2015 will be a busy one in politics. The race to the white house will intensify. Well also look and get predictions about the world of medicine and the economy from jim cramer. Cool. Were going to take a moment to look back at the fun we have had in 2014 from sochi to the big halloween show and so much more. Also we are going to start your new year with a song from Carrie Underwood. Lets check on the stop stories from sheinelle jones. Good morning, happy new year to you. Happy new year. Bad wet wither is hampering efforts to recover victims from flight 8501. Katy tur has more. Reporter the weather hamper ing the search effort. They were able to bring the bodies they already recovered back to surabaya today including the first one to be identified. Received with civic honors by Indonesian Military air force and naval officers victims three, four, five and six landed in surabaya today, followed by the remains of the first identified body hayati lafaya was handed over to her relatives. Joseph is waiting for news of his 23yearold son hendra he was on his way to singapore with three friends. Excited for the vacation they took this photo right before the plane took off. Do you think you can handle this if you get the worst news . We have to handle it because we have to face the fact that he was on the airplane and it crashed. Reporter at the local police station, media and volunteers even some still stunned relatives. Its day five. Still no con fir pags that the large dark shadow they spotted in the search area is in fact the fuselage. But if it is officials say, thats where they believe they will find most of the oh victims. Divers were also not able to deploy. They are not sure if the shadow they have seen under the water is the bublglk of the fuselage. Weather has not been cooperating. Sheinelle . Thank you, katy. Rose parade organizers are getting ready for what could be a record cold day. Joe fryer is in pasadena. Good morning. Happy new year to you. Happy new year. With temps in the 30s this could be one of the coldest rose parades on record. Thousands have been camping out for a good spot along the parade route. Yesterday pasadena was hit by a sudden unexpected wind event. Four people were actually hurt by flying debris. The injuries were minor. Meanwhile a storm dumpeded snow and ice across parts of the western u. S. From california to the rockies, making driving especially treacherous in the mountains. An eventful start to the new year. Sheinelle . Thank you, joe. Now a look at your new years day weather. Heavy lake effect snow in upstate new york. Lighter snow in michigan. Another trouble spot will be in texas where freezing rain will make treacherous travel. More snow is likely in the southern rockies. A look at your youve got to make better choices, jane farewell, cookie dough ice cream. Whats that youre drinking . Its trop50 with calcium. It has delicious new taste and has 50 less calories. With this taste . No way. Give me fifty squats. It cant taste this good read the label. And have 50 less calories . Exactly. Now you drop. And give me the 50. Trop50 calcium. New taste so good you wont believe it has 50 less calories. Thats a look at your forecast on this first day of twoit. 2015. Matt . We are kicking off the new year with a look at Politics Health and the economy. Lets go to jim cramer from mad money on nbc. Happy new year. Lets look at 2014. I think the economy at some times got overshadowed by other stories in the news. 1 to 10 how did we do . This turned out to be about an 8. Only overseas had weakness. This was a turn around year a great year. At the end of the year we saw Falling Oil Prices gas prices fell. I have seen predictions already that we could continue to see low gas prices throughout 2015. What do you think . This is a year where the consumer is going to be flush because we could see 2 gasoline all over the country. Phone bills are coming down too. Another unexpected benefit. Tax cuts from Telephone Companies and oil companies. We talk about this a lot and we have in the past. Will this be the year americans see a real raise . Yes. In terms of ability to have a good lifestyle . Yes. This is a year when the companies have so much profit it would be embarrassing if they didnt return it. Its been embarrassing in the past. We have seen it happen. Thats true. The ceos are overpaid. I wont change my mind about that. There will be wealth and success for so Many Companies in 2015. Dont be surprised if you get a raise you didnt ask for. Lets talk jobs. We dont have the december numbers. Right. It appears 2014 will be about the best year for job creation in a decade or a decade and a half. About 3 million jobs created. Can that extend into 2015 . Yes. There are a whole series whole parts of the economy about to kick in this year. Housing. We were still in a recessionary level in 2014. Big Construction Projects will help. We are seeing a return to our power as an export nation. We are building so many things here. These are all engines. I have never felt better than i have in this segment. Right. Lets talk about possible land mines to look out for in 2015. All right. Its not in our country. Worry about china slowing down again. Really europe has got to get it together. I dont know if they can. Japan, a giant economy falling off the cliff. This matters. We need them to buy our stuff. You talk about china. It was determined that china is now the Worlds Largest economy. Now i think a lot of people in the United States are uneasy about that. Is it anything more than a label . No it really isnt. The if they dont clean their air and water up they will be an economy we wont have to worry about at all. They have to spend a fortune just so we can see each other this far from each other in a major city. That was the year that was and the year ahead in the economy courtesy of jim cramer. Thank you very much. Happy new year. Lets go to savannah. Matt thank you very much. Now to the year ahead in politics. Lets be honest 2015 will be all about 2016. Chuck todd is nbcs political director and moderator of meet the press. Chuck, good morning. Good morning. Happy new year. Goodbye 2015. The next year in politics is all about the upcoming president ial election. It is. 2015 is about announcements. Who will get in get out. Then raising money. Then the first debates. Then the first part of the campaign. 2015 is about establishing whos going to run, whos strong and whos weak. It can be a race to be first to announce. Sometimes its about delay, how soon you announce. Lets start with hillary clinton. Im stunned that here we are on january 1st and we dont have any serious candidates. If you look back the last times we have had open president ial races people announced after the midterms. There seems to be a collective decision by everybody slow down wait until march or april before we get the race started. On the democrat side people are waiting to see what hillary does. Is there any real suspense left . Not anymore. If there is shes doing a disservice to the Democratic Party. The machinery is behind her. People will leave the white house, john pedesta, to be chairman of her campaign. Its not, oh he might do this. If she pulled the plug on this it would leave the Democratic Party in a real load of pain. She obviously knows what its like to be the front runner early. Democrats dont want to see a kor first nation. Could you see a serious challenge from the left that if it wouldnt prevail over her it could give her headaches . Every major front runner with the size of lead she has, even ones that survived and made it through always have that moment of oh oh my gosh. Al gore had it. Hillary had it with barack obama. There doesnt appear to be that person that could present that type of challenge. I think sometime in the fall when suddenly maybe her numbers people will start looking around. Maybe shell feel stale in the news feed. There will be that moment. I dont think it will be like 2008 for her. Lets talk about the republican side. Wide open field. We are seeing a rise of the establishment figures. Talking about Jeb Bush Chris Christie potentially mitt romney again. Well, the establishment aka, donors want one of those three. The grassroots arent interested in these three. They are unpopular with the with people who vote in primaries, vote in new hampshire, iowa south carolina. There is a disconnect between the mega rich guys ss backing the Republican Party want jeb, romney. They will accept Chris Christie though i think hes a lower third. They are afraid of what the grassroots will select like rand cruz. Those who vote in the caucuses the primaries, who who tops the list now . Right now its all over the place. Believe it or not after rand paul and we dont have a front runner but in nascar terms he niece the pole position. He earned that right. He lead it is polls in iowa. After that you have ben carson. Hes a former neurosurgeon from johns hopkins. One of the most successful at the pediatric level. He has a huge following in the conservative wing of the party. Hes already popped big in some of the polls. I think well have a scenario where you will see the rise. Ben carson may rise and fall. Others will rise and fall while the establishment gets its sea legs. 20 seconds to find out whats going to happen to warshington in 2015. Its all about whether john boehner and Mitch Mcconnell want to do something. That gives president obama the opportunity to sign big bipartisan legislation. Maybe taxes, maybe something else. For president obama he doesnt control it. Its up to Mitch Mcconnell and john boehner. Who is your dream guest for meet the press . I want the joint sitdown with bill and hillary. Okay. We all want it. We do. I will take them first. Billary. Lets start the new year on a good foot. Back over to matt. Savannah thank you very much. When it comes to medical news nothing was bigger in 2014 than the ebola crisis. What will we talk about this year . Dr. Natalie azar is an nbc contributor and assistant clinical professor at New York University medical center. Good morning. Hi matt. Ebola was the story medically in 2014 the end of the year Time Magazine named the ebola fighters as their persons of the year. Its discouraging when you look at news coming out of west africa. 18,000 people infected. More than 6,000 died. Will we start to turn the corner . We are hoping we will. Unfortunately to make a really accurate prediction with cant, almost. There are so many moving parts. We have the development and investigational drugs, vaccine development. We have the ability now to curtail and find and identify more cases. We have certainly made headway. There is reason to be hopeful. We cannot be complacent. You talk about ex peer mental drugs or five potential p vaccines being tested and developed. We know some of the patients brought to the United States were given experimental drugs. Is one showing more promise than others . How quickly could they mass produce it . Two very good question s. We have a twopronged approach. One is prevention. There are a number of vaccine s in development. At the end of november we got encouraging news on the first vaccine that was tried in humans. Thats hopeful to go into phase two and phase three trials and be mass produced by early or mid january 2015. The other approach is treating patients who were infected not preventing with the vaccine. We heard about zmap and the antiviral. Both drugs are now have moved into phases where we are hoping for larger trials to see if they are effective and mass production. Revolutionary medications in the copping year. One in particular a lot of people excited to deal with heart failure. This made new as couple of months ago. We felt it was so important it bears repeating. For cardiology this was a Ground Breaking story because it showed they were testing an investigational drug against whats considered the gold standard. When you do that its a robust study design. This was not against placebo. Its against what people have been using for a number of years. The drug decreased all cause mortality and mortality from cardiovascular and improved quality of life. This is fasttracked. They are hoping for approval and marketing by mid2015. Immunotherapy in the treatment of cancer. What is it why is it promising . Especially as a rheumotologist knowledge of the translational research. You take with a you understand about the way a tumor or cancer works and develop a drug that is specifically targeting that particular molecule. You are thokknocking out something specific rather than the good molecules. These inhibitors showed promise in hodgkins disease, kidney cancers, melanoma and nonsmall cell lung cancer. I want the go into the next one carefully. Lets talk about ecigs. I know the fda is considering regulating them as a tobacco product. Yeah. That has a lot of people up in arms. Where is this going in the coming year . Why sitis it important that the labeling is a tobacco product . It allow it is fda to have more control over the product. That translates into being able to conduct the appropriate well designed placebo trials et cetera to determine whether or not ecigarettes are safe. More importantly, now labeling has to include the percentage of the nicotine. It will also include the other content s. In some cases there have been carcinogens found and banning to minors. I guarantee in 2015 we wont end the debate as to whether these are healthy alternatives. Im not sure we will. Or a gate way to discovery. Natalie, thank you so much. Thank you so much. Carson had a late night on oh tv. Tamron is in for him this morning. Tamron good morning. Hey, guys. On this new years day many are sharing resolutions on social media. We thought wed take a look back and see how people did on the resolutions set last year. Savannah says mine was to be more honest and not bottle up my feelings. Its gone well and i still have friends. It didnt go well for everybody. Kimberly wrote in saying i lost 13 pounds this year. However, i gained 14. Hang in there. Theres always this year. We took a look at what we plan to accomplish in the new year. Matt more time for the family. Savannah get back to yoga. Al less time on devices. Youre the king of gadgets. Natalie, more selfcontrol eating drinking spending. Mine is to increase my daily meditation from 15 minutes to 30 minutes. Natalie, im with you on the spending. I heard the laughter. Not happening. Starttoday to let us know what you will accomplish in the new year. 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