which is the bottom line of headlines like these but it's not like she had a choice in the matter. it's the law. debunktion junction, mission accomplished. matter. it's the law. mission accomplished. "first look" is up next. good friday morning, everybody. right now on "first look." frantic evacuation. malaysia mystery deepens. day seven, huge search zone, a few clues and no one really knows where flight 370 is. nbc news exclusive. new information surrounding that massive general motors faulty ignition recall. plus facebook's zuckerberg gives president obama a stern rebuke, and you may be shocked by how much money americans spend on their pets. ing thanks for joining us on

this friday. a routine flight turned deadly on an airplane. investigators are looking into the cause. nbc's kurt gregory describes what happens. >> reporter: scary moments for the members of a u.s. flight forced to evacuate this plane when a tire on the the front landing gear blew during takeoff. >> she said the plane took off and then it came down and went up again and then it came down again and then it basically crash landed. >> airport officials say u.s. flight 1702 was departed philadelphia international airport heading for ft. lauderdale, florida, when the aircraft experienced a mechanical failure. the pilot on boarding takeoff skidded to a stop, nose down on the runway. all 149 passengers and crew members fled the jet, using inflatable chutes and emergency exits on the wings. >> the air crew did a find job.

>> reporter: two passengers requested medical assistance, but both are in good condition. all of the other passengers were transferred to another plane. airline officials say the incident is under investigation. . >> it is now friday afternoon in malaysia, and the search continues for the missing passenger jet. investigators are focusing on what went on inside the cockpit and whether the on board systems tracking the plane were deliberately disabled. tom costello has the latest. >> reporter: the search for flight 370 is shifting west as u.s. government sources tell nbc news there's evidence the plane's automated systems gave off faint pings for up to four hours after going off radar. that means the plane could have traveled 2,500 miles any direction. a vast expanse of the globe that includes tp indian ocean. >> what it doesn't tell us is what direction.

whether it went west, east, north, south. at this point we know the airplane was operational and probably didn't have a mechanical malfunction or failure. >> reporter: the u.s. destroyer uss kid is now moving to the strait of monica, and the white house says the search area could expand further. >> based on new information that's not necessarily inclusive, an additional search area may be open in the indian ocean and we are consulting. >> reporter: u.s. government sources is say it appears more likely ma lmalaysia did pick up the radar over the indian ocean. search teams were unable to find any debris in the olocation whee the chinese satellite spotted something. they said releasing the image is a mistake. controllers lost contact with flight 370 somewhere between

malaysia and vietnam. no radars, no radios, no identifying transponders. >> turn it three clicks to the left and this is off. >> reporter: he said in the plane did make a u-turn, it would be a deliberate action. >> there's absolutely nothing that could go wrong with the airplane that would cause the transponder to turn off and start doing a turn. >> st plan vanished. we have expanded the duty the search area because it's our duty. trust me when i say we will not give up. >> and nbc's tom costello will have an update this morning on "today." and the problems are mounting for general motors. company officials now telling federal regulators ignition problems on some cars surfaced earlier than first mentioned. it involved several gm models made between 2003 and 2007 and nbc news has learned that gm developed a partial fix to the

faulty ignition switch back in 2005, but didn't tell owners that it was available. all this after nbc obtained and reviewed hundreds of pages of court documents and video depositions. now according to those, some gm officials made a business decision not to spend money on a par official fix. they now acknowledge the problems are linked to 12 deaths. the there are more problems for the automaker. an independent consumer watchdog group says federal research shows more than 300 bags deployed after the air bags did not deploy. in the ukraine, there are fresh worries the russians are moving in. right now russian troops are gathering at three points along the ukrainian border. it's rattling a shaky part of the world and sending stocks

down sharply. wait a minute. it's more important that we get our campaign finance regulations fixed. it's more important that we have the imf fix as a higher priority than the lives of the men and women in the ukraine. i've been embarrassed before on the floor of this senate, i will tell the president, but i haven't been embarrassed this way. about members of my own party. >> and moments ago secretary of state john kerry arrived at number 10 downing street in london where he's scheduled to meet with russia's foreign minister. look at the numbers here. f the dow jones industrial average fell more than 230 points. its worst day in more than a month. let's get the latest in

sports from ryan shactman. hope those numbers are better. >> let's get to more fun news. let's start with college hoop ls. a huge upset in the big east. number three villanova. number one in the big east. upset. they're up by one with seconds left. but they lose it. sterling gives it the jumper at the buzzer for the win. the number one, seton hall at the buzzer. they're now 17 and 16. keep your eye on a bizarre pass. i'm not sure what to call it. they were leading by 10. devon brooks, shoots the ball, ricochets off the back court. >> there it finally goes in. >> you're talking about a good night. the ball is bouncing their way. the ncaa tournament can be unpredictable. maybe this isn't that crazy of a

tattoo, right? >> that's a pretty confident fan right there. kentucky fan tyler austin black says uk will win the championship this year. but i will say at the time, you can laser off to 2014, and then it's okay. so there is a little wiggle room there. great finish in high school hoops in minnesota. fourth overtime. amir coffee. the buzzer beater. i could do high school hoop buzzer beaters every single day. the big crowd there, too. that's a big arena. that's not a high school. that's a timberwolves arena. how about this video? imagine life spent on the edge. these rf daredevils in wing suits. this is crazy.

listen, betty, you said it earlier. they look like flying squirrels. >> i'm just worried how are they able to direct themselves? they're so close to the ground it seems. is there a steering wheel somewhere? >> i hope they have a healthy, large pair of depends. >> which may be soils when they hit the ground. #. i can't believe you're going to make it snow on st. paddy's day. >> i'm not doing any of this. this is all you, my friend. >> the cold is still with us. it's going to get a short warmup and another cold blast and snow. this is ridiculous for the northeast. yesterday was a warm day in much of the country. not in new england. it should be 50 this time of year in new york city. the warm air is on the way, though. at least there's a reprieve. another cold blast behind it. as far as today goes, really little of any travel problems anywhere across the country.

that 60 in d.c. will be great. so the weekend weather pattern sets up like this. a big train storm developing in the deep south. moving to the southeast on sunday. that will meet in with a cold shot of air for the great lakes. it's in the in between region that we're worried a about. pretty much from northern virginia to d.c. but the potential for st. paddy's day snow. >> every single week it seems, right? for over a month. >> i've given up on march. >> i've had a enough. shaming a member of congress to apologize to another member? we'll tell us about that. plus, this is the scene before firefighters arife at the massive explosion in harlem. and the 21-year-old man who drove into a crowd at south by southwest had previous run-ins with the law. [ male announcer ] zzzquil.

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if. time now to get down to business. stocks were down across the board with the dow losing 30 points. amazon is raising the price of the amazon prime program by 25% to 99 bucks a year. starting on april 17th the new annual fee kicks in for existing members. pet owners will shell out a whopping $06 billion on their pets this year. this is a new record. the bulk of the spending going to healthier pet food, which i'm sure they appreciate. and mark zuckerberg called president obama to complain. he's upset into government inon intertruinte intrusions. he adds the u.s. should be the champion for the internet, not a threat.

a suspected drunken driver faces murder charges after plowing his card through a crowd. two people were killed. 23 others injured. it wasn't an accident, though. the 20-year-old has prior arrests including drufls when he was 19. new video from wednesday's apartment building explosion. a new video has surfaced that shows huge flames billowing. three people are still missing. remember when house oversight committee chair cut off the microphone of elijiah cummings? well house democrats are demanding an apologize from issa on the house floor on thursday. they held up an image of issa making the cut it sign. they were then calmed out of order. and senators have finally struck a bipartisan deal.

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would be challenging democrat jeanne shahine. republicans in wisconsin are moving to early voting on weekends and state senators narrowly passed a bill on wednesday. the reasoning is basically not wanting rural voters to be jealous of urban counter parts with easier access to the polls. congressman paul ryan is now apologizing for comments linking him to not working. six people were thrown out of a town hall meeting after heckling new jersey governor chris christie. it was the first time bridgegate and other scandals were brought up at a town hall. the hecklers said they just wanted their questions answered like everybody else. >> good. i'm glad you do. sit down and keep quiet or get

out. one or the other. we're done with you. that heckler could be the beginning for christie and his problems. 63% of respon dants said he is not telling the truth about the gw bridge scandal. a little more than a quarter say they do believe him. the news is only slightly better for hillary clinton. 41% believe her account she never saw requests for more security before the benghazi attack. the national arkansas kooifs is releasing another 4,000 pages of 2k0u7documents for the clint white house today. it's related to al gore and the 2004 recount. and colin powell posted a throw back thursday for the ages. the former secretary of state posted this vintage selfie. he told ellen degeneres to eat your heart out. and of course it's friday.

that means politico's kevin join us. >> good morning. happy friday. >> happy friday. so senator john mccain went off on the senate floor saying don't call yourself fellow republicans and he was embarrassed the fellow republicans went to a ukraine aid package. so was mccain justified in that anger? >> wow right? for senator mccain this is someone who republicans in the far right have criticized. he seems to not care at all. last night giving a remarkable display on the senate floor. saying that republicans should really back this imf package. he's not alone, though, betty. senators bob corker as well as some more senators in the republican party supporting him on this. house speaker john boehner though says, you know, this is not something that the folks in his party want the imf funding should not be wrangled into this ukraine debate. it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out when the

senate gets back from recess at the end of march and retakes up this issue. >> it was quite a tongue lashing nonetheless. but democrats want an apology from chairman issa following the microphone cutting incident that we've all been talking about. and there's talk he may have followed some rules. that may not be enough to make this go away. >> now what is interesting is representative issa did apologize to representative cummings. now whether or not that's going to be enough, republicans blocked a measure by democrats to sort of have a more formal apology. but republicans maintain that representative issa followed the rules. i think we're seeing a lot of politic going on over this contentious irs debate.

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welcome back. it have it's time for first buzz joined by bill and brian. and seth rogan. >> >> "watch what happens live" with andy cohen has his moments. they called the segment spill the herbal tea.

>> this is really depressing for me to say. i've never smoked weed with james franco because he doesn't p smoke weed. >> what about rudd? >> absolutely. >> what about streisand? >> no, but we talk about it. she smokes weed with peter sellers. >> your name wasn't on there, right? >> are we to the point where it's cool that you smoked weed with celebrities? >> apparently so. except for james franco. >> it seems like he does, but i guess he doesn't. okay. well, you guys have kids, right? sometimes i get scared because of the monsters under the bed. apparently there's a remedy. a pharmacist in north dakota heard her friends talking about her being scared of monsters under the bed. it worked.

the little girl used it for three nights and was convinced that all the monsters were gone. i had no idea what's in the monster stray. >> doesn't matter. >> ifgs old school and never looked this stuff. my wife did the nightmare spray with my son. now he's like, you have to do five sprays and spray it in certain spots of the room. >> if you're not scared and jumping in your bed. >> when i have to do the five sprays five days a week, it's like, really? >> remember the clown? >> no you're going to have us all scared. what about these dogs that have gone rogue? >> i mean, if you have a dog you have to run into the store and crack the window. but in dundee, scotland, the owner goes in a gallery and the dog decides i'm done waiting.

with a straight face the boxer just laid into it for a while. the owner came out and didn't know what was going on. >> and the dog wasn't happy to see the owner. dude, can you get us out of here? speaking of. we're headed out. "way too early" with thomas roberts starts now. there are no words. seriously. the entire ad is two and a half minutes. there's no words. it's just mitch mcconnell and that music. ♪ hello darkness my old friend i've come to talk with you again ♪ ♪ what a man what a man what a man ♪ ♪ he's a mighty good man

♪ yes he is ♪ i like big butts and i cannot lie ♪ ♪ you other brothers can't deny ♪ >> so an interesting campaign strategy from senator mcconnell, but the junior senator from kentucky is looking to change the rules so he can hedge his bet. more head scratching and confusion on the missing airlines flight. the families struggle for new facts, good or bad. and military exercises along the ukrainian border. the u.s. ready for the troop surge? this is "way too early." happy friday. hi, everybody. good morning. i'm thomas roberts. it's friday, march 14th. welcome to "way too early", the show already mourning