Showtimes new series years of living dangerously with the best selling author Thomas Friedman and Climate Centrals heidi cullen. Plus, a look at todd purdums new book, an idea whose time has come as we approach the 50th anniversary of the civil rights act. 60 years of news because this is face the nation. Captioning sponsored by cbs schieffer well, good morning, again, all sides are urging caution but finally there may be a break in the case of missing malaysian airliner 370. The first reports of pings heard in the search area came from the chinese so we are starting there this morning with seth in beijing. Seth . Good morning. Officially they are calling it an acoustic event but today for the third day in a row, people involved in the search report hearing signals coming from deep inside the southern indian ocean. Today it was an australian ship carrying some High Frequency listening devices that reported hearing these signals. And that location is 300 nautical miles from where the si
A flight. And horrible mistake. A driver in houston with two kids in the car goes around a Railroad Crossing gate to try and beat a train unsuccessfully. No one was seriously hurt, but that driver is facing a lot of questions today, thursday, april 3rd, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a if rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Nice to have you along on a thursday morning. Unfortunately, though, we do begin with sad news. Our top story is another tragic shooting at fort hood in texas. Youll remember thats the site of a similar deadly attack back in 2009. This time four people are dead including the gunman, and were learning a lot more about him this morning. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez has the latest for us. Good morning. Reporter good morning. U. S. Military officials identified the gunman as 34yearold ivan lopez, an iraq war veteran. He was being evaluated for posttraumatic stress disorder, but he had not been diagnose
Members of iraq veterans against the war are pushing the military to do more to help soldiers suffering from postTraumatic Stress syndrome. We will look at the department of Veterans Affairs, how it has paid more than 200 million in wrongful death payments to the families of veterans who died under v. A. Care. They would take a look at the latest u. S. Effort to topple the cuban government. This time from using social media. A new expose reveals usaid securely set up a fake twittermy program and hoped to use to trigger a cuban spring. The Obama Administration defends the program. It was not a Covert Program. It was debated in congress and reviewed by the gao. Those kinds of things dont happen the Covert Programs. It was a program about increasing the level of information the cuban people have and were able to discuss among themselves. And that is part of an effort we undertake not just in cuba, but elsewhere. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, th
In a country with 1112 million eligible voters there is still long lines of men and women in kabul and other cities that want a voting card. We should not judge the afghan election by the same standards we judge our own election. We have had 200 years of democratic evolution. This democracy is in its infancy. It will be the first peaceful hand off of power in afghanistan history. We want to not rush to judgment ahead of the people. It is there judgment to make whether the outcome is creditable. We dont want to second guess their steps along the way. The drawdown in the number of International Observers will have a sake psychological affect on the afghanistan and how the International Community views it. So the reduction is unfortunate but it will not make a huge difference. There is enough observes there to do their job. The real story is this is an afghanistan election persuint to their observation. With the afghanistan president ial elections this weekend a look at what to expect. An
Victims of a bar barrick procedure given to them while they were in labor. This is Al Jazeera America, live from new york city. I am erica pitzi. Health officials are 2350i9ing ebola on two fronts working to stop the virus from spreading and also trying to head off a public panic. According to the World Health Organization, this outbreak has claimed 4,555 lives, nearly all of them in west africa. To date, only two people have contracted the disease in this country. Both are nurses who cared for ebola victim thomas eric duncan. Fear is contagion. Today, president obama used his weekly address to urge people to resist the hysteria. Melissa chan is in dallas, a city thats become the focal point of the u. S. Response to ebola. Melissa, this cdc is going to issue new guidelines for hospitals dealing with ebola. Do we know what those changes will be or when they will be announced . Well, erica, the cdc said it would like to issue those guidelines as soon as possible. Possibly today and we ha