>> kristen welker and "the daily rundown." see you tomorrow. thanks for your patience, good-bye. >>> crimea and punishment, as diplomatic talks flounder. crimea's legislature overwhelmingly declares they want to break off from ukraine and join vladimir putin's russia. plus, there will be a ton to see this weekend as the invisible primary for 2016 get s under wa at the cpac. >>> and total consciousness. a special senate visit this morning by the dalai lama for the opening prayer. we'll see it live this hour. >>> and a very good morning to you from a very busy washington, d.c. it's thursday, march 6th, 2014. this is the "the daily rundown." i'm kristen welker in for chuck todd. so let's get right to it. we begin with moscow tightening its grip on the ukrainian region of crimea, even as the obama administration takes new action to punish russian officials. they say they're undermining ukraine's sovereignty. the leader of crimea now says at least 11,000 troops -- nearly all believed to be russian -- have seized the entire peninsula, controlling acc

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this is the daily rundown. the latest on both the missing malaysian plane and the outlook for ukraine coming up this hour. >>> but we begin with breaking news at the capitol. 28 democrats are just wrapping up an all-night talk-a-thon on one issue, climate change. these 30 senators, including majority leader harry reid spent about 30 hours trying to attract attention to climate change and hoping to grab the attention of swing voters. a planned event with lots of charts and pictures. senators took turns talking about natural disasters in their home states like superstorm sandy and the wildfires in colorado. these senators have now formed the climate caucus. did they accomplish their goal of raising the issue's profile even more in the minds of swing vo voters? in a few minutes we'll talk to senator tim kaine of virginia about how effective the talk-a-thon can be. that's all ahead. >>> first to my first read of the morning. if it's tuesday, somebody's voting somewhere. today that somewhere is pretty important. in

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and this is "the daily rundown." i'm kristen welker in for chuck todd who will join us in a minute from vatican city. that's where we begin with today's historic meeting between president obama and pope francis. the president was greeted at the vatican by members of the iconic swiss guard after a slow and deliberate walk through the halls with dignitaries. the president arrived outside the papal library where the pope greeted him in the small throne room. photographers snapped their pictures when they were joined by translators for a private meeting. after their meeting, the president and the pope exchanged gifts. the pope gave the president a copy of his papal letter, the joy of the gospel, in which he calls for a church that is poor and for the poor and the president offered this. [ inaudible ] and it's not the first time president obama has met with the head of the roman catholic church. he set down with pope benedict xvi in 2009. president obama, who's made income inequality the defining issue of his second term

but now, it's time for "the daily rundown" with chuck todd. have a wonderful weekend, everybody. >>> as russia crosses the "ts" and dots the "is" on adding crimea, putin fights back with sanctions of his own for top politicians, and they're ready to wear them as a badge of honor. >>> also this morning, illinois governor pat quinn is here, fresh off his primary win and ahead of a potentially rocky road to re-election. a tdr 50 look at the pension problems plaguing the land of lincoln. >>> plus, a ton of 2016 headlines this week thank you might have missed amid all the other news, some of it in quotes, major and minor moves that turned heads, raised eyebrows, and turned up the chatter that actually does really matter. >>> good morning from washington. it's friday, march 21st, 2014. this is "the daily rundown." day two of spring, right? feels pretty good out there. we begin with the latest developments on the intense search for any sign of that missing malaysian jetliner that was carrying 239 passengers and crew. it's now been almost two weeks si

now it's time for "the daily rundown with chuck todd." have a great day. >> take it away, chuck. >>> definance. russian president vladimir putin says crimea always was and still is part of russia. that declaration comes after president obama and european leaders level some sanctions. so, whose move is it now? >> 11 days of searching for the missing malaysia airlines plane and now frustrated families of passengers are pushing for more answers and action. hunger strike is even planned. >> plus, it's primary day in illinois. tdr 50 look at how the state's governor dodged a democratic divide and now republicans are squaring off for survival on president obama's home turf. >>> good morning from washington. it's tuesday, march 18th, 2014. this is "the daily rundown." breaking news this morning. moving parts around the world. let's get right to our first read and start right out of russia this morning. that president, vladimir putin, boldly defies u.s. warnings and international sanctions and formally restores crimea to the russian federation. i

this is "the daily rundown." we have the latest on the missing malaysian plane mystery later this hour. fascinating new reports about how long that plane was in the air. we'll begin with the latest live from the scene of that deadly explosion yesterday in new york city. here's what it looks like this morning as the search for victims continues at this hour. unfortunately, another body was recovered just moments ago. firefighters are still working to put out the last hot spots in the smoldering rubble. but there are dead bodies being found now. the mayor is expected to visit the scene and meet with first responders. officials now believe it was a gas explosion that levelled these two buildings and it sparked a furious five-alarm fire that burned for hours. at least seven people are confirmed dead. more than 70 injured and several people are still unaccounted for. katie is live on the scene in harlem. katie, what more do we know and how is this search -- i assume it's still search and rescue at this point, but it s

and this is "the daily rundown." i'm kristen welker in for chuck todd, who is continuing to travel with the president. >>> we start with the grueling search for the missing in the wake of that devastating mudslide in washington state, and worries the death toll will rise dramatically over the next few hours. the search is slow-going, because crews are still in rescue mode as they sift through the mile-wide mudslide that wiped out an entire neighborhood saturday in oso north of seattle. for the first time, search teams allowed a photographer to get these pictures of the rescue effort. at least 26 people were killed, but crews have only been able to recover 17 bodies so far. as many as 90 others could be missing. now, late last night, the fire chief said he is not giving up. >> we're still in a rescue mode here. as far as i'm concerned, we're still in a rescue mode. i haven't lost hope yet, and there's a lot of people up there that haven't lost hope yet. and so, we're not going to run big, huge, heavy equipment over ar

this is "the daily rundown."e'll also, of course, have the latest on the missing malaysian plane, actual facts in just a minute. plus, more about louisiana -- why former louisiana governor and ex-con edward edwards believes he should come to washington. >>> we begin with the breaking news on the crisis in ukraine. the fate of crimea now seemingly a foregone conclusion. the united states is drawing a line in the sand with russia. but what does that line mean, warning president putin not to go any further? this morning, vice president biden met with the leaders of lithuania and latvia in a sign of solidarity against russian aggression. >> president obama wanted me to come personally to make it clear what you already know -- that under article v of the nato treaty, we will respond. we will respond to any aggression against a nato ally. >> well, we will respond, a nato ally, that usually means the military option is at play there. at the same time, secretary of state john kerry and his predecessor, hillary clinton, w

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this is "the daily rundown." it's day three of opening day, by the way, in baseball, since all they do is have opening days, but still exciting. >>> open enrollment closes at midnight. in order, it's the beginning of the end of the enrollment period. the last official day americans have to sign up for the health care coverage, unless they're in line. the administration has been touting a surge of activity at call centers, 2.5 million calls in the last week. democrat leaders like harry reid have been tweeting out photos of long signup lines, but the final rush has not been smooth. healthcare.gov went down this morning and was offline for hours. by 8:00 this morning, it went back online. you can see here the countdown clock on the white house website has a bit of a glitch with numbers in the wrong boxes. it says we have 15 plus days, not hours to go. then again, maybe that's not a glitch. maybe this is the extension there that gets you to april 15. we'll ask phil about that in a minute. what about more general meas

it's especially noticeable if you're feeling like a rundown it's never quite going away. >> : to feel better from mild to moderate symptoms be basic things you can do for yourself is to keep your immune system healthy. honeydew that. in get enough sleep and exercise to drink plenty of water. >> : and that you purchase your treatment to up your immune system adjusts some doctors recommend of over-the- counter antihistamine or decongestant. in a way springtime might me weeks to for feeling lousy for allergy sufferers. >> : i've been going through all sorts of kleenex over the last several this level from seven sailboat camera here. traffic light at this hour. >> : temperatures in san francisco 54 san jose cerros the year at 50 degrees. a bit cool out there. temperatures in the upper '40's in daly city dropping quickly along the coast with have been acting up. >> : 20 in fairfield will continue to warm things up this weekend when the next one comes its way all little bit later >> : also ahead at 8 tonight rescue crews can make progress for the search of flight 372 weeks after it vanished

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you can catch more every morning here on "the daily rundown" at 9:00 a.m. i'm going to go to another perspective. for that cecilia mun oz, the director of the white house domestic policy council. thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> getting passed this deadline and we heard with numbers close to what the white house was projecting initially, over 6 million, initially said 7. it's a big achievement for the white house. what do you think the biggest challenge going forward is? >> the biggest challenge today is making sure that everybody gets through. there are lines going around the block all over the country and we're making sure everybody trying to get through to get health care can get health care. we're focused on that today. going forward, there's going to be a lot of discussion about this law and a lot of analysis about the numbers. at the end of the day what it boils down to, millions have health care and many of those people didn't have it before. my daughter is one of the ones. she graduates from college and will stay on this

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chuck todd, nbc news chief white house correspondent and host of the daily rundown earlier in the dayere traveling with president obama, chuck always a pleasure to have you on the program. what is the single most important thing you think the president needs to accomplish at today's meeting. >> it's going to be about unifying europe to do more than just agree to a rerhetorical denuns yags of putin. getting the europeans united on tougher sanctions against russia, that's the difficulty. that's the tricky diplomacy here. the european economy as a whole, particularly some countries more than others, they are finally tied into russia. they have more fragile recovery from the great recession than the united states has. think about our economy and how our own citizens believe it's an uneven recovery at best, majority think we're in recession. the feelings are even worse here in europe. sanctioning russia, there is fears among some that it could just make an already mediocre economy in europe even more so. he's got to figure out how to keep the fragile coalition together. at the same time th

time for the power rundown. joining us this hour is the star of cnbc's "the profit" marcus. >> good so see you. >> let's start with general motors. how does gm get back in the fast lane? 16% say more transparency. 8% say massive settlements. 38% say a full corporate overhaul, and 38% say it's just a setback, they'll be okay. but how would you rate their handling of this so far? >> i think mary is doing a great job with how she's handling it. she's trying to take ownership of it. the question i have with these settlements is how is general motors going to take a non-cash charge now and eventually pay out a settlement when in their bankruptcy filing they expunged all responsibility that existed before. i'm not sure how that's going to get handled. they'll be fine. toyota survived. they'll survive as well. >> let's move to coca-cola which sent out its annual report this month. one shareholder was not happy about it this month. david winters says coke planned to give $13 billion of stock to its senior managers over

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this is "the daily rundown." chuck todd. let's get to my "first reads" of the morning. i feel like we've had the first game of the nfl season, the midterms if you want to call it, after last night's special election. republican david jolly narrowly won a special election in florida's 13th district. it gives republicans a big victory and puts up a red flag for democrats hoping a strong candidate and campaign can overcome a difficult national environment. jolly beat democrat alex sink by just 3,500 votes, winning 48.5% to sink's 46.6%. the libertarian candidate pulled in nearly 5% of the vote. >> obviously, you've heard the results and they were not the results that any of us wanted. i have spoken to david jolly and congratulated him on a hard-fought campaign. >> jolly's going to have to run again for the st. pete area discorredi district in the fall. it will be tougher for him with the turnout. he becomes the 64th member of the congress sent to the house by a special election. jolly, a lobbyist and former aide to congressman young, was introduced by bob barker and walked

hop aboard for a full rundown of wild bay area sports. we begin at the "shark tank." sharks hosting the canadiens. former shark douglas murray on the ice. early first sharks show handed kotur shoots from center ice. peter badei can't handle it. 1-0 sharks. early second matt irwin shoots from the -- sharks go up 2-0. they win 4-0 tonight. mariners and giants, ryan vogelsong making his first spring start. top of the first, michael saunders, say goodbye to that little friend. homers to right center. four runs in the first for seattle. vogelsong doesn't last long. 2 and a third innings. colorado at cal senior night at hawks pavilion picking up an o.t. cal down one. justin cobbs is fouled on the shot. looks like a good call, right? well you're definitely not going to get any argument out of the cal fans. makes both free throws. cal wins 66-65. utah against stanford, jim harbaugh at the game. what's up with it, coach? second half stanford down one, josh huestis hits the three. big shot by the senior on senior day. stanford hang on to win 61-60. women's hoops, pac-12 tourney

back to you. >> dom, thank you. >>> power rundown time.ay first up, put down pencils, on thinking caps. s.a.t. tests about to get a lot harder, i guess. optional essays. top scoring back to 1,600 points, added only for correct answers which suggests your benefitting from guessing. guys, are the change, a, better, b, worse, c, a little bit of both? robert? >> the closest answer is both. the problem here is that the s.a.t. has become less relevant to what's actually taught in school and less relevant to getting into college and even less relevant to hiring. the test scores are the goal, yet to see, but the goal, make it more relevant to outcomes and what's actually toss in school i. hear they're take t takeing words off and maybe replacing it with selfie? >> never. 1,600 was always the right, best score. >> that's what you got, right? >> come on. this was always just about cracking your guns and -- >> pressure from gun control advocates, the company plans to crack down hard on all firearm-related posts and advertisements, both on facebook an

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the rundown of the final 10 minutes, finished off 1-2 with julian bent. to --it 3-12 novak djokovic goes through the semifinals after fending off defending champion andy murray. to be served held by a controversial net point took the first set in florida. the second,-2 after it all fell apart for the six seed as joke of which -- d jokovich completed the victory in just over 1.5 hours. he will play the japanese surprise winner against roger federer in the finals. it was a great day for domenico during the wto events going on in miami. it is not look like it was going to turn out that way early on though. --a quarterfinal a prominent as a quarterfinal opponent. form.le in fine winning a second set tiebreaker, then grinding out victory 3-6, 7-6, 6-3. she is not only through to the semifinals were also breaking into the top 10 for the first time. next up for her at the number two seed li na. it was a good day for spain in cycling as rocky rodriguez won the first mountain state in this year's catalonia and took the overall lead. the -- to hold the white and gr

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power rundown time. joining us is "the profit's" marcus lemonis. usually we have two or more people doing this. you are doing the work of ten right here with the power rundown. >> flattery will get you everywhere. >> first up, congress launching an investigation into gm's recall of these ignition switches that apparently can shut off if you put extra weight on them. did gm handle this right? >> what this really does is shakes consumers' confidence. general motors was on the way back to really instilling confidence in people. i'm concerned that now mary has to deal with this in her first term. bad news is still better than no news. they should have let it out. >> marcus, let's turn you to apple which has quietly rolled out a new customer loyalty program for the bigger spenders starting with those who spend more than $5,000 a year, kind of corporate and education level. apple will give us a comment shortly, we hope. does it work? >> two issues here. retailers are very focused on retention, holding on to the customers they already have. you have to gi

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the executive chef at the restaurant rundown town. thank you so much for joining us. st. patrick's day is coming up. we all love corned beef and cabbage. you're going to show some other things. >> you need to start at with a nice party mail.hearty meal. >> take a little bit of olive oil. i would use medium higher. >>a little bit of celery. >>a little bit of nice red pearl onions. >>leave them whole like that. >> a little bit more texture. >>sweat it again. not looking for any color. we lightly smoke it for about 30 minutes. >>do you want that to get crispy on the outside? >>good old guiness. >>salt and pepper. all of this is on medium heat. a little bit of a simmer going. take some of the left overs from doing the brisket. >>the guiness with the veal stock. turn that up to high. we put it in that. throw it right in the oven and bake it. >>roll it out very thin. throw it in the oven raw. it cooks right on top. >>this is the corned beef sandwich. running a corn beef sandwich. it is not the typical. we use pickle juice. the swiss cheese is soaked in guiness. everything comes

i can give you a rundown of the complaints, but as you can see on the list, i think there's seven or eight there. clearly i'm on poke, pink 18 is a private event space, soma, i think the polk generally speaking seems like it's just getting to a -- every weekend we're -- the traffic is increasing so i'm working with security teams at each venue and working with sfpd to get some bigger picture ideas going. we have a new event on a sunday, another friendly reminder to keep their doors closed during performances so i'm going around reminding people to follow the good neighbor policy and conditions put on the permit. one notice of violation for a karaoke place called the comma on geary that was visited during some rounds i made with richmond district sfpd. i did a ride along this last saturday during the saint patrick's day revelry. we did a notice of violation for operating without a permit. couple of general inspections, 50 mason social club at 50 mason street. they have yet to complete the permit process. brainwash 1122 fo lsom, handed them a good neighbor policy there. brand new inter

. >> it is great because the second one is rundown. the little guy we would be tracking for a couple of days. >> that is incredible. >> mind boggling to watch that large elephant be lifted with its trunk just dangle and hanging there thinking they're doing this for the elephant's own good. >> how many are they trying to do this with? >> they found six of them. they were fortunately able to get four of them rescued. the villagers, even though they had conflict with the elephants because of deforestation. they still wanted them to have a happy life because the elephant is the national symbol of the ivory coast. but watch when they put it in the crate. it is unbelievable, this one is just waking up. they say, once elephants wake up, they naturally walk backwards. so once the elephant wakes up, the doors open, the elephant starts walking backwards and it goes into this container where they need to take it. it was a 300 mile trek. took them 10 to 13 hours because they said sometimes they spent hours stuck in the mud. they said the elephants

he gives a very short rundown on the thick of operations for the diet. no one said and done that with following up on what was i guess. american like to restate the research planes are resuming operations in the southern indian ocean based on the latest chinese satellite images which show a large floating object australian maritime authorities say the plot of the position of the suspicious object the satellite image use it as being twenty two point five meters long and thirty meters wide. the beauty spot atop the keys in the area of the southern indian ocean that was searched on saturday it's along the southern quarter of the malaysian airlines plane may have taken and is floating around one hundred twenty km southwest of two of the optics located by australia on thursday costco has promised to tony abbott hopes he's increasing the rate increase and a possible that the new plane will be discovered. however the last twenty four hours they were a significant developments. new satellite imagery new charlie satellite imagery. the same decisions at least one

they thought the problem of the theater wasn't the competitive market but the rundown of the facilitych was turning off customers. they've been running things for seven years and upgrading slowly. like many business owners they say upgrades is one of the keys of the success. >> give back. give back to the business. that's the secret. >> but that's not all. the other theater success is hard work and attention. >> we do everything. i take ticket, most of the time. the stands, whatever needs to get done. >> greg made the connections with the movie companies. it took some time. they knew it was a good location. that's the whole thing. and we just started doing it ourselves. it pretty much worked out pretty good. >>> when we come back, it mistakes that small businesses need to avoid. and tips on getting customers to day on your website once they get there. >>> plus, jim blasingame with coo customers and winning their loyalty. if i can impart one lesson to a new business owner, it would be one thing i've learned is my philosophy is real simple american express open forum is an on-line commu

>>> oo i just got out of our morning operation so i can give you a rundown of what it looks like for today. i am on board the command ship we have been commanding all of the entire fleet. right now we have the most about the sea and the uss kid he is a destroyer. first search area will get to 3, 4, 500 miles over the course of a 4-6 hour period. a bigger range will be m 860 search and rescue helicopters. fly for about 100 miles out they will fly about 3 and a half hours the time they can do that through out the day. so they will go 3 and a half hours come back refuel with the air crew and do it again. in addition to those we have two long range aircraft they fly out of lapore. those are called a ph pos side den. their range is well over 1,000 miles. they arrive they have additional fly back. that's our best asset. for this morning we have a flight today flying through the sea up towards ber ma up towards there. it's a huge area we are searching yes. it is over the indian ocean. >> commander mark who can tell us who is in charge of coordinating the effort. 25 different countries are i

joining us, host of "the daily rundown" chuck todd.midt, he had breaking details late last night on the missing plane. and joining us, retired nbc news aviation correspondent, chuck hager with information on the flight simulator in the home of the pilot. it sure looks like whoever changed the flight plan on the missing jet. what's still iunclear is who di it and why and where the flight is today. but here's what we do know now. saturday, march 8, malaysia flight 370 departs from kuala lumpur airport. they are set to arrive in beijing six hours later. 1:07 a.m., about a half hour after the departure, the plane sends its last electronic transmission to air traffic control via the acars system. 1:19 a.m., 12 minutes later, one of the pilots say "all right, good night" to ground control. those were the last words spoken by anyone on board flight 370. 1:21 a.m., the plane's transponders go dead. there's no indication anything is wrong with the plane before dropping off radar. the pilots were supposed to check in with vietnamese air control.

let's get straight to the rundown. google's eric schmidt meets with president obama to talk about nsa surveillance. and weighing in on the nsa revelations. then we will talk about the wordprocessing app, quip. blocked access to twitter in turkey. this is after ignoring a court order to remove content. many are outraged. many feel that the president circumvented the block and tweeted that the ban is unacceptable. there will be a more personalized app. it will be from the career history, seniority, and connections to show more relevant articles. it will be released in the third quarter. microsoft outlines its policy on when it can search user e-mail accounts after revelations that it scanned the e-mails of a blogger who had microsoft trade secrets. microsoft will not search e-mails unless there would be a court order. even if the search takes place, it will only look at relevant information. now to the top story of the day. tech executives, including eric schmidt, are meeting with president obama today at the white house

let's get straight to the rundown.ed schmidt meets with president obama to talk about nsa surveillance. and weighing in on the nsa revelations. then we will talk about the wordprocessing app

money intong more rundown urban districts to spur growth. invest more than 100 $63 billion into shantytowns this year. 3 billion into shantytowns this year to provide basic housing needs. the rate will be reconfigured. central bank will announce cuts on other rates later today. thecymakers trying to boost struggling economy. the top stories we are tracking for you today. the height of finance. we have debt, too. they are spending their downtown in attendance. the davis cup. they are truly, totally focused. >> and finance the world over, the mantra is work hard, play hard will stop for -- like heart. -- play hard. bankers, they played hard. for their country. they spend their week in trading. at the end of the day, they go their separate ways. it is forehand and backhand volley and again and again and again. the aim is davis cup glory for hong kong. most of them sees 34 year old and at the 32-year-old facing little more than half their age and all the time in the world to practice. >> we are at a little bit of a disadvantage. that is life. we