Nightly News   |  September 10, 2010

Fla. pastor confirms Quran burning is called off

Pastor Terry Jones confirmed Friday that he would not make a bonfire with 200 Qurans tomorrow, the anniversary of 9/11. NBC's Kerry Sanders reports.

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>> reporter: it and re is with us from there again tonight. kerry, good evening.

>> reporter: well, good evening, brian. pastor terry jones left it to his son and a controversial evangelical minister to announce the plan to burn more than 200 koran has ended. there will be no korans burned at all. so the worldwide attention on this church and this field in rural central florida ends. pastor jones says he may not even be here himself tomorrow. he's planning on going to new york city where he hopes to meet with imam faisal abdul rauf who hopes to build the muslim cultural center near ground zero . pastor zones wants to tell him he wants that mosque moved. tonight he s says he has no plans to meet with pastor jones and he has no plans to move the mosque. brian?