds primarily will be a southwesterly direction. pick up some cloud meredith, that horse over there is the one i was on last year. that's the one that gave me trouble. i'm keeping distance from him. >> stay away from that one, al. thank you, honey. we may not know where prince william and princess catherine are going on their honeymoon but we know they are coming to america. michelle kosinski is here with details on that in our first kate spotting since the royal wedding. good morning. >> good morning. gob-smacked is the great british world people use. seeing the future queen at a grocery store in remote wales, she had two body guards but she had the cart doing her own shopping. it seems impossible to tell if they are trying to make a point that, hey, we're regular people or this is how they roll, but they added another surprise -- a visit to the u.s. in two months. >> to join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony. >> reporter: what do you do after your historic wedding of the century that approximately a third of the planet watched live? you take off for two whole days of peace and quiet at some secret location nearby. then right back home and back to work. and so life is back to kind of normal for these two, setting up house in their little coastal town. still no word on where they will head for the honeymoon or when. that's all private. what they are revealing is more of the public life together. their first official trip to canada in july now all of the sudden adding a visit to quite possibly their biggest fan base in the u.s. of a. california, here they come july 8 to 10th. >> i think the visit of william and catherine will be huge in america. something like 600,000 americans came over to britain just to see the royal wedding. it's no surprise to me that california has been picked. it's a place where the celebrities are based. i'm sure there will be a gala reception. this is the first time the american couple can celebrate a new royal princess. >> reporter: california couldn't be more thrilled to welcome the future king and queen of england, whatever they choose to do and see here. >> the nice thing about california is there is something for everybody. they're interested in seeing the sun, surf, beaches. absolutely something you can enjoy. >> reporter: the last time we saw prince william in the united states he was 11. his little brother harry was 8 and their mother princess diana brought them to disneyworld. here he is, newly married about to begin the visible role for which he tried to prepare his bride. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: together, little by little, creating a balance of private normal home life and the world's stage. venturing out one step at a time. true to form the palace isn't saying why they added a u.s. trip to the agenda or -- you know, some people are speculating maybe they wanted to show how important the alliance is between the u.s. and britain or maybe they were pleased with the ratings their wedding got here in the united states. >> we hear they may go to universal out there. have you heard that? >> no, i haven't. >> putting it out there. michelle, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> still ahead, did a police officer use too much force to subdue a 15-year-old girl? the violent shove that could land that officer in hot water. first this is "today" on nbc. blueberry waffle with maple sausage. can't get better. unless we were kicking it on the couch in pjs, watching our soaps. it doesn't get better than the new blueberry waffle with maple sausage sandwich. try one today. just ahead, the new anti-obesity campaign aimed at kids that some critics say crosses the line. >> and want to live in the "home alone" house? it just hit the market. after your local news. ly went t. female announcer: celebrate life's unforgettable moments with pandora, at jared. girls: awww... - they are so cute at that age. >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am stan stovall. here is kim dacey and traffic pulse 11. >> looking nice for your friday morning commute. a crash at ellicott city, of frederick road and st. john's lane. flower mart-related closures around mount vernon place. otherwise, we're looking very nice. 95 south between the beltway at 100, six minutes there. no problems there. we will give you a look outside in the area of 175. southbound traffic going away from us, but everything is moving freely. topside of the beltway, that is what area we are seeing a delay. pretty typical for this time of morning. john, over to you.