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Could just be beginning. And let the boonanza begin. Its halloween morning and exactly 20 years since today dressed up and were marking the occasion with a reveal thats 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. A friday morning, happy halloween everyone. Im matt lauer along with hoda kotb, al roker, natalie morales. Marching band out there . A band outside. What a crowd you guys. A way to celebrate on the plaza. People dressed up, were going to show you them. One of the shows that starts one way and ends differently. Our crew getting in the act as well. Well have a lot of fun. 8 00 hour today. Everybodys halloween but were thinking christmas. We moved ahead. Merry christmas, honey. Lets start on a friday morning with our top story. That dramatic end to the nearly two month old search for eric frein suspected of ambushing two tr
All 150 on the flight from barcelona to dusseldorf were killed. But why did he do it . And what do we know about him . Our team of correspondents has been searching for answers and first well go to Mark Phillips in france. Reporter to the heartbreak and grief of the dazed families of the victims who have begun to gather near the crash site, shock and even disbelief have now been added. It wasnt an accident that killed their relatives on this mountainside. The french Prosecutor Says it was murder. The evidence comes from the battered but still readable cockpit voice recorder recovered from among the disintegrated wreckage of plane and people strewn down these slopes. For the first 20 minutes, the cockpit conversation is technical and normal, then with the plane at its cruising altitude of 38,000 feet, the pilot is heard to hand over control to his copilot and leaves the cockpit presumably for a bathroom break. Sound of a chair being pushed back and of a door closing can be heard. The co
Good evening. Tonight, breaking news. Investigators scouring the home of flight 9525 copilot Andreas Lubitz. Why did he deliberately crash a jet killing 149 innocent people. Also breaking cnn learning he reprogrammed the autopilot in flight changing the setting from cruising altitude 38,000 feet to just 100 feet. The premeditated plan condemning everyone on board. This is according to new data. Earlier today at one of the most shocking press conferences in memory prosecutors laid out an incredible sequence of events they said led to murder. They described the sounds on the cockpit voice recorder including the pilot yelling to get back inside. The passenger screams that filled the plane as 149 people realized what was happening. During it all, the Prosecutor Says the copilot breathed evenly not responding. The copilot no one suspected. This copilots record gave no hint of such horror. He was 100 fit to fly without any restrictions. His flight performance was perfect. It was nothing to w
Races closely. They include alaska, colorado, georgia, iowa, kansas, louisiana, New Hampshire and North Carolina. The split in the senate is 53 democrats and 45 republicans, two independence so the Republican Party needs in net gain of six seats to take control of the senate and one the help is back today is iowa. That is where tom harkin is retiring from an open seat privately tied up between republican and four term democrats. Live for us in ankeny, iowa, north of des moines. What is the final pitch from the candidates today . Heather, think they both know it will be about turnout and their ground game. Because it is so close, they have to turnout every potential voter they have. Democrats are losing a long time champion of theirs with the harkin retirement and they hoped this would be a reasonable seats for them to hold on but this has been down to the way with polls as close as they are going into election day today. Harkin has been out campaigning with the democratic race, sparkin