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(White House: Chuck Todd) President Obama’s decision not to release the photos of the dead Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden featured. [OBAMA – says America will ensure that justice is done.] [White House press secretary Jay CARNEY – quotes Obama’s reasoning.] [Yesterday, CIA director Leon PANETTA; today, Senators Lindsey GRAHAM, John McCAIN, New America Foundation Steven CLEMONS†– express views on the pictures.] [In Cairo, Egypt, NBC’s Lee COWAN – comments on doubt in the Middle East about bin Laden’s death.]
(Studio: Brian Williams) Report introduced.
(Benghazi, Libya: Richard Engel) The doubt in the Muslim world about bin Laden’s death featured; details given about the US government’s tradition of releasing photos of the dead, including Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s sons and Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
(Studio: Brian Williams) Report introduced.
(Abbottabad, Pakistan: Stephanie Gosk) A look inside Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan presented; scenes shown from inside the house and the local people gathered outside; details given about the shopping trips by the owners of the house, Tariq and Arshad Khan, the disbelief among the locals that bin Laden actually lived there, and neighbor Sohaib Athar†’s Tweets about the helicopter raid as it happened. [Neighbor Kershed AHMED‡- notes the women didn’t come out of the house.] [ATHAR – says he now has more than 100,000 Twitter followers; says he came here to escape the bombings.] The firefight at the compound described.
(Studio: Brian Williams) Program note.
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(Memphis, Tennessee: Ron Mott) The flooding in the Midwest and South featured; scenes shown of floodwaters from the Mississippi River, a levee being blown up, a stranded dog, a 93-year-old driver’s car in the water, volunteers filling sand bags in Memphis; map shown. [WOMAN – comments on the levee explosion.] [Corps of Engineers Gen. C.G. WALSH†- says public safety is the number one issue.] [Missouri farmer Bryan FREEZOR†- reacts to his land being flooded.] [Mississippi Valley Flood Control Assn. George GRUGETT†- says our job is to get this water to the Gulf of Mexico.] [Harbor Town Montessori School Fletcher GORDON†, Memphis resident Jeannie GARLOCK‡- comment on the coming flood.]
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(Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Thanh Truong) The aftermath of the tornado in Tuscaloosa, Alabama featured; statistics on the dead, misplaced and damage cited; scenes shown of kids at school.
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(Northeast Japan: Ian Williams) The frustration of survivors of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan over the pace of recovery featured; scenes shown of crews searching for bodies in the rubble, people in refugee shelters; details given about the impact on the region’s fishing fleet. [Otsuchi city official Ken SASAKI†- says it takes time.] [WOMAN – comments on the salvaged photographs.]
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(Kandahar: Jim Maceda) Military police Capt. Andy Sergent†, who oversees law and order in Kandahar, Afghanistan, profiled; scenes shown of him checking the streets for IEDs and working with Afghan police; family photos shown. [SERGENT – comments on his grueling schedule and missing his wife’s and daughters’ birthdays; says they want a better life.] [514th Battalion Maj. Jeremy KERFOOT†- says he wants to do the right thing.]
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