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we'll get a look. welcome to weekends with alex witt. here's what's happening. new york city today is remembering a fallen police officer. thousands from the law enforcement community from new york and around the country are on hand to pay their final respects to the nypd's wenjian liu. liu and his partner were ambushed and killed on december 20th as they sat in a patrol car on a brooklyn street. ramos was buried last saturday. the killings come when much of the e country is embroiled in debate over the police and the community they serve. adam you've covered both funerals. what's the scene like there today? >> reporter: detective liu's wife is speaking now.

a couple of minutes ago mayor de blasio spoke. he talked about what devoted son he was and how he could call his father every night to tell him he was safe and on his way home. we saw dozens if not more officers turn their back. they did not heed the call from the commissioner not to do that. this was about grieving and now grievances grievances. when he was done they turned back around. >> adam at officer ramos' funeral last week many turned their back as deblasio spoke. that seemed to happen again despite the commissioner saying the hero's funeral is about grieving and not grievance. are you seeing protest as well when they were turning their

backs. >> reporter: very small pockets. other than this major turn around by officers during mayor's eulogy there was none other. >> do we know if the fbi director has spoken? >> reporter: he did speak. as a matter of fact, he said i didn't know there's so much evil in the world. this past year he said there were more police officers killed in the line of duty than previously known in the past several years. he just didn't understand why someone like the man who killed the officers could continue to do things like this in today's day and age. >> thank you very much for that update outside the funeral for wenjian liu. we want to start now and switch gears to a developing

news story. federal investigators are about to brief reporters. that's them right there addressing the reporters about the plane crash that happened on friday night in which one sole survivor, a 7-year-old girl managed to brokeeak out of that wreckage. we're going to dip into that and listen. >> lit a torch to illuminate her path. this was abandoned. chef she was not able to find an item that would have done that for her. she began walking. it's estimated she walked for around 15 20 minutes or more in a wooded area before she was able to see a light at the rez residence of mr. wilkins. the path she took the exact path is unknown but the location of the aircraft that was later recovered is in about a 12, 1400

acre area in between kentucky 1271 kentucky 810 south and chest nut road. it extends in an east to west location in a few fields that's unpopulated near lake barkley. she walked until she navigated down trees, she navigated brushes and briars and significant ditch lines and was able to make it out to safety and what she told us is to do so in order to receive assistance for her family. she was transimportantported to an area hospital where she was treated and it's our understanding she was released about 1:15.

we dispatched a female trooper to be with her until she could be reunited with family. during the time between 6:58 p.m. and 8:50 p.m. first responders from this county as well as numerous mutual agencies from surrounding counties conducted extensive search of the area looking for the wreckage. the aircraft was located by line county sheriff canton murphy who summoned additional assistance from state police and other agencies to the crash site. line county ems personnel made it to the crash site and confirmed that the four remaining passengers of the aircraft were deceased. the mission then became one of a

recovery and investigation from that point. our efforts were consulted with the faa and the ntsb which has led us to today. i'm going to turn it over but before i do turn it over to our ntsb delegation i'm going to stop right here and not ask questions but i'm going stop right here and ask if anyone has to take a break before we do anything else? you need a bathroom break or anything? all right. i'm seeing none. i'm going to ask miss heidi motes to come to the podium. >> good morning. as he stated i'm heidi motes.

i'm an air safety investigator with the national transportation safety board. i want to express my condolences to the family members of the victims on board of the airplane. secondly, i would like to express my gratitude to local and state authorities who helped us with this investigation. today we're here to document facts and circumstances and we will not be looking at probable causes and not discussing probable cause. on january 2nd about 6:00 p.m. a piper pa34 impacted trees and terrain west of the kentucky dam state airport. there were five okccupants on board. four of them occurred fatal injury and one of them sustained serious injury. today is our first day on scene. we'll be documenting the accident sight. the salvage facility is working

to remove the airplane from the accident site. we'll take it to their facility further south of here. we will thoroughlily exam the airframe and engine of the airplane. after this initial phase, we will issue a preliminary report in about ten days. that report can be found on the ntsb website which is www.ntsb.gov. as we continue to gather the facts we'll look into the man, machine and environment and put together a report that will be issued in about a year. after that that report will be sent to the ntsb five-member safety board. from there they will issue the probable cause. we have a few moments to take a couple of questions. [ inaudible question ] >> we're going to try to make contact with her.

we'll talk to her family and try to make contact soon. >> she was the only passenger on the plane rear facing seat is that correct? >> that's something we're going to look into. we will definitely look into that. >> what steps do you take as far as your invest to what you'll be doing now? >> like i said we're going to be documenting the on scene evidence taking pictures gathering the perishable evidence. once we take the airplane back to the salvage facility we'll be going more in-depth investigation into the airframe and looking to make sure everything was working all right and take a better look at the engines. after that we'll get the weather data, air traffic control data many more other pieces of information and put them together into that factual report that will be issued in about a year's time. >> just real quick, what is

perishable evidence on plane like that? >> it could be ground scars, marks on the trees, fuel any type of liquid that could come out of airplane, stuff like that. >> how does it change the investigation having someone who survived? >> having someone that is a witness always helps us in the investigation. it gives us kind of a story line and it's helpful in any situation. >> what time did the plane take off from tallahassee and started key west? >> i don't have the exact time. when we look at the air traffic control data we'll have that. any other? >> part of the wing on fire is that correct? >> there's evidence of a post impact fire. we will look at that the further. i spent a couple hours, not even a couple hours on scene this morning. that's where i'm headed back. i have time for one more

question. >> the father was the pilot. how much flight hours did he have? >> i don't know that. we have not been able to find his logbook yet. it's something we'll look into in future. >> i know you can't say a lot at this point. [ inaudible question ] >> she's one remarkable young lady. >> a quick highlight question. do you expect to have the aircraft removed from the scene? >> that's what we're shooting for. we're trying to get the aircraft out today. thank it for me. thank you for being here. if you have any further questions the ntsb public affairs office will take them. i have their phone number if you would like it. it's 202-31 -- >> you're listening to a press conference there being held by both kentucky state police and the ntsb the national

transportation safety board. a 7-year-old girl was the sole survivor in that plane crash. the ntsb says they are still gathering evidence at the scene including pictures. they plan on issuing a preliminary report within ten days but plan on providing a much larger and in-depth report within the year. they plan on transporting that plane to a salvage fa tillcileityfacility. in reference to that young girl said it's remarkable that she did survivor. they plan on making contact with the girl after she is returned with surviving family members. they said any time there's a witness to a crash to crash it helps. we'll be following that story in the coming hours and days. president obama is back now in washington but not for long.

the president will head out on a three-day, three-state tour touting policy proposals ahead of his state of the union address later this month. one of itemsen the agenda remains obama care. >> the priority is to repeal this health care law. it's bad for patients, bad for providers and terrible for taxpayers. we're going to put on the president's desk at a minimum stripping away the most damaging parts of the health care law. >> nbc senior white house kor correspondent gets a few more hours in washington. how is the president preparing to dealing with a republican controlled congress when they convene on tuesday. >> reporter: it's a whole new strategy to push his agenda for 2015. the way it usually works is there's this big build up to the state of the union and it's a big reveal because they want to get the news the of the it the

coverage of it. they decided to do it differently this year. this trip will be day after day after day out lining some of the agenda items that he has. there will be some executive orders and some new proposals out there. the idea is instead of waiting until the state of the union, the president is taking his message on the road. with wave and a smile, president obama said good-bye to 16 days of motor cades and lots of golf and hello to a new reality in washington. a republican led congress and the status of lame duck. >> the question is will they be able to work together on the dirty details. will they admit they won't get everything and admit to compromise. >> reporter: the president is energized after taking executive actions on immigration in cuba and he'll hit the road this week going to detroit to talk manufacturing, phoenix to spotlight a new plan to help

home buyers and in tennessee he'll announce a college initiative. >> it means taking bold decisive action on behalf of the american people. >> reporter: republicans riled by the president's executive actions have their own plan to chip away at health care and immigration. they are also determined to show skeptical voters they can govrp. >> they need to know people can work across partisan lines and institutional lines to get important things run. >> reporter: they could include corporate tax and trade deals to prover the political art of compromise isn't dead yet. we'll see if it is or not. a couple of things on the agenda agenda, health care. the president will look at those kinds of things. he's only used his veto pen twice in six years, fewer times than any other president. he said it's ready to go this year.

the republicans believe they have to show they have to govern. the president knows he has a closing window of opportunity when the attention will shift to the presidential race. we'll see what happens when this optimism meets reality in a couple of days. >> chris jansen there with president obama in hawaii. thank you. the new film selma is stirring controversy. the film makers got quite a bit of it wrong. he'll try to set the record straight after the break. one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. approved! live the regular life. phillips'. not all toothbrushes are created equal. oral-b toothbrushes are engineered with end-rounded bristles so brushing doesn't scratch gums. and angled perfectly to remove 90% of plaque for a healthier smile. trust the brand more dentists and hygienists use. oral-b.

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the new class in congress will head to capital hill on tuesday but after taking the majority in both houses will the gop be willing to work with president obama? >> you always enter a new session of congress with high

hopes. i know republicans aring loog forward to and willing to work with the president on areas we can create jobs and grow the economy and strengthen america's middle class. i hope the president will meet us there. >> joining me is brad sherman. congressman, thank you very fionaing us. i want to start off by asking you, is there any chance we're going to see some compromise this year between both parties in congress? >> we'll have to have some compromise in order to avoid catastrophic congressional activity. that's to say we have to keep the doors open and not shut down the government. we have to raise the debt limit as necessary to pay our debt. we did that in 2014. we rose up to what i call the noncatastrophic congress. i think that that kind of cooperation we showed it in 2014. we'll see it in 2015. the second thing is republicans are more than willing to help the president create more

profits for giant corporations at the expense of the american taxpayer and at the expense of american working families. in the areas of trade and corporate taxes, particularly trade, i think the president will be willing to cut some deals that will really hurt the american middle class. >> i want to read a quote from an article that politico wrote reporting house republicans will kick off the new session will legislation to begin the construction of the keystone pipeline and increase the mandatory obama care workweek from 30 hours to 40 hours. how will democrats respond to those two? >> i think that you may see some democratic support for the keystone pipeline. less for the change in obama care because that really destroys the employer mandate. it turns to every employer and say you used to employ people for 40 hour now if you employ them for 39.5, obama care is

employer mandate. i don't think there will be many democrats voting for what looks like a small tweak and is actually an attempt to put a gaping hole in the side of obama care. >> let me ask you about the president very briefly. is the democrat strategy to have president obama voeeto everything. is there any chance that may backfire on the democrats come 2016? >> there will be two types of bills. those bills that the republicans expect the president to sign. i'm very afraid of the trade policies that are popular with the giant corporations which would continue t 25 year failed trade policies that the united states has engaged in that have hallowed out the american middle class and destroy manufacturing in this country. i suspect there will be other bills they will pass with the

expectation of a veto. there will be a combination of smart politics by the republicans where they put yet the republican to veto a popular bill and things they need to do for their own internal politics that hurt them with swing voters. the incredible anger at the president in a republican caucus needs to find an escape valve. that may cause boehner to put on the president's desk bills that don't help him with the national audience. >> let me switch gears a bit. your district has significant ties to the film industry and you serve on the foreign affairs committee. i'm interested to get your thoughts about this round of sanctions on north korea. president obama announced it yesterday. do you think it's going to have a real impact? >> it's only a symbolic impact. we don't trade with north korea. certainly the individuals listed by the president were not planning to go to disney land this summer and don't have traceable assets here in the

united states. it's symbolic. what i've proposed is that this was an attack not just on an american company but on free speech. they said any metroplex that has this one movie may be bombed and prevented people from seeing this movie in december in their theaters in the normal course. the response is to give them a double dose of free speech by doubling our broadcasting into north korea and i think that would allow us to broadcast not 11 hours day as we do now but 24 hours a day. it's something that would undermine the kim jung-un regime and speak well. >> thank you very much for your time. take care. the boston bombing trial is set to begin tomorrow. can he get fair trial? my guest explains why he thinks that's even more than possible. y tomorrow. dads don't take sick days,

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details in the search for air asia flight 8501 four bodies have been recovered today. bad weather is hindering divers searching for the wreckage. officials are hoping the plane's black boxes will be recovered tomorrow. what makes officials so confident that they will be able to recover the black boxes soon. >> reporter: they're very confident they found the main wreckage site. they found a fifth large object on the sea floor in the north java sea today. the largest object in this debris field is 58 feet long. they believe that may be the fuselage. they were able to put divers in the water for first time today. once they went down below visibility was zero. the currents were very strong and they had to abandon that effort. they'll try that again tomorrow. again they are confident they

are in the right place. >> they wr saying the cause of that crash. what are officials saying about that? >> reporter: well, a couple of things. the report suggests that icing was a possible factor. icing may have caused the engines to stall. the reports authors are very quick to say this is not a definitive report. we're not meant to say this was the cause only a possibility based on the weather data from that day. >> thank you very much. jury selection begins tomorrow in the trial of alleged boston bomber but how can the court seat an impartial jury? that's next after the break. into my own hands where it belongs. olay regenerist instantly changes the look of skin. it regenerates surface cells new skin is revealed in only 5 days without drastic measures. stunningly youthful,

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he was taken into custody and charged. let's bring in boston globe columnist. defense attorneys argued that everyone in boston was a victim. no one could be impartial. today's paper you wrote that's patent nonsense, an insult to the three people who lost their lives, the 17 who lost their legs and the others who were injured and thousands traumatized an not to mention the family and friends of the m.i.t. police officer murdered. i want to ask you can there really be an impartial jury in boston where so many people have been affected by this tragedy? >> i personally believe there can. i agree with the judge that the voir dire process which will question people about potential bias can and will work. will it be harder here? no question. i think anybody would suggest it would be just as hard to do this elsewhere in the country they're

kidding themselves. i also think we have to take into consideration that not everybody follows these things as closely as we in the media and the legal profession do. i will stipulate saying i have great respect for the defense team here especially judy clark whose work i really admire. i think in their role as legal advocates providing an aggressive defense for this person they are making claims i don't think hold up to scrutiny particularly the suggestion as the defense has made that the community wide trauma and impact here was wider and deeper than that occurred in oklahoma city in 1995 when timothy mcvey blew up the federal building here. i think that's nonsense. >> why do you think it's so essential that the trial be held in boston? >> i've not been persuaded by the defense he cannot get fair trial here.

i have a caveat in there which i know my lawyer friend will hit me over the head when i say i don't think, i think the presumption of innocence, in my experience is a theory more than a practice. i don't think that most juries impanelled that everybody walks this there and say i presume this guy is innocent. i don't think people think like that in the real world. this is what i did say today in my column and i firmly believe it because it's based on years of experience covering cases not here and just in boston but all over the country is juries take their sponltsresponsibilities very serious and they expect prosecutors to prove their case. i'll give you an example here in boston. we had case in which a drug rep five people were executed coldly on the streets of boston in one of our inner city neighborhoods. included in the victims was a

mother and child. the child shot as it rested in the arms of the mother. the jury was a panel here in suffolk county. some of them came from the very neighborhoods where the crime was committed and where drug crimes and horrible horrific acts of violence happen every night or over other night. the jury acquitted the guy that was charged with doing that. >> the mother of two of the sons named in the bombings expect to attend the trial every day and she says i want him dead. that would be justice. how prevalent is that attitude among the victims and the family families families? >> i couldn't answer the question because you'd have to ask every single victims. they were roofers who lost not only their legs but their livelihood. liz is a quality human being and she's entitled to her opinion but i don't think her sons share that opinion. i don't think a lot of victims

think the death penalty, there's a really divide among victims. i wish i had the room. i don't think that's about i quit acquitting him. i think it's about sparing him the death penalty. if you look at the quality and caliber and the expertise of some of his lawyers that's where this case is going to go. a lot of what we're talking about is beyond what is really going on opinion everybody says when you go to a trial you're looking for the truth. i don't know if i necessarily believe that in all the trials i've sat through. some people looking for justice and for some people it might be death or life in prison. it's very hard to say where the victims lie. >> kevin, you cover the city. you know the city as well as anyone. the tragedy touched so many people in boston. boston strong became a phrase synonymous with the city.

how has boston changed since this day in april? >> one thing that could have come out of this and i remember being on the program talking about where we worried it might go. i think if the bombers, whoever they may be thought that they would divide the country or divide this town and pit people against each other, that didn't happen. just the opposite happened. people rode behind each other. the one fund was a resounding success. victims have by in large felt completely supported in this community. i guess the defense would say everybody is invested in this and nobody can be impartial juror in this case. i juts don't acceptst don't accept that. i have friends and associates who know nothing about this case. it was on tv all the time and in

the papers but other people have lives. i really do believe with 1200 people sitting down in the federal courthouse they will be able to weed through those 1200 people and find 12 jurors and four alternates who can sit on this case with an open mind. >> we'll with following that trial closely. thank you very much. next big thing could be here at the consumer electronic show. a preview of what that can be up next. 'm worried about you know "hidden things..." ok, why's that? no hidden fees from the bank where no branches equals great rates.

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venetian next to that. >> johnson is the san francisco bureau chief for usa today. i mentioned some of thoedsse things that will be featured in this event. what are some things that will jump out at you? >> ces think about excess and overwhelming, think about the super bowl for geeks. there's so many things that will be hitting you from all different angles. there's the smart home which you've heard a lot for several years as well as drones. 4ktv which is a tv screen that's been in development. it looks great on paper but there's not a lot of programming to go with it so far. wearables in time for the apple watch which will be coming up very soon. cars. in a sense ces is considered a

glorified car show. we have all these things kind of a confluence of all these things. it's the year of fill in the blank. every year it doesn't quite happen. it takes a long time to get to the consumer and has to face leg regulatory hurdles. >> how about from the perspective of technology companies, how important is this? >> monday night there's going to be a keynote speech by sam sung's to executive. they will talk about the internet of things and the importance of connecting all the devices in your house through your phone. say for instance you're driving hope and want to turn on the thermostats or unlock the door before you get to the front door. samsung is in a good position to do that because they bought a company called smart things. if you go through your house,

dishwasher dishwasher, tv, refrigerator is from that company. they have the pieces in place. at the same time apple has something called the home kit, which social security developing and google bought nest which maybe most viewers know about. it's the thermostat and a fire alarm. all these companies and cisco and microsoft see this huge possibly. the only drawback is there aren't any standards for this. it's expensive and you have to retro fit your home for this to work. we're looking at a jetson's like environment within five years. >> is there anything i can go out there today and buy? >> there is. i mentioned nest. i mentioned some of the things some of the smart home devices that around. in terms of drones there's things like go pro. there are drone fighters you can buy. they are glorified model airplanes that fight each other in the air.

that's going to be 120 bucks at ces. a lot of tv technology and a lot of technology for cars are there. it's a question of how much you want to spend. >> what's the success rate of some of these gadgets out there? >> not very high. we're thinking about 3500 vendors there with multiple products. how many of them become household names. it's a really high barrier to enter and only the largers companies and breakthrough companies kind of come through. >> thank you very much for that update. the criticism aimed at the new movie selma and the civil rights movement and at the top of the hour just how many police officers turn their backs to the mayor. talking to people who made the switch to ford. i loved the look of the fusion... we test drove it...i was like "this is my car". all-wheel drive is amazing... i felt so secure. you can do it, emmie! ecoboost is when you can take a four cylinder and make it feel like a six cylinder...

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angeles inciting large scale arrest and sympathy marchers. >> i'm very aware of that mr. hoover. what i do know is he's non-violent. what i need to know right now what's martin luther king about to do next. >> mr. president, dr. king is here. >> that was from the new film selma. the movie tells the story 50 years ago this spring when the entire civil rights movement seemed to culminate on a small bridge. the film has come under fire for it depiction of the events in a new piece in political magazine. the film unphysical therapyfairly treats king and lyndon johnson. thanks very much for joining us. almost all historical films takes some sort of creative

license. was that necessary for the story of selma? >> i think that's par for the course with any kind of historical film and i think you can expect most films to take certain liberties. they have to gloss over some of the detail to create narrative flows. that's not problematic. there's a lot about the film that i think is very good. a number of historians have focused on the portrayal of lyndon johnson which is film doesn't get right. >> how does his depiction compare with the real story? >> in selma, the film lbj is portrayed as being rez looudsolutely opposed to pushing a voting rights act and is very forceful and an antagonist to martin luther king. in reality, by late fall of 1964

he had his justice department at work of looking another legislation that would help protect the franchise for african-americans in the south. in a january 15th phone conversation with king he made it clear that he very much wanted to get a voting rights bill done but he wanted to wait until the first 90 days of year was over when he thought he would have been able to move his health education and welfare bills through congress. they were very much on the same page. they were probably a part in weeks or two or three months certainly not a year or two apart. that's major problem in the film film. the film has a lot of great things to it. >> you write the film makes it about a fight with his wife but it was about his tactic of following the law. explain that for our viewers. >> film would have you believe

that lyndon johnson ordered the fbi to send an incriminating package to the king's residence that contain his extramarital affairs. it did it many weeks before the selma campaign. we believe or completely without lyndon johnson's knowledge. the film would have you believe king was not present on bloody sunday, the first march across the bridge because he and his wife were in a deep state of marital crisis. king was faced with a real dilemma. he himself believed he could not ask white americans to follow the letter of the law on voting rights or even desegregation while he was violating a state order not to march. he wanted to wait until he had a federal judge vacate george wallace' order that the march

not go forward. this was throughout his career. the tension between civil disobedience and civil society. it's one he took very seriously and they might have been able to do something with that in the film. >> talk to us a bit about dr. king's leadership style. how is that portrayed in the movie? >> i think it's done very well. king was both mediating the end of american apartheid and keep together a civil rights movement that was divided at times by philosophy and tactics. he had the balance of a great number of stake holders. i think in this film you get a really wonderful portrayal of king as somebody uniquely able to balance the different stake holders within and without the movement. >> telling this story to a new generation outweigh any damage

of some of these inaccuracies? >> i think people should see the film and read the criticism and engage in a good conversation and voting rights that are such an important topic right now. voting rights are under attack in many quarters of the united states. if this film is provoking that kind of conversation i think it's done a useful thing. i would encourage people to look at both sides of that debate and maybe the measure of a good piece of art is that it gets people talking. >> thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> the producers of selma will be showing the movie for free in the town of selma, alabama when it premiered next friday. new information now from the ntsb in past hour about the deadly plane crash in kentucky. the latest on that at the top of the hour. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] fedex® has solutions to enable global commerce that can help your company grow steadily and quickly.

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a search for answers. the ntsb arrives on the scene of that deadly crash in kentucky. back home president obama returns from holiday in hawaii with a clear agenda, but will the republican congress like it? the movies worth watching in 2015. good day to you. welcome to weekends with alex witt. alex is off today. here is what's happening. thousands of police officers from new york and around the country are on hand today to pay their final respects to nypd officer wenjian liu. liu and his partner were ambushed an killed on december 20th as they sat in their patrol

car. adam reese is outside the funeral home. he's been following developments. describe what happened today and what you've seen. >> reporter: we're waiting for the procession to the cemetery. the mayor spoke about how the city is heartbroken over the loss of detective liu, what a devoted son he was and how he would call his father every nighting saying he's down with his tour saying he's safe and on his way home. >> there's no more solemn ceremony than this mourning a man who's life was taken while fighting for all that is decent and good. we meet family that's lost so much in the hospital or in their home are here at a funeral. it's a reminder of what is done by good people to keep others safe and hold our society

together. >> reporter: we saw hundreds of officers turn their back on the mayor. they were not heeding the commissioner's call that this is a funeral for a hero and a time for grieving not grievances. clearly some tensions remain. >> thank you for that update. a short time ago we heard from the ntsb about the investigation of a small plane. the ntsb says it hopes to have preliminary results in about ten days, but a full report could take a year. four people were killed in the crash. the lone survivor, a 7-year-old girl managed to free herself, trekked for nearly a mile through the woods and seek help. investigators plan on seeking with her as soon as they can. >> we're going to try and make contact with her. we're going to talk to her family first and try to make contact with her soon. >> she was the only passenger on

the plane that was in a rear facing seat is that correct? >> that's something we're going to look into. we're going to do a survivor survivorability factor and look into that. >> let's bring in former ntsb member. how remarkable is it that the girl able to walk away and seek help? >> it's quite remarkable. that study they talked about doing will try to yield some information that may be useful in the future in instructconstructing airplanes or seats. it could be quite useful to the aviation community as a whole. >> the ntsb leader was asked about that. what are some of the factors that could have saved this young girl's life? >> where she was position. her height may have played a role in it. if whether or not she was swearing a seat belt or what kind of seat belt. was it a three-point harness or

just a lap belt. those are all factors that will into where she was sitting in the airplane. there's a lot of variables in there. the ntsb will go through detail to try to figure out just what were the factors that saved this girl and how they can be used in the future. >> how difficult will it be for investigators to try to determine what happened. does this type of plane have a flight data recorder and the data recorder information we know that exists on big plane? >> there's no voice recorder. some of the electronic systems have nonvolatile memory which means we could extract information from them but no. that's why they mentioned it's going to go to a facility and the eng the engines will come off to see if there's anything broken.

maybe put them on a test bench and run them. >> thank you very much for joining. we want to take our viewers back to the funeral for wenjian liu outside the funeral home. let's take a listen. ♪

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mplg now to the latest on the search for the air asia flight. the total bodies recovered has jumped to 34. as bad weather hurts the search officials are confident they will find a key piece of the plane by tomorrow. kelly has been following the story. she joins us now. why are officials so confident that they think they will find the black box tomorrow? >> reporter: they think the weather will improve a little bit tomorrow and into tuesday. they also believe they found the main wreckage site on the sea floor. they have found five large objects on that sea floor, found a fifth one today. one of them is 58 feet long by 18 feet wide. they are hoping that's the fuselage. they are hoping that within that debris field they will find the

tail section which is where the black boxes will be and they will be able to recover it an advance that investigation. once again, a lot depends on the weather and whether or not the divers can get below the surface and actually see something which they were not able to do today because the visibility was to poor. thank you very much for that update. new air strikes this weekend against isis. the pentagon says the u.s. and its partners conducted six strikes against isis positions on the border of syria and turkey. one strike on an isis target near the city of mosil in iraq. this comes as a new isis hostage video has emerged. i wanted to start off asking about this new propaganda video. he's going around almost like a

travel show host in an attempt to refute recent stories about food shortages. is this a bizarre video. what do you think isis is trying to accomplish with this? >> i think the recent isis videos have shown the organizations weakness. it's their attempt to respond with propaganda to ground they are losing in the field. a lot of life does go on as normal if you still have your head on your shoulders, if you're a woman willing to wear it and if you're anybody else you're in desperate shape. he tries to put on a good show. i'm sure he's interested in staying alive but it's not convincing. it was only a little more than two months ago he was saying

isis is in control of kabani. the recent reports coming out of there show that that is not the case at all. >> there have been recent reports from the bbc and the washington post about the situation at the air base during the war it was one of the largest u.s. bases in iraq and now it's the iraqi's army last stand. it's almost under daily attacks from both isis and other groups. there's an estimated 300 american add visors that are reportedly stationed there. what do you anticipate the u.s. response to be if and when there are any american casualties on the ground? >> i think the u.s. will step up not turn down activities.

we had a situation where the united states was not ready to move. it really was not until an american was killed, james foley was beheaded. he was kidnapped with john cantley in 2012. when that happened public opinion was mobilized and the willingness of the americans to go after isis the american people to go after isis was something radically different than we have seen a few weeks or months than we seen a year before. >> chris let's switch gears a bit and talk about the heightening tensions between israel and be palestinians over the international criminal court application. the israeli prime minister said israel would not sit idle. it will not let its soldiers be dragged. how far do you see the fight going? we know the israelis have started with holding tax revenues from the palestinian

authorities. >> the palestinians as usual, are playing a weak hand. it's not something the united states is party to or that israel is a party to. the chances of any israeli soldiers getting pulled in there under any circumstances are extreme liex exextremely remote. this is another chance to see an international organization accepts us and our legitimate si and it's another chance for benjamin netanyahu to say we don't care. >> thank you very much for joining us there. it's a war of another dimension. that's one of the most highly anticipated films of the new year. then there's 50 shades of grey making the move from book farm to the big screen. what are the year's other must see movies? find out after the break. but i'm a bit skeptical of sure things. why's that? look what daddy's got... ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

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everything old is new again at the box like mad max and terminator. there's a jurassic park sequel that will hit theaters. >> a whole new frontier has opened up. we have our first jegenetically modified hybrid. >> just went and made a new dinosaur. >> probably not a good idea. >> the wall is 40 feet high. think you should climb down? >> depends. >> on what. >> what kind of dinosaur they cooked up in that lab. >> jurassic world is produced by universal pictures. let's talk a bit more about these movies with variety's chief film critic. thank you very much for joining us. have you ever seen a year with so many established movie franchises making a comeback? >> i think it is unusual in some

of these series have been dormant for quite a long time and it's been about a decade since the last jurassic sequel. tlp hasn't been a mad max sequel since the mid '80s. you have arnold schwarzenegger returning to the terminator franchise which is sort of the most high profile movie he's made since he left being the governor of california. >> there was a tremendous amount of success for the book 50 shades of grey as a book. is that going to translate to the big screen? >> this is probably the most hyped and anticipated movie that's coming out in the first part of 2015. it opens on valentine's day. with any of these big franchise, literary franchises whether it's hunger games or harry potter people come in with a lot of expectations because they love the books and the characters. this is a much more adult series than those other ones.

i think the question will be can they satisfy the fans of the book and people who come in who don't know about the book. the movie still has to work on its own terms. it can't just be for the fans. >> that's a good point. this year marks the return of perhaps one of the biggest franchises of all times, star wars the last trilogy for the star wars franchise. it's almost 40 years old. do you think it still resonates with audiences. how do you think viewers and the audience will respond to this? >> well look i wouldn't want to be the one having to bring this movie to the marketplace. talk about expectations. they've done a smart thing. they entrusted it to j.y. abramj. abrams. they brought back larry casden who write the movie. of course brought back all the original characters. unlike the three star wars movies from the last decade

these are sequels rather than prequels. the idea is to appeal to the fans from 40 years ago and to bring it forward to a whole new generation. >> it's always hard to predict but what are you most excited about in 2015. what do you think will be the blockbuster? >> two movies that will dwarf everything else. one is star wars and the other is the avenger. the first ended up being the third most successful movie of all time after titanic and avatar. >> that surprised a lot of people. >> the marvel films continue to do extremely well. that's going to be a big one. a movie i'm looking forward to is a movie that's not based on any pre-existing franchise is a movie called tomorrow land which

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south eastern georgia. that's been allowed to expire. good news now. we have severe thunderstorm warning, which is bad enough. if you live in this county this is where you have to watch out for damaging winds. this includes jenkins county right now. as we go farther south and east we're getting heavy rain. some of this where you see bow echoes boeing out a bit. we could see damaging winds. south eastern georgia right now but later on we may be looking at the carolinas. watch out here in jacksonville. also into savannah. the story we'll be following is the cold air coming south over next couple of days. big arctic outbreak coming our way. we're talking the coldest air of the season overspraed spreading parts of the ohio and the northeast. get ready for this. it's been cold but not this cold. we're talking about highs in the single digits. chicago not even getting to zero on wednesday.

thursday is bad too. it gets to the northeast. we'll be dealing with temperatures in the 20s. georgia will see lows in the teens. severe weather today the big story but this week it's the arctic cold. that will take over a lot of the country. >> kim cunningham thank you. president obama is using a new strategy to help bolster support for his policy proposals ahead of his state of the union address later this month. instead of hitting the road after the speech he'll head outen a three-day, three-state tour beginning wednesday. just day after the newly sworn in republican congress convenes. kristin welker is live at the white house. how is the white house planning to deal with a new republican-controlled congress? >> reporter: we expect the president will veto any effort on the keystone pipeline and his efrt to reveal the health care law.

both sides have talked about trying to find common ground on other issues. the president will have a little bit of momentum heading into the new year on the heels of some positive economic news. republicans are feeling embolden as well. there's fair amount to show they can govern because people are fed up with the gridlock in washington. he anticipates better coordination and corporation with the president. take a listen. >> he needs to talk to us and that's good. when the american people elect a divided government they're not saying they don't want anything done. they are saying they want things done in the political center things both sides can agree on. >> as you pointed out another key part of the president's strategy is he'll be hitting the road this week to sell the message he's going to map out in

his state of the union address. deliver the state of the union addresses and then take their message on the road. the president is flipping the order this year to try to build momentum for his policies ahead of that republican takeover. he'll be announcing executive actions along the way. arizona where he'll talk about housing and michigan where he plans to discuss jobs. >> live for us from the white house. thank you. through sea of detectives wenjian liu was giving his final salute today. a somber scene during a highly politicized moment in the city with a deep gulf dividing the nypd. joining me now is jennifer city hall bureau chief. good afternoon. thank you for joining us. >> thank you.

we saw some of the officers turn their backs on the mayor but it didn't appear to be to the same extent we saw in the last few weeks. is the situation improving? >> it wasn't as bad as it was. yesterday when the mayor went to the wake he was saluted when he walked in. both sides had sort of agreed to put it aside until after the funeral which was today. obviously not everybody put it aside because hundreds of police officers did turn their back on the mayor today. >> what are some of the stakes that are here that are at play for both sides between city hall and the police. what's at risk? >> this is probably the biggest crisis of the mayor's administration at the moment. the police department is widely regarded as one of the finest in the world. it is the biggest story that the mayor is in this feud with his police department. he won the race to city hall last year by promising to reform the nypd.

now he's got serious trouble where is this is his department and turning their back on him. this is major problem. the police have a contract dispute. they are in arbitration. it's high stakes for both sides. >> the tension is not looking like a major problem for the attempt or bid to hold the 2016 democratic national convention here in brooklyn. how important is that to the mayor to try to bring that event to the city? >> that's really important the it's at the top of the his agenda. he wants to bring baemdemocrats from all over the country eyes to brooklyn. the dnc does not want any side distractions when the convention comes here. this is really putting that at risk because right now all anyone's talking about in new york city is the fact that the police and the mayor can't get

along. >> commissioner has been central in all of this. he's publicly supported ta mayor and rebuked some of the officers who turned their backs on the mayor. is the sense inside city hall that support continues when the cameras are turned off? >> yeah there's a sense. the mayor goes out of his way to praise bratton and the nypd. he clearly had the department. there were people that turned their back and at the last funeral people turned their back. nobody turned their back on bill bratton. i think the mayor realizes he's a good link. this is somebody extremely respected in law enforcement. where deblasio is not getting respect there's been nothing from the officers real disrespect other than the fact he asked them not to turn their back and some did. >> jennifer, thank you very much for that insight.

>> thank you. team of ntsb investigators is on the scene of friday night's plane crash in rural kentucky. a 7-year-old girl is the only survivor. the crash killed four other family members. the girl walked through eight miles through dark woods until she maengnaged to come to the home of a local resident. this is a remarkable story of survival. the lone survive of friday night's crash is a 7-year-old girl. ntsb team leader said she's one remarkable young lady. based on your experience with the subjects of your book what's ahead for 7-year-old girl? >> obviously there's the physical injuries. i'm not sure what injuries sailor received.

i read some earlier reports but there's a psychological trauma ahead. over time the fact of losing her parents in a traumatic incident will have a huge impact upon her life. in my book i described pediatric psychologists coming in helping the little girls who were three and four at the time. there's a significant difference between 7 and 3 and 4 in the youngest in my book that i described didn't really remember some of the details. it will be interesting to hear from sailor later on after the initial shock of this to hear her describe what actually occurred perhaps inside that cockpit. >> you always wrote in an op-ed in the new york times that the national transportation safety board found in 2011 94% of fatal aviation accidents occurred in general aviation. why is that the case and help us

understand what is exactly general aviation? >> flights that are non-commercial. obviously, we have the big flights that we take across the atlantic. those are regulated under a different system. there's something called part 135 which regulate taxes and for higher planes. this is a private plane. private plane the kind that families and individual businessmen fly. those are typically known as general aviation. single prop planes that are flown flown. >> are they not under the same restrictions? we know that 95% of fatalities were aviation. why is this such a propensity for fatalities?

>> general aviation isn't as highly regulated as commercial aviation. pilots don't have to do as much air time. they are also flying smaller machines that don't have as much computer aided kind of guidance in the air. >> do you think there's a lack of federal oversight of both the industry and the pilots in general aviation. >> the faa have acknowledged as much. last year they launched an education campaign called got weather. they realized that bad weather is an underlying cause of many of these accidents including this one. they look at that factor. it's all about risk management and what can the faa do to manage risks to mitigate some of these potential accidents. yes, there are education campaigns that need to be done. there's also people can look at insurance as a possible solution. pilots say they are very safety

community generally speaking. after i wrote the op-ed piece i got a lot of push back from pie will thes say regulations through insurance wasn't the answer. there's a list of things one could do to mitigate these possible tragedies. >> thank you very much for that insight. we appreciate it. it was a plea from the streets of chicago. teenager's letter to santa for safety and president obama answered it. we'll meet the young man. for practically just your signature you could drive home for the holidays in a german engineered volkswagen. like the sporty, advanced new jetta and the 2015 motor trend car of the year all-new golf. if you're wishing for a new volkswagen this season just about all you need is a finely tuned... pen. get zero due at signing zero down, zero deposit and zero first month's payment on select new volkswagen models.

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our priority for me and everything i do as president. if you dare to be bold and creative and work hard and care for others i'm confident you can achieve anything you imagine. >> malik joins me now. i want to start off by asking you tell me a bit about what your daily life is like. what made you write this letter? >> like dangerous around and you have to watch your back every time you go outside because people start bothering you. you don't do nothing to them. they mess with you just to mess with you. >> do you get chance go out and play and be a young teenager that you are? >> repeat that. >> do you get chance to go out into your neighborhood and play? do you get do be a young kid?

>> yeah. sometimes like it don't be that bad. most of the time you hear the ambulance going by. >> are you personally scared when you leave your home in that community? >> sometimes. sometimes if it has been some shooting going on recently. >> let me ask you about your reaction when you saw president responding to your letter. how that make you feel? >> i really didn't expect it to go to the white house. it wasn't supposed to to the white house. but the people that sent it liked it so much that they needed to you know send it to obama. >> did friends and family find out the letter made its way to president obama? >> yes. i ended up telling everybody.

>> what is the reaction between your community, family and neighbors? >> you know they come up to me congratulate to me tell me i'm famous. they text me in-box me on facebook saying congratulations and all that. >> have you been surprised by the attention that you are receiving because of this letter that you sent to the president and the response? >> yeah. >> you have been surprised? >> yeah. yesment. >> have you seen changes or anything getting better this your community? >> not really. no. >> not yet. >> noment. >> okay. we certainly hope that it does get better for you. congratulations for send ing the letter and writing it. it's important to get voices out. we appreciate you making your

voice heard to the white house. malik bryant. thanks for joining us. what pope francis did today signals more change for the catholic church. how does it fit with his attempts at reforming the vatican? that's next. ivate. [ all cheering ] ♪ ♪ that's why shakira uses... crest 3d white with whitelock technology, removing up to ninety percent of surface stains and locking out future stains. so your smile always steals the show. and to get even faster whitening use this collection for a whiter smile in just 2 days. crest 3d white. life opens up with a whiter smile.

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new evidence that pope francis is putting his stamp on the catholic church. he named a dozen cardinals and will lead a meeting of them next month to review proposals to reform vatican bureaucracy. joining me is austin ivory, author of "the great reer francis, and the making of a radical pope." how does the naming of the cardinals and the countries they came from help put pope francis's mark on the catholic church? >> they are very definitely continuing the trend he began last year when he named a number of oh cardleal alcardinals from obscure areas of the world. what he's doing is breaking with

an important tradition here which is traditionally cardinals have come from places in the church where there are a lot of clergy. he wants more to oh reflect the distribution of catholics across the world. he particularly want it is voice of poor countries, marginal places to be brought to bear on the governance of the universal church. he made radical choices. one of the places, one of the cardinals comes from a place where there are just 15,000 catholics in an archipelago. >> how is he differentiating himself from predecessors? >> he's trying to restore balance, if you like in the college of cardinals by saying we need to hear from places we haven't normally heard from. there's been too much representation in the governance of the church of the wealthy parts of the world. the part of the world where one might say catholocism at least shows less life if not in decline. he wants to give voice to where there is life in the church. he's reforming the role of the

cardinals, giving the them a stronger voice in the governance of the church, turning the college of cardinals into something like a senate. these voices will be important going forward. >> very quickly, how will he be judged? how are things so far playing out? >> i think he will be judged as one of the great reformers of the catholic tradition. i think he's reshaping the church for many generations to come oh. >> we'll leave it there. thank you very much for joining us. that wraps up this sunday edition of "weekends with alex witt." stay with us for updates and breaking news. i'm ayman mohyeldin. alex will be back next weekend. thanks for joining us. but i'm a bit skeptical of sure things. why's that? look what daddy's got... ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!! growth you can count on from the bank where no branches equals great rates. ♪ vicks nyquil severe. helps relieve your ugliest nastiest roughest toughest cold symptoms. vicks nyquil severe. with maximum symptom fighting ingredients.

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