they need to be in a safe place. so a family assistance center needs to be set up where they d have their privacy. where the government is able to set up regularly scheduled briefings. they need to re-establish trust. reverend johnson, talk about how different it is to counsel families when you have loved ones who are missing versus loved ones who are known to be deceased. well, i m a former health care and hospice chaplain. that transfers into disaster. in a hospice setting, we know about anticipated grief. you know that there s a time when when the patient s demise. and you can prepare folks for that. oftentimes, their faith is their primary coping mechanism. but unanticipated grief, when planes fall out of the sky, when there s a shooter, when you re not prepared for this, the families are really vulnerable. and you can t really expect them
physical needs of those that have just experienced catastrophic disasters. absolutely. the reverend earl johnson, thank you. excruciating is the right word for it. thank thanks. thank you, joy. all right. next we ll take you live to australia where military search planes are scouring the south pacific for signs of the missing jet. but first, republican congressman and former vice presidential nominee paul ryan is getting heat from constituents over comments he made on poverty last week. during a radio interview, ryan blamed poverty on the, quote, culture of the inner city. at a town hall yesterday the congressman got an ear full from this man. the next day you said that statement was inarticulate. well, i don t believe that. you said what you meant. fine. the bottom line is this. this statement was not true. i m going to point it out to you why it wasn t true. there is nothing whatsoever about race in my comments at all. it had nothing to do with race. sometimes when you re
contacted if there were urgent information to hand out. you really do wonder why it has taken until now for the authorities to offer that service to the relatives and why they aren t being told in person individually. so real difficult times for these relatives, as you can understand. they have waited for days. now they are left waiting again. and watching the news and listening to anything in order to find out what exactly this debris is off the coast of australia. joy? nbc s keir simmons, thank you. huffington post writer, the reverend earl johnson, joins me now as the spiritual care manager for the american red cross. he deployed teams to console victims and family members of victims of tornadoes, mass shootings, or deadly airplane crashes. what s the first thing, i want to start by asking you, reverend, what is the first thing that you would do or say to those families who are at that briefing and are so frustrated right now in malaysia? well, first of all, it it might not
men of color, community and business leaders, the parents of trayvon martin and jordan davis, magic johnson, former new york marry mike bloomberg and others he unveiled a new private-public initial called my brother s keeper. to bring business, nonprofits and local government together to try to help young black and hispanic men stay in school and get good jobs. in laying it out, the president recounted the story he recently told a gathering of at-risk school kids in chicago. and when it was my turn, i explained to them that when i was their age i was a lot like them. i didn t have dad in the house. and i was angry about it, even though i didn t necessarily even realize it at the time. i made bad choices. i got high without always thinking about the harm that it could do. i didn t always take school as seriously as i should have. i made excuses. sometimes i sold myself short.
obama administration seems confident russia will not be moving troops into ukraine? reporter: that s the pentagon s assessment they re not going to act. what s changed in the last 24 hours, because the russians have moved these troops, mobilized these war planes, put them on alert as well, if president putin decided he did want to go in they could poomove so quick u.s. would not have a chance to react to it. that s increased the level of nervousness among administration officials. what would the u.s. do in reaction? we re talking really about only diplomatic means, protests, et cetera. because the supreme nato commander and american general breedlove says europe is not planning certainly any military reaction if the russians were to go in. it would be a huge deal if they went in obviously. the question is what would happen inside the ukraine. people there, the country dividing. what about putin? i know he spoke to president obama by phone last week. otherwise he hasn t said a lot p