i'm chris mitchell. this is "sport today".ted david moyes sees his striker robin van persie score three in the champions league. >>> the men in gray suits. can juventus brighten the europa league by scoring in their own stadium. >>> it's seventh heaven as the the new york knicks starts the new phil jackson era with another win. >>> manchester united were in a tight spot 2-0 down from the first leg. both they and borussia dortmund have taken the final two starts in the last eight of the european champions league. hello. this is "sport today". robin van persie scoring his first champions league hat trick. what good timing. a penalty through the first half. a second before half-time. a free kick from early in the second half. the reigning english prehere phaoeg champions. and well off the pace in the title race. >> we needed to bounce back. we played very well. >> so has david moyes solved his problems at manchester united? perhaps not. two of the three goals were set up by ryan giggs. not the future for old trafford. the 40-year

chris? >> andrea mitchell, thanks so much for that update. i want to bring in "the huffington post" political reporter amanda terkel and josh krashaar. how do they hope that john kerry's visit and this new $1 billion aid package might change the equation? >> well, i think that the obama administration wants to show right now as much support as it can from ukraine, while like andrea was saying, providing this off-ramp for russia if it does sort of want to dial down the crisis. what the white house hopes is that russia would accept the offer of sending international monitors to ensure the safety and rights of the russian speaking population in ukraine, but so far russia hasn't indicated it's interested in doing that. right now they are getting support from republicans and democrats, so there is a lot of support for moving swiftly and approving this aid package that the white house is asking for. >> swiftly on that, but as we just heard from senator john mccain, josh, some criticism, as well, for the overall administration policy, and how diffic

back to you, chris. >> great report. that was andrea mitchell. she's traveling with the secretary of state, john kerry, now in beautiful paris. anyway, european leaders are reluctant to back tougher sanctions against russia giving their economic dependence on that renal gion's natural gas. now from kiev, ian joins us right now by phone. thank you for joining us. i guess this is one of those very, very closely run affairs where we're trying to encourage the new government in kiev but also discourage them from overplaying their hand. >> that's right. well, the last thing i think the western governments want is for the kiev government at this time to start to aggressively engage the russians, and there's no sign of them doing that. the meeting that we're seeing at the moment in paris, at which john kerry is sitting down with his western counterparts, and also, of course, with sergey lavrov, is designed primarily to try to diffuse some of the tension, but the question is whether lavrov is speaking the same language as his western counterpart. only ho

that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." my thanks to chrisorrow, right here, senator john mccain. follow the show online and on twitter. ronan farrow has a look at what's happening next. >> i think you've got the president of the united states? >> we have breaking news that the president is going to be heading into the briefing room and we'll carry that live. thank you for a great show. stay with us, everybody, chris christie is getting a big moment, mitch mcconnell is getting his gun and ted cruz gives what is sounding like a presidential pitch. we have shawn spicer of the rnc with the latest out of the cpac meeting and john boehner takes sides on the clash between issa and cummings. chris van hollen weighs in soon. reacting with the new shake-up to the s.a.t. we have that in a mere 180 seconds. stay with us. so stuffed up, i can't rest. [ male announcer ] nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose. they don't? alka seltzer plus night fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a decongestant. [ inhales deeply ] oh. what a relief

. >>> good day, i'm chris matthews in for andrea mitchell. >>> describing ukraine's political crisis as a result of a constitutional coup. >>> the president was also asked about putin's statements and said this. >> there is a strong believe that russia aegs action is violating international law. >> andrea mitchell joins me by phone in kiev with the secretary of state. andrea, thank you. you just saw the press conference. what is kerry attempting to do today in this crisis? >> he's attempting to shore off the ukrainian people to tell their interim leaders they can pull this together and resist pressure on in terms of rising energy prices and also the threat of military force, that they can resist pressure from vladimir putin. he was strikingly passion nal having had the moving experience of walking by the square where the resistance took place, seeing the barricade still there, seeing the tires and barbed wire and flower for the martl mart martyrs, the heavenly hundred, all men and one woman who died in the sniper fire. it was an emotional day and business of trying to meet with inter

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chuck to do and andrea mitchell and chris matthews.irst, bill karins, i don't want to hear it. >> march is a cool and cruel month. 60 to 70 degrees and now the windchill is near zero in the east. unbelievable. the snow fell hard in western new york. that's where we had up to a foot of snow all the way from almost towards detroit to burlington and buffalo and new york and you got nailed. detroit you need only 3 more inches of snow for your snowiest winter ever. notice it's snowing from portland to bangor and icy mess with snow on top of it around albany, new york. careful driving in those areas. the cold air is the story. winds are gusting to 37 miles per hour from d.c. to philadelphia to new york city. the windchill right now in philly is 3. this is like january type weather. negative 10 in buffalo with snow on the ground and minus 9 in pittsburgh. at least the rest of the country, you're seeing a beautiful thursday, but it's from the great lakes to the northeast that we're still going to struggle. by friday, we get a little warmer. sa

. >> senator chris murphy will be here and andrea mitchell. >> more "morning joe" coming up.ons of dollars, improving everything from booking to baggage claim. we're raising the bar on flying and tomorrow we'll raise it yet again. >>> a packed show ahead for the rest of "morning joe," tensions continue to mount along the border between ukraine and russia. we will talk to senator chris murphy about the latest sanctions who is just back and bring andrea mitchell into the discussion as well. later, they partied. and then they posted everything online. why teens are so eager to share their racy photos. photos that could impact their future. photos that could keep them from getting into college. why would they tweet this despite the serious consequences? we will have that story coming up. >>> first, let's go live to perth, australia. nbc news chief global correspondent bill neily with the latest there. bill, what can you tell us? >> reporter: yes, good morning from perth in western australia. an air base that is home to australia and the american planes that have been scouring the

chris. is that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports."er ambassador to germany. follow the show online online and on twitter. ronan farrow is next. >> thank you, compelling words from john mccain. today we've got breaking news. you remember the pregnant mother who drove her mini van into the ocean, we'll bring a live news conference from the sheriff investigating the incident. he'll announce whether there are charges in the case. >>> we have an exclusive interview with jesse jackson that wraps up our call to action on voting rights and we sit down with chelsea handler. rfd coming your way in just a few minutes. lean was born to help people clean better, and that he travels the world inventing amazing new cleaners, like his newest invention, liquid muscle, that lifts and cleans tough grease with less scrubbing. it's a liquid gel, so it's less watery and cleans more. and its cap stops by itself so almost nothing's wasted. ♪ no matter where he went or who he helped, people couldn't thank him enough. new mr. clean liquid muscle. when it comes

chris matthews is coming up and andrea mitchell and dr.cy snyderman. >>> first, forecast with bill karins. >> what happened to friendly families? poor jeb is trying to eat his breakfast now and we are calling him names. >> are we going to beat that baby for three hours too? >> we need to talk to someone. >> we need to talk to bill karins. >> i have nothing better to talk about. in northern new england a snowstorm is coming and everybody else in the new england area and mid-atlantic it's going to rain all weekend. the deep south we are going to have a severe weather threat. active weather heading into your weekend. main concern is severe weather late this afternoon into this evening. maybe even a few tornadoes. we are talking east texas including dallas, houston, san antonio, to new orleans. memphis and late tonight heading into areas of mississippi and alabama. a lot of rain down here in the south but this isn't the main event. the main event will be later on tonight. the rain is going to be plentiful. maybe this is mother nature's way of

mitchell. he chairs the legislative black caucus. senator, thank you for being here. i want to play you something that your colleague in the state of florida, state senator chris smith,n the show yesterday. he said this about the chances of repealing florida's version of stand your ground. listen. >> the votes just aren't here in the state of florida. we are working on a bipartisan measure we are pushing to try to amend it and send the right message. joy, two juries in florida sent a message. i think the legislature should send a better message. >> do you think that the fight to repeal or to alter the stand your ground law in your state of south carolina will be as difficult as it promised to be in florida? >> oh, i feel that, joy, it's going to be just as much or more in south carolina. i mean, this is a hot bed of the tea party. since the press conference yesterday, the gun rights folks have already started their assault. i received several calls late last night and early this morning telling me that if i basically came on to their property, they are going to show me how the stand your ground law works. >> i mean, i think that is what bothers people about the law,

chris christie meets the press this afternoon after his offices paid lawyers exxon rate him of wrong doing. the federal and state investigations, it is far from case closed. >>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. the death toll from the landslide in washington has risen to 17. 90 people are still not accounted for. the numbers are expected to change when we get the latest from a press conference that is about to begin in washington state. we go to arlington, washington, where i'm joined by nbc's jennifer bjorklund. this is just a horrible accounting and this could turn into one the worst domestic natural disasters in american history. >> reporter: yeah, it is mind boggling the scope of this disaster as crews sift through the rubble, they are doing a very delicate search. the volume of this landslide is enough -- if you put it into terms that are very visual, you could say it's seven empire state buildings. if you had to weigh it, it would be 50 empire state buildings as far as how heavy the land is that fell down on this tiny little town. now, what we can tell you is that they do have the heavy equipment standing by but don't want to use it in case there are survivors. so they a

. >> all right mitchell and martin, thanks for taking us inside the simulator once again. so interesting. chris>> coming up on "new day," we have the interview with the pilot who flew a missing airplane. we're going from the simulator to actual plane we're looking at. what does he know about the plane, its condition, his experience? that interview when "new day" continues. i quit smoking. i've quit for 75 days. 15 days, but not in a row. for the first time, you can use nicorette... even if you slip up... so you can reach your goal. [ male announcer ] now, quit on your own terms with nicorette or nicoderm cq. [ sneezes ] [ male announcer ] you may be an allergy muddler. try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin® because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. zyrtec®. love the air. [ sneezes ] on the first day you take it. it really made the difference between a morning around the house and getting a little exercise. unlike the bargain brand, depend gives you new fit-flex®, our best protection. it's a smooth and comfortable fit with more lycra