stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. >>> that's our broadcast for this thursday night. i'm lester holt. brian will be back tomorrow. thanks for being with us. good night. >>> nbc bay air what news starts

stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. >>> that's our broadcast for this thursday night. i'm lester holt. brian will be back tomorrow. thanks for being with us. good night. >>> nbc bay air what news starts now. >>> he will not be on the floor of the senate ever again. >> a tough message tonight to the state senator charged with serious federal crimes. leland yee has not resigned. >> senator yee's not only facing more than 100 years in prison but also facing his colleagues and constituents, many of whom want him out. tonight, some key defissions about yee's uncertain future. this comes after the fbi arrested him yesterday for corruption and dealing firearms. we begin live from the federal courthouse. chase? >> reporter: i talked to the secretary of state's office late this afternoon. and they say despite the fact that leelaland yee has withdraw from the race, it's too late to remove his name from the ballot. he says there are no plans for the state senator to resign. so that should set in motion a plan by democrats to vote to suspend yee from office. >> every indictment, e

we get our report tonight from nbc's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: millennials are young adults, 18 to 33, perfect fodder for the entertainment industry, from "big bang theory" to gaethe new girl" to "girls." >> i don't want to freak you out, but i think i may be the voice of my generation. >> reporter: finishing school and getting jobs but not quite running things yet. a pugh research poll showed that this generation compared to previous young generations tends to be more politically independent. >> whenever choosing what you're going to vote for you, you have to choose less of both evils. >> reporter: less religious. less than 58% are certain that god exists. and they are less likely to get married. 26% of millennials are hitched, versus 48% of baby boomers at the same age. >> i have faith in the fact that the person that i am in a relationship with feels the same way, and i don't think that we need to get married to define that. >> reporter: like young people before them, they are generally optimistic and generally self-absorbed. what sets them apart is their reliance on technology.

stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. >>> we'll take a break. we'll be back in a moment with the story of a man who actually got to drive a ford with the original henry ford. >>> some remembrances tonight, starting with william clayford, who died over the weekend. he was the last surviving grandchild of henry ford, and once famously steered a car while driving in his famous grandfather's lap. he was a yale grad, a navy veteran who married a member of the firestone family. while he owned the detroit lions, he never ran the company that bears his family's famous name. his older brother did instead. he was a company man, though, a major stockholder. served on the board of ford motor for 57 years. william clay ford was 88 years old. >>> and bill guarnere has died. the men who served with him in easy company at the 2nd battalion, 101st airborne during world war ii, knew him better as "wild bill." their exploits were popularized in the hbo series "band of brothers" in which he was played by the actor, frank john hughes, he lost his right leg rescuing

stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. >> and that is our broadcast for this monday night as we start off new week. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. of course we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. good night. >>> right now at 6:00, no response. burglars triggered the alarm at a south bay business, but no one came to check it out. why police say that's their policy. thanks for joining us. i'm janelle wang. >> i'm diane. jessica and raj are off tonight a. growing problem in san jose keeps getting worse. for months we reported on an increase in burglaries and one business was hit twice in hours possibly because police didn't respond to the first alarm. damian trujillo is at that business tonight, damian? >> reporter: we have surveillance footage of a suspect inside of the store here behind me. a suspect who presumably returned a second time to finish the job when he realized police were not coming. the shop owner says this is footage of the suspect inside his store. a suspect who turned on the lights a couple weeks ago while appearing to ransack the place.

our report tonight from nbc's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: "time for some traffic in ft. lee." that's what a staffer from governor chris christie's office ordered, and that's exactly what ft. lee, new jersey got. hours of backups at the george washington bridge. thousands of drivers were caught in an intentionally created, intentionally politically motivated traffic nightmare. today fort lee officials released 28 hours of 911 and police radio tapes from the four days the bridge lanes were closed. >> four-lane traffic is a nightmare. the gw bridge is totally gridlocked. >> we're getting calls from irate motorists. >> you're aware the town is in total gridlock, right? >> reporter: emergency workers struggled to get to a school bus accident. >> brace yourself, a school bus and a car accident eastbound, just on the other side of the bridge. >> reporter: when the mayor of fort lee complained about the traffic, christie's now fired deputy chief of staff bridget anne kelly texted transportation official david wildstein. "it is wrong that i'll smiling? i feel bad about the kids, i gues

but as nbc's stephanie gosk found out, locating wreckage down below could take a very long time. >> reporter: june 1st, 2009, air france 447 plunged into the atlantic where the water is more miles deep and the terrain more rugged than anything on land. floating wreckage was found within days, but the search for flight data recorders lasted more than two years. >> it was akin to looking in the mountains for a shoe box with a flashlight. >> reporter: they asked for help in massachusetts. scientist there's have a secret weapon, the remus 6,000. >> exactly. exactly. people are not in it. it's flying its own, navigating on its own. >> reporter: a robot submarine, that relies on sonar pulses to match the ocean floor, capable of covering 25 square miles in a single day. how do you figure out what is a rock and what is a piece of fuselage and what's a fish? how does that work? >> yes, well, actually it will show fish, and it will show changes in terrain. it's also the grouping. if we can see a lot of strong signals from one location, you would get an indication there is a lot of man-made objects the

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we get our report tonight from nbc's stephanie gosk. >> goes ahead and takes it. >> incredible!> reporter: kentucky and wichita state battled it out in a real nail-biter. >> that gives kentucky the lead. >> reporter: down to the buzz were a final three-pointer for the win that just missed. the undefeated shockers who thought this was their year were knocked out. pure madness. 64 teams compete and 63 suffer the same heartbreak. some lose in upsets, a towel over the head can't get off the bench kind of loss. but an upset could just as easily be called the victory of a lifetime, a jump in the air, tackle the guy next to you kind of win. few predicted mercer's win over duke, the university from macon georgia ruined the bracket predictions across the country. >> i think people miss that in professional sports, the unbridled pure joy of kids barely old enough to shave celebrating an unpredicted win. >> reporter: 11 seed dayton had no business beating third seed syracuse. so at 3:00 in the morning in ohio, thousands of students stayed up to greet the team, along with the university pre

that special day finally happened and stephanie gosk has their story. >> hey, annie. where are you?u. bye. >> reporter: karen similar simpkin is ready to see her sister for the first time in 66 years. >> my mother had saying never forget you didn't grow under my heart. you grew in it. >> reporter: her heart was never completely full. her parents abandoned her and other siblings in 1948. >> this is a year after they got rid of all of us. i can't fathom giving up churn. >> reporter: while karen wanted tore nothing -- >> i felt like i wanted i needed to find out what happened to them. >> reporter: she started searching online and didn't stop until she found what she was looking for. >> oh my god. i can't believe this. >> reporter: karen would find out her older sister ann had been looking for her as well for nearly 30 years. >> you've grown up. >> i remembered having a baby sister and i remember crying for her. >> reporter: until one day the search came to an end. >> there was a light blinking on the answering machine and i reached over and hit the button. it said i think you're my sis

we get our report on all of it tonight from nbc's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: for these b.a.s.e.umpers, sneaking to the top of the nation's tallest building and leaping off must have seemed an irresistible challenge. new york prosecutors also say the early morning jump on september 30th broke the law. this youtube video was posted just after the four-person team turned themselves in to police on monday. 32-year-old james brady was a construction worker at the freedom tower last fall. that's him installing a beam on the 104th floor. he and his crew have pleaded not guilty to multiple charges including felony burglary and reckless endangerment. in a statement, new york police commissioner william bratton says these arrests should send a message to anyone thinking about misusing a landmark this way. one of their lawyers says the felony charge is too severe for the crime. >> the charge that they're facing is something that has up to seven years in jail. that's not something that's appropriate for this circumstance. >> reporter: the b.a.s.e. jumpers say they snuck in through a hole in

stephanie gosk has her story. >> reporter: adreian payne is one of michigan state's best players.gh, but there was a secret weapon at the garden, 8-year-old lacey holsworth. >> it's something about her that, you know, just, i just, you know, that gives me energy and makes me want to do well on the court. >> reporter: the unlikely friends met two years ago when the michigan state team visited a local children's hospital. lacey had just been diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer. >> seeing somebody go through something like that is, you know, it was terrifying. >> reporter: the 23-year-old has suffered loss in his own life. first his mother and then his grandmother. >> you're starting to have a different perspective on life, and you know, i think i've grown from it and now i'm trying to help other people. >> reporter: adreian stayed in touch with lacey. when you guys are just playing together, what do you like about him the most? >> he can be funny sometimes. we also watch movies and i make him brownies, and he's just -- he's just like a brother to me. >

. >> that was nbc's stephanie gosk with michigan state star center adrian payne and fan lacy.are garden. no matter who wins, payne is clearly a winner. this tells you the best possible message. we talk a lot about college athletics and the problems. this adrian payne is a star. >> it's march madness all the time in my house but it's nice to see march kindness. and especially coming from these athletes, they are so coddled and so heroicized, i know that's not a word, to see somebody that young be able to think outside himself and his own universe and to reach out to this young girl, it was really beautiful and touching. >> according to stephanie's report, they met when he was making a hospital visit and they bonded and this child just keco to him and they have now become pals and he texts her all the time and she him. she will be there in madison square garden tonight as well when they play. >> a great use of celebrity at the very young age. >> thank you, ruth, very much. >> enjoy the game. >> that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." monday, howard wolfson an

here's nbc's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: air france 447 plunged into the atlantic where the water isand the terrain more rugged than anything on land. floating wreckage was found within days but the search for the fuselage and flight recorders lasted two years. >> it was akin to looking in the rocky mountains for a couple of shoe boxes at midnight with a flashlight. >> reporter: friends at the cape cod massachusetts for help. scientists have a secret weapon, the remis 6,000. so this is like an under water drone? >> exactly. >> reporter: a robot submarine that relies on sonar pulses to map the ocean floor, covering 25 square miles in a single day. how do you figure out what's a rock and what's a piece of fuselage and what's a fish? how does that work? >> well, that's right. it will show fish. it's a grouping, if we see a lot of strong signals from one location, then you'd get an indication there was a laud of man-made objects there. >> reporter: in may 2011 this was the image that the sub captured. a very telling blur. it went back and took high definition photos. mark dannon looked a

here's nbc's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: in 1989, the berlin wall came down.like it on facebook. and the hash tags wallgone or nomorewall were never written. it was the year the world wide web was born. >> there is no way that any of us working on that could dream that it would become this big. >> reporter: tim berners-lee invented the web and one thing the computer scientist is very quick to point out. >> the web is not internet. >> reporter: a common misconception, actually. the internet is just a network of connected computers around the world. the world wide web allows those computers to share information. think of the web as one of the languages computers use to talk to each other. the web made the internet more accessible, changing the ways we used personal computers. developers to started coming up with websites where all sorts of information could be shared. with the advent of apps and smartphones, the web can now do just about everything, from everywhere, deliver news, foster friendships, sell groceries, give medical advice, find love. >> at this poin

for "today" stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. >> andrew solomon is with us now exclusively.down with peter lanza six times for that "new yorker" article. thank you for being here. >> glad to be here. >> when i read that paragraph when he says he wishes adam lanza had never been born, it took my breath away. what is his state of mind? how would you describe this man? he must be haunted. >> he is haunted. he wishes he could go back in time and fix what went wrong. is he a kind, decent man, and is he horrified his own child could have caused this destruction. >> why speak out now? this is somebody who has maintained his privacy and his silence until now? >> he said he had been contacted by so many victims families and he said he finally thought his story was an important part of the puzzle and that he had a moral obligation to tell it, that it may help the families or it may help prevent another newtown. >> when something like this happens, inevitably the scrutiny goes to the parents? what did they do? what did they not do? did they miss signs? did the article shed any light on

nbc's stephanie gosk has the latest on this. morning to you. >> well, this case boils down to an age old problem, teenagers versus their parents. a battle normally fought at home, not in a courtroom in front of a judge and tv cameras. the actual hearing has yet to begin. but an early motion went squarely in the parents' favor. >> she's always going to be your daughter. and they're always going to be your parents. >> the truth laid bare in the courtroom. 18-year-old rachel is suing her parents for money they won't give her to finish high school and go to college. the court session was the first time they'd seen each other since october. there were no embraces, not even a hello. at times, rachel's parents wept. their daughter, an honor roll student, athlete and cheerleader left home last fall under circumstances that each side disputes disputes. in the lawsuit she claims she was subjected to severe and excessive verbal and physical abuse by my mother and father. >> these people have not come to see her, they have not sent a penny

for today, stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. >> a big weight is lifted off the shoulders of kerry kennedy this morning. she was acquitted on friday of charges of driving under the influence of a drug. as kennedy tries to put the case behind her, there's lingering questions about why prosecutors pursued the case in the first place. >> reporter: after four days of testimony and a quick acquittal, kerry kennedy, 54, human rights activist and author was grateful it was over. >> i want to say thank you to the jury for returning this verdict. >> reporter: she is the daughter of rfk and ethel kennedy now 85 and with her through the trial. in july of 2012 on a suburban new york highway kennedy allegedly sideswiped a truck, blew out a tire on her suv while driving to her gym. police found her slumped over the wheel. at the time kennedy claimed she had mistaken by taken a sleeping pill instead of a thyroid medication. >> i have no memory until i was stopped at a traffic light and a police officer was at my car door. >> but prosecutors charged her with driving while impaired insisting that even thou

stephanie gosk has that part of the story. >> it seems everyone is asking everyone else the same questionl insist no one should speculate, but the truth is, very few could resist. >> i think the flight just fell in the water. >> i think it's mechanical error. >> they must be alive. >> only one thing we know for sure about the disappearance. that is that we don't know much about flight 370's disappearance and the vacuum of thoughts has spanned a litany of theorys. >> possibility that it was diverted to a secret location. >> an electrical failure. >> he's saying this has got to be a hijacking. >> an online chat room for pilots, some suspect a sudden loss of cabin pressure. there are more than few tweets blaming aliens. the facts that have been released only seem to fuel suspicio suspicions. no may day signal, no debris field, conflicting comments from malaysian officials. the "wall street journal" reports investigators are looking into, among other things, whether the plane may have landed in an unknown location. suddenly, some investigators give some thought to the lost theory. looking for

and nbc's stephanie gosk has more on this. steph, good morning to you. >> good morning, savannah.ter more than a decade of marriage, gwyneth paltrow and chris martin are what they call consciously uncoupling. >> there had already been breakup rumors about academy award winner gwyneth paltrow, coldplay's front man chris martin. even the most private celebrity couples can't hide marital discourse. the confirmation came in a joint statement on paltrow's advice and lifestyle website goop.com. the post was titled conscious uncoupling. the word divorce consciously unused. it is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate. as soon as the news spread, the website crashed. the end of what started as a storybook romance. paltrow and martin met at a coldplay concert in 2002 and tied the knot the next year. the couple has an oscar, an emmy, seven grammys and two children. 9-year-old apple and 7-year-old moses. we are, however, and always will be a family. the statement reads. we have always conducted our relationship privately, and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and

nbc's stephanie gosk shows us what makes the millennials so special. >> reporter: they are young adults, 18 to 33. perfect fodder for the entertainment industry. >> i don't want to freak you out but i think