good tuesday morning, everybody. we do begin with breaking news out of north korea. defiantly bragging this morning that it just conducted its third nuclear test. the underground test is the first for new leader kim jong-un. president obama issued a statement overnight calling the move have highly provocative act. the test appeared to be more powerful than the previous test. akiko fujita explains the significance. reporter: it would mean that north korea is a step closer to its stated goal to create a nuclear warhead that is small enough to be mounted on top of a long-range missile that is capable of reaching the u.s. it comes two weeks after they conducted a missile test in direct defiance of u.n. security council resolutions. the u.n. security council is holding an emergency meeting to address the issue. even china, north korea s long-time ally, has expressed firm opposition to the nuclear tests. we ll have more on this breaking story later on on gma. we turn to a
out of north korea. defiantly bragging this morning that it just conducted its third nuclear test. the underground test is the first for new leader kim jong-un. president obama issued a statement overnight calling the move have highly provocative act. the test appeared to be more powerful than the previous test. akiko fujita explains the significance. reporter: it would mean that north korea is a step closer to its stated goal to create a nuclear warhead that is small enough to be mounted on top of a long-range missile that is capable of reaching the u.s. it comes two weeks after they conducted a missile test in direct defiance of u.n. security council resolutions. the u.n. security council is holding an emergency meeting to address the issue. even china, north korea s long-time ally, has expressed firm opposition to the nuclear tests. we ll have more on this breaking story later on on gma. we turn to a change of the top of the catholic church. pope benedict made th
today, tuesday, february 12th, 2013. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. morning, everyone. welcome to today on a tuesday morning. i m savannah guthrie. and i m matt lauer. important news breaking overnight. u.n. security council is going to hold an emergency meeting this morning to address north korea s overnight nuclear test. this is north korea s third nuclear test, but the first under its new leader, kim jong un. we ll have a live report from the pentagon straight ahead. a big development in the story we ve been following, two men now charged in connection with the murder of a 15-year-old chicago girl who performed at the president s inauguration. we ll get reaction to that news from her parents who, by the way, will attend tonight s state of the union address with the first lady. we ll also talk to a senior white house adviser about the pre s address. then we ll take a
to be in positions where somebody could, even suspect. reporter: the reverend clark, a presbyterian minister, is executive director of the enterfaith conference of metropolitan washington. he said benedict s conservatism didn t do much to bridge the faith communities. if you believe as he does that every tradition has and some measure of truth that the catholic church has the truth, capital t, capital tt, and you know, then you don t have much basis for engaging the people with other faith. and it would be difficult for me to imagine that a future is of the other church will be terribly critical of benedict. on the other hand, i can t really imagine that they will be thought of as one of the great popes of my lifetime. or the 21st century. reporter: ken pennington is a papal historian and professor of law at catholic university. we, as the catholic community, is still in a period of great difficulty. i don t think that difficulty has passed by any means. reporte