natalie? >> well, we certainly understand why they couldn't bring any pieces of the plane. they just didn't find any. and as far as the satellite images are there any from this new area? anything that they see that is interesting that is floating there? >> certainly, they say they have this new information based on new radar and satellite data. they're not saying where it is coming from and they're not saying exactly what it is. what they're telling us natalie, they're now repositioning a lot of the satellites to be able to take in the new search zone. i want to point out this is a new search effort, all hands on deck, all the international satellites have their eyes spied on this new area. and we should see more information coming from the satellite images in the coming hours. >> all right, we thank you. paula, we'll talk with you again for sure. >>> and for the latest on the search conditions let's go to meteorologist karen mcginnis, in the weather center. karen, this might be an area they c

natalie? >>> well, we hope they have been able to see something. thank you as much andrew stevens live for us there in perth. we'll get back to you when there's some news. more on the search for the malaysia airlines flight and the investigation in a moment. first, we want to go to our other major international story this hour. >>> the upper house of russia's parliament expected to vote in the next hour to ratify the agreement allowing crimea to join the russian federation. the lower house approved the measure 443-1 on thursday. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov told lawmakers the move is necessary to protect ethnic russians. meantime, u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon is headed to kiev today after meeting with russian president vladimir putin in moscow. the european union is ratcheting up the pressure on russia over its annexation of crimea. e.u. leaders announced a new round of sanctions against moscow thursday and say they plan to sign a political association pact with ukraine. nina d

natalie? >> you certainly nailed it there. we have been unlucky and to think that all the world's resources are on this and right now there are airplanes and ships from so many different countries either headed to or over this new region, all the while it just has to be so disappointing to the families to hear that, nope, they weren't searching in the right area, they're off to a new area. what do you know about how they're doing? how they're holding up? >> you know, they're not well. some of them are physically ill. their emotions have run the gamut -- the highs, the lows, the promise, the disappointment, the anguish, the despair, the announcements that everyone is lost. all of these things have been ripping away at the families. and really we must say affecting, too, those who work with them. now malaysia airlines is going to hold a separate press briefing. we'll get one at 5:30 eastern time at the regular hour here and then another one to immediately follow that for malaysia airlines and i think they're going lay out more o

i'm natalie allen.s continues next. >>> breaking news this morning -- the search intensifies for flight 370. thousands of miles being scoured to find this passenger jet that just disappeared from the sky with hundreds of passengers on board. no trace at this moment. this morning, new questions about the pilots on board. could they have purposely shut down the plane's communications for steering this flight off course? we have live team coverage covering all the angles and the very latest developments from overnight. >>> plus, breaking news in ukraine -- crimea voting to secede from the country and join russia.

want to bring you some news, natalie. some 12 hours or so since that lost contact with air traffic control, it appears now that the news is not good. according to the people's daily, the main mouthpiece, as it were, of the china's communist party and according to leading daily papers in vietnam, the vietnamese navy commander is now saying that the plane went down around 150 miles south of an island off of vietnam and it appears so that this is definitely the case that this airliner went down. the family members in the hotel behind me have been streaming and not knowing what the situation was. one woman wailed out in chinese, my son was only 14 years old. she was led into crowds of reporters trying to find out any information. another man said he had a relative on the plan, looking very bleak. most of not commenting at all on this but the chinese authorities are saying they have sent these two vessels towards the south china sea to try to conduct some kind of rescue and recovery efforts. at this point barrier early but i w

can we get a shot of natalie? there she is! also a special note for john tower.ery exciting. i found this in our studio. found a cell phone in the men's room. john tower, this is for you. you'll be happy. he's been mourning for 24 hours now. we start off with very serious news. it's been over one week since flight 370 disappeared. we're no closer to finding out what happened to the passengers and crew. yesterday the white house said it will search may be expanded to the indian ocean because of the new information first reported by the wall secrete journal. they believed it remained in the air for several hours, meaning the plane may have traveled 200 miles. look at that distance. that's based off the pings sent from the plane to satellite recordings. that records the speed and altitude. the final ping was sent over water from a normal cruising altitude. aviation officials are still investigating the possibility that someone on the the plane disabled the the communication systems. abc radio is reporting two data recording systems were shut down less than 15 minute

. >> yeah, that was natalie's 21st birthday party. >> charlie: 21st. yeah, frank gave her that party. that was a great time. >> charlie: what was he like? great. >> charlie: the consummate entertainer. >> yeah. >> charlie: the consummate entertainer. >> he was so generous to me, took me places with him and, you know, i went to recording sessions and saw him so often. he was just a fabulous guy. fabulous. >> charlie: you knew lou wasserman. >> yes. >> charlie: how was he? he was very influential in my career. >> charlie: what did he do for you? >> he put me into television. >> charlie: because he owned universal. >> yeah. >> charlie: or part of it. he said, i think this character for you, alexander munday, which is a series i did called "it takes a thief," he says, i think you can make the cross between movies and going into television and he said, i want you to do it. he says, if it doesn't work out, i'll make a movie out of it for you. i said, okay. >> charlie: if it doesn't work out, i'll make a movie. >> yeah. and i did the series and then it just -

natalie? it is a very scary thing, indeed. pete williams. thank you. >>> more fallout from russia's annexing ukraine's crimean peninsula. european leaders are expanding the sanctions and russia is answering with some of its own. nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell has more. andrea, good morning. >> good morning, natalie. the u.s. hopes to stop russia from going beyond crimea with these new sanctions. vladimir putin says he won't advance farther into ukraine, his actions speak otherwise. pro-russian masked men with guns stormed this ukrainian ship in crimea's largest port. threw the crew to the deck and raised the russian flag. shots were fired, but no one was hurt. not quiet either on the western front. the russian army continued live fire exercises just over ukraine's eastern border. defended with sandbags and ditches, no match for putin's might. the russian president was lectured by the u.n. chief for grabbing crimea and president obama upped the ante with more sanction

natalie? >> we know that the conditions are going to worsen. will they continue to fly planes and keep ships in the region if the weather gets bad? >> reporter: yeah, they will continue to fly planes and keep the ships there. the ships are, in fact, in the search area over 24 hours. none of them ever leave the search area once they get there. they just continue that search. the weather is improving in our location here, so hopefully it's not too bad out there in the search area. the one new development is the ocean shield. this is the australian vessel that will be carrying a towed pinger locater. this has been given by the u.s. navy used to hear the signal coming from the flight data recorder. what we understand is it's already been placed on the ocean shield, which means the vessel can go to the search area. but it's likely to take a few days before it reaches the area. once it gets there, it will help to join that search. so hopefully between -- when it leaves now and when it gets there will have some sort of lead to go off of. >> as far as

. >> natalie most of the housing units around you have been demolished or sitting v vacant.o you feel deceived by the housing department? >> yes, i do feel deceived. where i come from [ inaudible ] have been torn down. and then they tear them down and say we're going to build you 300 public housing units. we're still waiting >> our community is talking about this is effecting. foreclosures have disproportionately affected that community. myia says . . . and dave goes . . . and then liz says chicago needs ray shall integration desperate. have better access to schools and diminish the gangs. rick you are a foreclosure expert. larger clients i'm assuming are from these communities. talk to us about this house crisis, how it has disproportionately effected the low-income communities of chicago. >> certainly it has effected the low-income communities, but it's not a unique problem for the poor. there are multi-million dollars homes that are being foreclosed upon. the poor of course have resources to defend themselves against the foreclosure, and so there -- they are often not as

you're watching cnn, i'm natalie allen.we'll continue our coverage of the missing malaysia airlines plane in a moment. first i want to look at thor stories we're following closely as well. the european union has announced a new round of sanctions against russia targeting political leaders close to president vapd. e.u. leaders plan to sign a political association pact with ukraine later today. turkey's government has blocked twitter after the prime minister vowed to eradicate the social networking site. prime minister erdogan vented at a campaign rally. he says twitter ignored court orders to remove the web links. the founding pastor of a kansas church known for its anti-gay protest at public events has died. fred phelps was 84 years old. westboro baptist church members have picketed thousands of events, everything from lady gaga concerts to military funerals. now, an update of our top story again. planes are in the air over the indian ocean searching for signs of missile airlines flight 370, the area extremely remote and ma

hi, natalie, you are? >> natalie. >> natalie, that's right. hi, al, i'm janeane driver.i said to al, how was your vacation to aruba? we like you better in aruba. this is what cops do. on the ground! you would never say, hey, how was your trip? how are the kids? this is aggressive. you might as well throw a snap in it. >> talk to the hand. >> when you steeple people, you intimidate people. donald trump can do it, oprah winfrey, but if you're doing this on a date or meeting someone and building rapport, hurts your rapport builder. >> how about anger or contempt? in fact, let's bring adam, our producer -- >> adam! >> show some of this. >> come over here. adam. make your lips disappear for me really tight. and say, willie, i love your hair style. >> willie, i love your hair style. >> willie. >> when we don't like what we see or hear, our lips disappear. we see notorious liars, people holding something back, this is anger. so when someone gives you a compliment or says i don't know who left the door unlocked. i didn't take the money. we don't like what we see or hear. contemp

. ♪ >>> any represent the next generation, natalie, cesar's grand niece. welcome to the show.ember doing an interview with you probably around the time that they called off the great boycott, they said we don't have to boycott grapes anymore, we're going to now eat grapes once again. you told me in the interview, it's still on for me, i'm not eating grapes. >> i haven't eaten a grape. >> it is over. it is over. >> tell me why. >> i haven't eaten grapes, it's a personal preference. it went just seeing what my grandfather went through and my grandmother went through and my family went through, my mom, her brothers and sisters, the rest of the family. it's very hard to just put that little grape in -- i can't do it. i still haven't eaten a grape. one day i might change. >> i wish i had your will. >> so natalie, when you're maybe at the supermarket, do you go -- do you find out once they know who you are, let me touch her, talk to her? >> yes, there's questions. i don't go out and advertise it all the time and everything, but when people do -- i'm happy to share the story and beca

natalie?>> today a defiant russian president, vladimir putin, said russians and ukraine are fed up with the government. he said crimea has been an inacceptable part of russia. monday, president obama imposed sanctions over the crisis in ukraine. >>> a california man is in custody this morning facing a terrorism related charge. 20-year-old nicholas toussaint was arrested. he planned to cross into canada and travel to syria to join islamist militants. he is accused of trying to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. prosecutors also say he once talked about bombing the los angeles subway system. >>> facing multiple investigations this morning, general motors' new ceo on the job for just two months, speaking out now about a series of recalls for the first time. gabe gutierrez has more from detroit. >> reporter: this morning, gm is facing four serious safety recalls, and many more questions. >> i probably wouldn't buy a gm car, knowing what's going on. >> reporter: the car m

. >> natalie paid. >> natalie. oh, perfect natalie. i am so over her. >> treating. we literally scooped our coats up and ran like crazy -- >> i did, hoda. you guys went to the bathroom. >> i had to go. i would have never made it. >> i said we're coming, honestly, we're coming, we're so sorry. we all sat in the back because we didn't want to spoil it. it is called "the bridges of madison county" starring four-time or five-time tony nominee kelley o'hara, another one for this one and steven squal who you know from the tv show "rescue." >> very cute. >> sexy as all get out. and it is all about -- it is like the book and the movie of the same name. and we enjoyed ourselves. >> we did. >> i would say the audience was about 90% women, wouldn't you? >> what did you say after the show? to him. we went backstage and took that photo. >> now we can show the photo. >> there we are. guess what kathie lee said to the man next to her? >> i'm sorry. i always speak the truth. >> and? >> and it came out. you made a lot of horny housewives very happy today. >> yes, she did. she said t

i'm natalie allen. you're watching cnn "newsroom." the search has resumed but planes and ships are facing deteriorating weather. more than 1800 kilometers west of perth, australia. australian officials say one of their vessels has a black box detecter and underwater vehicle. on saturday two chinese ships collected white, orange and red objects from the search zone but none has been linked to the missing boeing 777. chinese airplanes have drooped buoys to mark three sites. the latest on the search. atika schubert live from perth, australia. atika. >> reporter: a number of search planes should be in the search area. also a malaysia c-130 just took off at the air base and expecting another one to take off shortly and join the search. so they have a little bit more time searching today. the weather in this new search area is much better than the ole one but unfortunately a storm is coming up from the south. so that might affect their visibility but we understand from the coordinating team here in australia that they will press ahead and t

natalie? as a young star. what everybody wanted to be. young star, who was becoming huge. >> she started off as a child actor. at five years old she was playing with orson welles. >> i didn't know that. >> they died her hair blonde. five years old. she had a gift. a god-given gift. she was able to make that crossover. she really did some wonderful work. she did great pictures. >> everybody [indiscernible] there is never anybody who has had exactly what he had in terms of roles. >> he created it. but, also, those scripts. that dynamic that went on with philadelphia story and that kind of thing. that doesn't happen anymore. >> mr. smith goes to washington. do you wish you had spent more time learning the business? >> i learned a whole business. those guys are very special. warren is a very talented man. >> he is back making a new film. >> and george clooney. >> clint eastwood. >> look at his career. i never had that chance to direct. >> they don't just give you the chance. >> i did some directing on tv. i was in tv for 15 years. i had a gre

natalie? >> keir simmons, thank you.m wood whose 50-year-old brother phillip was on board the missing flight. phillip who worked for ibm in asia had just been home to visit his family in texas last week. >> he was like a mentor. he was always pushing himself to do more and accomplish more and explore more. and so, i'm going to miss all those things. >> the wood brothers said their parents and phillip's two adult sons are holding up well thanks to their religious faith. >>> president obama will meet wednesday in washington with the acting prime minister of ukraine to discuss russia's moves toward seizing ukraine's crimean peninsula. this weekend, moscow reinforced the troops who took over border crossings and surrounded military bases in the region. crimeans will vote in are referendum next sunday. >>> peru has agreed to send joran van der sloot to the u.s. to face charges, but not until 2038 when he completes his sentence for killing a peruvian woman. van der sloot is the chief suspect in the 2005 disappearance of natale

joined by natalie morales and al roker as well. busy news day. >> it's so hard to believe so few answers related to that flight 370. we're almost at a week since this happened. >> that's right. we'll have much more on that story coming up. >>> but our top story today is that tragedy at the south by southwest festival overnight. it was caused by an alleged drunk driver. our nbc affiliate kxan is at the scene. sophia, good morning to you. >> reporter: matt, police say a suspected drunk driver tried to escape police, but then led them on a chase, plowing down a crowd of people and then eventually crashing into several cars. >> everywhere you look, somebody's been hit. >> reporter: a terrifying scene overnight after a suspected drunk driver refused to stop for police, taking them on a high-speed chase before plowing through barricades set up for the south by southwest festival and into a crowd of people. >> the car barrels down ninth and red river, goes down red river and hits multiple people. an unfortunate, very sad, multiple people

. >> reporter: good morning, natalie. there are still hundreds of ukrainian troops trapped inside their bases in crimea, and today, russian forces moved to drive them out. pro russian forces took over the main naval headquarters in crimea today, putting muscle behind russia's first expansion in decades. >> putin. >> reporter: in the czar's former palace last night, president vladimir putin officially annexed crimea and got a standing ovation. he said crimea has always been an inseparable part of russia. but in ukraine today, there is indignation and fear that russia will take eastern ukraine next. >> to work in crimea, here -- >> reporter: secretary of state kerry said the situation is similar to the days leading up to the second world war, and in the strongest possible terms, warned russia against invading mainland ukraine. >> as egregious as any step that i can think of that can be taken by a country in today's world. >> reporter: vice president biden has been touring eastern europe, and today the baltics, to assure ner

. >> good afternoon supervisors, my name is natalie. i'm here representing the chinese coalition for children. i'm currently staffing a program by the children's fund that works with 30 amazing young people from low income working class background. i am a direct product of the children's fund. it's critical to have the support for the young people in our city especially when the city is becoming more expensive for the working class and low income families and having less opportunity for young people. it's important to incorporate age transitional youth because you turn 18-21. i was fortunate enough to have the support i needed in that phase. there are many out this that are not lucky. i urge you to support the coals recommendation to benefit more young people for the future of san francisco. thank you. >> hello, good evening supervisors, my name is lily. i'm at coleman advocates. i'm here because i'm also a product of like natalie said, i'm a product of the children's amendment. i have been a participant of programs that were funded thr

and we have here natalie wilson the co-founder of the black and missing foundation, shared with us theefits of using social media to find missing children. give her a listen. >> minority families or children face a number of issues when they go missing. for instance, law enforcement treat many of these cases as run aways. if you considered a run away you do not receive the amber alert or any type of media coverage. and that's where social media plays a very important roalt. because we do not -- role because we do not wait for normal news cycle and social media is instantaneous. >> amanda, you just heard natalie. is social media really bypassing if you will, helping find minority missing children? >> i don't think it's bypassing. what i think is, can it is supporting. it's working together. and social media is the opportunity to allow us to be instantly connected with information. and what is there more powerful information to be connected to than playing the role to help to find the life of a missing child. >> skip, whether it's amber alert or milk carton 2.0 how do you make people fro

>> oh. >> the way you read that -- dark natalie. that's dark natalie reading.d the fortune cookie. >> we'll explain. >> a nice story behind the fortune cookie. >> this says "the only limits to the possibilities in your life are the buts you use today." >> again -- >> who planted this? anyway. >> don't quite make that -- grammatically correct or there's a lot of misspellings. >> we can read a lot into both of these. >> we won't. speaking of misspellings. >> president obama last night at the white house hosted a women of soul concert. amazing lineup, patti labelle, aretha franklin, melissa etheridge. this is what happened when the president of the united states paid tribute to aretha franklin. listen to the spelling. >> instead of singing about love and pain, forgiveness and acceptance to a church audience, they sang about them to the world. and the world had never heard anything like it. when aretha first told us what r-s-p-e-c-t meant to her -- >> he left out an "e." >> "rspect." not when you're doing to aretha and aretha is there. >> the funny thing is, the wh

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nestle said natalie theory is the most current wheels speaking of course it is a cause for worry. he is a good balance. puzzled by us president barack obama to win to be called to steal bulk collection of dice the national security agency will be divided to call with it a few hours from now the move is being seen as a cleaner concession to european concerns bought at cctv jack often reports from brussels. it's unlikely to stop the eu from pursuing its own new diaper. miss work the buses would be heard not just your eyes the us sought closer ties with europe via ukraine this week president barack obama announced he would seek an end to the whole collection of dolls out by america's national security agency the nsa smoking program has been a fold in the sino eu and us relations and european politicians site and about ten will not stop the ball taking it summed up a network the european parliament is even calling for a down to below rocks year union is looking to win the ten starts for our company's history here between the naacp the overall severely our attempts at speaking in relat

to this day, natalie holloway's remains are still missing. judge later declared her dead. >> we're learning graphic new details in the death of crocodile hunter steve irwin. the cameraman says the huge sting ray that killed him stabbed him not once but hundreds of times in a few seconds. think of that. one stingray, gouging him hundreds of times. we're looking into that. never heard of this from a stingray. >> it's troubling stuff. the cameraman did an interview with an australian tv news station and says him and irwin war out looking for something to film when they came across this huge stingray. he says they were in water about chest deep, filming the stingray, when it suddenly lashed out at irwin, stabbed him hundreds of times, like you said, and you said that its barb cut through irwin's chest like a hot knife through butter, and he said he didn't ann reel -- anything was wrong until he saw that irwin was standing in a huge pool of blood. the ray was reported lay bull ray. a member of the eagle ray family. this is a spotted eagle ray, jus

. >> natalie, this is a very tech savvy group here. they're always on their smartphones. certainly getting the updates that came out of australia that we just heard. as they were saying, the challenge is the remoteness. the planes that go out -- they can only go a certain distance. and then by the time they get to the search area, they spend a couple hours there before they have off to come back. that avenue the concern for the families here. 154 chinese people aboard that plane. their families have been waiting, going to into day 16. right now a lot of the families are meeting with malaysian officials behind me in the hotel. there was a meltdown i told you about yesterday. between the chinese families and malaysian officials. uncertain whether the officials would come back. they did this morning. they're hammering out certainer use. now media is not allowed in. because the the malaysians requested no media inside. because of that, because that happened. they're concerned about the safety of their own officials. we did catch up, one person who exited. he is a grandmother.

natalie? >> we're going to be hearing more about this one. thanks so much from our washington bureau. >>> senate democrats pulled an all-nighter. lawmakers took to the floer to talk about global warming, the dusk to dawn talk athon was expected to go 15 hours. climate change is a question of our own survival. >> fugitive nsa leaker edward snowden answered questions from the public on monday during the south by southwest conference in austin, texas, and snowden spoke on a web chat from russia after being granted temporary asylum there. the nsa is doing harm to national security and, quote, setting fire to the internet. >>> proof this morning of just how powerful and dangerous an avalanche can be. take a look. this is video from crystal mountain in washington state. the ski patrol used explosives to trigger an avalanche and that wall of snow ended up wiping out a chairlift. the area was closed at the time. fortunately, no one was hurt. >>> a scary moment at an nhl game in dallas, they were talking on the columbus blue jackets star center rich p

and los angeles county, now questions come to light about the actress natalie wood.it was ruled an accidental drowning. in 2012, a coroner changes the death certificate. drowning and other undetermined factors. ♪ and the diamonds are a girl's best friend ♪ >> reporter: marlin monroe in 1962, her death was a probable suicide. an overdose of barbituates. what about her links to president john k. kennedy, robert kennedy, the various crime bosses? >> i talked to at least 40 people who said, who talked to her before she died and said how excited she was, how she made plans for the next day, and all of a sudden she's dead. >> reporter: a year later president kennedy shot in dallas. his death at once shocking the nation and still causing confusion. that perennial question, could there be a second shoot her? >> the church committee concluded unanimously that there was at least, you know, two different gunmen, but yet that's been denied by others. >> reporter: it may be the greatest mystery in american history. lee harvey oswald was ruled the only assassin, but 60 years later

natalie? >> tom costello in washington for us, thank you. >>> well, after a shouting match on capitol hill, california republican darrell issa says his probe of alleged irs abuses may have hit a dead end. issa tried to end a hearing wednesday when a former irs manager refused to testify, but he was interrupted by maryland democrat elijah cummings. >> let me say what i have to say. i've listened to you for the last 15 to 20 minutes. let me say what i have to say. >> chairman issa proceeded to adjourn hearing anyway saying that cummings had a chance to answer a question and did not ask it. >>> another hopeful breakthrough in medicine as we are learning of a second baby born with hiv who has apparently been cured of it. this follows last year's announcement of a baby in mississippi essentially cured by giving the newborn a cocktail of medications. and this latest case involves an hiv-infected baby in california who also received aggressive treatment within four hours of birth, and so far shows no

>> but we just -- >> natalie, are you serious? >> -- get on your side of the story. >> okay.inking last night? you never drink, right? that's not the question. that's a question. >> no, because you said a while ago you stopped drinking so we were just wondering if that was still the case. >> reporter: the mayor vowed to stop drinking last november but later admitted to consuming alcohol on at least one occasion since. when he was filmed at the steak king swaying and slurring last january. his brother doug said he didn't know what his brother was up to. >> not too sure. we're down here and having fun. >> what was the mayor up to, you don't know? >> don't know. >> reporter: the woman driving the car said ford's statement made her believe he had just come from a party but nothing from pord. from ford. so just to be clear, your response is no? continuing to hand out the same beads he was wearing in the video. >> and that was natalie johnson reporting. you just got to shake your head. >> yeah, of course. >> he knows people are keeping an eye out for that kind of behavior and then

natalie?ic testimony on day one of the oscar pistorius murder trial in south africa. the amputee olympian pleaded not guilty to murdering his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. a neighbor testified this morning that she heard blood-curdling screams first from a woman and then from a man then gunfire. her mother was in court today because she wants to look pistorius in the eyes. and june steenkamp will join us tomorrow on "today." >>> well, just days after a suburban, new york, jury found her not guilty of driving under the influence of prescription sleeping pill, kerry kennedy told matt this morning that her family's name played no role in her acquittal. >> i think i won this case for three basic reasons. number one, i was innocent. number two, i had competent counsel. and number three, i was willing to bring it to trial. >> and as president of the rfk center for justice and human rights, one of kennedy's goals so to make sure anyone accused of a crime has access to competent legal help. >>> britain'

and for more from russia and the homeless combat correspondent natalie to me she's in moscow. i will now play with adhd have us there from the russian capital. well today i remain ahead of the united nations is he in us that he will be meeting with president saddam in the same as he tries to bring about that did not say as sedation seed raising tensions the weakest hearing about that tomorrow by seeming to be heading to kiev to meet with the confessions of a seat trying to get the two sides at the scene like to lie to oversee very difficult but given that russia is leaving that to make the crimea and parts of russia. today he said that both the russian paul scholes is set to be issued in crimea at and kiev responding by saying the russians will know me and pieces add to that ukraine has some great despite the efforts and they stood by its lights the scene to the meeting father pops milne and leigh be either in the us imposed sanctions on russia and watch some russian officials and threatening more measures. what could this mean for russia. while these officials us and threw it

natalie good morning. >> good morning to you once again.ns on 11 russians and ukrainians blamed for military incursion into crime i i can't including two top aids to russian president vladimir putin. on sunday, voters overwhelm bli chose to join russia. the u.s. and union don't he hopes to solve the diplomacy. >> over sovereignty and territorial integrity and continue military intervention will deepen russia's isolation. >> u.s. also saying it will target the assets of other individuals who aren't be government officials but are supporting them. >> residents woke up to an earthquake. the 4.4 quake hit at 6:25 pacific time 15 miles from downtown los angeles. no damage or injuries are reported. >>> the latest clues in the mysterious disappearance of the plane 370. experts say it was deliberately diverted. they cannot say for sure who is responsible. >> good morning. this is a navy 3p. on board are advanced submarine detection sensors. it can look beneath the oechlce. here on land, the focus on the pilot. through the weekend, both of their hom

(natalie) ooooh, i like your style. (vo) so do we, business pro. so do we. go national.ike a pro. >>>s the national peoples congress comes to an end, factory, retail numbers all add to the worries over china slowing down. an unexpected jump in hiring in australia. but it is still a mixed picture for the mining rich economy. hello, everybody. i'm aaron. welcome to the program. it is a fascinating and exciting snapshot. all the latest in the world of business examine money. we'll talk about australia. in fact, talk to an expert by some of the numbers and what's going on with that. first, changing times in khaoch or is it? chinas national peoples congress has come to a close. the leaders of the second biggest economy want to overhaul china's financial system. in a work report presented at the start of the mpc, they unveiled key proposals for reform, including a measure to ensure bank deposits. a move to allow issuing bonds. that's debt. and trade more freely. the question is can china rebalance its economy? let's find out. i the mayor chan andre joining us from paris. some

(natalie) ooooh, i like your style. (vo) so do we, business pro. so do we. go national. go like pro. >>> there's been more airborne radiation detected at a nuclear waste dump in southeastern new mexico, the same plant near the city of charlarlsba officials e insistin these detected levels remain well below of a public or environmental zard. a group of scientists is now estimating that the radiation from japan fukushima's plant could reach our west coast. scientists are being careful of what they're sayi about the radio activity move iing along h it. >>> not obligated to defend laws that are discriminatory. i'm joined by two fox legal analysts. this is a peculiar thing for an attorney general to say. >> certainly when you have a federal attorney general telling states what to do. that's odd from the beginning. what attorneys general, what they are u.s. attorneys, et cetera, what are they poised to do and elected to do in some capacities is to defend the constitution. >> that's a process that this administration has undertaken. it's selective. it's choosi what to choose. >

can we just do a quick clap for natalie picking a good song. >> good song. very good song. >> savannah said finally you've redeemed yourself. >> very good song. we're going to have a lot to celebrate in a moment. objects in the indian ocean spotted by satellite. there's hope this could possibly be from malaysia air flight 370, finally giving some answers to the families who have been waiting in agony. let's get to nbc's tom costello who has been following this every step of the way. hi, tom. >> reporter: these images were taken four days ago, the largest piece is here. 79 feet across, the other 15 feet. the tail is about 60 feet. this area is so remote, right down there off of the coast of australia in a rather remote area. in fact, we're talking about 1,500 miles from perth, australia. >>> this is an nbc news special report. here's savannah guthrie. >>> good morning, president obama is about to deliver a statement on the crisis in ukraine in just a moment. this situation growing more tense this morning between the u.s. and its allies and russia over russia'

natalie has the morning off.d to change your diapers. >> that was about two weeks ago. >> but apparently, you can confirm this. their aunt is a dear, dear friend of my mom's. pat edwards and her husband, cliff. and they useded to have house parties together and a very old school, and in fact, pat lives in texas. >> so, the sign is true. >> the sign is in fact true. i don't remember this, but i assume, i've got some pictures. >> and they may have some, too. >> of my parents and pat and cliff back in like the early '60s. they were having parties, back then, little smoke, little drinking, playing cards. that was back in the day when your parents would get together with friends on a friday night. play cards, have a house party. everybody's dancing. >> and you're rolling around in your diaper. >> i always remember, when the edwards would come over, my mom got out this big jar of brach's chocolate stars. i kept eating them. my mother said, if you eat one more of those, you're going to turn into a chocolate star. of cou

(natalie) ooooh, i like your style. (vo) so do we, business pro. so do we. go national. go like pro. i ke prisec otc each morni for my frzero heartburn.n. becat wohoo! [ male announcer ] prilosec otc is the number one doctor recommended frequent heartburn medicine for 8 straight years. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. >>> the federal communications commission has suspended its controversial so-called studies of newsrooms in an effort to develop, quote, understanding, quote of perceived station bias. my next guest is one of the critics of that. and he's the man largery responsible for bringing this to the public's attention. he's fcc commission er pi. i want to thank you for bringing this to the public's attention, because this is such an outrageous intrusion on the first -- you know, in newsrooms and on the first amendment. it's just incredible to me that the fcc would even think to undertake a so-called study of the way news is both developed and covered and the decisionmaking process therein. >> that's part of the concern i had when i looked into this h

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natalie taking her kid to the park. and these guys knew as well, they understood that a well functioning society needs role models. we're very confused about this. we need to clear up and get a little more optimistic. it could go better than it's going to now. something else the news because to us, and it tends -- does to us and it tends to do it on the weekend. on the weekend it's time for the slower bits of news, the blogs, etc. and sometimes, you know, we'll go out and go and buy the sunday paper. big, fat thing, and we'll sit down on the sofa, and the birds are chirping outside. in the olden days sometimes on the news they say viewers beware, there's some visually, you know, strobe lighting coming up, so beware of strobe lighting. there should be these kinds of warnings over the sunday papers. and what they should be flashing is envy. envy alert, right? but they don't because the news very frequently does not warn us. what do i mean by envy alert? we live in a very mobile, merit accuratic, on a good day, societies w

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there will be seven winners of all and today's winner is natalie v. from fremont.us at facebook.com/abc7news and fill out the entry form so we know how to get in touch with you if you win. >>> the latest rain has helped rally marin's endangered coho salmon.!u the marin independent journal rains last month helped facilitate the fish from the seed of the spawning grounds. it was said to be in danger after its population dipped to all-time lows four years ago but with enough good rainfall officials believe 2014 could be a strong year for the species. the fish enjoying the wet weather and some people who are standing outside on rooftops enjoying the wet weather as well,óñ0gu sure have a sunny demeanor to you this morning, lisa. >> just this morning, matt? thanks. >> all the time, of course. >> you're right, it's not really a big deal. it is some light rain with us throughout the day today but throughout the next couple of days and that's a good reason for it. the model is not picking this up but you know what? we like it just the same. in fact, petaluma has picked up o