Good morning. Im frances rivera. The Global Campaign to bring home hundreds of kidnapped school girls in nigeria is growing. But boca haram, the group behind the attack, is showing no signs of freeing the girls anytime soon. First Lady Michelle obama is one of several big names lending support to the abducted girls. She tweeted, our prayers are with the missing nigerian girls and their families. It is time to bring back our girls. Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton is calling the kidnapping an act of terrorism. Malala yousufzai, the pakistani teen who survived an assassination attempt by the taliban is calling the kidnapped girls her sisters. She offers a message saying never lose hope because we are with you. Other celebrities like amy pole a poehler and chris brown are lending their support as well. There are more than a million tweets being published using the hash tag. Nigerian police are offering a 300,000 reward for information leading to the rescue of the kidnapped girls.
Michael phelps faces a familiar foe, ryan lochte, in his first comeback final. The thrilling finish today, friday, april 25th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im matt lauer. And im Natalie Morales along with al roker and tamron hall. Savannah has the morning off. What a way to make a comeback for a guy who basically took the last couple of years. Says he played golf, gained 30 pounds, but its nice to hear those two names in the same sentence again, phelps and lochte, phelps and lochte. Headtohead the whole way, but were not going to tell you how it ends just yet. Youve got to hang on a little while. But first, we want to get to todays top story. Frightening moments for the crew of a Virgin Australia flight headed to bali. A passenger now under arrest after rushing the cockpit. Nbcs katy tur is in perth, australia, with the latest on this. Katy, goo
Right where you are. We had an incident. We are aware of that. Reporter the colonel of the air force says the 77year old pilot was doing a maneuver he has done many times before. He was about perform egg maneuver where he was inverted, cutting a ribbon, i can not give you the details how high that ribbon is or was but i will tell you it is fairly close to the ground when he was flying inverted to cut the ribbon. Stay right where you are. Reporter the plane landed upside down. First it was white smoke, minutes later, black smoke. And flames pouring out of the aircraft. First responders could not save the pilot. They say he died at the scene. I i am i dont know what to think. I was hoping the pilot was okay. Reporter the colonel says the winds were blowing the 12 to 18 miles an hour. They will see if it was playing a role in the crash. The winds are horrendous. The things they were doing in the air was changed because of the wind. Reporter the faa is here examining the wreckage. The ntsb
The neighborhood. During that foot pursuit, a second robbery at the 7 11. So the officer was able to have a visual on them, but lost track of them. Reporter now, take a look, a close look at this. This is another piece of Surveillance Video we found from a home here on mount you can see that the video captures what looks like a shadow, hiding in a garage here. You can see him moving around there and then a San Jose Police car cruises by. Were going to go back to the other Surveillance Video as well to show you that these men were in the store less than a minute. May be taking a cell phone video. But both of these suspects, both considered to be armed and dangerous in that store for less than a minute. Were not sure exactly how much they got away with, but an undisclosed amount of lottery tickets and cash. Going through that video frame by frame and hoping to get some more information from the clerk and the customer to come up with some sort of suspect description here. Thats the very l
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