San francisco plane crash goes down in history as the first fatal commercial plane crash in this country since 2001. Heres what we know so far. Two Chinese Students were killed in the crash yesterday. They were on their way to a summer camp here in the United States. The president of Asiana Airlines says their seats were in the back of that plane, right now National Transportation safety administrate investigators were analyzing the socalled black boxes, the data reporter, the cockpit voice recorder as well. Were expecting to get more information at a press conference at about 4 30 eastern time. And new this afternoon, investigators are also expected to look at Navigation System at the airport, which was apparently turned off yesterday because of maintenance on the runway. The system helps pilots land. Nbcs john yang is on the ground for us at San Francisco International Airport this afternoon. What is the latest there, sir . Reporter well, craig, the ntsb investigators were still pour
In this hotel. Where is it . Good morning. Im mara schivavocampo. President Vladimir Putin is issuing a plea for caution. Details in a moment. First a report in the Washington Post says the cia has begun delivering he weapons to Syrian Rebels as secretary of state john kerry to set to meet with sergei lavrov. A master negotiator and they will meet in geneva today. Kerry plans to test the seriousness of russias proposal to put them under International Control. Some Syrian Rebels are disappointed with president obamas decision to forgo a military strike in favor of diplomacy. We have an awful lot to get to and tracie potts joins us live in washington with the latest. Tracie, good morning. Reporter good morning, iran disappointed too according toen aofficial saying this could be a catastrophe. The focus is secretary of state kelly in geneva trying to prevent that. Letting diplomacy work. This is what its expected to look like. Secretary of state kerry and a team of weapons experts from th
Good morning, im melissa harrisperry. Today politics of war. Our deeply divided congress will soon decide whether to give its blessing to American Military strikes against the syrian government. When president obama threw the decision to Congress Last week, he made a point of saying he was having the peoples representatives weigh in on whether to use military force. Now, we dont know what congress will do. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed its version wednesday. But we wont get a sense of how congress, the full congress, will vote until they return to washington this week. We do know what the American People want. They do not want this war. A Pew Research Center poll conducted last week found only 29 favor military airstrikes and 48 are opposed. A new gallop poll found more opposition. 51 said they oppose strikes. The public is opposed to war. A substantial argument against the strikes. But the thing is this. If we look back over our history, well see the public is often wr
The federal judge rules new york citys stopandfrisk policy is unconstitutional. That judge orders an overhaul. The city is fighting back. Whats next . I want you to have this. This is really a gift from my brother so i want you to have this and use it how you want. And the brothers last wish. The man traveling coast to coast giving away hundreds of dollars tloo unsuspecting folks. Its todays big idea. Well get to all those stories in just a moment, but we start on the saturday afternoon in egypt. One of the few countries in the middle east dubbed americas friend for decades now stands on the brink of a civil war. Its relationship with the United States is in question. Its chances for peace are grim. After 72 hours of violence and bloodshed in egypt we are keeping a live eye on a mosque. A mosque in cairo where supporters of the ousted Muslim Brotherhood have been holed up. The Egyptian Military is using bullets and tear gas to pry them out and that scene follows one of the bloodiest in
President obama is speaking out on continued gridlock with republicans. During the course of my presidency, i have bent over backwards to work with the Republican Party and have purposely kept my rhetoric down. When you have a situation in which a faction is willing potentially to default on u. S. Government obligations, then we are in trouble. Those comments capped a night of meetings at the white house between the president and congressional leaders, their first since the shutdown. But it ended with no deal. House Speaker John Boehner saying the president will not budge. The president reiterated one more time tonight that he will not negotiate. We had a nice conversation, polite conversation, but at some point weve got to allow the process that our founders gave us to work out. On the senate side, majority leader harry reids offer toss rejected. He suggested a ceasefire deal, calling for a funding the government and then in order to pass the clean bill, just 17 House Republicans have