but we would still like to hear your answers to our questions about that trip you took with the republican party. so please check your inbox. thank you. thank you. "first look" is up next. good friday morning. right now on "first look" breaking news as isis fighters launch a major offensive near military advisors. dangerous windchills a major blizzard and new arctic blasts on the way this weekend. a massive outpouring for the three slain students. plus president obama acting like the rest of us. really? and "saturday night live" massive star-studded 40th anniversary show just got super sized. thanks for joining us on this friday the 13th. i'm betty nguyen. breaking news out of iraq to tell you about. we are hearing hours ago isis fighters launched a major offensive on the town of al baghdadi about eight miles from

an air base. militants have taken over al baghdadedy's police station and other government buildings there. . the u.s. coalition has launched an air strike in response to this. there is no word on any cash actualities. a pentagon spokeswoman says there's been no direct attack on that nearby air base. back at home parts of the country preparing for some of the coldest weather they have seen in decades. 35 million people in 17 states are under some form of windchill advisory from the upper midwest to the deep south. it is zero degrees in some places, and below zero in other with a bitter weekend ahead. by monday, parts of new england could be at 10 to 20 below with windchills as low as minus 35p. but that is not all. blizzard watches are in effect saturday night through sunday for the entire new england coast and yes, that includes boston where crews have worked nonstop for three weeks now to move six feet of snow. meteorologist bill karins joins us a little later with your

valentine's day forecast. convicted army soldier chelsea manning will begin her first step to becoming a woman. a historic ruling the u.s. military approved her for hormone therapy. private chelsea manning, formerly known as bradley manning, is serving a 35-year sentence for espionage. manning was found guilty of sending classified documents to the wikileaks website. after her august 2013 sentencing she made it clear she wanted to become a woman through gender reassignment. in september she sued the federal government for access to the hormone therapy. the lawsuit argued that private manning had been diagnosed with gender disfor ya the sense of being a woman in a man's body. and was at risk for self-castration and suicide if she didn't get more focused treatment. federal and many state and local prisons already administer hormone therapy to prisoners but manning is the first to request and now be granted the treatment.

it's unclear when the hormone therapy will begin. well in oregon an epic scandal is rocking the governor's office. lawmakers including his fellow democrats want john kitzhaber to quit but the four-time governor is refusing. he and his fiancee silvias hayes are under investigation like asking adviser to find hayes paid jobs. the problem, they were jobs with groups hoping to influence oregon's energy policy. hayes was working for kitzhaber as an energy adviser. hayes is accused of a bogus marriage that involved marrying a nigerian immigrant in 1996 for $5,000. kitzhaber is oregon's longest serving governor. you'll hear this today at courthouses across alabama. take a listen. [ applause ] same-sex couples lining up to get marriage licenses has been officially legal there

since monday but 11th hour pressure from alabama's chief justice had some places refusing to give them out all week long. after a hearing yesterday, a federal judge made it clear probate judges cannot refuse gay couples. alabama is the 37th state to allow same-sex marriage. also this morning, new help for america's war vets. a suicide prevention bill, president obama signed it yesterday. it supports programs that help returning war vets transition back into society. the bill was named after clay hunt. his parent were at the ceremony. clay was an iraq vet who ended his life in 2011 while struggling with ptsd. later today president obama will take on cyber security. signing an executive order encouraging companies to share cyber theft data. more on that later in the show. it looked like old faithful popped up in los angeles. looks at this. officials say a car hit a fire hydrant in the san fernando valley that sent a massive geyser of water shooting into the air.

fire trucks blocked the intersection as firefighters tried to stop the leak. that didn't stop one car from pulling a u-turn. look at this. turning around and driving right into the water for, of course, none other than a free car wash. that's one way to get it done. now to a rapid raid on a jewelry store. police in the uk released this new video. it started out with a smash. a stolen car rammed straight through a front window with masked men dressed in black not far behind. they slipped and slid their way straight to the goods where they used axes to hack into the display and back counters. that's when the security smoke went off. forcing them to flee as fast as they arrived. but, not before police say they made off with thousands of dollars worth of gold jewelry. speaking of some gold and money, let's get down to business with cnbc's landon. >> stocks will try to extend thursday's gains today. the markets rallied as investors cheered strong earnings from cisco and the cease-fire deal

between russia and ukraine. energy stocks had a boost from higher oil prices. crude near $52 a barrel today. americans will be spending on their sweethearts this valentine's day. retail spending is expected to hit nearly $19 billion. thanks to the improving economy. the average person will spend $142 with the most on their significant other. men will spend nearly twice as much as women. and if you're looking for a love with your latte head to starbucks today. the chain is teaming up with match.com for the world's largest date. from 2:00 p.m. to close meet up with your mate or prospective mate and enjoy romantic music, food and share snap shots from your #starbucksdate on social media. back to you. >> what's better than looking for love on friday the 13th right? thank you. here with your friday morning sports roundup is richard liu. good morning, richard. >> with all the coffee to keep you awake, right? >> that's true. >> good morning. tony dorsett battling a brain

disease. he and his wife discussings the impact of cte with lester holt in the first joint tv interview. take a listen. >> there's good days and there's bad days lester. i mean there's some days i can be going somewhere, a place i've been going to maybe over 20 years or, so and i forget how to get there. >> i know you don't want to be the poster image for cte, but to the extent that there's so much awareness now about head trauma about sports about taking care of our kids and young athletes to that extent what message do you want to send? >> i thought it would be something good for me to come out with this and let people understands the fact that it's there and it's real. >> strong man. no doubt. tony dorsett. cte causing memory loss and has been linked to repeated head trauma. the famous dallas cowboys player was diagnosed with signs of cte in 2013 and has a lot of folks in his corner. >> absolutely. >> ice hockey, candidate for goal of the year st. louis's tj

au she, passing between his legs. >> what a move. >> didn't look there, betty. >> that's when you know you're a pro. >> that's right. david backus fires it for the score. st. louis takes tam pa bay 6-3. the pga tour for the pebble beach pro am. bill murray having fun. his game well not so much fun. watch this one. or good that is. but he does nail the sammy sosa salute at the end. after playing 18 hole golfer mark hubbard proposed to long-time girlfriend on the 18th hole. she said -- >> yes! >> let's do this. the guy in the background clapping i think. >> is that what he's doing? he's not a creeper just lurking on. >> wondering what's going on here. washington quarterback robert griffin iii posted this touching photo he and his wife are expected. rg 4, right? talk about redos though copycatting here. justin timberlake posted the same photo with his wife jessica. after 23 years gatorade

releasing a remastered version of "be like mike" ad for michael jordan for the company's 50th anniversary. old-school mj's favorite flavor citrus cooler with a retro label back at the end of march in case you want the that. nba all-star weekend in new york city. players stopping by "the tonight show" to read superlatives. here's miami's chris bosh. >> last up host of "the tonight show" jimmy fallon. he was voted most likely to laugh during "fifty shades of grey" and get a [ bleep ] during "spongebob." >> chris bosh was getting back at fallon because he made fun of him not long ago. >> and you fill in the blank on the bleep. thank you. the passing of a journalist described as one of the most gifted writers to ever work for the "new york times." we'll tell you about that. plus one of the most entertaining courtroom scenes we have seen in a very long time. >> nothing to see here. another blizzard and the coldest

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. welcome back. ar tick blast has arrived. yesterday it was for our friends in chicago and detroit, not that it's better today. it has moved into the northeast and mid-atlantic and zero windchill in washington, d.c. all the way down to north florida the windchill below freezing. the really dangerous stuff is pretty much over upstate new york. negative 22 buffalo, burlington the big city in the lead at negative 23. even negative 9 now in philadelphia. that's even lower than new york. you get the picture for one of those morning if you have ski gear that's what you're wearing as you head out the door to school or work. we have our blizzard watch up for areas of maine through coastal areas of massachusetts. that's saturday night into sunday. but sunday especially in the morning and during the day that's when the winds could be 60 miles per hour. we think we could get up to another foot of snow in the boston area. maine is going to get nailed with another foot to foot and a

half and as we go through the weekend, betty, middle of the country, another arctic blast that will come into the northeast on sunday. yeah, it's -- i feel for the people in boston. the next 15 days they won't go above 30 days. >> they have had it the worst this year. >> historically like maybe the worst winter ever. >> thank you. >> another shocking death in the journalism world to tell you about. david carr has died. the cause is unclear but the times is reporting he collapsed in the newsroom last night. he was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. earlier in the evening carr had moderated a panel featuring former cia leaker edward snowden. carr was a cancer survivor and in 2008 wrote a memoir about his drug addiction. s the publisher of the "new york times" remembers carr as a unique human being, full of life funny, loyal and loveable. david carr was 58. late last night the fbi announced it was launching a preliminary inquiry into the shooting deaths of three muslim

students near the unc chapel hill campus. the fbi had previously said it hadn't seen signs of a hate crime despite claims from the families of the victims. more than 5,000 people attended a funeral yesterday for the husband his wife and sister. you have to check out this feisty exchange between an 80-year-old woman and a florida judge, and keep an eye on the inmates behind the sassy senior. >> i don't tip anybody. i make them banana bread and chocolate pudding pie. i make a mean chili. >> there you go ma'am. you brighten my day, ma'am. >> that's what the last guy said and then he sued me. >> finally after 80 years in the broward county courtroom of all places, this woman, delores, may have found her calling or just nabbed 15 minutes of fame. >> how have i done as a judge today so far, how am i doing? >> not bad but you could do better. >> okay. .

>> could we get a drum roll. >> the feisty 5'5" gray haired woman pleaded in protest and laughter in no way did she violate a protective order from her ex-husband of 30 something years. >> ma'am, just don't have anything to do with him, stay away from him. >> i swear to god and on a stack of bibles i will never go near him, talk to him, call him -- >> what was the first thing you were going to wear on besides the bible? >> what? >> i don't remember. >> oh, olitoli. i didn't recognize your twang. >> have you ever thought of doing a stand-up routine? >> i did, will you -- if you pay me good money sweetheart. i will be there. i'm short of funds. >> reporter: not short of laughs. her attorney couldn't help it and the inmates in the back couldn't get enough. the three-minute routine eventually came to an end with the judge and the defendant happily waving good buy to each other. >> you seem like you have a good wit about you.

>> i do sir. >> yes. >> i mean sweetheart, that's the only thing i have. >> i love how she calls him sweetheart. good luck getting a away with that. rand paul fights to double down fists were flying among lawmakers, and the obama video burning up the internet. scrambled politics is next.

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scrambled politics. fists were flying outside the ukrainian parliament on thursday. wow, look at that. two lawmakers got into a knockdown, drag out fight outside the chamber. the brawl left one of them with a bloody nose. they both have been suspended for just five days. back here at home a senate panel has voted to advance a republican bill that would bar most transfers of prisoners from guantanamo bay until president obama is out of office. the white house has promised to veto the measure. mean while senator rand paul is asking kentucky republicans to change the states for the presidential nominating process to a caucus trying to get around a state law that prevents candidates' names from appearing twice on the same ballot. he wants to run for president but if that doesn't work out he wants to run for state a at the same time. law makers in puerto rico are considering a measure that would punish the parents of obese kids with fines. the bill's sponsors says there needs to be consequence for the costly obesity epidemic.

tonight on "politics nation" the rev meets the rev -- reverend al sharpton face to face with keenan thompson the other rev, who does a hilarious impression of him. they will talk about "snl's" 40th anniversary special. a new video takes a funny look at president obama as he prepares for this week's buzzfeed interview. ♪ >> deadline for signing up for health insurance is february -- february 15th. thanks, obama. that's pretty good. >> mr. president president? >> can i live? >> so that's what happens when we're not around? the president wants to spread the word about sunday's health care deadline. the video has over 15 million

views. that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. it is friday the 13th and joined by kevin from the hill. good morning, kevin. >> happy friday the 13th betty. how are you? >> some people may say it's not happy. we'll see how the day plays out. at a summit today the president will sign an executive order for cyber security. how will that protect us? >> well this is part of the president's cyber security proposal that he unveiled during his state of the union address and what it would do is allow the federal government and businesses to share information technology. the argument being that if these businesses are being able to shares these threat information technologies, they will be able to better thwart offs the hackers and the recent hacking cases like we've seen at sony and all of these other major retail companies as well. but there is controversy about it. >> indeed. in fact, i understand the ceos from google ya and facebook all declined to attend the summit. what is that about? >> no-shows betty.

they are saying when you look at this type of cyber security package, and then you look at they have concerns if you look at some of the concerns we've seen with the nsa and the government collecting all of this data all of this information off of consumers, so they're kind of weary of this. a lot of the big companies not comings to this, you mentioned some of the tech companies, pushing for legislation in congress that would be data breach notification legislation, and that means if there was a hack at a major retailer there would be a uniformed law for a set period of time if you will for when folks would have to be notified of having their information taken from them. so a lot of politicking going on behind the scenes. this is a really new subject area for lawmakers and policymakers and i think the president really is -- this could be a huge part of his legacy because he's really the first president to kind of have to deal with these issues head on. >> quickly, but apple's ceo tim

cook will be there making his own announcement. >> you never know with apple but i think apple has been at the forefront of the cyber payment technology. they've debuted apple pay, being able to pay with their iphones. that's a lot of the business folks and credit card company folks i talk with that's the direction that the industry is heading in so a lot of policies that they're trying to figure out now as well. >> all right. kevin from the hill thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you betty. have a great weekend. >> you too. just ahead john beluschi eddie murray or tina fey which was ranked the best? we have them all. vo: because every moment matters, so does your network. verizon. this valentine's day get $100 off a swarovski crystal battery cover or the samsung gear s. perfect with a new samsung galaxy note 4 for $0 down with edge. plus, get a $100 bill credit for each smartphone you switch. get our best deals (dog barks)

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. 27 minutes past the hour. it is almost here. a "saturday night live" celebrating 40 years on television. a monster special airing on nbc this sunday. "rolling stone" ranks the top ten cast members. see if you thinks this is true. john beluschi at number one, eddie murphy tina fey -- >> i like tina fey. >> dan aykroyd, bill murray phil hartman, amy polar, gilda radner and chevy chase. >> chris farley dana carvey? >> the "today" show's matt lauer asked lorne michaels to reveal the secret to becoming a not ready for prime time player. >> the criteria i used when hiring people if it was 2:00 in the morning and walking down the hall and saw what i wanted to duck into another office. you have to have people you can drive cross country with people you find interesting and bright and look at things a different way than you do.

>> matt's full interview will air on "today." as part of "snl's" extravaganza nbc has released an app of 300 hours of clips from the show. be sure to download that. that special on sunday. "way too early" starts now. ♪ we're house broken.-- heart broken, sad, but honored by all fellow americans who are supporting us. our family friends, our children were adored and loved by everybody. >> #muslimlivesmatter thousands turning out to mourn three young victims shot to death in north carolina as the community demanding answers. was this a hate crime or argument gone wrong? will he stay or gone? new details on the saga of oregon's governor and his indecision about resigning from his office and then i sit down with hgtv for an inside look at

white house decor and you won't believe what they are already preparing for in february. this is "way too early." ♪ hey, everybody, welcome to our house. i'm thomas roberts, it is friday, february the 13th welcome to "way too early" where it is your lucky day. we will introduce you to beconce? you have not seen that? a blending of beck and beyonce. where we can only show it on friday the 13th because it is friday the 13th. let's get to it. the fbi investigating the shooting deaths of three muslim-americans in chapel hill north carolina. they're looking to determine whether any federal laws were broken. left unsaid is the alleged shooting by craig hicks and this being prosecuted as a hate crime, so far local enforcement is investigating the death as a