REPORT.
>> GOOD AFTERNOON, WE'RE COMING
ON THE AIR WITH BREAKING NEWS,
NBC NEWS CAN CONFIRM THE DEATH.
FORMER STATE SECRETARY MADELEINE
ALBRIGHT.
ANDREA JOINS US WITH MORE ON HER
LIFE AND LEGACY.
>> IT'S EXTRAORDINARY, THE FIRST
U.S. WOMEN'S SECRETARY,
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT MY FRIEND,
HAS DIED.
SHE WAS 84 YEARS OLD, SHE CAME
TO AMERICA AS A CHILD FROM CZECH
REPUBLIC, WENT ON TO SERVE AS
THE SENATE AID AND OF COURSE
U.S. AMBASSADOR AT THE NATIONAL
SECURITY COUNCIL AND CLINTON
NOMINATED HER TO BE THE U.S.
AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N. AND THEN
THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
IN 2012 BARACK OBAMA AWARDED HER
THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF
FREEDOM.
LET'S TAKE A LOOK BACK AT HER
REMARKABLE LIFE.
>> I MADELEINE ALBRIGHT --
>> BY THE TIME MADELEINE
ALBRIGHT BECAME SECRETARY OF
STATE HAD ALREADY RAISED A
FAMILY AND HAD A FULL CAREER BUT
THIS SECOND ACT BECOMING THE
COUNTRY'S FIRST FEMALE SECRETARY
OF STATE IN 1997 WAS HISTORIC.
>> THIS IS A DREAM COME TRUE,
ACTUALLY A DREAM I NEVER THOUGHT
I COULD HAVE.
I FEEL GREAT.
>> WORKING TO SHAPE SEMINAL
MOMENTS IN HISTORY HER IMMIGRANT
STATUS, BORN THE DAUGHTER OF A
CZECH REPUBLIC DIPLOMATIC --
GRADUATED FROM WESLEY.
GOT A PHD FROM COLOMBIA.
WORKED FROM THE NATIONAL
SECURITY COUNCIL AND ADVISED
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MICHAEL
DUKAKIS IN 1988.
WAS NAMED BILL CLINTON'S U.N. AMBASSADOR
BILL CLINTON'S U.N. AMBASSADOR
IN 1 993 ARGUED IN FAVOR OF
ENDING BOSNIA U AND BUTTING
HEADS WITH COLIN POWELL.
IN 1 997 SPENDING HER LIFE AS A
CHRISTIAN THAT HER GRANDPARENTS
WERE JEWISH AND WERE VICTIMS OF
THE HOLOCAUST SHE LATER STOPPED
IN THE ISRAEL HOLOCAUST MUSEUM.
>> I WILL NEVER FORGET MY
HERITAGE.
>> AS SECRETARY OF STATE SHE WAS
MOST PROUD OF HER WORK IN
KOSOVO.
>> IT'S AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY
WITH A GENERATION OF GIRLS WHOSE
FIRST NAME IS MADELEINE. >> SHE RAISE
.
>> SHE HAS BLAZED A TRAIL.
ALBRIGHT'S PASSION HAS BECOME
PART OF HER DIPLOMATIC ARSENAL,
SERPENT, DOVE, UPSIDE DOWN BIRD
TO HONOR DOWNED PILOTS.
SHE SUPPORTED HILLARY CLINTON'S
PRESS TO THE WHITE HOUSE
EMPLOYING HER PERSONAL MOTTO AS
A RALLYING CRY.
>> THERE'S A SPECIAL PLACE IN
HELL FOR WOMEN WHO DON'T HELP
EACH OTHER.
>> ALBRIGHT BECAME A VOCAL
CRITIC EVE DONALD TRUMP.
>> I DO NOT CALL DONALD TRUMP
FACIST I DO THINK HE'S LEAST
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN
HISTORY.
>> AWARDED PRESIDENTIAL OF
FREEDOM IN 2012 ALBRIGHT
CONSIDERED HERSELF FIRST AND
FOREMOST A GRATEFUL AMERICAN.
>> AND THE FAMILY OF MADELEINE
ALBRIGHT HAS SAID THAT THEY ARE
HEARTBROKEN TO ANNOUNCE HER
DEATH.
SHE WAS 64th SECRETARY OF STATE,
OF COURSE THE FIRST WOMAN, AS
THEY SAY, TO HOLD THAT POSITION.
THE CAUSE THEY SAY WAS CANCER.
SHE WAS SURROUNDED BY FAMILY AND
FRIENDS AND THEY SAY THEY LOST A
LOVING MOTHER GRANDMOTHER AND
SISTER AND FRIEND.
>> PEOPLE AROUND THE NEWS
HEARTBREAKEN TO HEAR THE NEWS.
HERE IN BRUSSELS
NATO SUMMIT WILL TAKE PLACE.
OVER THE UKRAINE.
THEY ATTENDED THE SUMMIT AND
WROTE AN OP-ED.
>> THE FIRST NIGHT SHE MET
VLADIMIR PUTIN WROTE THAT HIS EYES WAR COLD
EYES WERE COLD AND ALMOST
REPTILIAN.
THE IRONY OF COURSE SHE ESCAPED
FROM THE COMMUNIST CZECH
REPUBLIC BUT WAS ALSO A REFUGEE
FROM THE HOLOCAUST FROM WORLD
WAR II.
SHE DIDN'T KNOW HER GRANDPARENTS
WERE JEWISH UNTIL 1997 WHEN SHE
BECAME SECRETARY OF STATE THAT
SHE WAS ACTUALLY A REFUGEE
DURING WORLD WAR II AND CAME TO
THE UNITED STATES.
>> AND RHEA, THANK YOU FOR