Beginning. And let the boonanza begin. Its halloween morning and exactly 20 years since today first dressed up and were marking the occasion with a reveal thats literally been decades in the making today, friday, october 31st, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, halloween boonanza with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning on a friday morning. Happy halloween, everyone. Im matt lauer, along with hoda kotb, al roker, natalie morales. Savannah is back on monday. Indeed, she is. We have a band out there . What a way to celebrate halloween on the plaza. A lot of people are dressed up in their costumes. This is one of those shows that always starts one way and ends completely differently. Fun in our 8 00 hour. Were already thinking christmas. Weve moved ahead. Merry christmas, honey. Lets start on a friday morning with our top story. Twomonthold search for eric frein, suspected of ambushing two Pennsylvania
Left off takes aim at the west. He claims the west has deliberately been escalating the conflict in ukraine with United States and the sal eyes have been systematically covering up the crimes of the key of regime for 8 years. Building their policy towards the lensky, based on a well known american principle. He is, of course, a son of a, but hes our son of a with and a variable. Welcome to you. Today we start our special coverage of the referendums in dalton bass and beyond, on whether or not to join russia. Voting is now well under way. Ah so let us show you on the map right here. The referendums are being held in for region. So 1st and foremost, dont yet. And lou gotten on the thought far right of your screen. Those are the so called peoples republics. Both of them actually already voted to declare themselves independent that was in 2014 off of the government in kiev was overthrown. People are also costing that balance. And as apple orgy region and her song region as well. Now, the v
There has been a deadly discovery in south korea. The vice principal of that high school where so many died in that ferry accident found dead apparently committing suicide. The captain and crew could face criminal charges. Official death toll is 28, 268 others are listed as missing, most of them high school students. Harry faucet is in south korea where despite the odds, the search for survivors continues. Reporter heading out on a foggy day to the focal point. Emerges out of the gloom dozens of vessels and at the center of it all the ferry, a tyne part of this 150meter long ferry breaking the surface. Its just after 9 00 a. M. Local time. Were approaching the period when rescue officials said the tides would be suitable to try it again. Theres a lot of activity around the upturned hull right now. As the day wore on, divers went down on ten separate occasions. Officials say they managed to secure a guide rope, begin pumping air through the wheelhouse, and access the second floor argo c
Forces evacuations and rescues from michigan to vermont. And Prince George takes on. As the royal couple lands in sydney. Kate, mellow in yellow. William and kate trading off carrying baby george, as they say, good day, mate. And we do say good morning, america. Prince william, to travel abroad as a baby. Now he has a son traveling down under. We have two big breaking stories for you this morning. The very scary moments in boston. Two backpacks being blown up. Part of a hoax, it turned out to be. Dan harris, standing by with the latest in just a moment. Lots of high security ahead of mondays marathon. Lets get to the huge ferry disaster. A ship packed with High School Students on an overnight trip to a popular Tourist Destination in south korea. It sank so fast. And abcs chief Foreign Affairs correspondent, terry moran, has the latest on the search for survivors. Terry . Reporter good morning, george. This is a desperate situation. And it is ongoing. It was supposed to be a trip to par
At that point right now. But its, everybody wants to know about transmissibility, and part of the reason is that the cdc has been so emphatic about it not being transmissable, yet people are hearing about transmissibility. Two people have it now. So it makes it like like look like the cdc is not being forth coming. It, clearly, seems to be a tough disease to understand in terms of how it transmits to people. And so far, again, its just two Health Care Workers who had real contact with patient and not, you know, anyone else in the general public. If it stays that way, i think confidence in the cdc will increase. But if not, i think friedens got a problem on his hands. Host no matter what the result of the midterms, theres a lot congress has to handle when they come back from the break. Whats the likelihood that ebola gets to the top of the line to do . Guest it will if more happens about people are catching this more frequently here, more passengers arriving from africa with it, more tr