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world headquarters from new york. good evening. as the victims were laid to rest today, what happened in france has clearly become the terrorist attack that has reverberated around the world. new video just out today shows the suspects as they went about their awful task, including a shootout with police. and french authorities still say this group had help. and there are more people out there. it's where we begin tonight with richard engel in paris. >> reporter: from this angle, it's even more terrifying. new video showing the kouachi brothers just moments after the charlie massacre. we have avenged the prophet muhammad they shout, and calmly reload. police arrive. the brothers open fire. sending the squad car into reverse. the brothers drive at the police, and escape. three police officers were killed in last week's terror spree.

today they were given the country's highest honors. in pakistan today, very different prayers. at a symbolic funeral for the killers embraced here as heroes. blas femers are the enemy of all muslims said a local politician. but charlie hebdo is sticking to its freedom to defend. the new edition out tomorrow has a cartoon of the prophet muhammad the press run, and unprecedented 3 million copies. counterterrorism officials here warn they can't prevent every future attack without becoming a totalitarian society. but france is starting to reconsider some of its traditional freedoms. these attacks could change the way policing is done in france. there's already talk about introducing a french version of the patriot act and reforming the prison system in this country to prevent islamists to become further radicalized behind bars. the french parliament voted to

continue to bomb isis in iraq. then after a moment of silence, first one, then everyone sang the national anthem. france is especially tense ahead of the release of the new edition of charlie hebdo. several muslim leaders around the world have encouraged the publishers not to print it. >> richard, thanks. the events of this past week involving islamic extremism are only reinforcing what many jews have come to question about france right now. whether the country is a safe place for them to live and work. the sentiment perhaps summed up best by a pillar of the jewish community in france who remarked on this broadcast last night that in world war ii the optimists went to auschwitz and the pessimists went to new york. our report from bill nealy

tonight. >> reporter: murdered in paris, buried in israel the four jews taken hostage and shot in a kosher supermarket. the son of one said his french father had always wanted to live in israel. he is here now, he said. in paris, where the men were murdered jews debate their future and their security. france has the largest jewish population in europe half a million. it also has the largest muslim population 5 million. many jews feel under threat. some feel radical islamists want to wipe them out. you don't feel safe? >> i don't feel safe. >> reporter: jacqueline cohen said it's a war here. >> when you're going in the street and see all the police. >> reporter: they have good reason to worry. a jewish school was the target of a muslim extremist three years ago, an attack that killed seven people. another french muslim murdered four people at a jewish museum in brussels last year.

a year when jews were attacked more in france than anywhere else in europe. the year israel took in more jews from france than from any other country. >> in paris, there's this feeling they have to be very careful not to draw attention to themselves as a jew. >> reporter: but not every jew here is afraid. do you feel safe here? >> i do. i do. and i'm a new yorker. so i know what safety in a city is all about. >> reporter: today french troops and police patrolled synagogues and jewish schools, trying to reassure fright bdened children and traumatized people in a france that feels less safe a little less like home. bill nealy, nbc news paris. in this country, in our nation's capital, the evening commute took a very sudden very frightening turn for hundreds of people last night. the metro system train they were all riding on came to a grinding

halt. over the next 45 minutes the cars filled with smoke with everyone trapped inside. we get our report from nbc's tom costello. >> reporter: inside a d.c. subway car, fear and panic as smoke filled the tunnel then the train itself. a train operator urged calm but inside hundreds of passengers struggled to breathe. choking on thick acidic smoke. soon some passed out. >> we need a medic! >> make a hole! >> reporter: it happened at washington's metro station just as the evening rush hour was getting under way. >> a lot of smoke. and people couldn't breathe. no electricity. no visibility or nothing. >> reporter: firefighters waited before going down to the tracks to be sure the electric rail had been shut off. in all, more than 80 people sent to area hospitals for smoke inhalation. one passenger, a woman, never made it out alive. >> it was pitch black smoke

everywhere. they kicked everybody out. >> reporter: fire or smoke on a subway is everyone's nightmare. survival is knowing the phones and exits, listening to instructions and never touching an electrified rail. it's been under intense scrutiny after nine people were killed 70 injured six years ago. several workers have been killed on the job. the ntsb said monday's incident was likely caused by an electrical arc on the third rail. the full ntsb investigation could take months. you know those passengers were told to stay inside the train because that was safer than getting out on the tracks. but part of the investigation will also look at why it took firefighters so long to get down to them as yet again, the d.c. metro system is under scrutiny. >> tom costello in d.c. tonight. tom, thanks. investigators are blaming speed and, quote, driver behavior for a deadly pileup on an icy michigan highway a few days back. car after car, truck after truck

slammed into one another, creating a twisted mess that shut that highway down for two days. now, for the first time we are hearing the calls for help from those trapped inside it. we get our report tonight from nbc's kevin tibbles. >> oh my god! >> reporter: a deadly winter whiteout chain reaction along a stretch of the i-94 in michigan. >> i want you to shut up and i want you to listen to me very carefully. i'm at the 95 yard line, interstate 94. eastbound side is completely shut down. >> reporter: panicked drivers inundate 911 with emergency calls. >> i'm in an accident on i-94. i'm under a semi. >> reporter: while several vehicles catch fire. one, a semi loaded with 40,000 pounds of fireworks explodes. operators dispatch rescue crews, and calm frightened drivers. >> you're not hurt and that's all we care about, okay? everything else can be replaced

in this world except for you guys. >> reporter: 193 vehicles 76 semi trucks slammed into one another, shutting down both sides of the interstate for two days. twisted metal piled up for a half mile in each direction. this trucker managed to stop just in time. quite likely saving the driver's life in the car ahead. >> they kept coming. they kept coming full speed. >> reporter: michigan state police now reconstruct the crash. car by car, truck by truck -- >> drivers have to adjust for the weather conditions. and you have to leave space, and you have to leave reaction time. >> reporter: even in blizzard conditions police say, it is each driver's responsibility to slow down. and when they don't, the results can be deadly. kevin tibbles, nbc news, chicago. late word coming in to us of a disturbing story out of ohio. it involves an alleged threat

made against the life of house speaker john boehner back in his home district. the feds have filed criminal charges against a former bartender there, accusing him of threatening to kill speaker boehner by scheming to either poison him, poison his drink, or shoot him. the feds say the man is disturbed. speaker boehner's office tells nbc's luke russert the speaker is aware of the situation and is thanking authorities for their efforts. the race for the white house has suddenly gotten very hot, and possibly very crowded, as the gop attempts to win back the oval office. many potential republican candidates including at least one who's been there before who seemed on the fence, or had ruled out a run completely now seem like they may be on the verge of going in. our report tonight from nbc's peter alexander. >> reporter: already the 2016 race is looking as crowded as it is unpredictable. new jersey governor chris christie sounded like a man who would rather be giving a state of a union address instead a

state of the state. >> i heard it from farmers in kansas and from teachers in colorado. i felt it from veterans in maine and from workers in arkansas. >> reporter: a pair of competing political dynasties will collide if jeb bush and mitt romney dive in. romney was expected to take a pass. >> i said that so many times. >> reporter: now get ready for romney 3.0. a romney adviser telling nbc news today, i would be surprised if he didn't run. and bush is courting donors. >> skeptical republican voters are looking for the shiny new car. and they probably don't see it in a third bush or romney's third race. >> reporter: the republicans believe they need to break away from the old party. paul ryan tells nbc news he's out. but kentucky senator rand paul

and ted cruz look like they're in. cruz taking a swipe at more moderate republicans for running to the, quote, mushy middle. today paul dismissed romney as yesterday's news. >> i think he's had his chance and it's time for fresh blood. >> reporter: mike huckabee is securing the first family's parenting skills. >> this republican field is shaping up to be more diverse, more fascinating, than we ever thought would be the case a couple of months ago. this could be anyone's ball game. >> history is on the republicans' side only once since world war ii has either political party held on to the white house for three straight terms. and the democrats feel confident with hillary clinton. >> peter, thanks. still ahead tonight, the real-life navy s.e.a.l. whose memory and life story inspired an oscar contender. his story in his own words. also how life has changed for the better for a pair of brothers we first met during one

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where he could not ultimately leave danger behind him. >> reporter: through a rifle scope as in life chris kyle saw a world divided by good and evil. he told me he went to war to protect the good guys. >> i was brought up extremely patriotic. so if my country's going to go to war, i definitely want to be there. it's not for the blood lust it's to make sure i can protect anyone that's out there. >> reporter: kyle's story was made for hollywood. a navy s.e.a.l. sniper with 160 confirmed kills. a headline he was quick to deflect. >> if i could figure out a number of people i saved, that's something i would brag about. >> they called you the devil of ramadi? >> yes, sir. >> military age male on a cell phone watching a convoy over. >> reporter: it was a natural war film. except director clint eastwood saw something deeper. >> it was accompanied by the stress of departing all the time and coming back getting

refamiliar with his family and then going back into combat. >> you're home? >> i guess i just needed a minute. >> reporter: to play kyle bradley cooper put on 40 pounds. he learned to shoot. and got to know kyle's widow, taya. >> once it's humanized, it's much more complicated and layered. and there's so much source material so many videos. >> reporter: the film also explores the anguish and toll his repeated deployments took on chris and taya's marriage. >> he had such a humility and such a heart of service. he chose war because he knew that he was protecting people. >> reporter: even hollywood couldn't have written the ending to chris kyle's story. three years after leaving the navy and one year to the day after hour interview, he was shot to death. murdered on a texas gun range, allegedly about a fellow veteran he was trying to help. a tragic irony and ending for an

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finally here tonight, we want to revisit what's been one of our most talked-about and inspirational stories over these past couple of years. it's about a pair of brothers who share an incredible bond. the older sibling helping his younger brother who has cerebral palsy overcome some big obstacles, even if it means carrying him on his back. we get the update from our national correspondent kate snow. >> reporter: 8-year-old braden has always been his big brother's biggest fan. hunter's in high school now, a freshman already wrestling varsity. last june hunter carried braden

for 40 miles to raise awareness about cerebral palsy. it wasn't easy for braden. sore with blisters hunter had to cradle him in his arms. but they made it to that finish line. how much has changed since that day? >> a lot. >> reporter: braden threw out the first pitch at a detroit tigers game. they stood in front of more than 100,000 fans at the university of michigan's home opener. and a team of engineers designed a better walker he can be strapped into, to go hands-free. >> i can play catch with my brother. >> reporter: braden has been trying out all kinds of sports. this winter it was sled hockey. >> there it is. there we go. >> reporter: and now he's taking on his brother's sport, wrestling. >> try as hard as you can, okay? >> reporter: the last-minute

advice braden crawled out on the mat for his first match on sunday. this time it was hunter cheering his little brother on and braden did better than anyone expected. >> good job, guys! >> i did my best. >> yep, you did. >> reporter: hunter says we could all learn from braden. >> he just inspires me and makes me think about it that if my 8-year-old brother can push through stuff, you know i can, too. >> people think, oh he has a disability so he really can't do much. but if you put your mind to it and try hard enough, maybe you can do it. >> reporter: a lesson in courage for all of us. >> way to go bud. >> reporter: kate snow nbc news temperance michigan. that's our broadcast on this tuesday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. we certainly hope to see you

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