Everything was gone. At least three people are dead, several others critically injured and the search continues this morning as crews say theyve heard voices begging for help. Were live with the very latest on that desperate search. Another clue . This morning new satellite images showing once again what could be debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane as the tedious search by air stretches into the fourth day. A Daring Rescue all caught on camera. Two brothers stuck on the ice with nowhere to go as bystanders call 911. Well talk with one of the brave rescuers today, sunday, march 23rd, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today on this sunday morning. Im erica hill. Im lester holt alongside jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer. Nice to be back. I bailed on you guys. We were going to say you were working, but if you really bailed on us, its good to know what really happened. It was a dateline road trip. It is nice to have you back. Thank you. We want to get right to todays stop story as we focus on the frantic search for possible survivors of the mudslide in washington state. Rescuers say they could be trapped after a huge chunk of a hill went roaring over peoples homes. Crews have reported hearing screams for help throughout the night. Miguel almaguer is about 55 miles north of seattle. Good morning. Reporter good morning. At this hour, the rescue operation is under way, a desperate search for survivors. This mudslide was triggered when the Mountain Side couldnt take anymore water. First responders did hear voices overnight. They know victims are trapped. They are risking their lives to try and save theirs. It came without warning, a wave of crashing mud, trees and rocks 20 feet high. The fastmoving deadly debris field the size of three football fields. At least three were killed. Overnight First Responders could hear cries for help. We have people that are yelling for our help and we are going to make were going to take extreme risks to try to get them out of there. Reporter the wall of mud crashed half a dozen homes. Six people are listed in critical or serious condition. There was no time to run. I was coming down the hill and i just saw the darkness, like somebody wants to grab you and everything was gone, like three seconds. Reporter the mudslide washed overstate route 530. Rescue teams from across the region are deployed to find the missing. Were hearing cries, possibly a child from this side. Reporter a 6monthold baby was among those pulled from the mud. Its unclear just how many are still missing. This morning mud is no longer sliding, but the water is rising. Its dammed up so bad, theres no water coming down the river in front of our house. Reporter the Stillaguamish River is jammed with debris. If the mud gives way, the flooding downstream could be catastrophic. Its going to break loose. The question is how and where. For goodness sakes, think about your families, your community, your neighbor. Reporter one disaster triggering two emergencies. Those who survived the mud are now bracing for a flood. With the sun rising First Responders hope to cover more ground at first light. Yesterday rescue teams were wading through kneedeep mud. They needed themselves to be rescued. Erica. Tough situation. Miguel, thank you. The search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, night is falling in australia. That means the planes scouring the waters of the south indian ocean will head back for the day. New information is coming out of france. Officials there say they have satellite images that show what could be debris from the plane. Our coverage from around the globe starts with kerry sanders. Kerry, good morning. Lester, that new image taken bay french satellite is in thands of the malaysian and australian authorities. Were told its coordinates are in the same region of the southern indian ocean where this satellite image released by staterun china tv and these two Images Released by australia were also taken. All are clues that might be lining up to show that the flight went down somewhere in the southern indian ocean. Reporter as the mystery enters the third week, the flow of information to find the possible wreckage of flight 370 at times has appeared less than coordinated. This is coming to me as quick as you are seeing it on tv right now. Certainly as countries like malaysia and china have been slow to share information, theres a dense of growing distrust. Reporter the satellite imaged released on saturday came two days after australias Prime Minister released two other images from another satellite. Those also suggested there was debris in the same area. There is increasing hope, no more than hope, no more than hope, that we might be on the road to discovering what did happen to this illfated aircraft. Reporter experts say it takes up to four days to analyze satellite images. They start with extreme wide shots, as if taking a picture of the entire United States. The closeups of debris, like zooming in on the u. S. To find the roof of a back yard garden shed. Now the multinational effort has gone decidedly low tech. Flight crews are literally looking out windows for debris. The search zone, a 22,000 square mile area in the southern indian ocean, twice the size of massachusetts. More than a dozen flight crews from the United States, australia, new zealand, canada, china and japan, and on the waters surface, at least eight military and commercial cargo ships. Theres a few places in the world you find very challenging to do this sort of work a long way from land. This is one of them. Reporter the goal is ultimately to find the flights flight recorders. The pinger will send out a signal for 15 days or so. Today spiegel reports germany is sending a small submarine to the search area. It may be able to pick up on the automatic clicks from the pinger so the boxes can be located and retrieved. Kerry sanders this morning. Thank you. We have more on the exhaustive search happening by air and a look for you at exactly what those trained spotters are doing altz they search for any sign of the plane. Bill neely is on the ground in perth, australia. Good morning. Reporter good morning, erica. A fourth day of searching has ended here. A fleet of planes from the u. S. , australia and new zealand have been out all day. The focus of their search, big debris from the satellite images, but also something very small, a wooden cargo pallet. Nbc news was on board one of the planes. The search crews are multinational. Their work, relent ms. Teams from five countries now scouring the indian ocean. A new zealand crew is asked to look for a single wooden pallet spotted by a civilian plane earlier. Their method, look out the window. Visibility is good but finding a pallet in an ocean is tough. 200 miles an hour, the world is whistling past you. Youre looking for an object amongst the wide caps of the waves. Reporter they open the door to throw out buoys to track the current and to look for straps and belts of various colors spotted by another crew. Obviously its disappointing that we didnt find anything. Reporter hope, not expectation, for this crew. Just two hours at the search zone, a ship scouring below them and then back. Another mission done. No debris seen. So the crew is looking for large images now from three satellite images, but also looking for that small debris. The problem is that wooden pallets and straps or belts could just as easily have come from a passing ship as from a crashing plane. But morale is high, their job is anything but easy. Bill neely, thank you. Mark gordon is president of odyssey marine exploration, a group that specializes in underwater recovery and has helped find missing aircraft in the past. Good morning. Thanks for being with us. Good morning, lester. Right now these are just sightings of potential debris. Even if you confirm the debris is from an aircraft, how do you begin to work backwards two weeks now to find out where the actual crash site is . This is certainly a daunting task and the time is a problem. Essentially from debris youd create a fanshaped search area. The longer the time expires, the bigger than fan is. That just gives you a starting point for your search. I know theyre working on the drift, putting buoys in the water to find out how things drift. Even that doesnt tell you whats happened over the last two weeks, correct . Correct. There will be anomalies. Thats why you create a fanshaped areas as you go back because of the an no, maam me leighs in wind and current that have transpired. The technology is underwater searching. Can that be brought to bear yet or do you need to confirm the debris field first . You would at least need a piece of debris to set up the reference area. Then you can start by toeing a pinger they can hear it about two miles out. Given the indian ocean is 13, 14,000 feet deep, youll have to tow the system deep. To get within two miles, you have to have a good starting point. Talking the pingers for the flight recorders and the data recorder. We heard at least one military submarine is in the area. Would that be the best chance of at least targeting the general area . Look, we found wrecks that have been missing for hundreds of years, so this is doable. The challenge is you need a good starting point and a good target. In the case of aircraft wreckage, the pingers will be the best initial target to get you in the general area. Then you can do a side scan search. Certainly if the submarine can get within two miles of those pingers and do it quickly, these pingers have a 45 to 60day life. So the clock is running here. Fascinating the technology being brought to bear in all this. Mark gordon, thanks for joining us. My pleasure. Turning to the crisis overseas in crimea. Russian troops are en masse along the border. Yet another sign russian president Vladimir Putin is not taking u. S. Sanctions seriously. David gregory is moderator of meet the press and joins us this morning. Good morning, erica. What more can the white house do . The economic sanctions become a big piece to ratchet up pressure on putin to change his calculation. They have to look beyond crimea and even beyond ukraine to get nato engaged and say to vladimir put tin and say this is going to be a larger regional western response where nato would draw oopsz a line and say youre not going to potentially move into those baltic countries that are nato allies. The difficulty is ukraine is not part of nato, the United States doesnt want to provide military aid which divides some here in the u. S. But could be a really difficult proposition. Difficult proposition, but definitely one that will continue to dominate the headlines as we move forward. Today is the fourth anniversary of the signing of the Affordable Care act, known by many as obamacare. The president released a statement saying the share of americans with insurance is up, the growth of Health Care Costs is down. He has a rosie outlook on things. For democrats in many ways this has become an albatross especially as we lead i represented the elections. Is that going to change at all . Its hard to see how it changes. Republicans are so united about making obamacare a concern, scares them about Government Intervention into health care. We wont know everything about implementation. Thats a difficulty for the white house and the president. Are people listening . They know the rollout was botched, certain things are not being implemented because theyre too difficult. Theres a question of whether theyll get enough young people to make it work. The Big Questions hangover this which makes it a much bigger Political Club that republicans are using against democrats right now. Well continue to follow it with you, david. Thanks. Well check back with you for a closer look on whats coming up on meet the press. Right now well head over to jenna. Good morning to you. We begin today in texas where crews are working to contain a oil spill in galveston bay. The u. S. Coast guard says a barge collided with a ship in the Houston Ship Channel near texas city on saturday. The coast guard did not say how much fuel has spilled. Officials believe a tank carrying about 170,000 gallons of oil was damaged. Pope francis is revealing the members of his special commission made up to help the Catholic Church respond to the allegations of sexual abuse. A mix of clergy and lay people, among them an irish woman who was a victim of sexual abuse as a child and Cardinal Omalley of boston which is where the scandal erupted back in 2002. First Lady Michelle obama hosted an educational roundtable and visited the great wall with her mother and two daughters. Cnbcs eunice yoon joins us now. Good morning. Reporter good morning, jenna. Today Michelle Obama visited a landmark meant to keep the wall out, the great wall. Her weeklong tour this time has been meaning to break down the barriers between the u. Schltd and china. With her daughters and mother in tow, shes trying her hand at traditional calligraphy and creating the most buzz, her first meeting with chinas first lady. Shes seen hereimp s here as mrs. Obama is in america. Shes a hip fashion icon married to a very powerful man running a country. Even th ip is not a political mission, mrs. Obama addressed the importance of freedom of speech for the internet as well as religion. Shes going to be heading south after beijing to see other sites at a center for pandas rounding out her threecity tour. Shes got a busy schedule ahead. Thank you very much. Filed under a bull in a china shop, i present to you elephants in a parking lot. In missouri, three elephants escaped from the shrine circus in st. Louis. Youre at such a disadvantage escaping when youre gigantic. The animals apparently got spooked by the crowd and lester as well as also erica, the animals walked away without any bumps or scrapes. I wish i could say the same for some of the vehicles. They just werent into it. They werent. Toss out your strategy, your educational guesses, your anal sansd basketball knowledge, you would have been better filling out your ncaa pool like this. Thats how i did mine. Check out brad bender from illinois, he had the last perfect ncaa bracket we know of. It was busted when dayton upset syracuse 5553. The win sends dayton to the sweet 16 for the first time in 30 years. Another major upset . Villa nova, connecticut knocked them out. That is the news and no joke, it is getting harder and harder to pick these. I say use no brain cells whatsoever, just blindly pick and you have just as good a shop. Its crazy this year. A lot of fun to watch. It is, right . Dylan is here with a check of the forecast. And maybe snow next its hard to believe its even going to get cold enough to support snow. It was 72 degrees in washington, d. C. , excellent for the cherry blossoms. 63 in new york city, 57 in boston, but watch what happens today. We are going to notice temperatures drop down into the 40s across the northeast and then even colder as we go into tuesday, when temperatures will drop down into the 30s. So, we have this dip in the jet stream for tuesday and wednesday. So, the cold air will be in place. Then were going to see these areas of low pressure merge, one from the midwest, one bringing in moisture from the south, and where these line up will determine our snowstorm. It looks like for right now, glancing blow for new york city and the midatlantic, but it looks like parts of massachusetts, especially cape cod, could get most of the snow and the wind with this one. Thats a look at the weather across the country. Now heres a peek out your window. Im storm team 4 meteorologist amelia segal in for chuck this morning. 43 degrees is the temperature in washington. Cloudy skies across the area and the clouds do win out today. And we are back 20 degrees cooler than we were yesterday. A High Temperature today only around 50. For monday, mostly sunny, cold, a high of 43. Snow is likely on tuesday, but like dylan said, we are looking at minor accumulation amounts, i think. Maybe a dusting to around 2 inches. Thats your latest forecast. Erica . Dylan, thanks. It seems like the simple question of will you go to the prom with me is a thing of the past. Coming up, prom proposals or make a change for a better day [ female announcer ] this nation of gogetters seems to be in the middle of a human energy crisis. Take a chance. [ male announcer ] power up with the good energy of quaker real medleys. Sweet fruit, crunchy nuts and multigrains. Its how we help keep gogetters like you going. And getting. Real fruit, real nuts, real medleys. Try our apple nut harvest bars. Quaker up. All the goodness of milk,t bars. All the deliciousness of hersheys syrup. [ male announcer ] with nearly 7 million investors. Oh hey, neill, how are you . [ male announcer ]. 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I might strike out asking but will you go to prom with me, written on the side of a baseball. Just straight on your shirt, sarah, can i be your prom date. Check yes or no. Its almost like its more about the creativity asking to go to the prom. Do you have any cool promissory reese . I didnt get to go. I do it every year and im going to do it. Mike broke up with me right before prom. I never got a chance to go. He always watches and he sends me email. Im sorry, thats what you did and im scorn by it still. I went to my senior prom with my friend pete, we went as friends. I was so shy, i didnt date in