And the end of an era. You never say thank you thats what the money is for the hit series mad men preparing for its final episodes, and were getting an exclusive sneak peek from the cast as they join us live in studio 1a today, monday, march 23, 2015. From nbc news this is today. With matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. It may only be two full days into spring but 596 days until election day. By the way, did you have ted cruz in your bracket . Got it. First one in. Perfect. And hes going to set the stage for what happens after this. It is our top story. The first puzzle piece now falling into place for the 2016 president ial race. Texas republican senator, ted cruz throwing his hat in the ring overnight with that tweet right there. Hes making it official at an event in virginia this morning. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is there. Kelly, its texas senator ted cruz. Why virginia . Reporter wel
The sweet 16. Action picks up again on thursday. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, march 23rd. Announcer from abc news this is world ws now. Okay. You heard me there talking. I always have a lot of march madness questions. This is going to be an enlightening month for me. Im really going to learn about march madness this year an you have taught me a lot. How many did we start nuf the tournament. 68. And how many now. 16. Next weekend how many . Eight. Close enough. Final four. Oh final four. Half of that. Wheres the final four this year . In philadelphia. Phoenix. Name two number one seeds. Ohio state and we love her. We do. Back to sports in a is second. Forget about all of that. We have to get to new orleans. A story when the emails start to pop up about what was happening we were scratching our head. What is happening in new orleans at the airport right now. A machete attack in the new Orleans Airport. The suspect was carrying a bag of explosive sfwls police are stil
And that sets off a massive celebration on campus. A fifth title for the school and coach k. He is celebrating the win with us live today april seventh, 2015. From nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning and welcome to today on a tuesday morning. That was everything it should be at halftime. Tied. Down from the second half they come back to win it. He has one for the thumb. The fifth National Championship. Congratulations to the blue devils. We will talk to the coach live. We top the get to the top story in the world of politics. Rand paul becoming the second republican to officially join the 2016 president ial race. He scheduled an event in louisville today. Kelly odonnell is there. Good morning. Good morning. Rand paul hopes a nineletter word will set him apart. Different. He is trying to position himself as a different kind of republican in what will be a large field of gop contenders. He is not an establishm
I never forgot that. It was terrific to see him yesterday. We are happy to be here in iowa. We are going to come back to iowa. Were going to go over the whole state, and were going to come back as many times as we can. Youll be seeing more of us. I would like to take a few minutes tonight to talk to you about three things that i care deeply about. What are the challenges that are facing us as a nation . Where do i see the need for us to really focus in the next several years . The first is restoring fairness, economic fairness. Social justice in our system. I talked about this when i ran for the senate. It was the principal issue i was talking about when i ran for the senate. We have had an economic recovery since the Great Recession that has only helped a partial element in our society. We have to be honest about that. Particularly as democrats we have to be honest about that. If you go to april 2009, and look at the recovery. If you own stocks and capital assets, youre probably doing
American troops from a group linked to isis. The online post names names, addresses and much more urging attackers to take aim at the men and women who put their lives on the line every day for their country. We get more from clayton sandell. Reporter their names are real and so is the threat. 100 military men and women, army, navy, air force, marines appearing on what amounts to a hit i worry this increasing sophistication by these islamic terrorist organizations to manipulate social media to their ends is a worrying trend. Reporter the military says they are notifying people who appear on that list. One of those service members, who does not want to be identified tells abc news, this is just a way they are trying to intimidate us and its not going to work. I wouldnt say im scared. Its just part of this new war against an enemy with a different, more developed capability than what we have faced in the past. It now appears that online post has been deleted but the damage maybe done. Cl