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it's high noon in the east. 9:00 a.m. out in the west. today in iraq a standoff in tikrit. for the moment, the iraqi army and militias are trading shots with isis in saddam hussein's hometown in erbil, iraq. what is the actual status of the offensive for the iraqis? >> reporter: yes good afternoon, alex. we heard a lot of those big claims. remember, the prime minister said a few days ago tikrit would fall in two days. it still hasn't fallen. then they said isis has lot tikrit. that is well and good. the problem is the iraqis haven't yet retaken it. so for the moment, the offensive has stalled. that is official. an iraqi defense source telling

nbc news because isis has planned hundreds of ieds and behind those are snipers that prepare to die if they do not surrender so they decided to stall the offensive. however, it is clear that isis is being squeezed not just in ta created tikrit but by the kurds on the front line and we saw the kurds are being helped by some american volunteers. take a look. iraq's militias are celebrating, they believe victory over isis in tikrit is close. they bombarded isis positions with rocket and artillery fire and surrounding the islams in the center. the ma liberias a iran-backed and they kiss the koran before battle but not advancing further until they get reinforcements. isis has boobytrapped buildings answers roads.

kurdy are the i on the ran. we saw isis flags flying over two villages the kurds are attacking. >> i just get a boom! i duck down. had glass go all over me. >> reporter: some americans have joined the fight against isis. mickey balborgia of colorado. >> i'm just here to get rid of isis to hit them where it hurts. >> reporter: jeremy woodard from mississippi is retired u.s. soldier. >> isis they are cancer to the world. if it doesn't stop here it's going to keep on spreading. >> reporter: other americans here who don't want to speak on american but they all say the same thing, that isis represents a clear and present danger to america that they want to fight right here. and isis is on the defensive. their defeat in tikrit is now looming. so, yes, tikrit's offensive has stalled for now. and really we don't know when

the reinforcements will arrive. it's ironic because there are 24,000 troops at least beseething tikrit. you wonder just how many more they actually need. alex? >> bill so these americans that you spoke with are they at all interacting with the shiite ma liberias a some because some of these guys were fighting the american troops just a few years ago. >> reporter: no, they are in a different sector but that is the terrible irony. , you know, in the in the ranks is people who killed many americans especially in iran and baghdad and contain the death squads that carried out frankly some of the worst massacres we have seen in iraq and that includes what isis has done. but, you know, some of the american soldiers now say, well, that's the common enemy that we now fight and forget about what happened before because as one of them told me he sees isis now as the biggest threat so

let the past be past in his words. alex? >> bill thank you so much. appreciate the live report. in the meantime, israeli voters head to the polls this week in national parliamently elections. the issue whether the party of prime minister benjamin netanyahu can get enough seats to remain the prime minister. his party may come in second in tuesday's election. let's bring in itn corent vincent. if the prime minister's party does not win a clear majority how likely is that netanyahu will gain support he needs to form another coalition government and remain the prime minister? >> reporter: well, i still think, 8:30 there is every chance that benjamin netanyahu will stay on as israeli's prime minister, as you say he is trailing in the polls. some have it as much as 1938 seats behind the zionist union

alliance the old labour party in effect. the same polls say wednesday after the election is done the 120 seats inside the knesset will be split between the parties of the left and the right. if that happens benefit benjamin netanyahu will find it easily to cobble together a coalition made of right wing parties than zionist union leader will be on the left. >> garrent, benjamin netanyahu's speech before the congress did that help or hurt him in israeli? >> reporter: well, i think it may have helped him bolster the image that netanyahu likes to project, that he is the protector of israeli. but i think a lot of israelis who heard that speech shrugged their soldiers. they have been hearing that same message from benjamin netanyahu more than 20 years and in that compare, security is not the issue. the issue and real visibility is

economic issues. the cost of living and astronomical price of food and rising risk in terms of housing process and benjamin netanyahu really hasn't had much to say on that issue and why he's behind in the numbers right now. >> thank you for joining us from tel aviv. ferguson missouri remains quiet right now. nbc sarah dollof joins us from st. louis. any sense that the police are getting any closer to capturing the shooter? >> reporter: good morning. this investigation is entering its fourth day and police are releasing no new information on top of the limited information they have already provided. they do say they have received dozens of leads. they feel pretty confident they know where the shots originated but as for the type of gun used and a motivate if the shooter may have been connected to protesters, alex police say, if police know excuse me they are

not saying right now. >> and, sarah, there was some talk this could be the work of more than one shooter. is that still possible scenario they are looking at? >> it appears right now that police are looking at any and all possibilities. they are playing their cards really close to the vest right now, releasing very limited information. they haven't held a press conference for about 24 hours. they say when they have an update and when they have something solid to release they will do so to the media. >> what about the burned out quiktrip qens store? that was a symbol of ferguson's troubles but i hear something new is planned for that site? >> it was very much a symbol and now a symbol of how ferguson is moving on. the site of the former quiktrip which was burned and looted a day after michael brown was shot will be the future home of save our sons program. st. louis businesses have donated more than a million

dollars toward this effort. save our sons takes underemployed young men and train them and matches them with local jobs. we are expecting to hear more on this, including when the program may be up or running in a press conference tomorrow afternoon. >> thank you, sarah, for joining us from ferguson. a warning for americans in saudi arabia today. the united states embassy is cancelling service for two days because of security concern. they had a threat by militants to capture western oil workers, including americans, from the oil fields there. saudi arabia is among coalition of countries helping the u.s. to fight isis. a new study suggests viewing e-cigarette ads could encourage the to smoke regular zetscigarettes. eight people are dead after

a category five cyclone ripped through a south pacific nation this weekend. cyclone pam tore up trees and homes in vanuatu. it had winds of more than 185 miles an hour. this winter's blizzards are having a drastic effect in several states as the weather warms up. ice jams like what you're seeing here in northern ohio and the melting ice are causing some major refers to rise several feet above flood stages in the eastern third of the country. kevin tibbles is joining us from cincinnati with more on this. that looks like some flooding behind you, kevin. what is going on there? >> reporter: well, alex i'm actually a little bit confused this morning or this afternoon because i'm standing by the coney island amusement park out of the cincinnati ohio but i'm down the street from california

ohio. none of the water is supposed to be here. the river did crest earlier this morning about six feet above flood stage and starting to go down. that is the good news. the real problem here is as everyone knows, we have quite a winter this year. alex, now that it is starting to get warm it's supposed to be about 65 degrees here today. all of the snow and ice has to go somewhere and it's melting and heading down the river. this seems to be the result. the real good news of this of course, is the fact that the river is crested and the homes that have water up to their back doors, those homes now seem to be out of the water so to speak when it comes to this inundation but we will be watching this as the river moves further and further south. obviously, communities further down south may have something to deal with. a hectic couple of days here. we had a lot of ice flows yesterday and those seem to have broken up but now just a lot of

water and it has to go somewhere. >> it absolutely does. when they get the heads-up and know what the western pattern is going to be, how effective can people being in preventing the water? how much will sandbagging help them out in that community? >> reporter: well, obviously you know, in this community they dodged a bullet and community centers over for evacuees. not a lot of sandbagging here but in the past as we have seen not only in the ohio valley but in the fargo, north dakota area and elsewhere, in parts of southern illinois and around st. louis, you see it happening almost every year. peoria for example, they have armies of sandbaggers coming out. we are hoping we are just hoping that this sort of stuff dissipates this year and we don't see a lot of that taking place. fortunately, i'm outside an amusement park that is not open today and let's just hope this water goes away and stays away from the populated areas.

>> absolutely. kevin tibbles, thank you so much for that report. there is wet weather expected in the pacific northwest and boston is closing in on a snow record. the weather channel maria larosa has more on the nation's forecast. >> good afternoon, alex. a lot going on in the corners of the country. right? you still have winter hanging on in the northeast where you still have snow from upstate new york interior maine looking at an additional half a foot to a foot of snow and boston closing in on their seasonal snowfall record shy of 2 inches and calling for an inch or so. today is that window of opportunity. it's going to be close. pacific northwest unsettled here and showers continuing. by tomorrow a couple of things changing. the heat in the southwest going to ease back a little bit. still warm in los angeles at 88 degrees. dallas into the 70s. beautiful across the southeast. look at atlanta. sunshine and 79. just about as perfect as you can get. not far off from that chicago sitting at 73 so the heat and through the northern plains and

the midwest still there. but look at this. the northern tier, that is a hint of what is to come 37. we will be tracking a cold front to bring everybody down and back to reality as we start off spring officially on friday. alex, back to you. >> can't wait for spring. thanks, maria larosa. gnaw report says 6.5 million in the united states are 112 years old. if you consider those social security numbers are still active. sound ridiculous? because it is but somebody may be collecting from those numbers. i'll ask a member of congress what is going on and how to stop the fraud next. th a firm handshake. firm, but not too firm. make eye contact...smile. ay,no! don't do that! try new head & shoulders instant relief. it has tea tree and peppermint that cools on contact. and also keeps you 100% flake free. i use it for cooling scalp relief in a snap. mi bebé ha crecido tanto. try new head & shoulders instant relief. for cooling relief in a snap.

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secretary of state were intent on driving a hard bargain, they would be able to point to this letter and say they are right as secretary kerry said on wednesday in a senate testimony, any lasting deal need to be approved by congress. the fact that president obama doesn't see this letter as a way to get more leverage in the negotiating table, just underscores that he is not negotiating for the hardest deal possible. >> senator cotton's comments come less than 24 hours after the white house issued this letter letter. join me is senator robert casey, a democrat from pennsylvania. glad to have you on the broadcast, sir. my first question to you shouldn't congress have a check on the executive branch or some approval or do you see any agreement white house makes with iran? >> alex i think we should know something by the end of the month month, even as soon as march

24th or thereafter whether or not there is, in fact, a deal. some people i should say in washington are assuming that there is going to be a deal and then they begin to outline what is in the deal which they of course don't know. so we have to wait to see what trirs transpires. at some point, if there is an agreement, we don't know if there will be but if there is an agreement congress will weigh in in some fashion. one much things i've been working on for years now and i'm working on it right now with a group of democrats or republicans is to reimpose sanctions if there is no deal and if we have to apply that pressure again. so in one way or another i hope we do this instead of some other aim. >> secretary kerry is trying to make the deal you talked about by the 24th of this month. during his trip to egypt this

weekend he addressed the letter signed by the 47 senators. let's take a listen to what he said. >> a letter was, in fact incorrect in its statements about what power they do have. it was incorrect in its assessments of what type of agreement this is. and as far as we are concerned, the congress has no ability to change an executive agreement per se. >> senator casey, do you think this letter has damage to any possible negotiations or is that putting too much weight on that letter? >> well, we don't know for sure. but one thing i'm certain of is the letter was misguided and reckless, and i think if it were intended to be constructive, it would have been a different letter addressed to a different audience and it would have been bipartisan. it was none of those so any request that i think it was harmful. what i don't know yet and what

we may not know for days weeks or months whether or not it was harmful in the context of this negotiation. but it's never good when you have one party taking an action directed at a foreign government without either other folks from the other party, in this case the democratic party, and also not working together with this or any other administration. so i don't think there is any question it had an impact that is adverse but i don't know if it's harmful to this negotiation. >> i want to talk to you about a shocking report at least on the face of it that social security records including there are active social security numbers out there that could be floating around on this. are you alarmed and what is your

interpretation on this? >> this is something i identified back in the summer of 2012 called the death master file. all that is a major database that has information about those who have passed away. in 1980 an effort to use that in an appropriate way. banks and life insurance companies have to get it together. folks are buying identities off of that database over a number of years now. that information has allowed them to engage in identity theft. what we have to do is make sure and we got a budget provision about 15 months ago to do this we have to make sure that the commerce department implements that new provision to strike the balance to prevent fraud and to prevent people from getting access to fraudulent information on the one hand but also giving legitimate businesses and others access to information that they

need to in fact prevent fraud. that is the irony here. the access to it is supposed to prevent fraud, not to facilitate it. >> how much income loss do you think this presents for the u.s. government? it could be a very big number. i don't know for sure. but as you know alex i think most americans know identity theft is a problem that's been on the rise for a number of years. millions of case of identity theft each and every year. so we have to make sure we crack down on it. a key to that will be this new program that the department of commerce is implementing. here is what he said this morning. >> an reasonable alternative is for her to turnover that server to a neutral third party. who gets to decide what is personal and what is public?

if it's a mixed use e-mail and lots of the e-mails we get in life are personal and some work i just can't trust her lawyers to make the determination that the public is getting everything they are entitled to. >> do you think hillary clinton turning over her personal server is going to put this whole matter to rest? where do you see this ending? >> i doubt it because look how long it's taken with a lot of back and forth about benghazi for example, where republicans, for months were pursuing that issue in a way that i don't think was constructive. it's one thing to have an investigation and members of the foreign relations committee. i was on the committee at the time. we spent a lot of time reviewing what happened there reviewing the reports and trying to implement corrective action but others went in a much more

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welcome back. still no rest today in the search for the possible person responsible for shooting two ferguson police officers this week and that incident came after the police of chief resigned because after recent justice department report that found a pattern of racial bias among the police and some civil officials. in total, six ferguson officials have resigned or been fired since that report was issued. the shooting of those officers thursday has left many wondering if the issues raised by that doj report will be lost in the headlines of that moment. let's bring in ben gelus, the former president of naacp and now a partner at capture capital and msnbc political analyst and former rnc chairman michael steele. gentlemen, good to see you both. >> you too. >> michael, the justice department scathing report detailed the bias in many of ferguson's municipal institutions. yet what was reported on this one little notice finding of the justice department report. here it is. in ferguson, a city with the

population of 21,000 16,000 people have outstanding arrest warrants. if you do the math there it means 3 out of 4 people in that city are wanted by the police. how could this situation have been gordon forignored for so long? >> a lack of interest by the community are a lack of empowerment or how do we address this at the same time that community deals with the grips of that. when you're looking at those kinds of numbers, it tells you that the city officials, that some of whom resigned and others need to resign just turned blindly to the needs of the community as a whole, and in fact, use that community to fund their operations. you know, those fines and penalties on the mantle of the black citizens were there to budget the city. this was a horrific finding by

the justice department and i think more heads need to roll probably starting with the mayor who said i only make $350 on a part-time job, what do you expect me to do? i expect you to lead! i expect you to help this city heal and if you can't do it get out of way and let the leadership emerge that can move ferguson forward. this report is damming in that effect. >> it would certainly stand to reason that many of those arrest warranties out there are unjustice. ben, how many ferguson's do you think are out there in america? >> many. years ago i was a reporter in jackson, mississippi. i sat down with a guy who worked for the state cops you know? and oversaw the state. i said name all of the counties in the state and this guy was right at the top. could not name maybe more than a fifth of the counties in the state. and what that told us that you have all of these small departments spread across states

like mississippi like, you know, throughout the country. pick a state, that they are a law unto themselves. even those people who are, you know have power for the state or have power for the u.s. government, frankly, aren't watching them and that is what is so scary. can you have sheriffs and you can have chiefs who frankly can do whatever they want and that is why, frankly, this mayor has to go because we -- we as citizens of this country, we depend on that top mayor, on the head of the county to actually have oversight and to stand up for the right of all of us. and that clear has not happened here. >> yeah. michael, we ran a report yesterday which showed how white residents of ferguson are reacting to what is happening to their city and here is what longtime resident had to say.

listen to this. >> for a long time, i actually wasn't aware there was so much unhappiness. and i feel very bad about that. i think i should have been -- i thought i was involved and apparently i wasn't involved enough. >> how difficult do you think it is to get the white community to recognize we are not in a post-racial america? >> i think it is very difficult. i think as more and more studies are starting to show even with this millennial generation that people are assuming is a post-racial generation there is the hardened reality that race is still an issue. i think we sort of take a soft approach alex to this issue. we don't want to confront it head-on and we don't want to deal with the systemic justices that still exist and we don't want to deal with the economic as well as the educational components that derive from it especially as it relates to poverty so all of these aspects

to seem since we have done that 50-year march from selma and martin luther king speech on the mall we think we have progressed much further but in some cases we haven't. we have put things aside and not dealt with them as readily as we should. i think that comment by that woman is reflective of that in so many ways. >> i know a study came oum that showed both millennials and gen- gen-xors many reflect their parents philosophies in the previous generation. here is a quote. young whites have the same level of stereotypes as their parents. this appears to be a question we have asked for generations now, ben. how do we break this cycle? >> look. we have to decide as a country we will just break it. you know? what you see is that if you put out there the truth if you actually show the positive and we do this in my book "reach,"

that is just coming out, which is focused on 40 black men talking about their lives and it shows the positive. that folks change. we have to decide that we simply won't show -- we simply won't just show the bad things that black men do but we will show all of the things that black men do. you know? black men are the group that are most frequent to sign up for the army. black men tend to be the most given to charity, but we don't report on these things. you know? all we see are the few black men who shoot somebody or the few black men who do something really quite bad. so we have to decide as a country, that we are going to tell the truth about all people and that we won't just show the bad about folks who are black or

brown, and, unfortunately, whether it's news or it's games, what you see are those stereotypes repeated again and again. >> yeah. listen. duly noted in terms of the charitable donations and the fact you have many black men fighting in defense of our country. you both make very good points. thank you so much. >> thank you. 800-pound giant stingray discovered. its size and weight could set a world record. up next i'll talk to the man who made that catch and got quite a surprise when he took a closer look at it. talking to people who made the switch to ford. the brand more people buy. and buy again. all-wheel drive is amazing... i felt so secure. i really enjoy the pep in its step... that's the ecoboost... the new image of ford now looks really refined. i drove the fusion... and i never went back. escape was just right. just announced, make the switch to ford and get $750 competitive owner cash on top of other offers at your local ford dealer.

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potential lethal defense. only defense. not offense. it's the spine. it's got venom and it could be up to 15 inches long. you certainly don't want to get nailed by it. >> our friend jeff corewin is part of the team that caught that stingray and joins me from thailand. so good to see you, jeff! the pictures and the video incredible. have you ever seen anything like this? >> i have never, aebleg. this was the biggest fresh water fish i have ever come face to face with. it was a marvelous moment for discovery and for all of the team involved from dr. ning the scientist and the fishermen what brought this to board and our ability to connect with this. it was all about science and discovery and i will never forget it. >> how did you catch it and bring something like that aboard? >> well, it was incredible. we spent nearly three or four days trying to pull this off.

we had guys situated throughout this remote system river in thailand and they were you there. we took these big pop bottles and spray painted them orange and put bait at the bottom. lo and behold after three or four fish, all of us fishing, we pulled up this monster. >> it's incredible. neve, we have talked about the damage to the oceans because of pollution and waste. when you look at the conservation community and the stingray survival what does this mean? does it give you hope? >> i tell you what, it did give me hope. you're looking at a creature on our planet hundreds of millions of years and long before dinosaurs these animals have swung in the ocean. this normally lived in the ocean but somehow got isolated in this fresh water system. lo and behold here it is facing the 12th21st century of onslaught

and we rediscovery this animal ix years later and it is pregnant and thriving to be one of the allergic reaction ever captured. >> how old is this pregnant stingray? >> we have no idea. we know she was 14 feet in length. she was eight plus feet in width. but we took small little dna samples and from that we could learn her life history her chemical history. had she been absorbing pollutants. from that we can trace this size and growth from this capture to the doctor's previous capture and begin to create a model. alex what is so cool about this, this creature is ground zero when it comes to discovery. this animal presents itself regard to discoveries and delivering information in a way that has never been done with the species. hs the first time this species has ever been recaptured and when it has been it is

potentially a record. >> we were e-mailing back and forth about this when you made the discovery. i could see the excitement in your words. i could feel it. can you rank this in terms of your career where this ranks, this discovery? >> for me every day i'm getting a paycheck catching an animal in the woods and i feel that is a bucket list moment but certainly this was a highlight. what made this special is to be on the front lines of conservationists to be with one of the top scientist in this part lveed wos'of the world and how she is trying to save species and how that protects the entire environment around it is what is special and what makes this a bucket moment. >> that is why we are glad you, jeff corwin are telling that on our show. >> back to my sticky rice on the beach? >> go back. he's at a party right now.

bye, jeff. moving on. a city in florida may sound a lot like new orleans this weekend. miami gardens expects tens of thousands of people to attend its tenth annual jazz in the gardens festival. as julie bagd explains, it's a festival that saved the city. >> reporter: sultry tones soft enough to sweep you away in a day dream. >> we don't want you to expect to just have a little bit of fun. we want you to expect to come in and not want to go to work on monday. >> reporter: mayor oliver gilbert wants fans to see the real main act, the potential of his young working class town that has already defied the odds. >> what wows me is what you can do if you're just per sivertent. per sivertent. the original mayor looked out

over a parking lot and said we can build something big. >> they built the jazz in the gardens festival. that grew into something big. >> but ten years later, this thing that was 800 is 70,000 and that is amazing. >> they plan to host a two-day crowd nearly two-thirds of a size of its own population and has crescendoed with a city that is african-american majority. >> it's essentially become miami gardens saying welcome to our home and come to our party. >> reporter: the history of this town is not even harmonious not as recent as last month. the police chief steven johnson got busted for prostitution at a motel. >> the city manager fired him. some things won't be acceptable. >> reporter: corruption, crime and urban blight has plagued the city in its existence but as the

crime rate has grown, the city's crime rate now is at 5% down to 8% in 2004. >> so on which people focus on bad things. bad things happen everywhere but the good things that happen here and good people that live here far outweigh happens here. >> reporter: the mayor hopes the magic of the music festival rubs off and drawing visitors to the city the rest of the year. . local singer iglesias kicks it off this weekend and is a contestant on "the invoicesvoice." >> it's a big deal. it's a big deal to be one of the artists in this amazing festival festival. lots of republicans were there this weekend and hillary clinton has her eyes on it as well. the focus on new hampshire when we come back. rta mr. craig. we're both between 35 and 45 years

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sharp criticism from u.s. secretary of state john kerry today on that letter sent by gop senators to iranian leaders. kerry's meeting in switzerland today for a new round of talks with iran hoping to reach an interim agreement on that country's program. here is kerry just a short time ago. >> this letter was absolutely calculated directly to interfere with these negotiations. it specifically inserts itself directly to the leader of another country saying don't negotiate with these guys because we are going to change this. >> joining me now is ann gearan a diplomatic correspondent for "the washington post." ann, is there any way to truly assess the damages it might do with these negotiations with iran and is the administration overstating it perhaps? >> the administration is mad, very, very mad about this letter and they are clearly worried about it too. they have been talking about it for several days now.

and then yesterday denis mcdonagh sent a note to congress saying please stop meddling and this is the crunch time and only a couple of more weeks until the deadline for the framework agreement and we should only have the negotiators in the room negotiating and you all are not the negotiators and they are clearly worried about it. >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell had this to say about the letter and which he signed. >> i think it is outrage. all of this is a distractionion away from the point here. president said we are either going to reach a deal or not reach a deal with one of the worst regimens in the world. >> some of the gop have been hedging on that letter now. do you think there is a sense of some regret? >> well, you could hear a bit of regret between the lines in what john mccain said this week. he said i sign a lot of letters. he didn't quite say this was a

bad one to have signed but it sounded as if he wasn't giving it his full endorsement. they did get 47 signatures. that's a lot and interesting to see who they didn't get. a couple of senior republicans. but, you know, they got a long list of people to write an unprecedented and pretty extraordinary letter directly to the iranian leadership the white house was flabbergasted. >> who responded and said that he thinks it appears that washington is disarray which, of course, do well for our foreign relations standing in the world, let alone with iran. what are one of the main issues by the gop is nobody knows what is in this pending agreement with iran. do senators know and should they and obama wants an agreement at all costs? >> let's take those one by one. the senators do have a pretty rough idea of what is in the deal. some of it has become public. the administration has tried to keep the nitty-gritty of the

details secret but some of it has become public. senators, many of them have gotten separate briefings on some of it. they don't know every detail and the white house would argue that that is appropriate because they don't have the power to actually act, you know, as a veto on every detail. so from the white house's perspective, the negotiators should be able to get to the final deal without having to reveal absolutely every detail of it. and then, you know secondly is there a sense that the white house wants to have a deal at any cost? i mean that's clear -- that's what was behind the tom cotton letter and it is something you hear from republicans. i mean it's -- it clearly, at this point, is crunch time and the white house very badly wants a deal. but you heard john kerry say yesterday and to a degree another again they are not taking any deal that their goal is to get a deal that

accomplishes, you know, a freeze here to keep the iranian program in a box for a period of time during which it can expand and get from the u.s. perspective get worse. >> i want to shift gears here. you've been writing about the hillary clinton e-mail situation. where does that stand at this hour and what has been the fallout from her news conference the past couple of days? >> well, there hasn't been any real, you know, new detail or change in the last couple of days in the story itself. i don't, however think that the story is going to go away. the goal of her news conference three days ago, four days ago was to try to put a stop to it and say this is, you know i'm answering your questions, this is what everybody wanted me to do, now i'm doing it can we be done now? and she actually ended up raising a few new questions. i think that was probably inevitable and it will continue. she said -- she gave new details

here. she said there had been more than 30,000 e-mails that were never turned over to the state department and had been deleted by her or her staff at her direction because, in her view they were not part of her work product from the state department that immediately set off alarm bells for members of congress and it caused some alarm among good advocates and republicans as well because who is she to say and what is and what isn't work product? >> is this leave her the democratic front-runner? >> she is still very much the become ir democratic front-runner and not in the mind of most voters will this change anything. >> ann, good to see you. >> and you. a woman who accused a college football star of rape and speaks out for the first time in a documentary and you'll hear what she has to say when the reaction coming up. expert negotiator to get a fair deal.

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with a lot more on that. how is it looking right new? >> hey alex. >> reporter: now that everyone is celebrating the fact that spring is arriving early it has warmed up to 65 degrees here today. the problem, of course as you just mentioned, all of that snow and ice that we received over those brutally cold months is starting to melt and moving down the ohio valley and now many people are bracing for spring flooding. a wintry mix of rain and melting ice is causing lots of problems across the country. but in the ohio river valley it's a troubling scene. so much water and no place for it to go leaving neighbors desperately trying to protect their homes. >> i'm terrified. yeah. i am pretty scared. >> reporter: the swollen river has forced street closures in part of the great cincinnati and northern kentucky area. all along, major rivers from upstate new york to louisiana. there are flood alerts. the record breaking cold and

snowfall the country has experienced this winter is now leading to a potentially dangerous thaw. >> the last time we saw flooding anywhere close to this was back in 1997 18 years ago. >> warming temperatures have caused small icebergs to float down the river in ohio and creating ice jams for boaters. authorities are warning onlookers and those who are just plain curious to be careful along the water. >> looks like a lot of people are heading this way to check out the river and see how crazy it is right now. >> yes, it's great to look at but go find a bridge and watch it from the bridge or from the safety of an elevated area because if it does break, you might not have time to get yourself to safety. >> reporter: old man winter may be loosening his grip but now that is setting up a new set of problems for those along the rivers. of course, the good news here is that the river has crested at

some 57 feet which is six feet above flood stage, but now it's slowly starting to recede. authorities say here it's not going to recede very quickly. the high water could stick around to bother people another week or so. unfortunately, for those people living further downstream, that high water is now going to start heading in their direction. but the weather is warming up. the water does seem to be going away alex. so perhaps good news in this part of the country. >> have to take the bad news but good news as well. thank you, kevin tibbles, there in cincinnati. >> spring has sprung. >> it has. secretary of state john kerry is meeting in switzerland today for a new round of talks with iran hoping to reach an interim agreement on that country's nuclear program. meanwhile, the senator who orchestrated that controversial letter to iranian official and others who signed it say they have no regrets. >> the fact that president obama doesn't see this letter as a way to get more leverage at the negotiating table just underscores this he is not negotiating for the hardest bill possible. >> all of many is a distraction away from the point here.

the president has said we are going to either reach a deal or not reach a deal with one of the worst regimes in the world. >> i think these negotiations have gone in a dramatically bad direction. >> kristen welker at the white house for us. what can you tell us about the white house letter warning congress against any further interference on this iran deal? >> reporter: look. the obama administration is trying to regain control of the political debate over the negotiations regarding iran's nuclear program by basically warning senators against passing legislation that the white house argues would complicate the talks. in the letter sent out but chief of staff denis mcdonough overnight saying the president would veto any legislation. here is part of the letter. we believe the legislation would have a profoundly negative impact on the ongoing negotiations emboldening iran hardliner and differentiating the u.s. position from our

allies and negotiations and once again calling into question our ability to negotiate this deal. now the nuclear talks with iran as you say are set to resume today in switzerland. secretary kerry traveling there today. and this comes as the obama administration has been fuming about that letter that you mentioned that was written by more than 40 senate republicans to iranian official warning that any deal could be overturned by a future president. here is what kerry said today about that letter. take a listen. >> this letter was absolutely calculated directly to interfere with these negotiations. it specifically inserts itself directly to the leader of another country saying don't negotiate with these guys because we are going to change this. >> reporter: just to understand what this is about, republicans and some democrats, in fact insist that congress should be allowed to consider and vote on any agreement with iran, but the obama administration has asked congress to let the negotiations play out before tag any

legislative action. he doesn't know if the letter will reach a deal and signaled there won't be an extension of the talks about all sides can't reach a deal by the deadline which comes at the end of march. not a whole lot of time here. >> absolutely not. thanks so much kristen welker. let's go to iraq now where the issuing sis held city of tikrit is in the government's cross-hairs but today the feting is bogged down. the the city is a mine field. joining me from erbil is bill neily. can you describe the fighting out there on the front lines, bill? >> reporter: yeah, two pretty distinct battle fields. let's start with tikrit the siege of a major city and it really is intense. we were watching pictures of shiite militias there and

supplied by iran firing rockets artillery and mortars and lines of snipers firing into the isis fighters who are trapped in that city's center. that is or was a pretty intense feet. i say was, because iraq's defense ministry say they have stalled or stopped their advance. they are looking for reinforcements. they say because isis planted hundreds of ieds in tikrit and hundreds of snipers and that they are all ready to die. quite why you need reinforcements if you've got 24,000 men beseething the city is another question. for now that assault has stalled. the other battle front is here in erbil and kurdish area and that is peshmerga who are taking on isis in a rural setting taking villages and open ground. that is ongoing. >> bill do you get a sense of who is really in command there?

the army militias and iranian backers? >> reporter: a good question alex. i would say the iraqi army around tikrit is almost a fig leaf to preserve iraq's honor, because it's the iranian backed shea a ma liberias who are taking the lead and iran has his own men on the ground. the head of the revolution guards was there a few days ago and directing officers who are working with drones and artillery systems and looks like iran is very much on the ground. this is interesting because iran has been waiting almost for decades to dominate iraq part of its strategy for regional dominance and part of its great regional battle with the sunni kingdom of saudi arabia. so iran has got its claws deeply now into iraq.

>> bill, thank you very much for that update from erbil. this to report. robert durst has been arrested. he was taken into custody in new orleans last night on a homicide warrant issued by los angeles county. he is a subject of new hbo documentary detailing his life of wealth and privilege, as well as suspected links to the deaths of his wife in new york and girlfriend in los angeles. nbc stephanie gosk has more. >> reporter: a disappearance. young wife never found and two murders. the best friend shot in her l.a. home. and the texas neighbor killed dismembered and dumped in galveston bay. hbo documentary challenges to decide whether robert durst murder them all? absolutely not according to him whose lawyers he says visited

him not to talk. >> they said around a zillion times, you can't help yourself. right now, you're a freeman man 100%. you say something inadvertently and you'll find yourself charged in mork or charged in los angeles. >> reporter: in 2003 he went on trial for the murder of his name. some thought the evidence was overwhelming overwhelming. >> a lot of people are stunned by this verdict. >> we, the jury, find the defendant robert durst not guilty. >> reporter: lawyers arguedself defense and the jury acquitted. >> we have done our job. we presented what we could but, yes, we remain disappointed in the verdict. >> reporter: for the documentary director andrew da recchi questioned durks urst for 24 hours. >> i think what we get is he willing to talk about this context about things he has never spoken about before. >> reporter: the film uncovers

new evidence. a letter written to susan berman and handwriting and spelling written similar to the los angeles police a day before her body was discovered. sources familiar with the investigation say that renewed attention surrounding durst has reenergized what had been a cold case. >> that was nbc's stephanie gosk. durst will appear in a new orleans court tomorrow and it's related to the investigation he is currently held without bond and tonight on hbo, the finale of "the jinx." hillary clinton's e-mails is still being talked about on the talk shows. does it threaten her candidacy to president? please, please, please, please, please. [ male announcer ] the wish we wish above all...is health. so we quit selling cigarettes in our cvs pharmacies. expanded minuteclinic for walk-in medical care. and created programs that encourage people to take their medications regularly.

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today's "meet the press" republican congressman trey gowdy chair of the house select committee on benghazi spoke about his inquire into hillary clinton's personal e-mail account. >> do you think she is lying and not turned over certain documents? >> no, sir, i would never accuse anyone lying unless i had overwhelming proof to that effect. we don't get to grade our own papers in life and she had a very unique arrangement with herself as it relates to personal records. >> good to see you both. i want to reach out to you first, jonathan. that is an interesting argument there. in more republicans follow congressman gowdy sort of measured style and say you know what? she is not a liar and not quite being fair is that how this story gets legs without looking like a witch hunt? >> trey gowdy has a very good reputation in south carolina in both parties as a straight

shooting former prosecutor. and i wouldn't underestimate him. he's not going to turn this into the kind of, you know, silly witch hunt that we saw, you know, congressman darrell issa in the last congress. at the same time he is known for a long time about these private e-mails because they got all of those earlier records and it was clear when they obtained them that many of them came from a private e-mail account. he also didn't think it was a really big deal then and not clear he can make that big of a deal out of it now and i'm not sure what the ground are for him to go back and try to subpoena records long since been subpoenaed. >> yeah. in terms of the big deal laura, congressman gowdy saying in that interview he has no intention of bringing this into 2016 and doesn't want any connection in

the election. >> as trey gowdy moves forward, as he seeks to subpoena more of these e-mails, i mean, it's impossible for the press to disconnect the two, right? i mean, republicans in congress are going to be making headlines as they move forward with this' certainly have an impact how she moves forward in 2016. >> i don't think so. i think this is going to pass quickly. might not even last the week. it will be a talking point for republicans moving forward as they go through their long bill of particulars about why they despise hillary clinton, they will mention benghazi and this and that. and the e-mails. it's not going to be at this full boil for very much longer because even though she waited too long to come out, she gave a unsatisfying press conference this story just doesn't have any

suggested illegality or anything about it i think can make it go on for months at a time. >> let's forget the e-mails, jonts. jonathan. do you think it's dangerous for the democratic party putting all of their hope on hillary clinton as their candidate? >> yes. i think it's important she get some spring training some batting practice, you know, before the general election and that is where i think it's very important for democrats and for hillary clinton's own interest that martin o'malley and bernie sanders and maybe one or two other democrats jump into this race so that they can have some debates, have some discussion and she doesn't go into a general election candidate looking like a figure from the past who is rusty. >> okay. speaking of martin o'malley. he spoke on "morning joe" on thursday. let's take a listen to him. >> most years, they are

front-runner and that is inevitable until he or she is no longer inevitable. i think you're going to see a robust conversation in the democratic party. >> what do you think his chances are? do you think he risks turning off democratic king makers with comments like that? >> martin o'malley has been careful not to criticize hillary clinton as he has moved forward and made it clear he is interested in running for president. he was in new hampshire and didn't attract much of a crowd this weekend but certainly he might be able to give hillary clinton some of that batting practice we were talking about earlier when she moves into the general election. i think he is going to go out and make a case for running this campaign. but certainly isn't going to be supercompetitive against hillary clinton if she continues to build this sort of infrastructure we have seen her developing the last few months. >> jonathan before we think of anything presidential the fact that brown lost the maryland governor race last year, was

seen as an indication he had lost a bit of his clout. do you buy that? >> i think he has. o'malley has taken some heat for a lot of tax increases when he was governor of maryland and he has a long way to go before he is actually a viable democratic nominee, but that's not what we are really talking about here. we are talking about a smart guy who has some interesting things to say about the issues who can help the democratic party prepare a compelling agenda for the future. >> look what is happening on new hampshire this week. bush and walker were there coincidentally since neither are running for president. >> my optimism if we can put the kind of leadership in place in this country that we have done in my state and many of my neighboring states and they stood up four years ago and said we are going to change things and make them better and lead in a way that is common sense and republican conservative

principles and make our states act better and we have. >> looking at his track record in wisconsin the image he puts out this weekend does that leadership have a shot in 19152016. it's important to remember outside of wisconsin a lot of people don't know who scott walker is at this point. he is still introducing himself to voters. and, you know, on a very fundamental level, he's using what he has done in wisconsin and informing people what he has done there to kind of prove why he has got leadership chops and why he should be in the white house. >> lauren fox and jonathan alter, good to see you both. thanks. >> thanks. a woman who accused a college football star of rape speaks out for the first time in a new documentary. you're going to hear what she has to say and the reaction coming up. it's a fact. kind of like mute buttons equal danger. ...that sound good? not being on this phone call sounds good. it's not muted. was that you jason? it was geoffrey! it was jason. it could've been brenda.

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campuses. the hunting ground tells the stories of young women and men assaulted by their classmates but then victimized again by school administrators and local authorities often more concerned with protecting the brand than the students. ♪ >> the first few weeks, he made some of my best friends. but two of us were sexual assaulted before classes even started. i went to the dean of students office and she said, i just want to make sure that you don't talk to anybody about this. >> they protect prepare traitors because they have a financial incentive to do so. ♪ >> joining me now is the producer of that film, amy zering. chilling what we are listening to there and ground swell of attention given to college saumt this past year. your film shows ingrained in the system. can you put in prospective how

bad it is? >> it is extremely bad and going on for daek aids and thanks to the student networks they have available to them and finally getting the issue open to the public. i as a parent investigating this film has shocked at what we found. it's widespread and epidemic. certain institutions like campuses that have perfect storm conditions for these assaults to be happening again and again at alarming rates and no good mechanisms in place to prosecute the people per at any ratepetrating them. >> let's take a listen to this. >> i know i was at fault. liked i guess -- reason i really wanted to do this interview was to maybe help someone else out. you know? maybe have them become aware of you know what they are doing

wrong. >> the really practice sex offenders groups of people who are more vulnerable. >> college is the place where lots of alcohol is consumed and the number of victims is endless. >> so that is chilling. how do you combat that and what are students doing when their university's fail them? >> i'm so glad you showed that clip because what it does is it changes the discussion from bad hookups, messy communication, you know, date rape to target rape. and what we found this is not a situation of a he said/she said. it's actually a highly calculate and premeditated crime and serial perpetrators know they can have safety on the campuses and no good measure to prosecute and why they can keep doing the rapes at these alarming rates and we see these epidemic numbers. >> you spoke to the woman accused heisman trophy winner jameis winston of rape. let's take a listen to part of that interview.

>> i wen to see my victim's advocate and in that meeting, we were just talking. she was, like, we just want to let you know like, there is another victim from him. i kind of just want to know like why me? >> so winston has not been charged. state attorney dropped the case. she has filed a federal lawsuit against the title ix against the school's trustees. has winston responded to this film? >> not that we know. >> do you know what the status of the lawsuit is? >> >> i don't know. >> how about any college administrators? did you speak to them at all and, if so what was their response? >> we reached out to numerous college administrators and college presidents throughout this film and vast majority

declined to speak to youus on film. >> they just said no we are not going to talk? >> for the most part, most colleges said no, they are not going to talk they prefer not to talk. they didn't see any upside in talking with us. as our film demonstrates they don't want this information getting out and that is scary to me and why the film is important for every parent and student to see. i didn't have this information. the public doesn't have this information. no incentive for institutions to present it and it's important information we all should have. >> this film follows the invisible war your oscar nominated documentary will sexual assault in the military. what have these stories shown you about powerful institutions and victimization? >> well, they have shown me that all too often powerful institutions side with themselves and not with the people within them. meaning that, you know, as a parent, again, my intuition was the school will have the student's best interests of the heart. what is shocking they don't. they have their brand and their

reputation at heart and anything that they can do to sort of cover up crimes happening on their campuses for the most part, we saw across the board, they will do either consciously or unconsciously because there is no good news with having bad news come out about them. >> amy zering, i applaud your efforts and good luck with the premiere this weekend. >> thank you. >> a vicious it's fight at mcdonald's and could whoever uploaded the video of the fight be facing charges? yoplait has the only yogurt brands endorsed by weight watchers and your taste buds have always endorsed us.

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associate professor of columbia university. first up to you putting aside all of the news we are going to get to regarding the d.o.j. report, this arrest how might that change things in ferguson missouri, if they have an arrest for the shooting of the two police officers? >> i think it might bring some peace back to ferguson because that single shooting disrupted the process of healing the city has been going through the last few months. this is hopefully quick justice in the sense this is the perpetrator and allow the community to continue to heal and prepare itself for a really dig election coming up next month. >> yeah. i'm told nbc sarah dolooff, what have you been hearing about the rest that has been made? >> reporter: the police department recently tweeted out that they have made an arrest in this shooting. they are holding a press conference in about an hour and they are going to reveal some more details about this. so far, police have been playing

their cards pretty close to the vest. while they did release that they had generated of a number of leads and thought they knew where the shots had come from they hadn't released much else meaning they didn't say what type of weapon was used or if they believe the shooter may have been tied to the protesters as well as a motive. just to recap what had happened we had two police officers shot on thursday both luckily are okay, they were treated at a local hospital and released and now the news that an arrest has been made. we will have more information for you in about an hour following a press conference. alex? >> sarah, thank you so much for staying on the ground and covering that us. let's get back to the doj report, doorian. they dug down deep into this report and here is what was found. in 2013 the municipal court in ferguson issued nearly 33,000 arrest warrants for these nonviolent offenses mostly driving violations.

that is more than one crime for every person in that town. why did it take the shooting of a young unarmed black man by a white police officer before the abuses in ferguson were noticed by the community at large? >> this is often what happens when it comes to race relations. also local justices and when residents speaks out no one believes them until the ferguson intervenes and the federal department of justice uncovered what the police targets minors for offenses and more crimes in that city than people who live there. and it's a money making racket. that is what we now know. it's quite stunning all of the facts and the data the department of justice uncovered in terms of how the police and the city municipality are essentially finding and taxing residents to get revenue for the city. and so we now know this. but the numbers and the evidence that keeps coming out, it is quite stunning the level of --

it's like gangster racket at the end of the day. >> you mentioned that the notice about an arrest. you hope it will have a positive outcome on the elections held next month. "the new york times" reports that for years local leaders in ferguson ran unopposed in the elections which drew about 12% of local residents. of the eight candidates four were african-american. if you put that into context, that's a pretty big change for ferguson. >> potentially a very big change. one of the complaints of residents is the lack of representation in the city government. this is now an opportunity to turn the page on the past of ferguson to elect hopefully progressive black candidates who are about reform and they have a tough task in front of them if they get elected of figuring out how to transform the city's policing practices and the city's revenue collection practices and a range of transportation and housing.

they have a tough task in front of them but the key question here is turnout. will folks that feel disenfranchised will they turn out to elect new leadership in that city? >> how much do you think african-american communities and other cities across country are watching to see how things play out in ferguson? >> i think everybody is watching. not just african-american communities. i think the country is watching ferguson because it is the exemplar. we are watching ferguson as a test case to see if we can push the needle forward when it comes to representation of african-americans and city government, when it comes to reforming police practices, when it comes to moving the needle on racial equity. even is watching everybody is watching this. >> like it's a rallying cry? >> it is the rallying cry and the example we will watch and hold up if we can see change in that city. >> okay. so what is your best hope coming from the announcement of these arrests? you hope that people will get

out there and vote. do you hope this will quell any potential violence that people are seeing and some sort of justice is being served? >> both of those things. on the one hand, peace for protests for months and months and months we don't cover. all we ever cover is when there is a violent incident. residents have been protesting peacefully every day for months and hope that can return and the community can still heal. in terms of voting turnout, i think this is a chance. it's not the magic bullet, let's be clear. if black residents are elected to the city council but it is a big step in trying to transform that city's history of racial discrimination and racial underrepresentation. >> doorian warren thank you for whig in on a timely way, considering the news we have just gotten. we at msnbc will be covering that news conference coming from ferguson about the arrest and it will happen at 2:30 eastern time or thereabout. >> the ripple effect after that

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45 past. breaking news our ferguson missouri. police will hold a news conference within the hour in reference to an arrest made in connection with the two shootings of ferguson police officers early thursday. we are going to bring you that news conference live. it is scheduled for 2:30 eastern time. in the meantime, police in new york are still looking for a sixth suspect seen in the disturbing video of a 15-year-old girl beaten by a group of other girls at mcdonald. a fifth suspect this 16-year-old girl turned herself in yesterday and charged as an adult. questions are mounting about the punishment she and the others will face if those customers who stood there videotaping the fight should also be held responsible. joining me is faith jenkins, an msnbc legal analyst and host of "judge faith." welcome to you. >> thank you. >> we were just saying, you know, the video is horrible the whole situation is and most of these girls including the

16-year-old ring leader in this attack are charged as adults. >> right. >> is this a standard charge for a crime of this type? >> when you have a crime with this level of violence in new york it is a standard charge especially for the 16-year-old and i understand a 14-year-old is charged at a judaism and the officer may take in the case. when you look at the 16-year-old who is the alleged ring leader and her history look at the number of arrests she has had in the past eight months. sixth arrest' three assaults and two against family members. one last month for stabbing her brother and another last november for assaulting her grandmother. . that kind of violence and that kind of history and with the level of brutality we are witnessing on this tape they are not putting her in the juvenile system. >> what concerns you most about those that are being charred here? especially this ring leader. is there a gang mentality as well? could do you worry they are affiliated with organized groups? >> any time you have the level of violence concerns me and the fact this they are all kids

right? and that you have kids committing this kind of violence and brutality. somewhere along the lines when i had these kids these teenagers committing violent crimes when i was a prosecutor here in manhattan, you know somewhere along the lines the adults in their lives failed them. how did they get to this point? what is their history? that is the question we have to ask. we don't want to keep imprisoning 16-year-olds. we want to find out what the problem is and try to interfere. then have you the other kids in the background which is equally disturbing to me. not a single person in that mcdonald's that witnessed this event called 911! >> the workers did! but no one witnessing the event. >> you know why? because they were doing this! >> right! >> we have incredible conversations with my teen this weekend and we have been talking about the emergence. you say families may be failing them. society may be failing them. the fact what is happening. kids think it's more important to record something like this and upload it and the fame! >> right. it's very disturbing. we don't have laws that say you have a duty to intervene.

no law says that but i think we need to have a discussion about the duty to report, the duty to call 911. at least do that at a minimum. if you can pick up your phone and record then you can call 911. as a society, we have more of an interest in protecting people from and preventing these violent crimes than the privacy and interest of a bystander there to stand there and record. >> is there any kind of good samaritan law? >> no. good samaritan law protect people who intervene if someone gets hurt. you can't be sued if you intervene and someone is hurt because you're trying to help. >> how about you've taken your cell phone and you've avoidvideoed and uploaded and watch something get beaten like this? are you cal publicly in any way? >> i are not. because of the number of videos that are being uploaded people stand and do nothing. they don't each call 911. i do think we will have

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the study that found ultrasound clears brain plaques in mice. joining me to talk about these is dr. natalie azar. both of these are hot topics let's start first with the memory study. what could this mean for alzheimer's patients? >> what's good about it. everyone's going to hear this and say this is a noninvasive intervention for people with alzheimer's. the most important thing i think to point out was the study done in mice. this was not done in humans. the investigators are hoping to take this further and eventually do studies in humans. but, as we know a little background on alzheimer's. we think one of the major reasons or the, you know, explanation why people have this disease is they have aggregates of protein. and they cause destruction in the brain. and basically, what the ultrasound machine does, it breaks up the protein. it stimulates these cells in the brain to engulf and absorb the plaques thereby removing them

and then, of course, theoretically, the disease is treated. >> that's good. i'm curious, how often do studies that show improvement in mice -- >> we always do start with rodent models of disease. we do this in cancer treatments. we always have to start sort of somewhere to understand if we do do if we do this intervention, what's the outcome? we start in animal studies all the time. but then of course the next phase of this is to do it in humans, otherwise, it's almost impossible to equate findings that are done in animal studies to what will happen in humans. but it's where we usually have to begin. >> okay. >> let's talk about the controversial of powdered alcohol. >> the makers of it are claiming that it's really more for convenience rather than anything else. so you're on a long trip you'd like to have a drink, it's not convenient to have liquid alcohol with you. you pour a powder in, mix it and there's your drink. they come in different flavors. my opinion, speaking for myself

i hear about this and i certainly worry about abuse. i certainly worry about -- >> oh sure. >> youth getting their hands on it. schools, that kind of thing. and accidental overdoses, certainly, one packet is equal to one shot. people don't know how much they're putting in. and i'd have to say that for the average person i think most people would prefer to have the real thing rather than the powdered. we'll see where this goes. i'm not exactly sure where this would find any potential utility. there was some discussion about maybe there could be some medical uses for it. that kind of thing down the road. >> yeah. >> i don't know. it seems certainly more recreational to me. and i would worry about inadvertent abuse. >> on a federal level, it has been approved by the fda. let's keep an eye on with that with your help. thank you. that's a wrap, everyone, of this edition of "weekends with alex witt." we will be carrying that news conference from ferguson this on the arrest in the shootings of two police officers. it is scheduled for about half an hour from now at 2:30 eastern

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