a united spokesperson says it's tantamount to switching price tags to get a lower price at a department store >> i don't think it's unethical. it's not illegal, skiplag has a constitutional right to tell people about their airfares. >> there's no question it could be public knowledge, it should be but the problem is it's going to mess up with the airlines hub and spoke systems. i don't think there'll be unintended consequence, one of which is to make the average airfare go up. >> let's talk about the negatives. you wrote it's not just the airlines getting hurt by the hidden ticketing, it can work against consumers, it could make prices higher in the example i game implying to dallas, to austin it could make that expensive, implying from dallas to austin. >> what i say will probably go in one ear and out the other for a lot of people that hate the airlines, because let's face it people hate the airlines. america or unit will lower the fare to the hidden city to compete with another airline that may fly nonstop for the same fair. united or america argue that they are offering you a discou

united states. >> the pentagon spokesperson admiral john kirby acknowledging the terror attacks in paris and here at home. so what can be done to make sure we are better protected? former cia operations officer joins me now. what can we do now that we have not done? >> we have to be more aggressive, more proactive in getting ahead of this thing. there are typically indications that folks are radicalizing that they're heading in a bad direction. we need to get folks off the street, more surveillance everything. >> we're having this ongoing argument, this debate in this country, about our protection, about the need for greater security, balanced against the need for preserving our freedoms. how do you strike that balance? >> obviously we do have to strike that balance. we can't turn the united states into a police state. but i don't think there is attention there you can't get passed. through professionalism and discipline and procedures. we can handle that. the point is we don't really have a choice. we either get ahead of this or we're going to spend all of our time reacting to incidents and clea

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a spokesperson for ban ki-moon says the united nations has received the application and is considering appropriate next steps. even if the application is accepted without a hitch, it will take 60 days for jurisdiction to kick in and months before the court decides whether or not to pick up a case. kristen saloomey >>> indonesia's transport minister is investigating maltheir -- investigating their policies and procedures after the airasia crash. search teams think they found two large pieces of wreckage 30 meters down at the bottom of the java sea. it's hoped the black box flight recorders will be found seen. 162 passengers and crew were killed. the pod yes of 30 victims -- bodies of 30 victims has been recovered. >>> the united states imposed international sanctions on north korea over the cyber attack on sony last month. the obama administration insists that north korea was involved. pyongyang denies involvement. it was an "the interview," an assassination plot on kim jong un was released. tom ackerman has more. >> these actions baffle cut off 10 individuals associated with the north

the security was deemed to be inadegquete for that particular event >> reporter:a spokesperson for sjpd says their vice unit warned the owner prior to the chris brown event that extra security steps needed to be taken. >> that means to check patrons before they come in, searching backpacks or people. this was not done efficiently creek. >> reporter:because as recently as this past summer three people were wounded at a party the r and b singer emceed in west hollywood. >> reporter:and now a judge has revoked brown's probation in connection to the rihanna assault case.because apparently the singer didn't get permission to travel to san jose for sunday's event. but he will be allow to remain free until a hearing on the matter march 20th. >> reporter:it shouldn't effect brown's next concert in san jose.scheduled for march 6th. that will be taking at the sap center.y 3:23 the sap center more equipt to handle these types of events and have much better security measures in place as pd we will be working on the outlying areas .we'll be handling those situations >> reporter:maureen kelly kron4 news >> jacqueline: 10

responded saying some cameras were not installed on time and the batteries in many units were not replaced. a police spokesperson tells us the cold weather in 2014 was a factor in not being able to change those batteries. that differs from the reason former mayor vincent gray gave last year saying a change in driver behavior led to the drop in speed camera revenue. news4's mark segraves will have more on what this all means for your taxes in our next hour. >>> and earlier this hour we asked you to weigh in on our nbc washington flash survey of the day. so far an overwhelming number of you say fewer cameras, they're only collecting revenue. remember to keep on voting over on our nbc washington facebook page and the twitter page as well. >>> for the second time in a matter of months the same old town gas station was robbed at gunpoint. about 6:30 last night, a masked gunman held up the cash here at the liberty gas station on northwest washington street. back in october a different cashier at the same station was robbed then shot. that clerk survived but no arrest was ever made. police tell news4 they don't believe

spokesperson jen sakae said the u.s. does not believe palestinians qualify to join the court. >> the united states does not believe the state of palestine qualifies as a sovereign state and is not believed it is eligible to receive the statute. plugs on top of israel's freezing of palestinian revenue, the obama administration has also threatened to retaliate against the palestinian authority by reviewing its $440 million in annual aid. the fbi has disclosed evidence is has ties north korea to the hack on sony pictures. the cyberattack that to the release of tens of thousands of sony e-mails and files, and prompted the studio to change the release of a comedy depicting the assassination of north korean leader jim cong -- kim jong-un. speaking to the international conference on cyber security in new york, the fbi dirtor said the hackers had used north korean servers. >> with an e-mail threatening sony employees and would post online various statement explaining their work. and in nearly every case, they used proxy servers to disguise where they were coming from in sending those e-mails and posting those statements. but severa

president of the united states that you do have a client, your client is the united states of america. the chief spokesperson might be the president but the people of the united states and the constitutional restraints that fall upon every officer who is sworn to defend and uphold the constitution. i see my time has expired and i recognize mr. blumenthal. >> as a careful lawyer, which i know your i want to try perhaps set your mind a little bit at ease but a question you were asked earlier. the question related to a statute that purchase port he hadly -- purportedly saying who could take deferred action. one of my colleagues suggest that the president's executive order is illegal because it is being implementeded by the department of homeland security and not the attorney general as the law he quoted seemed to suggest. just to clarify, the statute that was quoted to you actually was amended in 2002. it no longer assigns responsibility for immigration policy to the attorney general, the provision he quoted and another provision which directly authorizes what president obama has done are to be implemented by t

the governor's spokesperson said any slur weakens american unit. >>> more people are getting back to work in delaware. unemployment dropped 5.4% down from 6%. the significant decline is likely the result of holiday hiring. the numbers indicate positive long term trends for the economy. >>> gas prices are falling down 30 cents from a months ago. in pennsylvania, drivers are paying an average of 2.27. expect to pay 1.89 in new jersey. >>> happening today the last chance to check out the 2015 philadelphia home show. today is the last day for the show. it's being held at the pennsylvania convention center. the home show is the premier building design and landscaping event. this year there's free parking at the ikea lot on columbus boulevard. celebrity carpenter and tv host is appearing today known for fixing up bathrooms and kitchens. >>> a warning from the federal government how scam art itses are using -- artists are using tack season is to scam their victims. >>> looking live through sky6 live hd wilmington, delaware are we're expecting not just one but two more winter wallops coming

. >> the spokesperson for secretary-general ban ki-moon says the united nations has received the application and is considering appropriate next steps. even if the application is accepted without hitch, it will take 60 days before the sanctions to kick in and to consider whether to take up the case. kristin saloomey, al jazeera the united nations. >>> sultan abdalla serves as a second largest highway to mosul. >>> air strikes on i.s.i.l. this time it's targeting the group's headquarters in syria but i.s.i.l. fighters still continue to make gains across syria and iraq even as united states steps up it's assault. it has executed nearly 2,000 people. now, i.s.i.l. controls land if more than a dozen provinces stretching from aleppo in syria down to baghdad in iraq. and the group continues to grow. the cia estimated over the summer that more than 30,000 foreign fighters have joined i.s.i.l. most came from arab countries like tunisia jordan and saudi arabia. some from russia. i.s.i.l. captured the largest oil field al omar, able to produce 75,000 barrels of oil every day. millions have fled more t

united nations. >> reporter: we received a statement from the secretary general's spokesperson that says that the u.nis now considering the appropriate next steps. typically it takes 60 days once an application is received for the jurisdiction to go into effect. but we have the israelis arguing that the palestinians aren't even qualified to be members because they are not an officially recognized state. that position is not shared by many year at the united nations. and the court has suggested that they would accept the membership. but there are many many other issues that need to be worked out. one of the things that we heard from the ambassador is that the palestinians want the court's jurisdiction to be retroactive. which means that any incidents that happened even before the palestinians became members of the rome statute, signed the treaty joining the court, those could also be considered by the court. that is open to legal debate as to whether or not that would be approach. he also said that he specifically wanted the court to consider the issue of settlement building in the palestinian territo

. >> national security council deputy spokesperson, patrick released a statement saying in part quote the united state strongly condemns isis actions and we call for the immediate release of all the remaining hostages. the united states is fully supportive of japan in this matter. end quote. meanwhile the mother of hostage and journalist is sharing her fears about the future. >> his face looked extremely nervous. i think he feels gravely about what is to come. i think that's what it is. no time to be optimistic. >> isis terrorist also now making a new demand in the video released today, a prisoner swap, goto in exchange for a woman being held on terror charges in jordan. in jerusalem, john huddy fox news. >>> and still ahead on "fox 29 news" at 6:00 tonight, fox 29 investigate. >> drivers look to go save a few pennies on gas and end up spending hundreds of dollars more in damage to their car. they tell us they bought bad gas from a local service station. >> i like cried a little bit because i knew as soon as he said that that it won't be under warantee and i would have to pay for it. >> what fox

united airlines is maintaining it investigated appropriately and determined there was no credible threat. a spokespersonnd safety staff all deemed that the plane was safe to fly. these flight attendants are asking to be reinstated in their jobs and then compensated for damages. back to you. >> jeanine, thank you. >>> the time now is 5:37. as we have been telling you, the golden gate bridge will be shut down for the weekend after midnight. saturday morning crew will be out there installing a movable median barrier that will replace the current system of plastic pylons. now there will be zipper trucks to remove the barriers and they will be replacing them with cement pylons. there will be two trucks, one from the front and one from the back. >> you have a line to follow and a half inch to inch to play with. >> the workers say the new system will be a huge safety improvement reducing a lot of serious accidents on the bridge. however the old plastic pylon system will be used near the toll plaza until the doyle drive project is finished in 2017. >>> happening today, the u.s. olympic committee will decide whi

spokesperson for president said paxta hadrajazapaksa refused to back the former president. meanwhile, thousandsed gathererred to hear him in kandi. he pledged to tackle poverty and unitell ethnic and religious groups in the country. he suggested improving relations with western countries. let's get more from charles stratford in the capitol colombo. >> reporter: we have been speaking for his spokesperson. he tells us in the early hours of january 9th as the votes were beginning to come in it seems that former president rajapaksa didn't like what he was hearing. we hear he called a meeting with representatives of the attorney general and the army chief in a bid so we are told to come up with a legal in which he could retain. neither parties both representatives of the attorney general and the arm chief were prepared to play ball. he decided to concede defeat. the new president has been up in kandi, the city of kandi, great significance in terms of sri lanka's identity. he has been addressing the nation there from one of the historic sites in that city talking about his 100-day plan to end what is described here as the executive powers of the president, the executive pr

the spokesperson for secretary-general ban ki-moon ace the united nations received the application and is considering appropriate next steps. if considered, it will take 60 cause for jurisdiction to kick in, and could take months before the court decides whether or not to take up the case. >>> u.s.a. department officials say they may cut aid to palestinians if they make claims against israel >>> violence greeted a u.s. delegation visiting the west bank on friday. jewish settlers threw estoppels at american diplomats investigating claims on property. they arrived in diplomatic cars without coordinating with israeli authorities. thankfully no one was injured. the state department was concerned by the attack >>> in iraq members of the minority community are taking the fight against i.s.i.l. into its own hands. yazidi attacked a down on the iraqi-syrian border looking for women and girls that i.s.i.l. abducted during the summer. the peshmerga did not know about the attack. as erica woods report the yazidi appear to be acting alone. >> reporter: around 20 armed yazidi stormed this arab town

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the united states has not yet called the situation in yemen a coup al jazeera asked u.s. state department spokesperson why? >> there is a legal analysis that would be done in any circumstance regardless around the world president hadi is the president of yemen. we remain in touch with him. we've seen reports of cease-fire talks. we urge all parties to abide by the terms that's where we feel. is it easy? no. but that's the best path forward and that's the discussions we're having on the ground. >> michael: we have reports of how events have unfolded. >> they may not officially have power, but it's clear who is in charge with yemen's capitol of sanaa. houthies stand guard where presidential guards stood just days ago. but they say they're only here to maintain order. >> we're here to provide security and stability and to protect freedom and services of all people. >> president hadi has not been seen in public since monday. >> the problem is you don't know who are the players and what's going on. especially that the decision is not made in yemen. it's made in tehran. it's made with al-qaeda leadership. >

united states, may not be able to clean up after a snowstorm. the city find john kerry $50 for not clearing the sidewalk at his beacon hill mansion. his spokesperson said he will pay the fine. >> reporter: looking in the southwest, philadelphia the mid span. platt bridge. road conditions are fine, no problems we're dry traffic is moving nicely. let's switch the cameras to the ben franklin bridge. currently we're looking good, 9:30 to 2:00 two lanes open in each direction. that will cause a little bit of a problem. not until 9:30. mass transit is on time. >> reporter: storm tracker 6 live is showing we have light snow showers they are affecting the roads. most of the temperatures are above freezing, i don't know that this is adhering all that well or will be there much longer. 30 in pottstown, 30 in saints david and over 30 in chester and philadelphia. down to the south milder as you head toward the shore and southern delaware. as we look at the errand running today, not a bad day today it. you want to get your errands done in the morning that's when we're ranging 34 to 38. this afternoon the winds will pick up and temperatures will plunge, matt an

for reaction in the united states let's turn to nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. and deputy spokesperson> we americans pride ourselves in at least in most cases, you can a simulate when you come to our country. you can learn the language you have to become american dressed like us more or less. you don't to have change religions but you can become an american. in france you get the sense these people from north africa are still rooting for algeria in the soccer games. they still see themselves from arab countries. is that an advantage for us that should give us some security or not? >> well i think that there is a lot of county politics also in the politics. we're a broader country. we have more diversity of grooms. i think this is a segment and a growing segment, 10%, perhaps, french society with deep roots of an 10 they and a lot of restricted laws, the head scarf controversies and a feeling of isolation and also an identification with these groups, with al qaeda and the al qaeda peninsula. there have been aspirational and inspirational attacks from isis the civil war in syria that has

united is defending itself and maintained it investigated appropriately and determined there was no credible threat. a spokesperson says the pilots, mechanics and safety employees deemed the plane safe to fly. these former flight attendants are asking to be reinstated with back pay and to be compensated for damages. dave? >> janay, thank you. >>> our time is now 6:08. a woman suspected of starting a fire at the famous mrs. doubtfire house in fran is now under arrest. on monday two small fires were sent on the front steps and garage of this house made famous in the movie starring robin williams. police arrested 25-year-old tywon welsh at the house. the person who owns the house is a doctor that performs transgender surgeries and welsh was a former patient. >>> state health officials have linked nine confirmed cases of measles to disney theme parks in southern california. they all visited disney or the adventure theme park between december 15th and 20th. the patients range from age from 8 months to 21 years old. one of them is from alameda county. a county health officer says measles can be contagious before and aft

united states in the last quarter century. the one-day strike ends tomorrow morning. the university spokesperson call the strike a negotiating tool. >>> santa clara sheriff's deputies have arrested a gilroy man accused of growing pot in the back of his fake furniture store. in the 7500 block of monterey road. they say 39-year-old fluke winn never opened the business to sell furniture. he had more than 1,000 marijuana plants and 50-plus pounds of processed pot valued at $2 million. >> wow. >>> let's talk about the weather. for the first time in a month we had rain. nothing to write home about. >> yeah. we don't get it often, so we'll take it. there were a few drops in san jose this morning. spencer christian is here with the accu-weather update. spencer? >> hey. if you're writing home about this, you wouldn't have to write a complete sentence. we had a few sprinklings sprizzles. a mostly cloudy day until the last few minutes. we've got pockets of partial clearing now. still lots of clouds hanging around as you see in the live view from our camera. the current temperature readings, 63 in san franc

president of the united states that you do have a client, your client is the united states of america. the chief spokesperson might be the president but the people of the united states and the constitutional restraints that fall upon every officer who is sworn to defend and uphold the constitution. i see my time has expired and i recognize mr. blumenthal. >> as a careful lawyer, which i know your i want to try perhaps set your mind a little bit at ease but a question you were asked earlier. the question related to a statute that purchase port he hadly -- purportedly saying who could take deferred action. one of my colleagues suggest that the president's executive order is illegal because it is being implementeded by the department of homeland security and not the attorney general as the law he quoted seemed to suggest. just to clarify, the statute that was quoted to you actually was amended in 2002. it no longer assigns responsibility for immigration policy to the attorney general, the provision he quoted and another provision which directly authorizes what president obama has done are to be implemented by t

why the united states government under the leadership of this president has devoted significant resources to defeating them. >> wow. i mean i can't believe that this is the president's spokesperson. the threat they impose is different. it's acute, and there's a clear difference between the terrorism of al qaeda and the terrorism of the taliban. in what way? >> i mean it goes back to my question, is the taliban in afghanistan using ieds? as opposed to the taliban in afghanistan using guns to kill children? this parsing of the language is ridiculous offensive and absurd coming from the white house. and it all goes back to the white house trying to save its own behind when it comes to negotiatinging with tall bang terrorists for the release of an alleged deserter. the administration wants to get bowe bergdahl back, they thought it was going to be this big homecoming, president obama would have this amazing thing for his legacy people would be happy he was back. and then people started talking about what actually happened there and it didn't look good. now the administration is going to these ridiculous lengths to parse words on the kichbds of terrorists we're dealing with. you coul

. >> reporter: the national security council's deputy spokesperson has also released a statement condemning isis. the united states is fully supportive of japan in this matter. we stand in solidarity with japan and are coordinating closely. the nsc also called for the immediate release of all remaining hostages. i'm mary maloney reporting. >>> new this morning, president barack obama president obama and first lady michelle obama arrived in india for a two day visit. indian prime minister nor renda moghe greeted them on the tarmac and mr. obama later received a ceremonial welcome and also laid a wreath at the too many of -- tomb of nagate te munde. >>> unemployment is down statewide and it is at a record low in the city of san francisco. california's unemployment rate dropped to 7% in december, that's down from a little over 8% recorded in december of 2013. mayor ed lee issued a statement saying these figures demonstrate san francisco's economic policies are working. marin county has the lowest unemployment in the renal at a little over 3% and monterey country had the highest at close to 11%. >>> coming up n

a fire department spokesperson said the fire started in a carport, burned three cars and spread to two apartments. neighbors banged on the door of that sleeping man's unit, waking him and he dashed to safety, fire officials say no one was hurt. >> major new developments about the raiders and 49ers coaching job on the left, the new head coach for the 49ers, and on the right, is jack delrio he is coming to coach the raiders, so no more speculation tonight about those two coaching jobs. >> teams finally made their decisions on the same day raiders have not made an announcement yet, bay area native, jack delrio is coming to oakland the niners did make official they are staying in house and promoting, jim tomsula mark is here now. all this happening on the same day. >> a little strange but as you say, 49 everies and raiders -- 49ers and raiders got to share the headlines because oakland won the battle of the bay we will talk about their new head coach first other than never having played for the raiders he is about the most perfect pedigree fans could hope for. jack delrio born in east bay, grew up a raiders fan and parents have seasons tickets obviously it

the president of the united states himself congratulated the new congress and then through his spokesperson, his conduit josh earnest, he made it very clear hey congress, if you try to pass the keystone pipeline thing or change the requirement on the affordable care act from 30 hours to 40 hours for a full work week, i'm going to veto it many i'm not kidding. right, josh? >> the fact is the legislation is not altogether different than legislation introduced in the last congress. we put out a statement of administration position indicating the president would have vetoed had that bill passed the previous congress. and i can confirm for you that if this bill passes this congress the president wouldn't sign it either. >> welcome to town. >> republicans projecting it could offer 40,000 jobs -- >> the president says 2,000 temporary jobs. >> he's not excited about this. remember when democrats offered up this bill to save mary landrieu's senate seat? remember this? it didn't seem as though the white house had a problem with that and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, he noted the hypocrisy.

council deputy spokesperson, patrick ventrell released a statement saying in part the us strongly condemns isis actions and we call for the immediate release of all the remaining hostages. the united states is fully supportive of japan in this matter. end quote. meanwhile the mother of hostage and journalist kenji goto is sharing her fears about the future. >> his face looked extremely nervous. i think he feels gravely about what is to come. i think that's what it is. no time to be optimistic. >> isis terrorists are now making new demand in the video released today, a prisoner swap goto in exchange for a woman being held on terror charges, in jordan. in jerusalem john huddy fox news. >>> a philadelphia police officer is recovering tonight after his cruiser is hit by a drunk driver. it happened around 2:30 this morning at the intersection of north broad and west tioga. police say the cop was stopped at a construction site when another car plowed right into him. cops arrested 34 year old man charged him with dui. the officer had neck and back injuries but is expected to be okay. >> philadelphia police are looking for the gunman who opened fire on two people killing one of them. happ

spokesperson josh earnest admitted the stature did not measure up. look at the pictures here. this will be written in future history books and will not include the president of the united states. take a listen. >> some have asked whether or not the united states should have sent someone with a higher profile than the ambassador to france. i think it's fair to say we should have sent someone be higher profile to be there. >> cnn senior political correspondent breanna keeler from washington. you've covered the white house quite a while before your current post. when you heard josh earnest say essentially our bad, we should have sent higher profile. you don't often hear that. >> you don't hear that from this white house. you don't hear that from many white houses. this was a big deal to see this. i think it reflected in retrospect they realized this was not the right decision. we heard from secretary of state john kerry that a lot of this criticism, president obama or higher level official not going, was quibbling. the fact josh earnest came out and said what he said, tells you they realize now it's not just quibbling. they're not being clear what the problem was at the w

ago, a spokesperson from the white house issued a terse explanation or statement which is not unexpected. the wordage, we have seen the video. we are working to confirm its authenticity. the united states strongly con tan demz isil's actions and we call for the immediate release of all remaining hostages. we stand in solidarity with allied japan. beyond that, secretary of state john kerry in an unrelated appearance with his mexican and canadian counterparts in boston did refer -- may not have been aware of the actual emergence of this video at that time. but he chose to concentrate on the latest battlefield gains by the coalition and said that the dash was forced to acknowledge it's defeat in the capture by kurdish forces in most of kolbane a couple of days ago and said that kobane was a real symbolic and strategic objective of dash and they suffered a defeat. >> that's obviously the concentration that the united states is putting right today on the situation. the u.s. is in a standby position. they obviously whyere not happy to see the jordan crane government a crucial ally of theirs in a position of being willing to exchange a convicted terrorist through the jordanian governme

united kingdom. it is very court and that people are able to live in this country to follow -- important that people could follow their faith and live free of fear. >> a leading of them spokespersonwest brought this on themselves with the foreign policy. would you join with me in calling for all those within leadership in the muslim community to say and do nothing which would give justification for people to believe that terrorism is justified and to realize that this only creates -- it is absolutely right that it is important for those to make it very clear that the terrorist attacks are not about the religion or faith. they are not in their name. it is also important that we ensure that a clear message is sent and that the only people responsible for terrorist attacks are the terrorist themselves. >> interception of the communications data is critical. if the liberal democrats will not support what is needed or the defense of our nation, with my friend from that necessary legislation to fill the latest gaps will feature manifesto and the next parliament? >> we are very clear we would take that legislation forward. >> could they stop attacks on israeli and jewish property? >> ye

united nations and you have live people in a speech. it's different than -- >> talk to me about what happened this morning. >> right. >> because once again, unfortunately, we have this horrible massacre. you have josh ernest, the spokesperson now in the role that you once had, coming out and not calling it a terrorist attack. >> i have been in that position too, and i remember two months after september 11th the airplane crashed in long island and governor pataki and mayor juliany closed although bridges and tunnels to manhattan. everybody thought is this terrorism? it took me four hours in a sit room before i was comfortable coming up to the podium and saying to people this was not terrorism. it seems to be more of a pattern here. >> this is why he is suspect. you go back to fort hood. that was terrorism. that wasn't workplace violence. so when you hear the president hesitate, when he is being cautious, people are going to impugn his motives because of what happened at fort hood or to this day he still won't call it terrorism. we're in longer in an era where foreign policy doesn't matter. it does. the americans want people that will protect us with strength. the thing that has to come out of us is why the surveillance pro

spokesperson for president george w. bush mercedes schlapp. mercedes, what caused romney to change his mind? >> i think he has this ideal of himself that he really wants to be president of the unitedt the field overall and saying, wait a second maybe i can go up against these guys. the problem is that the field is getting so crowded and governor jeb bush is moving aggressively. and so i don't think that governor romney is just about the let go and be out of the limelight and just give it up to jeb bush. >> jimmy, romney telling donors he would run a different campaign than he has in the past. what would be different? >> not much other than -- listen, i think mitt romney would be a fabulous candidate for the presidential nomination in 2016 because exactly one year ago, he told "the new york times" -- the quote is oh no, no, no, no, no. that's a quote. i'm not doing that, end quote. i welcome mitt romney into the race for a third time. the last temptation of mitt as buzz feed calls it. i think he would be a welcome addition to the field. >> jimmy, i don't welcome him, okay. >> really? >> i do. but here's my point. my point is this. in that piece that he did with "the new york times"

spokesperson. he says we have seen the video reporting to show huharuna yukawa beheaded. we are working to confirm the authenticity. the unitedjapan in this matter and we stand in solidarity with japan and are coordinating closely. we have seen other news about isis in the past week. we heard from the defense department several days ago they're now saying that coalition air strikes and other efforts have killed some 6,000 isis leaders and isis targets. we're still looking to confirm some of those numbers. but there has been a big development. of course that has not stopped these gruesome executions fred. >> and even with this news erin the white house is also confirming the president will be planning to go to saudi arabia for the funeral of king abdullah. what more can you tell us about that? >> reporter: well fred we did get a statement from white house press secretary josh earnest, overnight. i'm going to read part of that to you. a lot of verbal gymnastics in how they announced this. it was such a late-breaking development. as the president and vice president's travel schedules became clear, we determined the window of the