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 wednesday morning. Im matt lauer. And im erica hill in today for savannah. Happy new year. Happy new year to you. This is our first day tech nknick ally, we were here yesterday, but this is our first day back together. Everybody was here yesterday. Technically. Happy new year to you. A lot going on. In the Briefing Room after that vote in the house, passing the fiscal cliff legislation. In the end, the president got most of what he wanted including higher taxes for families making over 450,000 a year. There were things left out of this bill that have angered a lot of republicans and set the stage for some contentious debates down the road. Well have a live report from capitol hill, straight ahead. Also ahead, a papparazza taking pictures of Justin Biebers car was hit and killed in los angeles last night. And some gadgets and gizmo
Williams. Good evening. Im kate snow in for brian on this new years eve. Its been exactly four days since the tower lost contact with airasia flight 8501, and despite intense efforts with poor weather in the area, search teams dont appear to be any closer to finding the bulk of the wreckage of that plane. Indonesian rescuers have recovered several bodies and debris floating in shallow water. But for many families on board that doomed flight an awful wait continues. We begin with nbcs katy tur in surabaya. Reporter as many in indonesia celebrated the start of the new year, this small group prayed for their lost loved ones. After four days, searchers have pulled seven bodies from the waters. Among them four men and three women including a Flight Attendant still in her uniform. Like everyone else, we are shocked. We never thought the first findings would be our loved ones. Reporter despite it all families of the missing refuse to give up hope. We believe that our life and death are in god
Tom. Lets welcome our guests. Since katherine the great is already taken she has to go by katherine the moderately capable. Reporter from the National Review and fox news contributor. His last name is a palendrome or radar. I see pizza. Her real name is not kennedy. It is Martin Van Bure wren. Host of kennedy on the fox network, kennedy. And he looks like david blaine slowly giving up on a career in magic. Sitting next to me is comedian dave smith. Lets start the show. We begin the new year with an old friend. Hillary clinton says she will get to the bottom of something very important, benghazi . Nope. Her private email server . Na. In a meeting with the board of a New Hampshire newspaper the Democratic Front runner promised to investigate the mystery behind ufos. She said, quote, i think we may have been visited already. We sure dont know for sure. Hillary also claims she would look into the Nevada Military base known as area 51. And she said her Campaign Manager is a longtime ufo buf
Any attorney defend bill cosbys horrendous resume . Caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. The factor begins right now. V hi, im bill oreilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. The truth about guns in america. That is the subject of this evenings talking points memo. President obama is taking his cause to the public that there should be tighter restrictions on who is allow to do buy firearms in america. Today he said this and from every family who never imagined that their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun, every time i think about those kids, it gets me mad. And by the way, it happens on the streets of chicago every day. [ applause ] mr. Obama is obviously sincere in his quest for more Public Safety, but he is missing the big picture. According to the latest fbi stats, slightly more than 8,000 people were victims of firearm murders in 2014. There were 118,000 robberies involving a firearm. And almost 150,000 aggravated as[ involving guns. The popu
Any attorney defend bill cosbys horrendous resume . Caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. The factor begins right now. V hi, im bill oreilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. The truth about guns in america. That is the subject of this evenings talking points memo. President obama is taking his cause to the public that there should be tighter restrictions on who is allow to do buy firearms in america. Today he said this and from every family who never imagined that their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun, every time i think about those kids, it gets me mad. And by the way, it happens on the streets of chicago every day. [ applause ] mr. Obama is obviously sincere in his quest for more Public Safety, but he is missing the big picture. According to the latest fbi stats, slightly more than 8,000 people were victims of firearm murders in 2014. There were 118,000 robberies involving a firearm. And almost 150,000 involving guns. The population of the u