>> tom costello starting us off after an emotional day on capitol hill. tom, thanks. >>> and across town in washington, late this afternoon at the white house, president obama stepped into the rose garden for what was designed as an outdoor public victory lap, to make the official announcement that 7.1 million americans have signed up for health care under obamacare. he referenced the disastrous start of the website. he conceded future fixes and tried to lay down a marker or two to critics. our chief white house correspondent chuck todd was there for it. he is with us now from the north lawn. chuck, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. obviously a sense of relief here at the white house considering where they started back in october with that botched roll-out. bury there's a lot we don't know about these enrollment figures, including how many people were uninsured, how many healthy young people signed up. if those ratios aren't good, then premiums for all of us could skyrocket next year. it could be weeks, though, before we know the answers to t

nbc's tom costello has more. >> reporter: on board the australian ship ocean shield what may be proof that flight 370 lies somewhere below. a constant pinging that search coordinators say is likely coming from the plane's black boxes. the newest pings were picked up from a listening device from a floating buoy 1,000 feet below the ocean's surface. the data was transmitted to an air force plane overhead. now the race to capture as many pings as possible before the batteries die. >> they found a ping here. they found a ping there. they fund a ping there. they're just trying to get basically all those little dots to line up to kind of say, yeah, this is the area we want to search because once they start searching, it is still going to take them weeks to do that survey. >> reporter: search teams must use the data from the known ping locations to hone in on the wreckage below, but with just a few sets of pings, the underwater search zone is 500 square miles. roughly the size of phoenix. it would take weeks for an unmanned submarine using sonar to scan that area of the ocean floor. the more

tom costello following these late developments from our washington newsroom tonight. tom? >> reporter: hi, brian. gm telling the government today it is recalling another 1.3 million cars in the u.s. this newly expanded list of recalled vehicles now focuses on a power steering issue. the new recalls include the chevy malibu and malibu max select models from 2004 through 2009 and then five other gm models. if the power steering is lost gm says it would require greater effort to control the car manually and that could increase the risk of a crash. this recall on top of the 2.6 million cars already being recalled because the ignition switches can slip out of the run position, cutting power to the engine, the power steering, and the air bags. now, tomorrow, ceo mary barra is scheduled to testify on capitol hill on why it took so long to order a recall when gm had evidence of faulty ignition switch way back in 2001. at least 12 people have died in accidents believed to have been linked to the defect. in her prepared remarks, barra plans to apologize to continue and promises an i

tom costello, nbc news, washington. >>> he came to prominence as a civil rights activist decades ago and for a time the words brash and flamboyant would always be attached to al sharpton's name. in recent year, he's become a radio and talk show host, currently with msnbc. tonight newly released documents are shedding new light on another role from al sharpton's past that of fbi informant. we get our report tonight from our justice correspondent pete williams. >> reporter: al sharpton is as mainstream as a civil rights activist can be -- a frequent advise to the tot white house, a friend of attorney general eric holder, and nightly cable host on msnbc. but it wasn't always that way. he was once a firebranded in a track suit. he championed cause celeb who claimed she was raped by whites then later discounted. now new didetailed documents detail his past. for nearly five years three decades ago he was an informant for the fbi helping agents build cases against suspected members of the mafia. was it scary talking to mob figures who killed people for a living? >> absolutely. i come out of

we get our report tonight from tom costello. >> reporter: in the northern hemisphere overnight the peak viewing opportunity to see the latest meteor shower including this one streaking across the night sky in russia on saturday. still nothing that compares to the ten ton meteor that hit a year ago traveling at 33,000 miles an hour it exploded with force of a nuclear bomb, injuring 1,000 people. now a group of space experts and former astronauts is warning only blind luck has prevented a major city from taking a direct hit. >> and the reason we haven't lost a city yet is because the earth is big. most of the earth is water and most of the land is desert or unpopulated areas. >> reporter: at the smithsonian, this scientist showed us a piece of a meteor that exploded in 1969. how does something like this survive re-entry? >> because it started out as a very large solid object. so it's moving also at very fast speeds. only the outside of it actually is burning. >> reporter: asteroids become meteors when they hit the earth's atmosphere. between 2000 and 2013, 26 massive explosions across the

>> tom costello starting us off in advance of what may be a sporty weekend for a lot of people. tom, thanks. >>> there is late word tonight from the pentagon that russian aircraft have crossed the boarder into ukrainian air space several times in these last 24 hours, a clear violation leaving the entire region on edge now as ukrainian leaders accuse putin of trying to start a war. andrea mitchell monitoring late developments from the washington news room tonight. andrea, good evening. >> good evening, brian. the pentagon says russian troops have been testing equipment and getting within a mile of the border and sending jets in and out, and that prompted ukraine's prime minister accusing russia of trying to start a third world war. hagel tried to call his russian counterpart, but there was no return call. and there's reports that vladimir putin has cut off all high-level contact with washington. meanwhile, there have been skirmishes between russian troops and eastern ukraine. a news reporter, now free, says russian partisans held him for four days, beat him and accused him of wor

tom costello has more. >> reporter: on board the ocean shield, what may be proof that flight 370 lies somewhere e below. a constant pinging that search coordinators say is likely coming from the plane's black boxes. the newest pings were picked up from a listening device hanging from a floating bu owe 1,000 feet below the ocean's surface. the data was transmitted to a plane overheard. the race to capture as many pings as possible before the batteries die. >> they found a ping here, they found a ping there. they are trying to get all those dots to line up to kind of say, yeah, this is the area we want to search. once they start searching, it's still going to take them weeks to do the survey. >> they are trying to hone in on the wreckage below, but with just a few sets of pings, the zone is 500 square miles, roughly the size of phoenix. it would take weeks to scan the area of the ocean floor. the more pings now, the smaller the search zone. >> that was tom costello reporting for us. >>> the grilling of oscar pistorius continues. the aggressive prosecutor relentlessly atracks his relatio

by knowing what they are, they will learn whether they are harmful. >> tom costello out of washington with that story, thanks. >>> next, a surprise about something found in millions of american homes. >> the state of california continues to look to mother nature for help. the updated drought map came out today showing for the first time in it's 15-year history, the entire state is listed in a d-1 to d-4 category drought. that means 100% of the state, home to 40 million people, give or take, is in the drought. >>> this may be the definition of moxie or guts or chutzpah, as part of take your children to work day, a 10-year-old girl in the front row named charlotte bell said her dad was out of work for three years and produced his resume. he worked for the obama reelection campaign. mrs. obama gave charlotte a hug and took her dad's resume with her when she left. >>> lady's home journal calls itself a place for practical beauty and fashion advice, easy recipes and sound marriage advice and perhaps because those may seem like almost quaint notions, the "ladies home journal" is running the

an update from nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: on board the australian ship "ocean shield" what may be proof of 370 lies below. a constant pinging that search coordinators say is likely coming from the plane's black boxes. the newest pings picked up from a listening device from a floating buoy 1,000 feet below the ocean surface and transmitted to a plane overhead. now the race to capture as many pings as possible before the batteries die. >> they found a ping here. they found a ping there. they found a ping there. they are just trying to get basically all the little dots to line up to say, yeah, this is the area we want to search. once they start searching, it will take weeks to do the survey. >> reporter: search teams must use the data from the known ping locations to hone in on the wreckage below but with just a few sets of pings, the bottom is 500 square miles. it would take weeks for an unmanned submarine to scan the ocean floor. the more pings now, the smaller the search zone. of course, finding the black boxes will be critical to solving the mystery of why this plane lost cont

tom costello in our washington studios tonight.om, thanks. >>> in south africa oscar pistorius was back in court today. for the first time he was cross-examined by prosecutors over the shooting death of his girlfriend reeva steenkamp last year. pistorius calls her death accidental, a mistake. the prosecution vigorously pressed him on that point. and a remind him here, when you hear him say "my lady," his testimony from the stand in this trial is all addressed to the presiding female judge. >> i've made a terrible mistake and -- >> you made a mistake? >> that's correct. >> you killed a person. that's what you did, isn't it? >> i made a mistake. >> you killed reeva steenkamp. that's what you did. >> i made a mistake, my lady. >> you're repeating it two times. what was your mistake? >> my mistake was that i took reeva's life. >> you killed her. you shot and killed her. won't you take responsibility for that? >> i did, my lady. >> now say it then. say yes, i killed -- i shot and killed reeva steenkamp. >> i did, my lady. >> oscar pisto

>> tom costello in our washington news room tonight. tom, thanks. it's important to remember there were 239 passengers and crew onboard this flight, and for their families, this has been an awful wait. >> again tonight from kuala lumpur, good evening. >> reporter: family members are trying not to get hopes up. with each new news briefing they are opening up yet another wound especially when they don't announce they found the plane. most of the chinese family members that flew here to malaysia demanding answers from officials have now gone back to beijing where many held a candle light vigil marking one month since the disappearance. meanwhile the transport official minister says once again he's hoping for a miracle a hard thing for many to hear after the prime minister told them to prepare for the worst. brian, without concrete evidence that the plane actually crashed, many are saying there is no reason to give up hope that their loved ones are still out there, just waiting to be rescued. >> katy tur, rounding out the coverage of our downed jetliner

our report tonight from nbc's tom costello in washington. >> reporter: amy rademaker, natasha wagel, michael sharkey, brooke melton, just a few of the young victims whose deaths have been linked to a defect in half a dozen gm models. >> the families are here. the victims are here. they want to be vindicated. >> reporter: this time in front of a senate committee, the ceo of gm, a 33-year veteran, still could not answer basic questions about gm policies and a decade delay in ordering an ignition switch recall. >> i don't know. i want to know that answer. i don't have the complete facts to share with you today. >> ms. barra, i really hate to say this, but if this is the new gm leadership, it's pretty lacking. >> reporter: if there's a smoking gun, it may be this internal gm document obtained by nbc news. authorizing a redesign to the defective part of the ignition switch for new cars in 2006. the name on the form, design engineer ray digiorgio. former prosecutor turned senator claire mccaskill. >> here's a document that he signed under his name, approving of the change. >> reporter: but

joining me now, tom costello from our washington bureau and michael goldfarb, tom, bring us up to date. there was probably an erroneous report from a chinese ship yesterday morning but these are australians using u.s. equipment. >> the australian ship is carrying a pinger locater and yesterday it came up what it thought was a possible hit over the course of two hours and 20 minutes, it picked up a ping. a really consistent ping and the k kilohertz was at the same frequency you would expect. it did a u-turn, came back and for 13 minutes picked up another ping coming from the same general area, only this time there were two pings, suggesting they got both black boxes perhaps, perhaps the cockpit voice recorder, perhaps the flight data recorder. now the ship is trying to better triangulate exactly where it is in this area. now, part of the problem is our map just went bad on me. the bottom line is the new site is thought to be right around in here. and that would be quite a bit closer than this location down here. we're talking about maybe about 500 or so miles off the coast of australia

. >>> let's bring in tom costello at the maps. tom, we're glad the search is finally possibly making progress, but the process moving ahead is not easy. >> no, it's not at all. let me show you where ian is discussing. this is the location of the australian and the american navy's finding or hearing those pings. this is where the chinese heard the pings. this here is a distance of 375 miles. >> if you had two pinging going off at the same time, two pingers, rather, you would have cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder potentially both of those units emitting sounds both at the same time. that's why this is promising, but you heard about the depth of this particular area of the ocean. it is 20,000 feet deep at a maximum, but in this particular area we're told 14,800 feet, but this is where now this towed pinger locator right here is moving very steadily under the water and listening for anything that might peak its ears, if you lshgs or peak its interest. here's the depth now, a better depth charlotte. come on. there we go.

joining me now is our own expert, tom costello. m, you've been following this every inch of the way but this is the most hopeful in the last 24 hours that we've heard the officials in australia and others whom you're talking to. >> the australian commander in charge of the search is fairly confident they will find the wreckage in a matter of days. he thinks it's on the way. what happened here, they picked up the fifth ping. they did that by dropping the sonar buoy, going to a five pings coming from the same general area. so you say that should be easy enough, should should be able to immediately drop down. >> this is where the four pings are. the fifth is in the air so i don't have an exact location for it. the general area is 500 square miles. so the trouble -- at least on the ocean floor. so the trouble is that is a massive area to try to map if you were to drop down the submarine. let's talk about, however, this pinger locater, this yellow device shipped through the water. that's the primary way they are listening for the pingz c

gabe gutierrez and tom costello both join me now. tom is on the hill where he was meeting with the family members. you have both been looking into the investigation. tom, gabe, let's start with you on what gm knew and when did the engineer know it? >> well, as you mentioned, the nbc news investigative unit obtained that internal gm memo suggesting a design engineer knew about the ignition switch problem back in 2006 and signed a document authorizing a redesign. that engineer was ray degeorge. we confirmed that he is still employed by gm, although it's unclear in what capacity. under oath in a lawsuit deposition from 2013 he said he did not know about the changes to the ignition switch. but this gm document authorizing changes to the switch appears to be signed by him on april 26, 2016. that suggests the company knew about the problem at least eight years before the recall, even changed the part but never told gm customers who never knew they were at risk. here's the part we're talking about. it's what's called a detent plunger. it wou

tom costello is in washington for us tracking all of these latest developments, as always. t have you got? >> we have a fifth ping. this was picked up by an underwater buoy dropped by an australian air force plane, with a hydrophone that can listen 1,000 feet underwater. it's dangling 1,000 feet underwater. this is about 1,000 miles or so off the coast of australia, in this area right here. this is the exact same area where they picked up other pings, other pings that were picked up by, as you probably know already, by the ship ocean shield pulling along this hydrophone, and this towed pinger locator. these pings are all in about a 500-square-mile area. it's a vast area. despite what it looks like on the map. let me show you the video, the animation of what the towed pinger locator does. it moves through the water at about a depth of two miles or so, listening for any pings. this is the device that has now picked up four separate sets of pings. they believe that those pings are coming potentially from the black box, which is at a depth of about three miles, or almost three m

nbc's tom costello has been on the story with us from the very start, and he starts us off once again in our washington bureau. tom. >> hey, guys. good afternoon. so, yeah, a mixture of frustration and optimism at the same time. this, you may recall, these are the arks that the engineers identified as being possible flight paths for flight 370. the chinese heard the pinging they thought over the weekend. we haven't heard anything about that since. this is the area that the australians heard pinging on sunday, but they have not picked it up since then. that's two days now that's gone by without pinging. meanwhile, they've now isolated the search zone by air to an area that's about 30,000 square miles. we say only 30,000 square miles. that's because it's down from this huge search zone. one time the state of alaska was comparable in size. what are they listening for? they're listening for something like this. [ beeping ] that's the pinging, the sound of pinging that they should be hearing coming from the black boxes. as you heard ian say, nothing in the last two days and the concern is

. >> and nbc's tom costello is live for us in washington. what happens now, tom? >> well, they go back to try to triangulate this more, and they will goo back with the pinger locator device being towed by the australian ship, and see if they cannic ic pick it up yet a and if they k they will drop in the rov, the unmanned submer submersible submarine, and down to the maximum depth of to a submarine, and coincidentally, that is the depth of the ocean right there, and so it is the limiting of the submersible vehicle. if they can go down there to begin to map out the bottom of the ocean, and see if they can identify anything that is unusual, any anomalies and if they can, is it in fact this particular ship. and now the pinger, as you know, it is on each end of these black boxes, and they are not black, but orange as we have said many times, and that was changed in the 1960s, but the old name stuck around. and these pingers are good for 30 days, as we have said over and over again, but we have talked to the manufacturer of the pingers who said they can go for 45 days,

abc's tom costello joins me with more. i guess, tom, a lot of people are wondering what took the fda this long in the sense that $2 billion business, it means it was up and running and an agency is behind the curve. >> it's taken off. these items here, $2 billion in sales last year and growing and the concern is as you mentioned, young people, we now believe that as many as $2 million people, 2 million young people, middle schoolers and high schoolers have sampled an e-cigarette. the concern is that this is a direct nicotine which is an extremely addictive property, a direct nicotine inhaler or transmission device that people can then inhale and the concern is that that becomes addictive and they might then transfer that interest over to tobacco products. a short time ago i talked to the fda commissioner about this, margaret hamberg. >> the current situation is of great concern to all of us. it is an unregulated environment with respect to these products. we think that the fda can and should have a role in the oversight of

joining me now, tom costello from our washington bureau and michael goldfarb, tom, bring us up to dateas probably an erroneous report from a chinese ship yesterday morning but these are australians using u.s. equipment. >> the australian ship is carrying a pinger locater and yesterday it came up what it thought was a possible hit over the course of two hours and 20 minutes, it picked up a ping. a really consistent ping

nbc's tom costello. excellent explanation.e big story out of south africa. for the first time today oscar pistorius testified in his murder trial. the olympian is charged with killing his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. he was emotional and tearful on the stand today and began his testimony with an apology. pistorius chose want to be on camera for his testimony, so only the audio is being broadcast. >> i'd like to apologize there hasn't been a moment since this tragedy happened that i haven't thought about your family. i wake up every morning, and you are the first people i think of, the first people i pray for." >> the trial was later adjourned after pistorius's lawyers say he was exhausted by lack of sleep. the first day of testimony, pistorius will be back on the witness stand tomorrow. [thinking] i'm still working. he's retired. i hope he's saving. i hope he saved enough. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. whether you're just starting your

and we have tom costello joining us live from washington.saw the report earlier about the report on the black box. and what can you tell us? >> yes, it is phenom thal they have picked up the pings again, and it is right here, about 1,100 miles from the australian coast, and this is where the australian team picked up the pings over the weekend about not the chinese team. and talking about the ocean depths, and this is what tamron is talking about here, and this is the topography, and the underwater terrain and this is a volcanic plateau called broken ridge, and we have depths from 1.8 miles down to 3.7 miles. we are talking about 15,000 feet more or less, and 15,000 feet is what they believe is the general area where this beeping is coming from, and the pinging is coming from, and so that would be about three miles or so. what is interesting about this terrain here is that it is so dark at the bottom of this ocean, and they have been getting so much silt that builds up that they say that the bottom is very mushy for lack of a better word, an

nbc's tom costello has a point by point update on where the situation is at this point, and the hoperecovering this aircraft. plus, despite the millions of dollars involved in college sports, a uconn basketball player says that sometimes he goes to bed at night quote starvi starving. now the evident to allow college athletes to unionize could go beyond northwestern. and here is a look at what is happening today. the special legislative committee with the bridge scandal will meet today, and the panel could consider whether to demand documents from chris christie's attorney, and whether to call more witnesses to testify under oath. former president bill clinton will make a remark at the naval a academy's foreign affairs lecture, and tonight, ted kennedy will announce his run for a seat in massachusetts. he is of course, the son of ted ken di. here is a look at what is happening on wall street. (dad) well, we've been thinking about it and we're just not sure. (agent) i understand. (dad) we've never sold a house before. (agent) i'll walk you guys through every step. (dad) so if we sell,

nbc's tom costello will have a report on that, next. you have to become addicted to nicotine.rt that way. why would you even do that? >> we all pick up habits. wine is an acquired taste. beer is an acquired taste. coffee, you don't come out of the womb liking. we pick up habits we shouldn't. >> we'll have more "squawk box" coming up next. ♪ [ male announcer ] when fixed income experts... ♪ ...work with equity experts... ♪ ...who work with regional experts... ♪ ...who work with portfolio management experts, that's when expertise happens. mfs. because there is no expertise without collaboration. >>> welcome back, everybody. right now it is time for the "squawk" planner on this special bring your kids to workday. we have quarterly reports coming up on the way from several industrial giants. i need help here, guys. the first one we're waiting for includes -- >> 3m. >> excellent. the second one we're looking for is? >> call caterpillar. >> we have two big economic reports on the way today as well. weekly jobless claims. we also get the march durable goods numbers, both coming out a

nbc tom costello joins us more out of washington with more on this. >> reporter: another recall todayled and newer models recalled an comes as nbc news shows a memo that eight years ago gm knew the problems and did not tell its existing customers and did not tell the government. general motors problems keep growing along with its list of recalled cars. the nation's second biggest automaker is now recalling another 1.3 million vehicles in the u.s. that may experience a sudden loss of electric power steering resulting in a higher risk of a crash. the new list now includes 2004 through '0 malibus and five other gm models and comes assess gm's ceo is apologizing to its customers. >> something went wrong with our process in this instance and terrible things happened. >> reporter: failing to order a recall when it first learned of a serious safety flaw involving the ignition switches. at least 12 deaths are blofed to be -- believed to be linked to the defect these two died after their car lost power and crashed into a tree in 2006. >> this is for our children. these were our children. and t

nbc's tom costello has the latest from washington. tom, good morning. the senate hearing will start shortly. this has been a heartbreaking experience for dozens of family members who came to washington demanding answers from gm about why their loved ones died and a frustrating experience for members of congress also demanding answers from the ceo but not getting much in the way of answers. >> if today's appearance on capitol hill is anything like yesterday's, gm's ceo mary barra is in for yet another grilling. >> why did the company not announce the subpar switches may have been installed in those vehicles in the first place? >> do you think there was a cover-up or sloppy work? >> seven weeks after gm issued its worldwide recall, both democrats and republicans are demanding to know when gm knew it had a serious safety issue. >> it came to light to me on january 31st, 2014. >> that's totally irrelevant to the people who lost their lives. >> reporter: in the audience, family members of some of those who died in gm cars. officially, gm says it knows of 13

tom costello is in washington with the details. hi, tom. >> reporter: hi, matt. good morning. healthier alternative for people trying to quit smoking tobacco, but the fda says it simply doesn't know enough about these cigarettes to know if that's true. now it's proposing the first regulations for e cigarettes. it's the latest fad for anyone looking to get a nicotine fix. those are battery powered water vapors not tobacco smoke kband with a massive celebrity marketing blitz. >> i love being single but here is what i don't love, a kiss that tastes like an ashtray. >> reporter: e-cigarette sales have caught fire. $2 billion last year and growing, all of it without government oversight. but now the fda's proposed regulations would put e-cigarettes in the same class as tobacco, prohibiting sales to anyone under 18, requiring clear health warning labels and no vending machine sales. >> at the present time the fda does not have the authority to regulate e-cigarettes, and some characterized it frequently as the wild, wild west. certainly, we feel that at the present time it is, let th

tom costello has covered this mystery from the very beginning. tom, good morning. >> reporter: hi. good morning. this is the area that they're searching right here. it is along these two arcs that engineers have identified as a likely flight path. this is what they're listening for. [ pinging ] those pings that should be coming from the black boxes. they didn't hear anything today. that could be because the boxes are -- the batteries are dying or perhaps the signal is getting distorted in the water. but they need to hone in on the signal before they can drop the unmanned submarine. 32 days since flight 370 disappeared and search teams are now working their most promising lead yet. those pings picked up by ocean shield which sound very much like the pings black boxes emit when they're submerged in water. >> we have a positive lead. this is a herculean task. the water is extremely deep. >> reporter: while the pinger batteries are supposed to last 30 days, the manufacturer says they could go longer. >> they do vary. 30 days is the minimum. they can operate as much as 45 days. >> repor

nbc's tom costello has latest for us. >> savannah, good morning. this was the australia team which heard the pings here. that was the same area where they heard them over the weekend. one ping for five minutes and one for seven minutes. and this part is important as well. it was picked up by the australian ship, the "ocean shield," and the "ocean shield" is pulling this pinger locator two miles beneath the surface of the ocean. however, the signals were weaker than expected. that might suggest the batteries are starting to die. this morning, new clues in the 33-day hunt for flight 370. >> "ocean shield" has been able to reacquire the signals on two more occasions. >> overnight, australian search coordinators announced their ship "ocean shield," equipped with the u.s. navy's towed pinger locator, or tpl, picked up two more underwater pings like this on tuesday. after detecting two initial pings over the weekend. commanders say they're now confident the signals came from a man-made device. >> it's consistent with a locator on a black box, so that's w

let's get to tom costello in washington. good morning. >> reporter: the saturn was already on the list of recalled vehicles, now newer models being recalled. nbc has obtained an internal document showing eight years ago the company ordered a design change to fix the problem with its ignition switch and never told its exist iing customers about the problems and never told the government. general motors problems keep growing, along with its list of recalled cars. the nation's second biggest automaker is now recalling another 1.3 million evacuation in the u.s. that may experience a sudden los of electric power steering resulting in a higher risk of a crash. the new list now includes 2004 malibus along with four other gm models. it comes as the ceo is apologizing to their customers. >> something went wrong with our process in this instance and terrible things happening. >> reporter: for failing to recall ignition switches and deaths including 18-year-old natasha and 15-year-old amy and died after their chevy lost power and crash

man: so tell tom torlakson to keep fighting for local control of school funding decisions. >>> thank you for joining me. i'm carol costelloaela starts now. >> hello there, everyone. i'm john berman. >> i'm michaela pereira. it's 11:00 a.m. in the east. 8:00 a.m. out west. >> our eyes on a couple stories right now. two big news conferences. one dealing with tornadoes and the other in brooklyn dealing with congressman michael grimm and charges that have now been issued against him, federal charges, that is the u.s. attorney loretta lynch explaining charges against