Families with a focus on getting recipients back to work. Though it is suddenly find it is executed by the states. The house ways and means a subcommittee hearing is about two hours. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to committee will come to order. I will make to welcome everyone today. The welfare subcommittee. The title is where is all the welfare money going, lifting americans out of poverty. My name is daren millard. Covering northwest parts of the state. Recently, republicans were able to secure a major victory with the fiscal responsibility act which strengthens work requirements and the direct cash assistance portion of the temporary assistance for needy families program. Those hearings are in march, i live in the polls in the current law that a lot of states gain work Participation Rate. This hearing will take the next step by focusing on the other side of tanner, which is not Assistance Spending. None assistance funding constitutes the majority of the grant. N
No laughing matter. Trevor noah, jon stewarts replacement addresses his controversial tweets admitting they werent funny and asking the public not to judge him as his bosses at Comedy Central say they are standing by him today wednesday, april 1, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Did not take long for the new host to find himself in hot water but say all right, i went too far and hoping everybody will move on. Well talk more about that. Our top story new developments on the tragic plane crash in the alps including reports that a video from a cell phone on board exists. Nbcs katy tur has the latest on this. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning, matt. New developments from lufthansa saying they found correspondence between Andreas Lubitz and the school talking about severe depression being the reason for the gap. This is the first time off
60 of the time, they do not even pick up the phone. Varney company is about to begin. I guess that this is the good news. We were down about 150. We have warned evidence, by the way. Not good news on jobs or manufacturing. The big jobs report comes out on friday. Priced at 20. The ipo is now 2647. Apple down 3 . A good time to buy it. Down 0. 56. The half walmart. The religious freedom bill. A governor on the program. We will see what happens. The price of gas keeps on coming down ever so slightly. The top story today they have extended past the midnight deadline. You said iran was making us look like april fools. Another good line for us today. Stuart. [laughter] he asked if it was appropriate. The iranians are making fools out of us since the initiation of these negotiations. I think that we can agree that we are begging the iranians. Baking them for something you can put on a piece of paper and wave around. They gang is not a good strategy. You are dealing with a hostile treacherous
Domestic violence charges about a federal judge. Should he be removed from the bench . Plus lasting impression. The last Century Glass maker who left his mark on art and complers. Commerce. The record drought in california is now in its fourth year. We can tell you about the crisis but its the pictures that tell the story of the devastation. This is Lake Oroville. In 2007, a lake with ample vegetation. This is now lake levels at Lake Oroville have plunged 68 . Here is the look at the same lake. This is before, this is after. To counter the drought emergency california governor jerry brown signed an executive order requiring businesses farms and individuals to cut their usage by 25 . Its going to to affect golf courses peoples lawns universities campuses all sorts of surfaces, median vegetation, it affects all of that and were directing local water agencies to take specific action as they determine. But overall were looking for a 25 aggregate reduction. Our meteorologist Kevin Corriveau
Fragile planet. We begin this hour in arkansas where a National Debate over religion and samesex marriage has taken a remarkable twist. There are calls to hutchenson appears determined to avoid the controversy this week thats hounded a fellow republican governor in indiana. Heres more on that story. The governor has been under intense pressure to veto this legislation in the fallout of a similar bill in indiana that just turned into law this week. It sailed through the Arkansas Legislature but today the governor said he will not sign it into law. Instead, he told state law makers to change it and make it more like the federal legislation signed by president clinton in 1993. Supporters say it protects religious freedom by allowing businesses to turn people away not in line with the owners own beliefs. But the bill opponents say opens up the chance for discrimination. Walmart, the ceo, urging the governor not to sign it saying diversity benefits business. Now hutchenson is insisting arka