attitude of washington, d.c., that says i am always right and you are always wrong. in russia, the hunt is on for four so-called black widow terror suspects, four women who security officials believe may be targting the final stages of the olympic torch relay. we'll have a live report from richard engel with the latest. >> reporter: police worried the torch relay could be attacked over the next three days. >> disinvited on the night of the peace talks, word leaders are arriving with one notable absence, iran, could a shocking war crimes report that points fingers at the assad regime derail negotiations. as much as 10 inches expected to fall here in the nation's capital. it's a different kind of government shutdown in d.c. the latest winter blast has other major cities along the east coast in its sights.

we'll bring you the latest on the snowfall and deep freeze. good day, i'm andrea mitchell in snowy washington, more concerns about terror threats in russia. security forces are hunting for four women and two men. all now suspected of planning suicide attacks ahead of and during the sochi games. i'm joined by richard engel in moscow. richard, what is the latest on how many people are suspected and where they might be? >> reporter: all day we've been reporting that they were four women and two men and if you go around the police stations in russia, you will see wanted

posters for four so-called black widows and two men. one of the women is apparently dead, she was killed several days ago in a operation by russian special forces. her name -- i don't know how this confusion happened and why the russian forces put up her wanted poster, even though she may have been killed in a russian operation several days ago. but that would mean there are still five other possible suicide bombers suspected suicide bombers, three men, two women on the loose being looked for by russian forces. >> richard, what is the level of cooperation between russian officials and fsb and their security teams and u.s. counterintelligence and u.s. security and the pentagon? in the past we've had ups and downs with russia, most recently the tragedy of the boston marathon bombing. >> reporter: i think it's fair to say it's up and down.

u.s. officials actually for months have been complaining they haven't been getting the kind of transparency, kind of openness that they've come to expect at other major events like this, other olympic games. we saw in greece, for example, in london, hand in glove kind of cooperation. here the russians have been saying we'll take care of this effectively and everything is going to be fine. u.s. officials have been complaining that they think they are not getting one, the kind of information and two they are concerned that the russian after action plan isn't solid enough, that russia is spending a lot of time and effort to try to protect the games and try to protect sochi in particular, but doesn't have the infrastructure in place to deal with the next day scenario. what would happen if there were a mass casualty event especially in the mountain venues and in sochi. u.s. officials worry there's not an evacuation plan in place, not

enough roads and hospitals and haven't been getting the kind of direct intimate feedback if you were, from the russians that they would like. i think some of this goes to personality and culture. don't forget the general in charge of security in sochi is from the fsb, old kgb. he was formerly counterintelligence, very senior in counterintelligence. so he's a spy hunter, not the type of person that would welcome in lots of secret service agents or cia personnel or other american security -- those with security clearances. >> to say nothing about vladimir putin himself being former kgb in east germany during the height of the cold war. that's the culture in which he was raised and not a culture that is likely to say, come on in and help us, you americans. we know that the pentagon is going to preposition ships in the black sea, that's standard. and also carrier planes we're told, large cargo planes on

bases in europe. but that's all fairly distant, not as close as they might want to be. >> exactly. there are these contingency plans if a massive evacuation were to take place. this is a sovereign country and u.s. warships can't suddenly roll up to sochi unless requested and military officials have said they don't see any scenario in which vladimir putin and the defense industry here will request american help unless it is so atrocious they have no other choice. >> richard engel, thank you so much. now to the weather, a short but powerful storm bearing down on the east coast today. you can see the pictures behind me of the white house, it's going to bring we're told 15 inches of snow to some areas of the northeast and mid-atlantic. the government is closed and threat of snow closing schools in some states and the federal government in washington, the storm causing new jersey governor chris christie to

cancel the inaugural bash on ellis island tonight and the bad weather wreaking havoc on travel up and down the i-95 corridor. >> to the folks who could not quite make it down the new jersey turnpike to be with us this morning, i understand. to the hearty souls who are here, you have my thanks. >> covering it all now ron mott joining me from snowy long island. what are you expecting so far? >> reporter: hey, there, andrea, reminder to folks, if you've got flight plans today especially in the northeast. you may want to check again because already 2800 or so flights have been canceled around the united states. about 12, 1300 delays. it's going to be a tough day to travel and probably will extend into tomorrow. andrea, the snow is lightly falling here but in the next three or four hours it's going to get nasty, a lot of officials up and down long island are saying if you have stuff to do, try to get it done before 3:00

or 4:00 or 5:00 because the roads will be difficult to traverse right around the evening rush hour. i'll step out of the way a little bit. this is the entrance to the long island expressway, the l.i.e., this is westbound traffic into the area and eastbound from the city and starting to pick up intensity into the number of cars and vehicles on the road and amount of snow sticking. we had that blizzard right at the start of the new year here, governor cuomo closed the l.i.e. or overnight it was about midnight to about 6:00 or so in the morning. no talk about that with this particular storm but we are expecting to get hit with a lot of snow here, andrea, anywhere from $8 inch on the low side, upwards of 14 to 15 inches. this will be a significant amount of snow. it is a triple threat. a lot of snow and we've got strong winds that will be blowing the snow around. then it's going to be really really cold overnight. not a lot of fun to stand out here at night. they are trying to do -- a lot

of kids have been let go from school an hour or two early and trying to get them home and parents trying to get home to meet their kids in the next three or four hours. you're not going to want to be out there if you're not that experienced driving in rough conditions like this, andrea. >> we saw there was a snow plow in the shot when you were showing us the l.i.e. they do seem to have prepared the roads but it's beginning to accumulate. >> reporter: absolutely. the town we're in, they are actually -- the public works department just about the camera, there are trucks coming and going all night. if they can't keep up with the accumulation here, we're expecting when the snow really starts to fall, to fall as much as an inch an hour. the problem is it's going to snow all night, so if it gets really heavy, it may be impossible for a lot of people to drive here. of course, remember last winter right here on the l.i.e., a lot of people got stuck and had to spent the night in their cars. nobody wabnts to see a recurrene

of that. we don't expect as much snow as last winter but still 14 or 15 inches of snow is no fun to have to drive around in. to folks still looking to work the full day, you may want to see if the boss will let you go early. it's going to be tough out here at 5:00 or 6:00, andrea. >> i'll pass that word onto the boss. thank you very much. ron mott. and kate parker is in washington, d.c. kate, we're beginning to see accumulations here as well. we haven't had snow in about three years, more than an inch or two. this could be a real test for us. >> january 26th, 2011, that was the last time we saw any significant accumulation. we're going to surpass that today. in fact, we're approaching an inch of snow at the nation's capitol. the snow started at 9:30 this morning, we're starting to see it accumulate on some hard surfaces. the soft surfaces were first, we have the snow on the grass. now we're starting to get it on the sidewalks.

the sidewalks were pretty well salted and the roads were treated with a nice briny mixture. we don't have any ice that i'm seeing now that's going to knock down the freezing mark down into the low 20s, we're going to see the temperatures drop cold enough tonight to see freezing on the roadways, incredibly stretch yous evening commute. temperatures here right now, 28 degrees. but the winds are going to make it feel much colder. we're at about a 15-degree windchill currently. later on tonight we could see it be negative 15. so big dip in temperatures tonight into tomorrow morning. definitely need to be prepared. stay off the roads if you can because it is going to be dangerous and your commute is going to be plain awful as we get later in the day. >> thank you, kate parker from the weather channel. the big test in washington, whether or not those trucks get out and actually do some preparations on the roads because we're not that used to having snow here in d.c. coming up, we'll have more on the winter blast heading up the

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fix, craig melvin live in trenton and "washington post" columnist ruth marcus. first to you, craig, what was the mood at the inaugural given the fact there are snow problems and people couldn't get there and they had to can sem the big bash? >> you mentioned the bash, the one on ellis island that's not going to happen as a result of weather. governor christie in his comments acknowledging that a number of folks who wanted to get here could not make the drive up the new jersey turnpike because of the weather. i can also tell you right now the inauguration has been over about 45 minutes, traffic is still backed up as folks try to get out as a result of the weather as well. but the war memorial behind me was still filled with several hundred christie supporters, applause still broke out at the approach times as you heard during the 18-minute speech. the governor did not acknowledge unlike the state of the state address, he did not acknowledge the growing investigation and growing scandal and number of

investigations, of course the inquiry as well mentioned by the inquiry that's been launched by the u.s. attorney's office. and one of the the things that was really interesting and really striking, here you had the second inauguration happening and just a stone's throw away in the government annex, you had a group of lawmakers that had come together to announce the formation of this so-called super committee that is now going to take over the investigation. there had been as you know, the committee and assembly and lower chamber and there was another another committee investigating pretty much the same thing in the upper chamber in the state senate. they acknowledged off camera that part of the reason that they did this was because a number of folks pointed out how ridiculous it was to have a group new jersey lawmakers investigating the same thing. that was one of the reasons they were combining forces so to speak, that super committee retaining subpoena power. they will not have to reissue the 20 subpoenas that went out

last week. you've got four members of the senate and you've got eight democrats and four republicans. they also acknowledged some of the concerns that have been expressed by republicans here in new jersey, that the investigation itself had started to take on a bit of a partisan tone. >> and it's hard that it wouldn't -- wouldn't be partisan given first of all it's new jersey and a very serious investigation at a time of the reinaugural of the governor. ruth marcus, this is a serious point. there was a new poll showing chris christie is losing some elevation nationally because this is all happened as to whether people think he would be a good president. >> how could he not lose elevation? you have to -- i feel sorry for the governor on his second inauguration, when it snows, it powers, he has traffic problems and he has to cancel his party.

but more seriously, he's in a very dangerous moment here. i think particularly with the new allegations from the mayor of hoboken and a very serious prospect of a very serious federal criminal investigation. you really do have to start to wonder about his future prospects. they are not -- i'm not saying it's over for him, but i really wonder, for example, about his continued tenure as head of republican governors association. >> craig melvin, what about carl lewis and the flap over carl lewis -- the governor's office saying carl lewis in trying to run for statewide office did not qualify because he missed the residency, carl lewis, the well known olympian. >> reporter: it's interesting. started bubbling up a couple of years ago and the nine-time gold medal winner now coming forward to say, you know what, when i

wanted to run for state senate in new jersey, governor christie strong armed me. he said he didn't want me to get in the race because he had a friend in the race and as you indicated we got the statement from the governor's office. we have also reached out to carl lewis' folks as well. haven't heard back from them just yet. it does seem that every day you've got, whether it's a lawmaker or whether it's now one of the greatest olympian of all time and someone else coming forward to tell a similar story. we should also note, this is a question i asked cham wisniewski today at the news conference, whether this committee's scope, whether its power is going to include looking into the allegations made by dawn zimmer, made by the mayor of hoboken over the weekend, first on msnbc. and the chairman wisniewski said that they are going to look at those comments and going to

review the statements and take this investigation where the facts lead them. basically saying if it turns out that this is after all of the facts come out, this is more proof that this is an administration that abuses power, then that will also fall under the purview of this newly formed committee. >> and switching gears, to wendy davis, someone we've talked about quite a bit in texas, running for governor and running for the nomination for governor. and now forcing -- being forced to answer media reports down there that she had slightly altered her rumor focus the on the single mom aspects of it and didn't really give the time line correctly. you never want to be on the defensive about giving your biography when running for office. but this is a careful balancing act also. given her appeal to many women

and the fact that she's potentially running against a man. >> sure, she did live in a trailer for some time. she was a single mom for some time. but she did acknowledge being a little bit loosy goosy with the facts. it's actually quite analogous to the christie story, the more prominent you get, the more intense the scrutiny is on you and your behavior. i think to some extent, on both of those figures are reaping a little bit of the perils of notoriety. she needs to make sure she gets her story precisely straight because the -- she didn't need to really amplify it that much. it would have been fine on its own. it's always the cover-up, not the crime, always the exaggeration, not the actual facts of the case. so you know, honesty the best policy. what a surprise. >> in politics as well as in life. ruth marcus, see you later. the white house announced a trip, the president will be

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i'm suing under the copyright law and she says it's a three year statute of limitations. and i should be able to do that. did she wait too long or does have very she still have a lawsuit? >> what did you infer, if you can, from the questioning? >> not much. you can't find any clear case law that says there are a lot of cases where similar things have happened, that under the copyright the justices apply this doctrine of you waited too long. you can't find any cases that say you can't do that. it's kind of no man's land. the justices don't want to go where they've never gone before for no good reason. on the other hand there is a touchy question when you have a federal law, does that set out all of the rules on which you can sue or not. the movie company's software vps and cable television companies all say, don't allow this to happen. because when you develop a product and then you develop the second version or third version

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political settlement right now with the other side. the assad regime still talks about finding a military solution to what it calls its counter terrorism problem. and most of the armed groups in the opposition are so appalled at the idea of talking to the assad government that they are not even represented in any way here. so i don't think the aims of the conference are going to be achieved. what might get done here is that local cease fires may be negotiated in some of the towns and cities around syria. and perhaps safe routes might be negotiated which would see humanitarian aid get through to some of the areas which most desperately need it. but anything beyond that, andrea, i think is a big ask here in geneva. >> for more on all of us, i'm joined by ayman hole and editor

at large for the atlantic and robin wright, senior fellow at the woodrow wilson center and just back from another trip from tehran. first you, ayman, the calculation that assad has, he goes into these talks with no predisposition to negotiate the talks were supposed to be to transition away from an assad regime, but now he is really in the seat because of the advantages he's been gaining on the ground? >> absolutely, in fact he's been emboldened by developments on the grounds and shown in face of the communities in action that killing without limits so far has not brought on him severe condemnation or any kind of action that could jeopardize his hold on power. so the fact is, he's em boldened by what has developed on the ground and has diplomatic support in the international arena from both china and russia

and tactical support on the ground from fighters including hezbollah and neighboring lebanon and as well as iran. he's a man who feels very much in a firm position in his country and in recent days gone on interviews and said he would consider running for office again when his term expires later this year. this is something he set out to do several years ago and said he was going to finish his term and every passing week it seems he is getting closer to that objective. >> and steve clemens, we have a report of alleged war crimes and we have not independently validated that here at nbc, but it looks as though these charges will certainly flavor the syrian opposition's approach at these talks. >> not only the syrian opposition but you're going to begin to see a constituency of the united states saying this is looking more and more like a

rwanda humanitarian disaster under president obama's watch and nobody is doing anything. we've had 55,000 photos of torture and crimes and murtd done by the regime and i think it's going to make it harder to come forward with the deal in geneva. most people look at geneva are realizing this may be folly particularly without iran. that this is looking more like process than any kind of deliverable in the end. >> let's talk about iran. you've been visiting, robin, and your tenure going back to the hostage taking, really, 33 years ago yesterday was the day they arrived, hostages, 33 hostages arriving after 444 days in germany. now we've got this big fallout on the nuclear front. but as hard as the administration is trying to keep the nuclear progress so far, they complied, sanctions and

limited relief is in play from both europe and the u.s., at the same time hezbollah as ayman was pointing out and other iranian interests are propping up assad. why would they be at the table? john kerry really pressured strong armed ban ki-moon to disinvite them last night. >> the iranians have a tremendous interest in being in the talks in geneva, in part because they are worried about the future of the region. this see this incredible wave of instability in syria and iraq, ironically as a result of the pullout of u.s. troops, also the danger down the road in afghanistan. i think they want to be part of it -- >> kerry was wrong to exclude them, to force the u.n. to exclude them? >> i expect you won't get a deal unless the iranians go along with the formula, whether in geneva or not. they are willing to lop off the head, which is to let assad leave but try to protect the

body. in other words, the bath party, maybe sure they are not exexcluded from some sort of coalition government that includes the opposition and a good section of those who have been in power for a long time. i think that's where the international community is beginning to think there may be an outcome that's viable because the idea of the whole regime leaving as we saw in iraq, isn't probably very practical at the moment given both the realities on the ground and what we also have in iraq, when you dismantle a party and leave an enormous vacuum. >> at this point, very little hope that anything is going to come out of it as you've been pointing out. kerry is only staying one day then turning it over. he is going to meet tonight with ban ki-moon. i can imagine what that conversation is going to be like after this 48 hours of what do you mean you're inviting iran at the last minute without telling us and opposition group said

they weren't going to call and kerry says you have to rescind that invitation. that was a mess. at the same time, he's also going to meet separately with lavrov and that is key to whether there's any way to disentangle syria. >> a lot of critics are saying this is no longer a conflict between the parties inside syria. this is a conflict with players on the international stage. so much what we're hearing about the u.s. and policies across the region, so many of those run through iran now. iran can become a major play maker if you will on so many of these issues that can pose a problem to the united states, whether it's iraq, afghanistan down the road. currently syria, some of the tensions between iran and saudi arabia, nuclear program. so much of this falls into larger geopolitics and so many are happening on the level of

john kerry and lavrov. it will be important to find a solution that can be implemented on the ground. there is a disconnect between what is taking place in geneva and the fighting on the ground and it's riley in the eyes of many almost impossible to translate that into a comprehensive solution to stop the fighting. people are saying, don't try to reach for a comprehensive solution on day one. perhaps try to stop the fighting and open humanitarian corridors and create the space for some political consensus. >> steve clemens, the state department now on a conference call just as we speak is saying this report, report of torture, the reports of mass killings in syria suggest widespread systemic violations by the regime, that from the state department. that's the strongest comments we've had so far giving credence to this reports first reported in the guardian. >> and they are appropriately

referencing holocaust victims and nazi germany in terms of the last time we saw this kind of systemic torture and murder of people. the state department is caught in a vortex between wanting to negotiate away assad and be committed to assad leaving. the reality is you have a civil war under way with enormous killings and horrors and torture. that's a different goal. the state department has to decide does it want to take a path where it can bring all parties together and get a social contract to stop the killi killing or are they going to continue to focus on assad. he's consolidating his position and notion that he's disappearing tomorrow is silly. we can work on trying to stop the killing and deal with the issues that have risen as a result of these horrific pictures that have come to light. >> steve clemens and robin wright, thank you all very much. take japan's love for baseball and add carolyn kennedy's

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airports and nbc's tom costello has been following all of the travel and joins us from outside our snowy washington bureau. there's a lot of travel delays, this is not a day on east coast to be going to the airport. >> reporter: i think if you are traveling you're not going to get far. we have moisture in it it's a little bit wet, but the temperature in the d.c. area is about to drop dramatically with the windchill below zero. this will be very white fluffy snow and difficult without a lot of humidity, difficult to roll and make snowmen or what have you. as for the impact right now on the area airports, we've got about 3,000 flight cancellations. the latest stats show that the biggest affected airports are the new york city airports, baltimore, philly, as well as washington, d.c.'s airports. reagan national, dulles and i mentioned baltimore. but these northeast major hubs and boston in there and hartsfield, these airports are

being affected dramatically today. our producer at reagan national airport reports it's really right now a virtual ghosttown in the airport with all of the flights canceled for the most part. here in the d.c. area, we're expecting 3 to of inches of snow. the further west you get out in western maryland and pennsylvania, west virginia and working your way north, some areas could see up to 10 inches of snow as the hardest part of the snowfall or the biggest portion of the snowfall really hits this afternoon and into the rush hour. so interestingly, about three or four years ago we had a big snow in the d.c. area hitting about the same time. the hardest part of the snow coming in the late afternoon. that's just when they released everybody from work early. so we had tens of thousands of people stuck on area roads in the d.c. area just as this blizzard hit. and people were stuck for literally six to eight hours going nowhere. this time the federal government and the local city and state governments are closed today. schools are out.

many businesses have said don't bother coming in so we have far fewer people on the roads today and of course this comes one day after the mlk holiday here in washington in which it was nearly 60 degrees yesterday. folks outside in t shirts and playing frisbee. this is the kind of story that you as an anchor should be out here with me experiencing this firsthand because i'm not sure you're getting the full effect in that nice, cozy, warm studio. >> you know something, tom, you're so good at communicating it, i'll let you carry that snowball for all of us. >> reporter: all right. >> thank you, tom costello for doing it. last week the miami heat took a victory lap at the white house. the first lady put some of the nba stars to work giving health tips for the let's move campaign. judging by the next move, perhaps the first lady could teach king james and company a few. >> make you a better athlete.

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political sex scandal it's really a good idea to have it several years before you have to run for re-election. >> this is the ruth marcus, time advice. >> time advice. if you're planning a political sex scandal, plan your timing. also louisiana isn't a terrible place to have it. they have tolerance for sin in louisiana, having had their share. >> how many governors? >> let's not caught. >> all the way back to hugh long. >> who would have thought when this story broke that david vitter would survive not simply to be re-elected but from the moment he announces is the leading contender for the governorship. also an illustration, by the way with, of how much more fun it is these days to be a governor than a senator. >> that's the other shoe here.

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