you have mcdonnell got more evangelical voters as a guy from the middle. >> thank you. we'll be back next week. if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." good monday morning. right now on "first look" -- vanished. the missing malaysian passenger jet. russian grasp. the future of crimea hangs in the balance. american fugitive. nsa leaker edward snowden holds his first live video conference. plus, promising news for anyone concerned about alzheimer's. and is this really what high school basketball has gone to. good morning. nice to see you. we begin with some breaking news overnight in california, a

powerful 6.9 magnitude quake struck near the border with oregon. there are no reports of damage and no threats of a tsunami, the u.s. geological survey said more than 300,000 people reported feeling the jolt. three days later accident still no word on what happened to that missing malaysian jet. no terror group has claimed responsibility and that no electronic chatter has been detected. dismissed reports that one of the plane's yellow life rafts had been spotted in the ocean. keir simpson? >> reporter: good morning, the families of those who are missing continue to wait here for news as they have through the weekend, among those missing said to be three americans, two children, and one a 51-year-old

ibm staffer, whose family has described him as a man of integrity and honor, a man of god, generous, creative and intelligent. meanwhile the investigation into what happened to flight mh370 continues. a search of 50 nautical miles of sea is under way, involving asht and 40 ships. while the investigation continues into the two men who boarded the plane using stolen passports, surveillance video is being studied. the ntsb is involved in the investigation. but, whether or not they will discover exactly where the plane is, a note of caution, an air france plane that disappeared in 2009, it took two years to find that aircraft. veronica sf. >> that's right. keir simpson, thank you.

the latest on the crisis in yao crane, on sunday, tens of thousands of gathered in kiev's independence square. this is the country's new leader prepares to visit the white house. tracy potts is live for us at the white house. >> the new prime minister of ukraine is coming here so the president can express support but washington is also talking about how to deal with russia, now pushing further and further into that country. with more russian troops moving into crew yan, president obama's catching heat from republicans. >> we have created an image around the world, not just for the russians of weakness and indecisive. >> putin needs to be warned. i'm willing to tell him f he does occupy ukraine, it will be

chaos for him and the world. >> ukraine worries people. >> reporter: more phone diplomacy this weekend, president obama called the leaders of latvia, estonia. economic pressure on russia will work. >> the only way to exert your influence through bribery and forcing people that is not going to be way to extend your power. >> reporter: growing pressure on president obama to do more to force president putin out of crimea, lawmakers feel a ripple effect. >> any instability in that region causes economic instability and certainly will impact europe, if it impact europe's economy it will impact the u.s. economy. >> a big part of russia's economy, oil, also so of the european countries, some of the same countries that we're trying to convince to be on our side.

veronica. >> tracie, thank you. a drug kingpin known as the craziest one is dead for the second time, after a shootout with police, it turns out that he wasn't actually killed in a shootout more than three years ago, he was widely believed to still be alive because his body was never recovered. the mexican government tracked him down sunday. officials are killed 100%. officials say he led a powerful criminal gang and was responsible for multiple murders. to a major breakthrough in the fight against alzheimer's p a simple blood test can predict who will get the disease. those with lower levels of lipids were at higher risk to develop alzheimer's. doctors say the test is more

than 09% accurate. but added more reer is as much needed. a family of four was hospitalized after eating meat laced with lsd, hallucinations was what happened after dinner for the family. the meat was contaminated with lsd. while in the hospital, the nine-month-pregnant gave birth to a baby boy. walmart said -- federal authorities are investigation a close call in florida over the weekend a skydiver came face to face with small plane near tampa sending both crashing to the ground. 49-year-old veteran skydiver john frost was making his

approach when a small plane got tangled in his parachute. frost was flung to the ground, the plane took a nose-dive, but both he and the 89-year-old pilot suffered only minor injuries. >> i definitely thought i wasn't going to make it, because the prop of that plane was just feet away from me. >> you know, i will keep skydiver, it's one of the safest sports you can do. >> and you can catch more of frost's interview this morning on "today." let's go ahead and get the latest in sports from my good friend paige hopkins. what about that 89-year-old pilot? unbelievable. good morning. lots of sports for you. undefeated after blowing out indiana state in the missouri valley championships, wichita state is now 34-0, they'll be

the first team to interthe ncaa tournament undefeated since unlv in 1991. but,'s, it looks like someone missed the memo, the shirts given to the players had a major mistake on the back. big ten basketball ohio state and number 22 michigan state. the buckeyes down by two, when the spartans turn it over, smith sends it to shan got scott, he ties it up, 65-65, ohio state hangs on to win. on to acc rivals, maryland and virginia. 1.7 seconds left. anthony gill nails a jumper, a clean jumper, overtime, maryland does well to keep the terps ahead and stay ahead. they upset uva, 75-69. take you to doral for the

cadillac championship, ongoing back problems take a major toll on tiger woods, he finished with 78, his worst at doral and patrick reid took it all with an even par, 7 the, by the way, he's the youngest winner at doral. over to the sprint cup, kobalt 400, his car starts to run out of the gas. brad keselowski pulled through victoriously. incredible buzzer-beater between two illinois schools. jefferson and east high, after a fight broke out between players, coaches, fans e even parents got into the action. the illinois high school association suspended five players and the coach for jefferson high. he says this was the first time having a ball smash his car

window. >> really? i would think that would happen more often. >> thank you, paige. bill karins with the start of the week forecast. >> across the country, all eyes are on the next winter storm. it's warmer out there, lot of areas will be just rain compared to a wintry mess and the snow. the storm is coming through the northern rockies as we speak, it's going emerge with this moisture down toward south texas as we go through tuesday and on wednesday, it heads up into new england. this is much warmer across the nation. otherwise, a lot less snow with this, this is a really northern plains and northern new england special. the best chance of having to bl plow and shovel. snow today in the northern rockies, a little bit through

nebraska and iowa. once the storm intensifies a band of snow in the northern half of new york city and all of northern new england. that's going to be wednesday night, significant travel impacts. veronica, another storm, but this one will be a lot less impact for a lot of people. >> no more. i just can't take it. thank you, bill. edward snowden is coming out swinging today. b plus an original band of brother remembered. the blarney blowout spins out of control. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. check it out.

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welcome back. time now to get down to business with cnbc, good morning. >> u.s. safety regulators reportedly received more than 260 complaints since 2003 about gm cars that suddenly stopped while driving.

gm has linked the problem tied to faulty ignition switches to 13 deaths and has recalled 1.6 million cars. in other news, at&t cuts wireless data charges for noncontract users. to compete with t-mobile. lastly, priceses a the pump are rising. . the latest industry surveys shows regular average is up ten cents in the past two weeks. los angeles has the highest price at $3.94. >> almost $4. some stories making news now this morning, south by southwest 2014 is in full swing later this morning, nsa leaker edward snowed een is expected to make an appearance on a telecast.

kansas congressman wants his presence canceled. more than 70 people arrested near the university of massachusetts-amherst yesterday during the blarney blowout celebration. 24 people were injured when a stage gave way during a high school musical performance in southern california, performers suffered some broken bones, bruises and scrapes. and william wild bill guarnere, a world war ii veteran has died at the age of 90. he was awarded the silver star and two purple hearts. a climate change all-nighter for democrats in the senate and another embarrassing moment for crack-smoking toronto mayor rob ford. we have scrambled politics next.

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he tweeted -- let's be honest, 70% of teams in nba could fold tomorrow and nobody would notice a difference with possible exception of increase in street crime. someone else in twitter trouble is toronto mayor rob ford, he reminded residents in toronto, turn clock the back. guess someone never told him fall back and spring ahead. mitt romney it's not a strategy session for a third presidential run. and romney ran into his former running mate over the weekend, congressman paul ryan tweeted this picture at the airport in jacksonville, florida, senator ted cruz he got big applause at cpac over the weekend, as he vowed to repeal every single word of obamacare.

>> if there's one that unifies politicians of both parties is preserving their own. they either stand with obamacare and lose. or listen to the american people that's the one scenario we can do in 2015. >> your morning dish of "scrambled politics." joining me now for our "first look" at politics this morning is david knack munakamu. >> climate change, what are they hoping to achieve here and are they rallying around any specif specific. >> they're going to take to the floor to try to get attention for climate change, i think what this shows is number one, unlikely anything will happen on congress in this.

to get public attention on this, to try to make the point that this is an important topic, that congress needs to address. president obama had talked about doing executive actions on climate change. a few senators in tough swing states, re-election campaigns is not going to be involve zbld who's leading the charge, david? >> you know, this is something that senators from hawaii and barbara boxer from california, you know, liberal states in which they are really dealing with this, of course, california is having issues with this, obviously something that the republicans don't buy into as much. i think these are people who really believe in it. in the past year, congress hasn't dealt with it. >> okay, interesting. another story getting a lot of attention, edward snowden's

live appearance along with this q and a session. he's live at south by southwest. >> the last time we heard from edward snowden. he's going to do this video conference. he's going to talk to tech-savvy young people. he's going to stress a couple of things, the government that is really, you know, spying on people, is controlling a lot of the parts of the internet and weakening safety standards and privacy for people and that, you know, these people when they get into this field are going to have to deal with this and make sure they raise this issue. obviously, people are going to realize he's not going to be attend this, he's still in russia. >> all right, interesting for sure. david nakamura of the washington

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because i only know braille. >> it's a good script, i like working with woody. >> if you close your eyes i could see it. >> he sounded just like him. a dear friend of ours is having a birthday. she's turning 55 barbie. some fun facts of barbie. did you know that barbie is actually two years older than ken. >> so bash wrooe is a cougar? >> yes. they had a very public breakup in 2004 and she's been a single lady ever since then. >> oh, my goodness. >> and barbie has lot in common with hillary clinton, she has run for president six times >> does barbie has any children? >> she does not have any children. >> skipper was not her child.

>> skipper was her sister. veronica. >> i can't remember these things. >> that's a little scandalous. "way too early" with thomas roberts start right now. ♪ desperate times call for decembsperate measures. so, i brought in a friend, liam, come in here. >> i advised the president on a little video, vladimir, watch closely. we're going to speak in a language you can understand. obama! obama. obama.

obama. >> that's right. >> president obama still wrestles options to help ukraine keep the crimea region. pope francis's middle ground stance on the reality of marriage equality. and the latest on the missing malaysia jetliner. this is "way too early." all right, hi, everybody. good morning. it's monday, march the 10th. welcome to "way too early." the show that's not mad at me for joining the ladies for co-hosting the view