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
There. No houses left. Reporter at least 108 people are still unaccounted for after a massive mud slide in rural Washington State. Friends and family wait anxiously hoping for news on their loved ones. Ate he really scary not knowing what happened and imagining what is going on. Reporter carol anelace father a plumber making a service call when the mud slide hit, the house he was working incompletely buried. My dad is a quick thinker he is the one that takes action in an emergency, if he had am i warning at all, we have to think he is somewhere and safe and they cant reach him. Reporter reed miller says he miss the slide. But his son is knowledge the missing. These Satellite Photos show you what the area looked like before and after the devastation. Res cures continue to working to find any one dead or alive, but poor conditions have hampered the conditions. There are concerns about additional shades in the same area that was affected on saturday. Reporter and authorities have pulled b
Searchers werent sure which direction it took. Until debris started showing up in the southern indian ocean, and then this morning malaysias Prime Minister announcing that the Satellite Company that handled that data ran more calculations, performed an analysis that he says had never been used before in this kind of investigation, and conclusion, flight 370 crashed into the ocean west of perth, australia. Its a remote location, far from any possible landing sites. It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that i must inform you that according to this new data, flight mh370 ended in the southern indian ocean. Malaysian airlines notified relatives in a text message prior to that News Conference. Right there, a newly released image of two large white objects with many smaller ones nearby that a Chinese Military Aircraft Found within the past 24 hours floating in the southern indian ocean. A chinese ice breaker ship is headed to that area. And in another location, an australian Aircraft
Ago. Grief from families of the 239 passengers and crew. Malaysias Prime Minister said today that flight 370 crashed into the southern indian ocean. I know this news must be hard to explain. Officials say new analysis confirmed the fateful path but now, search crews must find the wreckage to understand why. There is an insensitive investigation to find answers. Search teams spotted debris from the plane off the australian coast. Ships are now racing to locate objects to determine if theyre parts of the plane. Then, the search will turn downward below the surface using sonar. At the bottom of the ocean its where the black boxes are, the only way to solve this mystery is to get to those black boxes. That could be a tougher task. It took investigators two years to find the boxes from air France Flight 447 after it crashed into the ocean in 2009. Now, coming up at 5 30 on world news a choser look at the new data ask why officials are certain the plane did, in fact crash. The District Attor
Good evening on this sunday night. And we have a lot to get to, beginning with the desperate search at this hour in the west after a massive and deadly mud slide in Washington State. The side of the mountain crashing down, wiping out homes with families inside. Take a look at the before and after tonight, right in the center of the photo there, the river snaking through the middle of your screen, the road to the left of the river there. Tonight, this is what it looks like now. Homes and trees wiped out. A giant wall of mud moving through in just seconds. Look at the tree line there at the top and right below it, where the earth gave way. On this sunday, shaken neighbors hugging with the search for survivors now under way. Families gathering at the fire station tonight. We have Team Coverage this evening. The forecast for that part of the country, not good. More dangerous rain coming. But first, abcs Neal Karlinsky in Washington State for us. Neal, good evening. Reporter david, good eve