Blues icon b. B. King dies overnight. Well remember the man and his music today. Friday may 15th, 2015. Announcer 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 and for music fans all around the world, it is a sad friday morning. B. B. King what a legend. And he has passed and i think all of us are saying oh my gosh he contributed so much to the world of music. I looked at my phone and my library of music, ive got 63 b. B. King songs on there. Well talk about his life coming up. But we want to start with this breaking news. That u. S. Marine chopper missing for three days has been found in the mountains in nepal. Jik miklaszewski has the latest. What can you tell us . Reporter after a search in the air and on the ground this is the discovery the u. S. Marines worried about from the beginning. They found it on the side of the mountain where it had crashed three days ago and
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Shares his views on Insider Trading. All that and more over the next hour. But first, lets get headlines from our rad host carol massar. Morgan stanley is paying 1. 25 billion to settle a federal lawsuit. The agreement focused on thecuse sale of mortgagesale od securities. Es. They took a million charge reduci arnings by five cents a share. Shar puerto rico had general Obligation Bonds cut to speculative grade. The s p lowered the islands Credit Rating and kept it on creditwatch with negative in cases. The u. S. Senpassed t s far bill today. The measure which president id he wiob sign sets u. S. Agricultural policy. Ose are the top headlines atadli this hour. Thank you. A historic day at microsoft. What the new chief executive had to say about spurring innovation. The first thing i would want to do and focus on is ruthlessly remove any obstacles thanyallow us to inno us to in and then focus all that an microsoft can uniquely do. Jon e joins us now from los angelfrom los give us a littl
Speculative grade. Poscop lowered the island ondit rating and kept it creditwatch with negative in cases. The u. S. Senate passed the farm bill today. The measure which president obama said he will sign said u. S. Agriculturally set u. S. Agricultural policy. Headlines at top this hour. Thank you. Historic day at microsoft. Here is with the new chief executive had to say about spurring innovation. The first thing i would want to do and focus on is ruthlessly remove any obstacles that allow us to innovate. And then focus all that an ovation on things that microsoft can uniquely do. Jon erlichman joins us now from los angeles. Abouts a little bit more the new chief executive of microsoft in some of his challenges. There are challenges. He does a lot to the table. He understands the world of microsoft. They ultimately went with a candidate from inside a company who has spent more than two decades with mike are soft. He talked about this idea of wanting to be able to cut enough red tape so
In decline. So the posting of the plot of the group after they rallied tuesday to qualify for next summers world cup. Well have that plus much much more in the world this week the armenians though in the newsroom that stops as an seo once again to not be a shark and pasta. These are on headlines and sound. Russias Prime Minister i think you need to take part in guiding the few troops to iraq taking that role could be funded by his counterparts at the break free materializes irans envoy says the real reason for optimism. Happy because three days of mourning up to the fourteen nine people die in the double collapse of the supermarket with during peak shopping outlets. Rescuers are continuing to paint through the rubble for victims and the wind is still trapped in sight. I just felt so thats the position of cricket fan of the three of them in his presence John F Kennedy was shot and killed. That the market the real point in us history sorry conspiracy theory. The setup role as a write in