her feud with prince charles during their divorce. a texas bakery worker making 50 grand a year who helped himself to a large piece of the pie embezzling millions to pay for private plane, luxury luggage, a bar of gold and how he got away with cooking the books and why. and good morning, america. robin off today. great to have lara here along with sara haines. let s get right to these stunning new developments on the missing jumbo jet. these details first reported by abc news. someone who knew what they were doing turned off two key tracking devices in the cockpit. one at 1:07 a.m. the other at 1:21 a.m. that s a 14-minute gap cutting off contact with the plane. and what this gap suggests there was no catastrophic failure, it was a deliberate act done by someone taking over the plane. what it also says those extra four hours after that last contact means that the plane could have flown anywhere for thousands of miles. this american ship now leading a search in the india
good morning, everyone. i m brian shactman. we have a very busy new days. we want to get you started with a routine trip from philly to ft. lauderdale that turned terrifying for passengers over us airways flight after its nose gear failed during takeoff. investigators are now looking into the cause. nbc s kirk gregory explains what happens. reporter: scary moments for passengers, forced to evacuate this plane when a tire on the front landing gear blew during takeoff. she said the plane took off and then it crashed. it came down. and then it went up again and then came down again and then it basically, you know, crash landed. reporter: airport officials say u.s. flight 1702 was departing philadelphia international airport headed for ft. lauderdale, florida, when the aircraft experienced a mechanical failure. the pilot aborted takeoff. and the air bus a-320 skidded to a stop, nose down on the runway. all 149 passengers and five crew members fled the jet using inflatable c
evidence that general motors had a way to fix a dangerous defect years ago, but made a business decision not to use it. and together again. the dogs of sochi and the u.s. olympian who fought to bring them home reunited. an emotional moment three weeks in the making today, friday, march 14th, 2014. announcer: from nbc news, this is today. with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1-a. in rockefeller plaza. and good morning, welcome to today on a friday morning. i m matt lauer along with tamron hall, al roker and willie geist. i think we need a playbook to figure out who s in here. we ve got savannah and natalie off today. i m right here. but we have puppies. we had a puppy party once in the orange room, but we re having a puppy shower today. because when you get a new baby, you ve got to have a shower. sometimes, it happens whether you like it or not. that s gus kenworthy, the u.s. olympian and silver medalist. we re going to check in with him. b
new evidence suggests it may not have been an accident. they continued to sing pings to satellite for five hours after it lost contact with radar. now searching the indian ocean the sides of six united states. if it turned off the path it had to be a deliberate act. us airways jet had to abort takeoff in philadelphia when its front landing gear collapsed. secretary of state john kerry meeting with his london counterpart. john mccain said his own republican colleagues blocking the ukraine package. i ve been embarrassed before but i haven t been embarrassed this way about members of my own party. the dow lost 231 points yesterday. it was the worst day for the market in six weeks. one of those days where you couldn t find an uptick for a while. mark zuckerberg so outraged he called president obama to voice his frustration. neither of them suffers serious injuries. all that. he got it! wow. game over. the fourth overtime. a young cheetah climbed
coldest wind is only in the mid- 20s. we can handle that. in the clear clouds the northwest. if you more clouds may drift in during the day but overall mainly sunny today. mild with a high near 50. increasing clouds towards the evening. maybe a sprinkle later. we could see some snow late saturday into sunday. maybe up to 1 in. in some areas but overall fairly quiet. would drop into the 20s and for a high on sunday. so far so good no major delays on the expressway s or the tollways. we do have a closure on the south side because of a police chase. 87 is blocked off right by the dan ryan. keep that in mind we will have more information on that. nancy will have more coming up. we are following breaking news on chiago s south side where a police chase has ended in the death of an off-duty police officer. nancy loo is live at the scene - just off the dan ryan expressway with the details. detectives have marked this as a crime scene in what is clearly a tragic investigation