christie, tell us the story of jim lee. >> somebody called and said there was a man hanging out the window. >> reporter: the daring rope rescue caught on cell phone shows new york city firefighter jim lee repelling off the building clinching a badly burned resident in his 80s. >> i told him to stay calm. when we got down, i said, i hope you enjoyed the ride. >> what did you think when you saw him scaling the wall. >> hope it don't break. >> reporter: he tells "action news" before his son, jimmy, became part of the rescue he got his start here at 16 as a junior firefighter. after 15 years, he worked his way to assistant chief. >> take this truck together. i got the front and he got the back. >> reporter: did you heech him that? >> i was probably involved. he was the one that just caught it naturally, i guess. >> reporter: a natural, of sorts. jimmy admits the dramatic rescue was no easy task. >> we train all the time for that. from the day you go to school up to your last day on the job, you train for this, probably one of the most dangerous evolutions we do. >> reporter: thursday night mem

here to talk about it is jim lee canyon. jim seely, marketing manager, lee canyon ski resort (questions) 1) january is ski & snowboard month - what offerings do you have for guests? 2) tell us about the 3) we heard that kids can start skiing at age 3! what kid - friendly programs do you have this year? 4) snow tubing is back for a second year - why do you think this has been a popular addition to the resort? 5) tell us about the charity program you have with the boys 6) can people get lift tickets online? times you are opened? good morning america is up next. and join us back here at 8 a-m for another full hour of the day's top stories and weather headlines. new developments this morning in the case of the so-called >>> good morning, america. new overnight -- danger downstream. devastating floodwaters surge south. >> the crash we had today was the highest crest in history. >> divers capturing incredible images. communities completely under water. our new tour of the disaster and the major cities in the danger zone right now.

one of them, firefighter jim lee, repelled down the side on a 150 foot rope. and despite the rope starting to burn, grabbed the man, lowered him to the sidewalk. 15 seconds later the rope burned through and fell to the ground. it was a heroic night for the fdny, or as they call it, wednesday. tonight was another one, when the plane carrying mike pence came to a rest at the end of the runway. that's our broadcast. "hardball" begins right now. >>> something about women. let's play "hardball."

man allegedly holding a 5-year-old boy hostage, they're continuing those negotiations. 65-year-old jim lee dykes is accused of shooting and killing a bus driver and abducting a little boy from the bus. a funeral for the driver was held yesterday. >>> 38 were injured in a crash between a tour bus and two other vehicles in southern california. the california highway patrol says the driver reported having brake problems while driving down a mountain. the bus rear ended a sedan causing it to flip over. the sedan then hit a pickup truck which was pulling a trailer. >>> seven people injured when a bus hit an overpass in boston are still in the hospital. one of the people is in critical condition. the bus was carrying a group of philadelphia high schools and their adult chaperones when the bus hit the bridge saturday night. the bus didn't belong on that road. philadelphia-based calvary bus company says the driver saw the bridge too late. >>> our time is 4:36. we're off to a cool start this morning. we could see some snow later this evening. howard is back in two minutes with today's potentially s

live long i 25 jim lee fox 31 denver. thank you jim. some new information on a deadly hit and run crash that happened overnight on colorado boulevard at i70. police say a man named tyler white is being held in police custody while authorities a three car crash one person died in the crash. no word yet on what caused the crash. but police will update us in about half an hour. when we get an update, you'll see it on kdvr.com and our news at 5 p.m. new information on a murder in glennwood springs over the weekend. officials are now identifying the victim as 28 year old blanca judith jurado salas. this man is accused of killing her gustavo olivo tellez. he was taken into custody saturday by the grand junction swat team. police are saying this morning salas died from multiple gunshot the number of people in north carolina, killed by hurricane matthew is at 14 this morning. that's up three from before. the governor of north carolina made that announcement this morning. according to cnn that brings the total us deaths from matthew up to 24. th

and jim acosta, the senior white house correspondent is with us live, and also in kiev, jim lee, i want to go to you first, and we have talked about the president call from president obama, and not only to vladimir putin, but to the prime minister of canada steven haphen harper, president elon of france, and the message is to get out and stay out of ukraine. >> and yes, the president wrapped up those calls with prime ministers of canada and france. and it looks like he is aligning the allies. talking about all three leaders agreed that ukraine's sovereignty and sbintegrity mus be respected. so it sound likes the president in addition to calling vladimir putin is calling the allies to get behind him, which is, jim, very important, but i want to talk about the tough statement that the white house put out in respect to the president's 90-minute phone call to vladimir putin and what it was like. let me give you a sense of it. let us put it up on screen, because this is the hard position that the president is taking here. the united states calls on russia to provide deescalation by withdrawi

jim lee was being scaled down scaling the burning building. >> go to your right.> i remember seeing him looking up at me with that hood up. i said let's go. >> with the rope holding them beginning to burn -- >> they successfully lowered the two men to safety seconds before the rope snapped. >>. >> the rope was on fire and reality set in that wow, we really squlus saved -- we saved a guy's life. we let jit matly, a group of guys worked together in seamless fashion and saved this guy's life. what a feeling. >> you look familiar. >> the firefighters met the man they saved, jim duff fi. >> i said thank god. it was a miracle on 93rd. >> this is definitely a win for everybody. >> cnn new york. >> thanks so much. >>> at this hour the president-elect is on his way back to new york city where he plans to meet with more potential cabinet picks. we'll continue to follow this at the top of the hour. in the meantime that's going to do it for me. thanks for being with me today. have a great rest of the weekend and a great week. i won this 55 inch tv for less than $30 on dealdas

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a 5-year-old boy is still being held in an underground bunker by jim lee dykes. police say dykes shot and killed a school bus driver last tuesday and abductsed the child. police continue to negotiate with dykes who has received medicine for the boy and is believed to be making the boy as comfortable as possible. the funeral for the bus driver was held sunday. as hundreds turned out to pay tribute to charles poland who was hailed as a hero for protecting the other children on the school bus before he was shot. >>> defense secretary leon panetta is defending the government's controversial drone program and reveals that as a catholic he grapples with making life and death decisions. secretary panetta tells abc's "meet the press" that decisions to target suspected terrorists with drone strikes don't come lightly and that u.s. officials make sure they are focused on somebody who is a direct threat to the united states while trying to limit collateral damage. you can watch chuck todd's full interview with the defense secretary on line. that's at meetthepressnbc.com. >>

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group or force baby thirteen years ago dr jim lee was one of the first to conduct research on forced bathing he concluded that the essential oils the trees produce to protect themselves from germs and bugs can boost the human immune system like a lot of find a side door essential our lives found in the forests my research has shown that far as trying to size reduce the stress hormones in relaxes us in the future the time may come when doctors prescribe the forest instead of medicine. this is al-jazeera.

amy: for jim lee and kirk bockman the letters mean much the evening more than a job -- the etching more than a job. >> i think of the survivors. the grandparents. the kids. amy: they have engraved every name on the national law enforcement officer's memorial in d.c. >> we come every year and do the name addition. >> since they started in 1991, over 20,000 names etched in stone. >> it is really their story. not ours. >> thousands of stories like montgomery county officer noah leotta. >> the whole background of the other emotions. >> emotions and before each sandblast, a prayer. >> for them and for me. make sure everything goes right. you don't have any stencil failures. not destroying any stone. kind of, you know, thanks. great service. >> crews tell me they started here. on the west side of the memorial. with over 200 n time around, in random placement, they have worked their way around to the east side. onlookers like victoria harriston come out to get a front row seat ahead of a crowded may dedication. >> for the families that lost the family members, i know that this really means a l

. >> reporter: firefighter jim lee rappelling down from the roof, grabbing the man from a third floor window. >> i told him to stay calm and when we got down, i said, i hope you ebb joyed the ride. >> reporter: david, firefighter lee says just seconds after they were both safely on the ground, that rope burned through. 11 firefighters suffered minor injuries. david? >> linzie janis on the scene there in new york tonight. linzie, thank you. >>> next, to the extreme weather, on the move at this hour, from the great lakes to from d.c. to philly, new york to new england. planes de-iced in hartford, connecticut, and in north hampton, massachusetts, tonight, snow and icy roads making for a difficult evening commute. let's get to rob marciano. hey, rob. >> reporter: hi, david. for the big northeast cities, it is a cold rain, but for many, it's the first winter event of the season and it's not even november yet. check out the radar. still white showing up in places like albany and points no sleet. will be clearing out tomorrow morning, but wind behind that. want to show you storm in californi

development bank on financing of projects in a recent interview with bloomberg inaugural ai ib president jim lee quinn said that the ai ib will not try to be a clone or copy of existing institutions such as the world bank or asian development bank and would distinguish itself by resisting bureaucracy and corruption mr lee quinn also repeatedly emphasized his view that while the b. and the one belt one road initiative are both chinese proposals belton road is a chinese led initiative will be is can see it as a multilateral development institution. russian president vladimir putin freshly sworn in for a fourth term on monday says he plans to make russia one of the top five global economies by twenty twenty four russia's economy currently ranks twelfth incised analysts say the russian that russia's economy would have to increase by fifty percent to achieve the goal mr putin will also face some added difficulty with such an economic expansion given the troubles of recent years including economic sanctions and a recession. in two thousand and seventeen russian gross domestic product g.d.p. grew weakl

be in the senate as one of the five most conservative as long with jeff blake of arizona, jim demint, mike lee and rand paul. >> paul? >> they are not all elected. >> etch will think the upcoming debates in october and the presidential candidates will be absolutely decisive because the race is so short or so tight, but it will have no effect on the outcome. >> u.s. economic stagnation even with new stimulus will continue through august, september, and october freezing the 44th u.s. president to one term. blessed ramadan! bye-bye. if you've been successful, you didn't get there on your own. if you've got a business, you didn't build that. somebody else made that happen. my father's hands didn't build this company. my hands didn't build this company. through hard work and a little bit of luck, we built this business. why are you demonizing us for it? it's time we had somebody who believes in us. someone who believes that achievement should be rewarded not punished. we need somebody who believes in america. [ romney ] i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. i've never felt this way before, bu

he desperately wants to avoid that as jim lee. so i think this is something we can do to support saving a great lives without escalating the one visa and mastercard. say they are suspending all operations in russia effective immediately, a means transactions for credit cards issued within russia won't work outside the countries, cards issued elsewhere will no longer work in russia. the companies are the latest to isolate moscow from the international community. economist hammond hi de says the decision by visa mastercard will have a devastating effect on many sectors of society. however, you know, i mean this damage is not going to be only for the, for the clients or the, or the, the car carriers. there will be a damage for the company as well, for the visa and, and other credit card companies. if this is step is this is really in effect. now, let me know we are talking about the, the, the, some over 210000000 cardholders in, in russia. and they said they have statistics show that around $850000.00 card issued every month. if we'r

gone into countries rushed force for what they call your call or forced baby thirteen years ago dr jim lee was one of the first to conduct research on forest bathing he concluded that the essential oils the trees produce to protect themselves from germs and bugs can boost the human immune system what a lot of find aside or essential oil is found in the forests my research has shown that far as trying to size reduces stress hormones can relax us in the future the time may come when doctors prescribe the forest and the state of medicine overthrown and exiled they appoint and say before all this mess which he knew an intimate film about the struggle of the elected leader of madagascar to return to his country and reinstate his presidency knows that the true a strange and we will not negotiate is the long long walk for a change from this return of a president at this time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera.

we're learning more about the suspect. 65-year-old jim lee dykes is an isolated man. also a vietnam veteran who has strong antigovernment views. he gunned down a school bus driver and abducted a 5 year old boy. he's been holding him in an under ground bunker ever since. the ground of communication is still open and the boy is in good condition. the bus driver who died was laid to rest yesterday. at least 500 people attended his funeral hailing him as a hero. >> two tour buses crashed sunday on two different sides of the nation leaving at least 8 people dead. all 8 happened in southern california where a bus headed to tijuana collided with two other vehicles. the driver of the bus reported having break projects coming down a mountain 38. in boston 35 people were hurt. the bus was on its way back and carrying a group of philadelphia area high school students and their adult chaperons. the bus was too tall for the road it was traveling on. >>> a decorated war veteran for his skill and service shot and killed apparently by a man he tried to help. >> navy seal chris kyle w

within seconds, jim lee was being lowered down, scaling the burning building. >> go to your right, jimmyo your right. >> he was burning. at one point you could hear him yell burning. i see him looking up at me with the hood up and i just said to him, let's go. >> reporter: with the rope holding them beginning to burn -- >> lower down nice and easy gierkss. lower him down. >> reporter: team of firefighters successfully lowered the two men to safety. >> reporter: good. we're down. down. >> reporter: seconds before the rope snapped. >> looking back up and seeing the fire out the windows, the rope was on fire. and the reality really set in that, wow, we really just -- we saved a guy's life. legitimately group of guys worked together in seamless fashion and save this had guy's life and what a feeling. >> reporter: that feeling came again. >> you look familiar. >> reporter: when the firefighters met the man they saved, jim duffy. >> i said thank god. it was a miracle. i called it a miracle on 93rd. >> that's a good catch phrase. i like it. >> it was. >> we deal with a lot of tragedy in this jo

he would note medgar evers, jim lee jackson, jonathan daniels, people who literally gave their livesthe right to vote. and if he could walk out of that vote, out of that museum and talk about voter suppression as a reality as opposed to voter fraud as a myth, then visit would be well worth it. if he walked the museum and took note of the sacrifice of rosa parks and martin luther king and then left the museum and addressed the hate crimes that are running -- that are taking place all across our country, were he to visit the museum and note the role of the naacp and would literally work with us shoulder to shoulder, arm in arm to do something about the civil rights challenges of our time, the president invoked the name of frederick douglass. frederick douglass once said there is no progression without struggle. in other words, he was noting what's taking place in the streets today, that is resistance. and people are resisting the injustices of our time. so i'd like to visit the museum with him. but not paying homage to the past, but taking note of the courage we need in the present. >>

house has ever since the caucus room conspiracy in january twenty fifth is that because they have jim lee nothing it's not a very not a very the president penciling was who was bragging about it peter hoekstra later but bush handling this actually pete sessions exactly your team has been writing about it right i have a car that he was bragging about this is the problem i have when we talk about these getting rich on this we program when we pretend that. they're happening in america happen only in the. in islam there's never been politics there never been political does now been anything like overseas absolutely they haven't had a direct look a democrat this is congressman francisco congress this congress has passed fewer pieces of law than any congress since george washington street and back then congress only met for like three months progressive's believe passing more bills is good but question isn't whether you did more bills or not the question is what's the substance of bill's bills but and what and there is using to pass any subsequent bills in fact most of the bills that they have

. >> why did "the washington post" trashing nancy pelosi for doing basically what jim bakker and leeton said to do, engage the neighborhood over there in the middle east? >> jon: and how do they feel about the republican letter now? >> either these senators were trying to be helpful to the iranians or harmful to the commander-in-chief. >> democratic senator diane feinstein called it "a highly inappropriate and unprecedented incursion." >> jon:. is this where we stand in the country where the opposition will try anything to scuttle a noble president's effort to avoid a war? both look like the same people! (laughter) >> jon: now, of course, i can only assume conservatives feel the opposite in both instances. >> if the deal is that fragile, they don't have a deal. senators and members of the house opine on foreign policy all the time. >> it confuses people when they see one of the leaders of the houses attempt to conduct foreign policy. >> the leaders are looking for input because president obama cut them out of the process. >> it defies common sense and doesn't help the conversation. >

a 5-year-old boy is still being held in an underground burnger by jim me lee dykes. police continue to negotiate with dykes who's received medicine for the boy. the funeral for the bus driver was held sunday. charles poland was hailed as a hero. >>> defense secretary leon panetta is defending the country's controversial drone program. secretary panetta tells nbc's meet the press, drone strikes don't come lightly. u.s. officials make sure they're focused on somebody who's a direct threat to the u.s. watch chuck todd's full interview online. >>> okay, this morning the baltimore ravens are the super bowl champions. after defeating the san francisco 49ers. 34-31. in a game that went down to the wire but not without a hitch. a report on the all the day's festivities in the big easy. >> reporter: after a week of preparations, and parties, the action moved inside. ♪ oh beautiful >> reporter: a poignant start. students from sandy hook elementary singing "america the beautiful." then -- a power rendition of the national anthem by alicia keys. followed by america's game. >> fl

be in the senate as one of the five most conservative as long with jeff blake of arizona, jim demint, mike leend rand paul. >> paul? >> they are not all elected. >> etch will think the upcoming debates in october and the presidential candidates will be absolutely decisive because the race is so short or so tight, but it will have no effect on the outcome. >> u.s. economic stagnation even with new stimulus will continue through august, september, and october freezing the 44th u.s. president to one term. blessed ramadan! bye-bye.

jim hoffa is president of the international brotherhood of teamsters. and leenders is president of the american federation of state, county and municipal employees. welcome, all three, to the newshour. lee saunds, let me start with yo on thisabor day at a time when too many americans are out of work, how healthy is organized labor? >> we have taken our hits over the past two and three years especially in the public sector where we've had very, very right wing conservative governors steal our voices away from us, take collective bargaining away from us in wisconsin. scott walker limited our right to bargain and have a union. john kay sick tried to do the same thing in ohio. we were able to beat him back by more than a 2-to-1 margin. what doing now is mobilizing, organizing and educating our members this is psibl the most important election organized labor has been faced with for many many years. we've under attack like never before and we have to fight back. >> ifill: mr. hoffa, here we are in north carolina, probably the least unionized state in the country. or

have they been able to speak to him or only to jim lee dikes? >> they did get some information. they were able to give the boy crayons and crayon books. this is something that he requested. not sure how they were able to get it exactly into that bunker. that's pretty important. more importantly, they were able to get this young boy the medications that he needs. we spoke to state representative steve who has been in touch with his family and staying in close touch with him and says that the young boy suffers from asperger's syndrome. >> scared and terrified. thank you very much, george. >>> still to come, an emotional hearing in newtown, connecticut. the family and friends of the sandy hook shooting are speaking out. we're going to go there live. plus, the man who fooled manti te'o. hear his emotion of real romantic feelings for te'o. and later in the show, a sneak peak at this. oh, it worked. will it be enough to save the blackberry? i have the flu... i took theraflu, but i still have this cough. [ male announcer ] truth is theraflu doesn't treat your cough. what? [ male announ