the show may be over but we continue, see you next time. >> at the geerch everyone. welcome to al jazeera america. i'm jieght in new york. final moments, secretary of state john kerry heading to geneva tonight where an historic deal on iran's nuclear program might be imminent. a u.s. army veteran held against hill will in north korea, we'll have the latest. plus remembering kennedy, his lasting legacy and the moment that changed history. >> from dallas, texas, the flash, apparently official, president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m, central standard time. 2:00 eastern standard time. some 38 minutes ago.

>> you're looking at the eternal flame at the arlington national cemetery at the burial site of john f. kennedy, exactly 50 years ago, america was in shock, coming to the unthinkable, the assassination of john f. kennedy. we begin with the developing story story of iran's nuclear program. secretary of state john kerry is en route to geneva to personally teafned the talks. the chinese minister says, talks are down to the moment. >> peaceful energy but it could also create components of a

nuclear weapon. today the u.s. hopes to make a deal that would stop that building and convince iran to give up the capacity to build the bomb. >> it is the president's policy that iran must not be allowed to amakto a enrich uniform. >> building a bomb would be more difficult and time consuming. the deal would also stop construction of iran's ple iranm plant. >> what we need is for iran to provide assurance to the community.

>> israel pos opposes. >> more closer than we have ever been in a decade to achieving a diplomatic agreement for a first step with the iranians. >> so nick we're hearing a lot of things tonight. is this deal really imminent? >> john kerry went there two weeks ago and they thought the deal was imminent. there is no way to guarantee but the u.s. diplomat wouldn't cancel his afternoon schedule and leave for geneva if he didn't people that. i think what israel is looking at is the hope that iran has no capacity to make a nuclear weapon, absolutely no ability to enrich anything and destroying the plutonium plant that is in iran. that's not adeal the u.s. thinks

it can make and so the u.s. says to israel this is the best deal we can make, calm down, relax, we will make this as a temporary deal and in six months we'll do a long term deal that will address some of your concerns. >> it's not just israel, but saudi arabia syria lebanon all could be intacted by it correct? >> absolutely, we've also got strange bed fellows too. israel and saudi arabia both oppose this. what's not clear is whether it's going to have a positive impact on making peace with the palestinians and israelis. what's clear is that benjamin netanyahu will say, you didn't listen to me on iran, i'm not going olisten to you on the palestinians, i'm going othe go ahead with what i want to do and

that makes peace more difficult. >> all right, nick, thanks very much. >> here at home the nation paused today to remember the 35th president of the united states, john f. kennedy was killed in dallas on this day in 1963. that city held its first formal commemoration of the assassination in daly plaza and heidi zhou-castro has more. >> under rainy skies, pomp and circumstance for a fallen president. thousands of people gathered at daly plaza where president kennedy was killed 50 years ago. >> the past is never in the pa past. this was a lifetime ago. now, today, we the people of

dallas honor the life, legacy and leadership, of the man who called us to think not of our own interest, but of our country's. >> historian david mccullough remembered the sense of hope and promise that came with kennedy's presidency. >> he spoke to us in that now distant time past with a vitality and sense of purpose such as we had never heard before. he was young to be president. but it didn't seem so if you were younger, still. he was ambitious to make it a better world. and so were we. >> 50 years later people in dallas recalled that terrifying day in 1963 and what it means now. >> i was 13 years old, it was kind of a coming of age, a shock, like 9/11 was for our children. >> i think dallas has turned a

corner on how they're approaching what happened that day. it's time to honor it in a more sophisticated manner. >> in boston, a rain soaked wreath laying in front of the state house where a statute of kennedy stands, and in arlington, virginia, a steady stream of people pass by the grave site. kennedy was there to make a speech, but never made it. now an description of the last lines of that speech. >> for what was written long ago, accept the lord, keep the city, the watchman wakeet waketn vein. >> heidiing zhou-castro.

dallas. >> i talked to him about the moment kennedy was shot. >> i looked out the window to see the crowds that had gathered a moment ago, cheerful, happy to gather a moment in history. i saw women taking their shoes off and running in their bare feet or stockings. i'm assuming the policeman heard what might have been a ricochet. he almost fell off his motorcycle. i saw another policeman pounding his fist because he couldn't do anything about it. the first but from a car ahead, three shots were fired, he had the same number of shots fired than i did. and i found out where the president was, he was in parkland hospital. i saw mrs. kennedy just as i got there, she was in the lead

pulling that stretcher with these hospital orderlies and they wouldn't let me into the hospital so i went upstairs to a second floor i commandeered the telephone. i called my office. >> let me stop you there. when did you get word that the president had died? >> i saw two priests about 20 feet away from me in the same nursing area and i was on the air live and i said to my boss jim schneider, there's a couple of priests down there i want to hear what they're saying. just as i got to the brees one of them father oscar huber said he's dead all right, i just gave him the last rites. do you run to your telephone and nuns to your station that the president is dead based on a priest's decision. my choice was not to do it. and we held it off the air until medical school com kill dupp

opened up the room and turned it into a pressroom and announced barely that john kennedy had died at 1 p.m. central standard time. >> you were on the plane going back with president johnson and the president's body. can you tell us what happened then? >> as we got to air force 1 mrs. kennedy arrived with the casket and tried to help the secret service and tried the carry the 6 moo pound casket into the plane. incidentally they had to knocked off the handles because the casket wouldn't fit through hatch. the two minutes he was on air force 1, he had the. >> jimmy: had conversations with the president's brother and nicholas katzenbach. it was decided that the oath be

given in dallas. she went to mrs. kennedy and asked if she would like to, as he put it, stand with us, but she said yes, but i need a few minutes to compose myself. i will say this: i don't think she lost any sense of who she was. she knew who she was, she was a first lady, had to act as one. she decided to tell the president she would like to come forward for the swearing-in ceremony which i think was one of the greatest gestures of patriotism and courage. she didn't have to do it. here her husband was lying in a casket at the rear of the plane. she felt she was attending the ceremony for her husband's success. there were 30-year-olds, 20-year-olds, sobbing, sobs were

audible in that department. >> 50 years later what does this tragic event mean to you? >> well, i think it shows the greatness of our country, the strength of the constitution and the kind of people we have in public life. >> sid davidson, thanks for sharing your memories of 50 years ago. >> you're welcome. >> family and friends remembered a fallen hero at a memorial service in dallas tonight. >> i really appreciate everybody coming out tonight to honor j.p. and to honor him. it blesses me to see you all and that you cared about our family and what happened 50 years ago. >> lee harvey oswald's second victim that day, police officer

j.d. tippet who stopped oswald and was shot. maria gives us a latest glimpse. >> they are images taken by americans wishing to shake his hand or at the very least get close to the charismatic president. >> this passion for him, this sense of intimacy and the desire to get close is what fueled all kinds of personal photographs. >> pictures of john john f. kennedy taken by bystanders, taken at a time when cell phone cameras weren't even imagined. >> how is that different from bystanders with their iphones? >> exactly the same, the prehistory of citizen journalists as we know them today. >> the most famous photograph, her picture of jfk's

assassination circulated on networks, within hours. >> this photograph was in newspapers and television stations in the world within hours. >> this is the only photograph that captures the exact moment of impact. >> to my knowledge, yes, it is a photograph that features a unique look across the grassy knoll. you see shadowy figures, it is the one that has generated the most debate, and is reproduced in all of the being conspiracy books remitted to the assassination. >> television stations went into continuous coverage after kennedy's death. >> a lot of people took photographs from their home television set to remember the moment as they witnessed it on

television. >> including the shooting of his presumed assassin, lee harvey oswald, also caught on television, on moments that made their way into family albums. >> there is a very personal relationship to this event. people trying to understand and assimilate the news into their lives. >> captured images that had meaning for those who took them and then pieced together in history. maria nesfere, al jazeera new york. >> while the time still matters, california officials say sirhan sirhan was moved from one location to another, his brother's death was an

unfortunate coincidence. >> one of the few places that can expect quiet weather for thanksgiving travel, the pacific northwest. just head south and you can see plenty of rain moving into place he like new mexico and also into arizona. but into the mountains of arizona, colorado, utah, boy we've got a lot of snow coming down. arizona mountains, colorado, rockies are going to get up to two feet of new snow tomorrow. ski resorts are looking better and better. earlier we had a picture coming in from sandia crest, now it's a heavier wet snow because all that moisture is fairly warm as it's coming up from the southwest. because the center of low pressure is still just offshore of southern california we've had 60 to 70 mile-per-hour winds

channeling through the sierra neves into the l.a. mountains. it's been powerful winds for california and winter weather further off to the east, freezing rain, snow and ice, but that's going to diminish a little bit tonight. bad news: we've got a whole new round of texas and oklahoma ice accumulating when that comes up, john. >> we'll be watching that, rebecca, thanks. next, an american pulled off a plane in north korea. his family speaks out. tornado's destruction. and america recalls when they found out president kennedy was killed. >> i was having lunch with fellow freshmen, the waiter said, something's happened, the

president's shot, we ran out and listened to the history, the rest is history. classes were cancelled because nobody could concentrate.

>> tonight, a family plea to release an american held captive in north korea. merrill newman is being held there after entering the country on a tourist visa, now the wife is speaking out. melissa, newman was supposed to come home last month and his family's still waiting, right? >> yes, john, they are still awaiting and you can well imagine how distraught they are. merrill newman had sent post cards from north korea. in those post cards is the message, i'm on the trip to north korea, the weather has

been fantastic. really underscoring the terribleness of the situation because he was on the plane about to leave and complete his trip when he was taken away by the north koreans. merrill newman's wife issued this statement earlier today. we have had no word on his health, whether or not the medications sent to him has been received, or why there he was detained. he's not the only american held in north korea. kenneth bae has been held for about a year, spreading the word of christianity in north korea, where political legend, set up by its leader kim il-sung.

the leader of the political state. john. >> at least 51 people died after a section of roof caved in in a busy riga store. nearly 3 dozen more were injured. three firefighters are among the dead. they were searching for bodies when a portion of the roof caved in. the government has declared three days of mourning. in libya, the women were kept and domestic slaves and endured physical and emotional abuse. tim friend has the latest. >> the anonymous streets of south london shielded a 30 year secret. three women held captive in domestic slavery, police sai it was the most alarming case they had to deal with. a man and a woman have been arrested and released on bail.

neighbors on a nondescript street apparently had no idea what was going on behind closed doors. police say it could take them many months to sift through evidence they've gathered and to piece together the women's story. police say the women were beaten and mentally abused. one aged 30 had been in captivity all her life. >> if the people were walking on the street it might look to the naked eye that they had no control. but it was all about psychological control, all about threats, and a period of time when there might have been some grooming. >> a charity is helped to secure the women's release. >> they are doing remarkably well, concerning the amount of stress and trauma they were under. doing the very best to know that they are safe and well, and for the two of them to start to rebuild their life and for the youngest victim in this to try

and start her life. and that's going to be a very long, difficult journey because these ladies have come out with absolutely nothing at all. >> it's been revealed that the arrested couple had been detained in the 1970s but authorities refused to give out more details. more cases of modern day slavery are coming to life. tim friend, al jazeera london police headquarters. >> in massachusetts judgment day for a chemist who may have jeopardized thousands of criminal cases. annie duggan falsified lab reports so she could appear more productive. the case has cost the state more than $8 million and forced the release of hundreds of convicts. michael eaves is here with sports. hoihockey player in big trouble.

>> simeon barleof allegedly kidnapping his girl friend and kinginkinging -- and kicking he. the maximum sentence for third degree assault is two years in jail. the team has yet to make a statement about this player. johnny mandiseel manziel, sd after that game he and manziel will evaluate the quarterback's draft potential. basketball star dennis rodman, about a dozen former nba players are going with him.

rodman would not name the players going with him. there was no political nature, rodman has self-proclaimed himself as an american ambassador. he is good friends he says with kim jong-un. >> all right michael. wawltsd.wall street is having ar to remember. all time high, s&p above anne 00. next, iran nuclear talks. leaders are gathering in geneva. and kennedy, what he meant for the millennials.

interwelcominterwelcome to al ja america, on friday, december 22. there may be movement in the

iran nuclear talks, secretary of state john kerry is traveling to geneva. negotiations are entering a last moment. in dallas, thousands stood in silence at dealy plaza where kennedy was safntded. on wall street, another day, another record, the dow closed above 16,000 and that's more encouraging news about the economy. >> and we want to get back to the iran talks, and look more closely at the potential break through. let's bring in majid ravisidad who is the president of the

middle east council and scholar. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> what could this deal mean? >> i think john this is a significant development now. anyone who has studied iran's nuclear file and the negotiations, knows that when high diplomat officials usually at the last minute fly to geneva or to the negotiating tables, that means that the negotiations have reached a critical stage. and it is -- it is much closer to an agreement. but also, we have to be careful that if you look at the past negotiations, nuclear negotiations, they have always been an eagerness to reach a first agreement and to pass the first hurdle but not only to come later and find the second agreement fall apart and the

second hurdle fall apart. >> they have to verify? >> exactly. they have to be regimes of inspections and investigations, iran has to be forthright and reach the level of 3.5%. still she have not reached greavmentd bum according to records 3.5% and iran has to halt the operation of its plutonium react in iraq. and this is the base agreement and in return iran will get some relief in its -- of economic sanctions around six to $7 billion of asset freezes and would be able to more freely trade in metal, and in its oil industry, too. >> and if it doesn't live up to the deal, what happens then?

>> well, i think we have to wait and see. if iran does not live up to the deal, i think what you see, that they will have to look at the other alternatives. and unfortunately i think the other alternatives here are military actions. because iran is believed to be very close to that -- to the nuclear break away capacity. and i believe the west and obama administration is really reluctant to take that option to take the military option and to cause other instability inside the region. so we have to wait and seize how these regimes of verification inspection is going to go on. >> how do you iranian people view this agreement, this potential agreement? >> that's a great question, john. i think its divided really. we have more the -- what you call it, the hard-liners, the

supporters of ayatollah khomeini. they don't want to give up their rights, that's one of the sticking points, the international committee has to verify that iran has the right to enrich uranium. in particularly the united states, but iran's -- i was following iran news media and actually, although in the last two weeks they've been showing some more negative picture that there has not been any progress, but today in fact the iranian media has been reporting that there has been some progress in geneva and they're hoping that a deal will be struck. >> majid, it's been goo good tok

to you. thanks for your insight. we appreciate it. from boston to washington to dallas. the nation paused to remember a president. and here are some moments of this day. [ bells ringing ] >> the man we remember today, gave us a gift that will not be squandered. the chance to learn how to face the future when it's the darkest and the most uncertain. how to hold high the torch even when the flame flickers and threatens to go out. we will meet the future with the same vigor, optimism and unfailing sense of duty that our young president embodied. ♪ america america >> it was an exciting time. he talked of all that needed to be done.

of so much that mattered. equal opportunity. unity of purpose, the mind the spirit art poetry, service to one's country. and the courage to move forward into the future. the cause of peace on earth. gone but not forgotten is the old expression for departed heroes. but if not forgotten, they are not gone. ♪ and every day divine >> for many americans, the kennedy assassination isn't a memory. it's part of history. their time. what impact does his memory

have? why john f. kennedy matters to a new generation. welcome. >> thanks for having me on john. >> you are 30 years old and we were looking up the statistics. i guess there are some 60% of people in the united states that weren't alive when john kennedy was assassinated. what does president kennedy mean to you? >> to me he's a timeless symbol of home and optimism in the country. as divided we are among partisan lines, he offers us a vision, to look past our differences to make our country better. >> as you wrote this book, he clearly was a powerful influence on you but what about your generation? >> i think our generation can still be moved by his words. for us as you noted, it's

history, it is something we learned in our high school classrooms. i think it's important to look beyond some of the big highlights such as the assassination, the peace corps, the missile crisis, his values. we don't do enough of it, we should look at his emphasis on citizen ship and the need to work together, regardless whom we support in the last election. >> do you think television plays a role in this? the fact that john kennedy was sort of the first television president, i mean the debates were televised on tuition, we grew up -- on television, we grew up watching the kennedy family on television, what do you think? >> kennedy was the first telejengenic president. i think technology has changed a great deal in the 50 years since he was president. and now people are getting their news on facebook and twitter and

other places. given those changes i think that there are important reasons for us to look back at the way kennedy spoke to the american people. he was speaking directly kind of went over the media. now we have a 24-7 media cycle where everything is broken down into sound bytes. now we embrace these other tools which we have had for some time now. >> i listened to david mccullough read president kennedy's inaugural speech today and i was so moved by it, and also the mayor in dallas as well. but what struck me was whether or not the younger generation was also moved by it as well. >> i think so. i've been traveling around the country speak going my book, high school audiences and college audiences, there seems to be an enthusiasm about this man's presidency. the more they realize that it was sort of this transformative

time, where we felt we were truly on a cup cusp of better t, we don't really need to change any of the words that he said, they are just as relevant as when he spoke. >> what are the questions that young people ask you? >> they say what are some of the key values that to define his presidency, what kind of events in his life shaped him and made him emphasize these themes. and i think that's when the kennedy story really begins to emerge. he tries to get into the army, the navy, he fails his medical exams. he says to his father you got oget me into the navy. i feel it interesting, this person who has an excuse not to go geels the reason to go, that impelled his life.

>> scott thank you so much. >> thank you. >> jackie kennedy, the pink suit she wore in dallas, where it is now. and manny's bik stake manny's be returns to the ring.

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approves. jackie left a lasting imprint on the milk, earlier i spoke about the lady's fashion sense and what it means. >> she was an incredible icon, she brought the whole slim clean incredible look. you got to remember those who came before her, they were a little grannyish, mamie and bessie, she was 31 years old, decades younger than them. she brought in design and dash. >> what does that suit mean? >> it wasn't necessarily a chanel suit, it was a knockoff. michael,ors practically bases

his entire line every year on her, jackie o. going forward it doesn't matter, we're still wearing those short little sleeveless things. look at michelle obama, that's what jackie started. we're all following along. it is still the same look. all those little boxy jackets you see still coming down the runway. >> at the time she pushed fashion forward. >> she did, she absolutely did. she brought in oleg cassini who was actually a guy from paramount which nobody knew, and had him design a collection for her. >> what about the pearl necklace? >> before her, you had to wear one strand of pearls, and they were also fake. they gave somebody an opportunity to do something new,

which was also fake, and this tiny little demuir thing that she had. >> do you think that makes it more iconic and more interesting to people? >> i think there's a conspiracy about the hat. the little pill box hat, what i heard is that it actually disappeared went to the fbi then apparently it went to her assistant and it disappeared forever and don't know where it is. >> i don't know if we had the picture on the plane put the picture on the plane we've been showing all along cost not have her with that hat on. >> it is kind of grim that she kept all the blood on it and it's still going to be looking the way it was when he was shot. >> you north a historian, but the importance of the president bringing her to dallas in order to really have an impact on the crowd. the crowds would double when she showed up. >> you have to realize, they

were like royalty. and we don't have royalty in this country. they were so young and beautiful, she was like a movie star. to the american public they wanted to follow her. every time he brought her somewhere, the crowds would double. remember she did the video of the warehouse. people had not seen the interior of the video, it was televised and for people to see. >> and about art, she cared so much about the arts. >> she was an art historian, she cataloged ought the art. you were allowed to move all the art in the warehouse whenever you wanted, whatever you wanted. she was very intellectual very smart but she was also quite

gorgeous. >> thanks for guiding us through. >> i'm wearing my suit next time. >> thanks very much. >> michael eaves is here with sports and trouble with hockey player. >> the denver different finally made a decision. three weeks after his girlfriend accused him of kicking her and kid naptiokidnapping her. the kidnapping charge has been dropped. the maximum charge for third degree assault is three years in jail. the florida prosecutor leading an investigation into an

alleged sexual assault against jameis winston, state attorney william meggs who met with the accuser this week, said a few decisions had to be made. instead of presenting this case to a grand jury, meggs is expected to decide himself whether charges will be brought against winston who is expected to start in the game against idaho. with both teams playing out of conference games against overmatched opponents it opposite the door for other teams obattle for the spotlight, lsu and texas a&m. earlier, lsu's attempt 'at slowing down texas yeax quarterback johnny manziel. >> nobody has been able to slow

down johnny manziel. texas a&m is averaging, built to score. and i don't know that lsu can stop it. they may be able to control him a little bit. i think their defense is fast enough, i think they can get into the back field but i also thought they could control alabama, they did for a half and the second half they completely disappeared. i don't know what to expect. i think lsu is going to be beefed up because they are at home. i think playing johnny manziel is a big challenge for them, they are going to be excited about that. but manziel is going to do what manziel does, he is going to throw for a lot of yards, that's what he does. >> what would a win for baylor mean for their national championship chances? >> that's the game of the weekend. i think baylor wins and they're going oleapfrog over ohio state,

they are going to be third in the bcs and wait to see what happens. alabama and florida state both play cupcakes this weekend. you're not going to expect a loss. but the stuff going on with florida state off the field can definitely impact them going into florida, going into the acc title game. alabama still has to play auburn, auburn is playing really well. there are chances for one of those to slip up. if baylor can play the way it's been playing, and oklahoma state, i think those could maybe slip into the national title game. >> let's talk about the best team nobody's talking about, 9 and 0 fresno state. >> i think this is a team that can continue to go undefeated. it's sitting at number 15 right now. i don't see the winner of the aac which is probably going to be central florida catching up,

so that means fre fresno state s an automatic bid to the game. this is a team to watch offensively and defensively. it could make some waves in the bcs. >> memphis griz replies, riding a winning streak, tied with the portland team. they held true to that trend again tonight. tony parker scored 20 points to lead all scorers as san antonio takes down the grizzlies, the spurs shot 53% on the floor. improving their record to 9 and 1, the best in franchise

history. >> manny pacao, two fighters weighed in this morning with rios coming in half pound under the 147 pound requirement. pacao coming in at 145. he's confident he will return to his dominant form against rios. >> this training, this fight is going to be different, because i start early, and this is one of the longest training i had in my boxing career, and i think we did our best in training and back like when i was young. interi'm young i'm hungry and that's what i want, i want that, i want that title. this is a message to fred, supposedly i had trouble making

147, i'm a bum i don't make weight i'm a fat loser, well he's going to have something different in the ring. >> i think there's more animosity between the trainers of the two fighters than the fighters themselves. he's almost had an altercation -- >> do they always bring women to the fight? i don't believe i've seen that before. >> that's new. >> close encounter of the tornado, you have to see and. memories of kennedy. from the people who are there. >> my brother-in-law called, told my mother, turn on the television right away, the president has been shot. she went and got my father, they turned on the tv, waited when it warmed up. the excitement and fear you could feel through them was just

palpable. >> and now, a techknow minute...

>> incredible new video from

sunday's tornado outbreak, from washington, illinois, where a man uses a cell phone to record a tornado roaring towards his home. watch what happens as he takes cover. officials say hundreds of homes were damaged or destroyed during the storm. now, to rebecca with the rest of your weather. rebecca. >> boy, that was remarkable outbreak. november 17th is when that happened. typically we see the stronger tornadoes like that at that time of year develop much further south. well, we're not watching for tornadoes tonight. what we're watching for is ietion. -- ice, and it can be as deadly because cars slide off the highway so fast. freezing rain oklahoma into texas where it could taper slightly tonight, ice accumulation start, we're very

concerned because folks are traveling for thank giving. when you factor into the gusty winds for north dakota it feels like 12° below zero and fargo it feels like 4° in minneapolis right now, cold air is sagging southward and it's going to gradually make its way, into the middle of the week yes, that will impact your travel, especially as we watch the storm system move across the northwest. we have high pressure bringing in incredibly high winds california and nevada. in california it's funneling 60 to 70 mile-per-hour winds and it's at the ground level, the low pressure, talk about the

snow we're getting piling up by the feet in places in colorado and utah and even into the mountains of arizona. so we could get a great ski base here. you'll want to check your favorite ski resorts, for potential openings in the southwest, as that low pressure tracks in though it is meeting up with the cold air, we could see a repeat of a winter mix ice, sleet and snow, the hardest hit for ice accumulations looks like it's primarily in north central texas. freezing rain and icing conditions even up into oklahoma you'll continue with that risk as well until at least saturday night. but tonight our focus is really for that snow and slippery roads as we get from new mexico into western texas. as we're watching that system we're also watching the cold air blast in.

26 for lubbock, 31 for oklahoma city, it is cold out there and the lows will be dropping to 11 for minneapolis. into sunday for new york, overnight, 39 for new york, high for new york only 45 but then on monday, only 35, 36°. that cold air will move slowly east, as we track that low pressure it's going to move up the east coast. initially it's going to be warm enough to mainly bring rain on the east coast. farther inland we're talking about lots of snow for the great lakes, as that storm system tracks just offshore, yes, we get are snow thanksgiving day, from washington north. keep it here, al jazeera

america. mr. welcome to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. here are the stop stoirts. there could be a break through in the iran nuclear talks. jeact john kerry is on his way to geneva. >> the family of a u.s. veteran held in north carolina is pleading for his release. 85-year-old merrill newman was supposed to return last month. his wife says the detainment is a dreadful misunderstanding and she is asking pyongyang to let him go. police