Get out fast passengers evacuate a bus moments before it is swallowed by a massive hole and swept a bay by flood waters. The frantic scene caught on camera today this march 25th 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning and welcome to today on a wednesday morning. We will tell you about that dramatic bus video in a few minutes. Incredible to see and as we come on this is the first full day of searching an incredibly remote and treacherous crash site from the germanwings crash. The tragic plane crash and the difficult work facing investigators at that site. Carry simmons made his way to southern france. What can you tell us . Good morning. This morning they are urgently looking for the second black box. They are going to the difficult to reach crash site. Using helicopters behind me and searching for answers to the many questions. Why did this plane simpley fall from the sky . The wreckage is spread over a wide area. The plane has been pulverized one official said. The aircraft was grounded 24 hours before the crash. Experts are already examining one of the recovered black boxes. One box. Which one . It has been damaged according to reports, but may provide evidence. This man lives in the last village before the crash site. Its behind that mountain . Behind there. What did you hear . I loud unusual sound like this and then nothing. The a320, one of the most popular airliners descended in just eight minutes according to a website that tracks movements. On board 150 people many german and spanish, now rescuers are searching for bodies. The only way to reach the crash site is by walking up the mountain or by helicopter. Bad weather is hampering that search effort. A growing memorial for 16 High School Students among the passengers and a deepening mystery over what happened to the plane they were in. Overhead you can hear another one of the helicopters on the investigation coming in to land here. We are hearing that one of the reason yes the aircraft may have been grounded just before it flew the next day and crashed was a problem with the nose door but we hear it was cleared for safety but meanwhile we hear that some aircrew are refusing to fly a320s worried by this mystery. Carry simmons, thank you very much. Debra herselfman served and is president of the National Safety council. Good to see you. Good morning. We just learned the cockpit voice recorder has been recovered and it is damaged, but usable. What information might they be able to glean from it. When you hear it is damaged, what does that mean to you . There is an external casing that could be damage. You want to make sure that the information inside is readable and usable. You are looking at potentially a twohour recording so you should get the whole flight. You can hear take off procedures and maintenance that had been done and also the critical minutes and seconds leading up to the crash. You want to know what happened. The voice recorder will be critical. Very quickly, how quickly do you think they will be able to get the information from it . You can download that information within the span of a few hour fist its not damage. That will be the test. Its early in the investigation and we dont want to speculate, but one of the facts about this is a moment or so after reaching cruising altitude this plane begins a descent. Not a fast descent or a so descent, but a controlled descent over eight minutes. What do you make of that fact . Is that something that the pilot his to initiate . The cockpit voice recorder will give them insight whether it was initiated by the crew or whether there conversations or whether perhaps they are setting in auto pilot. Its important to understand why they did what they were doing and hopefully they will give that information today. In terms of the crash site itself you can hardly imagine a more forbidding place for a search and recovery. This is described as a plane that was pulverized and not even accessible by roads. How confident are you that they will be able to piece this together . Absolutely confident that the investigators are going to figure out what happened but for sure the first days will be for the families for the recovery of their loved ones and to make sure they have what they need. Im glad you mentioned the families. That is of foremost importance. Thank you very much. Thank you. Got their hands full no question about it. Some of those images when you look at it and the fact that the pieceses are so small. You cant imagine the power of the imact. They have their work cut out for them. Al has his eyes on Severe Weather targeting the heartland. Could be the first tornado of march. We havent had one yet and we would like to keep it that way. We have snow through green bay and michigan and some may pick up five to eight inches and a warm front is pushing in. We have activity right on top of that. We will be looking at Severe Weather developing. Clouds and showers and snow on the back of this system. Heres what we are watching. The risk of Severe Weather from texas, oklahoma and arkansas and missouri. Enhanced risk of strong storms. Oklahoma city tulsa, fayetteville and joplin where they are recovering from the deadly tornados. Heavy rain as well. They are picking up three to five inches of rain. Flood watches into thursday morning into North Eastern oklahoma. This is a widespread threat that lasts this afternoon into overnight. They are the roughest times for tornados to strike. We will continue to track this. Natalie is back with a sad story out of california. So tragic. A San Jose Police officer shot and killed overnight after responding to a call about a Man Threatening to kill himself. Bob is in the bay area with the latest. Good morning. Reporter good morning, natalie. Police in san jose confirmed the suspect shot and killed their fellow officer is dead. The mayor is calling what happened here the citys darkest hours. Last night a little bit after dinnertime a Family Member called 911 to report a 57yearold man scott dunham was intoxicated and despondent and wanted to hurt himself and others. As officers approached his apartment, he started firing from the second floor, hitting San Jose Police officer michael johnson, a 14year veteran with the force. He died on the scene. His colleagues did return fire. Its not clear if they struck dunham in the exchange. They stood off with him overnight until about 50 minutes ago. We heard the sound of four grenades and officers entered the apartment and found him on the balcony dead with at least one gunshot wound. The first San Jose Police officer to die in the line of duty in the city since 2001. Very sad. Bob redell in san jose for us. Thank you. A wisconsin state trooper was shot and killed with a possible Bank Robbery Suspect tuesday in the city. The suspect was killed in the exchange of gunfire. The name of the trooper and the suspect had not been released. U. S. Troops in afghanistan wont be coming home as soon as expected. President obama agreed to slow the u. S. Military pull out from afghanistan at the request of its new government. They said the delay wont jeopardize his commitment to end the longest war before leaving office. The latest plan will leave 9800 troops in place rather than downsizing to 5500 by years end. There is newly released video showing the incident with the secret Service Agents showing they were intoxicated when they hit a barricade outside the white house. There was a bomb threat going on at the time and a woman drop off a package outside the white house and more than 30 minutes later, a government car pulls up in front of the Security Check point and bumps a plastic barricade. The investigation is ongoing in that incident. Frightening moments caught on camera. The road collapses in brazil and passengers were able to escape just in time because you see what happens there. The bus is swallowed up by a massive hole in the road. Its not over. The bus was swept away by rushing floodwaters. Again, fortunately no one on the bus was hurt. Nobody was on the bus at the time. Will ferrell will be etched among all time hollywood wood greats. The snl comedian was presented with a star on the walk of fame. For a brief moment it was not sure whether he would go through with the ceremony. Take a look. It goes without saying i feel so fortunate and yet i cant accept this award. So just cover it up. Cover it up for someone else. Ferrell joined by his wife and threes during that specialer is moano tuesday. He is so funny. I love him. He said he would stop by from 3 00 to 5 00 and polish the star. Whoever decided to evacuate the people from the bus at that moment thats a hero. Unbelievable. Thank you very much. Mr. Roker . As we look at whats going on around the country, showers in the Pacific Northwest and decent weather throughout florida. Temperatures in the mid to upper 80s and on the chilly side and the heat continues in the southwest into southern california. We will hey rich, whats that in your hand . My at t cell phone bill. Verizon bill . Yeah. Thats cool. Nooo. How much are you spending per month . 110 bucks 120 bucks 330 yeeeah. What if sprint could cut your rate plan in half . And give you unlimited talk and text in the u. S. , and match your data. 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This is happening as we speak in italy. The judges are hearing argue ams from the prosecution and both defense teams before deciding whether to confirm knoxs guilty verdict or whether it returns for yet another appeal. Amanda knoxs former italian boyfriend arrived in court for what could be the final hearing in their infamous murder trials. The panel of judges will decide whether to uphold the verdict for the recent appeal or send the trial back to yet another appeal. Knoxs legal team remains confident. You hopeful it will be overturned . Yes. We are looking for the conviction overturned. It has been a roller coaster ride. Initially found guilty for the 2007 murder of meredith kercher, the two were acquitted and freed after nearly four years in prison. Knox returned to her hometown of seattle and remained in the united states. In a stunning reversal an Italian Court upheld the original guilty verdict. In 2013 knox told matt she couldnt imagine returning to italy for an appeal. I was imprisoned as an innocent person in italy and i cant reconcile the choice to go back with that experience. Its not a possibility. I was imprisoned as an innocent person. I just cant relive that. They have maintained their innocence and he told savannah on today. There was nothing in the murder scene that links us to the murder. He did return to italy and had his passport taken by authorities after the last guilty verdict. If the conviction stands he is facing a return to prison to 7 his 25year sentence. His legal team is Holding Nothing back filing an additional document trying to distance himself from knox. As for knox she could face a new battle. The italian authorities her back to italy to continue her 28 years behind bars. If the court uphold this is conviction its not certain what happens. They could move to extradite her and that would require the u. S. To send her back. They believe its unlikely it wouldnt happen without a fight. 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I have a layer of ice on my windshield this morning. Lets go to meteorologist bill henley. Bill . It is cold outside. No surprise there. 28 degrees at nbc 10. The sun is up but temperatures are still nice and low this morning. Feels like winter bundle up. Grab the winter coat and an umbrella, too. Right now we are in the teens and 20s. Atlantic city 19. 23 in trenton. 24 in wilmington. Before the rain arrives those numbers will be higher. The light showers just moving toward d. C. Right now. They will be moving in this afternoon. They will only have light showers during the day. On and off showers by lunchtime, 42 degrees. 46 at 3 00. Legts get an estimate on the drive times from christine maddela. Driving on the vine street expressway, that will take you 37 minutes this morning. The schuylkill expressway from the blue route to the vine will take you 23 minutes. The crews are battling a warehouse fire in the Lehigh Valley causing big problems for neighbors there. Skyforce 10 is live over the scene here of this road in bethlehem. You can see more than 300 people there do not have power there. A headsup for drivers with the roadway closed and people parked on west laurel street cant move their car because of the fire. More in 45 minutes. Jacklyn our middle schools have classes that are devoted for test prep. My kids only have a half a year science and a half a year social studies to make room for preparing for the test. Gina we have no afterschool programs, we have no freshman sports, we have no extra anything. Okaikor were cutting those programs to make way for test prep. And were not taking in to all the other things that makes a child whole. Gina we are setting our kids up to fail. We are back at 7 30 and these are frighten inging images for distracting teen drivers. Disturbing new research that reveals how big this problem is and if you are a parent you want to watch this. We will get to that one. Here are the stories making headlines. 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