i want to go now to nbc's keir simmons in paris with the latest on this new information. ave you learned, keir? >> reporter: betty, this hasn't been confirmed by nbc news, but we can tell you what's become reported. we are -- we are hearing that the egyptian army saying that parts of ms-804 debris has been found. it says that the debris includes passengers' by longings. this is a report being told to egyptian state tv it seems. egyptian navy finds passengers' belongings and debris from the plane. now a note of caution. we heard yesterday that the egyptians thought that wreckage from the plane had been found. and then the greeks clarified that in fact on closer inspection that had not turned out to be debris from the plane. so again, nbc news has not confirmed the reports but in egypt it is being reported that debris and passengers' belongings have been found during this search of the mediterranean as they try to find the plane that took off from here in paris and went down about 30 minutes before it was supposed to land in cairo. >> i know the information is still coming i

. >>> i want to bring in keir simmons live at charles de gaulle airport in paris where flight 804 took off. what's the latest officials there are telling you? >> well, jose, the officials from the french government have been arriving here at this hotel -- airport hotel through the morning. family members, relatives of people who are on board that flight have been gathering here. and we know that they will be wanting to make sure that any information they have, they tell to those relatives first before they share it with the wider public. it was from the french president we first heard that confirmation that the plane has crashed, which tells us something, i guess, without knowing the details about what they are learning. they are clearly thinking they have enough information to be confident of that, even though both the egyptians and the greeks and, remember, this plane was flying through greek air space, are saying they have not found the aircraft yet. i think one of the issues, you were just discussing it. one of the issues will be that because the plane was just on that border if yo

the white house can't say definitively what happened to the plane, but as nbc keir simmons reports the families are starting to get some information. >> relatives of those on board have been gathered here at charles de gaulle airport. we have been watching as french government officials and ministers have arrived to give them information before the information is released. what we now know is american intelligence officials believe or suspect there was an explosion in the area where this plane disappeared. we know from the egyptians they think it is more likely this was terrorism related. if that is the case, it will put the spotlight back on this airport with the question of how an explosion happened. was it caused by a bomb? how could the airline. the search for the aircraft continues. reports from the wreckage have been found are now discounted by greek officials. it is crucial it is found and particularly, of course, the black boxes from that plane in those will be answers to all of these questions. back to you. >> keir simmons, thank you. >>> investigators are trying to figure out

keir simmons is following this new surge of migrants making a desperate and deadly journey. >> reporter: crammed with terrified migrants, a fishing boat overturns in the mediterranean sea, in full sight of the italian navy. many trying in vein to stay out of the water, others swimming for their lives. the boat capsized wednesday in just 30 seconds. 100 lives believed to be lost. >> too many people on board that were scared. they were not sitting. they were not listening. they were simply scared for their life. >> reporter: according to aid workers, three of the 45 bodies found were newborn babies, a 9-month-old nigerian girl was saved by this doctor. her name is favor. her future uncertain. her pregnant mother did not survive. it was a deadly week even for these dangerous waters. 700 dead or missing in seven days. bodies lifted one by one in reggio calabria, southern italy today. >> one of the shocking things that we have seen in recent months is the number of children, some of them very young, embarking in these flimsy vessels. >> reporter: the u.n. estimates so far this year, 200,000

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keir simmons, nbc news, london. >>> back here in america for the last time today, members of a roman catholic church in massachusetts attended its sunday mass, giving up a battle that has gone on for more than a decade to keep that church open and alive. it became a casualty of a common problem with the american catholic church. fewer priests plus fewer practicing members and a die oh cease with too much real estate. anne thompson has that story from outside boston. >> reporter: an extraordinary act of faith and defiance came to an end today. >> 11 years, seven months and three days. >> reporter: that's how long mary ellen and onrogers and pa rischers occupied this church in massachusetts. holding around the clock vigil despite a decision by the boston archdiocese to close the church as part of a reorganization. >> we took this all the way to the vatican supreme court and we took it to the united states supreme court. >> reporter: marty o'brien joined the parish when it opened in 1961. >> i'm not going to die until i can get buried right in front of that church. i'm stickin' around.

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keir simmons, good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning. french president in the past half hour, confirming that the plane crashed. devastating news for the families of those on board, who have been waiting here at this hotel. and now the mystery over what happened to it over the mediterranean, mui- answers. a plane that left the paris airport last night on a routine flight. family members of passengers have been gathering at charles de gaulle airport and at the crisis center in cairo. praying for the best, fearing the worst. egypt ms-804 took off from paris at 5:09 last night headed to cairo when it went missing, suddenly lost from radar at 8:45 near the border of greek and egyptian air space. it was to have arrived in cairo at 9:15 pm. airbus 320, flying 15,000 feet when it went missing. on board, 66 passengers, including one child and two infants. personnel and cabin crew. airbus confirms the loss of the flight and goes to all of those affected. with egyptian and french, as well as ten other nationalities. no americans were on board. the

back to you. >> keir simmons reporting out of london. >> meanwhile, happening today, president obamaay to flint, michigan, to learn about the response to the city's water crisis. the president will speak directly with community members as well as city and state leaders. flint's tapwater was contaminated with lead after the source was switched to the flint river two years ago. >> in detroit, teachers are back at work after a two-day sickout and students are back in class. the teachers called out sick monday and tuesday to protest the possibility of working without pay. the teachers now have a signed temporary contract with the school district guaranteeing their paychecks into the summer. >>> an increase in air travelers and security has caused long delays at airport check points. today, homeland security announced a plan to speed up screenings at america's busiest airports. the agency plans to increase the number of security officers. they also want to increase the number of travelers enrolled in the prescreening program. the department also plans to ask congress to pay overtime to ex

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keir simmons live at charles de gaulle airport. keir, thank you. kerry sanders is in washington with more on the investigation into egyptair 804 and also on the plane. keir just used the word jigsaw as we are learning more and more, if there is in fact debris, that is probably going to give us the best information if they can see anything on those pieces of debris obviously. >> of course. and among the pieces of debris that is sort of the piece of gold here, if there's one piece of the puzzle, it's this. it's known as the black box. it has the flight data recorder information in here and the conversations of the pilot, co-pilot, and their transmissions. also what they might be talking about in the cockpit. if the area where they found this debris floating off the island of karpathos is the area where most of this debris showered down, the depth is 1 to 2 miles down. that's not inaccessible are remotely operated vehicles. by it's very difficult to find something of this size in an area of we don't know how large it is. we do know the timeline of the

let's go to nbc correspondent keir simmons on the phone. he's at charles de gaulle airport. >> it's the same sense of confusion as there in the sense of what happened here. this plane took off late. we're now at hotel where family members of passengers on board have gathered. tlrl be family members here and family members in cairo. seem to be affect 3-d, too. then french officials have been arriving, talking to the media, offering help, talking about an airbus saying our concerns go to all those affected, french foreign minister talking about sharing the anguish of the families but not really being able to give us any answers yet. there is an urgent scramble across the mediterranean to establish where this plane is, that will be important. they will want to see if there's any chance of anyone surviving and equally trying to establish what happened, they will need to find the plane. so this really is kind of a quiet sense of shock, as they take in the plane took off with 66 people on board from these airports on a routine flight has simply d

keir simmons is with me here in paris. ayman mohyeldin is in cairo where the plane was headed, and tom costello is keeping a close track of the investigation from there in washington. keir, there was just an evacuation here at charles de gaulle in terminal one. what can you tell us? >> some dramatic moments. the terminal one evacuated for a period of time. people pulled out. not knowing what it was. as you see so often with an evacuation. when it's in this kind of situation where a plane took off just days earlier and then dropped into the mediterranean, it frightens people all the more. it turned out to be a suitcase that was left. police checked it out. it turned out to be nothing. it shows how much tension there is. >> suspicious package. let's talk about the investigation. at this point it looks like perhaps some debris was found. yesterday there was also that false alarm. they thought some debris had been found. does it appear to be different? >> we have been cautious about it because of the reports yesterday that turn

keir simmons joins me live. let's start with that evacuation that happened in terminal one. was that in reaction to yesterday. >> when we've seen across the u.s. an increasing of security, l.a.x. for example, meeting to think about security there and here we saw passengers evacuated from terminal 1 very quickly when they believed that there was a suspect package. it's the kind of thing you see regularly at many, many airports, but it's a sign too of how anxious they are here. >> after the attacks here in november, we heard that a number of employees here had their badges taken. what more can you tell us about that? >> they knew that airports would be a target. we know that. we know that al qaeda has targeted airports. we know that isis wants to do that. we saw that in brussels so they have gone through security here. they did remove security passes from many, many employees that they were worried about. that said, the french foreign minister is saying that there is absolutely no indication here so far that this is related to terrorism. they will be holding their breath, thou

i want to bring in keir simmons who is here with me in paris. keir, we started talking about the question could something have happened here that caused that plane to go down. >> right. >> talk a little about the investigation that's going along at the stops along the way. >> you know, what happened here will be a question probably whatever they defined happened to the plane. if it was a bomb, and you've made clear we don't know that for sure, but if it was, then they'll want to know how it got on board that plane and the first place they'll look will be here. if it was a mechanical failure, they'll be wanting to look at what happened here, the repairs, the servicing of the airplane. remember, airbus is not far away from us so the spotlight will come back here, pretty much whatever scenario plays out, i guess, unless it was some kind of crew failure that caused the crash, in which case, of course, they egyptair employees. the focus then would go back to cairo. but we know something about where the plane went during the period before it took off

keir simmons there in paris we know you have been working around the clock there in paris. appreciate it. >>> and we head now to the home base for this investigation. we have more on that part of the story. >> reporter: well, thomas, it has been almost 24 hours since the plane disappeared about 150 miles from the island of crete, where i'm standing. and still, we do not know where the debris was found on thursday afternoon by the greek search and rescue and recovery vessels and airplanes, are part of that plane. now, initially on thursday afternoon, the greek defense minister said that they were definitely part of the plane. then that was confirmed by the foreign ministry in egypt. and then later on in the day the head of the air administration and the foreign safety administration said he didn't agree, he did not think they were part of the missing plane. and that is a big problem for investigators. because that is like looking for a needle in the haystack. at least they found that information, where the plane lost communication, where they could look for the wreckage and

nbc's keir simmons is in paris.lies of those on board are assembled there. >> reporter: yeah, that's right. they've been assembling the a hotel near the airport here. we've watched as not just french officials but french government ministers arriving at the hotel. i think to meet with those family members, there have been complaints they haven't been getting enough information to meet with them. and ensure that they hear things before we do, that is exactly the right way to treat a situation like this. you don't want relatives of people who are on board complaining about the way the situation is being handled. that sends out a terrible, terrible message. some have traveled to cairo to be, i guess, closer to where the plane came down. it was, after all, around 30 minutes from landing in cairo. but we've also been hearing from the french foreign minister who on one side was talking about a kind of ad hoc collision searching for the debris, coalition of france, greece, of egypt, of the u.s., involved in trying to find

we'll go back to keir simmons at charles de gaulle airport. morning to you. >> reporter: matt, good morning. that debris found 130 nautical miles from the island of karpathos according to greek officials. one on greek television suggesting it may look as if it is part of an aircraft. whether it is the aircraft that disappeared after it flew from charles de gaulle airport here, of course, that's will take them more time to establish. but relatives who are here at this hotel, relatives of those on board waiting for news have been updated. we've been watching. french officials arriving and telling them what they are finding out. they'll be keen to ensure those relatives hear first before any of us exactly what they are discovering there in the mediterranean. another greek official, the greek defense minister saying that the plane made a series of very dramatic shifts shortly before it disappeared. that it dropped very quickly and at one point turned 360 degrees. an egyptian official saying on the other hand that they believe this is more likely t

keir simmons, nbc news, italy. >> i thoug watching tv was to make yourself feel good in the morning. ar and see how those guys are getting along and sampling more of that italian life. >>> we're back in a ment on om >>> last thing. a new bagel craze is going viral on line. it's a bagel with oreo, vanilla swirl, but it's also a birthday cake because it's allie's birthday. >> this is from the bagel nook in new jersey. $5.75. it's pretty good. . >>> 9:57 is your time now on this thursday, may 12th, 2016, good morning to you. two teenagers are missing and fairfax county detectives want your help to find them. she is on the left. she is in need of her med kachlths they're from the fairfax area. the teenagers may have run it is possible they took a cab to jess open, maryland. now, time for your forecast with storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell. good morning. >> good morning, cloudy outside. the fog is wet, temperatures upper 50s to around 60. southerly wind and a peek or two of sunshine today should allow temperatures up to near 70 degrees, there is a likelihood of showers late this after

keir simmons has more from paris. >> reporter: family members of passengers have been gathered at charles de gaulle airport and at a center in cairo hoping for the best, fearing the worst. a frantic search for the plane is now under way in the southern mediterranean. debris has been found near a greece island. it was headed to cairo when it went missing. suddenly lost by radar and was supposed to arrive at 9:15 p.m. the airbus 320 flying at nearly 37,000 feet when it went missing, on board, one child and two infants and three security personnel and seven cabin crew. airbus confirmed the loss of the flight and stating, "our concern goes to all of those affected." passengers, mostly egyptian and french, no americans were on board. egyptian officials saying that they believe that terrorism is a more likely cause than a mechanical fault. back to you. >> staying on top of this story, on air and online, you can download our nbc bay area app to get updates and push alerts to your smartphone and follow us on all of our social media platforms. >>> the case surrounding a missing millbrae father is

keir simmons drew the lucky straw this year. he's there talking to all the stars, standing seaside.le windy here, by the way, but the sun is out. the billionaires are in the harbor and the party got under way on the red carpet, the glitz and glamour that cannes is famous for. among the faces, justin timberlake and anna kendrick. justin has been away becoming a father. i asked him about that new tune which you just can't seem to get out of your head. ♪ >> reporter: justin timberlake dancing with new music and a new movie. >> meet the trolls. >> reporter: justin says there's more to come. >> i'm exploring making another album because of this, getting back to the studio to work on making music for this. we've written four originals for the movie, and it just kind of spilled over into really enjoying being back in the studio. i called up the old friends. >> reporter: in "trolls" releasing later this year, he co-stars with anna kendrick. >> i just wanted to be here, but i don't know how i end up being a tiny pink troll. >> the animated feature takes you into a world populated by, well, t

. >> that was keir simmons reporting. and of course, stay with nbc10 and the nbc10 app for live updates throughout the day on the crash of egyptair flight 804. >>> it is finally starting to feel like the middle of may outside. we have nice warm sunny day as we take a live look at boathouse row in philadelphia. nbc10 first alert chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz is here with the forecast. hey, glenn. >> yeah, it's been a rare day that we can say that it's going to be nice. may has been chilly. it's been cloudy. it's been fairly wet. not today. 65 degrees already in philadelphia. and pretty close to that or even warmer than that in parts of south jersey, southern portions of south jersey, and southern portions of delaware have some clouds. see, that's a live picture of rehoboth beach where we have at least some more clouds than other parts of the area. there's nothing on radar anywhere nearby. it looks like it's going to be basically dry today. not going to stay that way. this area in texas is going to be movin

keir simmons has the latest on that investigation. >> europe has been on edge since the attacks in paris and brussels. security services on alert. now they have an assailant who as he stabbed passengers, according to witnesses. the attack leaving bloody footprints on the platform. a 56-year-old man killed in a train car. another attack outside the train has life-threatening injuries. forensic officers finding discarded a cell phone and pen. these were commuters onboard the first train of the day. two more men were knifed outside the station. the attacker now arrested, striking a suburb of munich. a 27-year-old german national, reports say he had a four-inch knife. train personnel are praised for being so courageous in stepping in and stopping further attacks. back to you. >>> facebook is responding to accusations of political bias. a former facebook news curator is accusing the site of intentionally leaving conservative topics out of the trending news section. facebook denies the allegations saying it has rigorous guidelines to insure neutrality. >> monarch butterflies are in danger, but

. >> nbc's keir simmons reporting for us in london. thank you very much.reciate it. >>> coming up next we will introduce you to three women credited with stopping a potential sexual assault. they will join me to talk about how they were able to save the day. >>> what would you do if you saw someone slip something into their date's drink? 24-year-old michael sue is scheduled to be arraigned in a california courtroom sometime today accused of alleged sexual assault, attempting to place a drug in a dinner companion's drink for rape. and these women are being hailed as heroes. they were at a happy hour last thursday when monica, we're going to show you who monica is coming up in a second. the women an on the left in thi image, she saw something and they all sprang into action. we have them mixed up because we have them live and monica is in the middle. we're thrilled to have all three of you here. monica, you're in the middle and you are the one who originally saw allegedly something nefarious being poured into this woman's drink. what drew your attention to t

let's go to keir simmons at charles de gaulle airport in paris where the egyptair flight took off. what's the latest you've learned there? >> reporter: i'm just reading a release by the greeks and you'll know of course that the plane took off from here and flew across europe, across greek air space before it entered egyptian air space and disappeared. the greek authorities releasing a time line of what happened. saying that at 2:24 local time, a flight path was established. they then say at 2:48 and i'm just reading this, the flight was transferred to the next -- to another area and was cleared to exit greek air space. the pilot was thanked in greek and then at 3:27 a.m., the greek area, the athens area control center tried to communicate for transfer of communication and despite repetitive calls, the flight did not respond. and then the air traffic controller called on the emergency frequency without response. it looks as if from this that they were trying to hand over two egyptian air space at the point of which the flight disappeared. we know it was trite on that boundary betwee

. >> let's me bring in keir simmons from charles de gaulle airport. there's a great amount of focus on security at the airport. >> reporter: there really is. there will be questions whatever the outcome of the investigation and search for the plane. if this was some kind of terrorism related attack, then plainly charles de gaulle airport is supposed to be a very, very secure international airport, huge numbers of passengers from around the world come through here every day every week. on the other hand if something has gone wrong with the plane itself, an airbus 320, flying so normally, that will raise its own set of serious questions. whatever they find, they are going to have to try to figure out exactly what happened and how to address the issues that will be raised. by the way, we are just hearing from the greeks, the greek army general staff saying that of the debris that the greek say have been found saying on greek television that two objects at the area, 220 miles southeast of cr e cree have been found. without knowing for sure what they have

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keir simmons has the latest. good morning. >> good morning. navy seal charlie keating is the third combat casualty since the u.s. redeployed forces in 2013. in arizona, he was planning to marry in november. >> reporter: 31-year-old charlie keating, pictured here with his fiancÉ, the navy seal killed in northern iraq, his vehicle apparently hit by an isis rocket in what pentagon officials are calling a coordinated and complex attack. >> his wedding invitation is on my refrigerator. i started working with him when he was in sixth grade. i've known him since he was 13 years old. i was mortified. >> reporter: his high school cross country coach said charlie joined the military after 9/11. he'd been at practice when the twin towers were hit. >> the boys on the included, were so impacted by that, that a lot of the boys decided to serve their country after that. >> reporter: keating was also the grandson of banker charles keating jr. who came to symbolize america's savings and loan crisis in the 1980s. >> after more than a month in a los angeles jail

nbc's keir simmons is following that story for us. what can you tell us? >> good morning, natalie. europe has been on edge since the attacks in paris and brussels. security services on alert. now they have an assailant who shouted "god is great" as he stabbed passengers, according to witnesses. the attack leaving bloody footprints on the station platform. a 56-year-old man killed inside the train car and another injured inside the train car. discarded, a cell phone and pen. these were commuters on board the first train of the day. two more men were knifed outside the station. the attacker is arrested. a 27-year-old german national. reports say he had a four-inch knife. the munich prosecutor says it is too soon to know whether the attack was motivated by islamic extremism. train personnel are being praised for being courageous and stepping in and preventing further attacks. >> keir simmons, thank you. >>> we are getting our first look this morning at the canadian city ravaged by a massive wildfire. the flames moved far enough away from ft. mcmurray to give them a chance to see the a

>> for "today" keir simmons, nbc news, italy. >>> i thought the point of watching tv was to make you go back in a year to see how the guys are getting along and sample that life. >> and we want to go with him. >>> we're bulk in a moment. we love you. >>> last thing. a new bagel craze is going viral on line. it's a bagel with oreo, vanilla swirl, but it's also a birthday cake because it's allie's birthday. >> this is from the bagel nook in new jersey. $5.75. it's pretty good. trt: 32 =trx at ck= ck palo alto 10 >>> clouds we are seeing this morning will be clearing out and giving us this warm day. the lunchtime temperatures will be nice and comp fortable at 68 degrees in the south bay as well as the north bay and east bay. expect low 70s for the peninsula and the east bay while san francisco is in the low 60s and 80s. the temperatures will be cooling down inland into the weekend looking at schooler air moving in on saturday and suspected. let's go over to mike for a look at the morning commute. >> slowing in the southbound direction. coming down for university. look at the map. nothin

keir simmons has more, hi, keir. >> reporter: matt, good morning.t an exert beth competitor by hamilton is in surfing and her life. her performance incredible and unexpected. the soul surfer stunning everyone in fiji. the 26-year-old eliminating some of the world's best surfers, taking on wave after monster wave, making it all the way to the semifinals, after entering the competition as a wild card. her breathtaking run, the latest triumph in a career that was nearly cut short. in 2003, at the age of 13, she went surfing off the coast of hawaii. a massive tiger shark attacked, biting down on her left arm. at the time she described the experience on "today." >> there was time to scream at the moment. after that i was focused on getting to the beach. >> reporter: her arm was completely severed. but the horrific attack didn't stop her fromt helping conquer her fears. >> all of us have passion for different things, it may not be surfing, but whatever your passion is, go for it. >> reporter: since then she's won several major competitions and dedicated h

keir simmons joins us with more on the developing story from paris. >> reporter: andrew, good morningeeks. remember, the plane flew from paris. it was going to cairo so it flew substantially through greek airspace. the greek defense minister saying that the plane made several swerves before it disappeared. another translation of what he is saying is that it dropped 22,000 feet and then spun before it disappeared. so it's -- there is some confusion every exactly what the plane's movements were in those final moments, but there is now a multi-national search in the mediterranean to find this plane, to find answers. relatives are at this hotel here at charles de gaulle airport in paris themselves waiting for news. the french president, francois hollande saying that they can confirm that the plane has indeed crashed. 56 passengers on board. and 10 crew members and security. it took off from here at nine minutes past 11:00 last night, was set to land in cairo four hours later. it disappeared around half an hour before it was supposed to land. adding to the confusion, andrew, the reports ea

keir simmons has more. >> what a competitor bethany hamilton is in surfing and life. has one arm and her baby son traveling with her, and finishes third in a huge surfing competition. this morning, she says, quote, she's >> reporter: her performance, incredible and unexpected. the soul surfer, bethany hamilton, stunning everyone at a championship competition in fiji. 26-year-old eliminating some of the world's best surfers. >> i'm so happy. it feels really good. >> reporter: taking on wave after monster wave. making it all the way to the semi-finals, after entering the competition as a wild card. her breathtaking run, the latest triumph in a career that was nearly cut short when she was a young prodigy. in 2003, at the age of 13, hamilton went surfing off the coast of hawaii. a massive tiger shark attacked, biting down on her left arm. the teen did her best to stay calm and made it back to shore. at the time, describing the experience on "today." >> it happened so fast. there wasn't time to scream at the moment. then after that, i was focusing on getting to the beach.

. >>> seemingly all of hollywood on a field trip in cannes, keir simmons sat down with "money monstericture of george clooney's wife on the red carpet last night. unbelievable. i mean, i know fantastic but she's amazing, too. >>> let's get a check of the weather from al. >> let's show you what we have going on. we are looking at some strong storms starting off the week. sunday, we have a risk of storms from texas to the plains. as we move on into monday, we are looking at that shift down to the south. strong storms in texas, oklahoma, maybe even a tornado or two. even moving on into tuesday, we're looking at storms from texas to north carolina. some of them could be very severe. we're going to be watching that, as well. where are you from? >> chicago. >> what's your name? >> kristin. >> katie. >> thanks for coming. we have katie inside, too. that worked out nicely. that's what's going on around the country. here's what's happening in your neck of the woods. >>> we're in for some nice, quiet weather across the bay area with some morning clouds and afternoon sunshine. we're starting to