what did it start being called the mafia? -- when did it start being called the mafia?> i don't really know. it might have been with the fortune article. i am always hesitant about the term. mafia implies dark rooms. extortion. these kinds of things. it's clever, gets repeated. it implies a dense network. it's much less evocative. the paypal network is what i would call it. it probably started six to 12 months after the ebay acquisition. >> linkedin, tesla, youtube, yelp, yammer, and spacex. all founded by members of the paypal mafia. what was special about all of you? what did you have in common? >> paypal selected a lot of people who were young, and intense, and were entrepreneurial themselves. then they were bought by ebay. so all of these folks were like, what do i do next? some of them go to youtube, some go to spacex, some of them do yelp, i do linkedin. and yet, because we had this intense experience together, we all still have really tight networks. we are calling each other going, i'm thinking about doing this, what do you think? >> who do you call for what? >>

other members of the paypal mafia bought fancy cars. bought an acura, which is still a very nice car. but you did not just say, i'm going to lean back. >> a funny story on the car. i was taking about buying an audi s8. it's a really nice car. and then a funny thing happened, i got pitched by a friend on investing in his company. would i rather buy this car or invest in the startup? what's the cheapest nice car i could buy, because i would rather spend my money investing in these companies. so i bought an acura. >> then you decided to buy -- start something new. >> i was thinking about taking the year off, traveling for a year. in 2002, silicon valley concluded the internet was over. i said, no, it's just beginning. the current companies are great. but they are only going to be some of the great companies created. as opposed to a year, i took two weeks in australia, said what is my best idea, and said linkedin is still a valid idea. i should start that. the market opportunity is right for it. i started investing in companies like faceboo

some other members of the paypal mafia bought ferraris.ought an acura -- which is still a very nice car. but you didn't say, 'look, i'm -- i'm just going to lean back.' >> first, a little funny story on the car. i was thinking about buying an audi s8. because i was like, well, it's a really nice car. and then what happened is, i got pitched by a friend of mine on the best thing on a start-up. i was like would i rather buy the s8, or would i rather invest in the start-up? so it was like, 'ok, what's the cheapest nice car that i could buy?', because i would actually rather spend my money in investing in these companies that are transforming the world. and so that's how i ended up buying the acura. >> and then you decided to start something new. >> i was thinking about taking a year off. i was thinking about traveling around the world for a year. and what i realized was in 2002, silicon valley basically concluded the internet was over. i was like, 'no, it's just beginning.' the current companies are great. google, yahoo, ebay, amazon. but the

if he steps out of line. >> italian police obtained video a secret swearing in ritual for a mafia ring. the video filmed in northern italy is prove of how the group is spreading beyond its region. >> this is a rare glimpse into the secretive world of the italian mafia. >> this video obtained by italian investigators shows for the first time the ritual of the most powerful and violent of italy's four ma ' four mafias. what makes the video more remarkable is that it was shot hundreds of kilometers fourt north of their stronghold. prove that they have spread to northern italy, where they're known to launder money, gang, prostitution, drugs, arms trafficking. the video was part of evidence that led to the arrest of 40 people, but it also shows that while they have moved on to more modern ways of making money, it's core is rooted it ancient traditions. other italian ma i can't organizations have not been spared by the authorities. [ sirens ] in palermo the police arrested 16 clan members linked to the leader of the sicilian ma i can't on the run from the authorities since 1993. for italy's

when did it start being called the mafia? i don't know, it might have been with the "fortune" article. of the term. afia implies dark room, extortionist practices, these kinds of things. clever, gets impeded. requires a tight network where people are tight with each other. evocative, the paypal network? i don't know how we'd call it. months probably after the acquisition. youtube, n, tesla, yammer, and space-x all founded by the members of the paypal mafia. special. what do you have in common? paypal collected people who were young, intense, and well.reneurs as then all of a sudden, ebay and he folks were like, okay, what do i do next? chad and steve go and do youtube. goes and does tesla and space-x. jeremy and russ do yelp. do linkedin. because we've had this intense experience together, we have a network. so we're all calling each other saying i think about doing this, what do you think? >> what do you call for what? financial boldc, models, i call peter. of intersection of kind interesting business models, technologies, b

the video also captured role and ranking assignments in three mafia families. so that's how it goes down. >>> and here is one panda having some fun with these record snowfalls. who needs a sled, right, when you can just roll your way down snow covered hills. he is one of two giant pandas at the toronto zoo. life is good if you're those pandas. >>> time to get down to business. would you rent your car out for free parking? travelers flying out of washington's dulles international can get free airport parking and a car wash if they agree to rent out their cars while they're gone. the company, flightcar, is offering a new service starting today. i don't know if i'd do that. >>> airlines are making record profits. it's partially due to jet fuel prices. they are down 17% from a year ago, but non-stop flights cost 10% to 15% more. the airlines say they are reinvesting their profits to include customer service, terminals and more. >>> cnbc is reporting that walmart has been scammed into selling play station 4 for just 90 bucks. the price match promotion went into effe

mafia money but for keitel money and that is how they found it. they were under arrest then schroeder came to power and the case against putin was suppressed. however the u.s. government leaked results of their investigation that there was a sheaf of intelligence reports linking putin and as a result to be an international money-laundering west. 2010 spinoff is rich enough by now. putin goes to moscow in '96 and the points sarnoff head of exports. and is responsible for 50 percent of the world's trade of materials. it was also the u.s. partner and receive 3.$5 billion of u.s. aid with nuclear materials for the reactor in iran. serious stuff. so when they talk about putin being concerned about the nuclear potential he is the leader. you should be concerned. he could control it. when putin became the deputy mayor of st. petersburg of course, deputy mayors in all cities have security and putin of all people could rely on his friends in the former kgb to help provide security. so why did he choose to hire a private firm to provide security? that firm

a mafia swearing in ceremony that has been caught on camera. police in italy recorded it as part of an investigation that led to 40 arrests. the video also captured role and ranking assignments in three mafia families. that's how it goes down. >>> here is one panda having some fun with these record snowfalls. who needs a sled when you can roll your way down the snow-covered hills. he's one of two giant pandas at the toronto zoo. >>> a dog serving as mayor, for which big city? skipper boehner skips medicare in favor of obamacare. rick perry's legal troubles continue. a juicy edition of "scrambled politics is next." mmmmmmm. look out. now there's even more of the amazing cinnamon taste you love on cinnamon toast crunch. crave those crazy squares even more. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ he found it cleans everything... whefrom stove tops...d writing a book about his magic eraser ...to scuffed shoes, and more. and when ran out of pages, he made a website instead. share your tips at mycleanbook.com >>> it's 20 minutes past the hour. time for your hump day edition of "scr

in the days of the mafia, like you talked about in your reference to diego, the mafia grew along with the italian state after world war ii because it got contracts from the state. didn't just make money doing drug trafficking and extortion. it got a lot of state contracts. and it was not in its interests to collaborate with terrorists. but now many of the transnational organizations, criminal organizations, are operating in states that don't really have the capacity to provide. the contracts, that have the capacity to control them, and so they are happy to engage with terrorists because it's good for business. and terrorists that -- in the post cold war era have less support from states than in the past, have become muff -- much more dependent on criminal activity support their activity. it's very interesting if you're reading bios of foreign fighters who are joining isis, how many of them have criminal activities and criminal records in their past. so there's a convergence of these two phenomena, which is very much a change in the nature of the state, where transnational crime groups

. >> anybody that thinks that a prison gang like the mexican mafia can't reach out and touch anybody a fool for thinking that way because they can. they can reach out and touch anybody they want. >> most often it is about smuggling drugs, most often heroin, methamphetamines and marijuana into corcoran. >> this would be a state boot. take the bottom of the heel here and actually cut and remove the heel and carve out an area in this section here in order to put the narcotics underneath the heel. this is actually -- we opened up the packaging of it. we have marijuana on this side, marijuana in the center. the way it's wrapped there is so the inmate could actually insert it into his body cavity and traffic it from the visiting room into his housing unit area where it's sold. >> even a simple greeting card can be a vehicle for transporting drugs. >> in this case, the peacock here, the bird, the parrot was soaked in methamphetamines and it's mailed in. once it's mailed in, the inmate will cut up pieces of the picture and actually sell it. >> narcotics inside prison can be sold for almost 3

. >> like the mafia? >> like that, yeah. >> you had a busy week michael yo. >> that's what i do, kelsey knight. i went hashtaging with the kardashians. >> this is her iconic picture. >> let's go inside. >> i would hashtag it, yeah, i did that. >> the latest celebrity news delivered 24/7. it's the "inside ether with yahoo. >>> you know, i'm not sure if kanye would approve of that hashtag but you certainly have a way with the kardashian sisters. >> we're funny, kelsey, come on now. >> obviously. welcome to the "weekend insider." i'm kelsey knight. >> i'm michael yo. r" tog >> i thought kim is going to kill khloe, tell me more, tell me more. >>> first, we're breaking it down in the good wee >> bad week. >> a good week for robert downy junior. >> date night. k. >> if i can make it without my water breaking thanks would be fine. >> apparently, the third trimester gh for the man of the night. >> self-proscribed mandatory bedrest was of some benefit. at least my milk is coming in again. >> the true iron woman, h

a partner in the paypal mafia. i spoke with hofmann and started by asking about paypal's looming split from eby a and if some of the paypal mafia members should return to the company. >> to be successful, a leader has to say i understand these are the kinds of things that have gotten us to success and that have worked so far, but this new thing, which could involve a lot of technical change or a lot of organizational change to get there, and you will not be successful without a founder to do that. >> i am surprised you have not met him yet. other members of the paypal mafia, i have heard the same from others. that they didn't get to meet him. >> it is a public company, because ebay is a public company, with the hiring process, so as soon as he could, he called me, and my schedule is also a little bit complicated, so we are having dinner in a few weeks. i'm sure my schedule is one of those complicated things. but he was talking to me about what the characteristics should be, what kind of person he should be looking

and with that we have the emergence of what i've called elsewhere in the paper, mafia states, and that is governments that are in essence criminal organizations. there's not that they've been taken over or influenced by criminal organizations, but they themselves in the nature have criminal activities as part of the fundamental part of their ways of working. so if you add that to the next, a definition of corruption that gives even more entangled in a very dirty way. yes, please. >> i'm wondering if there are any significant differences between you might find between different types of corruption in terms of grass and taking opportunities to make a profit sounds like the situation was, compared to what merery, very different, taking money from criminals in order to facilitatfacilitat e their colonel activities, and then some variations between where people are taking money under coercion of threat of something might happen to the families that they perform an act in collusion with criminals, not necessary because they wanted to. >> i think all of these problems that you identified are

commission was fairly accurate about what happened, but the mafia clearly was involved in funding theirginia primary against humphrey on behalf of kennedy, i would like to know how much money -- the second thing i can answer is people say, what's before the big bang, and then the scientists say singularity, that's their institute. the answer is god. that's the answer. >> that's the mystery you don't have to worry about. no, you have faith. bob's been avoiding sweets for bob's been avoiding sweets for the last two weeks, can we >>> trick-or-treat, it's halloween, there's plenty of candy to go around, and i have given up sweets. you ought to keep track of your blood sugar if you -- i'm going to try this out on eric. see what kind of blood sugar you have. >> you're diabetic, and you just decided to give up sweets. >> he never told us he was diabetic until now. >> that didn't hurt. >> it doesn't hurt. >> that's blood. do we not squeeze it all over the table like the ketchup incident? this is so weird. >> don't show it anymore. >> okay, 122. very good, excellent. do you eat a lot of sweets

. >> how powerful is the mexican mafia here at pelican bay? right there. i don't speak on it myself, you know? >> raul leon had such influence throughout the state by assigning individuals to represent him. he would have people assaulted. he would have riots take place on his orders. >> serving a life sentence for murder, leon lives in what is widely regarded as the most restrictive environment in the state of california -- pelican bay security housing unit or shu. inmates are confined to their cells for all but 90 minutes per day, which they're allowed to spend in a nearby concrete exercise area. leon had been living here for 14 years when we met him. >> i always tell people, they ain't built a prison hard enough to break me, you know? and some of us are stronger than others. i think that's what pelican bay is about. only the strongest are the ones that are going to make it, you know. >> while leon refuses to disavow loyalty to his gang, the prison sees a slow but steady flow of inmates who do through a process called debriefing. they not onl

in the days of the mafia like what you were talking about in your reference to diego gambeta, the mafia grew along with the italian state after world war ii because it got contracts from the state. it didn't just make money doing drug trafficking and extortion, it got a lot of state contracts. and it was not in its interest to collaborate with terrorists. but now many of the transnational organizations, criminal organizations are operating in states that don't really have the capacity to provide them contracts, that have the capacity to control them. and so they are happy to engage with terrorists because it's good for business. and terrorists that in the post-cold war era have less support from states than in the past, have become much more dependent on criminal activity to support their activities. and it's very interesting, if you're reading a lot of the bios of foreign fighters who are joining isis, how many of them have criminal activities and criminal records in their past. so there's a convergence of these two phenomena which is very much a change in the nature of the state, wher

the amish mafia. >> let's talk about the amish mafia. >> as a community we look at that and what theyt real at all. >> right. so why bother trusting the likes of me and these guys and cnn and not turn you into the mennonite mafioso or something? >> because somebody has to share about who we really are. and share the truth. >> right. all right. so really the only other thing to do is to go cook the bird. i'm still unclear where that happens. is that in your property? >> it happens in my home. my wife offered you her kitchen. >> this is huge. you not only trust us in your place of business. you're going to let us innior home. >> we are. >> and we're going to prepare the chicken there. >> we are honored to have you come into our home. >> we're not going to break any china. we're going to be on our best behafr. guys, be on your best behavior. do you promise? >> i promise to be on my best behavior. >> during the break, my crew will take a sacred vow to be on their best behavior. >> dan, you're not even coming in the house. [ starter ] ready! [ starting gun goes off ] [ male announcer ] it'

>> this is like the mafia has a lot of different families.the families gotten together and they will be one big mafia family, fighting with isis. isis, al qaeda, al nusra front, all different alphabet soups of radical jihad and they have one goal, which is to establish a caliphate through the entire region and kill everybody. heather: how do we fight that? a lot of our partners, we have some partners helping through airstrikes and other means but we're still not getting to the root of the problem. >> you got it, and that is the real key to all of this. we can't do this for them. sunni-arab states, moderates in the region need to step up to do the fighting. i'm a hawk but i disagree with a lot of other hawks who think we should send in more and more american forces. we will train them, help them, stiffen their spines, they will fight isis. we tried. that we've done that for 10 years and it hasn't worked. right back where we were 10 years ago and yet we've spent a lot of american lives and materiel and money and we've really gotten not much for

radio no insurance if i want to have insurance why do we have two companies here two companies the mafia why i don't open the door to have so many more to come into 30 this industrial to have a competition this is for the company and for this give it to me a chance i want to be capitalist too we need help right now we are one thousand dollars a month short to people working not the people will have the medallions sit back and have money (clapping.) (calling names). >> who is first. >> raymond. >> is raymond here not here (calling names). >> good afternoon, sir. >> good afternoon i been driving since 1990 almost a quarter of a singularity i put my name on medallion then i checked my number they said our number is 19 hundred and 88 i said what i didn't want to agree but i came up with a quarter of a mild and bought my medallion under those conditions there was no uber or lift not every a even a sidecar now the situation is how can i pay $2,500 for the $250,000 and give it to sfmta thinking there is entity that will protect my interest? i know you guys i don't know all the people going to t

las mafias se infiltraron entre ciudadanos de autoridades.s un negocio de menor riesgo. >> la frontera de mÉxico con estados unidos es un territorio minado para los migrantes, en cualquier parte son levantados por el crimen organizado para extorsionar su familia. las partes donde encuentran un poco de tranquilidad y seguridad son los albegues como este. >> ellos mismos platican cÓmo los cogieron en la calle, en el autobus. o en la central, en diferentes lugares. los fueron cogiendo. >> este joven lo conocimos en a otro albergue donde duerme tranquilo. su historia tambiÉn es de horror. dice que nadie llega a esta frontera sin pagar un alto precio. >> estuve por dos meses secuestrado. y gracias a dios tuve la oportunidad de poder escapar. >> los que logran cruzar a estados unidos terminarÁn en una casa de seguridad. y antes de ser entregados a su familia lo mÁs seguro es que tengan que pagar una nueva extorsiÓn. >> 130 personas entre ellos 12 en menores arrestados en la tercera noche de protesta por no enjuiciar al policÍa que matar al joven br

some of the nation's most infamous criminals, including charles manson and the founder of the mexican mafia. despite its reputation, violence doesn't come naturally to everyone at corcoran. >> i don't see myself as being like many of the people that are here. but what i saw the longer i was ear, was that there really is a thin line between them and me. >> before he was an inmate, stefan paro was a librarian. >> i'm here, basically, because i'm an alcoholic and i got a lot of drug. drugs, too, are a part of my story. >> his drug use resulted in a six-year sentence for crimes including burglary. >> at that time i had been married, not very long. my wife was pregnant and the fact that i couldn't stop drinking and i couldn't stop using, it was very difficult to deal with the shame and the gym of all that. >> he and his wife eventually separated, but he landed in prison for breaking into her home and stealing her credit card to pay for drugs. >> i readily admitted to it. that was the problem, i said, yeah, i stole those yesterday it card the reason i took the credit cards is wisely enough, my wi

tanto gobernador que se asocia con la mafia. julio cÉsar un joven asesinado en iguala el que se detenga los autores de este homicidio no es suficiente, ya que piden que aparezcan los 43 estudiantes desaparecidos. despuÉs de ser identificados plenamente el ex alcalde y su esposa autoridades darÁn los detalles sobre la detenciÓn de la pareja seÑalada como responsable de la tragedia que enlutÓ a esta familia. ♪ ♪ hoy es dÍa de elecciones y los estadounidenses estÁn votando mÁs de 220 millones habilitados para sufragar, se espera que 8 millones de hispanos voten. >> se renueva a el senado con tres elecciones especiales. con 36 puestos en disputas. se vota por los 435 escanios de la cÁmara baja. >> ademÁs reeligirán gobernadores. >> nosotros tenemos una amplia cobertura. donde pueden encontrar resultados en nuestra pÁgina. y un blog en vivo. puede comentar nuestras noticias en twitter, facebook. >> tenemos nuestros corresponsales a lo largo y ancho de estas elecciones desde california hasta la florida, incluyendo texas, donde el voto

i dare you to find a better mafia henchman. all right, next up, frank mangano. a new york state court officer. frank, let's hear it. >> hey, boss, i'm sorry. i was just busting balls. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: give it up for frank, everyone! i really believe he was just busting balls. he didn't mean it, boss. up next, we have john o'mally. john spent over two decades as a homicide detective in queens. john, let's hear it. >> i did 15 years in the joint for you? and this is how you treat me? [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: yeah! how can you treat him like that? he did it for you. next we have jim breyer. jim has also spent 20 years as an nypd squad detective in brooklyn and was also bobby's partner. let's hear it, jim. >> welcome to pier one imports. [ laughter and applause ] >> seth: okay. not sure if that was the line we wrote for him. but that was pretty good. finally, this is very exciting. we have mike egan. mike's a -- i don't think i want to go to that pier one imports. [ laughter ] i'm going to go get my wicker chair elsewhere. [ laughter ] finall

but he took his first job out of school at apple, and then joined the paypal mafia. partner at greylock, hoffman sits on seven boards. he is the author a new book,

unclear if the russian mafia had anything to do with that. the fight did look a little strange. don king was the promoters. rourke says there's four more fights where that came from. and why not. although he'll have a tough time getting by his next opponent. pam moore. them here stepping into the boxing ring to fight him i'm not fighter and a lover that's it for the kron 4 news at 11. stay connected with kron 4 and get latest news at kron 4 dot com. or download one of our mobile apps. we'll see you tomorrow morning! ♪ it's a marshmallow world in the winter ♪ ♪ when the snow comes to cover the ground. ♪ ♪ it's a time for play, it's a whipped cream day... ♪ ♪ ( siren wails ) ( pop music playing ) ♪ when you're ready ♪ ready, ready, ready ♪ come and get it ♪ get it, get it ♪ when you're ready, come and get it ♪ ♪ na na na na ♪ na na na na na na na ♪ ♪ when you're ready, come and get it ♪ ♪ na na na na... female announcer: it's a great big world and it can all be yours. here and only here. ♪ come and get it. the world is your snowball just for a song. ♪ ♪ get out and move it along.

iremos a las ciudades mineras donde las mafias controlan los poderes polÍticos y econÓmicos. no hay nada de moderno. nos vamos, en nombre de las personas que hacen posible el noticiero muy buenas noches. nos vemos maÑana. ♪ ♪ eclara culpable. >> se hundirÍa. se hundirÍa antes de iniciar el juicio. >> por supuesto que no. >> mira, mariano, yo sÉ que tÚ de idiota no tienes un pelo. y las pÉsimas decisiones que estÁs tomando, las estas tomando a conciencia. no creas que no me he dado cuenta de cÓmo has venido manejando deficientemente la defensa de pablo. >> claro, claro, yo, yo quiero ver hundido a mi hermano, ¿no? >> a pesar de tu tono irÓnico, sÉ que asÍ es. alguna razÓn tendrÁs. >> a veces eres tan perspicaz que yo no entiendo cÓmo con tanto talento eres abogado, y no lector de cartas >> coyoacÁn.

>> el prÓximo domingo en aquÍ y ahora se presentarÁ su programa especial de los narcos, donde las mafiaso peor aÚn bajarse de panza, en eso si no hay nada de moda. con esto nos vamos y en nombre de todas las personas que hacen este noticiero, muy buenas noches, nos vemos maÑana. eclara culpable. >> se hundirÍa. se hundirÍa antes de iniciar el juicio. >> por supuesto que no. >> mira, mariano, yo sÉ que tÚ de idiota no tienes un pelo. y las pÉsimas decisiones que estÁs tomando, las estas tomando a conciencia. no creas que no me he dado cuenta de cÓmo has venido manejando deficientemente la defensa de pablo. >> claro, claro, yo, yo quiero ver hundido a mi hermano, ¿no? >> a pesar de tu tono irÓnico, sÉ que asÍ es. alguna razÓn tendrÁs. >> v

it's a nickname for the mafia. it also refers to eastern european radicals, an,ists. you see them used interchangely cartoons.ost tombs -- >> [inaudible]. >> the irish refuse ution airy brotherhood. they say our goal as irish americans, irish i am grants is o raise money to form an armed insurrection which involves assassinations, blowing occupy of ships as need be. that's where the association of irish and terrorism. here's the image from the foot of manhattan island. uncle sam is watching the immigrants landing and it says the mafia in new orleans, reference to the italians. they're referring to germans. sornlist in new york means radicals galore. new york is kind of the capital of socialist america. another one, uncle sam here, trying to protect america and american institutions from riffraff immigration and all of these faces are labeled communists and anarchists, so forth. high tide of immigration. i mentioned terrorism but let's talk a little in particular. in the 1880's we think of terrorism as a relatively new thing and the association of immigrants from certa

>> it's like the mafia collecting protection money. it's - they are forcing people often at gunpoint to pay up at don't. >> short of outright state sponsorship which i.s.i.l. is not likely to achieve pause it's a threat to so many around it. the oil is the biggest part of their income at the moment. they could be selling up to 50,000 barrels of oil a day. we have heard reports that it can go as low as 25 bucks, at a discount to the market. your numbers indicate an day. >> that's right. >> it's real money. we know that it's coming from oil fields and going into refineries, and not moving on donkeys, it has to move by trucks and cross a border to syria, turkey. it strikes me that there are a lot of military options. bombing the oil field, bombing the refineries. so there have been air strikes on some of the mobile refineries that i.s.i.l. has been operating. that had an impact. other military activities, other air strikes will impede this oil smuggling network. our role in this is part of a comprehensive plan to degrade and defeat i.s.i.

just one is when they were going to put bugs in a mafia hangout in philadelphia. the agents determined that there was a backdoor raided it and want to go into the backdoor because it could be booby-trapped. they had to go on the front door but the front door overlooked in all night bar and that patrons could see the agents trying to defeat the locks. the agents borrowed a city bus and they drove into to the mafia hangout which was supposedly an electronics store. they got out and put the hood of the bus up so it looked as if the bus had broken down. they got out and defeated the locks. the patrons couldn't see them because they were behind a bus. bus one around the block as they were putting the bugs in. they came back and win went by the bus stop. there were two patrons from the bar waiting for the bus and the bus went by. they were furious and they went running for the bus. as soon as they got in from of the mafia hangout these two guys ran in trunk and at first the agents didn't realize they weren't with them. the agents were from different offices or they were

. >> publicly saying that the newspaper is a monster, a state enemy, media mafia, rats.t is something which creates this atmosphere, especially when it comes from the top of the government, including the prime minister. >> last summer, a bomb exploded under his car, and it was the second at 10 against him. in 2007, he was beaten up by two men. he reports about organized crime and drug smuggling. now, he and his family fear for their lives. his attackers are still at large, but that, too, is not unusual here. >> i have the impression that someone obstructed the investigation. i think they reached a point where high-ranking and well-established people -- for instance in the government -- would have been implicated. >> how does this harassment of journalists and a candidate for european union membership square up with the eu's declared democratic and human rights values? >> an integral part of the negotiation and processing, and one of our chapters, we have to have a safe environment for journalists. so the country can move forward. >> he believes that will take a long time

democratic senator from tennessee named estes keefover began an investigation of organized crime, mafia in the cities of the country. he started going around with the committee to cities rather than having everybody come to washington. the committee went to new orleans, st. louis, kansas city, detroit, chicago, new york and and a made tmade the circuit. when it got to new orleans, the local television station preempted howdy doudie the kid's television show. people were glued to this. it was senators and mobsters. a great combination. as keefover's committee traveled, the local tv started picking up on this. it was like a broadway with show doing tryouts and getting to the great white way across the new york networks all broadcasted they were national networks. it wasn't local television anymore. one of the witnesses was frank costello a mobster in new york. they came to washington and tv came into this room to cover this. housewives were holding parties inviting their friends over to watch. it was the best television to watch at this point. it turned keefover into an unlikely president

like in the mafia they're now implicated. they can't go home. one fighter, identified today as maxime hauchard, a french national, who went to syria last year. isis says its goal, is to drag the u.s. into a ground war and to show u.s. air strikes haven't stopped them. isis is still holding at least two western hostages, british photo journalist john cantly forced to become a spokesman for the group. and a 26-year-old american woman who hasn't been identified. richard engel, nbc news, istanbul. >>> back in this country the weather is making news tonight. there is more snow on the ground across our country than we usually see by christmastime. in some places it's been measured in terms of feet on the ground. you can see the sheer size of the storm right now clocking the eastern seaboard. by tomorrow parts of every state in the union will have temperatures below freezing. and this same system has triggered an outbreak of tornadoes across the south as parts of florida, for example, go from the 70s to the 30s in a day. our meteorologist dylan dreyer