cnn's phil black is following the developments for us live in volgograd, russia. and we just showed the picture of the so-called black widow. authorities in russia searching franticly for her. tell us more on that. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, christine. they've distributed that photo and some information about this woman to hotels across the region, saying that they are very intent on finding her. her name is ruzanna ibragimova. they say she comes from dagestan, she's 22 years old, the widow, they say, of a militant killed by russian forces. they believe they have information that suggests she is from dagestan, a place in russia where they are still fighting against islamist militants almost daily. she's traveled from there to sochi at some point earlier this month, and they believe she is working with a terror group planning some sort of terror attack on the olympic region of sochi. they say she's quite distinct looking. >> all right, we're obviously having technical problems with phil black, but clearly, that is something the russian authorities are working

cnn's phil black joins us from volgograd, russia with more. good morning, phil. >> reporter: good morning, carol. yes there's a list of national olympic committees from countries including germany, italy and so forth who say they have received this letter and are concerned about it. they are taking security seriously. to pass these emails on to the international olympic committee, to sochi organizers and the response back from the international olympic committee is they do not believe this is a threat or a specific threat. in the words of the ioc they say it appears to be a random e-mail from a member of the public. even if it is what they believe it is some sort of prank it's interesting to note olympic officials in various countries are talking about this publicly today and it is another indication of just how concerned people are about tissue of security at these imminent sochi olympics. >> any word from the russian government about this latest threat? i guess pseudo threat. >> reporter: not this specific threat. no. not these emails. we sho

phil black, cnn, moscow. >> all right., phil. >>> twins actually can be born on different days but how often are they born in different years? that's amazing. this actually happened near toronto. gab ella came into the world at 11:52 december 31st. but her twin sister, sophia, waited for 2014. she arrived about 30 seconds after midnight on january 1st. the girls will actually have their very own birthdays and birth years. that's pretty cool. thanks for watching "around the world." "cnn newsroom" starts right now. have a good afternoon. >>> right now, blizzard conditions and below zero windchillsing looking at live pictures from chicago, cleveland, pittsburgh. watching the radar, watching the roads and the flights as this massive storm marches across the united states. right now, marijuana suppliers in colorado worried they won't be able to keep up with demand. turnout at pot shops so heavy they have to turn customers away. >>> new questions about the future of the democratic party. why bill de blasio's rise may

we have heard phil black talk about the black widows' plot. others talk about how this one black widow may be inside the perimeter in sochi. so a lot of these plots were already set in motion. if umarov is dead, doesn't mean there can't be attacks. the threat is still very much there. >> why is there so much confusion over whether or not this guy is alive or dead? >> well, again, the reports of his demise previously have been greatly exaggerated. he has been through the chechen wars a couple different times. he has been reported dead. he has been badly wounded several times. and -- they say he's got nine lives. he has managed to escape, sometimes change his appearance with plastic surgery and other things like that. so this is a very resourceful militant leader, $5 million bounty on his head from u.s. officials. >> yesterday at this time, tom fuentes, law enforcement analyst, former assistant fbi director saying it's not safe to be in sochi in these upcoming games for either the athletes or the spectators. thanks very much. >>> the sister of a

phil black, thank you so much. we appreciate that. >>> the thousand-mile winter storm -- we're talking about a thousand-mile, actually hit from kentucky to new england. now heading out to the atlantic ocean. but this bitter cold is not going anywhere. i want you to check out the storm it has left behind. the heaviest snowfall of the winter, more than a foot in some places. you've got roads closed, snowplows out in washington, new york, boston and most points in between. a lot of kids got the day off from school. but federal employees also working a short day, thousands of travelers getting really familiar with the airport. you can imagine them stuck there, 4,000 flights have been cancelled since just yesterday. our rene marsh at reagan international airport and alison kosik and chad myers below boston. chad, want to start with you. did a lot of snow coverage in boston, boy. it is rough, but they know how to handle it. >> reporter: certainly is. and it is still snowing here. i talked to a couple people this morning

where the attacks struck so recently. >> phil black thank you so much there. so russia may be flooding sochi with security. they said on intelligence committees for the house and senate. both say they have concerns about security at the games. what we are finding is they are not giving us the full story, who do we need to worry about? are those groups who have had success are they still noting the missing gap. you never want that. >> i would not go and i don't think i would send my family. i don't know how you put a percentage on it. but it is such a rich target in an area of the world where they have almost broadcast that they are going to try to do something there. >> we will talk to bob bhaer in ten minutes or so from now. >> developing story out of new jersey. hoboken mayor don szimmer sayin that christie's's office played games with money for sandy relief. what more do we know about the mayor's claims and where it goes from here? >> this is a more specific claim. for the first time zimmer tied governor christie himself to threats of retaliation. >> the al

black widow. good morning, phil. >> reporter: good morning, carol. e suicide bombers who usually act to avenge the loss of a husband or another loved one, who become radicalized in the process. russia knows what they can do all too well. they have attacked and killed many people here in the past. as you mentioned, authorities here believe to be tracking a number of them in the lead up to the sochi games. they are a threat that people know about. they were never supposed to get this close to russia's olympic city. russian police are racing against the clock to find this woman who they say may be working with a known terrorist organization planning an attack on the olympics. she may already be inside sochi ready to strike. >> obviously, the russian security forces are concerned that perhaps people have already penetrated their out ter perimeter and are in sochi. >> reporter: the 22-year-old is described as a black widow, a notorious type of suicide terrorist that's emerged in russia's clashes with chechnyan separatists. they are asking police to be on t

phil black, cnn russia. >> lawmakers on both the house and senate intelligence committees say they are extremely concerned. 15,000 americans are planning to go to is the sochi for the games what would you say to them? >> i don't think it is safe. the rest of russia, i would be very, very leery of traveling around. and i'm wondering. you have worked with the russians here and we know that the u.s. is sending fbi members to assist and provide security. >> how much cooperation to you anticipate between the two operations? >> not much. if you look the russians aren't going to share. they are going to say we can do it ourselves. don't bother us. we are going to have to take their word for it. 20 years and they haven't been able to suppress. i think we are going to see some sort of attacks in russia. maybe against foreigners or russians. >> i wouldn't go. i won't get on an airplane there. >> what areas would worry you? >> i think you look at the two attacks that are highly traveled area areas you look at that explosion and we know they have access to dangerous weapons. we think of a regime l

our phil black is in moscow.the code is similar to what's being pedalled on russian-speaking websites. next hour, president obama announces reforms to the nsa and its passive spying programs that have collected information on any of us. we will have more in just a minute. first, the latest on the target investigation. christine romans is our chief business correspondent and phil black is in moscow. he has been gathering details about a possible russian mob connection. christine, let's talk to you about what's new in this investigation. >> what's new, is this a new kind of malware, a new kind of trojan horse? sophisticated international hackers able to get into the point of sale of retailers and launch this thing to stay ahead of the security software of these companies and even go in and change the parameters of what they are looking for and what they are trying to get from outside. they are calling it cartosha. authorities are saying there are bits of russian words in the code. this can be concerned from the out

phil black is in volgograd with the latest. phil joins us on the phone right now. phil, what can you tell us this morning? >> reporter: yeah, good morning, john. today, we're talking about two potential women threats that russia has detected, the 22-year-old woman who may already be in sochi, planning the attacks on the olympics there. the second thought to be a group of women targeting the olympics torch relay, as it goes through the city of rostov-on-don. three women thought to be involved there. plus, one of them, we know, was killed by security forces during an operation over the weekend. the whereabouts of the remaining two women is unknown, john. >> we know that president obama spoke to the russian leader vladimir putin over the phone to discuss among other things safety at the winter olympic games. what kind of assurances are the russian government officials giving that in fact the games will be safe, phil? >> reporter: they're saying very much on message, not saying a lot in detail, but insisting that their plans are thorough. they're adequate and everythin

first, the latest from phil black in moscow. rstand that officials are looking for one so-called black widow. what's the latest? >> reporter: the distributed notices, anderson, in sochi and are asked to look out for a woman who is 22 years old from dagestan and remains the hotbed of the surgency in this country. they say she's the widow of a known militant and they say they have information that leads them to believe that she traveled from dagestan to sochi some time between january 11th and the 14th and may be planning some sort of terrorist act in sochi, specifically in the olympic region in sochi. she is lame and has a scar on the left side of her cheek. islamists have claiming responsible for the deadly attacks weeks ago and there may be more to come during the sochi games. mounting concerns in russia as the olympic torch relay make its way from the bomb-stricten city of voldograd. it claimed 34 lives. and warning that more attacks could come during the sochi olympic games. in the hour-long video, the purported suicide bomber

first, the latest on the dragnet from phil black in moscow. so, phil, i understand officials are looking for at least one so-called black widow, a woman they believe could be planning an attack during the olympics. what's the latest? >> reporter: the they've distributed notices to hotels in sochi and they've asked them to keep a lookout for a woman named ruzanna ibragimova, 22 years old from the russian republic of dagestan. it remains the hotbed of the islamic insurgency in this country. they say she is the widow of a known militant, and they say they have information which leads them to believe that she traveled from dagestan to sochi somewhere between january 11th and 14th, and she may be working with a known terrorist organization to plan some sort of terrorist act in sochi, specifically in the olympic region of sochi. she's said to be distinctive in appearance, a lame right leg, a large scar on the left cheek of her face. now, this comes just after a jihadi video has been released in which we've heard from islamists claiming responsibilit

phil black, cnn, moscow. >> that's it for "your money." we'll be back at 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. time. have a good weekend. >>> hello, everyone. i'm fredricka whitfield and here are the top stories we're following in the cnn newseum. an art tick blast is about to barrel across the u.s. adding insult to injury for those all right hit by a national storm. it could be a historic event with temperatures plummeting. the cold air will head from the west and southern states could feel some of the pain. you could see zero temperatures as far south as nashville. people in boston idi

not discriminate and will not discriminate during the two weeks of these olympic games, john. >> phil blackemember an olympics that began under the shadow of so much controversy. this is something we will be following in the 22 days until the games kick off. thanks, phil. >>> we're also learning new details this morning about a deadly grocery store shooting in elkhart, indiana. police say the two women who were killed may have actually known the gunman. he's been identified as 22-year-old shawn walter bair. the boyfriend of one of the victims says her family is still in shock. >> he did not deserve this at all. out of all the people, she did not -- she didn't deserve it. i don't know what his goal was, i don't know what his aim was, mad at the world. there is definitely a family grieving for her. >> mad at the world. police shot and killed the suspect, shawn bair, who was holding a store manager at gunpoint when they arrived on the scene. >>> happening today, a change of plea hearing is scheduled for the man charged with sending poison-laced letters to president obama and other officials. 4

phil black, cnn, st. petersburg. >> and this game, sweat match. how hot is it?australian open, it is so hot, players are now passing out on the court? their water bottles are melting. i kid you not. that story up next. >>> all right. what would you be doing outside, right, if it got to be 107 degrees? would you actually be playing tennis for a couple hours? hardly, right? well the players at the australian open, they have been doing just that. they're not happy about it. i'm going to tell you. one player fainted mid match, needed medical treatment, calls the conditions inhumane. others oh have gotten sick and thrown up. another watched her plastic water bottle melt on the court. that's right. tournament officials could close these retractible roofs that go over two courts. they could turn on the air conditioning, as well. they have not done that yet, because they say this is simply a dry heat. want to bring in our meteorologist, chad myers, explain a dry heat. why not turn on the ac? come on, really? >> i've looked at some of these temperatures, these dew points

phil black has the details. >> reporter: mounting concerns in russia this morning, as the olympic torch relay makes its the way through the bomb-stricken city of volograd. two extremists in this video claiming responsibility for two back-to-back suicide bombings last month that claimed 34 lives. and warning that more attacks could come during the sochi olympic games. in the hour-long video, the purported suicide bombings are constructing explosives and ex training their motives. the two men apparently part of an islamist militant group, vowing to prepare a presence for the olympics, and all the tourists who will come over. members of congress are very concerned. >> if something does happen, what is the evacuation plan, and emergency response plan that would take place? >> reporter: others worried about americans heading to sochi. >> i would not go. and i don't think i would send my family. >> i am very concerned about the security status of the olympics. i do believe that the russian government needs to be more cooperative with the united states when it comes to the security of the game

phil black is live in volgograd, russia, with the latest.d, phil, the security's been so tight, these women should not be anywhere close to the festivities in a couple weeks. that's what's got officials so concerned. >> reporter: yeah, indeed, that's right. they shouldn't be, but the concern is that they are. not just in one case, but we are now talking about two separate terror plots involving black widows, female suicide bombers. the first one, a woman thought to be in sochi, a 22-year-old thought to be planning a strike somewhere in the olympic zone within that city. the second one, potentially more imminent a group of women targeting the olympic torch relay in the city of rostov-on-don. and that's where the torch is today. they're actually concerned about a window of time, particularly today, the day after that. initially involved three women, one was killed in a security forces operation just over the weekend. but the whereabouts of the remaining two women, christine, is is still unknown. >> is the government there still sure the games

phil black, cnn, moscow. >> that's it for "your money." we'll be back at 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. eastern time. have a good weekend. >>> hello, everyone. i'm fredricka whitfield and here are the top stories we're following in the cnn newseum. an art tick blast is about to barrel across the u.s. adding insult to injury for those all right hit by a national storm. it could be a historic event with temperatures plummeting. the cold air will head from the west and southern states could feel some of the pain. you could see zero temperatures as far south as nashville. people in boston including our own margaret conley know what that's like, the chill there. still lots of snow behind you. what's the biggest problem for folks there? >> reporter: well, fred. we're actually pretty lucky. the coastal regions were hardest hit. there were about 13 deaths that resulted from the storm. here in boston there were up to 2 feet of snow in the massachusetts area and last night temperatures were near record low temperatures. but here most people have been spending the day trying to scoop out their par

phil black is live to tell us more. ed the bombers after the attacks but kept that information secret because of security and operational reasons. the key question is whether the two men identified are the two on the video claiming responsibility seen strapping on their suicide vests, talking about carrying out attacks and promising there will be more attacks like these in russia during the lead up and during the olympics. authorities are yet to say if those two people are the same responsible for those attacks. in addition to identifications, authorities have arrested two other people in connection with that attack in volgograd. two brothers who were accomplices who carried out the attacks. they're still investigating looking for other accomplices including those they believe are the master minds behind the attack. these are a look at the ongoing security challenge to russian authorities in the lead up to the sochi games not just in sochi itself and the possible threat that exists in other areas across this country. >>

phil black reporting live from volgograd, russia where it's very cold. it's 6 degrees below zero. >>> moments ago we learned syrian opposition is stepping up its threat to pull out of the peace talks in geneva. opposition is upset that iran accepted the united nations invitation to attend those talks. the opposition is giving the u.n. until 2:00 p.m. eastern today to rescind the invitation or for iran to meet three conditions including pulling troops from syria. if the talks do go on as scheduled it's the first face to face meeting between the syrian government and the opposition. >>> american missionary jailed in north korea for more than a year now is speaking out this morning. kenneth bae urged the united states during a news conference in north korea, mind you, to cooperate with the reclusive nation to secure his release. he also admitted on camera to committing serious crimes against pyongyang, a north korean court sentenced bae to 15 years of hard labor for committing hostile acts against the state. >>> the year of weed rolls on the heels of colora

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phil black joining me from volgograd.re his confidence about the games that everything will be all right? >> fred, there is certainly concern in volgograd among some people the uptech which this city felt the sharp edge is result of the olympic games, the olympics are responsible. the russian government's dedication to hold olympics in this game when there's ongoing insurgency they believe has triggered the attacks we've seen. so people representative entirely happy here. no. there is a theory that suggest the attacks that took place at the end of december which killed 34 people attacking a train station and trolley bus. they believe if possible those terrorists would have struck in sochi if they believe they could have done so. we know the security bubble in sochi is very, very tight. what these can attacks here showed is the big question mark that sits over the rest of the country. other cities, transport hougs, civilian areas where there's lots of people, as we've seen and as these people have shown there is clearly vu

phil black has more. >> reporter: it was three weeks ago that a man walked into this train station behinde, approached the security screening area and blew himself up, killing 18 people. the next day, someone else performed a suicide attack on a bus nearby killing another 16. now, a jihadi video has emerged with two men claiming responsibility for those attacked. they also warned that they are but a taste of what people should expect during the winter olympics in sochi. mounting concerns in russia as the torch makes its way through the bomb-threatened city in v l volgograd. the suicide bombings claimed 34 lives and warned that more attacks could come during the o sochi games. in the hour-long video, they are seen constructing explosives and explaining their motives before heading to their targets, triggers in hand. the two men part of an islamist video group vowing to prepare a present for the tourists that will come over. members of congress are very concerned. if something does lap, what is the evacuation plan. others worry about americans heading to sochi. >> i am very concerned about

phil black reports. gay men like 22- year-old dmitry are expected to blend into the crowd, so they use the internet to meet each other secretly. this is what happened when dmitry recently arranged to meet up with someone he'd been chatting with online. >> : he was surrounded on a dark >> : "i couldn't escape once they'd got me," he says, "there was nowhere to run." for 13 minutes he is threatened, mocked, and interrogated about his sexuality. the video was then posted online. >> : "dmitry was the victim of what has become an increasingly popular activity in russia. vigilante groups using the internet to meet and ambush gay men. members of these groups call it "going on safari," and the sad fact is dmitry got off very lightly." >> : this video shows what happens when the victims try to escape. >> : the men seen in these videos is movement called occupy a filly it. the upload videos of their so- called safari to their web site. >> : the so-called gay propaganda lot. despite all of the video evidence no one

phil black is in the russian city of volograd and joins us now with the latest. these threats.out what is the latest in terms of them. last night we talked about them searching for one so-called black widow. how big a danger are these threats now posing to the olympics? >> reporter: well, it now seems greater, anderson. so we are aware of two potential, separate black widow terror threats that the russian authorities have detected. the first we talked about, a woman who could already be in sochi, planning an attack. a second involving a group of women, targeting the olympic torch relay in the city of rostov-on-don where the olympic torch was today and tomorrow. so potentially an imminent threat there. one of the women said to be involved in this was killed by russian security forces in an operation on the weekend. but there is still two other women. and their whereabouts is unknown. the only reason we know about any of this, anderson, is not because the russian authorities are talking about it, but because they have been concerned enough in both cases to appeal for help from ho

phil black cnn moscow. time now is 443. coming up on the kron4 morning news and look after headlines when we come back. air- homicide investigators are behind me and they're still trying to work on things like getting this person's name. here's we do know. this happened at about one this morning. no one called 911. in fact it was someone who drove by and spotted the man lying on the ground on the sidewalk bordering someone's driveway but because they don't have his name and are no witnesses they don't know if this person was visiting the summer was living and this neighborhood no one called 911. no one heard shots. it was the person who drove by goes by that this man. at this point they don't know if it's gang related. you can see there on the scene. past and as i find out more information i will reported to approve >>erica: we are talking temperatures and the mid to upper 60s. very warm conditions. in fact we're about 10 degrees warmer the war should be for this time of year. for now are looking at pretty cold conditions.

cnn's phil black is there with the very latest. >> reporter: wolf, we're now aware that russian authorities believe that the detected two separate terror plots involving so-called black widows or female suicide bombers. one, a group of women thought to be targeting the olympic torch relay in the city of rchl ostov-on-don. a second plot involving a woman, the widow of a known militant believed to be already in sochi planning an attack. russian police are racing against the clock to find this woman who they say may be working with a known terrorist organization, planning an attack on the olympics. and she may already be inside sochi ready to strike. >> obviously the russian security forces are concerned that perhaps people have already penetrated their outer perimeter and are in sochi. >> reporter: 22-year-old ruzana ibragimova is known as a black widow that's emerged in russian chechens and they are asking the staff to be on the lookout for her. experts say there could be other so-called black widows planning a strike. >> she's liningly part of a larger network that they are looking at. >> r

black widow. good morning again, phil. >> reporter: good morning. bomber they have attacked and killed many times before. in this case russian authorities now fear that one has traveled to sochi at some point in the recrept weeks and is -- recent weeks and a planning a terror attacks. a 22-year-old, russian authorities have distributed her picture, her description to hotels across the city. that's the only reason we know about this. russian authorities aren't talking about it, but they are taking this step in the hope that hotel staff can keep an eye out for her. they say she is distinctiontive in -- distinctive in apaerns. the concern is, this was not supposed to happen. the security bubble was designed to keep people like this out, especially so close to the games. the concern is that this black widow has snuck in just weeks before the game's due to begin. >>> we've been talking about this threat a lot. let's take a closer look and figure out why people are so worried. just about a month ago in volgograd, that's were there were two terror attacks

let's start with phil black with the very latest from russia. phil?g behind me three weeks ago where a man walked up, walked up to the security screening area, blew himself up and killed 18 people. the next day someone else blew himself up near a bus and killed 16 people. two men are seen claiming responsibility for that attack but disturbingly they say those attacks are only a small taste of what to expect during the olympic games. mounting concerns in russia this morning as the olympic torch relay makes its way through the bomb stricken city of volgograd. two extremists in this video claiming responsibility for the two back-to-back suicide bombings last month that claimed 34 lives. and warning that more attacks could come during the sochi olympic games. in the hour long video the purported suicide bombers are seen constructing explosives and explaining their motives, all before heading to their targets, triggers in hand. the two men apparently part of an islamist militant group vowing to prepare a present for the olympics and all the tourists who co

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phil black has the latest from moscow. what do we know, phil?an security intelligence officials here. they have identified the two men who were behind the attack in volgograd at the end of last year. two suicide attacks that killed 34 people. more than that, they say they have detained two people who are accomplices to that attack. there was a bombing at a train station. another one on a trolley bus killed 34 people in total. the two accomplices that had been arrested, the alleged accomplices are said to have driven. the suicide attackers themselves. dagestan remains the hot bed of russia's ongoing islamist terrorist threat. they identified the people who they thought were the actual suicide attackers themselves. you may recall a week and a half ago a video was posted online featuring two men claiming responsible for that attack, strapping on their suicide vests, saying they're going out to carry on those bombings in volgograd, promising there would be more attacks in sochi and across russia in the lead-up to the coming winter olympics. russian

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black sea. >>> for the latest we turn to phil ittner live in london.hil at this point it has to be down to the decision, do i stay or do i go? >> yeah, that's right, del. this is a difficult place to get to regardless because of the visa restrictions going into russia, of course with all of the security concerns many people are considering whether or not to go. sochi itself is a high-security zone right now. vladimir putin says he has put up a ring of steel around that area. the city itself is said to be quite secure at least with a high level of increased security, but the region remains very volatile. >> it appears all of this talk is taking its toll already on the olympics. iment am hearing reports that hotels have yet to sell out and there are tickets still available. >> certainly that could come in to the factor that it is very difficult to get to sochi. but the problem with the winter olympics in russia, and this is something that many critics have been saying for quite sometime is that russia remains very dangerous in that region. there's a lot

. >> phil robertson made bad comments. comments about blacks absurd. that said people like him. clear tly the show is doing wel. i'm concerned about the branding guns and selling them around the country. >> so glad you said that. we have pictures. >> you made his night. >> i think that's awful. >> here's the deal. yes, they have a lot of brands. they are selling a lot of things. >> ak-47s. >> what's wrong with that? what's wrong with selling a gun? >> nothing, really, as long as everything is legal. but this is a cash cow. this happened right before christmas. they have ever 400 million dollars from all of the products they have associated with their name. this is a cash cow for a&e. they milked it. they had showed they would be airing already in the spring. this gave more value to a red hot brand. >> hold on. i am a gun own. i have a shotgun and a handgun. i want one of those mossburg rifles. am i wrong? >> you can't wait for father's day. you will get it right away but why not. that's your right. you can bear arms. you can buy a gun, do the p

the state is finally in the black and lawmakers are trying to figure out what to do with the surplus. as phil matier reports, the governor's plan for the money is getting support from some state republicans. >> the red ink is far more predominant than the black ink. >> reporter: the governor launched his presentation with a quick review of how california has come from a $26 billion budget deficit to a $3 billion surplus. and when a reporter described that surplus as large -- >> with prop 30 -- [overlapping speakers] >> i just want to look at that. look how little that is! [ laughter ] >> that compared to that! that says it all! >> reporter: and that vintage jerry brown moment complete with a sign held above his head pretty much sums up the governor's budget strategy. the centerpiece of that strategy is tackling california's debt, which now stands at $25 billion. the governor's plan, cut that in nearly in half with $11 billion in debt payments. >> now, some people would say that we should go on a spending spree. i don't agree with that. >> reporter: by some people, the governor is referring to

you wrote, quote, phil robertson's comments about gay and black people on social welfare and the way they pierce public consciousness explain more about our country's political culture than almost anything else that happened all year. unpack this for us. >> i actually want to start with something senator lindsay graham said after the 2012 election which is that the country wasn't making enough angry white people to sustain the party in the form it took in president obama's first term. that means, you know, their policies needed to be reshaped and their public communications couldn't, you know, continue the same way they had in the four previous years. implicit in what he said was that the party depended to a great extent on people who think and believe things that phil robertson believes in, so it has to represent their views in certain ways, their policy views, their political views, how they think about the country culturally, and unfortunately, for them, lots of things phil robertson said and believe and people like him say and believe don't fly in much of the country. so they hav

black. but there's something even more remarkable happening in sacramento. kpix 5's phil matier on a day that would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago. >>> the red ink is far more predominant than the black ink. >> reporter: the governor launched his presentation with a quick review of how california came from a $26 billion budget deficit to a $3 billion surplus. and when a reporter described that surplus as large -- >> in retrospect was prop 30 -- >> wait -- [overlapping speakers] >> look how little that is. [ laughter ] compared to that! that says it all. >> reporter: and that vintage jerry brown moment complete with a sign held above his head pretty much sums up the governor's budget strategy. the centerpiece of that strategy is tackling california's debt which now stands at $25 billion. the governor's plan, cut that in nearly in half with $11 billion in debt payments. >> some people would say that we should go on a spending binge. i don't agree with that. >> reporter: by some people, the governor is referring to fellow democratic legislators who want to se

last month phil robertson was temporarily suspended after making controversial comments about gays and blacks heinz was at his grandparents' house in massachusetts when he found a series of pictures of the 1986 space shuttle "challenger" disaster. heinz grandfather has a contractor for nasa at the time. i asked him about this incredible find. >> it's absolutely extraordinary. it's hard to put it in words. just the fact that i founding t -- found the pictures, it was really nice because we were going through pictures of my grandmother for her memorial and we found those pictures. after that, me and my grandfather really got to connect about his old days at nasa. you know, he discovered how much i really appreciated the fact that he worked there. we spent the night reminiscing about -- i told him how much i appreciated the fact that he worked at nasa. he even gave me some -- looked for and gave me some keepsakes from when he worked there, some gifts that were given to him. he's really thinks what's special is the overwhelming outpouring and support and the fact that this still resonates with pe

black widow. suicide-bomb whose may try to attack next month's winter olympics in sochi, police are distributing leaflets at hotels and other parts of the area. philftner has more. >> three women are thought to be in sochi, that is of grave concern for many because the russians set up what they thought was an impenetrable ring of steel. there are regulations on gathering and even driving motor vehicles. you can't drive in sochi unless you have a special license. there is u.s. delegation on the ground in sochi headed up by the chairman of the u.s. house security homeland security committee, russian mccall i mico make sure that american delegations are september safe. there are security concerns. sochi is located in an area of great voltairety in russia. sochi itself is a safe area. it is more or less a resort for the russian elite, but the caucasus, where sochi is located, has a long history of restlessness of russian rule. there have been two navy warships moved to the black sea to help primarily in evacuation. but the sheer presence of naval wawarships is quite contentious. they will be there through the entirety of the russian olympic games. >>

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blacks, latinos, women, gays. tolerance is not a blind acceptance for everything. we don't argue for tolerance of intolerance of say, philon, because his views margin allize and exclude and suppress white male supremacy. the only inn tolerance is nin tolerance of intolerance. if we extend intolerance to those who are intolerant, intolerance will be destroyed. they apparently believe separate white males are the truly oppressed ones in modern america, even though they remain the most powerful in society. soes ol professor michael kick he will in his book, "angry white men" writes, it's hard in all positions of power and privilege to wake up and find people like you in only 80% of those positions. equality sucks if you've grown so accustomed to inequality that it feels normal. the sense of white male victimization the right plays on leads to the need to defend intolerance like phil robertson's. but it's too easy to say governor jindal was right when he urged them to stop being the stupid party. because maybe deep down the right knows what it's actually doing. maybe they know that in american politics, the occult of victim

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phil coating. 2500 and he meets bail and walks out and what happens next? >> reporter: not a word spoken out of justin beiber's mouth and handled by high-priced and high profiled defense attorney roy black who has been on just about every super high profile case in florida for decades and justin beiber we expect will be leaving the miami-dade jail sometime in the next hour or two after the bond is posted. and kha lil his buddy known as crazy kha liowa l. driving a red ferrari and justin beiber 19 years old left a night club in south beach and was then just north of south beach in miami beach proper driving a yellow lambogini. where the speed was 30 miles per hour. and they went from 0 to 60 and police intervened. they smelled boozed in of his yellow car and saw blood shot eyes and justin bieber was acting in a stupor. and according to the arrest affidavit that justin beiber was defiant and disrespectful dropping f- bomb after f- bomb at the arresting officer and questioning why he was arrested and what he did wrong. but justin beiber smiling and look like a dmramor photo and very contrasting image of him in the jail on this closed circuit tv monitor to the courthouse, not saying a word

. >> the theatre was the brain child of judge john phil inns. 79-year-old clarence hardy has been the caretaker for 19 years. >> basically the black people as a whole or people, we don't know each other. first of all, we have to start out with ourselves, and that's what the slave theater was designed for. >> we have heroes then. most of the movies we see on the big screen are heroes. you come here, and they show you the black heroes. phillips opened the theatre in 1984, calling it the slave so no one would forget their struggle. hosting the last performance in 1998. following the death they were lock the in a bitter ownership battle. the opener brought the property for $2.1 million. clarns and his sop say the sale was illegal, vowing to fight. they came to the community radio station to help. >> welcome to the mission, our mission. >> it's time to work with the developers. the property changed hands in 2013. i don't think the banks would have made the deal if there had been liens or any kind of things like that. our interests is in restoring theatre to the site. . >> it's about restoring theatre. it's a place where community organ