Captioning funded by cbs captioning funded by cbs 12th 2015. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Early this morning two Police Officers were shot in ferguson missouri. Violence erupted during a protest following the resignation of the citys police chief. He is the latest city official to quit following a Justice Department report finding incidents of racial violence in the City Police Department and the government. Witnesses say several gunshots were heard from a distance. We hear what we thought were fireworks up the street. It turns out it happened three more times. It was gunfire because we saw the muzzle fire from the gun on top of the street and so we were all kind of just duck down and once we duck down we saw the cop shot down next to us. Laura hettiger is outside the hospital in st. Louis. Laura, good morning. Reporter good morning to you, annemarie. Yes, this is where two Police Officers are being treated the morning for what the county police chief is calls
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
This is the cbs morning news for wednesday, march 18th 2015. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Real estate Millionaire Robert Durst is scheduled to appear in a new Orleans Court next monday. Durst is charged with firstdegree murder in los angeles but is being held in louisiana on drugs and weapons charges. Durst was transferred to a Mental Health facility in louisiana yesterday. Its unclear when hell be sent to california. But also yesterday federal agents and police searched dursts pant for several hours and came away with two boxes of evidence. The durst investigation is picking up steam. Now police in eureka, california, are looking into the point that durzst is connected to another missing woman. Brittney talked to another reporter. Ive always maintained since covering this case since back in 2000 that he was psychotic. Reporter matt bur beck spoke to us via skype from new york. For years hes been covering robert durst, the real estate heir who was just charged
Objectionable but no excuse for criminal acts. The manhunt too find the ferguson shooters. Those two officers released from the helicopter. Several questions and release released by police no arrests. Gathered for a candlelight vigil. What happened was a pure ambush. This was a damn punk. Punk. President obama was not told at the incident for several days. Hit a barrier trying to get to the white house. Same thing thats happening to hillary. Carjacking victim taking the stand. The victim describing a perilling rise and a decision to escape. Another american who contracted ebola while volunteer africa is in the u. S. Today for treatment. Former reality show found guilty in the 2010 murder of his wife. The verdict is in. 12 years. He said he will appeal. Ash is falling more than 30 miles away from an active volcano. People living nearby were evacuated. In action soon after a very bad crash. Taken out all that Robert Downey jr. Personally delivered a bionic arm. To a 7yearold boy. Bang, n
Gone down somewhere in the french alps. Bill neely is in london. Anything more you can add . Yes, the fact that it has gone down in the french alps is not good. Its about 9,000 feet up with few roads leading to it. 142 passengers on board, two pilots and four crew. I suppose from a rescuers point of view thats very, very difficult terrain. At the moment it was not far into the flight from barcelona to d uss eldorf when it crashed. It is an airliner that is a subsidiary of the german airliner lufstanza. German wings is a low cost airliner. They were heading back probably from vacation in barcelona. Details are sketchy at the moment. The weather seemed to be fine. It was cloudy with just light wind. The pilot did send an sus urks srksstus urks srkss srkssuss sos message, but rescue teams are on the way. It is an inaccessible area. From a rescue point of view thats not good. Bill thank you very much. Tom costello covers aviation. You are just getting the details as we are. Talk about this