Girl a claim the palace denies. Alan dershowitz named in that same suit speaks to us today, monday january 5th 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on a monday morning. The gangs all back for the new year. I love what the script says. It says were all back even carson. Carson yea why is that such a shocker . The mystery man is back in the house zblie thought he was filling in for tamron. Ooh. Ouch ahh love you, carson. Lets get to our top story right now. Its going to be brutally cold. Snow to deal with and lakeeffect snow. 30 moreillion or more people literally stretching from coast to coast today. It feels like 25 below in minneapolis. Zero in chicago. Feels like 17 below. Highs today will only get to 11 in chicago. Marquette, 3. 21 in watertown. Tuesday, it starts to make its way to the east. New york, 27. Ashtabulaa, aa a ashtabulaa 25. Chicagos high 1. 30 degrees below normal. Buffalo, 14. New york, 10 degrees below average. Thursday we settle in with that cold air. This is going to be the bulk of it stretching from minott to the northeast. Plus weve got a clipper coming across very quickly. Its going to spread about 3 to 5 inches of snow from minneapolis, chicago, cleveland tonight. Lakeeffect snow will set up later this afternoon into tonight. Generally about 6 to 9 inches from billings through minneapolis. Look what sets up in western new york today on to the next 72 hours, upwards of two feet of snow just to the north of syracuse and from just east of cleveland to buffalo, were talking a foot to a foot and a half of snow guys. Long lasting, lakeeffect event involving three lakes. We are talking about a lot of snow over the next 72 hours or more. Welcome to january. There you go. Happy new year. Happy new year. Exactly. Nearly two years after the Boston Marathon bombings the trial begins for the surviving suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Pete williams is at the courthouse covering it for us. Good morning to you. Reporter savannah good morning. The trial begins with the task of jury selection. Because of whats at stake, this could be a long process to seat 12 jurors and six alternates from boston and the surrounding communities. Lawyers for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have twice asked the judge to move the trial somewhere else far away from the city where a terror attack near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon killed three people and injured 260 more. Tsarnaev is also accused of killing an m. I. T. Police officer. His older brother, tamerlan died four days later in a shootout with the police. If tsarnaev is convicted, they are required to get whats known as a deatheligible jury. You dont want to have a jury that will not impose it no matter what the law says. Reporter an unusually large jury pool 3,000 people each required to fill out a questionnaire about themselves and begin reporting for the courthouse thaoday for a long selection process. The trial will move very slowly. Jury selection itself may take two weeks. The entire trial could take four months or more. Matt savannah . Pete williams at the courthouse thank you. Here in new York City Police are investigating the death of a 200 Million Hedge Fund founder and want to know if his son played role. Jonathan dienst leads the investigation team. Good morning to you. Good morning, matt. Thomas gilbert sr. s wife found his body in their apartment. At this hour, his death has not been ruled a homicide and police havent named his son a suspect, but the son is in custody and theyve been questioning him for hours. The founder of a hedge fund worth 200 million was found dead in his bedroom sunday. One gunshot to his head. Overnight, police questioned his son, Thomas Gilbert jr. Investigators say they think he was the only person with his father around the time of the shooting. At about 3 30 sunday afternoon, police say Thomas Gilbert sr. s wife found him in their apartment, a handgun, the fatal weapon used was found near the body. Police led his crying widow, shelly away from the building in the exclusive enclave. Neighbor directly below the shooting scene said there was a loud noise. Almost as if someone had dropped something heavy, like a glass, on the floor from the apartment above us. Reporter gilberts son, tommy, is now being questioned by detectives to see what he might know about his fathers final moments. His Facebook Page shows a smiling, handsome man who, like his father attended princeton university. A close Family Friends says in recent years gilbert jr. Had become volatile. On sunday afternoon, investigators say they believe the father and son got into an argument. Gilbert jr. , witnesses say, left the building with his hooded sweatshirt pulled up. 74yearold gilbert was the founder of the booming multimillion Dollar Hedge Fund wainscott partners. Jarring for the affluent neighborhood. Its awful. I dont know what the details are, but it scares me. Very shocking. Very shocking. Reporter since the gun was found near the body police have not ruled out suicide. Detectives continue to question the son, trying to get some answers. Matt savannah . Jonathan dienst thank you very much. We are learning this morning about the sole survivor of that tragic plane crash in kentucky. A 7yearold girl managed to free herself from the wreckage and then walk nearly a mile for help. Investigators are hoping now she can tell them what happened in the accident that killed her parents, her sister and a cousin. Gabe gutierrez has the latest on all of it for us this morning. Gabe, good morning. Reporter savannah good morning. Moved the planes wreckage to try to get a closer look. These woods were pitch black that night. But somehow that little girl made it out alive. This morning, 7yearold sayler gutzler is recovering with relative. One remarkable young lady. Reporter hoping that the second grader soon will be able to provide clues that will help investigators figure out what caused the plane to plunge in the woods and how she was able to make it out alive when her parents, 9yearold sister and 14yearold cousin were killed. The interior of a similar plane. One of the things the ntsb will try to confirm is where sayler was sitting, hoping that may suggest how she survived. Cell phone video from First Responder wade white shows the path she took to find help. She had to crawl over tree tops through briar patches, weeds, deep ditches. She had to do this in the dark and she took the best route she could have took. She did this in socked feet in shorts and a tshirt. She finally saw a porch light. The man who answered her door knock called 911 and sheriff kent murphy was the first to spot the downed plane upside down. Some people dont believe in miracles. They think its luck stuff like that. To me its a miracle. Reporter a miracle that has captivated the familys hometown of nashville, illinois as it mourns a devastating loss. Sayler judging by the way she handled herself there, is a fighter and will be well taken care of in this community. Reporter amazingly, First Responders here say that sayler tried to find a branch and light it on the planes burning wing so she could see. That ended up not working, but that didnt stop her. Matt and savannah she was determined to find help for her family. What an incredibly brave little girl. Yeah. Thank you very much. Natalie is here with the latest overnight news on that airasia tragedy. Good morning to you. Good morning. Malaysia navy ship recovered three more bodies believed to be from airasia flight 8501 that crashed in the java sea eight days ago. And investigators think they found a key piece of that plane overnight. Katy tur is in indonesia with the latest. Reporter good morning, natalie. That key piece of plane could be the tail. Investigators havent been able to confirm this but if it in fact and if it did not break up on impact they could find those black boxes within. Its now been more than a week since airasia lost contact with radar and crashed into the java sea. Still no visual on the bulk of the wreckage. Divers repeatedly thwarted by rough seas and low visibility. Weather conditions so uncooperative, searchers are having trouble with the autonomous submarine. One team may have found the tail section, which would likely still house the black boxes. The head of the indonesian search and rescue says the difficulty now is to locate the black box. Its not easy even though we have the tools and the system. Weve deployed vessels to find the ping signal but up until now we havent succeeded. Over the weekend, jakartas meteorologic agency said weather was most likely the trigger, though no cause can be determined fl theyre able to analyze the flight recorder. Meanwhile its now been eight days and though some bodies have been recovered and identified most are still missing. At this viewing, grieving relatives mourn for 10yearold and her mother. Still waiting for the familys grandmother, grandfather, father and two other children who are still unaccounted for. And with news over the weekend that this plane wasnt even supposed to be flying from indonesia to singapore on sunday there have been consequences. Indonesian Authorities Say they have moved the officials in charge of the takeoff including air traffic controllers, to other departments, much in the same way you would move a cop to desk duty if something went wrong. Natalie, back to you. Nbcs katy tur in indonesia, thank you. Back here at home Police Officers from across the nation joined grieving Family Member ss to pay honor to a new york police officer. Wenjian liu, his widow clutched a picture. Some officers turned their backs as the citys mayor spoke at lius service. They blame bill de blasio for supporting protests they say are antipolice. Reality tvs Teresa Giudice attended Church Services sunday with her family in newark. Teresa and her husband, joe giudice, pled guilty to fraud charges last year and her husband will begin his 41month sentence after his wifes prison time is completed. Hundreds of travelers happen to be on the ground after their nightmare 21hour flight. It was scheduled to take off saturday from abu dahbi. They were stuck on the tarmac for ten hours. Passengers called it the flight from hell and complained about not getting any food or water. Apparently they werent allowed to get off the flight. Eventually though the plane did take off. It had to make that 16hour journey all the way to california. The airline apologized for the inconvenience but said the delays were beyond its control. No food or water during that time on the tarmac . Ten hours, i guess, for some of the traveler. Why couldnt they just have been brought back to the gate . Bathrooms were nice after that. Imagine if they were tl children on that too . Natalie, thank you. Mr. Roker . All righty. Lets show you what weve got for today. Around much of the country, sunshine southeast. Chillier than usual. Big storm system in the Pacific Northwest. Well look at that in the next half hour. Sunshine through the gulf but even there temperatures are chillier than good morning. Im meteorologist bill henley. The wind is blowing, cold air is dumping into the area. Look for temperatures in the 30s this afternoon and winds gusting to 40 miles an hour. That brings in even colder air tomorrow and a clipper. Light snow during the day. Looks like 1 to 2 inches for philadelphia. Then its out of here on wednesday. And here comes even colder air. Gusty winds wednesday. Thursday morning 9 degrees in the morning, just 23 in the afternoon. Then its 30s this weekend. Have a great day. And thats your latest weather. Al thank you very much. Sarah palin is back in the spotlight, criticism over her conversation photo of her son, trigg, standing on the family dog. Peter alexander fills us in on the rest of the story. Good morning. Good morning to you, matt. Sarah palin and Animal Rights groups certainly have had their differences in the past. After sarah posted pictures of trigg getting a leg up with the help of the family dog, she and peta got into it and taking a swipe at the president in the process. Chill. The feud sparked by these photos that palin posted last week of her 6yearold son, trigg, who has down syndrome stepping on the family dog to reach the kitchen sink. New years day message said may 2015 see every stumbling block turned into a stepping stone on the path forward. A day later, peta pounced, saying she had no apparent sympathy for the dog and the Animal Rights grouped is used to the hardhearted seemingly oblivious heart heartedness of this woman. The difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom . Lipstick. At least trigg didnt eat the dog, she wrote,. Did you go as crazy when your heroic man of your lifetime barack obama actually revealed he enjoyed eating dead dog meat . And lightlying this photo of another child stepping on the dog. Did you get all weeweed up when she post this had picture . Palin, who adopted the dog for trigg has been upfront about raising a child with special need. When we hold trigg and care for him, we dont feel scared anymore. We truly feel blessed. Reporter still, she called it a shame. Ill bet we agree on what ooh i hope is the true meaning of your mission, respecting gods creation and critters. Palins response shows, quote, she knows peta about as well as she knows geography, before going on to wish the palins a peaceful and humane 2015. Her original Facebook Post now has more than 70,000 likes. Peter alexander, thanks very much. You can read sarah palins fig full statement on our website today. Com. Turn to carson now. What an emotional response to the passing of an espn sportscaster. So sad. So many turned to social media to remember the great stuart scott from espn. Scott known popular Sports Center anchor unfortunately, passed away sunday morning. And, i mean if you met the guy, if you watched him on tv he was incredible. His work ethic, enthusiasm. And the speech he gave january 16th when he accepted the jimmy vee award for perseverance was one of the best speeches youll ever see. Here is a small portion that have now. When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live why you live and in the manner in which you live. Thats worth going back and seeing it in its entirety. A lot of people posted it. The president writes over the years he entertained us and inspired us with courage and love. Michael jordan a trailblazer in his field and by refusing to change his style made himself into a star. Sports center we leave an empty seat to honor stuart scott. We will miss him. Of course all of us here sending our thoughts of course with stuarts family his daughters and everybody his friends. Tragic loss over the weekend, guys. Really really nice tributes to him, no question. Car son carson, thank you very much. Coming up, well shift gears, literally. Future of automobiles. A car that can find a spot and park all on its own. The shocking sex abuse allegations involving a minor being leveled against Prince Andrew and others including famed attorney Alan Dershowitz. This morning he will respond in a live interview. First this is today on nbc. 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