Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl for five taliban talibans. Kidnapping hoax, the victim of a reported va lent abduction shows up safe and sound. Police now believe the entire story was made up. The fact that weve essentially wasted all of these resources for really nothing is upsetting. Now that woman is missing again today, thursday, march 26th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a if rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today. Its 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. We have a disturbing twist in the investigation into the p we went to sleep with so many questions about what happened, some of those major questions have now been answered. The copilot or the first officer of this flight deliberately crashed it into the mountains. Decided to take his own lavs and the lives of 149 other people. This was revealed by a friendench prosecutor at he said the copilot want to, quote, destroy the plane. He is identified as Andr
World cup to the winter. Well have the latest from zurich. At least 94 people have drowned after a boat carrying migrants sank off the southern ital lan island of lampedusa. It was carrying hundreds of people trying to reach europe from africa. Many jumped into the water. Ita italys coast guard is looking for at least 250 people, 150 others have been rescued. Lampedusa is a major route for migrants trying to get into europe. The tiny island lies 113 kilometers from the coast of tunisia. We have more from the italian capital of rome. Reporter a devastating scene was described by the may r o of lampedusa who claimed the situation on land was so chaotic he was struggled to find a place to put the dead bodies pulled from the sea and where to find a place for the survivors to be care of. Theyre very traumatized following this horrific incident. It appears that the incident occurred in the early hours of thursday morning. A boat carries what is expected to be about 500 people on board suffer
The indian ocean intensifies. Investors are cheering the head of the Luxury Fashion Group Mulberry this morning. Its down after a major profit warning. Announcer youre watching Worldwide Exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Hi, everybody. If youre just tuning in, thanks for joining us on the show. You can see how the u. S. Indications are for what were going to be seeing this afternoon when the u. S. Markets open. Remember that the yellen effect took hold of u. S. Markets yesterday. Were just seeing markets being called a couple of points lower, if anything, not by many much. Were really interested to see whether this will last or whether its a temporary bleep in the markets, as it were. Our european markets, though, this morning, we were called quite a bit lower. Were hanging on to these losses by a bit. The ftse 100, 6523, off by 0. 7 . Yesterday, you and i on the close were looking at markets that were slightly mixed and cautious trade, as well, ahead of the f
In the final moments. The plane was higher than it was posed to be. The pilot pushed off the throttle. The descend went to 15 feet per minute. You can see from the profile view, the black line shows how low the plane was. Then four seconds later the pilot monitoring advanced the push levers followed by stick. The plane hit the sea wall at 150 miles per hour. And officials closely watched this mornings News Conference particularly focusing on what was said about their response to the crash. This helmet camera shows the path of fire officials. Reporter they are very proud at the number of lives saved by First Responders that day but theyre also detailing the changes since that day. The report of the crash, San Franciscos Fire Department is hoping for closure. And i hope that other Fire Departments dont have to experience this. Reporter ntsb officials said firefighters had quote a short window of opportunity to rescue a 16yearold before she was run over by First Responders. Reporter the t
Welcome to real money with ali velshi. Tensions in ukraine continue to escalate. Today the state owned Gas Production company that provides ukraine with crucial natural gas threatened to cut ukraine off from its pipeline. It says its owed 1. 9 billion for past deliveries, and they said we cannot deliver gas for free. No one thinks the timing of this is coincidental, by the way. Ukraines finances are in disarray. The interim government that seized power last week in kiev, ukraines capitol, is teetering dangerously close to financial default. There is a real history of this stuff. In 2009 russia shut off ukraines gas for two weeks over a dispute over payments. That just worsened an already ailing ukrainian economy. The gas cuts helped sink output by 25 . Remember, its used to run factories. Ukraine depends on russia for most of its energy needs and used to enjoy discounts on the price it paid for natural gas until this week. Any possible energy cut off could cripple a country that depend