loews corporation and co-owner of the new york giants. tisch was born and raised in a new york family. in 1959, his family branched out and bought loews theaters. today, the loews corporation has $80 billion in assets that generate $15 billion in annual revenue with interest from everything in hotels, insurance, to oil and gas. jonathan tisch runs the company with his cousin and is also the chairman of loews hotels. >> he totally took this area and made it guest friendly. >> true to his roots, he just completed a massive luxury renovation of the flagship regency hotel that is near and dear to his heart. >> i grew up in this hotel. >> but that work has not stopped him from writing three business strategy books. and bringing the super bowl to the new york region. >> you get about six hours of sleep? >> 5 to 6 hours of sleep. you will get an e-mail from me at 3:00 in the morning. >> despite a grueling schedule, he tries to make it to every giants home game. i caught up with him at his team's home turf -- metlife stadium. ♪ >> it is incredible to be out on the field. how does it make yo

we begin with three men arrested at jfk in new york city today accused of planning to go to syria and join isis. and if that didn't work out, they were planning direct attacks here at home. let's get the very latest from pete williams. what do we know about these two men, pete? >> reporter: well three in all, two who planned to fly to syria the fbi said, that they bought airline tickets, one arrested at kennedy airport on a flight -- trying to board a flight to turkey that the fbi said would take him to syria. another had a ticket to go in just a couple of weeks. it appears the fbi -- these are the three people who are arrested. the one at the top, the 24-year-old, the fbi said it appears that they got on to him first because federal agents say he posted a message on a islamic sympathetic jihadist website in the uzbekhi language why which he talked about trying to go to syria to support isis and if he couldn't get there he would do anything, if ordered to do so including killing the president. the fbi talked to him and kept talking to him and put him under surveillance. he was not

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is a former chancellor of the new york city public school system. he talks about what the system did to improve the education system and suggests other ways for cities to do the same. >> good afternoon. thank you for coming out this afternoon. we appreciate it. i am going to introduce our guest: ... about equal to the number of schools that exist in boston, washington, philadelphia and baltimore. [applause] >> it says a lot about the bloomberg the years. they were on our role. a lot they have done. and unscreened high school quadrupled the graduation rate and replaced in love bronx and held on to work with joel klein as chancellor and the portfolio of new school development and a senior adviser to the chancellor and mayor's office on strategy. last year the family foundation as director of k-12 education where he endeavors to collect high quality school options. please join me in welcoming joel klein. [applause] >> thank you. i want to thank you and larry. the deputy chancellor and now in my capacity as academic foundation and one thing i learned early from joel klein, you know who y

headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. the organization that is hell-bent on terrorizing the civilized world is tonight claiming another victim. a young american woman, a 26-year-old from arizona. until today they have not named her. we have not named her in keeping with her family's wishes, but her family has now given us the permission to identify their daughter kayla mueller. isis is claiming she was killed in an air strike by the jordanian air force. striking isis targets in retaliation for that jordanian air force pilot who was killed by isis. this is an awful turn of events today, potentially tragic for a young american woman and her family. we have it covered for you here tonight. richard engel is standing by to talk to us from iraq. but first we begin with nbc's andrea mitchell in washington. andrea, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. u.s. and jordanian officials are cautioning tonight against those isis claims that the only american woman held by the terror group has been killed in syria by a u.s.-led bom

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right now. we're going to start out with breaking news. three new york city men arrested on charges they were planning to head to the middle east to join isis. investigators are saying they discussed launching attacks here in the u.s. if they couldn't make it overseas. joining me from washington nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. what more do we know at this point? >> well, quite a bit more. we have the court documents now. it appears this all starts last august when one of these men who is a lawful permanent resident of brooklyn from uzbekistan posted something in the uzbek language on a website overseas saying he supports isis and he would even be willing to kill the president if ordered to do so. fbi agents visited him at his house last august and he repeated that claim. so for the next several months it's quite obvious that the fbi was keeping a very close eye on him and a close friend of his, recording their conversations, sending a confidential informant to talk with them, someone they did not know who was working for the fbi, and watching as these two men hatched a

killing his wife in 2001 make their opening arguments today. new york prosecutors say michelle harris was murdered in the midst of a bitter divorce but her body never found. harris' two previous convictions were overturned. 19-year-old boyfriend of a student who was found dead in a pennsylvania dorm room yesterday has been charged with aggravated assault. police say he had a fight with millersville university student carley hall before her death. hall's autopsy scheduled for today and a kentucky teen who is accused of leading police on a multi state crime spree with his 13-year-old girlfriend will appear in court today. dalton hayes faces charges, including rape theft, criminal trespassing and criminal mischief. his accomplice is charged as a juvenile. jenna: convicted murderer will get a second chance before a judge. maryland appeals court agreed to hear the case of syad convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend in 1999. here is more on this. doug? >> at the time in 1999 seemed like a clear cut case of murder. in a fit of jealous rage a student at wood lawn high school killed his ex-gir

below. don champion is here in new york. one of the places that's expected to set a mark for a new low temperature. don, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. it is so cold that several states have canceled or delayed classes yet again today. the cold air is sending a shiver to people as far south as florida. not only can you feel the deep freeze gripping parts of the nation you can also see it. this giant six-story ice cal forms on a building. now the eric tick air is taking aim at longstanding records in the city and beyond where many experience the coldest morning of the season. in the chicago area these nuns sought salvation themselves as temperatures dipped to 7 below yesterday. the nuns had boiler problems in but still pressed on. in philadelphia the city's 311 number has been flooded with residents complaining without heat. >> what they do is tell you to get to place where you have a neighbor family. >> reporter: here in new york the city could break a 21 21-year-old record. while the cold has many seeking, some are heading to niagara falls. the falls have not

slashing the promised payments and ordered the money to be restored. but as "the new york times" points out, the framework of christie's new plan mimics the old one, with workers giving up benefits and the state vowing to pay in full. the republican governor who's eyeing a 2016 presidential run called his proposal a roadmap for hard-working taxpayers. >> by putting forward new solutions to an age-old problem like this we are creating a national model. >>> back to you to washington, where veterans affairs secretary robert mcdonald has the backing of the white house as he looks to move past criticism after he falsely claimed that he served in the special forces. mcdonald, an army veteran who served with the 82nd airborne division, spoke to reporters yesterday in front of the department's headquarters. >> in an attempt to connect with that veteran, to make him feel comfortable, i incorrectly stated that i, too, had been in special forces. that was wrong, and i have no excuse. my biggest motivation was to connect with the veteran. it was a misstatement. it was a misstatement. >> mcdonald wa

first book, top of the morning, inside the world of morning tv published in 2013 was a new york times best seller. he's brian stelter, this is overheard. >> actually, they're not two sides to every issue >> i guess we can't fire him now >> i guess we can't fire him now. it would be nice that i win an emmy >> being on the supreme court was an improbable dream. it's hard work and it's controversial. >> without information, there's no freedom and it's journalist who provide that information >> window rolls down and this guy says, hey, he goes until 11:00. >> brian stelter, welcome >> thank you >> nice to see you >> thank you >> and congratulations on what i guess is not really a recent job switch >> it feels very recent >> you've been there a while. people may say he left the times to go to cable to go to cnn because he wanted to be on tv. you say that's not really what that's about >> no, i understand that part of view and a little part of me was interested in learning how television works from the inside. even when i was growing up, i was interested in being on television. i would prac

experiences in the field. kris van cleave, cbs news new york. >>> in san diego, the sports anchor for cbs news affiliate knbc is recovered from gunshot wounds. he was woulded in the leg and stomach in a shooting outside his hone tuesday. one of his neighbors describes the shooting. >> i started hearing popping outside. i also hear the victim start saying oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. so i saw them start shooting again at the victim. his hand was bloody. there's blood on his chest. >> police say a suspect surrendered to a s.w.a.t. team after a manhunt of several hours. the motive for the shooting isn't clear. >>> in alabama, same-sex marriage is spreading as more counties begin issuing licenses but some still refuse to follow a federal court ruling that declared the state's ban unconstitutional unconstitutional. chip reid shows us how that set up another legal fight. >> reporter: in mobile alabama, the window was close, the office where licenses are usually issued. license were also unavailable at the rural pike county courthouse in the small town of troy. probate judge wes alle

night. six people were killed in valhalla about 20 miles north of new york city when a train collided with an suv. as investigators continue to look into the tragic wreck, the big question they're facing is why did the driver stop her suv on the tracks. don champion reports. >> reporter: 24 hours after the fiery crash, the cars of the metro north train were towed back down the tracks. earlier on wednesday what's left of the suv that triggered the deadly collision was lifted from the front of the train. the driver of that vehicle was identified as 49-year-old ellen brody. investigators say brody had just been diverted from the scene of another accident as she drove on the track os as the wooded arms of the crossing guards came down around her. the train hit brody's vehicle with such force it sent the electrify file rail through the third car of the train. james wallace was in the second car of the train. >> we started smelling gasoline fumes and the fire was getting a lot larger up front at the head of the car. i started thinking this is not the place we want to be. >> reporte

. law enforcement officials like new york officials are getting nervous. >> this is not the time to engage in activities that would threaten our counterterrorism capabilities. such as exhibited in the movement on this case and effectively to hold our counter counterterrorism agencies hostage. >> it is not clear if the house will even vote on a clean dhs funding bill once it arrives later today or tomorrow. a shorter term measure to fund the department may be the only way to avoid furloughs. it could come as early as next week. >>> a defiant president obama vowing to push ahead on immigration. vowing to appeal the texas judge ruling blocking the executive action on immigration reform. at a town hall in miami, he says the pressure needs to stay on republicans to pass reform. cnn's michelle kosinski has the latest. >> reporter: the part of the impasse, the federal judge in texas put on hold implementation of the president's executive order on immigration. at a town hall meeting in miami where many in the crowd were asking him why can't you do more on immigration, his tone was confident

discussion with the first three asian-american judges in new york. it was part of a program on new york pioneer speed hosted by the historical society of new york courts. this is about 40 minutes. >> now we are going to try to have a conversation, hopefully it will be interactive. i'm going to start first with some questions for each of our three judges just to talk about the beginnings and what they did earlier. and then we will switch to some other topics. we are going to start first with the presiding justice of the second department. randy, where were you born? >> i was born in china. >> i came to the united states at the age of six months. i was born in december, i was hereby the fourth of july. >> do i understand he went to brooklyn tech? >> i did. it was the best i could do. >> before you became the first asian-american judge in new yorkit was the best i could do. you are also the first asian-american prosecutor. >> i was the first asian-american assistant attorney in new york state. all of that is a function of age. i happen to be among the oldest of the postwar generations

" live from new york. let's get to work. tonight, immigration takes center stage in the sunshine state. >> msnbc exclusive town hall event with president obama. >> it is in the best interest of america that we fix a broken immigration system. >> i think the law is on our side and history is on our side. >>> later, san francisco makes a giant push for public health on the baseball field. >> it aims at eliminating all tobacco in all baseball parks. >> about a third of major league players use chewing tobacco. >> tobacco in any form should not be tolerated or approved on our athletic fields. >>> the house has done its job to fund the department of homeland security. >> some republicans demand that dh dhs funding stay linked to the immigration order by president obama. >>> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thank frss for watching. we start with new developments on immigration and homeland security. they are connected in a big way for some strange reason but the senate reached a tentative deal today to pass a clean department of homeland security that does not block president obama's

colleague at cbs news, been bob simon who was killed last night in a car crash here in new york. >> in 40 days i just kept on discovering and not me bob simon but me human being, just discovering things i never knew about resources i never knew hi. >> rose: like what? >> like getting beaten up. and i realized that in a sort of strange way my mind would retreat and then come back. and my mind was sort of synchronized with the blows. and my mind was smarter than their sticks were. and it's tough to put into words but i knew, i knew it wouldn't break. >> rose: we conclude theening with a conversation with the commissioner of the nba adam silver. >> i would say that's when the pivots i've made is being someone who ran the business side of the league for a long time sort of the mantra around the league right now is the game above all. meaning that we foe all these new platforms for exhibiting our games are fantastic, hd 4k, the ability to watch games on smart februaries and tablet its. but at the end of the day unless the game is compelling, fans aren't going to continue to watch it. >> rem

will be running out there. >> we certainly will. >> reporter: so the story here in new york city once again, there is snow coming down. there is freezing rain. there is sleet. once again, this is the good part of the situation. this storm only gets worse as you move around. you have tens of millions of million in the way, 18 states affected. chicago seeing historic problems with this storm. they are only going to get worse. the east coast is still digging out. let's start with our coverage. we have it everywhere that is relevant. alexandra field let's start with you. >> reporter: good morning, chris. you know it takes the sting out of a winter storm like this waking up calming yourself super bowl carolinas. the people here in boston they will try to take this in stride t. roads are the big concern this morning him we had a little snowfall overnight. slush out on these roads, this snow is going to continue through about midnight and this comes on top of the big storm that hit here last week. the sixth snowiest storm in history. the big cleanup fought done yet. take a look at this

track when it comes to fundraising here in new york, so my question to you is, how much risk does walker pose to christie in terms of money? mark: a big risk, bad luck for chris christie. he had his vaccine controversy on the london trip, and a general feeling that he has taken off with a bad start, just at the moment where scott walker had a great showing in our iowa poll and our new hampshire poll. the bush people say the same thing, walker is getting a look from people now, and even if they don't know him, they know him as a successful midwestern governor. john: and here is another thing about chris christie, he is great at raising money and he knows where the donors are, but people don't understand the hate -- pay to play problem. he can't raise a lot of money on wall street and this is part of the reason, you will recall, regarding mitt romney, and i actually think that is an underappreciated problem for christie in terms of his fund-raising. mark: i do think, look, there is a major donor class than there has been in a while, and christie is going to get his share, walker is

. i moved to new york. freelancing for the associated press. i spent about three years covering anything. i was desperate for work and desperate to learn. finally in 1999 they 1999 they came to me and said we're a a story that think you would be perfect to cover. i was in my early 20s and it was a story on a series of murders in the transgender prostitution community. i had to figure how to get access. it was in the meatpacking district of new york. i would go down pretty much every night for about ten days ten days without my camera would have them in my bag. and finally one of the women said, why don't you come to my house in the projects in the bronx. she said show up one morning and you can hang out. as i started taking my 1st picture. and i spent months photographing the committee and spent time in the homes in on the street with them. that was my 1st story that introduced me to the world of photojournalism and the need for a photographer to really get in deep with the subject and to gain the trust. in 2003 no one to cover the war on iraq. everyone knew we were building up

colder. about 18 degrees is the low temperature in new york on wednesday. drops to 7 after a warm up. up to 31 in the overnight hours of thursday morning for a low. boston gets down to around 2 degrees later in the week. yes, a few more flurries possible wednesday and thursday but temperatures potentially colder than what we are seeing right now, john and christine. not a good set up. >> no melting. that's the key. pedram thanks. >>> the storm brutal for boston. creating chaos, even more people out trying to have fun. look at that. those guys losing control of their four wheeler. they whack into that car. what do you do? >> get right back on. >> you speed off. bad idea. the storm slammed waves over the sea wall in marshfield massachusetts. that caused serious flooding there. the storm has forced the delay until wednesday of jury selection in the trial of accused boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. also postponed is the parade for the new england patriots. they did make it home to new england overnight. you can see them right there arriving by bus in foxborough where they play t

new york's deadly crash is raising new concerns for residents in philadelphia. >>> and how the fcc is working to use a law from 1934 to regulate your internet like a phone company. >>> tonight searchers are still looking for about a dozen missing passengers who were onboard a transasia plane crash in taiwan. we brought you the breaking news last night at 11:00. on the constant recordings the pilot said an engine had gone out. a dashboard camera caught video of the airliner going down into a river, killing at least 31 people. >>> we've learned that a university of pennsylvania graduate was among the victims of this deadly train crash outside new york city. eric was one of six people killed when a train plowed into an suv at a crossing yesterday. a curator from new york's metropolitan museum of art was killed as well as the suv's driver who was the mother of three. early indications are that the train was going about 58 miles an hour which is within the speed limit. here at home tonight, the new york crash is renewing concerns about train traffic around the philadelphia area. >> more

york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. tonight the coldest weather of the season is settling in across much of the country's eastern half. this winter of extremes has already exacted a heavy toll. dozens of weather-related deaths from ohio to tennessee where this week at least 15 people have died, a third from hypothermia. right now the siberian express is spreading across the east bringing single-digit and below-zero temperatures from the great lakes to the northeast. and even record lows in florida. let's start in nashville with nbc's gabe gutierrez. >> reporter: relentless, snow, ice and now subzero temperatures some 40 degrees below average have much of the country frozen over. in michigan new video of an officer somehow surviving this crash over the weekend. in tennessee, a dash cam captured another close call. a worker clearing a crash scene barely managed to jump out of the way of a pickup truck. have you ever seen this many sliding injuries here? >> not over this brief period of time. >> reporter: vanderbilt children's hospita

. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. europe is on edge again tonight after yet another deadly attack apparently aimed at a controversial cartoonist. tonight, the prime minister of denmark is calling it a terrorist attack. one person was killed and three others wounded after a gunman opened fire at a conference in copenhagen attended by an artist whose depiction of the prophet muhammad several years ago made him a marked man. today's attack was a chilling echo of last month's deadly attack on the offices of a satirical newspaper in paris. tonight, denmark is on high alert as police search for the gunmen. nbc's kelly cobiella has late details. >> reporter: bullets crashed through the windows of the cafe at 4:00 in the afternoon. a 40-year-old man killed, three officers wounded. there was only one shooter, according to police. they're looking for this man who they say abandoned a car close to the cafe then disappeared. >> our main priority at this stage is to catch the perpetrator. >> reporter: the likely

president to deliver a join address to congress on september 24th. >>> in new york this morning, a funeral for the driver of the suv involved in this week anticipated deadly train collision. meanwhile, ntsb investigators are putting together a time lynn of how that accident happened. they say 39 seconds before the crash, warning lights began to flash and then the gates came down as normal. investigators met with the engineer of the commuter train and he told them that he slammed on the emergency brakes as soon as he saw the suv inching on the track. that prompted the horn to sound twice. but since the train was traveling at 58 miles per hour there was nothing he could do to prevent the collision that happened seconds later. ntsb investigators say the impact pushed the suv a thousand feet down the strikes where the train came to a stop. investigators are in the process of introuing the train conductor and asking passengers on the train to offer up their testimonies. >>> later this year the supreme court is expected to decide whether all 5 50 states must allow same-sex marriage. hous

that premise in mind, a group of parents in new york filed a lawsuit last month to get rid rid of teacher tenure laws. is that the best solution? from atlanta is the american federation of teachers, randy winegarten. and from d.c., neil mcclusky thanks all of you for being here. randy, a judge just ruled in favor of parents in a california case. a similar situation brewing in the courts of new york. parents saying teacher tenure laws violate kids rights to a good education. because it's so hard to get a tenured teacher fired. why does it take five to 800 days to keep a tenured teacher fired? >> in new york and new jersey and connecticut all those laws have been changes. because k-12 teacher tenure is supposed to be, if there is just cause to dismiss someone, then they should be dismissed but they have a right to have a hearing beforehand. and so what we saw was, how do we make sure that teacher tenure is what it's supposed to be, a way in which people can actually exercise professional judgment can stand up for kids, but at the same and night about patronage and cronyism, but at t

silicon valley. jill wagner is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. jill, good morning. >> good morning, lauren. the word from fed chair janet yellen, no interest rate hike yet. yelin told the senate banking committee the job market is getting better but there's still room for improvement and the inflation rate remains too low. most analysts expect the fed to raise interest rates later this year. >>> the dow gained 92 points. the s&p 500 gained 5 points. both record highs. and the nasdaq finished high for the tenth day in a row, gaining seven points. >>> opening statements were heard in a high-profile silicon valley sexual discrimination case. ellen pao claims she was not promoted because she was a woman and then fired because she complained. attorneys say that pao is a poor performer who didn't get along with colleagues. her attorney says a male employee interfered with her work after she broke off an affair with him. pao is seeking $16 million in damages. >>> hillary clinton talks about the male-dominated culture in silicon valley at a conference of women in the tech

hour. right now three men planning to join isis with ties to new york city and are now under arrest. we are waiting to hear from the nypd commissioner on this breaking news. here is what we know so far. the feds nabbed three brooklyn residents accused of planning to join isis overseas and if they didn't succeed with that plan the trio allegedly planning to carry out attacks here at home. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams is on the story. these men apparently voiced even a willingness to kill president obama if that is what isis wanted down the road. explain why the fbi made their move today and what we know at this hour? >> well they made the move today because one of them was boarding a plane the february said to turkey to go on to syria and another had a ticket to go there next month. so that explains today. one of them talked about shooting the president. the fbi clearly got on to all of this last aug when it discovered a entry on a website overseas when one of them wrote the following according to the fbi. is it possible to commit ourselves as dedicated martyrs. i'm i

brandon stanton who is behind one of the most popular photo websites humans of new york stopped 13-year-old nadal for a photo and asked a simple question whoez who's influenced you most in your life. >> almost always when i ask that question i have asked a lot. somebody will talk about their parents and he said my principal, miss lopez. i was immediately intrigued. >> the 8th grader from new york told brandon his principal inspired him because she made every student stand up one at a time and told each one of us that we matter. >> miss lopez is like my second mom. >> reporter: she makes you believe in yourself doesn't she? >> she is so devoted to these kids and their futures. >> reporter: brandon's post went viral which prompted him to meet this beloved principal. they started a fund-raiser so that students at the school could take a field trip to harvard, a trip that would cost $35,000. >> why did you choose harvard? >> i'm constantly fighting with the kids and their parents and the teachers who say you are definitely good enough. you are amazing in and you're bril yants. but my questi

guidelines for flying unmanned aircraft. >> all: live from new york it's"it's "saturday night." >> it's a star-studded celebration. >> i'm garth. this is the "cbs morning news" for monday february 16th, 2015. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning, i'm alison harmelin in for anne-marie green. this morning a strong winter storm is targeting the south as the northeast prepares for more snow and shivers and dangerous record-breaking temperatures. there are winter storm warnings stretching from oklahoma to north carolina. in the northeast subzero air temperatures have triggered windchill warnings. this fountain froze solid in new york where the windchill is expected to 20 degrees below zero today and another round of snow is expected tomorrow. in north carolina tonight's expect snow and ice was preceded by winds that snapped trees. at least one fell on top of a home but no one injured. >>> and the salt trucks are out up to 9 inches of snow forecast for tennessee, arkansas and missouri. up to 4 inches of snow is possible in georgia. but nothing compares to massachusetts where there's so m

guardia airport in new york where the snow is on the way. martin is there. >> reporter: welcome to my hometown where we have about four or five inches of snow on the ground. it looks beautiful right now. sunday downtown typically quiet. super bowl sunday is just about a ghost town down here which is good for the snow crews as they can clear the streets. the streets are snow covered. the highways are probably slushy. there are concerns on the turnpike. certain vehicles not allowed to travel because of the winter weather warner. anticipating maybe 9". nothing they cannot handle for cleveland. to the west western parts of ohio they could get a fit or more. there's concerns with the wind that will begin to blow they will get drifting. there's a level 3,000 emergency in lucas county. blizzard like conditions anticipated there. this is supposed to be the peak of the weather from this afternoon through early tomorrow morning. not snowing right now. temperature right around 31. very critical heavy wet snow. also when you can get your heaviest amounts of snow. temperature will be going down

york -- beat out new york and columbus for the big prize. i asked dnc chair debbie rosterman schultz this afternoon. >> the most important criteria we focused on logistics security and resources. and because our primary goal was to make sure our delegates have really wonderful experience so they're motivated and excited from the convention to go out and work for party's nominee that's why the criteria was important. the host committee did a fantastic job. >> dann cuellar is standing by with security needs of cop vengs. but first money and pride from "action news" reporter sharee williams at the art museum and sharee there will be plenty of both. >> i would have to agree with that, jim, it's a huge father in the city's hat. let's talk about the economics of it all. the city needs to raise 80 million to properly host this convention. but the reason stoondz gain return on investment of more than 3 times that amount. so a lot to talk about. money being a big draw. but attention is a big draw as well. >> we were both in the national stapling and global stage it just didn't get better than

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. this is wind chill. four is what it is going to feel like in new york. six in philadelphia. minus digits as you go to new england. this snow is not going anywhere for new england. then greta, we might have another storm heading into thursday and friday this is the european model, watching it very carefully that groundhog was right. back to you. >> yikes okay janice, thank you. and now to the midwest. chicago o'hare airport buried under more than two feet of snow 1500 flight cancellations. blizzard conditions virtually shutting down chicago. fox news correspondent garrett heene is there. garrett? >> greta, schools were closed government buildings were closed. this blizzard shut down one of the nation's largest jails cooke county jail more than a third of its elm employee why hes couldn't employees couldn't get to work today. fifth largest snow storm in chicago history. show you main roadways though. city officials have been very hard at work to make sure these have been cleared overnight and throughout today. you see, there is not a lot of cars out here still though. the reason is

, one of those telling federal agents in 2014 that he was willing to plant a bomb on new york's coney island to prove his allegiance to that terror organization. joining me now, "washington post" adam goldman who broke details on jihadi john's identity and richard engel live in istanbul and msnbc's adam reece. what more can you tell us about jihadi john his background and how he got to where he is? >> well what i can tell you primarily what's in the story jihadi john appears to have radicalized at some point either before or after 2009 and he came under suspicion of mi5 and wasn't allowed to leave the country. then we believe in early january of 2012 he might have -- he left for syria. we know that he played a larger role in the organization of the islamic state. he wasn't just a guard and possibly it was involved in recruiting europeans to join the group. >> one of the things so striking in your reporting is that you suggest he was raised in the middle class. doesn't that sort of counter the profile of who we think about when we think about who might join isis the disaffected young p

plotting to join isis as well. the fbi alleging that two of those who appeared in court today in new york talked openly online about their plan to join extremists in syria and one talked about targeting the president and all were accused of discussing striking targets as home targets like coney island. one of the lawyers cautioned yesterday this investigation is still under way. >> presumption of innocence is still the law of the land in america and we have every intention of fighting this case vigorously -- >> joining me now, chief investigator reporter jonathan dienst. the fbi have been investigating these individuals for some time. how deep did that investigation go? >> it started from the summer of 2014 with some rants and threats made online on an overseas website. they picked up on that and as a result that started the investigation. looking at one man, they followed him and tracked him and that led to two other individuals and in the end there was one money man a suspect in florida, he's from brooklyn arrested in florida. he ran cell phone shops, apparently how they knew each other sellin

new york times" 12 years ago he continued to cover justice. this lifetime well positioned and very well soars after the september 11th attacks to report on the bush administration to step up domestic spying operations. in 2006 he and another "new york times" reporter, james arrived and, received a pulitzer prize for international reporting as the pulitzer committee put it they are carefully sourced stories on the secret domestic eavesdropping that stirred a national debate on the boundary line train fighting terrorism and protecting civil liberties. .. eric reveals an extensive recruit. of former nazis, in years later, when the justice department was searching for former nazis in this country the investigations were complicated by thefts of other government agencies to cop seal their own involvement in the past of those being hunted. it wasn't until the first years of this century that the u.s. government acknowledged much of this dark history. but even that acknowledgment came only in a secret internal justice department report that officials done want to release. in 2010, eric wr

eastern. >> coming up next on american history tv, a discussion on new york pioneers and the judiciary. posted at the new york city are association. this is about 40 minutes. >> ok, so now we are going to try to have a conversation. hopefully this will the interactive and fun. i'm going to start first with some questions for each of our three judges, just to talk a little bit about the beginning and what they did earlier and then we will switch to some other topics. so, we are going to start first with the now presiding justice of the second department and randy, where were you born? >> i was born in canton, china. >> when did you come to the united states? >> i came to the united states when i was just six months. i was born in december and i was hereby the fourth of july. >> and i understand you stood up brooklyn tech? >> i studied at brooklyn tech. >> you were the first asian-american prosecutor? >> yes that is correct. all of that was really just a function of age. i happen to be among the oldest of the post world war generation so i was the first up and i had always had an interes

story is the return of bitter-cold temperatures of the great lakes to here in new york city, it will feel like it's well below zero with windchills today. we could see a warm-up later in the week, though, when temperatures will rise into the 20s. lauren? >> all right, can't wait for the 20s. what a thrill. don champion here in new york, thank you. >>> this morning the last of 19 manatees, those giant but gentle marine mammals were rescued after getting stuck in a florida drainpipe. the last trapped manatee was pulled to safety early this morning about 50 miles southeast of orlando. it's believed they got stuck yesterday afternoon when they were seeking warm water. more than 40 rescuers worked through the night to free the animals. >> oh, it was awesome. it was absolutely awesome. you know, got the whole community out here, all the various agencies working together and then have the final one come out, that was awesome. >> a mother and her calf were the first to be pulled from the drain. all the manatees have been checked for injury and released. >>> congress has four days to come up

the revelation follows yesterday's arrests of through young men who were living in new york on charges of plotting to help isis. undercover agents say one offered to shoot president obama and police officers and also plant a bomb at coney island. the man was arrested at new york's kennedy airport while attempting to board a night to turkey with plans to go on to syria and join isis. prosecutors say his roommate had a ticket to travel to turkey next month. a third new york city man arrested in florida is accused of helping fund those efforts. >> this is real. this is the concern about the lone wolf-inspired to act without ever going to the middle east or the concern once they get to the mideast to acquire fighting skills and capabilities and then attempting to return to the country. nbc's chief foreign correspondent itched engel joins me and investigative reporter jonathan dienst. jihadi john has been identified. what else do we know about his background? >> reporter: mohammed emwazi, kuwaiti-born, had been on the radar of british intelligence officials for several years. he is

the movies. "nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news." reporting tonight, lester holt. >>> good evening. as so many in this country look on with revulsion at the atrocities and brutality of isis overseas, there has been a slow trickle of others who have been compelled to travel to syria to join the movement. and that said the fbi alludes arrested two new york men arrested here in the u.s. today allegedly were preparing to join the fight there or wage war on u.s. soil. in all three people were arrested today and conspireing to help isis to the point of supporting or car out attacks here at ho. we get the latest from our justice correspondent pete williams. >> reporter: at new york's kennedy airport fbi arrested a brooklyn man headed overseas to join isis fighters. they accuse him of plotting with another brooklyn man, juraboev to get to syria through turkey. authorities say if the men couldn't get there they talked of staging attacks here perhaps a planting a bomb at coney island or killing police or attacking president

yemen. on libya the president was very frank in an interview with thomas frieden of the "new york times" last year that he stood behind the decision to take out colonel gadhafi but insisted he understands that the u.s. and its allies didn't do enough follow-up after gadhafi fell. listen. >> had we not intervened, it's like libya would be syria because gadhafi was not going to be able to contain what had been unleashed there. so there would be more death more destruction, more disruption. but also what is true is that i think we underestimated, our european partners underestimated the need to come in full force if you're going to do this. >> interesting he said we had to avoid libya becoming another syria. tonight it looks like it may already be headed there anyway. tonight vice president joe biden will be speaking at day one of a three-day white house summit on what their calling violent extremism. they've been pressed on why they won't call it muslim extremism. but the bottom line is they were pressed today by reporters white house aides, are you bringing enough urgency to the situatio