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the boston strong moment is happening right now, and the boston marathon officially starting 60 minutes ago, and moments ago the elite men hearing the starting gun and the fir first time since the bombs went off last year. three people were kill and more than 260 people were hurt when two homemade pressure cookers exploded at the finish line. since then, it has been a long emotional journey for the city. security is heavy this year. more than 100 cameras installed along the route. and the runners have to use clear personal bags with the item, but sunday, the massachusetts governor said that increased security will not affect the marathon's appeal. >> somebody said it may be the safest place in america tomorrow, but i will say that we have tried to strike a balance between enhanced security and preserving the family-feel of this day. jo

joining me now from boston is nbc's ron mott, and thank you, ron. so many emotions coming together there, and what is the atmosphere that you are seeing so far? >> hey, richard, yes, good morning. the city is ready to celebrate. this is a special day across the city of boston and all across the state of the commonwealth of massachusetts, patriot's day, and so there is a lot of emotion, and there is a lot of honor here today, and especially what happened last year, a lot of the folks are thinking about that security, and obviously, top of the mind for a lot of folks, but they want a safe day, and the weather is cooperating beautifully, and the mid-60s by the end of the race and the afternoon and we rex pare expeca huge crowd with the 26.2 mile route. i have spent some time with the mayor bill evans who is not running the marathon today as he was last year, and i talked to him about the massive security effort here, and they have

doubled the number of officers on the ground and i asked him to put it in perspective, and this is what he had to say. >> unfortunately, it is a necessary evil based on what happened last year, but i hope that next year we can scale it down and bring it back to the lu luster that it has been, and boston is the best marathon in the world. everybody runs all of their marathons just to qualify for this marathon soo i wa, and so to be a world class event and i don't want people to worry about the safety. >> i don't think that anybody is worried about the security seeing how many officers are on the ground this year. i would not say it is a presence at all, but a number of friendly interactions here between the runners and the officers, and so we are expecting a great day. afterwards a party at fenway for a couple of hour s as and then house of blues will host a big party, and so this city is ready to host the patriot's day and marathon day. >> and it is always a big day there for marathon monday.

and you were downtown reporting for the story as they were preparing, and 1 million spectators as have been mentioned and what did they say about the effect of the security that you mentioned? >> well sh, the e people expect the security to be tighter than last year, and the things like the coolers and they are not telling the people that they can't bring the coolers and the strollers and the big bags, but they will be having them checked. there are 40 checkpoints for people in the city of boston alone to have the bags searched. a lot of the people have heeded the kacall to leave it at home, because it is going to slow up the effort to try to get into the good spot to view the runners as they come in. as you mentioned, the elite runners are already running and they run fast, so we are expect ing in the next hour to hour and a half for the elite runners to come through, and that is just across the common on boylston street, and even is expecting a good solid safe day, and it is going to be party in boston.

>> thank you, ron mott. >> you bet. and joining me is boston's mayor walsh. and we have seen sports so familiar with the city's comeback, and we are all familiar with the boston strong and how is this symbol familiar with the city's resurgence would you say? >> well, this race, it is kind of the final point that we are taking back now. as vice president said that today, many are running in memory of the survivor ss and t people that we lost on that horrific day a year ago and so many great stories cross iing t line. >> and mayor, every step a different thought for every different participant, and when you looking at the numbers that you are going to be seeing last year to this year, you are up by one-third, and many of the additional runners are getting special permission here to run, because of an emotional connection to the race. and tell us what you have seen and heard soo far from testimony

sof the participants. >> well, one of the stories that i heard last night was a family from iceland that didn't get a chance to finish the race last year, a they are here running this year, and they are running for it. and another couple from new zealand in city hall yesterday for a pasta dinner, and they both of those different people within threer or four people of each other told me the story, that they didn't get the chance to finish the marathon and they are here. we have team mr-8 running for martin richard family and people from m.i.t. running for sean colli collier, and lindzi lu running for her is her family, and so it is a special time for the city.

>> and tell us how it is for you and your staff as you begin the day there? >> well, i knew some of the folks affected by the marathon last year, and since that time, i have had a chance to meet so many of them. i feel like i have known them for years. my heart goes out to them, and i feel so proud. i feed off of their energy, and as mayor of the city of boston and being here today, and my staff, and we are excited about the marathon, and this is one of the greatest marathons that we have ever seen in this country n this world, because of the excitement around it. so many people from all over the world, and 90 countries are going to to be represented in the marathon itself, and i feel bad for the elite runners, because everybody is here to see the stories crossing the line, and we are excited about that here in boston. >> i can't help but mention the stories behind you and messages on the canvas coming up behind you, and the members of congress and baseball players and any one message in the canvas behind you that stood out?

>> well sh, i don't think so. maybe if there was one, people joke about the rivalry of new york and boston,bon banner is o the logo, and we are truly one country and we may fight on the battlefield, but we are one country when it comes to supporting each other. and it makes me proud to be an american and proud to be the mayor of this great city of boston. >> well said. and commissioner ray kelly said he is worried about the copycat attack this year, and are you briefed on that security, and what are you looking for? is. >> well, we are brief ed this morning, and we are all set. we have the police out on the street, and the undercover and working well with the state and the local and the federal authorities. boylston and newbury street is going to be very safe, and don't forget hopkinton where it starts and the 26-mile journey into boston. is it going to be incredible,

but plenty of security, and a great plan in place to make sure that everybody has a great safe day today. >> and no doubt. all of our hearts and minds will be with you there. thank you so much, boston's mayor martin walsh joining us. and now no the newsfeed this morning. the fbi is calling it a miracle that a 16-year-old boy survived an entire flight in the wheel well of a hawaiian flight. he got on the plane from san diego and flew 2300 miles over the pacific to maui after a fight with the family. he faced freezing temperatures and low oxygen levels and he was unconscious most of the time, but the fbi is wanting to know how he breached security in san jose, and no charges so far. and a frightening end to people in easter sunday at a mass in fort myers, florida, a car plowing into the church. none of the people were injured.

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a striking story is emerging of chaos and confusion in the final moments aboard that south korean ferry. newly released tran skriscripts a breakdown of communication when the ferry started to sink. 87 have been killed and 215 missing and the divers are still recovering bodies. meanwhile, four more crew members have been detained on thelegations of failing to protect the passengers, and we have bill neely in jendo, south

korea. >> yes, they say that some of the actions of the captain and the crew were like murder that. i were the first to escape, and it is incomprehensible, she says, and it cannot and will not be tolerated. so she is not only siding with the families and calling for justice, but she is piling the pr pressure on the authorities to get to the bottom on how on earth this happened. and the pros ecutors have now detained another four crew members including the chief engineer there accused of failing to protect the passengers. and remember, the cap tape atai the crew member charged. the captain with criminal negligence. new video shot of the captain shot four years ago promoting not only this journey, but the

safety of the ship. he can't think of any other and safer way to travel than by ferry. as long as, he says, the passengers obey the directions of the crew, and that is ironic, because on this ship, that is exactly what the passengers did. they stayed inside as directed, and that decision cost them their lives. the number of bodies recovered from the ship is rising all of the time. the bodies taken out one by one and i had a chance to see the operation close-up today, and we went out on the small boat, and we were right over where the ship is. there are dozens of boats all around it. the ship marked by two large cre cream-colored buoys, and there is no debris coming from the ship except for an oil slick on the surface of the water, and the divers bringing up the bodies one by one. the head of the civilian dive

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further and god knows where is the final destination. >> all right. jim maceda is joining us from donetsk, ukraine, and jim, what is the situation on the ground now after that agreement was reached? >> hi, richard. well, the three-day truce called by the kiev government on saturday is despite all that you have said, which is true, it is holding, but it is severely tested and not just by the attack on the pro russian checkpoint sunday, but it was another incident as well yesterday according to the ukrainian defense minister, gunmen on motorcycles firing between another checkpoint between here and donesk, and it is being blamed on the pro russian group, and they are

blaming it on special forces. so the fallout is that the ordinary ukrainians that we have been speaking to, and not the extremists, but the people who want dialogue with kiev say they are prepared to join the insurgency as a result of the attack yesterday. so if indeed russia is driving the insurgency as the latest new york times' photos would be with the goal the incite division, it is working. right now, richard, a lull right now with the three days into the truce, and however, no compliance by the radicals on either side to the demands of the geneva deal. back to u you, richard. >> thank you, jim maceda. and staying on ukraine, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pushing for the obama administration to is step up the sanctions on russia. >> we are going to continue the lose easter ukraine if we don't do something.

>> the time is now to rapidly ratchet up the sanctions whether it is petro companies in russia or on banks. >> and congressman adam sheft is go ing to join us right now, a member of the house intelligence can committee. thank you, for being with us, congressman. we have vice president biden meeting with ambassador of ukrai ukraine and so russia is looking very closely at how the u.s. is reacting to what is happen iing >> well, it is important for the vice president to be there and voice his support for the kiev government. it is also important the beef up the training exercises in the baltic states. i was in lithuania, and they are very concerned that russia will expand beyond ukraine and thr t threaten the baltic thes as well, and under article 5 we are obliged if they are attacked to

deem any attack on a nato member as any attack the on ourselves, and that is a area where i ag m have to broaden the sphere of the sanctions, and ultimately, if russia move s s in, we need go to the sector-based is sanctions. it is the only way to make russia pay a price for this type of the violation of the neighbor's sovereignty, so maybe that is where we are headed. it is regrettable, but nonetheless, with we have the show strength here sh, and we d have an obligation to ukraine as part of the 1994 agreement that when they gave up the nuclear weapons we said that we would help to assure their territorial integrity. >> and congressman, you have mentioned many possibilities, but what is the one that is the most crucial of all of those? >> well, probably, a up couple of things, one is to broadest the sanction, and go after more

institutions and individuals and then step them up to the sector-based sanctions if the russi russians further invade ukraine. but also, we can help ukraine with the intelligence, and help to guide them in terms of what the russians are doing in their country, and what the troop mobilizations look like outside of their country, and these are the thing nas we d can do without disclosing sources and methods that is of great importance to ukraine. >> and congressman, you heard what senator corker said, could we lose ukraine, and as the prime minister is saying that russian is trying to recreate the days fof old soviet union, and how do you respond to that? >> well, i do believe that russia is trying to recreate the imperial greetness. and pew teb does talk about the new russia, and it does harken to the throwback time of when we were in the cold war. we have to respond it to it. we need to respond quickly, which means that right now, we

have to work with europe to line them up behind the broader sanctions, because was they are necessary. they are going to be hurtful to europe, but more to russia sha and make them accountable for the sovereign integrity, because if we don't stop them here in ukraine, it is possible for them to go into moldova and elsewhere. >> congressman, adam sheft, thank you. and now the families of the missing crew of malaysian flight 370 citing that not a single one of the questions were answered and nobody capable of answering technical questions were answer. and the family members described what they want moving forward. >> we want to goo back to square one and it is day 45 and we are basically on the same day as the

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democrats' economic message is the contrast with ceos and the 1% whose incomes have been at hold. we are joined by our panel. i got some of the accolades correct, heather, but if that is the strategy, focusing on the 1%, does it work vis-a-vis how the democrats may be facing the criticism about the aca? >> well, the democrats have a really good opportunity here to respond to what is what keeps mosting family up at night, and it is not just the 1%, but how well they are doing, but how poorly other people are doing. they have health care income, and the college and so much more that the congress can run on the minimum wage and so much more before november. >> well, before november is a

big underline, because it is a bunch of months ahead of us, and how might the democrats do it. mitt romney was the candidate, and how do they leverage the difference here, because it is a midterm election? >> well, they won't get all of the 45 million people who didn't show up in 2010 who normally vote in the in the presidential election, but if they get some of them back, they can maybe hold the senate in a tough year. the way to do it is as richard nixon said, politics is often the mobilization of resentments, and so when you have something to vote against, it can be a powerful motive for driving the turn out. >> what would that be? >> the idea of the 1%. >> do you agree with that? >> i agree with it, u bit is not enough, and the pure populist appeals tend not to work in america, because people want to be wealthy themselves, and they aspire to be in the 1%.

so it is not enough. it has to be a series of issues where the republican party has gone too far for the right to where the american people are. and another issue for important con stich w constituency for women is contraception. you have a number of republican candidates who have endorsed bills and state legislatures that would say that life begins at conception meaning that contraception is out for them. so if you can run against the candidates anti-contraception, that is another sort of potent message for democrats. >> i want to stay on mitt romney who is trying to help other republicans in ads. take a listen. >> the stakes are high in this election because washington spending is out of control. you can take it from me, the conservative choice for congress is mike simpson and i know because i have seen him in

action. >> healther? >> yes. >> and romney as the elder, and h.w. not in the conversation or, jr., and how is he molding himself to help the party? >> well, idaho is a good example, because it is heavily mormon state, and might work there where it won't work across the country. he is the first republican candidate to raise $1 billion and this is as it has been and will be before we reform the campaign finance is the money game. that is the game the play, and it does open up the opportunity for the progressives to say, that the whole system is dominated by the ceos and the wall street folks. >> jonathan? >> well, the problem is turning the kock brothers into a boogeyman is a long time proposition, and to do that between now and the election when most americans have not heard of the kock brothers and

they are not on the ballot, and that is why the pure 1% argument is not sufficient for the primary wins. >> thank you both for your time. we will go to the nbc white house to peter alexander who is watching what is a lot of fun here. and i know you were in the middle of it talking about the egg roll. >> yes, in is a big event that happens over the course of the day, and they open up the gates of the south lawn earlier today, and richard, they have 20,000 hard boiled eggs that they are using today. and about 3/4 of those for the egg roll and hunt, and another 4500 or so that the children here get today. this is a colorful day here at the white house, and you can hear a protest taking place on that direction and the south lawn is where the president is and the official host of the first lady in a matter of moments and the theme this year is to "hop into healthy and swing into shape" and ode to

michelle obama's "let's move" initiative and you can hear the cheers here as they come out. this is one of the collectible eggs that the children under 13 will get today. 30,000 people here today, richard. >> and president obama about to begin his comments. let's listen in. >> happy easter! this is the biggest event that we have at the white house all year long. and it is the most fun event because we have a chance to see families from all across the country coming in here. and my main and only job other than officiating over the role at some point is to introduce alongside the easter bunny, the person who makes it possible. we love her dearly, my wife, the first lady, michelle obama.

>> thank you, honey. hey, everybody! happy easter egg roll day. isn't this exciting? it is so wonderful to have so many of you here today. and we are celebrating the 136th easter egg roll, and the theme of this year's roll is "hop in health and swing into shape." yes, i love it. and it is going to be a great day. we have beautiful weather, because the easter egg roll is blessed, and with regoing to have fun stuff going on, and we have the egg roll, and some storytelling and entertainment, and wonderful athletes and performers like cam and so many others, and obstacle courses and yoga and face painting, and egg hunts, and it is going to be terrific. as bram saarack said, we love t event, and it is the largest on the south lawn, and we will have

more than 30,000 people on the lawn today. we are thrilled to have you here. and there we are live from the easter egg roll. and there is the president and the first lady and of course, the easter egg bunny, easter bunny, sorry on the left-hand side. we will continue to watch that. and huge reversal from general mills with customer complaint complaints. and bertha coombs is here with what is moving your money. and this is interesting, because jep r general mills did an reversal, and they said that if you bought the goods, you could not sue them, and agreeing to arbitration, and something that is built into the things like the cell phone contracts, and people balked of the idea that, you know, if you had a problem with the cherrios you could not do a class action sort of situation of the things were bad. so the company reversed itself saying that they listened to the

customer concerns and the people misinterpreted what they really wanted to do. >> i am partial to this one, kfk, and talk about that. >> well, you are the figure for it. in 2010 kfc launched the double-down, and this is essentially a sandwich that is two breaded pieces of chicken with cheese and bacon. >> yum, you said bacon. >> and no bread, but chicken, bacon and cheese. in 2010, it was supposed to run for a month, and they sold 10 million of them in a month, so they doubled down and went for the second month. they are doing it again and this time around also a social media campaign on instagram, vine and youtube and the best double-down selfie or the double-down dance will win a cash prize. get ready to move. >> okay. ber that, you take care of the rest of the show, because i want one of those. thank you. if the double down is not your

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checking the news feed this morn, nine people are dead and 32 others hurt after a weekend of gun violence in chicago. the latest one last night when someone in a car opened up fire on a group of kids leaving a park. five of them were hit ranging in age from 11 to 15 years old. one is in critical condition. after the egg roll on the

white house lawn, president obama will head out for a week long tour of asia, and reassuring key allies that america is committed to security issues in that region. but other crises including the ukraine are likely to come up. and a senior high school student is likely to face suspension for asking miss america to prom. but the school had warned him not to go forward with the plan, but he did it anyway, and talkinging about that decision with tamron hall this morning on "today." >> when they told me not to do it, and it was a now or never type thing. >> to be suspended? >> no, no. >> i am getting confused. >> and to ask her to prom, and so i did it anyway and i knew i would get in some type of trouble, and i respect that, and the disciplinary actions had to be taken. >> and the response, and it is overwhelmi

overwhelming, and even miss america said she was flatter ed and cannot at at the end, and she said that she learned of the disciplinary action taken and reached out to the school in hopes that they would reconsider their decision. and prince william and kate and prince george touched down in australia. george seemed to enjoy his time with a small endangered marsupial called a billby. some democrats are red in the face over their decision not to defend the con trotroversial pipeline. and over the weekend, few people paying attention, but democrats were outraged.

and mary landrieu said it is unacceptab unacceptable, and unnecessary. and mark pryor, no excuse for another delay. and mark begich, i am appalled for the foot dragging on this keystone project. and swipes from mitch mcconnell commenting on the president's year of action saying i guess he was not serious about having a pen and a phone. and let's bring in aisha moody mills from thegrio.com, and republican aid joe watkins. let's start with you, aisha, not mincing the words there, but t net-net, how does this hurt them? >> well, i don't necessarily think it hurts them, but it is a delay. you know, the reality is that there is a much bigger picture to the happen in the midterm elections and making this decision was calculated in that

the president wants to create time and space where his decision is not going to affect anything politically, and not going to be seen as a political gesture. >> and joe, i want to play a little bit of sound from you, from the dnc chair debbie w wassermann schultz. >> as a member of congress who represents hundreds of thousands of people of florida i want to make shure that the right decision is arrived at and that the president does the make the decision wisely and does not factor in politics in the decision. i agree with him. >> do you believe that politics is not playing a role here, joe? >> well, i believe that politics is playing a role here to the large degree to the delay the decision until the midterm elections means they don't have to reject it just yet, but it is not going to help the senators like beg itich and landrieu and simpson, and so this is not

going to help them at all, and also, labor wants it as well, and there are a number who want to build the pipeline and they want to make a decision i and positive decision on this. it does not help the democrats at all. >> aisha what does this delay mean for the democrats and such as senator mark yudall and alisn lundergan, and in year five, do they need to take a decision? >> well, everybody needs to look at the facts here, and the situation is that it is a real bad deal for america and only good for the lobbyists, and so at the end of the day, who going to benefit to this? and the truth is that polluting has huge human interest consequences, and that is why nebraska does not want it to come through for example. what we will see is more of a

consequence of the pipeline and ultimately, it is not going to happen. >> and joe, one democratic strategist involved in the senate races told politico, quote, there has not been one senate race in the past 10 or 20 year years that has been affected by a similar executive decision, so how is this for republicans moving forward? sglem w at the end of the day, it is going to play into the larger narrative for the need of jobs at a time when a lot of people are not working, and clearly, the pipeline would provide that the in states where the jobs are needed. so if you are a senator like mary landrieu, or in arkansas or alaska, and you don't want to be n to wrong side of the jobs issue, but on the right side of it. and clearly, some environmental concerns that need to be taken into account. at the end of the day, americans want to go back to wosrk and thy want to have more energy dependence and the pipeline is

going to offer a wonderful opportunity for that to happen, and we will have consequences in the fall elections. >> and this idea of the jobs and the pipeline is inflated and what we know is that they are going to be about 4,000 temporary jobs, and at the end of the day, there are going to be 35 permanent jobs that come from it. >> and we don't think so. and labor would not be pushing so hard if there were not going to be lots of jobs in constructing this, and there are a whole lot of jobs for people who are not working. >> and most of the labor is on the fence about this actually, and you are talking about the building trades folks, but what the numbers and the state department shows and the labor report showed is that the jobs are exacerbated and the reality is that it is a climate-changer, very huge consequences. >> and these are local races essentially, and is this issue going to resonate for the next six months as they lead up to the election? quickly, aish, and then joe afterwards. >> well, it is not energizing the base as attacking obama is.

so this is not a base issue, and the opposite of that is that it is absolutely energizing for democratic base, because certainly so many activists on the ground who have pledged to get arrested over this issue if it were to go forward so it is energizing the the democrats and so not so much the republicans. >> i think that it is going to help the republicans this issue, the stalling of the pipeline, and naings to the affordable care act, it is going to make it harder for democrats to win in november. >> thank you, both. have a good monday. >> thank you. and today's tweet of the day comes from ben white who says quote dnc chair and obama not factoring politics into the key xl decision. also world flat and sky, orange. salesperson #1: the real deal is the passat tdi clean diesel

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good morning, everyone. i'm tam theron haron hall, and "newsnation." after the boston bombing last year killed three people and injured hundreds others, the boston marathon is under way and the mood is boston strong. it is the second largest field ever in the race's 118-year history. all of it though amid the largest and the most advanced security presence in the marathon's history. the police are using what they are describing the newe esest technology and they have the ability to communicate seamlessly, but with all of the security in place, it is clear that the day belongs to the runners and the survivors. within the first hour the runners should cross the finish

line. >> everyone who is running today knows why they are running, and everybody has a special reason to do it, and we are all running together. >> we didn't finish last year, but we will today. >> we won't go to northeastern, and we had friends at the finish line who spent time in the hospital, so we are running for them. >> we are from canada and we want to show them that we will not be intimidated or back down from doing what we love. >> and ron mott joining us live from near the finish line, and ron, in about an hour some of the first runners will cross, the elite runners there, but it is really an amazing spirit, and an amazing, i guess the best word is inspiration today to see the people back there in such large numbers. >> yeah, hey, there, tamron. it is almost hard to describe the sense of the emotion that the city is feeling today. there is a lot of pride. a sense of accomplishment, and making it through a very difficult year, and this is the