Today's Take: A Look At The New & Noteworthy: Part I Of II

NBC ID: AR50CFJXED | Media Type: Aired Show | Air Date(s): 03/10/2014 | Event Date(s): 03/10/2014

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Event Date(s): 03/10/2014 | Event Location(s): Today New York Studio, South China Sea | Description: GFX: Map of India, China with the city of Beijing and Malaysia with the city of Kuala Lumpur and GFX plane and its route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. EJ: EXT DAY SOUTH CHINA SEA MS: Aerial of the water. MS: Man in search helicopter looks out the window. MS: Aerial of the water. MS: Search boat moves through the water. MS: Panning shot of people onboard the search helicopter. STILL: Rear shot of people on the search helicopter. STILL: Malysia Airlines Boeing 777 during take off. STILL: Newtown shooter Adam Lanza’s father Peter Lanza. GFX: “The New Yorker” Magazine opens to article “The Reckoning.” STILL: Insert of Peter and then-boy Adam. GFX HEADER: “Peter Lanza Speaks Out” GFX SUPERS: “It’s not like I ever go an hour when it doesn’t cross my mind. – The New Yorker” STILLS: Adam Lanza as a boy and as a young adult. STILLS: Small Cessna plane colliding with a skydiver’s parachute at South Lakeland Airport in Mulberry, Florida, the skydiver’s parachute wrapped around the plane’s wing, the skydiver John Frost falling near the ground near the parachute (parachute is parallel to Frost) and the plane crashing nose first, and the plane crashed on the ground. STILLS: Frost, the parachute, and the plane near the ground. STILLS: The plane doing a nosedive, Frost’s parachute on the wing with and Frost lifted off the ground stuck to the parachute. STILLS (VANESSA SCHLUETER-PHOTOGRAPHER): In the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota, 120 pound high school wrestling finalists Malik Stewart and Mitchell McKee with referee holding McKee’s arm up in victory, referee with Stewart and McKee, Stewart shaking hands with McKee’s father (suffering from cancer) in the stands after the match, and McKee hugging his father after the match. Geist, Roker, Morales, and Hall report live on-camera in-studio: “WILLIE GEIST: Welcome to TODAY on a Monday morning, March 10, 2014. Man, there’s a great crowd outside. AL ROKER: Really is. We're getting -- WILLIE GEIST: The plaza is packed. AL ROKER: --our rolling spring break. NATALIE MORALES: Rolling spring break. WILLIE GEIST: Yes. TAMRON HALL: Yes. NATALIE MORALES: Big crowd this time of year. WILLIE GEIST: Big crowd. NATALIE MORALES: We always love it. TAMRON HALL: Temperature pretty good for them today, too. AL ROKER: Yeah. Next couple of days and then-- NATALIE MORALES: Wednesday. WILLIE GEIST: Falls off a cliff-- AL ROKER: Yeah. NATALIE MORALES: Yeah. WILLIE GEIST: --high in the twenties on Thursday. AL ROKER: Hm. TAMRON HALL: Enjoy while it lasts. WILLIE GEIST: I’m Willie Geist along with Al Roker, Natalie Morales and Tamron Hall. We’re going to get to our big Powerball winning here at this table. AL ROKER: Whoa. WILLIE GEIST: Coming up later. NATALIE MORALES: We won something. AL ROKER: Somebody’s retiring. TAMRON HALL: Yes. WILLIE GEIST: We’d probably lead with it-- TAMRON HALL: Somebody. WILLIE GEIST: --if someone was retiring. But they’re not, so. And we’ll explain who won, as well. But our big story this morning, this thing is mystifying,-- TAMRON HALL: Yeah. AL ROKER: Hm. WILLIE GEIST: --it really is. Biggest mystery as they’re calling it an aviation history unfolding right now. The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 continues this morning in the water south of Vietnam. So far, there’s only been false unconfirmed sightings of debris. The flight from Kuala Lumpur that was destined for Beijing disappeared early Saturday about two hours after departure. There were two hundred thirty-nine people onboard. It was at a cruising altitude, thirty-five thousand feet-- TAMRON HALL: Mm-Hm. WILLIE GEIST: --going about five hundred miles an hour when the Malaysian military said it seemed to turn back before disappearing from the radar. This has led to a lot of speculation about what should’ve happened, what might have happened. We should say this is all speculation right now. AL ROKER: Yes. WILLIE GEIST: Possibilities of mechanical malfunction, a structural failure, terrorism is still an open possibility. Adding to the mystery, investigators learned two of the passengers onboard were using stolen passports. NATALIE MORALES: Mm-Hm. WILLIE GEIST: U.S. officials say they though, have seen nothing so far, anyway, to suggest terrorism. There are three Americans onboard. One of them identified as Philip Wood, a fifty-year-old IBM employee from Texas who was living in Kuala Lumpur. Also we’re told two American children onboard ages four and two. Guys, this is crazy. AL ROKER: Yeah. WILLIE GEIST: Day three now of the search-- NATALIE MORALES: Yeah. WILLIE GEIST: --and not a trace of the plane. We had an oil slick we heard about that they were looking into. Today they confirmed that oil slick had nothing to do with this flight. AL ROKER: Nothing. TAMRON HALL: Nothing. NATALIE MORALES: Nothing to do with it. Right. WILLIE GEIST: Somebody from a plane, a surveillance plane, thought they saw a life raft in the water. NATALIE MORALES: Mm-Hm. WILLIE GEIST: Turn out that was not a life raft, not related to the flight. They got nothing at this point. AL ROKER: Yeah. NATALIE MORALES: Just disappeared in thin air. And-- and there’s so many different theories as to what could’ve happened. I mean, it brings back, I mean, sadly you think about some of the tragedies that have happened in the past. WILLIE GEIST: Yeah. NATALIE MORALES: I mean, Lockerbie, you’ve got flight-- AL ROKER: TWA Flight 800. NATALIE MORALES: TWA Flight 800. AL ROKER: Yeah. NATALIE MORALES: Where the planes just kind of on-- on, you know, just disappear and-- and turns out later you do see a debris field. But here, you’re not seeing any evidence of that yet. WILLIE GEIST: People have called-- TAMRON HALL: Yeah. WILLIE GEIST: I’m sorry, Tamron, I was going to say that-- TAMRON HALL: No, no, that’s okay. WILLIE GEIST: --read that recent Air France flight, as well. TAMRON HALL: Yeah, Air France. NATALIE MORALES: Mm-Hm. TAMRON HALL: It took two years to recover the aircraft itself. WILLIE GEIST: Right. TAMRON HALL: But the thing I think I heard most this weekend from people I was running into, of course, you know, you want to know what caused it. AL ROKER: Sure. TAMRON HALL: But that this plane, a 777-- NATALIE MORALES: Mm-Hm. TAMRON HALL: --can disappear-- WILLIE GEIST: Yeah. TAMRON HALL: --with all the technology that we have both on the plane and in the sky with satellites-- NATALIE MORALES: Right. TAMRON HALL: --and that may be not you may not be able to pinpoint the exact spot, but a radius,-- AL ROKER: Yeah. TAMRON HALL: --they’ve not even been able to do that. NATALIE MORALES: Yeah. TAMRON HALL: So, of course, the investigation as to what happened is key, but how this happened, vanished, is incredible. NATALIE MORALES: Yeah. AL ROKER: And the black box only has battery power for about thirty days. NATALIE MORALES: Is that right? AL ROKER: So if they don’t-- NATALIE MORALES: Yeah. AL ROKER: --find it within that period of time, the pinging, you know, I think it may never been found. TAMRON HALL: It’s incredible. NATALIE MORALES: It’s strange. WILLIE GEIST: I heard one-- one expert say if you lose your Buick, they’ll find it for you in about twenty minutes. NATALIE MORALES: Mm-Hm. TAMRON HALL: Yeah. They can unlock the door to your car. NATALIE MORALES: Right. Yeah. WILLIE GEIST: But a 777 falls off the face of the earth, it’s-- it’s incredible. NATALIE MORALES: That it is strange that not a single bit of communication from the pilot goes to tell you that-- WILLIE GEIST: Yeah. AL ROKER: Something catastrophic happen. NATALIE MORALES: --there obviously was something catastrophic. WILLIE GEIST: Yes. TAMRON HALL: Absolutely. AL ROKER: Immediately. NATALIE MORALES: That they didn’t have time to react. WILLIE GEIST: It’s amazing. AL ROKER: Hm. TAMRON HALL: Scary. NATALIE MORALES: All right. Another big story we’re all talking about. And this is just-- it’s just so heartbreaking to read. For the first time we are now hearing from the father of Newtown shooter Adam Lanza, he has spoken to The New Yorker magazine. And a couple of things that he revealed in this interview. It was conducted six different interviews with Andrew Solomon. But he says in this interview that he wishes his son had never been born. AL ROKER: Oh. NATALIE MORALES: That there’s-- it’s not a natural thing when you’re thinking about your kid. But God, there’s no question, he says. He-- he told the writer Andrew Solomon, it’s not like I ever go an hour when it doesn’t cross my mind. Of course, Adam Lanza killed himself, his mother and the twenty-six students-- the twenty students, six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December of 2012. And Peter Lanza asks how much do I beat up on myself about the fact that he is my son? A lot. AL ROKER: Hm. NATALIE MORALES: And he says Adam was just different as a young boy, but still a normal, weird little kid. They knew he had problems when he was growing up. Those problems became more visible as he became older. And the last time he said he saw Adam was two years before the shooting. His ex-wife, apparently had told him not to visit, which is-- AL ROKER: And he started thinking had I visited. NATALIE MORALES: So many years. AL ROKER: What could I have done? TAMRON HALL: Yeah. AL ROKER: And that’s-- that’s just going to be heartbreaking. NATALIE MORALES: Right. TAMRON HALL: And his reason for speaking out because it’s been fifteen months-- NATALIE MORALES: Mm-Hm. TAMRON HALL: --and many people have wondered and tried to reach out to him. And he said it was because the families of the children who were killed-- WILLIE GEIST: Mm-Hm. NATALIE MORALES: Right. TAMRON HALL: --and the teachers wanted that answer to help connect the dots. That he felt it was his responsibility. And I’m happy that he at least gave them that. NATALIE MORALES: Right. AL ROKER: Yeah. TAMRON HALL: That’s-- that’s a continuing-- a continuous part of their grief, as well and knowing what was this child’s life like that made him do this, so. WILLIE GEIST: Can you imagine as parents having to come to terms-- NATALIE MORALES: Hm. WILLIE GEIST: --with the idea that your child should never have been born? NATALIE MORALES: Oh. WILLIE GEIST: He’s right in this case. AL ROKER: Yeah. NATALIE MORALES: Yeah. WILLIE GEIST: But can you imagine having to accept that? AL ROKER: I know. NATALIE MORALES: It’s just a horrible, horrible thing to say,-- TAMRON HALL: Yeah. NATALIE MORALES: --but to know that in this case, it’s-- WILLIE GEIST: Yeah. NATALIE MORALES: --it’s true. It’s devastating. AL ROKER: And you look through history and there are examples like that, unfortunately. NATALIE MORALES: To think how much he-- this is now-- I mean every day, every hour, he thinks about this. WILLIE GEIST: Yeah. AL ROKER: Hm. Oh, gosh. NATALIE MORALES: It's just horrible. AL ROKER: Well, on-- on an amazing note, if you saw these pictures over the weekend. WILLIE GEIST: It’s incredible. NATALIE MORALES: Mm-Hm. AL ROKER: Skydiver and pilot both recovering after mid-air collision near Tampa, Florida, on Saturday. Investigators say the plane was doing touch and goes. You know, landing, taking off, landing, taking off when a wing-- WILLIE GEIST: Wow. AL ROKER: --clipped the skydiver’s parachute strings. The pilot, Shannon Trembley, eighty-seven years old. TAMRON HALL: Hm. AL ROKER: Skydiver John Frost falls to the ground. Neither one seriously injured. Federal investigators now looking into this. New questions surfacing as to who is at fault here. Pilot’s wife telling NBC news he’s very alert as he is when he flies, paying attention to what was going on. He knew there were jumpers in the area. In fact, earlier we had an interview-- NATALIE MORALES: Mm-Hm. AL ROKER: --with the jumper, with the parachutist,-- TAMRON HALL: Oh. AL ROKER: --and he said, the skydiver, John Frost said his pilot was in contact with this guy-- NATALIE MORALES: Yeah. AL ROKER: --and said we are in the area. We are jumping. He knew about it. So it’s one of those things this could have ended so tragically. NATALIE MORALES: Yeah. AL ROKER: But thankfully, by some miracle, it didn’t. Both walked away. NATALIE MORALES: I mean you see the plane is doing a nose dive-- WILLIE GEIST: Yeah. NATALIE MORALES: --straight into the ground and he gets-- AL ROKER: He’s caught along. NATALIE MORALES: --picked up-- TAMRON HALL: Yeah. NATALIE MORALES: --lifted and then tossed to the ground. It’s-- it’s incredible. It really is. TAMRON HALL: And both finger pointing at the other guy-- AL ROKER: Yeah, the other one blaming. TAMRON HALL: Yeah. WILLIE GEIST: Right. AL ROKER: Even the wife of the pilot allegedly saying that, you know, was he up to snuff on that day, you know, this remains to be seen. TAMRON HALL: Right. WILLIE GEIST: Look at that sequence of events. AL ROKER: I know. WILLIE GEIST: How could neither of them be seriously injured? It’s a miracle. AL ROKER: I know. It’s amazing. TAMRON HALL: That’s amazing. WILLIE GEIST: Thank God. NATALIE MORALES: I mean, the parachutist, he was so close to landing, it was-- all was going as planned perfectly getting ready to put his feet down on the ground when that was-- that happened. AL ROKER: And wham. NATALIE MORALES: It’s just crazy. AL ROKER: Was not either one’s time. TAMRON HALL: Hm. WILLIE GEIST: Yeah. NATALIE MORALES: And that series of photos is remarkable. AL ROKER: I know. NATALIE MORALES: I’ve seen those pictures a couple of times now and you just can’t get over that. AL ROKER: Yeah. TAMRON HALL: Well, in life they tell us to try a little tenderness, or was that Elvis? AL ROKER: Hm. TAMRON HALL: I don’t know. But never the-- AL ROKER: Same thing, life, Elvis. TAMRON HALL: Same thing. Life-- WILLIE GEIST: Yeah. TAMRON HALL: Because I live my life by what Elvis used to say. But this moment-- this moment out of Minnesota is so heartwarming, it’s absolutely beautiful. So, there’s a high school wrestling match over the weekend, and Malik Stewart squared off against Mitchell McKee. This is at Minnesota state wrestling champ in the one-hundred-and-twenty-pound weight class. There, the boys are there. Well, Mitchell won and Malik lost. But after the match, Malik received a standing ovation. Why? Well, Malik knew that Mitchell’s dad was suffering from cancer. NATALIE MORALES: Oh. TAMRON HALL: So he walked over to the sidelines and shook Mitchell’s father’s hand, gave him a hug and told him to keep fighting. The back story here is that Malik’s own father died of a heart attack when he was younger. AL ROKER: Wow. TAMRON HALL: And so he said, I got a little teary eyed because I lost the match and I knew the hard times he was going through. I just did it straight from my heart. NATALIE MORALES: Oh. AL ROKER: Wow. WILLIE GEIST: That’s Malik there. AL ROKER: Yeah. TAMRON HALL: Yeah, that is Malik there. NATALIE MORALES: Incredible moment. AL ROKER: Yeah. TAMRON HALL: And that’s the father who is batting cancer. You see there with his head covered a bit on. It’s-- it’s just so sweet. And we said, you know, a moment of sportsmanship. And I said, no, no, his is a moment of humanity. AL ROKER: Yeah. WILLIE GEIST: Yeah. NATALIE MORALES: Yeah. TAMRON HALL: This is a good kid-- AL ROKER: Mm-Hm. TAMRON HALL: --to think about someone else’s dad-- NATALIE MORALES: Absolutely. TAMRON HALL: --in the middle of all of that and not get caught up in the sport, so. AL ROKER: Well, having known he knew what it was like to go-- TAMRON HALL: Yeah. Absolutely. AL ROKER: --life without your father, so that’s just wonderful. TAMRON HALL: Absolute. We both lost parents, so you know. NATALIE MORALES: A step to walk in those shoes. TAMRON HALL: And that’s a moment that you can hug someone and say, I understand what you’re going through. I’m here. AL ROKER: Yeah. TAMRON HALL: And sometimes that’s all you have to say. AL ROKER: That’s sweet. That is true. WILLIE GEIST: And as you said, for a teenager who probably just lost the match of his life,-- TAMRON HALL: Yeah. AL ROKER: Yep. WILLIE GEIST: --to stop and say, wait a minute. TAMRON HALL: Yes. Stop and be in the -- WILLIE GEIST: I’m going to go do something to-- AL ROKER: It’s not all about me. WILLIE GEIST: --somebody else. NATALIE MORALES: Or something more important. TAMRON HALL: --be in the moment. Be in the moment. WILLIE GEIST: Well done, Malik. Well done. TAMRON HALL: Yes. WILLIE GEIST: Okay. So we mentioned the Powerball. AL ROKER: Yes. NATALIE MORALES: Oh. WILLIE GEIST: At the top of the show. AL ROKER: Right. WILLIE GEIST: We won, guys. AL ROKER: Yeah. NATALIE MORALES: Whoa. WILLIE GEIST: We’re on pretty mellow about it. NATALIE MORALES: Whoa. WILLIE GEIST: But, yeah, we won-- TAMRON HALL: How do you know? WILLIE GEIST: --we won the Powerball. NATALIE MORALES: We won, but not-- not much. TAMRON HALL: You got the ticket, right? NATALIE MORALES: What did we win, Willie? WILLIE GEIST: We talked about a New York woman who won two million dollars in Powerball after playing the numbers from a fortune cookie. AL ROKER: Mm-Hm. WILLIE GEIST: So we did the same on Friday. TAMRON HALL: Right. WILLIE GEIST: We brought some fortune cookies,-- TAMRON HALL: Yeah. WILLIE GEIST: --pulled out some numbers, entered Powerball. One of our tickets had three correct numbers. AL ROKER: Yeah. WILLIE GEIST: We are now– AL ROKER: How much, come on? WILLIE GEIST: Seven dollars richer. NATALIE MORALES: Yes. AL ROKER: Wow. NATALIE MORALES: Whoa. AL ROKER: All right. WILLIE GEIST: Divided by what? NATALIE MORALES: I can buy two cups of coffee, maybe. WILLIE GEIST: Fifty in this room? TAMRON HALL: Hm. WILLIE GEIST: And we’ve done some forensic work-- NATALIE MORALES: Yes. WILLIE GEIST: --and we found out that it was actually Natalie’s fortune cookie-- NATALIE MORALES: Right. AL ROKER: Oh. WILLIE GEIST: --based on the message-- NATALIE MORALES: Lucky seven. WILLIE GEIST: --that she recalled from the back. TAMRON HALL: Okay. NATALIE MORALES: Remember, when I said, why not treat yourself to a good time instead of waiting for someone else to do it. TAMRON HALL: Right. WILLIE GEIST: And you said it like dark Natalie again. TAMRON HALL: Yeah, like dark Natalie. NATALIE MORALES: I know. WILLIE GEIST: For a good time. TAMRON HALL: Yeah. NATALIE MORALES: And it was the lucky ticket. TAMRON HALL: I'm worried about you guys. You’re so trusting. Not that I’m not trusting but I’ve lived in New York now six years, who went and bought the ticket? Who do we see? How do we know? NATALIE MORALES: Hm. TAMRON HALL: You know, I’m suspicious. WILLIE GEIST: But they’ve got us a winning ticket. AL ROKER: Okay. TAMRON HALL: Seven dollars? NATALIE MORALES: Seven dollars. AL ROKER: Sound - sounds like dark Natalie’s got a friend. WILLIE GEIST: Wow. NATALIE MORALES: Yes. TAMRON HALL: Dark Tamron. AL ROKER: Wow. TAMRON HALL: That’s a double meaning. AL ROKER: Well. Really? Really?”

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