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bringing the season's coldest temperatures, more snow and more travel delays. >> and that is a very familiar sound. all over the northeast right now people digging out, especially in places like massachusetts, with several cities there getting more than 30 inches of snow. right now more than 11,000 people across the northeast still do not have power. and that comes as temperatures continue to fall. but in the midst of the snowstorm, a show of boston strong. this picture has now surfaced of someone shoveling the finish line of the boston marathon. the hash tag, who shovelled the finish line trended in hopes of discovering the person's identity and that mystery has been solved it. was a local restaurant bar tender. chris pallone joins me with a
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new record. what is the old record and what is the new record. >> reporter: the old record was 33 inches and they smashed it 34.5 inches the largest snow on record here in the second largest city. things are not normal here today. take a look behind mef. you see that dunkin' donuts right there -- it is closed. you never see a closed dunkin donuts in massachusetts. that is representative of what is going on here in worcester. and people have been out today trying to get the city back open for business. school is closed today but some governmental offices did reopen today and businesses here along pleasant and main street some are open and some are closed. the ones that people had to get in and they had to shovel the sidewalks and others that
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couldn't get people in decided to take another day off and let the crews do their jobs off. worcester has five miles of roads and 16 miles of sidewalks so it is some time before it is entirely back to normal and the question is what do you do with the snowfall. the first pass of the plow comes by and then they pile it where ever they can. so this is what you see all over town, these huge piles of snow 10 12 14-feet high. as the days and weeks go along coming up, they'll start to remove these put the snow in a dump truck and take it off site and put is where it is not bothering anyone. but right now it is a tough slog. the roads are improving here as the sunshine comes down on them. but for people walking around worcester right now, it is a mess. i wouldn't have to walk anywhere significant today. >> chris pallone in worcester, massachusetts, things getting back to normal.
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another sign things are getting back to normal. air travel coming back to life. resuming operations. with folks hoping to get home could still have cancellations to deal with. according to flight aware.com, more than 600 flights have been canceled today and more than 700 have been delayed. the airports hardest hit are boston logon, jfk and newark. we are live at la guardia, how are things going right now, sir? >> reporter: craig, good afternoon. we are 70% capacity here. it will take time as they bring more equipment in. it will take a day or two to be up to 100%. chicago, dallas and atlanta gently running on time but it is the flights with the smaller market that are delays or canceled. flights from boston are canceled
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as they dig out. joining me now the leo family from rio de janeiro, they want to get home. what is next? >> we are going to fly to miami. this was supposed to be in rio yesterday. we are going to pray to be in rio. we're going to take off in about 3.5 hours from now and sleep at the international airport at miami and fly back. >> big difference in temperature. so the best advice from the airlines is call your airline from home. don't come here until you have confirmed your flight will be on time. craig. >> good luck getting back to brazil folks. adam reiss is in la guardia. all of that snow has led to coastal flooding. massachusetts governor charlie baker visiting towns along the south shore where the storm surge breached the sea walls.
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let's get to dominica davis. how bad was the flooding. >> it was very bad. we saw that in the south shore and cape cod and in the north shore, winthrop had some problems with the water. with the cold temperatures the water into the homes has frozen over so you have ice forming over. a big problem for them it. will take time for anything to melt because of the cold temperatures. i want to start with the windchills to show you what it feels like in the new england area. not as bad as you did yesterday, but cold. 8 the feel like in the harbor. 9 in boston. providence coming in for 12 degrees for the feel-like temperature. 9 in icanon. and ice is out there on the roadways. here is a look at the radar. we still have residual snow through the northeastern part of
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maine. that will continue for the next couple of hours before that moves out, but yeah as you mentioned, we have two systems that we are watching that will come down the pike and add insult to injury for the new england area. here is the first, a slipper system spreading a swath tomorrow through the great lakes region and then into new england by thursday. so thursday evening into friday they could be looking at an additional 2 inches of snow through parts of eastern massachusetts. not a big deal in snowfall but special that just causes more problems. and then the next one that we are watching could be a real super bowl party pooper because this is going to come in sunday night into monday. that is questionable whether it will be snow or more of a freezing rain event. so we'll have to stand by for that one. >> dominica davis keeping an eye on it for us. thank you. meanwhile in washington the woman looking to replace
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attorney general holder taking on questions on capitol hill. they have questioned her on budget priorities and a lot more. but the first questions from chuck grassley were about president obama's executive action on immigration and whether it would constrain prosecutors around the country. >> as a prosecutor, i always want the ability to still take some sort of action against those who may not be in my initial category as the most serious threat. and i didn't see anything in the opinion that prevented action being taken from individuals who might otherwise qualify for the deferal. >> and there was this exchange a few moments ago with texas senator ted cruz. >> and i believer the department of justice has behaved more like a partisan operation for the president than an impartial law enforcement agency. and so i want to ask you at the
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outset the simple question of, if confirmed, how would your tenure of an attorney general differ from eric holder. >> you ask how different i am from eric hoerld. i am loretta lynch. i have folked on the people in my district and as u.s. attorney general on the protection of all of the american people. >> kelly o'donnell is in washington and following the hearing closely. kelly, how much about the hearing is about loretta lynch and how much is about eric holder? >> reporter: almost equal parts because do want to get to know loretta lynch and teasing out her life answers through her answers an that is important to get to know who she is through her answers and getting to know who she is on a public stage but eric holder is a prime target
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for republicans who, over several years who has been more supportive of president than holding an apolitical position. so to get to loretta lynch to refer to eric holder in any answers is an acknowledgment to see, to see her distance herself not on big substantive ways but trying to make clear she understands there has been concerns and she will respond using her own analysis and experience and judgment. and for republicans that is something they wanted to see. now one of the arts and gifts that she brings in her lawyering skills and her poise is she's responding to some of the more contentious questions with answers that include, needing to know the specifics and the given time. that is what great witnesses do. they oversell or overcommit to specific ideas when in that hot seat and she's done a good job of that. she appears very poise and candid and at the same time is
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being careful to not give ammunition if you will to conservatives who are looking at her answers carefully. >> kelly o'donnell following the hearing closely for us on capitol hill. kelly, thanks as always. and now to jordan where the government is willing to trade a female prisoner to the terrorist group isis in exchange for jordan pilot slated for execution today. no word on the status for the pilot or the japanese freelance journalist being held there. on tuesday the isis released audio of the journalist reading a scripted message saying his life would be spared in exchange for the female prisoner held in jordan since the 2005 bombings of hotels in amman. from sabre -- asia america, and first of all how did these talks about the exchange come back? >> we've known for a while that
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the japanese government has been in touch trying to negotiate for the release of kenji goto and another japanese hostage that isis is holding, yukawa. and isis already executed yukawa so only goto remains. and the release of al rishawi, she was an unsuccessful suicide attacker and her vest did not go off and she's been captured and they call her their imprisoned sister so this is a new request. the last question for the two japanese hostages was for 200$200 million went away. they never said they would not do a ransom or an exchange. but jordan said they are fully
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ready to cooperate with the exchange and the japan prime minister said they are doing everything they can to get the safe release of the hostage. and in the last few hours, we are near to or if not at the 24 hour deadline already, we still don't know the fate of kenji goto or the jordanian hostage. >> and precedent, what if this does happen in the future. >> this is the point at which national security folks do not want to be which is they have already lost one citizen and in this case a japanese citizen. you don't want to negotiate people for the individual lives and set a precedent this could happen again. and we know that isis has other hostages so this could set a worrying precedent to say the least. >> thank you very much. and an update on the hotel in libya that left four people
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dead, including five foreigners. the ceo of a european basis security company has identified the american, david berry, a contractor from skrusibbel llc and they will not give any other information citing security concerns and isis in libya has claimed responsibility for that. and super bowl sunday as the teams get ready to take the field on sunday. and the patriots still letting the air out of deflate-gate. and check this out. it is incredible video of what it looked like just at a day at the beach in south portland maine. live a report just ahead. they're coming. what do i do? you need to catch the 4:10 huh? the equipment tracking system will get you to the loading dock.
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now to the latest on the nfl controversy that is known as deflate-gate. the latest allegations of the cheating by the patriots center on the action of a locker room attendant at the pats game. the nfl maintains that game balls were under inflated during the first half possibly making it easier to throw and catch during the windy, rain-soaked championship. bill belichick and tom brady insist they do not have any knowledge of how it happened. peter alexander is in glendale phoenix, the site of where super bowl is going on. >> reporter: this story gets more business air. the debate over deflate-gate may be whether you believe that a
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patriots locker room attendant could have deflated 12 footballs in 90 seconds. it comes down to a bathroom break. the nfl interviewed a locker room attendant by deflate-gate. security sources showed him taking the football into a bathroom for 90 seconds before bringing them on to the field shortly before the game. >> 90 seconds is more than enough time if you zip it open and if you have a needle it doesn't take much time to make a significant reduction in the air in the football. >> robert kraft who came out in strong defense of his team on monday. >> we expect hard facts as opposed to circumstantial leaked evidence. >> reporter: he responded to tuesday to richard sherman who called kraft's friendship with nfl commissioner roger goodell a conflict of interest. >> richard sherman called you out with your relationship with
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roger goodell, what do you think about that? >> i think he is a smart, marketing whiz. >> they both answered hours of questions during the media day. although some were more excited about it than others. marshawn lynch fined by the nfl in the past for not talking to the media, showed up for one reason only. >> i'm just here so i won't get fine fined. i'm just here so i won't get fined. i'm just here so i won't get fined. >> and so plans for the post-game celebrations. including vince wilfork who got cornered by an opposition players' daughter. >> will you take me to disney if you win. >> yes, for you, i will. >> sometimes you need a child to answer questions. that was shia.
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she is a cutie. and this afternoon the focus is on security. the department of homeland security jeh johnson is touring this venue and the security officers are seeing what precautions are being put in place and if they are sufficient ahead of the biggest show in american sports. latest from here. back to you. >> peter alexander back in phoenix. and here is what you need to know in phoenix, professional golfer robert allenby stood by his story he doesn't know what happened after he went missed in a tournament. he doesn't know what happened during a critical 2 1/2 hour window and tiger woods talked about losing his tooth after a cameraman bumped into him in a skiing event in italy.
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time now for we the tweeple. and today feeks are asking who are you going to call? ghostbusters. tweeting after this tweet from paul feeg announcing that the full cast is out and here it is folks can't stop busting about it. snl cast members, kate mckinnon and leslie jones all got the call. and you are tweeting about the dram atic impact of the blizzard 2015. mayor bill de blasio was tweeting for bringing his own drama. listen to his reading of the onion article, lampooning his storm preparations. >> the furious hoar frost
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bearing upon us neither mercy nor reason and all within the five boroughs will perish cowering their brittle dwells -- >> mayor reading that all in good fun. and this went from good clean fun to a war of words between the democrats and republican national committee, ruining a wedding in 140,000 tweets. the rnc jumps on the band wagon and tweet i'm so ready for hillary. and the phrase that could ruin a wedding. and they cls included this picture of a bride breaking down in tears. so the dnc has this clever comeback. gop, you ruin a wedding in five words when you tell lbgt members your wedding is not legal and that spawned the massive twitter
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debate but you agreed this is the best tweet i've ever read. this commercial from go daddy trending and you are calling it one of the worst. the company is famous for shocking commercials, but got into some massive twitter trouble for this. it shows a woman using go daddy to engage in inhuman puppy breeding. it was meant to spoof another popular ad but one tweeter said i usually enjoy go daddy ads but this one clearly went to far. i'm embarrassed to be a current customer. and jay cole is a rapper. new album. he's trending for his plan to turn his childhood home into rent-free living for single mothers. you are praising the star on
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social media for his generosity sending tweets like this celebrating j. cole birthday. and you can share with us on msnbc.com. and a small drone from the white house and the man who flew the unmanned aircraft now tells authorities he had been drinking before the failed flight. but the story does not end there. ♪ nice! gr-reat!
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in hard-hit maine, wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour brought the windchill down to below zero today and today power is slowly being restored to those who suffered outages. john yang is standing post in portland maine. what is the situation like there, john? >> reporter: it is quite different than just 24 hours ago. yesterday he couldn't see half a block down that street. the snow was coming down at a rate of 2-4 inches an hour a total of 27 inches has fallen here in areas of portland. but it is a relatively quick dig nifout dig-out here in maine, these folks are used to this sort of stuff. it is business as usual here in downtown portland. the one thing is the crews stayed ahead of the snow as it fell yesterday. they were plowing as the snow was falling.
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they were helped by the fact that a lot of drivers -- maine drivers stayed off the roads voluntarily. this is the one state in this region that did not have a mandatory driving ban. and when the public safety office spokesperson was asked why that was, he simply said "we're maine. we know to stay off the roads in a snowstorm." ands can see things are back to normal. >> i've been to portland. great restaurants and great breweries in portland as well. what are they saying in terms of some possible long-term effect on the lobster industry there. i know it is an odd question perhaps, but we know that is a huge industry there in portland maine. are they concerned at all that this last of cold will have residual effect on the most popular staple export? >> reporter: that is one
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question we haven't explored. but are you talking about the restaurants and the bars and the eateries in the area there were a couple of places that stayed open during the storm yesterday and as you might imagine, they did great business. >> i'm sure. >> reporter: it is one of the stories that our nbc affiliate is working on. the great business and the amount of money that a couple of bars that stayed open down here made last night. >> john yang in portland, maine. thank you for indulging me sir. i appreciate it. and now to florida where marissa alexander is spending her first full day under house arrest. the mother of three faced up to 60 years in prison for firing a warning shot. she claimed her estranged husband was abusive and fired that shot to fight off an attack. she left jail on tuesday.
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>> the journey was long i could not have arrived here today without the many thoughts and prayers of so many people who have voiced their support and encouragement. >> msnbc erin carmona has been following this story. how long will she be under house arrest? >> two years she'll have to wear an ankle monitor. she can go to work and church and appointments that have to do with the care of her child. but she is now home with the child but her movements are restricted and a felon in a state that disenfranchises them. how did this bring attention to florida stand your point. >> well she was ensnared by a tract of intersecting laws. there was the 10-20 life mandatory gun crime sentencing
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law that tied the hands of the judge in the first case where she was sentenced to 20 years. subsequently the prosecutor angela cory decided to levy 60 years against her. an the fact that the state saw her not as a victim of domestic violence but as an aggressive and chose to prosecute her as such and that women of color, typically black went are criminalized unproportionately like this and so people saw this as unjustice particularly for a women of color? >> do we know what is next for her? what will she do next? >> she said in court she's focusing on being a mother to her daughter who was accept -- who she was separated from who was nine days old when she was arrested and she wants to be a paralegal and there is a prosecutor willing to help her
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any anti-discrimination laws also protect those who say their religious beliefs compel them to reserve service to homosexuals. >> we must find ways to respect others whose beliefs, values and behaviors differ from our own while never being denied or forces to abandon our own beliefs, values and behaviors in the process. >> the director from the human rights todd richardson from affirmation, a group that works with lbgt more mons. what was behind that yesterday. what led church leaders to come out in a bold and public way to say something like this? >> well it is a toeb change so it is exciting for us. it is encouraging, as members of
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affirmation we are excited that there is a very public statement made. it was surrounding religious freedom and it is a small step but it is a step in letting everyone know that hatred doesn't represent itself in a church that believes in jesus christ. >> where did this come out of the blue yesterday? >> the church members said it has to do with congress starting up again -- i can't speak for church leaders, but certainly we were encouraged by them. >> jason, this is how the associated press described what we don't know about the campaign. more mon leaders did not explain just how it would draw lines between gay rights and religious freedoms and it is unclear how much common ground the church will gain with this campaign. how big of an announcement is this in your mind or is it
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window dressing? >> to be perfectly dressing with you, in the announcement there wasn't a lot there. there was more in the way of symbolish announcement than symbolic pronouncement. it is good they are talking about lbgt community, but the challenges, they are couching their support based on broad exemptions under the guise of religious liberty. and that counters any neutral support for lbgt people. >> what do you say, todd to those officials who said on tuesday in regard to this issue they can never change church drokt rin?-- doctrine. >> who i would say is when it comes to tone change far too many lbgt people have been ostracized from their families and the fact that mormon church
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is coming out that discrimination is here and real and has no place in our church and we are hoping that gains traction with families so hopefully there will be a change and that won't happen like it has been too often. >> let me read you a comment from a democratic state senator from utah who is gay and more mon. his name is jim debalk us and he said when you find that kind of good will like the church has, it is a golden moment and that is where we need to be going in america. is there any religious rights to be had ben lbgt and more mon church religious beliefs. >> well we'll see what the morons could and couldn't support. our concern is the religious
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exemptions they are requesting to receive their supporter a mile wide. under what they could support, doctors, pharmacists and landlords and others could continue to discriminate against lbgt people and to us that is fundamentally unacceptable. >> and we got this from the southern baptist convention and russell more said i think the latter day saints are well-intentioned but naive on where the reality stands today. could it still put pressure on other conservative religious groups jason? >> i think so. i think taking an open mind or at least speaking with a certain degree of acceptance and openness about lbgt people and the importance of needed protections, explicit protections in housing and other accommodations is something other christian denominations
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should look at and liberia from. >> and todd, when you look at the polling, they are more open to lbgt rights is that the case with the latter day saints as well? >> i think it is. i think we're a bit more conservative than the entire population, but however there has been a change. we hear stories more and more often of very accepting cong relations, something you wouldn't assume would be the case but we are hoping it continues to trend in that direction. >> jason arhlan and todd richardson. thank you. and finally, justice arrives for fine people who took a seat for civil rights in south carolina and all over the country. that is next. panies are investing over $98 million dollars and creating over 2100 jobs. from long island to all across upstate new york,
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breaking news. the united states supreme court has granted a stay of execution for three oklahoma death row inmates. the high court has barred that state from carrying out any more executions until the drug madasalym, it is in their drug cocktail they use in oklahoma. the court is considering a case challenging oklahoma's system as well. again, at this point, we can tell you, not a great deal of information but the supreme court has granted a stay of execution for three oklahoma death row inmates. we'll continue to follow that story. the charge is based on the arrest of the defendants at the 5 cent store for trespassing are vacated and dismissed with prejudice. >> this morning it was a day some 50 years in making. the convictions of nine south carolina black men known the
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friendship nine tossed out. judge john c. hayes iii made the ruling in a pocked south carolina courtroom and the men were arrested and sentenced to hard labor in 1961 for sitting at a white's only lunch counter and that breathed much-needed new life into the civil rights movement. >> it wasn't there for glory. we were not looking for any hero worship. we were students tired of the status quo and tired of being treated like second class citizens and sat on kicked drinking out of colored water fountain fountains. we were tired of that. and we have the latest here from rock hill, south carolina. >> reporter: this was an emotional day at the courthouse
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here in south carolina as the friendship nine civil rights groups came here with several others to have their convictions from 54 years ago overturned. it is an attempt to correct an injustice from the american civil rights irae -- era. this began in 1971 when nine students and a civil rights organizer came together to hold a sit-down lunch protest in rock hill protesting segregation. when they came to the lunch counter they had to pass through an angry crowd and policemen and barely had a chance to sit bound before they were grabbed by police and out the back of the store through the alley to the jail where they were thrown in the same cell. and there they made a decision nine of them decided they would not pay the bail or the fine to get out and they would do the
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jail time and they did 30 days and not pay the fine and that electrified the civil rights movement. so these men are not only seen as civil rights heros but pioneers and they are here today. the civil rights leader turned to them and apologized to them on the behalf of state of south carolina for the way they were treated an the judge went on to overturn their convictions as another small piece of american civil rights freedom was rewritten here in south carolina. >> that judge, john c. hayes iii, the nephew of the original judge that sentenced the friendship nine. eight of the nine members still alive, they were all on hand today. that will wrap up things for "the reid report." i'm craig mal vin.
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me too. the brooklyn u.s. attorney seeking to become the nation's 83rd attorney general but republicans want confirmation she won't follow in eric holder's footsteps. if confirmed as an attorney general, the constitution the bedrock of our system of justice, will be my load star. my highest priorities is the safety of all of our citizens, to protect the most vulnerable among us of our constitutions and to protect the courageous law enforcement personnel and all of the communities we serve
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to use every available tool to continue to disrupting the catastrophic attacks planned against our homeland and to bring terrorists to justice. to expand and enhance our capabilities in order to effectively prevent ever evolving attacks in cyber space, to expose the wrong doers and bring them to justice and i believe in the promise of america because i have lived the promise of america. >> good day to you, i'm ari mel bur. and if confirmed, loretta lynch would be the first black woman to run attorney general. and the hearing was started off with a major sticking point for republicans, questioning the president's use of executive power on immigration.
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>> so for my first question with that in mind do you believe the president has the ability to afford deportation for immigrants illegally in the country. >> it seems to be a reasonable discussion of legal precedent, the relevant stat theute congressional actions along with the enforcement discretion of the agency. i do think, however, that the ultimate responsibility of the department of justice is to always, when presented with issues by the white house or any agency to review the issues carefully, to apply the relevant law and make a determination as to whether or not there is a legal framework t