New statistics painting an unflattering picture against the fight in san jose. The surprising details about the number of arrests made and how quickly police are responding to crimes. And six americans killed in a Helicopter Crash in afghanistan. What were learning about the moments right before the aircraft went down. Mornings on 2 starts now. Welcome to mornings on 2. A new, Significant Development to our top story weve been following all morning. We just learned a huge fire at a recycling plant in redwood city sparked a spot fire. Ktvus janine de la vega is there on the ground and will give us an update on the progress firefighters are making and also the Health Implications for people in the neighborhood. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Im dave clark. Lets check your weather and traffic. Steve is right there. I am. Cold for some. Theres lot of 50s in San Francisco. A lot of high clouds. Partly cloudy today. High clouds, kind of cool. High clouds, very hazy skies. Hazy a
Winning tickets sold in the 400 million Mega Millions jackpot, one of the largest in history. The cities and stores with reasons to celebrate today, wednesday, march 19th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good to have you with us. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. And it is day 12 of this mystery regarding Malaysian Airlines. It has really captivated the country and the world, actually. So many people with questions. We actually put the call out yesterday right. Online, and said, all right, folks, send us your questions, and were going to convene a panel of experts to answer them. A lot of questions than answers right now. And you can send your question by heading to our Facebook Page or tweeting us with orangeroom. Lets get to the new information, though, coming out of this mornings news conference. It involves the pilots home simulator and files that were deleted, also when the plane act
There. Zip it a little more. Little less shirt. Senior Political Editor and White House Correspondent for the Huffington Post sam stein. And msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu, former democratic congressman harold ford jr. Im rochablely overdressed. In washington, White House Correspondent for the associated press, julie page joins us. Good to have you all on board this morning. We have a lot to get to. A couple of things. Hillary clinton is back in the news. She got some good news but got heckled at an event. Well show you how she handled it. How the former secretary of state was hammered on benghazi but she handled it pretty well. I think. You decide. Also made accommodate in america, why are you all looking at me. Medicaid in america. Actually a very serious story prescription pills account for 75 of deadly drug overdoses in the u. S. So the fda is working to try to do something about that and dr. Nancy will be joining us to give us details on that. Also just a ti
Of their military helicopters has been hit by gun fire. If russia continues in this direction, it will not just be a grave mistake, it will be an expensive mistake. President obama offered his condolences in the ferry disaster. A Virgin Australian jet made an Emergency Landing at the bali airport. A drunk passenger tried to enter the cockpit. John boehner mocked his colleague for what he called a lack of appetite to tackle immigration reform. Oh, dont make me do this oh, this is too hard. A natural gas explosion sent flames ripping through a gas station and several other buildings east of seattle. Nevada Rancher Cliven Bundy is standing by his comments that africanamericans may have been better off during slavery. What i said i said from my heart. I should have mentioned hes a professor at Duke University david Duke University. An historic vote today. Players deciding whether to form the First College athletes union. The fiery crash outside of atlanta. Police had to kick out the front
The first westerner to travel to iran to see their compensating system for kidneys. Shell tell you about what motivated her and what was unique about it and whether or not iran has solved the so without any further delay, sigrid fryrevere. [applause] supposed to take this one, right . Got it. Okay, you can hear me, right . Good. Thank you, bob, that was sweet. I am very happy and excited today, and when i am this optimistic, i like to think that maybe i am the Harriet Beecher stowe of the kidney transplant world and that people who read my book will see a human face on kidney sellers in iran, and it will make a sea change in how the u. S. Looks at living donation. For those of you who might not know who Harriet Beecher stow is, she wrote the book Uncle Toms Cabin at the time of the u. S. Civil war. And because of her book, she put a face on the suffering of slaves in the south. And she brought the debate about slavery home to families and people and feelings and what, you know, life wa