Washington. As horrible as it is. And he spoke about it for the same reason that we just carried it on our air, which is that talking about the economy is vitally important to him, as is vitally important to our network and i think the as far as the additional shooters go, that is still a little speculative. What we heard from kathy linnear, the washington, d. C. , police chief was potentially, so im not sure that is hard information, but in any case, the work of the government doesnt stop because terrible things because they happen all the time. This was intended, john, to be, what, a victory speech . The president did note all that has been done by his Administration Since the financial crisis, noting that in the past three and a half years you have a had the addition of 7. 5 million new jobs, the Unemployment Rate has been coming down. Is that what this was intended to be, a victory speech by the president . I dont think so, scott. When you look at the text and it unfolded the way y
Dramatic finishes yet. Gold, sill skprver and bronze a with us today, thursday, february 13th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today at the olympic winter games with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from olympic park in sochi, russia. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im savannah guthrie. And im matt lauer. Alongside Natalie Morales and al roker. Were going to take a deep breath. We are not going to gloat because once again were in the 60s in sochi, but you want contrast . Take a look at this. Lets go back to our plaza in Rockefeller Center. Its 31 degrees there, snow is falling. It has been falling for a while, and thats just one of the scenes from a storm that is blanketing a large portion of the country. Yeah, this huge winter storm is todays top story. More than 560,000 customers are without power this morning. The majority of them in georgia and south carolina. And already the airlines have canceled 4,500 flights natio
a makeshift morgue made of shipping containers sits empty. relatives pray and sing. we believe that our life and death are in god s hands, she says. we must prepare everything because we never know when we will die. as for those sonar images the ceo of airasia said they do not have sonar images at the moment of the fuselage. there is still officially a waiting word they have found the bulk of the plane. meanwhile, relatives say they re not giving up hope until the last second to find one of their loved ones still alive out there. ayman? let s go to washington, d.c. tom costello covers aviation for us there. tom, i want to ask airasia officials are saying it s not confirmed that the wreckage has been found but if it is on the seabed in waters between 100 to 165 feet deep how easy or difficult is it going to be for divers to reach that? i think it will be a challenge. i think you have hit the right word. divers. we re talking about divers being able to go down to the wrecka
understand what caused it, two new discoveries are raising concerns that it was not an isolated incident. good sunday, i m craig melvin. new developments as southwest airlines inspects its entire fleet of boeing 737s. cracks have been found in two more planes. the cracked resemble ones found in the jet that developed a five-foot hole mid-flight friday. a nine-foot section of that jet is being overnighted to d.c. tom costello starts us off tonight. reporter: on the tarmac in yuma, arizona, investigators have been cutting out a nine-foot section of the fuselage that will be sent back to the ntsb lab in washington for fettle fatigue tests. the flight data recorders are already in washington. new photos of the five-foot hole that opened up just 18 minutes into flight, and the passengers on board wearing oxygen masks. the ntsb said today the tear in the fuselage happened along a lap joint in the plane s skin. and we have clear evidence that the skin separated at the lower rive