alive. and funny girl, lena dunham talks with savannah about her new role hosting saturday night live for the first time. it s surreal and wonderful, and i m excited to soak up every inch of it. can savannah convince lena to make her one of the girls today, friday, march 7th, 2014. announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. and welcome you to today on a friday morning. i was going to say here we are on a friday morning. we re excited. you haven t gone hollywood on me yet. you are trying, i understand. i know you love the show girls. they are a bit racy. i thought a fifth girl, you know, who eats dinner at 5:30 and goes to bed at 8:00. would add something to the show. would you be then showing off the girls? you d be surprised at the job requirements. we ll leave it at that and hear from lena later. we look forward to that. meanwhile, let s get to our top story on a fr
surprise. and each of their reactions is more priceless than the last today, saturday, march 8th, 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 a saturday morning. i m lester holt. and i m erica hill alongside jenna wolfe and dylan dreyer. we do want to get you right to today s top story, and that is the malaysia airliner that we first learned went missing overnight. we first heard last night that it had gone missing. as the hours go on, the airline says it still has not found any evidence of wreckage. let s bring you the latest as we know it. there is a massive effort under way right now to find the plane. search-and-rescue crews were deployed as soon as authorities realized the plane was missing. and air traffic control lost contact with that plane about two hours into what was supposed to be a six-hour flight. and there were 239 people on board the plane, incl
nothing was agreed upon. russia tightens its grip on the crimean peninsula. an american warship steaming toward the black sea as crimea has a referendum that could make them a permanent part of russia. russia is not friendly, as you probably realize. top prosecutor for sexual assault cases, lieutenant james morris is suspended for groping allegations. outed as a founder of bitcoin. just one small problem. he says it s not true. i have nothing to do with bitcoin. new jersey governor chris christie attacking the president of the cpac. you see something going off the rails and what you decide to do is stay as far away from it as possible. if that s your attitude, mr. president, what the hell are we paying you for? 175,000 jobs added to payrolls last month. the unemployment rate ticks up to 6.7%. cringe-worthy crash in canada. nobody was hurt. oh, no! oh, that? let me see your teeth. we can get together and starting a martha stewart-johnson oh,
and now, bbc world news america. this is bbc world news america. reporting from washington, i m jane o brien. in crimea, russian troops big dig in, trying to stake their claim on russian areas of the ukraine where tensions are running high. and in the trial of oscar pistorious, his ex-girlfriend takes the stand to testify. and it was in southern england where world war i soldiers prepared for the trench warfare they would face. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. tonight there are increasing signs that russia s grip on crimea is getting tighter. for the second day in a row a group of unarmed international observers has been denied access, and there has been a tense standoff tonight at a ukrainian miss rielle base, with ro missile base pro-russian forces outside. the road into crimea a few days ago this was part of ukraine. now it s part of wrush russia and you can be arrested for him filming here, so we have to do
america. this is bbc world news america. reporting from washington, i m jane o brien. in crimea, russian troops big dig in, trying to stake their claim on russian areas of the ukraine where tensions are running high. and in the trial of oscar pistorious, his ex-girlfriend takes the stand to testify. and it was in southern england where world war i soldiers prepared for the trench warfare they would face. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. tonight there are increasing signs that russia s grip on crimea is getting tighter. for the second day in a row a group of unarmed international observers has been denied access, and there has been a tense standoff tonight at a ukrainian miss rielle base, with ro missile base pro-russian forces outside. the road into crimea a few days ago this was part of ukraine. now it s part of wrush russia and you can be arrested for him filming here, so we have to do it secretly. russian troop