any, those two individuals played in the deadly shootings. what we do know is that this normally peaceful capital is in shock. these bullet holes, a horrifying sign of what happened inside the cafe where denmark's day of terror began. a crowd had gathered here for a speech about freedom freedom of expression with an artist who is on al qaeda's hit-list when the gunman opened fire. >> yes, but why do we still say but when we -- [ shots fired ] >> one person was killed in that attack three officers wounded. it seem though the deadly rampage had just begun because ten hours later that same gunman it is believed made his way to a nearby jewish synagogue approaching two officers who were there on security detail

spraying them with bullets. thankfully their lives were spared but a bystander was killed. let's go straight to nic robertson who joins me live from copenhagen. nic, i know it is early going, but i wonder if the authorities are saying if whether or not they believe this was at all inspired by you know jihadi movement by radicalization because there is so much similarity in these two shootings to what we saw happen in paris? >> reporter: yeah. the police are seeing that connection. they're saying there is a possibility that this 22-year-old danish-born man could have been inspired by those attacks of the "charlie hebdo" cartoon magazine in paris and the kosher deli -- kosher supermarket in paris. that that could have been part of the inspiration for this attack. they also say that he may have been inspired by what he has read online or has received in

other ways in terms of jihadist propaganda from groups like isis. so the police absolutely are keeping their options open on that the picture that they're painting of this young man is a troubled young man who has been in trouble with the law for violence gang membership and also for illegally owning weapons. so this is a man who on the one hand has a sort of a track record with gangs in the past but now the police fear may have become radicalized and think, does he have accomplices? are they here in denmark? are they in copenhagen? that is a big question for authorities here tonight, poppy. >> do we know nic, why they're not releasing the name of the alleged gunman? >> certainly, there is a lot of local media that believe that they have the name of this man, believe that the man that they think it is that they're naming was involved in a violent incident in 2013 stabbing

somebody and ending up in jail recently released from jail. so there's a lot of conjecture in the local media and it is not clear yet police aren't publicly corroborating that. however, we are hearing from various sources that behind the scenes the police are giving a nod to some local journalist that the track that they're on is correct. why they're not saying it publicly because of the nature of the investigation, possibly because they don't want to tip-off people who may be close to him that they'll be coming looking for them. i mean what is normal for the police to do in a situation like this would be to round up all of his possessions. what has he been reading? what has he been reading online? what pamphlets does she have? who has he been associating with? what does he have on his computer? what articles does he have stored on his computer and who has he been calling on his phone and who has he been instant

messaging with? that would build a better profile so perhaps by not naming him publicly the police are trying to slow down the progression of information and that circle of people who knew him, who might fear that go to ground if you will knowing that the police will come after them and perhaps that's the reason, but again, they're not making it public so really it's conjecture on our part trying to figure that out, poppy. >> nic robertson, thank you very much. we appreciate the reporting on this throughout. >> former fbi assistant director and cnn analyst tom fuentes. thank you for being here. we know from our pamela brown reporting from her sources in law enforcement that the fbi is helping, right? i'm wondering what your perspective being former fbi, what can the fbi do in this to aid the danish authorities? >> first of all, poppy, the fbi has a longstanding close relationship with the danish national police and their intelligence service p.e.t. the

fbi office in copenhagen was opened in 1999 and they've been involved in some sensitive investigations in the past involving this very thing, threats on the danish newspaper and cartoonists going back to 2005 and the plots that existed to attack them working with the swedish police on the plots to murder lars vilks in his home and both of those plots were from america. david headley from chicago later was arrested by the fbi. he helped coordinate the mumbai attack in november of 2008 and prior to going to mumbai he was working on the attack planned for al qaeda to attack the newspaper and its employees in copenhagen. he had traveled there. he had surveilled and gone into their lobby and drew sketches of it and the layout and found out as much information as he could. when he returned to chicago he was communicating with his

handlers who said put that plan on hold. we want to do mumbai first, and then before he could, and they could execute the plan in copenhagen the fbi arrested him and that case closely worked with the danish authorities and the swedish authorities later when jihad jane from pennsylvania was putting together a crew to go to stockholm and murder vilks at his home in the middle of the night and cut his throat so they could get the bounty put out by al qaeda on him. so these plots go back a long way. the cooperation just through fbi, the authority, the police there and the intelligence service, interpol europol, and all of these agencies throughout europe and throughout the world have been working closely together to try to share information and try to prevent future attacks and they've been successful up until yesterday in preventing many attacks. >> and important to note here our pamela brown also learning from her source in law enforcement that the fbi and intelligence communities are

still analyzing the data to see if there are any connections, but the officials telling us here at cnn as far as they can see there is no u.s. threat in connection to the terror attack taking place. those two separate terror attacks in copenhagen yesterday. tom fuentes, thank you very much for that perspective. i appreciate it. now this first syria and then iraq but isis is showing many signs that it will not be satisfied at stopping there and we'll talk about libya and whether libya is the next nation where isis will find a foothold. a horrific new video shows how libya is already being terrorized by isis.

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brian williams is not nbc's only problem right you in. the network has faced a stormy departures on its hallmark morning show and its legendary "meet the press" show our brian stelter has more. >> the chairman and ceo of comcast, brian roberts joining us. >> what a difference four years makes. >> the best quarter we ever had. >> listen to comcast ceo brian roberts when he first acquired nbc universal. >> i'll tell you my view on news, it's the crown jewel of comcast comcast. >> it appears that crown jewel and the other gems in the safe may need a polish or more. >> good evening -- >> the news division once famous for huntly and brinkley for katie and bryant for tim and for tom, for a long time it was the envy of the tv news business a place others wanted to work a place that was number one in every ratings race that mattered but now nbc has been struggling with a host of

problems. ones that even pre-dated this brian williams scandal. >> and for all of you who saw me as a groundbreaker, i'm sorry i could aren't carry the ball over the finish line but man, i did try. >> the "today" show the news division's big effort moneymaker and ratings king lost its crown to "good morning america". >> i'm sorry i turned into a sob sisterer mriezplease forgive me. >> it began with the ouster of ann curry and the team that was almost as painful for viewers as it was for her and matt lauer. >> two and a half years later they finished the deal for cur toe leave the network. >> debbie turness came to fix "today," some sininsiders are losing confidence. >> last fall david gregory was left to meet the door after a year of waiting in what can only

be described as employment purgatory, forced to announce the news of his own departure via twitter after it had been leaked to various news outlets. >> more recently dr. nancy snyderman who violated an ebola quarantine torching her credibility. >> good people can make mistakes. >> and staffers have been reeling from a series of factual mistakes like the report that bowe bergdahl will be charged with dissertion. it still hasn't happened and then the management mistakes and turness sought a new captain, jamie horowitz brought on to right the ship as general manager, but just ten weeks later, this turness wrote in a memo to herself that she and horowitz have come to the conclusion that this is not the right fit. what? yes, he was dismissed, a head-spinning change that triggered new doubts about the executive competence and news president turness is not the only one with the weight of the

peacock on her shoulders. she oversees two other troubled assets. cnbc and msnbc. they have both seen viewers turn away in droves. >> 2014 was cnbc's least watched year since the glory days of the '90s when they were the dominant financial network and just the last week, msnbc had its lowest full-day rating in close to a decade. parent company comcast stands to lose millions of ad revenue, meanwhile, its $45 billion merger with cable is pending and comcast hates distractions. brian stelter, cnn, new york. brian, thank you for that. earlier this week you certainly know it by now, jon stewart announced he's leaving "the daily show," tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern, 7:30 p.m. see how jon stewart became to be known as the voice of a generation. here is a preview. ♪ ♪

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you're watching cnn, your severe weather headquarters. >> so the blizzard warning for eastern massachusetts has been canceled. this is as the storm moves offshore. what's left behind is pretty brutal powerful wind bitter temperatures and some of the coldest temperatures this season. tonight, further south another big area of concern is the storm that is about to hit arkansas tennessee, kentucky and the carolinas. tom tom sater and will ripley is

driving to boston. tom, let me begin with you. are we going to finally see relief of the cancellation of the blizzard warning? >> at least with the snowfall. it will still blow around ar are a little bit and the coldest air of the sen is moving in. the record low temperature in central park is 1 degree and goes back to 1888 and in jeopardy of falling and the wind chills minus 20 to minus 25 degrees. coldest of the season. from burlington to boston down into the blue ridge, if you look at the last four storms boston should only have 28 inches so far and half way through february we're at 95.7. we're a half inch away from the second snowiest season and one foot away from the snowiest season. missouri oklahoma significant icing across parts of arkansas and tennessee. those warnings will continue to move into the carolinas and possibly up the eastern coast. a half inch of ice, significant. extremely dangerous. it will probably close down

interstate 40 in spots, but on top of this is the snow right on that edge. nashville, you're looking at a good 6 to 8 and st. louis, maybe 5 to 6. across the state of kentucky we're looking at at last 12 possibly more. 15 or 16 in eastern kentucky across southern areas of west virginia. so as the storm moves, significant icing again and your heaviest snow will be just north of that ice line as we watch the system progress, rain to the south. atlanta, we've got an advisory but winter warnings up to the north along the border so they'll be safe with this. washington d.c. del marv a the system as we get in toward 6:00 a.m. could be significant and poppy, if this storm system moves to the north and has its eyes on boston it's going to be the fifth storm in five weeks and whatever you do don't tell this guy. he's had it. he's cracking up and he's ready to snap just like everyone a half inch away from the second snowiest season on record. >> he almost looks like he has those snazzy cnn weather jackets

on like our will ripley does. stand by, because i want to can him about the emergency decoration coming from north georgia, but let's go to will ripley literally in the car on the road headed to boston from new hampshire. how are the roads right now? >> reporter: you know i have to say, poppy, the road conditions have been pretty good and in large part because of what you see right in front of us. snowplows like this. we have seen a whole steady stream of these snowplows out on the roads both on i-95 north and southbound and also on the side streets, as well. they have the plow down and they have the sparks on the pavement which means they're not pushing a whole lot of snow. we know the blizzard has long since passed but they're out here because they want to make sure that there's not any snow blowing on to the roads and they're also monitoring for the dangerous black ice that we've been talking about, the black ice that can take drivers by surprise especially as they get over confident and start thinking that because there's no

longer white stuff, snow on the road that they can go fast again only to hit a patch and find themeses in a dangerous spot poppy. obviously, the visibility is still a concern and there were times when the wind was whipping things up and when you have the snow banks that are higher than some of the vehicles and you can have white-out conditions if you have a fast enough wind gust so drivers need to be careful for that and there was the pile-up on i-95 south outside of boston earlier today and thankfully only minor injuries for that and tomorrow is presidents' day, schools and government offices are closed but still people will be headed back to work and they need to be careful, poppy. >> will stand by. back to you, tom. governor diehl in the state of georgia has issued this state of emergency. what are we expecting there where you are? >> i think they're playing it safe because if you recall the two inches that atlanta received last year pretty much shut down the entire perimeter in the city for a couple of days. children had to be rescued from school busses.

edging on the side of caution and just on safety ice should stay well to the north. a day ago it looked like atlanta could see a couple of inches and significant icing, but it's been trending warm so that's very good news from atlanta and it looks like it may warm up enough that it will be rain and there may be an inch in some of the northern county but metro atlanta should miss this one. i wouldn't be surprised to have slick spots, but erring on the side of caution. >> especially as we saw what happened happen there last year. will give us a sense, if we can show people of what you and i were talking about earlier. just the weight of the snow and what that has done to some of the buildings especially where you were before in new hampshire. >> reporter: absolutely. there were two different roof collapses in new hampshire. we were on the scene of a roof collapse at a strip mall and even though they were buildings

with brick facades and the captain had never seen anything like it, because we're talking about three consecutive weeks of heavy snowfall approaching a record season and certainly a record month for the boston area these roofs buckled and they caved in. 30 people were displaced at an apartment complex. there were several businesses that won't be opening up tomorrow or for quite some time and there's the concern, poppy, that as people are going back to work tomorrow into these office buildings especially small businesses that might not have had their roofs cleared over the weekend could be a dangerous situation if people are inside and the roof caves in again. >> gentlemen, thank you both for keeping us posted and stay safe there on the road will with your crew. we appreciate it. thank you all for joining me this evening. i'm poppy harlow in new york. stay with us for breaking news. coming up next "cnn spotlight" jon stewart begins after a quick break.

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