Senator rand paul calling f an independent investigation. She joins us live. And today exclusive, ambassado mark lipperts first interview since that brutal knifing in south korea. How he remained so calm during such a violent attack, wednesday, march 11, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt laue and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza and good morning. Welcome to today on a wednesday morning. 7 00 out on the west coast. Sadly we start with a tragi it is our top story this morning. Army Helicopter Crashing durin a nighttime Training Exercise the Florida Panhandle, 11 Service Members on board. Lets get to nbcs Jim Miklaszewski at the pentagon. Whats the latest . Reporter the news from florida and the u. S. Military grim this morning, matt. U. S. Military officials tell nbc news that it appears there wer no survivors from the military Helicopter Crash just off the Florida Panhandle overnight. The helicopter was on a traini mission carrying seven u. S. Special operations marines, and a fourman army crew when it went down in the santa rosa strip sound. Its a narrow strip of water between Santa Rosa Island and the shore. According to u. S. Military officials at the time of the exercise about 8 30 when the helicopter went downs are ther were increasingly harsh weathe conditions. Severe thick fog and a low ce and since this was a special Operations Training mission, t helicopter itself probably wou have been flying very low, actually almost skimming the water so that combined with weather conditions could have contributed to the crash itsel now, the seven marines are fro ca the helicopters were from a National Guard army base in hammond, louisiana but its not clear whether the fourman arm crew aboard was also from louisiana. Now, according to officials, search and rescue operations still continue this morning wi the slight hope that they stil may find someone alive. But this incident again a grim reminder that even in a traini incident, that american men an women in the military often ar in harms way every day, matt. Tragic news for the u. S. Military. Jim miklaszewski at the pentagon, thank you very much. We are hearing for the fir time today from one of the university of oklahoma student involved in the racist chant that led to a fraternity being kick it you off campus while t family of another student and this young student himself apologizing, the scandal appears only to be growing. Gabe gutierrez is in norman for us. Gabe, good morning. Reporter good morning. Two students have been expelle and the University Says the investigation is not over. And other students could be di were learning more what may have led to this. One student blaming the incide in part on alcohol. On the campus new outrage. I hope he genuinely is apologetic and not because he got caught. Apologies for this video ar sinking in. A freshman member of sigma alp epsilon parker rice writing i deeply sorry for what i did saturday night. It was wrong and reckless. I admit it likely was fueled b alcohol consumed at the house before the bus trip but thats not an excuse. Rice had graduated from this prep school in dallas last yea i was appalled. I think its unconscionable to see what was going on bus. In his written statement ri said the song was taught to us overnight sae said it was like they learned from fellow chapt members but reiterated the National Fraternity does not such a racist hateful chant. The parents of a second studen levi pettite also apologized. He made a horrible mistake and will live with the consequence we also know the depth of our sons character. He is a good boy. But what we saw in those videos is disgusting. The fraternity calling this video posted on social media unacceptable, shows the long time house mother at ou using the same racial slur in 2013. She says she is heart broken b any racist portrayal and she w only singing along to a rap song. As the scandal widens hundreds of student marched across campus, diverse crowd stopping at the sae house now shut down its racism. Thats what it is. I would say we havent fallen apart but some parts of us hav started to crumble away but were putting it back together reporter this morning ther is an image being shared a lot here on the campus, and beyond it is a powerful image taken by the Student Newspaper showing students coming together last night and trying to show signs of racial unity. Again, the university stressin that it has zero tolerance for what happened on that bus. Back to you. Gabe, thank you. Another scandal being closely watched, Hillary Clintons email controversy a this morning her critics responding now that she has broken her silence. Andrea mitchell is here with t latest on that. Good morning. Good morning to you. The state department now says it will post Hillary Clintons emails after they are screene for privacy and security, starting with the benghazi email first. Clintons answers have not satisfied republicans. I fully complied with every rule i was governed by. Reporter Hillary Clintons press conference raised more questions for republicans. Trey gowdy the republican chairman of the house benghazi investigation says he will cal her to testify at least twice. Critics dont buy her explanation she used the priva system for convenience. I thought it would be easie to carry one device for my wor and personal email instead of two. Looking back it would have bee better to use two separate phones and two email accounts clinton says her work emai went to colleagues on governme accounts so were automatically archived but she revealed she deleted what she decided personal emails. About planning chelseas wedding or my mothers funeral arrangements, condolence notes to friends as well as yoga routines, family vacations. Her answers satisfied diann i think the important thing she stepped forward and talked to people. Republicans say they dont trust them and want her to tur over her server to a neutral third party. Nobody has any way to verif what she did or didnt do. The server contains Persona Communications from my husband and me, and i believe i have m all of my responsibilities and the server will remain private Hillary Clinton says the system was secure because it w set up byer husbands office, and protecteddy the secret service. Although bill clintons office says the former president doesnt use email, only sent two in his life. And clintons explanation she preferred to use just one devi may come under scrutiny. At a womens event last month she seemed to suggest otherwis i dont throw anything away im like two steps short of a hoarder. So i have you know, an ipad, a mini, ipad, iphone and blac were told the explanation for that is that she got the iphone only a few months ago after she left the state department. Clinton will no doubt face questions by her critics. Tuesday was her first with the press corps since her 2008 campaign, a sign of what she could be facing once she becom a candidate. You were in that room and even as she left the podium there were a lot of people who wanted to ask her questions. For sure. Thank you very much. Republican senator rand paul of kentucky calling for an independent investigation into all of this, we talk to him earlier this morning. I began by asking the senator what clinton said or didnt sa that makes him believe shes perhaps not telling the whole heres the thing. I dont think convenience should Trump National security. She also has admitted in other interviews she has an iphone a blackberry so carries two devi devices. I think fact she didnt obey t rules on putting her emails o a government server and now sh says there wasnt classified information im not shaur that can be trusted since we cant trust her to do the right thin the first time. The thing about classified lk about transmitting a document thats classified about many conversations may be classifie say i wanted to know tomorrow about all of her conversations by email with the president i would think many of those woul be classified and yet she says that she did these conversatio on a private server. She says nothing was cl she turned over 55,000 pages o emails to the state department, but she does say she discarded some 30,000 emails, raises questions i think youll agree one, did she make the right decision between what was pure official and what was purely personal, and i guess you must be wondering are they gone for good or still on the server in nothing seems to be gone fo dp on the internet. But the other question i would have is, there is a period of time she was traveling to liby that we are concerned about he emails, and those arent out there. So did she delete those . I mean really, the problem is when someone shows themselves not necessarily to be trust worthy with doing the right thing, she was supposed to put the emails on a government server, on a secure server and she didnt, now she says well, didnt do the right thing then but trust me now, the one i deleted werent pertinent and trust me though there arent emails that exist concerning this trip to libya trust me th i am doing the right thing. I dont know, my sense of trus is a little lost on this. Let me ask you she mentione before her remarks on the ema she talked about this open letter that you and 46 other republican senators wrote and then signed and sent off to th leaders of iran during delicat negotiations over this nuclear deal. She said you and the others we either trying to help iran or undermine the commander in ch let me ask you if youre no longer senator rand paul but president rand paul and youre trying to conduct foreign poli in the midst of delicate negotiations, would you want members of the senate undermining that . Im kind of one of the senators who is in favor of negotiations with iran. I want there to be a peaceful outcome but i want to strengthen the president s hand so i want to strengthen his hand bay saying you know what, weve go a lot of hard liners and have get agreement by congress and doing so maybe the president will negotiate a more appropriate deal where we actually get iran to give up you strengthen the president s hand . Also reiterated what the constitution says is that the powers are separated, and that when legislation is passed by congress, Congress Passed most of the sanctions. They cant be taken back witho Congress Passing new legislation. So i think this is the law no matter what there is a letter, no matter whether the bill passes or not. I think the law is that the sanctions can only be removed by congress and by reiterating th i think we send a message that this needs to be a good deal. Senator rand paul, thanks f joining us. Appreciate it. Thank you. Natalie is here with a key piece of evidence at the boston bombing tr were talking about the boa that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was hiding in and wrote on before his capture taking center stag at the bottoming trial. Pete williams is at the cour good morning. Reporter good morning. The judge in the bombing trial is deciding whether to let members of the jury see the entire boat for themselves, no that the government has shown for the first time pictures of what Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote while he was hiding in it. While the boston suburb of watertown was on lockdown five days after the bombing with th hunt on for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, he was hiding for hours in a boat stored in a back yard, writing a 230word essay in pencil on the interior. For the first time the government has released pictur of what he was writing streake though they show only a small portion of the interior wall i was clearly riddled with polic gun fire before he surrendered its hard to tell how many bullet holes but a conservativ count is at least 21. He wrote about his older broth who died earlier that day. Im jealous of my brother he wrote, adding that tamerlan received the reward of paradise before him. The u. S. Government is killing our innocent civilians he said i cant stand to see such evil go unpunished. Muslims are one body, you hurt one you hurt us all. He said, god has a plan for ea pe mine was to hide in this boat and shed some light on our actions. Today prosecutors plan to begi showing the jury some of the hundreds of pieces of bomb par that were picked up by investigators, off the street from rooftops, even from the bodies of those hurt. Pete williams, thank you. A controversial bill passed by lawmakers in utah getting the bill would allow death by a firing squad if there werent enough drugs to carry out an execution by lethal injection. The sponsor republican paul ra argues that his team of the marksman is faster and more humane than the drawn out deat that occurred in lethal injections. Utahs governor wont say if h will sign. The fight against isis is fron and center on capitol hill. The Foreign Relations committe is meeting to discuss presiden obamas request for authorization to use force against the terror group, amon those testifying before the committee today secretary of state john kerry, and new defense secretary ashton carte more fallout in ferguson, missouri following the scathing the city manager john shaw has resigned what the Council Called a mutual separation agreement. It comes after last weeks d. O. J. Report citing cases of alleged racial bias in the Police Department and court system sthau says his office never instructed the Police Department to target africanamericans. Actor johnny depp is going need surgery after injuring hi hand while on location in australia filming the latest pirates of the caribbean movie he headed back to the united no word how he was injured but insiders say it will not throw the movie off schedule. It is due to be released in ju of 2017. And food and art again going hand in hand in a new project former art director called foo states of america. New jerky and swissconsin. He has been posting since last summer. The project went viral this month when it reached halfway poin he says his 9yearold son is the one who came up with the idea while strolling by a u. S. Map at an after School Program pretty unfor nat choice for new je love a good beef jerky. What state could we work bacon into . Onetrack mind with you. Sorry. Thinking about all of this war weather, but also thinking abo take a look. This is in cape cod. They have had massive chunks o ice forming and people are saying this is unlike anything they have stine in the last 20 years. But once that thaw sets in, it will melt pretty quickly. Still, very, very impressive stuff. Weve also got impressive fog out there. Upwards of 83 Million People a under some sort of fog advisor this morning. Look at this visibility, st. Louis, 1 mile, chicagoohare, 3 miles, zero cincinnati, pittsburgh, cl you know there are going to be airport delays. Along the roads too, we had two fatal accidents in the last 24 hours in indiana due to fog on you can see there the fog eventually as the day wears on the ceilings will lift and we have more visibility. Just know there are going to b a lot of airport delays later into the morning hours, boston new york, cleveland, pittsburg and chicago. And leave yourself plenty of space, use the low beams as 7 18. Weve got some showers working through the bay area this morning and were looking good to see these showers continue through much of the day. Clearing expected between about 4 00 and 6 00. You can see from this live picture of tiburon, definitely an overcast sky. A little break from the rain right now. South along the Golden Gate Bridge and into San Francisco. Highs are going to be comfortable today. Were starting out in the mid 50s, so easily ramping up these numbers into the upper 60s. Were going to ramp them up even more so. We turn back to the university of oklahoma. Its starting a new conversati about fraternities and College Graduation rates ar 20 higher in the greek system and 85 of fortune 500 executives were part of greek lets go to the orange room. The numbers speak high for the greek system. With situations like oklahoma arise that raises flags for parents. The poll today, would you want your child to join a fraternit or sorority . The results, no at this point. 82 to 18. No, ive seen the behind the scenes of many over the years and i do not agree or stand behind them at all. Agreeing is gary, no, for many reasons not only this incident but nothing positive seems to come from these groups. On the other side, jennifer writes yes, best decision i ev made. Learned how to manage people. Wouldnt change it for the this oklahoma situation has people talking about greek life. 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