i'm frances rivera. we start with tragedy in northern california. dramatic cell phone video shows the fiery moments of a horrific and deadly crash. a fedex truck slammed in a bus full of high school students on thursday. we know at least ten people are dead including two truck drivers, three chaperones and five students. francis coe filed this late report. >> reporter: police tape around the charred remains following a fiery commission between a tour bus, fedex truck and a passenger car in california. the california highway patrol says the truck crossed the freeway, slamming into the bus and car. chp reports at least nine were killed. more than 30 others were injured in the crash. several were airlifted to local hospitals. glen county sheriff's dispatch told the associated press there were 46 passengers on the bus. high school seniors on a trip to visit the campus of humboldt state university in northern california. the school released a statement on their website that reads in part, humboldt state university is deeply saddened by a tragic accident

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i'm frances rivera. we are following breaking news overnight in that search for missing flight 370. two more pings detected under water. 33 days now after the malaysian airliner vanished. the australian official in charge of the search is optimistic the plane's wreckage will soon be found. >> i believe we are searching in the right area, but we need to visually identify aircraft wreckage before we can confirm with certainty that this is the final resting place of mh-370. >> let get right to nbc's ian williams live in perth, australia. ian, good morning. how cautious is this sense of optimism? >> reporter: good morning to you, frances. they do seem optimistic now that they are looking in the right area, but also cautiously saying there may be some way to go before they can physically locate the black boxes or any plane wreckage which may be sitting on what they call a silty seabed some three miles below where they're searching. now, those two detections of sound yesterday which were consistent with what they've heard at the week end, they're pretty clear they are what they call manma

i'm frances rivera. this is "early today." we hope it is your first stop of the day here on nbc. >>> leading the news on nbc news.com, opponents carve anti-pipeline message into field. the 80 acre art work inraska reads heartland #no kxl, protefpr protesting the proposed pipeline. >>> and herald sun, ivf parbl pregnant with another couple's twin in embryo mix-up. it happened at a rome clinic and the error wasn't discovered until the woman was 3 months pregnant with the twins. italy's health ministry has launched an investigation. >>> now to other stories we're following this morning, a u.n. report released this weekend says time is slipping away to avoid major catastrophes caused by global warming. the u.n.'s panel on climate change recommends the world take major steps to reduce greenhouse gases before it is too late. >>> dozens of people are still unable to go home this morning as a slow moving landslide the size of two football fields creeps toward a wyoming town. the evacuations are a precaution in case the slide accelerat

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. ♪ >>> i'm frances rivera. here's what's happening.xpecting an update shortly on the search for the missing plane. a ship with sophisticated equipment has arrived in the area where a chinese ship twice detected sounds that could be connected to the missing plane's black box. >>> pro-russian demonstrators stormed government building in several big cities in eastern ukraine today. the activists say they want a referendum to join russia just like crimea did. more news later. now back to msnbc undercover. >>> look closely on the outskirts of houston and lining the streets near the port, and you will find an abundance of unassuming bars known as cantinas. most cantinas look like regular nightclubs offering little more than loud music and cold beer. makeshift newsstands bustle outside offering customers a long night of drinking. but most know that behind this public facade are hidden passageways and tiny rooms, where girls, many of them from latin america, are forced to be sex slaves. trapped and enslaved by the threat of violence. >> why wo

. >>> i'm frances rivera. tornados have caused extreme damage in the south and midwest.owerful storm system pounding the area. arkansas governor mike bibby confirms a total of eight fatalities in his state tonight. areas around little rock took a severe hit. kansas also dealing with the aftermath of dozens of homes and businesses damaged. and in oklahoma, at least two people are dead. bill karins is following it all. >> we continue with our tornado threat through the late hours. this is going to be a pesky storm with us through wednesday, producing periodic tornados. the worst of it right now is northern arkansas. earlier it was outside the little rock area. we had what we feared, a long-track tornado, that's all those red dots near the little rock area. again, as we go throughout the night, we're still targeting arkansas for the worst of the weather and additional storms. >> bill will continue to stay on top of it. we'll bring you up to date in another hour. now back to "lockup." >>> utah state prison is an institution in flux, constantly adjusting to the changes in the

. ♪ >>> frances rivera. here is what is happening.s report showed the economy added 192,000 jobs in march. the white house says the private sector has add 8.9 million jobs over 49 months of growth. that means the 8.8 million jobs lost in the recession have been reclaimed. >>> secretary of state john kerry says the u.s. will reevaluate its role in mid east peace talks. he says there are limits to the amount of time the effort the u.s. can spend if the parties involved are unwilling to move forward. now back to "lock-up." >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> hackensack, new jersey's bergen county jail. it's not only a detention center for men and women face aggravate of charges, it's also a drug rehabilitation center. >> in the early 1990s we were the first in the state of new jersey to open up a male drug rehabilitation center in a correctional facility. it's been very successful. several years ago, we opened up a female drug rehabilitation center which has eight beds. that also has been successful. >> si

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