Leaving thousands of cruise passengers high and dry. And back in session. The prosecution gets set to wrap its case as the Oscar Pistorius trial enters the fourth week. Monday, march 24th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today. With matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. It is monday out on the west coast at 7 00 a. M. We have big news out of malaysia. The Prime Minister is holding a News Conference and has made announcement regarding flight 370. Evidently saying it is beyond all reasonable doubt that the flight was lost in the indian ocean. Lets get to nbcs tom costello who has been following the investigation. Good morning, matt. The families received an email from the airline. It says we deeply regreet we have to assume that flight 370 has been lost and none on board has survived. You will hear in the Prime Ministers comments, we must now accept that all evidence suggests the plane went down in the southern indian ocean. Of
With Police Outside the Malaysian Embassy. A court in egypt announced death supporters of 500 supporters of the band Muslim Brotherhood. Hello, everyone. The malaysian government has conceded it will be many weeks before any firm clues into the fate of mh370 are found if ever. Bad weather is hampering the search in the southern indian ocean. Planes have been grounded. Australian authorities who are coordinating it says the seas and Gale Force Winds have been too strong today. The search is now concentrated exclusively there on the southern end of whats become known as the southern corridor probably taken by the boeing 777. A key piece of equipment to search for the black box recorder provided by the americans cannot be shipped for another 10 years when will be when the black box runs out of power. There has been rage from many of the relatives of the people aboard the flight. Well have more from beijing later. We have details of how the search would be moving forward now. All search ef
Championship, but the celebrating turns silent with dozens of arrests on campus. Today, tuesday, april 8th, 2014. And good morning. Welcome to today. Its 7 00 a. M. On the west coast on a tuesday. We had to stay up late to watch the game. Folks watching right now had it easy. It was over by 9 00ish, i guess. Did you watch it . Heck no the dogs versus the cats and in the end, the dogs of uconn win the ncaa championship. Great game. They were underdogs all throughout the last couple of weeks and they just marched into march madness. This sets up a great night tonight. The lady huskies take on notre dame. Two undefeated teams. If they win, it becomes title town. In a big way. We want to get to todays top story. The most anticipated moment of the Oscar Pistorius murder trial. Telling the court today what led up to the shooting of Reeva Steenkamp. Today correspondent jeff rozzen is in pretoria. Good morning. Reporter good morning to you. Weve said all along this entire case comes down to Os
So n. Hello. Russias Prime Minister medvedev is in crimea at the head of an economic delegation of russian vice premiers. It come as the Defense Ministry says the build justify of Russian Troops has begun to ease in recent days. While he is the most senior russian politician to travel to the region since moscow seized it from ukraine. The follows secretary of state john kerry and sergei lavrov. Well, lets go to Daniel Sandford. What has mr. Medvedev been saying in the last few moments. He has announced it will become a special Economic Zone. A ministry will be set up in order to develop the recently. Clearly a sign that russia believes this is an unchangeable position that crimea is formally part of the Russian Federation. They are preparing to invest time and money as part of trying to bring it into the Russian Federation as a whole. That directly against what the Ukrainian Government says is what they still believe that crimea is part of ukraine. What about news on troop movements on
Arrived in rome. Hes meeting with pope francis in a few hours. What will be up for discussion for these two religious leaders. Aaron joins us now. Another tech Company Going public today. Its being described as the whats app of takeaway food. Just eat. Boy, have shares taken off. Heres a question. Is an online site really worth 2. 5 billion . Stay tuned . Were going to find out. Hello. Welcome to gmt. It is 2 00 p. M. In tripoli, lebanon, where the 1 millionth refugee from neighboring syria has been registered. It underlines the scale of the humanitarian crisis. Half of syrias population has been displaced in the war. Lebanon is shouldering the biggest burden. We are three years into this conflict and more and more are fleeing. 2. 5 million syrians have registered as refugees abroad. The actual known is unknown. It is thought to be much higher because many people havent registered. Many have fled to syrias neighbors. Lebanon have taken in the most. They have received only 14 of the fun