if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." if it's sunday, it's "meet the -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good monday morning, right now on "first look" most promising lead yet. australian officials are optimistic about new developments in the search for malaysia flight 370. >> cancer break through, a drug is showing promising results in the fight against breast cancer. >> former olympic runner oscar pistorius prepares to take the stand in his defense. >> plus mickey rooney died after an 80 year career. >> uconn's men and women will both play for a national championship and the royals embark down under.

new information on malaysia flight 370 is calling it encouraging. they picked up a ping consistent with aircraft black boxes. >> clearly this is a most promising lead and probably in the search so far it's probably the best information that we have had. and, again, i would ask all of you to treat this information cautiously and responsibly until such time as we can provide an unequivocal determination. i need to be honest with you, it could take some days before the information is available to establish whether these detections can be confirmed as being from mh 370. in very deep oceanic water nothing happens fast. >> but still promising.

ian williams joins me live from perth australia, what can you tell me about the latest efforts to verifying the signals in the search for the missing plane? >> reporter: good morning, francis. they're working to try to reacquire the signal that they spotted twice over the weekend f. they can reacquire it and that's what they're trying to do, using the u.s. navy's code ping locator dragged behind an australia vessel, if they can reacquire it, that will help them better establish where it's coming from. once they have done that, the next stage will be to launch an underwater vehicle which is being carried aboard that ship. the purpose of that vehicle will be to scan the ocean floor, initially using sonar but potentially then using cameras, looking for the black box, looking for wreckage. now the challenge they face, and this is one of the reasons why today the search coordinator was so cautious is that the water

there is 2.8 miles deep and that is roughly the limits of the operation of that -- of the underwater vehicle they're carrying. so it may entail them taking out other submersibles. at the same time, the battery life on the black box is beginning to run out. they talk about it being for 30 days. we don't know how much more life there is in the black boxes. so certainly there are still challenges as they try and reacquire that signal, francis. >> certainly a crucial next couple of days. thank you so mch. it's being called a potential break through in the treatment of advanced breast cancer. the new pfizer drug cut in half the risk that breast cancer would worsen or progress. in clinical trials the drug stopped tumors for growing for abaverage of 20 months. that's twice as long as current treatments. it works by targeting certain proteins that cancer hijacks to

help tumor cells grow. the fda granted breakthrough priority status in the process. a girl and her family are headed to dry ground this morning after a dramatic rescue in the middle of the pacific. the san diego family was one year into an around the world sailing trip when their boat broke down 1,000 miles off the coast of mexico and the little girl became seriously ill. miguel almaguer picks up the story. >> reporter: the family's rescue played out like a hollywood movie. a address key team plunging into the pacific to reach their doomed sailboat and bring them to safety. the kaufmans long dreamed of sailing the road. >> some people like to be all alone and some people don't. >> reporter: this was their trip of a lifetime. documenting their journey with 3-year-old cora and baby lyra. they departed for the sea of cortes two years ago. on this latest leg the family

left two weeks ago. they hit rough waters losing power and the ability to steer 900 nautical miles off the coast. april 3rd, an sos. the boat is crippled and lyra is seriously ill. within hours a pararescue team boards the vote. later they reach the family. >> of course we were all concerned, especially for the little ones. >> the kaufman's extended family says before their journey across the pacific lyra had salmonella poisoning. >> there wasn't two small children in mind and i didn't agree with it. it wasn't something i thought was a good idea. >> the family issued a statement saying baby lyra is well cared for and they're expected to be helicoptered off the ship on tuesday. mickey rooney known for h

his timing and acting has died at teenage of 93. >> reporter: what ricky rooney lacked in statue her made up in talent. he had one of the longest careers in hollywood. the 5'3" actor became famous in the andy hardy series in 1930s and in musical with judy garland. the young star received an academy award at the age of 19 for his role in boystown. although his popularity declined after world war ii he never stopped acting. he was nominated four more times and received an honorary oscar for versatility in thrill. >> it's always a thrill to be on stage. the ham bone in me doesn't exist unless i'm on the stage. that's where i live because my family is the audience. >> reporter: his off screen life overshadowed his career. he was married 8 times including

to ava gardener. in his later years he spoke out against age bias in hollywood but he remained writing, producing, and acting until the end. nbc news. now we turn to sports with richard lui. >> love mickey rooney. just over 5 feet tall but big heart that guy. good morning. it was destruction in the lead up to the ncaa women's basketball finals. notre dame dominating maryland here. it's their third time in four years they outrebounded maryland 50-21. unbeaten uconn destroyed stanfo stanford 75-56. was stanford even there? if uconn wins a 9th championship here it would be the most ever and get used to hearing uconn my friend. the men face kentucky tonight for the championship and there

are like two brackets in the entire world right now for the horse in this race. we're still going to watch it though. new york, ending on high notes. derek jeter launching his 3,320 hit. he is 8th on the all time hit list and c.c. sabathia striking out two batters. new york takes it 6-4. i want to show you this. a special world cup. all street children playing here. 19 countries gathering in the lead up to the fifa world cup in brazil. these 230 street kids hold the trophies high. the brazil girls and tanzania boys took the title. michael jordan maybe retired but he's still dropping the 50s though. chipping in this 50 foot shot at his celebrity golf tournament and it goes in. did you notice the shoes, though?

they weren't jordans. >> no. >> but it's probably the shoes. >> probably it's because you're michael jordan, too. >> that's right. >> thank you richard. bill karins is here with the start of the week forecast. not too quite. >> no, rough start. mississippi and alabama flash flooding all over the place and a couple of tornado reports overnight and unfortunately a few injuries reported with a confirmed tornado near mt. olive, mississippi. where the red triangles are located. the sheriff's department is still trying to get into some of the areas where the mobile homes and houses were destroyed. more reports on that to you as i get the information in. also the flooding rains. this is the tornado watch box. only one tornado warning but all of this heavy rain is soaking alabama. we had heavy rain over the weekend too and because of it we just have -- i don't want to say epic flooding but i'm seeing some of these pictures of cars submerged in parking lots.

maroon is under a flash flood warning and that's a good chunk of the state of alabama and mississippi too. all the rain is heading up to east coast. washington d.c. you probably get your morning commute in and it will rain soon after. driving home in new york city, you'll drive home in the rain too. >> spring showers. >> it's coming this way. straight ahead, new details on a 15,000 strong spring break party that had over 100 arrests and dozens taken to the hospital. what if a photo were more than a memory? what if it were more than something to share? what if a photo could build that shelf you've always wanted?

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oscar pistorius is expected to take the stand in his own murder trial. he shot his girlfriend to death at his home on valentine's day last year. he says he thought she was an intruder. he is charged with premeditated murder. mike joins us live from south africa. one witness testified this morning before they get to pistorius, but has the stage been set for the star athlete? >> yeah, francis, there is keen anticipation here because it's

expected that oscar pistorius will begin his testimony sometime today. but another witness is on the stand first. it's a forensic pathologist that has been giving his interpretation of the death scene in the bathroom in pistorius's apartment. this is back when the shooting took place last year. pistorius already had a tough day in court. he became sick as the pathologist described and gave his interpretation of the sequence of shots and wounds, et cetera. his lead attorney talked about the witnesses he will call in for the blade runner's defense. 14 to 17 witnesses including a witness to talk about vulnerability. presumably a psychiatric evidence witness who will talk about the difference between how a reasonable person would act to a perceived lethal threat and how a reasonable person with a life long disability would react to the same threat. but the most important witness, pistorius himself expected to begin telling his story on the

stand some time today. >> thank you. joining me to discuss the importance of his testimony is former manhattan prosecutor faith jenkins. thank you for being with us this morning. >> good morning. >> by putting oscar pistorius on the stand can that be seen as a sign of weakness. maybe desperate measure, last ditch here to avoid conviction? >> no, there's no other way around getting his testimony out. he said from the very beginning this was an accident. reeva, the only other person there at the time is dead. prosecutors have charged him with murder. they say it's premeditated so it is up to him at this point to take the witness stand and tell the judge it was an accident and really he's in the fight for his life at this point. >> sure and especially if they show that he acted like a reasonable person did in the event that he didn't know that his girlfriend was on the other side of the girl. >> that's what he is saying. when he went and got the gun, he walked by the bed and thought she was still in bed and thought there was an intruder inside of the bathroom and i suspect he's going to say because of his

disability he felt particularly vulnerable and that's why he opened fire without ever knowing who was on the other side of the door and the question is, is the judge going to deem that to be reasonable behavior even for someone in his circumstances. >> important to note there's no trial by jury in south africa so it will be up to the judge solely to decide his fate. how much of an impact will come from the level of emotion we have seen from oscar pistorius, knowing in the past he has gotten physically sick and many times we see him covering his ears weeping there. how much will that come into place. >> i think that she notices. when you have a trial like this that someone has died you look at the defendant to see if they have any reaction to the testimony taking place but it's time to get up and tell the story and i wonder how he's going to be able to handle that emotionally if just listening to the testimony he's cried and left and also vomited in court, how he's now going to be able to get up on the witness stand and convince this judge, it was an

accident. it was a horrible accident. he didn't intend it and it certainly wasn't premeditated because she's going to have to believe his story and discount the other witnesses that said they heard screams and gunshots and then the screams stopped. >> we'll see soon enough. the world will be watching as will you faith. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. other stories this morning, a spring break street party turned into chaos in santa barbara. more than 100 people were arrested at the spring break party that drew a crowd of about 15,000. several police were injured including one hit in the face with a brick. >> speaking of visits, the duke and dutchess arrived in new zealand this morning. prince george seemed happy to be traveling down under. >> up next, a look at the stories of the day and george bush during the eyes of jimmy fallon and the tonight show editors. ♪

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we head into the midterm. it's tackle air quotes here. the vulnerable incumbent protection program. top democrats stratigizing for their at risk. they're also taking the lead on bills tailored to their campaigns. common practice pretty much around this time? >> i think so. especially if you're the democrats right now and trying to maintain control of the senates at all costs. there's a lot of alarms going on among democratic circles that they're at the risk of losing the senate which would be a big blow to president obama's agenda. harry reid is going to try to put some of these in the spotlight. they're trying to keep folks 65 eligible for medicare. they'll put a vote for there. it's a big issue. the republican candidate is supporting a budge that will bump that up to 70. they'll be doing that around the

swing states where these races are tight. it's a good way to give them publicity and out in front of issues they think is going to help them. >> whatever it takes to get them to win. how about this, 2016 and another name we're hearing for the gop. jeb bush. all the speculation about whether he's running for president is getting him more attention than if he entered the race. >> the bushes are making a come back right now. but jeb bush made remarks at an event for his father's 25th anniversary of his presidency and there's a lot of speculation that republicans and big fun raisers, donors want jeb bush to get into the race. they don't want to have a candidate that might be outside the mainstream and jeb bush is looking like mt. wake of what's happened to chris christie as the best possible mainstream candidate. there's a lot of pressure. he has not completely embraced it just yet. he is making the rounds and

talking to fund-raisers and also making policy speeches on immigration and other things. these are issues that could get him in trouble with parts of the party, such as immigration. but as long as he has not made his decision one way or another eyes will be on him as christy tries to deal with the bridge scandal. >> he says politics is crazy. let's see if he feels the need to step in and fix it. thank you. bill karins and richard lui are coming back. we'll show you what happens when you forget to apply a parking break to a vehicle. [ male announcer ] the wright brothers started in a garage. mattel started in a garage. disney started in a garage. amazon started in a garage. ♪ the ramones started in a garage.

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"first look" is "first buzz." and this is what happens when you forget a certain important step when you're driving, right? >> yes. we've seen the delivery man throwing packages and ruining packages but how about a delivery man playing chase. chasing the truck. >> tree. watch out tree. watch out house. >> it's called the parking break. it's called the parking break. >> it looked like the van was heading for the horse. the front door was open and it hit the tree and redirected it. he gave up kind of early, didn't he? >> he did. >> why was he going the other way? >> that's the most important thing. he has to get his scanner computer. >> the thing you sign. >> i've done this before. i did it with a news vehicle at a local station i worked at. i was at a courthouse, went in and did an interview. thought it was stolen and it was rolled down the hill into a field. >> we don't want bill diving. >> i'll be the passenger. >> bicycle. >> let's talk about this

richard. the thinnest and the heaviest cities in the country. >> we have new data on which is the most obese cities in the country coming from gallop. the most obesity, huntington-ashland, ohio. 2 in 5 people are obese. mccallen, texas. hagerstoun, yakima, washington. those are the most obese. the least obese for you, number one, all time winner, boulder, colorado except for once. it's also a college town perhaps that has something to do with it. naples, florida, fort collins, colorado. i never lived in any of these places. >> bill karins is going to love this. you're a huge goonies fan. they're talking about the sequel now. the director is saying they're planning the second film and

planning to bring back the original cast. corey feldman, josh brolin. >> it would be great to see them together. >> i say bring back cind cindy lauper. >> all right. "way too early" starts now. significantly, this would be consistent with transmissions from both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder. clearly, this is a most promising lead. and probably in the search so far, it's probably the best information that we have had. >> have they finally found the haystack? investigators confirm they have the strongest lead yet in locating missing malaysian flight 370. >> a hollywood legend passing away. remembering the iconic mickey rooney. and the wait is is finally over.

"game of thrones" is back and rules sunday night tv. this is "way too early." hey there, everybody. good morning, i'm thomas roberts. it's monday, april 7th, 2014. welcome to "way too early." the show that rules tv for 30 minutes of the morning. we'll start with serious news which is the update for flight 370 and what officials call their best lead yet in the hunt for the missing jet liner. on two separate occasions u.s. navy equipment detected audio signals from deep in the indian ocean. while there's hope of a possible break through, there's still signs they need to wait for definitive proof. >> and again, i would ask all of you to treat this information cautiously and responsibly until such time as we can