On board. Bad for business russias ruble is on the slide meaning tough time for a border town in china. We begin the newshour with a continuing search for an airasia plane that disappeared shortly after takeoff on sunday. Flight qz8501 was on its way to singapore from the indonesian city of surabaya with 162 people on board. Search teams are scouring the area looking for signs of the plane around the islands of singkep, banka and belitung island. The head of the indonesian search operation says its likely the plane is at the bottom of the sea. We have reporters in singapore and indonesia following the story, well hear from Veronica Pedrosa who is at Singapores Changi airport, but first to scott heidler, who is in surabaya, from where the plane took off on sunday. As i understand it Vice President is where you are earlier today. What did he have to say . Yes, he was here. First he went into a waiting room, if you will that has been turned into the Crisis Center for the family members, a
Officials say about 33 calls came in during a twohour period but point out no highpriority calls were put off, no calls were ignored. But they acknowledge it did put a strain on the force. There was 20 officers go ahead dated to this incident. Thats a significant amount of officers for one situation. Again, it leaves certain parts of the city without police services. Reporter the mayoral candidates say they know situations like that put staffing right at the top of the debate. When you have a Major Incident in this city now, the real question is whether or not theres enough Police Officers to cover the neighborhoods and the immediate crisis incident. And we think not. I think we all recognize theres a lot of fear in this city. And residents want solutions. Thats why ive been focused on solutions that can really keep us safer. But its important that we focus on the solutions and not on the fearmongering. Reporter both candidates will be addressing that situation and their Staffing Solut
Netflix orders more original programming hoping to win more viewers. Youre blind. But you see so much. I hear things. Gerri all that and more coming up on the willis report, where consumers are our business. We begin with breaking news tonight, gm has been shielded by bankruptcy rules from this ignition switch lawsuit claims. So gm, shielded from ignition switch suits. Bob joins us by telephone. Bob, to you. This is a shocker. The judge, robert geshur Us Bankruptcy court, old gm, new gm, this new company does not bear blame for what went on with those i ignitions. Your reaction. Hi, gerri. Good afternoon. Were studying the opinion. But its clear that gm won. The judge in his opinion recognizes that the claims could be as much as seven to 10 billion with a b dollars. And now those claims are simply washed off the books. Gm can turn its back on hundreds of victims who are not eligible to file their claims inside ken feinbergs fund and who now are going to have to be told that the courtho
Crimea has held a referendum on the session, overwhelming majority in favor of joining russia. Washington says the vote is illegal and has threatened sanctions. Vote, 95. 5 of the ballots are counted. This is quite controversial because it does violate International Law and the ukrainian constitution. , 220 thousandpact Russian Troops on the border. The eu and the u. S. Are threatening sanctions on russia. Crimeas leader will look like today to join russia. Hat may lead to a boycott the wall street journal russia is pulling u. S. Treasury bills out of the u. S. Because of concerns about the sanctions. Three times the record before. This crimea vote, hugely controversial. What is the reaction from the west . Obama telling Vladimir Putin he will never accept this crimean vote, ever. Merkel has been quite vocal about this. Listencain speaking to what he has to say. Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. Nation that is really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy. E
Hockey show down. And girl power. How a group of girls selling girl scout cook kiss turn into crime fighters. They help police catch a thief in the act. Their remarkable story today, saturday, march 15th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a saturday morning. Im lester holt. Im erica hill along side jenna wolf and dylan dreyer. We want to get you to todays top story. Thats the breaking news coming in overnight involving the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370. That development, this the disappearance was intentional. They made that statement earlier this morning. The plane has been missing for 8 days and investigators are finally getting more details about at least the track of the airplane. Some of the initial movements. They now know for sure that the plane did make a deliberate uturn and someone disabled the devices that would allow them to see the plane o