ian williams nbc news beijing. >>> hackers have struck the second largest health insurance company in the u.s. officials are calling it a very sophisticated attack. anthem blue cross/blue shield says it affects 80 million former and current members. they say hackers got access to personal information like names, home addresses and social security numbers. but the company says so far, there is no evidence hackers got their hands on medical information, credit card, banking or financial information. anthem's president and ceo put out a personal statement on the separate website explaining the data breach. they have set up a toll free numbers for customers wanting more information and it will reach out to each person whose information was compromised. >>> let's get down to business with cnbc's landon downey. >> good morning to you. the markets look to rebound after stocks faded late. oil prices remain in focus after crude plunged below $49 a barrel. unemployment and worker productivity and labor cost. a handful are reporting the january sales, including cost coe and gap and the parent of

nbc's ian williams reports. >> reporter: the dramatic final moments captured by dash cams of passing cars. the trans asia twin prop plane clipping an elevated roadway before slamming into the river below. 58 passengers and crew trapped in fuselage upside down and in the water. a rescued child, more than a dozen pulled to safety. a massive operation painstakingly extracting survivors as an anxious crowd gathered on the river bank. survivors were rushed to local hospitals. on the elevated roadway, debris where the plane hit and a battered taxi the same one that could be seen just ahead in this dash-cam video. the driver and passenger stunned but alive. the video shows the plane narrowly missing nearby apartment buildings. fueling speculation the pilot deliberately swerved to avoid them. the plane went down two minutes after taking off from taipei's songshan airport. posted online the pilot's recorded distress call. >> mayday mayday, engine flameout. >> reporter: engine flameout suggesting possible engine trouble. >> the pro pl -- propellers this one spinning at a faster speed than this

ian williams, nbc news, beijing. >>> jordan today continued to vow revenge after the world witnessed the horror of isis burning a jordanian military pilot alive. they've already taken revenge with executions and threats of increased air strikes, lending credence to this idea that isis has pushed this months long conflict to a critical turning point now. our report on that tonight from our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. >> reporter: jordan is boiling over demanding revenge. a country united in outrage by the horrifying isis video rallying behind its people. >> i stand in support for every jordanian. we all feel the pain. >> reporter: so far the video is backfiring causing revulsion in much of the arab world, including the west bank, except in raqqa, isis' self-proclaimed capital in syria. amateur video shows people cheering as they watched the video of the pilot's torturous fiery death. projected like an outdoor movie on the wall of a building, vowing a tough response that would shake the earth. king abdullah ordered the execution at dawn today of two convicted t

our report again tonight from nbc's ian williams. >> reporter: dazed but alive just moments after the crash. lin ming-wei clings to his 2-year-old son, lin, his wife and son had changed seats to be together at the back of the plane. it probably saved their lives. today, lin described how the plane shook violently as it plunged to the river. all the seats fell off, he said. the passengers were trapped underneath. retrieved from the plane's black box cockpit data showing how quickly things went wrong. 37 seconds into the flight an alarm, trouble with the right engine. six seconds later the pilot powers down the left engine, struggling to level the plane. more alarms as the plane loses speed. two minutes and six seconds in the pilot's distress call. in the final seconds the pilot tries to restart the engines but time runs out. 58 people aboard, just 15 survivors. among them the family of lin ming-wei. his son still in intensive care but out of danger. ian williams, nbc news, beijing. >>> still ahead fon us on a friday night, dramatic measures from the nation's largest do-it-yourself tax

our ian williams traveled to shenzhen, china, to get the story. >> reporter: a super bowl warning from the faa, just days after a drone crash landed on the white house lawn sparking a security alert. and another near the mexican border smuggling six pounds of drugs. both were made by a chinese company based here in shenzhen of which has been an urgent discussion with the faa. >> we are working with them on a daily basis. >> reporter: the company's product manager told us they've now come up with a software fix that will prevent their drones from flying in downtown d.c. or any other restricted air space. >> a no-fly zone a five-mile radius around airports so this basically prevents one of our multirotors to take off. >> reporter: it's being called a geofence and will work through the drone's gps system keeping certain locations off limits. >> now i'm recording. >> reporter: eji is the world's biggest consumer drone producer. as u.s. sales have boomed, the faa has been receiving about 25 reports a month of drones flying near manned aircraft forcing them to draw up new rules. consumer dro

we get the latest tonight from nbc's ian williams. >> reporter: the dramatic final moments captured by the dash cams of passing cars. the transasia twin prop plane clipping an elevated roadway before slamming into the river below. 58 passengers and crew trapped in the fuselage upsidedown and half under water. rescuers rush to the scene. a young child among the first of more than a dozen pulled to safety. a massive operation painstakingly extracting survivors as an anxious crowd gathered on the river bank. survivors were rushed to local hospitals. on the elevated roadway, debris where the plane hit. and a battered taxi the same one that can be seen just ahead in this dash cam video. the driver and passenger stunned but alive. the video shows the plane narrowly missing nearby apartment buildings. fueling speculation that the pilot deliberately swerved to avoid them. the plane went down just two minutes after taking off from taipei's songsha airport. the pilot's reported distress call. engine flame out he said suggesting possible engine trouble. >> the propellers you can see this one is s

ian williams is joining me from beijing. what do we know about the crash so far, ian?> reporter: andrea they have now hoisted the body of the aircraft, the battered body of that aircraft to the banks of the river and they are now looking to try and locate the 17 people who are still missing and it seems that that death toll will rise. now, this crash happened just two minutes into the flight of this transasia aircraft. it lost control, came down, almost hitting those apartment blocks clipping an elevated roadway before slammingd>m into the river below. that triggered an enormous rescue operation, enormous and painstaking, involving several hundred soldiers, police and firefighters struggling to get people trapped, the 58 passengers and crew inside that aircraft. there is some speculation in taipei that it could have been a lot worse, that perhaps the pilot deliberately steered the plane away from those apartment blocks and was aiming for thes4srx river in order to avoid what could have been a far worse disaster andrea. >> and among the victims that we saw and among tho

ian williams is gathering new information and we'll have his report in our next half hour. >>> we have new details on a hit-and-run case in arlington that critically jaured a man. we pulled court documents that showed that the driver had several past convictions and that includes dwi, fraud, reckless driving. police say this surveillance video from last tuesday shows mendes crashing into several parked cars. two local business owners tried to stop her from leaving shs but investigators say mendes ran over one of the men twice. ahead in our next hour the links that emergency crews went to to keep that one victim alive. >>> turning to storm team 4 and more wintery weather is rolling in. the question tonight is who will see what and when. >> let's get the latest from veronica johnson. >> we start with the big change. dra dramatic change taking place today. l across the area. 53 the temperature, feels like mid-march around here. the mild air goes down to the south to areas in virginia. you can see some locations here like fred rix burg 58 degrees. we'll see a big change and it's going to c

ian williams in beijing on an incredible story. mika, before you go to the next story that we showed video of a father carrying a toddler out of the wreckage in ian's piece. amazing story. plane crashes. guy can't find his toddler. after three minutes, climbs out of the wreckage and sees his young boy floating in the water. >> no! >> said he turned blue and was unconscious. the father on the spot gives him cpr and revives his son. >> oh, my gosh. >> saving -- so they survive the plane crash, then he's got to climb out of the plane from underwater, finds his son, saves his life and the kid is going to be okay. >> my god. i have chills. that's incredible. >>> all right. moving on now. jordan's king abdullah is vowing a, quote, relentless war afrl isis video appears to show a jordanian pilot being burned alive. the u.s. has confirmed that united arab emirates suspended air strikes against isis after the pilot was captured. it was concerned about the lack of search and rescue teams if a plane went down. it comes as arab leaders that the

ian williams, nbc news beijing. >> this crash, the fifth tragedy for an asian airliner in just the last year alone. in december, an air asia flight crashed into a river. in july 48 people were killed when another transasia jet crashed into homes on an island west of taiwan. a few days before that malaysia airlines flight 17 was shot down by a missile over ukraine, and then nearly a year later, crews are still trying to find the wreckage of malaysia airlines flight 370, which is believed to have crashed somewhere in the indian ocean after vanishing from radar in march. >> stay with us for continuing coverage of this plane crash. you can get the latest details on our website when we're not on air, nbcbayarea.com. >> now to some local developments. the prime suspect tied to a suitcase filled with body parts is a free man this morning. mark andrus was escorted out of san francisco's jail by his public defender around 9:30 last night. andrus didn't answer questions, didn't make statements. he was arrested last week after police say they saw him in surveillance video pulling a suitcase near t

ian williams nbc news beijing. >>> an update from nbc news reports that 26 people had been confirmed killed in that plane crash. >>> jordan executed two al qaeda prisoners in retaliation for the murder of a jordanian pilot by isis. one of those prisoners was this woman who was captured after her suicide bomb failed to go off during a 2005 attack in jordan. isis demanded her release in exchange for the life of a japanese journalist who they killed over the weekend. and yesterday isis released video showing this jordanian air force pilot being burned alive. jordan officials were considering a prisoner swap but wanted proof the pilot was still alive. in retaliation, jordan also executed a top aide to the former leader of al qaeda in iraq. >>> listen to this a former u.s. army soldier joined the fight against isis overseas. wisconsin native jordan mathson teamed up with kurdish fighters battling the isis militants in iraq and northern syria. he's one of dozens of people from western countries who joined the kurdish forces. the call to action came through a facebook page. he says he was e

ian williams is on the mission for us.reports from beijing. >> reporter: hi abby the battered boyy of that transasia aircraft has now been hoisted out of the river and rescue workers are trying to locate the passengers still missing. the death toll the number of confirmed dead seems certain to rise. the crash came two minutes into a domestic flight out of the smaller of two taipei airports it. was recorded not just by one dash cam but by three on passing cars. dash cams are popular in taiwan. it shows a taxi also cut in half by the plane's wing before clipping the highway and slamming down into the river below. that triggered a rescue and painstaking one which involved several hundred firefighters police divers and fire personnel. now there is speculation tonight that the pilot may have deliberately put the plane down into the river in order to avoid those tall apartment buildings, close by. and if you look at the video, he did come terribley close to them. there is a recording in taiwan which they claim is the last broadc

here's nbc's ian williams. juror rescue efforts continued today. the search for those missing hampered by strong tides and murky waters. "it's a difficult mission," said this driver. while relatives attended a simple religious ceremony on the riverbank, from his hospital bed, one survivor said he felt there was a problem as soon as the plane took off. he told the person next to him they should hold onto their seats and cover their heads. this 52-year-old said the plane went down the minute he was done talking. the last moments of the flight were dramatically captured by the dashcams of passing cars. the plane clipping an elevated roadway before cartwheeling into the river below. officials today confirmed the recording of the pilot's distress call soon after takeoff. >> may day, may day. >> reporter: engine flameout he said suggesting possible engine trouble. that seems to be confirmed by pictures showing the left propeller at a standstill as the plane careened towards the river. an engine was among the debris pulled from the water today. while the

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while the black box has also now been recovered. >> that was nbc's ian williams reporting from beijing. >>> the investigation, meanwhile, also continues into the deadly commuter train accident here in new york. the suv that was virtually impaled by the train's electrified third rail has now been removed from the tracks. the driver has been identified as 49-year-old ellen brody, a wife and mother to three daughters. brody's husband allen posted on facebook yesterday, thank you to those who shared their condolences for the terrible tragedy that took my beloved wife ellen, whom so many of you knew. as investigators piece together the events leading up to the crash, we now know that traffic was backed up behind brody due to an accident on a nearby highway. the driver of the car directly behind her says he tried to get brody to back up off the tracks. >> she looks at me i gesture to come back i back up again further to even indicate there's plenty of room to back up and she turns, walks, and gets back in the car. >> in addition to brody, five train passengers were killed including 36-year-o

. >> nbc's ian williams thank you so very much. we will of course keep a very close eye what's going on there in taiwan. 10:05 local time. >>> overnight developments in jordan where the government is fulfilling its promise of revenge following the news that a pilot held hostage by isis appears to have been burned alive. just hours after the shocking video was released jordan executededs two convicted prisoners linked to al qaeda including sa jeed da al rishawi. it it appears the pilot might have been dead who was locked in a cage doused with fuel and set him on fire. president obama, who met with king abdullah right after the video was released promised action. >> it's just one more indication of the viciousness and barbarity of this organization. and it i think, will redouble the vigilance and determination on the part of a global coalition to make sure that they are degraded and ultimately defeated. >> all of this will certainly be primary points of discussion when ash carter the president's pick for defense secretary heads to th

nbc's ian williams has the latest from taiwan. >> reporter: this dramatic dashcam video appears to show the last moments of the transasia flight. the aircraft clipping an elevated roadway before crashing into the shallow keylong river below. the fuselage barely up in the water. 58 passengers and crew trapped below. debris scattered nearby. one of the first pulled from the crippled plane a small child. one of two believed to be onboard. the french-built atr-72 turboprop was only nine months old. 31 mainland chinese were among the passengers. it had just taken off from the smaller of taipei's airport on short flight. the control tower lost contact, it had been relatively clear weather at the time of takeoff. local television showed the damage to the overpass. it appeared to barely miss nearby apartment buildings, those not clear whether the pilot deliberately steered the stricken plane into the river in an attempt to avoid greater disaster. taiwan is the third largest carrier and its second crash. another in july killing 48 people. it's evening in taipei and the search for have yoursurviv

nbc's ian williams is following the very latest developments from beijing. good morning.t can you tell us? >> reporter: hi, jose. well, the rescue workers are continuing to pull debris out of that river. trying to find those still unaccounted for, but divers and others who are working on that exercise say that the water is very very murky, and the tide very strong. so it's pretty slow going there. at the same time today, the mayor of taipei declared that the pilot of that aircraft is a hero. he said that he managed -- the pilot had managed to avoid a lot of tall buildings, including apartment buildings that you can see in that dramatic video in order to steer the plane into the relative safety of the river. it could have been a far worse disaster, had the plane hit one of those blocks. now, experts will say that perhaps it's too early to determine that, but certainly the mayor is saying that this man is a hero. also today, the authorities in taipei confirmed that a mayday distress call released on a website yesterday is genuine. they have the engines and black box. so it

ian williams joins us now with more on the search operation taking place right now. ian, what's the latest? >> reporter: high tamron. the latest is they've now hoisted the battered body of that aircraft out of the river and are now looking for those who remain unaccounted for. the latest figures we have from the aviation authorities are, as you mentioned, 17 still missing and 26 now -- 27 i'm sorry, now confirmed dead. now, this aircraft was only two minutes into a flight out of the second of two airports in taipei when the pilot lost control. and those last moments captured dramatically by the dash cams of at least two cars on that elevated motorway. the aircraft clipped the edge of the motorway almost sliced the front off a taxi before it landed in the river just below the expressway. soon a massive rescue operation clicked in. swarms of rubber boats surrounding the aircraft, just to give you some sort of idea of the resources that the taiwanese through at it, we're talking about 90 fire engines, 37 ambulances, 4 water motors 60 boats and more than 400 police and fi

. >> nbc news correspondent ian williams is a veteran reporter in the region. >> different countriesdifferent ways of working. cambodia is a special case. it's a very small country. it's also a very poor country, and a lot of the systems that are in place in cambodia, whether it's law enforcement, the health system and crowd control systems are pretty basic. >> every year nearly 2 million people flood cambodia's capital city, phnom penh, for the water festival, which marks the end of the rainy season. on the final night of the 2010 festival, a concert lets out and crowds begin to converge on a newly constructed suspension bridge. it's the only pedestrian walkway connecting the mainland to diamond island. freelance journalist robert carmichael and his friend, daravuth sang, a cambodian lawyer, live in phnom penh. >> this island that was an entertainment center that was newly opened. there were people on the island who wanted to leave and go home, and there were people who were on the mainland who wanted to get on the island to come and have a good time. >> it had gotten tighter and ti

nbc news correspondent ian williams. ian, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, joe.self only just missed the aircraft. it came down almost on its side collided with that flyover before careening, cartwheeling into the river. what's not clear is whether the pilot deliberately tried to make it into the river. he managed to make his way by a couple of apartment block there's. the aircraft was a french-built atr-72 with 58 people onboard. now, this evening, it's dark now in taipei and that search for survivors continues. the acting fire chief of the city has confirmed that 16 people are dead but they're still looking for another 14 who are unaccounted for. they're looking at ways to try and bring the fuse lodge to thelage to the edge of the river or perhaps get a pontoon out to the aircraft. the way it landed means it's upside-down in the river and those still inside the fuselage were at the front of the plane when it crushed, they believe. horrific scenes captured by the dashcam. not sure what might have caused it. there is a suggestion tonight of perhaps engine failure

ian williams nbc news beijing. >>> secretary of state john kerry is in ukraine today to show support for the embattled government. this as the obama administration wavesle sending arms to kiev to fight separatists. kerry brought with him more than $16 million in u.s. humanitarian aid and the lethal weaponry ukrainian leaders say they desperately need to defend themselves. >>> police are searching for two teenagers shot outside a maryland high school while a basketball game was going on pence. witnesses say people started running and the school was evacuated. the wounded teens were brought to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. >>> and if you had find your kids misbehaving lately an atlanta area barber says he has found a way to cut it out. russell frederick is giving free haircuts. he calls it is benjamin button special. the idea is to shave the tops of their heads to make them look like balding old men. frederick says he gave cut to his own son for getting bad grades apparently it worked. he saw immediate results. he says interests in the haircut has skyrocketed. so far

. >> all right, ian williams. that's just terrifying. thank you very much. >> isis followed through on the threats to murder a captured jordanian pile at. jordan responded by executing two prisoners by releasing a convicted terrorist isis did demanded. richard? >> reporter: the jordanian king abdullah who cut short his visit to washington returned to his home country. the jordanian king is a close u.s. ally in jordan and across the muslim world, there were condemn nations of isis and revulsion of the brutality. crowds of supporters gathered in imam to welcome home their king and demand he exact revenge. before sunrise jordan executed two militant who is had been on death row, including this woman who isis was trying to trade for the life of the jordanian pilot. the 26-year-old 50 lieutenant captured when he ejected from his f-16 on christmas eve on a mission in the u.s.-led war. yesterday isis released this video shocking even by its own standards with images of the pilot being burned alive in a page. president obama who met with the kin

ian williams has the latest for us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, savannah. the latest we're hearing from taiwan aviation officials is that 23 people are now conirm iffed dead, and 20 still missing. that aircraft cartwheeling into a taipei river. this dramatic dash cam video appears to show the last moments of the transasia flight. the aircraft clipping a roadway before crashing in the shallow river below. emergency rescue teams soon converged on the partly submerged fuselage, belly up in the water, 58 passengers and crew trapped. debris was scattered. one of the first to be pulled from the crippled plane was a small child. one of two believed to be on board. the french built atr 72 turboprop was nine months old. 31 mainland chinese were among the passengers. it had just taken off from the smaller of two airports on a short flight. it lost contact shortly before 11 in what had been a stormy morning. though it had been relatively clear at the time of take-off, local television showed the damage to the overpass. the aircraft appeared to just barely miss apartme

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