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today, withh lesesr r lt and jenna wowoe.e. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a sunday. i m lester holt. i m jenna wolfe. we live here in new york city. sometimes there s lots of traffic and we look out the window and we re oh, no, no, no. can you imagine driving down the road and see what this guy saw and still had the wherewithall to use the camera. that s what i said this morning when the alarm went off. we re in the news business, about capturing these pictures but to stand there and watch that and record that, you never know which way they re coming and they move a lot quicker. than you think. we re learning more this morning about the ambush in afghanistan. friends and family now mourning the six americans that were shot and killed by the taliban. one of the victims, dr. tom little, was an op tom frist upstate new york. in a few minutes, we ll speak with a man who knew him well, his friend and pasto ....
Of it and gained tremendous amounts of weight. what happens after? you have to be on this for life. that s crazy. you have patients who are on it and they love the idea of if i take a pill, i can eat that chocolate hot chocolate sundae. we re not learning anything and how are we medically, then? rewith lowering our cholesterol levels? are we improving our blood pressure or things like that? we re not getting any sort of real health results. let s poll the audience by a show of hands, does anybody think people should take this stuff? people should not be chemistry experiments here. that s an excellent point. all right. dr. marc siegel and sharon richter, thank you very much for joining us to talk about the diet pill. president obama condemning terrorists, not just because they re killers but because they re racist. yep, michelle malkin on that new one at the top of the hour. then it s supposed to be a place of law and order. not so much. a courtroom brawl breaks out. it s al ....
president obama traveling to michigan this morning to promote jobs in the energy sector attending that ground breaking for a planted that will manufacture batteries for electric cars. the plan to start construction as a result for battery and electric vehicles. investing electric vehicles has been a part of obama s message on the economy. last week, he visited an electric car factory there in kansas city, missouri, that received stimulus funds. yesterday, the white house said a year and a half into the stimulus, it is on track to save or create 3 1/2 million jobs as they promised. the white house says businesses are expanding and being created as a result of tough votes taken on the recovery act. gonna construct these plants in america, gonna build these plants in america and employ americans. that s a strong economic record. but the u.s. chamber of commerce has been challenging the president on job creation during a conference here this week. the chamber c.e.o. c ....