Building a war. Tightly cropped. Well shaped. Im talking about beards as theyre getting more and more popular. A new study says they may be falling out of fashion. Well tell you why later in the program. Also in the program, aaron is here. Always clean shaven. Absolutely. Lucy, yes. The worlds second biggest economy, it continues to slow. But its not all bad news for china. Incomes continue to rise. And theres evidence that the chinese are spending more at home. Which is exactly what beijing wants. And it makes the big shift from being the worlds factory floor. Its 7 00 a. M. In washington. Midday here in london. 8 00 p. M. On jindo island in south korea where desperate family members are gathering to find out if their loved ones are among the survivors of a sunken ferry off the countrys southwest coast. Three people have been confirmed dead so far. 300 people are still missing. And many of them are High School Students whod been traveling on the ferry for a school trip. They were head
For me as a firsttime voter, im not willing to vote on who made the mistake, but who has the ideology. We meet some of the firsttime voters in indias general election. In the last few hours armed men in fat eegs flying the russian flag seized Ukrainian Military vehicles and occupied the ukrainian buildings in the eastern part of the country. In donetsk prorussian groups took control of the city council building, the second building to be occupied people calling from regional powers to outright ses session. Prorussian separatists confronted tanks in the eastern city of kramatorsk. An air base was taken back from separatists. Its part of a wider offensive. In slovyansk, soldiers claiming allegiance to moscow took over tanks from ukrainian forces. Well go live to our correspondents in the cities in a moment. First, a look at where those cities are on the map. They are all part of the cities boarding rush a. We be joined from slovyansk. Across the east there are calls for more support from
Have staged a massive rally to protest spending on this years world cup soccer tournaments. Nearly 290 people are missing after a passenger ferry sank off the Southern Coast of south korea. At least three people have been confirmed dead. The ship was heading from incheon to the island of jeju. It sent out a distress signal about 20 kilometers off jindo island. It was carrying more than 450 people. More than 300 were High School Students from near seoul. Coast guard officials sent helicopters and ships for the rescue operation. They say theyve recovered three bodies. A male student, and a female crew member are among them. One male has not yet been identified. The toll of the missing was revised upward dramatically after confusion in the wake of the accident. Authorities say military personnel and special rescue teams including 160 divers are now in the area to search for the missing. Translator an announcement said we should stay where we were. But the ship was already sinking. Many st
Adds an al ham bra fire truck. A fire took the life of a mother and 3yearold child today. Witnesses literally saw people jumping from the second story windows to escape those flames. The fire breaking out on the first floor of this building in a sunnydale Public Housing development. Firefighters say they found the woman inside dead, her toddler rushed to the hospital where unfortunately he later died. The boys aunt says the Housing Units are full of drug dealer and no child should be growing up there. Who would want any child, anybody in their right mind wouldnt want a child growing up in that situation. We deal with it all around here. This particular complex is old. It was built in 1940. Theres been talk of rebuilding the structures that are in the worst conditions. Now to an nbc bay area followup. Were getting a lot of viewer feedback about the story. A water main leaking in san jose in a neighborhood, leaking for two days. The street was slowly flooding, the asphalt deteriorating.
Way today, wednesday, april 16th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on wednesday morning. Im savannah guthrie. Im carson daly alongside Natalie Morales and dylan dreyer. Matt and al are off. Some v. I. P. S joining us in the studio, including some secret service. Its bigger than natalies normal security detail. Weve got Michael Bloomberg here and the second lady of the United States, dr. Jill biden. Both have some news to announce this morning, so well check in with them separately a bit ahead. But we want to get right to our top story, and its breaking news coming out of south korea this morning. Rescuers are scrambling to locate survivors from that ferry disaster amid fears that the death toll could rise drastically. Cnbcs eunice yoon has the latest. Eunice, good morning to you. Reporter good morning, savannah. This could be south koreas worst peacetime disas