for mitt romney to get to the nomination without florida. with jeb bush in the race that's very difficult. >> have great weekend. that's it for me. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." erin burnett outfront starts out. the fate of two isis hostages unknown tonight as the deadline for their execution has passed. isis remains silent. could they be alive. a black man shot and killed by a black police officer and it's all on tape. the incident under investigation tonight. was it justified. the nfl breaks its silence on new england patriots. did tom brady cheat. let's go outfront. good evening.

outfront the ie set deadline. threaten to behead two hostages has passed. no word from isis on the hostages. we're awaiting news on their fate. the world hoping they're still alive at this hour. >> you will be take part in this crew said. >> japanese officials say they desperately tried to save the hostages lives. last night jap need media reported the government made contact with isis and wait for a stam statement. at this hour there's not been a statement. we have not heard from isis again. the mother pleading for herson's life saying he's a good man who wonl onl

who only wanted to save children in war zones. >> there will be some hope until there's proofize. it's strange that there has been no video yet. the sad fact is these hostage takings in past, there's no pres dent for them to end well. that's the sad fact. >> as you say you hold out hope until there's proof that's unjustified. jim, i know you're learning the pentagon could be ready to put troops on the front line as the u.s. is getting more aggressive and feeling threat is more imminent. >> that's right. the u.s. the pentagon reserving the right to ask to recommend

u.s. military advisors be deployed at the front lines with iraqi troops. in particular with planned upcoming effort to retake the northern city of mosil. it's within months. they say they're ready. u.s. commanders say they're not quite ready. the pentagon reserving the right to send the military advisors with them. question would be would the president accept that recommendation. >> thank you very much. we're learning more about the two men held hostage by isis. will is out front. >> reporter: isis deadline to execute has past. the hostages fate unknown. since tuesday, japanese government officials have tried to reach isis through third parties. nhk says they have been

exchanging e-mails and were awaiting a statement. just hours before the deadline his mother made an emotional plea for her son's life. >> translator: i would like to say to all the members of islamic state, he's not an enemy of islamic state. i ask for his release. >> reporter: she noted her surprise that her son left his wife and then two week old child to search for his friend in syria. >> translator: my son left this very, very young baby to go and leave his family. i asked why he made this decision. the response is my son felt he had to do everything in his power to help and rescue his friend. >> reporter: a freelance journalist who reported from war zones made for unlikely friends. cnn has learned over the past decade he's attempted suicide and lost his wife to cancer and lost his home and business to

bankruptcy. after changing his first name to its feminine form he believed he was the reincarnation of a chinese chinese chinese chinese princess. he wrote i look normal outside but inside i'm mentally ill. he portrayed himself as a soldier of fortune and the head of a private military company. a company that existed only online. these two unlikely friends are in the hantdss of isis with the real fear that like five western hostages before them they will soon meet the same horrific end.

she apologized for the inconvenience caused by her son's trip to syria. part of that is culture and the other part is the growing sentiment in japan. many lack sympathy because they feel they ignored warning and crossed into isis territory. d by isis last fall. he's spoken to the families of americans held hostage by isis and counter terrorism official. isis set a time limit. this is first time they have done so. that time limit has run out.

we're looking at almost 20 hours. why haven't we heard anything yet? >> most is psychological. they want to play the biggest affect they can. they know they have the whole world on edge specifically japan because they know that they can hold the whole public opinion in their hands. also we see that in the past that they have wanted to magnify the media fact of these situations to get the maximum exposure. this is what we're looking at. >> phil what would be going on right now to explain the silence? >> i think he's right but there are other options out there. a couple of options. first is the security situation that led them to have to move the guys.

there's still a lot of fighting. i think there's an outside chance, very unlickkely but could be differences of opinions. i don't think so but a possibility. i also think there's chance there are negotiations under way that we don't know about. the japanese says they haven't been able to make contact. i think there's a small chance. i would go back to barack said. this is a huge opportunity for them to do what it wants. >> to that point, phil they asked for $200 million. obviously, it was a symbolic number. it's the amount of money japan has contributed to the fight against isis. was that really the beginning of a negotiation. to be clear isis has negotiated before. they have taken money in exchange for releasing hostages. would they ever have done that in this case? >> they mielgt haveght have. the $200 million is not a

hostage negotiation figure. it allows them to take a step up like they did with the american hostages when they had videos with conversations from their perspective with the president of the united states. they're not talking to the families in this case. they're talking to the japanese government as an isis government about $200 million. it's not a hostage negotiation. these people are pawns in a political game. >> we know there's still a 26-year-old american woman in isis custody. i know you've been spoking with the family. is there anything you can tell us? >> well we need to not forget that there's an american woman, 26-year-old humanitarian aid worker whom i'll call debra has been in captivity for almost 18 months. there's a lot more the government can do to help secure her release at this point in time. to go back to what phil said. isis is very strong. it knows it controls all the cards.

it knows $200 million will never be on the table. they used this figure because the japanese government has offered $200 million to the country's fighting isis. japanese culture does not look favorably upon the hostages like in a city like france. i was surprised to see the poster of the four french hostages asking for their release. we would never see something like that in cedar rapids iowa and not in japan either. next the woman barack is talking about. isis holding one american hostage. the woman is 26 years old. should the united states attempt to rescue her. navy seal who says he killed bin laden joins me next. the nfl breaks its silence on the cheating scandal that's

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$200 million today. just after midnight for the past three days scrambling desperately for way to secure the men's release. these discussions are taking place tonight in united states. the parents of a young american aids worker are trying to free their daughter trying to free isis. what more have you learned about this young woman. >> this is something that's known but very little has been said about it at the request of her family. this american woman, 26 years old. she's been in captivity by isis for the last 17 months. she is an aid worker. she went to try to offer help. you'll remember james foley. his boss spoke out. very rare opportunity about this woman and what has been going on. i want you to have a listen. >> i know the family of the

young woman who's name has not been revealed. it's not easy to five three and five million dollars. >> finding the ransom money, finding out who you pay it to who is holding their daughter. the agony of these families almost unbearable to contemplate. >> i know as you talk about the man there, he was saying they are desperately trying to raise the money. the amounts are incredibly difficult. the u.s. government has a policy of not paying ransom. the u.s. government does try to help americans. they have tried to rescue americans. we know they were not successful. how hard would it be to rescue this young woman? >> u.s. military commandos did try to rescue some of the hostages several months ago. they thought they had good intelligence and stage a very

dangerous high-risk rescue mission. it did not work. one of the biggest problems is having that perfect intelligence. where are they being held. where will they be the minute your helicopter lands? what kind of security from the militants is around them. when the military got to the place they thought foley and others were being held they found their intelligence was slightly off. the hostages had been moved sometime earlier. this is one of the biggest reasons some of these missions don't work. sometimes they do. the risk is very high. >> you've been through this many times

times, what are they doing when it comes to this american woman. >> what they're doing right now is trying to gather as much intelligence on where she is the lines of communications. they are trying to listen to what's been said. trying to gather human intelligence on the ground so they can attempt to rescue. >> how hard is it to get that information? i would imagine it's pretty hard. >> it's going to be difficult with the lack of ground presence. a lot of it is controlled by isis. we don't have a lot of friendlies in there. it's going to be difficult. we have smart people trying to find where she is but it is

hard. >> there's been a number of high profile raids. the james foley mission, they went and found out they went too late. intelligence was old. sounds like what you're talking about. in yemen there was the american raid. luke summers ended up dying. they went in. no one knows what went wrong but something happened. why is it that these missions are so difficult? you have a lot of people involved in each of them on the ground. >> there's lots of people involved. people that are gathering the intelligence and then there's everything from where you're going to stage where you're going to launch and how you're going to get there. who are the pilots? what kind of aircraft? into a difficult spot where there are bad guys early defenses. you need the deal with that and the noise of the dogs. >> everybody in that case heard about the dogs. the dogs started barking. that's what gave them away. people say how is that possible.

you have the best seal teams in the world. they didn't think about the dogs. >> they did. in over 400 combat missions well one was at sea but the rest there were dogs barking. it's almost a thing it wouldn't wake them up because i'm not convinced dogs barking all the time. >> you're suspicious of that whole argument. talking about the mother in japan a and how she's apologizing to the japanese people and our reporter was saying there's some anger in japan. why did you go there? why did do you this to the country? all the hostages have been there by choice. they're people who they're friends say they knew the risk. they did this because they wanted to but knew the risk. you're going to go risk your life to save somebody who may be trying to do good but knew what they were doing. did you ever have a resentiment?

>> it is upsetting. i've had a good friend that was in my team. he was killed trying to rescue an american doctor in afghanistan. part of our issue is why are you going there. obviously it's nobel and they want to do the right thing and good hearted people. the problem is you need to have a realization that there are people that don't like you based on simply being a nonbeliever. they will kill you based on how you look. >> it's naive for many to think otherwise. the point is you go and do this any way. you put your life on the line. you lost a friend who went in for someone who, as you said trying to do good but knew the risks. >> they do no the risks. i wish a lot of them would be smarter. i commend them for that. it's not the best place to go right now. >> when you were there with bin

laden and that raid. i know that you said you almost didn't want to know too much about the house or when you were going up the stairs because what if you went in and a wall was in a different place or something. you don't want to overtrain. you've been on missions that have not succeeded in terms of the end goal. what's the most common thing that's gone wrong? >> nothing goes wrong. things aren't what you thought they would be. the wall was taller than you thought or place where you wanted to land was swamp or something like that.

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the nfl breaking its silence that the new england patriots used under inflated footballs. they claimed in separate press conferences they have no idea what happened. something did in fact happen. the nfl has concluded while the evidence supports the conclusion that footballs that were under inflated use in the first half they were properly inflated for the second half. so who let the air out of the balls? >> reporter: after five days of headlines and controversy over deflate gate the nfl broke its

silence. officialed inspected them before the game. now the question becomes how did the air escape the footballs and who, if anyone is responsible? the nfl says it's been en investigating since sunday speaking with more than 40 people in and out of organization. on thursday tom brady said he had not yet spoken to investigators but he and held coach bill belichick insisted they had nothing to do with the under inflated footballs. >> i didn't alter the ball. >> in my entire coaching career i have never talked to any player staff member about football air pressure. >> i have no knowledge of anything. i have no knowledge of any wrong

doing. >> reporter: several former player expressed skepticism. >> there wouldn't be an equipment manager that would deflate ball without the starting quarterback's approval. >> i can assure you of that. >> brady has his defenders. >> tom is a big boy. he know how to handle all situations. he'll handle this with class. for him to be attacked the way he did, we've been attacked plenty of times. it's not our first rodeo. >> reporter: patriots owner robert craft is pledging complete transparency and

cooperation with investigators which includes ted wells who wrote the nfl's report on the miami dolphins bullying scandal. it took about three months and his inclusion will be a prolonged affair. that's key since being able to say there's an ongoing investigation will allow the patriots and commissioner roger goodell to sidestep questions about it in the week leading up to the super bowl. that doesn't mean the questions won't keep coming. >> rachel is here with me. stay with me. we have a former nfl player who played for the patriots with tom brady under coach belichick. let me ask you because he has his defenders. it seems like the people who know the most are saying nobody touches the footballs without the starting quarter back being involved. that seems to be the bottom line. >> the kicker is that's not proof. the lack of motive doesn't mean they have proof there was a

motive. until they find a person who they can say yes, this is the person that let the air out of the footballs, you can have all the things that point to someone on that sideline let out the footballs because we know the air didn't let itself out. until you find a person that you can say, this is be person who did it and this is how they did it, you can't penalize them for it. >> i guess do you have to have the proof. roxanne jones has written a piece. she says roger goodell should disqualify the patriots from the super bowl stiptherip the title. what do you think? >> on what grounds. where is the information that says tom brady was altering the footballs after the allotted time that he's allowed to manipulate the footballs. where is this investigation. where's the proof to show them

this is why they should be they should not be able to play in the super bowl. they should be stripped. you have to show me proof. you got to have proof before you can prove somebody to be guilty. you can't base it off the patriots were in trouble before with the spy gate incident. because of their past history, we're going to say they're guilty. >> all right. something i'm shurpure a lot of people wish people wouldn't look at their past but they do. you know him. you played with him. would anyone touch tom brady's footballs? would anyone have done this without his approval? it clearly to happened to all the balls. give me another scenario so people with see your side of it. >> what if the referees never checked the balls. they could have said we checked the balls. we made sure everything was good. in the report that they came out

with the footballs don't leave the officials office until ten minutes before the game. they go on the field. basically, whoever let the air out of the footballs had to do it in front of 75,000 people with all the cameras around ten minutes before the football game. you'd have to be pretty good to do that and you'd have to be pretty sneaky to getaway from it. i'm not saying the officials did it but they could have went in there and felt the footballs and said they are good. they're all at 12.5 without putting a gauge in there. >> that's not what the nfl has come out to said. they did release a statement saying that the footballs were specifically measured and that those footballs did meet the qualifications. then the footballs go into the custody of the team's ball boys. the question is what happened once they went into that custody so that during the first half of the game when they were measured again they were under regulation. what happened there? >> the nfl says a lot of things

that it's done before in past and we've known it hasn't done some of those things. to me it's about, we know in the report they said is that those balls are in the officials room until ten minutes before the game. then they go out on the football field. what you're telling me and what everybody is speculating is tom brady had to tell his ball boy ten minutes before the game the balls will be out there. take a pin and let out the air. that sounds ridiculous to me. that absolutely sounds ridiculous. >> what about rachel the penalty issue here which is what i don't understand. to me it's either a big deal when you cheat or is isn't. you lose the title. in this case it turns out they cheated, if it is proven they pay a fine. they still get their hit it will and go to the super bowl. clearly no one give a hoot about cheating many the nfl.

>> the point you make about them going to the superbowl. risk reward, they got their reward even if they did break the rules so who cares. if they are found to have done this and there is proof and someone knows that tom brady was involved and stood up in front of america and lie, i think the penalty will be significant. i think it will be more than just a fine. it will a hefty fine. i think you can see draft suspensions. >> they can get their investigation done in next few days so they cannot have tom brady play. not wait until after the super bowl. >> that's just not going to happen. >> thanks to both of you. how did this traffic stop go from how you doing, which is how

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aen update to a story we brought you last night. a video that captured the moment a routine traffic stop escalated. 36-year-old suspect was shot dead as he defied a police officers order. the mayor of new jersey and community leaders are speaking out. they are urging calm because they have prosecutors investigating. alexander field is out front. >> reporter: 1:13 of video tape enough to show a friendly exchange turn deadly. it starts with a black jaguar pulled over in new jersey. in the end jerome reed is shot to death. >> we will have the right, if we find a conflict with any of the facts presented, to have the investigations findings and conclusion reviewed by the attorney general's office. >> reporter: for now there are

calls for peace and patience while local officials try to determine if deadly force was justified. >> the naacp is confident that your office and that of our county prosecutor will ensure a fair thorough and transparent investigation. >> reporter: the shooting happened on december 30th. first the car is pulled over for running a stop sign. 22 secs later the officer draws his gun. >> show me your hands. don't you [ bleep ] move. don't you move. get him out the car. got a gun in his glove compartment. >> reporter: he told the suspect seven times not to move then it escalated. >> i'm going to shoot you. you're going the be [ bleep ] dead. i'm telling you. you reach for something you going to be dead. >> i not reaching for nothing. >> keep your hands right there. >> reporter: he knows one of the men in the car. police say day s one of four officers who arrested reed in august on drug charges and for

resisting arrest. jerome you reach for something you going to be dead. he's reaching. he's reaching. >> reporter: in 1995 he was convicted of first-degree murder and served about 13 years in prison for shooting at new jersey state troopers. show me your [ bleep ] hands. no you not. no you not. no you not. don't move. the dash cam video shows the officer push ng the car door trying to keep it closed. the deadly shot is fired three seconds later when jerome gets out of car. his hands in front of him. >> cnn legal analyst paul callan is out front. he told him seven times. ghets out of car and his hands are up in the air. when you look at this was it justified in. >> i think when prosecutors put this kats case together, we should know this lesson from the

michael brown shooting. we're seeing this from one angle. that's the angle you see him with his hands up. we're not seeing what the officer saw as he was looking into the car. we know the officer pulled a gun out, presumely of the glove compartment. we know that the suspect, reed had served 13 years for attempted murder of a police officer by firing a weapon and we know that the officer had arrested him so would have known of his history of prior violence against police officers. he tells him seven times don't get out of the car. the most important thing is the cop is holding the door closed and the suspect pushes the door open and comes out. i think most people will say the officer was justified. >> you're saying there's no case. what you're assumption this wouldn't go to a grand jury. that's the investigation. >> it may very well. i can tell you in new york they

all go to the grand jury. it's how the local prosecutor decided to handle it. i think the officer will be vindicated. >> thank you very much. next american sniper the film. a huge box office hit. there's questions about the real life sniper and whether some of his stories were made up. which ones? our special report, next. fiber one. fiber one streusel.

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pickup. he reached for a handgun and shot each man twice and they dropped dead. this is where kyle's story takes a strange turn. when the police arrived and ran his driver's license they didn't get >> after a short conversation they let kyle go. he simply drove away. it's a story kyle told muni. he said kyle claimed there was video of the shooting but muni could never verify the story. he said he went to every gas station on that stretch of road across three counties asked local and state law enforcement officials but nobody has ever verified the incident. >> so ultimately what it comes down to is he it was either a joke that he didn't say was a joke. he was lying for some reason that we don't know or it was evidence of an enormous conspiracy that no american is going to feel comfortable with. we don't know. the fact is he was killed and there's no possible way to get

an answer from him now. >> reporter: kyle also bragged that after hurricane katrina, he and another sniper went to new orleans and shot 30 armed looters from the rooftop of the super dome. lieutenant general russell honerai spearheaded in those days. >> trust me we would have known about it and i can assure you, no federal forces or anybody from the armed forces was there doing any sniper work. >> reporter: chris kyle also boasted of punching out former minnesota governor jessie sven tur ra for allegedly making remarks about navy seals in iraq. bragged about it openly on the anthony radio show. >> you slugged him good. >> i punched him. >> where did you punch him? >> in the face. >> reporter: he said it never happened and sued him for defamation. he awarded nearly $2 million.

the case is under appeal. we asked a spokesperson for chris kyle's wife to help shed light on these stories, any details that might explain kyle's frame of mind. but the spokesperson simply said she was not available to speak with us. spoke at funeral alluding to the tough and emotional roller coaster of their lives. >> i don't need to romanticize chris because our reality is messy, passionate full of every extreme emotion known to man, including fear compassion anger, pain. >> it's a pretty incredible report. is there any explanation as to why chris kyle may have made these stories up or exaggerated them. >> reporter: i think that's what left people confused and baffled. you talk to someone like michael mooney who talked to chris kyle before he died said he was a

fascinating figure. comes from a military background. said chris kyle had nothing left to brag about. had an exemplary career and extraordinary life and i think that's why so many people have been kind of baffled by when they hear these stories and this aspect of his life which isn't covered in the movie, obviously. >> thank you very much ed lavendera. next a 13-year-old with a brilliant idea. building a very special printer out of legos. if you don't think beat con men at their own game when you think aarp, you don't know "aarp." the aarp fraud watch network helps everyone protect themselves and their families against scams and identity theft. find more real possibilities at aarp.org/possibilities.

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you need. td ameritrade. you got this. search. how do blind people read? and on the result page a california eighth grader learned that braille printers cost $2,000 or more. stunned by the price, this 13-year-old set out to make a more affordable version using legos. here's dan simon with more on what's a big idea. >> reporter: shabad banerjee loves building legos, but no toy. it's a printer for the blind. it doesn't print text it prints

braille. >> 15 million people in this world today who are blind and 90% of those people live in undeveloped countries, a normal cost for a braille printer is $2,000 onwards. >> reporter: he set out to prove one could be made a lot cheaper. the printer was made with a lego mind storm kit you could buy for $350 and on the box, you can make robots and other contraptions here but shaban clearly had other things in mind. how long did it take to build this? >> about a month after trial and error, a lot of times. >> reporter: so much trial and error, his mother told him to move on. he became obsessed. sometimes staying up until 2 in the morning and she worried about him keeping up with school. >> i think he was breaking his seventh marble i was ferment. i said i think you're waiting your time because the science fair is coming up and you're not

ready with it so i think just don't do it. >> reporter: but after weeks of tinkering, the eighth grader made a breakthrough. >> i just tested some random code out and it just started printing one dot and that was the letter a. and i screamed to my mom. i said mom, i can do this. it works now. >> i was a little embarrassed i was not supporting him that much, but at the end of the day, yeah i was very proud. >> reporter: shrks aban his parents and little sister live in santa clara, california the heart of silicon valley. it didn't take long for some folks here to take notice. >> we have shaban come on. >> reporter: intel where his father works as an engineer made undisclosed investment into what's a real company called brago. this is the next prototype. >> money doesn't matter to me at all obviously. i just want to help those people who are in need.

>> this is absolutely fascinating. >> reporter: dan simon, cnn, santa clara, california. >> inspirational story. thank you for joining us. be sure to dvr "outfront" to watch anytime. "ac360" begins now. good evening and thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with a big, snowy icy dangerous system about to hit the northeast but already caused big trouble as far west as the rio grand. chad joining us from the weather center. >> this storm started wednesday in texas. they had a foot of snow in amarillo and moved to the east where it wasn't as cold. now in atlanta and charlotte and roanoke. now it's going to encounter colder air, pennsylvania new york city the parkway. higher elevations colder temperatures. this is where the snow will be not