Sunday night neighbors her two gun shots. She is said to have shot her dog and herself in a place that had great meaning for the singer. I just keep telling myself the more suffering i go through, the greater character ill have. Reporter in her final interview last month before reportedly taking her own life, Country Singer Mindy Mccready sounded hopeful, but things apparently became too much to bear. I dont know why he did what he did. Hes gone. I cannot get him back. Reporter dan hanks, Los Angelesbased private investigator and longtime friend advised mccready on personal matters over the years. For business purposes and with her consent, hanks often says he recorded their phone conversations. The last one on saturday afternoon. I would have never guessed that she would have gone ahead and done what she did. Reporter she got emotional, talking about her new song ill see you yesterday. Its such a beautiful song. It must be heard. Reporter ironically written to try to help those contem
Pentagons plan to furlough 700,000 civilian employees, who, beginning in april, will be required to take one day off per week. In essence, a 20 pay cut. As for the current political geist, this seems to be more about political positioning rather than prevention. This afternoon, the president will sit down with local tv anchors to explain the adverse effects of the coming cuts. Meanwhile, Speaker John Boehner is out with an oped in todays wall street journal entitled the president is reigning against a budget crisis he created. The same budget crisis Speaker Boehner and 173 of his House Republicans voted for back in 2011. As a reminder, this is how he described the deal at the time. You know, i got 98 of what i wanted. Im pretty happy. What is making Speaker Boehner unhappy with the present situation . Quote, no one should be talking about raising taxes when the government is still paying people to play video games, giving folks free cell phones, and buying 47,000 gre cigarettesmoking m
Joining me today, deputy new york city mayor howard wolfson, the queen bee of thegrio. Com, joy reid. The intrepid Maggie Haberman of politico and msnbc contributor and senior fellow at the center of budget and policy priorities, jared bernstein. While president obama continues to warn of the damaging effects of the sequester and republicans lob insults from the sidelines, youd never know anything was wrong from the market. Damn the sequester screams one headline. The dow closed up another 50 points yesterday to settle above 14,000 while the s p reached a fiveyear high. There are danger signs ahead. Earlier this month, the cbo warned the sequester will have Economic Growth in 2013 and result in 750,000 lost jobs, but the collective eye roll of the market have been mirrored in the empty hallways of the capitol as lawmakers continue to enjoy a weeklong break. Complacency is further fuelled by the deadline is malleable. They wont fall apart on sequester day of reckoning said an aide. What
You call it, money week . This week is money week. Were giving away thousands and thousands of dollars to a lucky audience member. When the audience member gets into the booth, theres a purple and gold bill. If they win the gold bill they win a very special prize. If they get the purple bill, the whole audience gets a prize. And we have a sled that you can ride in the snow or in the grass. They made me get on it, of course. All kinds of things you might no manly way to sit on it. You look happy about it. No manly way to do it so you just sit on it. Youre going to answer some questions from folks on the plaza and over at the nbc experience store. Can we discuss your other segment, the pregnancy story . There was a guy who showed whats called an empathy garment. He put the suit on so he could get the feeling of what it is to be pregnant. He wore it for nine weeks. I think a lot of women are going to have a little problem with this. He doesnt get the rest of the stuff like, does his, you
Monday, february 18th, 2013. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Im savannah guthrie. And im Carl Quintanilla in for matt this morning. Mindy mccready had been trying to get her career and her life back on track, but the mother of two was tormented with her problems by Substance Abuse and the recent death of her boyfriend. Well look at the latest in a moment. Ill take a turn and ask the question, what happens to all that lost luggage at the airport . Take a look at this jewelry, highend fashions. This is the lost and found for luggage that never gets claimed and you wont believe what it is selling for now. Then a lot of dads have wondered, but this dad actually tried to find out what its like to be pregnant. He wore a pregnancy suit in an experiment that lasted nine weeks. My back hurts already. Hell tell us all about it later on. He looks rea