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To come . And chaos in the cabin. An airliner hits extreme turbulence. 25 people injured, some seriously and why the pilots never saw it coming today, monday, may 1, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. [ cheers and applause ] good morning, everybody, welcome to today, its a monday morning. We have craig in for matt. Looking at that video, its incredible. If youre one of the people who ignores the pilot who says faste...

Saying this is just politics. This is a stunt. This is a political stunt. If the republicans did not have a majority in the congress, there would not be an investigation. Elect republicans so that we can have these kinds of investigations. This is the full neutering. Thank you. The full neutering of chairman issa and his 16 months of work. Benghazi. Benghazi. Benghazi. Thank you. The wait is over. One week after sharply reversing course and opening up the chasm of calamity, Speaker John Boehner ...

Mark bitman reviewed the book. he said individual decisions have power and despair is an awful option but individual decisions are limited without forward-thinking leadership the needed change wont happen. just want you to respond to that and get a sense how worried you are we to the floor much leadership on the issue right now. >> hes absolutely right. individual change is not going to be sufficient. the problem is were not going to have the leadership that we need without sufficient -- suffici...

Processed meat like bacon or hot dogs caused cancer and quote sufficient evidence that processed meat causes colo-rectal cancer and red meat is probably carcinogenic. theyre pushing back calling it dramatic and alarmist. they say the study defies common sense and numerous other studies. lets bring in mark bitman, author of "a bone to pick" and a fellow with society of concerned scientists. we were talking in the break. theres been increasing number of studies and the world health organization ha...

Not showing that you eat meat you get cancer. the studies are showing a higher correlation of cancer with increased consumption of especially processed meats. to be safe, you eat fewer processed meats. be safer, eat less red meat. i think the tendency or what i would recommend is to eat less meat and to eat better meat thats meat thats raised on sustainable farms without antibiotics and so on and so forth. we know that we can raise meat more safely. we can eat less. we can spend a little more on...

Sfx: birds chirping sfx: birds chirping 47 past the hour. two very different must-read opinion pages. well start with the "new york times." fast food, low pay. this is mark bitman. a number of retail workers are now fighting for basic rights, halfway decent pay, a real work schedule, a right no organized health care, paid sick days, vacations and respect. next week organizers say well see a walkout of thousands of workers at hundreds of stores in at least seven cities including new york and ch...

Baseball. separating political power hitters, those active in politics from those who not even swinging. who arent. behavior with fair and foul and it pains me almost more than i can say, moj so correct to say the cubs owner joe rickets get top a-hole prize here. mojo recalling this amazing campaign story, the ameritrade founder depicting president obama as a fact black metrosexual abe lincoln. the most innocuous quadrant, pirates owner is compared favorably to an empty chair. see where your tea...

Regressive agenda. no post election private reversion to the moderate mean will change that. as we enter the era of the pivot, dont listen to what mitt romney says, look at what his party is doing. right now im joined by msnbc political analyst mike eric sidyson, huffington post senior political reporter and politics managing editor, amanda che cherkel, "washington times" reporter kerry pickett and mark bitman coming back, author of a number of books, "food matters," "a guide to conscious eati...

Passed along to the consumers, and not only that but the tobacco companies are also -- the ones who are supporting our schip programs as well. so, at this point they are paying for it as a result. so, until, you know -- >> trillions of people are not dying as a result. >> exactly. the point is that is a confluence of public pressure, public health campaigns, regulation and all sort of state regulation. mark, i want to sort of give you the last word on this issue about regulation. >> you did. >> ...

♪ listen people listen to what i got to say ♪ a vocal introduction on this saturday morning. all right, last weekend we had one of our panelists mark bitman on our show to talk about pink slime, the substance that the meat industry calls lean, finalfinely textured beef. this is t-shirt in case you wanted to know what the message was. so, afterwards mark wrote a follow-up to the discussion which i loved on "the new york times" blog and we wanted to invite him back not only to continue the c...