." >>> and sir elton. our exclusive with the music icon, as he talks about hitting a major milestone. >> i cried a lot at it. because it reminded me of a time when i was very innocent. ♪ >>> and his plans for a springtime wedding today, monday, march 31st, 2014. >>> from nbc news, this is "today." with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> and good morning. welcome to "today" on a monday morning. >> can we start every show with this music? i nominate a new theme song. >> did you have the album when you were young, that's the question. you weren't even -- maybe -- >> was i smart enough to buy it later? yes. goodbye yellow brick road. >> 40 years of that iconic album. welcome back, natalie. gang all here. talk to elton later on. let's start with today's top story. a rough morning for search crews trying to find air flight 370, but officials are vowing the scope of the operation is now increasing, not decreasing. nbc's katy tur is in kuala lumpur. good morning to you.

elton. elton what? john. you have something to say to the group, elton? no. then pick up your stuff and get out of here. what for? move it, elton! i said move it! now! geez. god. don't come back on this field till you can act like a ballplayer. ahmad abdul rahim? here. why don't we just make that andy, make things a little easier? andy? good. hey, what's going on? that guy kicked me off the team. gentlemen, i'm going to add another word to the board. kelly leak! [indistinct] [revs motor] son, i suggest you take-- [revs motor] now, look. don't-- you talking to me? i want you to-- all right. all right. hey, coach, take a walk. you've been fired. [revs motor] enough! enough! you listen to me! do you hear me? i said listen to me! you get off this field! sit down! shut up and sit down! you'll never make it to houston without a coach! you come back here! i'll break every bone in your body! come back! hey, big looper. engelberg's here, too. here he is now. hey, big looper. what's going on? see your picture yet? my dad took this last season. we just had it blown up.

they will go to vanity fair, people go to elton john's party. going to a very exclusive party, and it's called club bed. it is the most exclusive party. i'm told that lupita nyong'o is here, i have my eye out for her and i'm looking for her. >> we're going to hear live from cate blanchett. >> the academy awards. i mean, you know, it's a little slight inconvenience when you're wearing a dress. so no, i didn't worry about that, and i had the most phenomenal massage this morning. >> we're going to 86. >> i'm worth a little more than that. >> i'm jo daniels. tonight is in a way an aussie landslide. you and katherine martin are sharing the spotlight. >> the creative industries in australia are phenomenally wealthy with talent. and i suppose the only thing is that you don't want to constantly export the talent, you want it to continue to be able to return home and work. and the powerful thing about the creative industries in australia is they go overseas and it's wonderful accounts of soft diplomacy. of soft power, but it's also a huge economic driver

. >> captain fantastic and if you've seen the movie the pinball wisconsin's arrested machine and elton john has his own pinball machine there's another pinball machine attack from mars and the medieval madness that features tina ray before she was famous. something for me, i love about pinball is the artwork because the play fields is all screen printed so i get to admire but i anything else in printing those playing fields it's a work of art do you have the one that says you have failed >> (laughter). >> i think you might be referring to black knight referral it says no way when you miss it's very not encouraging. >> (laughter). >> he's against you throughout the game. >> commissioners any other questions or comments. thank you very much you can have a seat. any any public comment? in support or about this? come on up >> hello commissioners, thank you very much for the opportunity. >> state your name. >> i'm erick i'm the selfishness director at the patent university a small college in the east bay. i want to see a few words on behalf of petitioner. i help to run the pinball tournamen

that shot taken at elton's home in london a couple of years ago. >> nice. >> that time i was in elton'sstayed up for the "tonight show." it seems while carson was chatting with jimmy fallon, you revealed big news. >> did i? >> yeah. take a look. >> last time i talked to you, you were talking about getting a minivan. >> yeah. i've got two kids, a 5-year-old and my daughter is 19 months. we are expecting a third. yeah. >> congratulations. >> thank you. i need a cocktail right about now. what are you driving? >> right now it's a clown car. i got it from barnum and bailey. it's all leased. >> i have so many children, i'm going to get another car. i need a clown car. >> it's not a minivan. it's a baby. congratulations. >> i don't want to steal savannah's thunder. we are actually a week apart. >> i know. i can't wait till we go to lamaze class together. >> what? and that's what's trending. thank you so much. thanks to jimmy fallon. we had a great time last night. >>> welcome to this special itation of "today" on a friday morning. >> it's your birthday. take a look. >> no group has claimed res

and elton and jaime hopper, so those are all the amazing people that i got to work with over the last three years in the department and before that, working for supervisor duffdy and the mayor. i'm committed to this and i'm excited i get to stay in san francisco and serve the region for the president and the regional administrator, public services runs deep in my family. and my husband trevor who is here and who is going to officer candidate school up in newport rhode island and we thank you for all you do. >> thank you, alex. >> the second honor i have is on behalf of the commission, the city and county of san francisco certificate of appreciation recreation and park commission thanks park santiago for his dedication and commitment to the city and county of san francisco and the national football league major league baseball and the fans with the -- with his extraordinary performance at candle stick park. phil, do you want to add? >> thank you for allowing me to tag team on the president's report. a few months back, we were -- we recognized our hard working staff that had been -- spe

elton john's oscars party really coming up big this year raising $5.1 million.our website at goodmorningamerica.com on yahoo! and it was the most watched oscars telecast in the last ten years. >> way over 40 million people. >> yeah. way to go, ellen. coming up, chelsea handler here live. [phones rings] it's amanda. hey sweetie. what? okay, i'll send it. one hundred seventy-two dollars for a chemistry book, what is it, made of gold? just use citi popmoney. boom. ah, she's feeling lucky. with citi popmoney it's easy to send money to just about anyone, anytime.r new chemistry book. visit your local branch or citi.com/easierbanking to learn more. >> back now with chelsea handler. the late night star who doesn't know the meaning of the word filter and now the host of "chelsea lately" out with her latest book, "uganda be kidding me." welcome to "gma." so the book is out today. >> the book comes out today. it's official. >> but you've already stirred up some trouble even before the book is officially -- >> what did i do now. >> the tweets you had sunday. a lot about yo

it's got elton john in his crazy feathered era and alice cooper and steve martin.t personifies the 70's, yet it has the timeless feel because jim placed it in that vaudeville theater. he finally figured out where it took lace. that gave us timelessness to figure out the muppets have always been here. it felt like they were always there from the beginning. tavis: what's the story of how kermit turned out to be a frog. why is kermit the frog? >> kermit came out in 1955. jim was always building muppets out of found objects. his mother had a coat that was milky blue. he really did make the puppet's eyes out of ping-pong balls cut in half. it's really hard to watch that character now and not think of a fraud. the face is the shape. he was an abstract character. all of the characters were vague and abstract. jim really like that, but as the 60's progressed, he put a collar on him, and when you see the footage, it's black-and-white. collar around its neck. there is the frog right there. that's probably one of the moments they knew that was it. jim said it was a little sad

legendary singer/songwriter elton john, 67. queen of soul, aretha franklin, 72., weather and sports. i'm richard lui with bill karins. thank you for watching us today. have a great tuesday. ichard luchard luihard luiard r. >>> crime scene tape and flashing lights in fremont this morning as a deadly crash shuts down a busy intersection. good morning. 4:30. i'm scott mcgrew. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. investigators are looking for evidence near fremont boulevard and decoto road. >> officers have taken the drive sbeer custody. >> reporter: good morning. this is a horrible scene what we're talking about. we're actually maybe a half mile away from there. what happened is that a motorcyclist is dead and police have taken another person into custody. they think the driver may have been drinking. this happened overnight here in

i think it is funny the pace of the mafia she didn't preach elton john jay report the skill of doing evil. kristin gleaned from the crown says if he were to meet on common yet. he turned to me that she concedes he has withheld. the bunny from owning the means of some nine hundred excuse the random sounds. then came the key poopy. the money to turn our generating from walt's to keep businesses. all the stuff you see crimes it's got the money that's been hit by a new hunting in the teacher next time. and there's still time to avoid going to which is what awaits you can continue in this house. the protest message was a nice forceful denunciation get organized crime. andy came during an unprecedented meeting with the menace heads of the victims. nice detail but he and snarky organizing today. the thing with torment that. it means having extra support to invest any more than just a tiny particles of pain. the opening of a little but they still don't know who killed the left ones. those attending mass also welcomes the support and some remain skeptical. to do anything well into something b

ukrainian cabinet elton emergency session and i'm a disaster yesterday tried to hunt on and bring to justice those promoting separatism in crimea. he also said the government agreed to sponsor a terrence five hundred million euro on extra defence over the next three months. but ten times this in mind was he gets your school considering the current threats on ukrainian borders on the military aggression by the russian federation. we must make a decision today and immediately set up a reserve fund. designating it to finance mobilization modernization. i'm preparing true. meanwhile tensions heightened between ukrainian and russian troops for a day after russian troops entered a ukrainian village outside the crimean region on subsidy and take control of the local gas distribution center. on sunday ukrainian soldiers blocked a nearby roads. i began taking trent says. as russian helicopters to know over there tight. mca ministers are meeting this monday to discuss fit the sanctions that what they considered that they don't use my body. rising rates of heart and will be the situation in ukr

. >>> paulina rubio acudiÓ a la fiesta que hace elton john por la entrega del oscar, con gerardo bazuaron lady gaga, bratney spears, robert de niro, y wopi golberd. >>> se dedican a recaudar fondos para combatir el sida. >>> desde los Ángeles, televisa espectÁculos, juan manuel navarro. >>> quÉ guapa paulina. >>> superdelgada, una cachetada para los que dijeron que taesta gorda, embarazada. >>> se ve que el amor le sienta. >>> quÉ triste, sabiendo lo que es el bullying "y siguen hostigando a alguien por el peso o el fÍsico, todos tenemos un mal momento, hay que respetarlos, todos subimos, un dÍa malo, es ser humanos, no somos perfectos. >>> hay de todo, seÑores, para los gustos los colores. >>> vÁmonos a otra cosa. (risas) >>> en otro evento,, vento? en la ciudad de mÉxico? se hicieron varios famosos, entre ellos daniel arenas que revela cÓmo estÁn las cosas en el Área del amor, y el hijo de chespiri chespirito hablÓ de la salud de su papi, y el hijo de niurka marcos y juan osorio compartiÓ como se prepara para la actuaciÓn. >>> estudiando guiones, ahÍ ando. >>> un poco cansado para ti

fonda talking to me, she didn't talk to a lot of people, and she said she watched the oscars with eltonand lady gaga. i said what went on at that table? she said she was disappointed in the people that didn't win and -- >> oh. >> exactly. later on in the night you see gaga make this grand entrance with donatella versace. newly engaged to the founder of ricky van bean, so comedy humor, and record numbers on e! online, so we think this was a very popular academy awards. we haven't gotten the final stats, but our numbers were very high online. >> you look at social media, and that name, #lupita was everywhere, from people wondering what she was going to wear, to the moment her name was called. she captivated, not only the audience there, but throughout the country. >> she captivated the audience there, throughout the country. i interviewed her earlier in the week at the essence party, a luncheon where she had a beautiful speech. she's just full of grace. of course, she was part of that selfie that crashed twitter, broke records, 1.3 million people seen within an hour and her brother was in

elton is among several cyclists hit. >> translator: and before i was able to look back again, the cary bicycle at the beginning of its acceleration, so it didn't hit me with all of its force. but the bike and i were thrown into the air, and i fell to the ground. i was left terrified from what happened, from seeing people lying on the ground. the sound of crying. the other cyclists that weren't run over trying to help those that were run over. some that were even unconscious on the ground. there were bloodstains on the ground. >> fellow riders tend to those who have been struck and ambulances arrive within minutes. in the end, 17 riders are hurt. there are no fatalities. >> i am always surprised to know that nobody died in the so-called accident. it wasn't an accident. it was a crime. he was trying to murder -- to murder us. >> after fleeing the scene, the driver checks himself into a psychiatric clinic where he was later arrested. he claims he mowed down the cyclists in self-defense. he is still awaiting trial. leaving the riders to wait for some form of closure. >> it's difficult for

. >>> in england this may there will be a wedding bells for elton john and his long-time partner davidther. in a civil partnership. but now that same-sex marriage has been legalized in england, they feel it is important to take the next symbolic step. >> one thing will be very different. the two celebrated the civil partnership with a $2 million reception and 650 guests. they say this time the ceremony will only include their two boys and a couple of witnesses. >> wow. >> congrats to them. >>> 18-year-old lisa finley, battling cancer, can cross at least one item off her bucket list, sort of. >> yes. her number one wish was a kiss from channing take item. that's just what she got in a video message he sent her after hearing about her wish. >> just know that you're loved and that we are giving you a big old kiss from over here. mwah. all right, bye-bye. >> tatum sent a message from the stage at the oscars. now, while she is thrilled, she's still not satisfied. she said it is almost off her bucket list. adding, wouldn't it be amazing to meet in person? she is persistent. >>> beyonce is gi

now, if you take the creepy doll from the "chucky" movies and you add one of my favorite singers, elton you get clay aiken. [ laughter and applause ] it's simple math. and then everybody -- >> steve: everybody loves equations, proofs. >> jimmy: if you would take a a dreamcatcher, okay? >> steve: okay. >> jimmy: and you add it to a a pile of scarves, you would get steven tyler. [ laughter ] it's the little things like that you remember, and you go, "oh yeah, i get it now." straight as. >> steve: for the future. >> jimmy: this next one involves a little higher math here. this starts with my absolute favorite politician right now, rob ford. great photo. great photo, rob ford right there. you add him to usher. >> steve: wait a second. >> jimmy: subtract a shirt. >> steve: yes. >> jimmy: it equals justin bieber. you see where it all connects. [ laughter and applause ] >> steve: i see it now. it's an equation. >> jimmy: yeah. >> steve: it's an equation of math. >> jimmy: here's another one. you take ice-t. who doesn't love ice-t? >> steve: everybody loves ice-t. you add the legendary actor ja

lifestyle and interior design expert colin cowie who designed weddings for the likes of tom cruise, eltonjennifer lopez. colin, what do you think about this? >> çit's an amazing platform. i would imagine as the young millenial bride is incredibly important to advertise and we also know they are visiting four or five sites looking for information, inspiration and tools. >> sonja? >> i really like it. it's beautifully done. kelley is going after a very large market which can be very hard to navigate. >> i feel like it's a very competitive space and kelley says they feel they have first mover advantage, they have no real competitors but we all know that in this world, that's not exactly true. okay, let's bring you in. we will talk about loverly. thanks for joining us. sonja? >> how do you plan on making money with your site? >> currently, our site is actually making money. we actually represent 40 of the largest wedding bloggers, we manage all their advertising and display inventory. we represent the largest audience of brides online right now with 2.6 million unique visitors. we are moneti

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actually alter, structurally alter some of what we do including the money in politics, if that's not our elton all of the reforms we at one point will come back. just to let the history of this great country to keep going back and forth. it's time for us to actually trying to afford. idc a lot of potential for incredibly passionate of the man's. he had the demand for a constitutional amendment that addresses the crisis in this country just as we did we give women the vote, governor of the poll tax and gave 18-21 year olds the vote. >> the reality is for so many people today politics has become a spectator sport rather than a participatory sport. a lot of what we're all talking about today hinges on people deciding that they're going to operate or act differently. whenever their grievance, and there are obviously grievances left and right, but whenever the grievances their guard to get involved and try to do something about it. you know so much of what you're suggesting for what john is suggesting can't happen unless the electorate in some significant way says we really want to go in one direct

hostile troops approached his position sergeant lebron accurately hurled hand grenades at short range eltonheir attack. he held the position throughout the night while friendly forces organized and launched a counterattack. the next morning after the enemy had been repulsed friendly forces relieve the sergeant and found the bodies of 15 enemy soldiers surrounding his position. his extra neri heroism and selflessness above and beyond the call of duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the united states army. [applause] >> michael david opinion accepting on behalf of his father master sergeant mike c. penney. master sergeant mike seeping in distinguish itself by acts of gallantry and injured but the above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a member of company f. fifth cavalry regiment first cavalry division during combat operations against an armed enemy in the way one korea on september 4th 1950. that evening under cover of darkness and the jury missed an enemy battalion moved to within a few yards of

>> the biggest moment for me was at the aids foundation party with sir elton john.> there's cheryl burke. >> good morning, america. >> was it kind of one of those moments where you just pinch yourself? >> it was hard. like you see people on television and mu vis. it was interesting to get a chance to talk to them after they had a few drinks. we didn't show that stuff. >> all the good moves. >> thank you for being here. really, really appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >>> time, well, for a last check of the weather before her star turn on "dancing with the stars." ginger. >> oh, boy. i'm with a group of students from where? >> usc. >> usc. [ cheers and applause ] >> this is how you look good when you stay up all night. this, youth is what it takes. i asked them, i said, you look so fresh. they said, no, we're not. i've got a lot of concealer. so let's get right to the forecast. give you an idea of what's happening. just a quick look at dance-themed city. that's what we're doing today. jazz michigan, only 16. >> all that weather brought to you by aarp. the pa

elton john was involved. >> "lion king." >> was that 20 years ago?d sherman." this is based on the segment that used to occur in the '60s on the rocky and bullwinkle show. it's a genius dog and essentially he is able to travel back in time. so if something happens, an issue occurs, we have to save history essentially. for me it's funny, witty. it works on an emotional level. the jokes work. i found it to be a little bit cheesy at times. there was some moments where the emotion was a little cheesy. generally in animated movies, they do not voice their scenes together. luckily ty burrell and max charles, the actors got to do a couple of the emotional moments together and the chemistry was really well done there. if you look at -- i'm sorry. >> is it is this for kids or adults or both? >> yeah. this is a kids movie/adult movie. like earlier this year you had lego movie, which was great for both. i found myself kind of laughing at certain things and other things fell flat at times. overall, well made for the adult and the kids. i gave it 3 1/2 out of fiv

elton john comes on for some of the other nights. and then there's rod stewart.you have jerry seinfeld who comes in. so they use the stage all the time. she makes -- i think she makes more a year than they actually bring in revenue. i was doing the math last night. probably about $35 million a year in revenue. she does four nights a week. and, of course, they pay, i believe, even more than that because what she's doing, of course, is bringing 5,000 new people a night into caesar's. >> big income. >> crazy business. >> big income inequality issue there, andrew. i don't know whether we can get congress on this or not. but you know -- who was that person that was throwing the craps that you blew? who was that? >> my imaginary girlfriend, probably. >> why didn't you throw the dice, just have her blow on your hand instead of you blowing on her -- >> right. >> i mean, you know how to -- >> we were shooting that and we had lots of conversations about who was going to blow on the dice. there you have it. >> so to speak. >> anyway, coming up, we've got a lot of real thing

. >> actually, elton john. >> who? >> 1975 boston red sox. >> i love them! that's awesome.ng to wake up, we have sprung ahead. happy spring ahead day. three days into the search, still more questions than clues about what happened to a jumbo jet flying from kuala lumpur to beijing. still questions. >>> it's hard to judging from the meeting on the potomac the cpac just had. stay tuned to hear why. >>> plus, the tdr 50 heads west in the third week of our big year-long focus to the centennial state. democrats aren't just dominating denver. find out how demographics and domestic debates have carried colorado from red to blue in record time. >>> good morning from washington. it's monday, march 10th,

. >> rod stewart, shania twain, elton john, and the newest one is britney spears who has had a spectacularplanet hollywood. >> instead of the artist going on a multicity tour, the city has come to vegas. >> celine has one of the great working mom jobs in the world. she lives near us in las vegas. we come and get her at 5:30 in the afternoon, bring her in for her performance. she gets ready, performs and by 10:00 she's back home with renee and her sons. she's done a wonderful job for our guests. she's done more than 700 performances with us at caesars. >> when did they abandon that project in vegas? remember that was the top. what project was that? >> it was called echelon. >> where is that. >> the north end of the strip. the malaysian entity ginting bought that project. >> what year was that. >> about a year and a half ago. they're commencing construction. >> what was the peak year. >> in 2009 i believe they discontinued that. >> at that point we thought vegas could never be overbuilt. we've been through this how many times? it can't be be overbuilt, it's overbuilt. >> there's onner wi er

constantine out and i'm sorry his name or other name is cost you know but constantine elton and of course was covered probably by our team by everybody every news station covered when a russian artist had drawn painted a lot of mirror putin and medvedev with breasts he ended up arriving in paris and a friend of mine who was a journalist in st petersburg said hey you're in paris if you can give me a hand costa literally has two bucks in his pocket and could use some support so we called some friends out in finland. and we got an exhibition over there which helped raise some money he was able to sell some paintings but this was strictly in support of of somebody who took a stand he knew very well after pussy riot that they were going to come for him and he had to leave his wife and child behind i remember sitting with him and a bottle of vodka and he wasn't happy to be separated from his family. right i love the piece is incredible work i mean do you have any advice that the first street artists who don't want to get arrested who want to get their work out there and talk about where you're

matt will have an exclusive interview with elton john as he celebrates the 40th anniversary of his iconicod-bye yellow brick road." plus, pit bull will be live in concert out in rockefeller plaza. a nice way to start the week, right? >> yeah. >>> we're going to go to this half hour with new drama. a surprise delay announced by the judge this morning. nbc's national investigative correspondent covering this trial from the beginning. jeff, good morning to you. >> hey, savannah, good morning to you. wild day here in court. this was supposed to be the big moment. oscar pistorius breaking his silence, taking the stand in his own defense. the court works differently here than back home in the states. no jury here, just a judge and two assessors who help the judge. well, one of those assessors is sick. so in a bizarre and surprising twist, the judge sent everyone home for a long time. oscar pistorius walked into court this morning with his game face on. finally, his moment to convince the court in his own words that he shot and killed reeva steenkamp in self-defense. mistook her for an intruder.

. >> went to sir elton john's. >> that's right.the fight against aids. ♪ >> if we take our foot off the gas pedal right now and stop funding aids, then we're going to miss a great opportunity to actually end the epidemic. >> and as great as tonight is as far as bringing awareness and raising money, this is a good time tonight. >> yes. >> it's a great party. >> it's a great party. we get the same people coming back every year because they know they have a great time. they see their friends, see people they normally wouldn't see. great live entertainment. >> are you going after this one? hitting a couple of others? >> i've got a go with the flow kind of situation. wherever the evening takes me, i'll go. >> can you show me a move? hey now. oh, my goodness. >> in there -- >> crazy. >> insane. >> everybody knows everybody else. and it's just a good, positive vibe. >> oh, baby. whoo! >> i think we may sneak over to the vanity fair party. >> if you see me standing out there at the vanity fair party. >> i'll ignore you. that's what you do.