The longline tuna boat and its crew have been at the centre of a major search operation in Fijian waters since six men abandoned ship after the alleged beheading. One man was found in a life raft and two crew on the boat were handed over to police.
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One man, who jumped overboard on Monday to escape an alleged violent incident, was found by NZDF and Fijian Navy in a life raft on Thursday. Five of the six men who jumped overboard remain missing. In a statement sent by Nathan and Michelle Stroud, via their lawyer, the pair said the FV Tiro II is not and was not owned by Ocean Vision Limited, and Ocean Vision is no longer the operator of the vessel.
tamron hall. tamron filling in while ann is away a little bit today. and mr. roker not here on the plaza because he is out in des moines, iowa, helping out some really wonderful people. just opened up the doors of those penske trucks a couple minutes ago, unloaded the loot and, al, first of all, congratulations on clearing it out because you had monsoonal rains this morning and i know you made an awful lot of people happy. yeah, we really were very lucky. mother nature took care of us. the heaviest storms moved to the north and the south and we ve gotten a pretty clear break. we are thrilled to help the iowa homeless youth centers and we have more for them coming up. all right, al. what do you have coming up. today s money 911 emergencies, how to avoid hundreds of dollars in overdraft fees. people are complaining about that certainly, to getting yourself out of financial entanglements with your ex. we re going to tackle those money emergencies and also it s a quintess
captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today on a wednesday morning. i m matt lauer. and i m meredith vieira. all eyes are on the white house this morning and that face-to-face meeting between president obama and general stanley mcchrystal. what seems to be ironic, general mcchrystal was put in charge in afghanistan in part because he wasn t afraid to speak his mind. but now it s his words that could come back to haunt him. the controversy is over disparaging remarks about president obama and top administration officials made by general mcchrystal and his staff in a rolling stone article. this is all playing out at a very critical time, just a year before the president wants to start pulling troops out of afghanistan. so how big of a disruption would it be to fire the general right now? just ahead, we ll talk about that with retired general barry mccaffrey who is now an nbc news military analyst. also ahead, a new jailhouse inte