term unemployed back to work. >> just give us this chance. there are neighbors and friends, young and old and black and white and men and women, ph.d.s and geds. >> mending fences, john kerry trying to mend fences in germany still broken after edward snowden's leaks about tapping angela merkel's cell phone. >> we are partners above and beyond bumps in the road. we will find our way to be able to move forward resolving any kinds of differences in a appropriate way that respects our relationship but also understanding that we have a lot of work to do together in 2014. >> kickoff countdown, we'll preview sunday's big game, the ads and yes, even the puppy predictions. looks like a clear win. the denver broncos going to win

the super bowl. >> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington, where president obama is trying to get momentum going from the state of the union. hiring the long term unemployed and pay more than the minimum wage. two issues he's been taking to the road, maryland governor martin o'malley joins me now. thank you very much and welcome. >> thank you, andrea. >> let's talk about the economic agenda coming out of the state of the union that the president has been pushing hard. now we have 14 states who have raised the minimum wage on their own. yours has not. why not? >> well, that's our top priority this year. in fact, two of our larger counties, montgomery and prince georges already raised the minimum wage to $11.50.

the last time we raised it was te eight years ago. it's time to do it again. we know a stronger middle class makes a stronger economy. so the earned income tax credit, more affordable college, being the first state in the union to pass a living wage statute and now the minimum wage is another piece of what it takes to get our economy moving again by getting our middle class growing again. >> the other thing that big announcement out of maryland, out of the republican house retreat was this immigration proposal, which divided the republican party. where do you stand on the path to some sort of legal status and more border security? is this a possible compromise that the white house should be talking to republicans about? >> gosh, i really hope so. i think that there are very few things that we can do that would have as immediate an impact on our economy and on the economy with the human purpose that we're building, quite so much

giving new americans a path to citizenship to have more people actually living in the open and full light of society, paying taxes, abiding by the law, making a better way for their family. immigration reform is long overdue and i really hope that people in the proud party of lincoln will find the consensus within their own caucus to come together and move our country forward. it will also have an effect, andrea, long term on our deficit and we'll also have an effect and be better for the long term health of social security. so this is a winner, both in terms of our economy and the fiscal health of our country. i hope we do find a way too move forward on immigration reform. >> i want to ask you about 2016 because latest polls show that hillary clinton is just so far ahead of anybody else and i know there has been talk that you would think about a run if perhaps she were in the race. joe biden was asked about whether or not he would get into

the race if hillary clinton were, and he said that the clinton decision would not affect his decision. does it affect yours? >> the bigger question is, where does our country go after president obama's honorable years of service? that's really the debate that our party needs to be having. there's a number of people that have offered ideas for growing our middle class to grow our economy and certainly in maryland where we achieved the fastest rate of job growth in the region and highest median income, i believe i have ideas to offer as well. in all of that, it's ultimately the people's decision as to who leads us forward, not only as a party but most importantly as a country. these are exciting times to be having these conversations and i look forward to being a part of it. >> if hillary runs, does that mean you wouldn't try to run? >> the most important work right now and i know that it's easy to

focus exclusively on the horse race, but the more important work that needs to be done right now is the work of ideas and policies that actually work and produce results. and that's what i think any of us who feel a responsibility to offer those ideas need to be doing it right now. that's what i intend to do and i'll leave it to you and other smarter people to handi cap the horse race. >> i'm not ruling out the need for us to offer better ideas to find a better way forward for our country to grow our middle class and create a better economy. >> let me ask you about football. we're all talking about football this weekend. sorry about the ravens. >> not as sorry as i am. >> i'm sure of that. going forward, we have a new nbc news/wall street journal poll showing that 40% of parents would now tell their children not to play football because of the head injury issue. and 57% still would let their kids play ball. they would encourage their

children to find another sport. how concerned are you about head injuries for kids in grade schools and high school playing in public institutions throughout your state? >> i think it's a very important issue. and i think the awareness of this has grown. i think coaches are taking it to heart, the techniques that they teach kids on the field, how to make tackles and also the science and the technology and all of those things are advancing. i think the most important thing with any child is you have to support them to follow their healthy passions and i have two girls and two boys and one of my boys would like to play football and we'll support him in what he wants to do and also support him in doing it safely. >> thank you very much. by the way, who do you like in the game? >> who do i like? i like the broncos. >> okay. we'll see. >> we'll see. >> thank you very much. >> andrea, thank you.

>> enjoy the weekend and down south a republican governor georgia's nathan deal went from a face in the crowd to a nationally known politician this week not in a good way. how his apology for the snowstorm played fill politically? haley barbour joins me now. both got damaged by this for their lack of management. the governor stepped up to it. nathan deal said the buck stopped with him. what would be wyour message to our public officials, someone who has been a governor himself and got so many kudos for the way you dealt with katrina in mississippi? >> as we know across the south, the national weather service mised the prediction on this. and that just happens. what we ask of them is an incredibly hard thing -- >> whoa -- >> governor, let me just interrupt you there because

there is a lot of information from the weather service, from brian norcross, al roker, every local and national weather meteorologist that the warnings were there. they did not miss this, in fact the school should have been closed and shouldn't have been either a simultaneous or staggered release. they should have simply had a snow day. let me just -- i know you've been busy but -- we've been covering this nonstop. >> i know you want to make a really, really, really really big deal out of this. but the fact of the matter is governors and mayors, republicans or democrats, get faced with choices because the weather service says it could be a bad storm. you spend millions of dollars and then it's not a bad storm and people say, well that idiot, you know. what nathan deal did afterwards was exactly the right thing. he said, hey, i'm the governor. i take the blame. this is what you're supposed to

do. even if you could interpret what was said a lot differently than the way msnbc's is portraying it. the guy did the right thing. he stepped up to the plate and said, i'm the governor, buck stops here. democratic president taught us that. >> i agree with that. but i'm saying this network or any other network, every network and every meteorologist agreed that those warnings came the night before, they came at 3:00 in the morning and the emergency management people in the state of georgia apologized for not being on the job and not giving the governor the right information. i want to move on from there. let's talk about 2016 because we were talking to martin o'malley. what do you think of the way chris christie handled that situation, still to be played out? >> i think he's done exactly what he should have done. he said, i'm the governor. ultimately i'm responsible and though i knew nothing about this, like harry truman, the

buck stops here. that's what you're supposed to do and that is what he did. there are a lot of people that wish we would see that out of the administration. what would the presidential administration -- what in the world would you all have said if chris christie in his news conference had said what secretary clinton said in her news conference about benghazi? what difference does it matter now? but he didn't. he stepped up to the plate and said, this is bad. it's unacceptable. i am in charge and i am ashamed of it. i think that's the right way to handle it and what people expect of leaders. >> jeb bush who is another possible contender despite what his mom says, jeb bush was asked about running and he said that he would have to make his decision and deferring the decision but he would have to decide whether or not he could do it joyfully. you know jeb so well. do you think that he has reluctant to get into the mix

because of perhaps of watching his father and brother and down side of running for president? >> i think jeb bush would make a great president and great candidate for president. if his last name was brown instead of bush he would be the front-runner. but jeb bush understands as does a lot of other people and frankly martin o'malley is one of them, this is not the time to decide whether or not you're going to run for president. the news media is just dying for the presidential race to start two months ago. but people like jeb bush, chris christie, scott walker, john kasic, bobby jindal, rand paul, paul ryan, they know that the most important election for our country, the election this year. to the degree that they have time for politics, their political energy is going to be focused on this year. chris christie is the chairman of the republican governor's association.

36 governors races this year. so that's where people are focused and then as jeb says, after these elections, then is the time to decide am i going to run for president and it's a hard decision. i can tell you that personally. >> i know indeed. let me does you about immigration. you've been a big leader for a bipartisan agreement on immigration reform and house gop has released its principles and there is a step towards legalization and this is going to be controversial with some of your party. how should the party move going forward, should they try to work with the white house and come up with some way to do step by step immigration reform? >> well, the house has already announced last year. they are not going to have one big bill. they look at obama care that not turned out anything like it was advertised to be. they've said, we're going to have a series of small bills to go through the committee process and be looked ought thoroughly and we're going to come forward.

they did release some principles or blue print or whatever you want to call it yesterday, two big things differ from the senate bill, one is not only did they emphasize border security and advice isvisa enforcement b are not just going to throw money at the problem. they said we're going to make border security and visa enforcement a trigger for doing other things later. and i think the american people haven't once thought they were getting more security out of the 86 immigration reform bill. they want more insurance that if it doesn't work we're going to have a commission. the second thing they did, they said right now our proposal is for legalization of people, that they have to sign a form, i came here illegally and be punished for that. pay a fine for that, just like

somebody that committed any other crime. and then stop there, rather than go on like the senate did with a path to citizenship. and andrea, i personally many comfortable with the path to citizenship, particularly if it takes 13 years like the senate bill says, however, i do think the far, far more important thing is what again governor o'malley talked about to allow people to come out of the shadows through legalization and then set a series of rigorous requirements about what they need to do to get ready to apply for green card later, apply for citizenship later, the house has said we're not going to give them a special path. we're going to give them the same path that every other immigrant has. but we are going to legalize them if they meet certain requirements. i think that is a rational thing, like i say, i have no objection to a strong rigorous

requirement for path to citizenship, but i think this is what most of the people here want. they want to be able to work to raise your kids and pay their taxes and travel and particularly be able to go home and back to see their family, and it seems to me like the senate bill is to the left and the house bill is much more conservative on these two what i think are the two most important points in the average citizen's mind. >> haley barbour, thank you very much, to be continued. >> thank you, andrea. >> this is a crisis growing more dangerous by the day. look at this, more than 94% of california is experiencing some level of drought. nine counties throughout the state's central valley have been classified as exceptional drought zones and that is the farm zone. they have warned 17 communities in the state are set to run drive within 100 days if these conditions continue.

miguel almaguer is there and illustrated from a dock in the reservoir. >> reporter: these docks should be floating in water and instead they are in a dusty bowl. they should be 100 feet over my head. everything you see on camera right now, the stairs and railing, all of it should be under water. this reservoir just one example of so many that are running on empty. >> miguel also spoke to a fourth generation famili generation farmer on the verge much losing this year's white harvest. >> actually all brown and dried up. you pray not a whole lot you can do.

heading into super bowl weekend, our new wall street journal poll shows the nfl could be at the turning point. the most popular sport in america left more parents now worrying about the effect of head injuries. including the dad at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. joining me now for our daily fix, chris cillizza and managing editor of postpolitics.com and susan page, you're both parents of two sons, differing ages but we certainly have the parental issue here. chris, would you want your boys to play football? >> no, absolutely not. my wife and i talked about this and i would say, look, andrea, my wife is a coach at the collegiate level. we are not someone who is adverse to sports. we love sports. i love sports. but i don't -- it seems to me that the studies and what we

know now are close to conclusive and i have a feeling that nothing that is going to come out in the near future or the not so near future is going to contradict the idea that smashing your body into someone else's body repeatedly is a bad thing for you. i played basketball as a kid. i hope my kids play basketball. but you know, soccer even, even though i know there's concussion issues there. i just don't think -- my wife and i talked about this many times. i don't see how i would be willing to put them out there to play football. >> and susan, we've never talked about this. your boys when they were younger, they are all grown up now. >> they were never coordinated enough to play a team sport -- >> thanks mom. >> but i think this survey has to be of some concern to football advocates, four out of ten parents would like to encourage their kids to play something else. when you look at the cross tabs, it's the higher income parents

saying no, i don't want my kids to play football. that could signal a kind of shift, could football go the way of boxing? boxing once a popular sport now seen as something that's dangerous for people and it's cost broad popularity it once had in this country. >> i want to talk -- completely changing gears because you've spent a good deal of time with her. i want to talk about amanda knox and this shocking reversal. susan, first to you, you interviewed her for "usa today" and drew your conclusions. let's look at what she had to say on abc today. >> i'm going to fight this until the very end. and it's not right. and it's not fair. and i'm going to do everything i can. >> susan, you spent time with her, how did you feel about guilt, innocence, the process? >> i spent a good part of a day

with her last spring when she was beginning to put out her book. not for me to say if she's guilty or innocent. if you look at the court record, she probably would not have been convicted in an american court with the evidence and with the questions about the handling of the evidence that have been raised with italian authorities. when i interviewed her she said she wanted to go back and defend herself against these charges and clearly her mind is changed by this disappointing verdict from this italian court. >> chris, this will ultimately end up on john kerry's desk because it's a long legal process of extradition but ultimately it will be a decision where he will have some discretion as to whether to send her back. obviously we like to live up to our treaties and we lion those in many instances with edward snowden in germany saying they would send him back if he were to go to germany. this would be a very unpopular decision sending this young woman back?

>> andrea, we're still a little ways from that, but golly, it seems to me -- i guess i would be stunned as a total outside observer, let me say that, as someone who is not interviewed or followed the case, i would be stunned if john kerry said okay, we'll send her back. i just -- you are right with the allies in italy but i can't see it happening. >> happy football weekend to you. >> you too. >> thanks, hope you're feeling better with that cold. >> i am, thank you. >> susan page. on the same subject, rafael sollecito, the former boyfriend is speaking out after the stunning reversal facing 25 years in prison. sollecito told nbc news he was not trying to flee italy when officers detained him near the border. he is now clean to hope that the

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important national security challenges. >> for more on all of this, i'm joined by steve clemens, editor at large for the atlantic joining us from munich, where he's at the security conference that secretary kerry is flying to. let's talk about the whole nsa issue because i think angela merkel's spokesman said among other things in munich, that they would return him if he were to go. there's a lot of pressure as you know better than anyone in germany. public pressure to let him come and get some sort of asylum there. >> well, i think that this is an enormous issue and you saw it in a way when the german foreign minister responded to john kerry today and said trust has been lost between germany and the united states. i spoke to angela merkel's advisers today and they themselves said the mistake the united states is making and

sometimes is thinking this is about her phone calls when in fact every european and every german is saying this as a -- as an issue of their individual liberty. and they saw the united states as a protector and defender of those individual liberties and see that image of the united states tarnished and threatened. so it's a very big deal here. i think john kerry made some ground today and chuck hagel just arrived a short bit ago. it's a huge deal in germany that they think the united states has underestimated. >> i also wanted to ask you about syria. we've had incredible horrifying video. we want to share this, this is -- reuteres was unable to verify, this is a toddler being rescued in alep poe and we do understand she survived after the air strike. it was on wednesday, january 22nd and the video shows her after the rescue also healthy

and thriving. we don't know who's to blame. regardless of who shot the video. but this just brings to bear what usaid is reporting rkts enormous numbers, millions of millions of people -- there's the little girl cleaned up and rescued. there's a happy ending. somewhat happy ending there. i know we have a big satellite delay. jump in and talk to me about the human impact and what is going to be discussed about syria and also the syrian regime's failure to live up to their end of the bargain on chemical weapon destruction? >> well, i think that one, this child, this poor child is now going to be -- is the face for the world of the horrors that are ram pant in syria right now. of course, the first round of the peace talks just ended and we don't have a commitment from the syrian government to come back on february 10th for the next round of peace talks. so right now the syrian

government is possibly responsible for what we've seen in this traumatic video and at the same time, chuck hagel's people have shared with me and defense secretary hagel has said he himself has concerns at the pace at which syria is dispossessing his chemical weapons stashes, only 5% have been shipped out so far. he sees russia not putting pressure on syria that's needed really to see that element through. so syria is a big mess. here in munich tonight, the late night session is all about the syrian nightmare. you're going to have brahimi, the u.n. envoy on this. you'll have other major american and european players around the syria issue as well as the foreign minister talking publicly about what a mess the syrian civil war has become. >> thank you so much, steve clemens, joining us from munich today. and we have breaking news to

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the whole area. >> security is intense all across the tri-state area. right now sources telling me that this is pretty routine, they get suspicious letters quite often but there's probably more attention because of the super bowl they are not too worried but will be testing what they have. as for security in general, as you said, it's pretty big deal, we're at super bowl boulevard, as would otherwise be known as times square. millions of people come here every single day but there's more because of the super bowl. it's a massive undertaking to make sure everything is safe. that's why you're seeing mobile command units and police department have them and fbi has them. a number of agencies have the command units inside their surveillance cameras and watching every square inch with real time surveillance that can spot somebody they say acting suspiciously or suspicious package of any sort. they also have radiation detectors, thousands of them across the city.

that's just what they have on the ground. over at the stadium, dwo and a half miles of fencing and helicopters patrolling and dogs on pt ground sniffing as well as boats ba trpatrolling the water. if you are going to the game, you have to go through metal detectors, can't carry back packs and purses in and can't carry anything in, no food or liquids, the only thing you can carry is a clear plastic bag, like you're going to the airport. you can't even drive and get dropped off at the super bowl, you have to take shuttles and if you walk through the nfl zpres shuttle, you have to pay $51 or you're driving yourself and getting a expensive parking pass. no tailgating either. hopefully people can still have fun. >> indeed. as you correctly point out, katy, these quote, suspicious packages are checked out all the time. no cause of alerm and it does

take a while to test whatever is in those letters or packages. but it is still no cause for alarm and the authorities are on it. >> thank you very much. and meanwhile, some of the nfl's biggest stars have struggled with hate and bullying and discrimination on and off the field. in the new documentary nfl characters unite, some of these players are taking kids under their wings to help them conquer the same challenges. >> it's just weird being different. >> it is weird being different but you know what is cool, no one else is like you, you're one of a kind. it makes what you do even better. >> you say you've been in trouble because you seem like you're a really smart kid. >> yeah, everybody says that. >> that let's me know that you really are smart, just made knuckle head decisions. >> joining me now is charlie ebersole. what inspired you to do this?

it's very touching and moving to see these big nfl players bonding with these children. >> that was actually exactly what it was. as i started to learn that a lot of players had these kind of tragic childhoods where they faced extreme versions of bullying and prejudice, it became clear that that would be an incredible entry point to help kids, bullying has become an epidemic in the united states over the last ten or 15 years and to stimy them using heroes from football seemed like a great entry point. for the last three years we've done this and this year it became a huge program with the help of the nfl and obviously gmc. >> think your documentary is airing tonight on usa. talk to any about the players because you've got big stars, ray rice and victor cruz. who else is in it? >> it's 7:00 p.m. tonight on usa, victor cruz from the new york giants, nick mangold from

the jets, ray rice from the ravens, randall kolb from the packers and j.j. watt from the houston texans. jj watts who is larger than life on the field is unbelievableay y powerful in houston. we had so many people coming in to try to help the kid that seven different families and seven different doctors offered he needed original donic work. he's choosing between multiple dentists. >> this is terrific. congratulations, we'll all watch tonight at 7:00 on usa. >> thank you. coming up next, tom stier, we'll continue to talk about the keystone pipeline and the opposition to what is expected this afternoon's environmental

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give me your best shot. >> well, the job argument has been disproved, andrea. the original argument was it was going to create 250,000 jobs and at this point in their filing they've gotten down to 35 permanent jobs. i think the idea this is a huge job creator for the united states is pretty much out the window. i think the other thing out the window is the idea that somehow this is going to be oil that's going to be shipped to the united states. actually the whole point of the pipeline to get it to the gulf of mexico so it can be shipped to the world, not the united states. so the whole idea of energy independence somehow being supported by this pipeline is not true. this is a way of getting a huge oil reserve a huge dirty oil reserve and into the world oil market to be sold for a higher price. >> prices will come down if there is more supply. arguably that will indirectly benefit americans. i'm trying to make the counter argument here. >> okay, no, i understand that.

let me make two points. when you see it's a fungible world oil market, one, this isn't normal oil. this is much more dirty than normal oil. when you see fungible world oil market, this is actually from a green house gas standpoint much worse. second of all, right now it isn't able to make it to the world market. so to a large extent it gets sold into the united states and upper midwest and causes the cost of gasoline to be lower than it otherwise would be. the big incentives to get this pipe line approved is to get it out of the united states into the world oil market where they can get a higher price. >> and your argument is that it benefits china who's going to get the supply, benefits obviously the canadian company but doesn't really help americans. we will pay the price in terms of climate change -- the climate effect? >> right now i'm sitting in san francisco, california and it's an incredibly beautiful day as

it's been for the whole last year. but that incredibly beautiful day led us to have 12% of the normal snow pack, less than half of the worst year we've ever had before. when i look at climate disruption and climate change living in california and seeing what's happening to us, then talk about why this is a terrible thing for the united states and people who live here, it comes home to me every single day that i get up and it's a beautiful day and look at the sunshine and don't see any rain. >> what are you going to say to john kerry? you're putting your money where your politics are. you've campaigned against candidates who support the pipeline in favor of candidates who oppose it like ed marky, what are you saying to john kerry and barack obama? >> i have -- i think both secretary kerry and president obama understand this issue very well and they are both committed -- john kerry has been committed to working for advanced energy policies for a

long time. i know his heart is in the right place. i feel as if listening to what's happening, there's an enormous amount of political pressure within the beltway to approve this project. and i think around the country people understand that this is actually a terrible idea. i think -- i have a lot of confidence that they will be able to look at this. the president gave a very straight forward criteria for approving this and it doesn't come close to meeting it. from my point of view, as long as they are consistent with both the values they've expressed before and the criteria they've expressed before, i don't think this is a close call. >> thank you very much for being with us today. >> my pleasure, andrea. >> we'll be right back. [ femal] we eased your back pain, you turned up the fun. tylenol® provides strong pain relief while being gentle on your stomach. but for everything we do, we know you do so much more. tylenol®. did you run into traffic? no, just had to stop by the house to grab a few things.

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radio. thank you for being with us. we've talked about security. we know they're looking at white powder. let's talk about the game because that's the real deal. what about peyton manning versus russell wilson and the match-up this you don't hear anything about anybody other than peyton manning and i know he has all these records. are we overlooking the real quarterback here? >> i don't think we're overlooking russell wilson. we should be hearing about peyton manning. he's one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever play the game. his family is a tremendous football family. his dad archie and brother eli with the giants. more so because of peyton manning, more so than russell wilson. wilson is early in his football career. he could potentially have years left to do that. peyton manning is in his late 30s coming off of neck surgeries which many people thought he wouldn't play again. his brother told me this week

that when he saw him throw after the neck surgery, he couldn't even throw the ball 20 yards. so when peyton manning gets this denner in team back into the super bowl with the greatest season he's ever had, i think we have every right to be talking about peyton manning and his legacy, and he needs to win this game though. let's not forget that. he needs to win this game. in my opinion it's all for naught if he doesn't win on sunday. >> does that put richard sherman's trash talking in a different context when he says peyton manning throws ducks, trash talking this quarterback after he's come back from surgery and all of that. does that make it worse? >> i don't think so. i think richard sherman is one of the guys that needs to talk to motivate himself. some people might be saying why do you need to motivate yourself for the super bowl? this is a stanford grad that knows what he's doing. i think he's out there challenging peyton manning

thinking come at me, i'll be able to beat you. i think he's motivated by that. give him credit. he's made himself into a huge star. you know his name, i know his name now more than we ever did before these past few weeks. >> do you have a pick? >> i'm picking seattle 31-24 over denver. marshon lynch mvp. >> i'm going bronx. let's see who is right. that does it for us. have a great time this weekend, however you're watching the game. this is "andrea mitchell reports." my colleague tamron hall is up next. >> more on the breaking news we're following. suspicious packages found in new york and new jersey including several hotels near the stadium hosting the super bowl. we'll get an update on the latest on this one. plus we continue to follow developing news on the critical keystone pipeline report expected to be released within the hour. more on the controversial project that's pitted the president against some of his

staunchest supporters if it is approved. have you heard this one? yahoo! is warning its 300 million customers that their personal information may be at risk after a major security breach. what yahoo! is saying about this breach and who may be behind it. that's all coming up next on "news nation." of the pre-treat soak treat soak? those are fond memories, but those things are amazing. once i saw what they did, i actually started to relax. don't touch my things. those little guys clean, brighten and fight stains. so now i can focus on more pressing matters. like your containers. isn't it beautiful? your sweet peppers aren't next to your hot peppers. [ gasps ] [ sarah ] that's my tide. what's yours?

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[ inhales deeply ] oh. what a relief it is. hi everyone. i'm tamron hall. the news nation is following breaking news. the fbi says several suspicious packages have been sent to hotels in new jersey and new york. at least three of the hotels are near the stadium hosting the super bowl. nbc's katy tur rick is in times square where there are so many fans here in town, in new york to see the super bowl. they believe this is a story, a concern that is low, but nevertheless, they're

investigating it. >> reporter: it's not a big concern as of now. seven letters in total, six in new jersey and one in manhattan, b suspicious letters that could contain white powder. we're hearing from law enforcement sources that at least one tested out to be baking soda. the concern is low because they get this sort of thing in this area quite often so they're not too worry. the place has been secured, no injuries. it's getting more attention because it's the super bowl and everybody is on a heightened sense of alert. we're in times square where there are normally a ton of people visiting, but now even more, completely packed behind me. very excited about that toboggan run here. the nypd has mobile units across the city. the fbi has mobile units across the city. these are what they look like, command centers. inside you'll see surveillance cameras. they have cameras trained on every part of the city, every part of the stadium watching in