alex: dad, can i take guitar lessons with ms. casey? not now, alex. we'll talk about it later.up. sorry, i had a bad day. listen, you don't have to drive me home. really, i can take the bus. no, it's no big deal. these flowers just arrived for you. r me? who are they from? don't know. what does the card say? "save saturday for me. "something big is happening. alberto." wow, they're beautiful. yes, they're lovely. guess we'll put them in water. ( alarm clock beeping ) ( telephone ringing ) hello? hi, dad. it's me. oh, rebecca, how are you? oh, i'm fine. how are you? i've never been better. good, i'm so glad to hear that. kevin and i are getting along just fine. uh... he got a raise at work. he got a raise already? good for him. so, how are things out there? i bet you ss your old ro. oh, my room out here is nice. but the people are different, right, not like boston? no, everyone here's been great. the people in the house are very interesting. yeah, i bet. ( coughing ) are you all right? like i said, i'm fine. just a frog in my throat. so how's school? school? it's pretty tough, d

>> reporter: yes, alex.er, people tossing the shovels and going for the snow blower, over my shoulder here. a good two feet of snow that snow blower has to go through. you can see is it it struggling a bit. not only the light, fluffy snow we're having now. underneath, a heavier snow and a layer of ice, last night, we saw freezing rain and sleet really just pound this area, and, of course, it's going to be a lot to clean up, we did have flows just down the street a little bit ago. but they actually left, because they were spinning out, you could hear their tires going round and round. sometimes d.o.t. crew has to go and pick out shovels and shovel out areas so they could maneuver the truck. another thing that people will have to watch out for here, see all the cars? this is what people will wake up to. some of the cars have been here for the duration of the storm, it's not just new snow they have to clear off, we're at the old saybrook inn. this looks to be two feet here, a little bit deeper in some areas, ju

with alex witt." the latest on the storm, right now, nearly 100 cars trapped on new york's long island expre expressw expressway. no word on when they will be rescued. a car accident killed a 74-year-old pedestrian in new york state. most warned others to stay off the roads. >> it just took us ten minutes to drive three blocks. that's how bad it is. >> we've seen a couple accidents. seen a lot of people getting stuck. >> it's pretty bad out here if you don't have 4-wheel drive, you shouldn't be on the road. >> it has knocked out power to customers, mainly in massachusetts. rhode island has the second most outages. frustrated flyers waking up in airports. logan airport is closed. so far, airlines canceled 5,300 flights through today. the massive storm as seen from space. noaa released this photo before the storm ens phied and grew even larger. let's get the latest from the forecast and snow totals from nbc meteorologist bill karins who had a long night. good morning to you. >> good morning, alex. would

alex? >> yeah. hey ron, i know that there was talk about people having to walk in the streets because the sidewalks are even more treacherous than the streets. have the sidewalks been plowed there, rather shovelled? >> reporter: well if you were at our hotel they've got the valet workers out there with the the snow blowers and shovels clearing it for the guests. but a lot of the city sidewalks have not been touched. a couple right here behind me walking in the street. the streets have become the sidewalks. obviously people who have pets have to come outside to let their pets do what they need to do. and the street's the best place to do it. we are starting to see some traffic. and i believe that's interstate 95 over here to my left. i am seeing cars and trucks passing down through the interstate. but keep in mind that it's going to be awhile. i don't know if governor chaffey is going to open the roadways back up today. again the priority is to get the roadways cleared. it's going to be toug

but no question, alex. this was a very, very big, cosmic event in russia. >> well, you know, annabelle, looking at the pictures, just remarkable and you absolutely describe how people -- of course would you go to your window to try to see what's going on. who knew glass would shatter like that. the asteroid misses us by 17,000 miles yesterday. folks in san francisco, california, are saying they saw something streaking. it just -- so peculiar. are scientists talking about anything unusual happening? >> they say this is just a huge and extraordinary coincidence. we get a hit the size of the one that took place in russia yesterday about once in 100 years. the fact that there was another asteroid spotted that missed earth on the same day is just a huge coincidence. we've got nothing to be worried about, alex. >> okay. we're going to take your word for it annabelle roberts from london. thank you so much. >>> back in the u.s., time for your weekend forecast. and we have nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer with that. >

(sighs) alex hadley. what, if anything, do we know about him? well, he's a bit of a drifter according to his sister. son of a highly-decorated naval officer who died when he was a kid. not much contact with the family. spent most of the last decade in goa. innocent: is he known to us? had his wrists slapped last summer for class c drugs possession. which is how his dna wheedled its way onto the national database. but why on earth if they were living together...? what does the real steven mullan say about this? i'll be sure to ask him when i find him. hathaway: he hasn't turned up to work since he falsely identified our corpse. i'm keeping his place under surveillance in case he gets homesick. we think he's our killer? he's certainly acting like one. a motive might help. (muttering) i mean honestly. no. let me finish. you tear the life, the soul, the innocence, out of your own belief system, and you sit there like some old relic from a dead empire blathering on about the purpose of faith. this is the bit where i clear my desk out under the cover

alex? >> okay, kristen welker, thank you for that rather dismal update there from the white house, appreciate that. >>> joining me now, democratic congressman matt cartwright of depends. representative cartwright, thank you for being here. >> alex, my pleasure, how are you today? >> i'm well, thank you. but we've got to get to this business of the sequester. i know that you've described lawmakers as being on vacation when they dealing with the the sequester. it's hanging over the economy. and you say like the airplane we are flying is going down and we're taking a break to watch the in-flight movie. so what are you talking about? is this sort of a lack of urgency from both sides? because there's no incentive for democrats nor republicans to cut a deal here? >> i am not saying that at all, alex. i'm saying that the house leadership on the republican side, which controls the schedule, controls the calendar, they have every power to bring us back to d.c., to go back to our desks on the floor o

alex ovechkin. you know, the russian rocket has been the lightning rod of this franchise for so many years, but lately, his productivity has fallen off. that was until this weekend when he gave folks a glimpse of what he could do. this weekend, he really turned it on and it was certainly a sight to see. his first patrick and over two years. he is not the 50 goal scorer he used to be, but his teammates say the alex ovechkin we have is good enough. >> the more threats you have, the more it spreads at their defensive abilities. ovi will play against the top defensemen. if you have those other threats on different lines and able to spread it out and have that secondary scoring -- >> let's move on to other sports of the day. nats lost it, but that's not the story. bryce harper continues to rake 3 for 3 today, including an rbi double. that makes 6 for 8. drove in a pair of runs. adam and jason worth will make their spring training debuts tomorrow. the redskins are saying they may take legal action against

>> that's a tough one, alex. the president and white house are counting on fact that they do have public support behind them. they say they don't look at polls, but they clearly do. they feel good about public support and counting on that. part of the messaging tact and president obama, you will see him taking his message across the country in the coming days to sort of explain to the american people what is at stake here. >> but if a deal is finally reached, ed, where does the compromise lie? both sides seem to have dug in their heels. is it the president who gives in on tax increases by cutting loopholes? will they agree to cut some of the loopholes? >> there are proposals on the table, very unclear. in principle, washington doesn't mind strog find a way to cut spending to help pay off the debt, but there are those who want to raise taxes and closest personally now those loopholes and republicans have put forth plans, and i think we're looking at sadly is potentially another extension -- another -- you use the

>> reporter: good morning, alex.ice aren't leasing much information on how o they are talking with the suspect. only they are talking with him through a ventilation pipe. this stand offhoff dragged on f hours. some concern over the drop in temperatures, how it's affecting the child overnight. the child is physically unharmed. police released a picture of the suspect. 65-year-old jimmy lee dykes. nbcfirmed in the navy in the '60s. he earned the a vet nam service medal. the school bus was towed away, that had been at the crime scene tuesday afternoon. dykes boarded that school bus and demanded a few children. when the bus driver refused, dykes shot and killed away and made away with a 5-year-old boy named ethan, believed to have asperger's syndrome. they have been holed up in this bunker now for several days now. police are communicating with him through a ventilation pipe. local residents are praying for a peaceful resolution. >>> joining me now with more, former fbi profiler and hostage negotiator clint van zandt. we

have you talked to alex? oh, yeah, a couple times.m him. i'm going to talk to him on christmas day. this christmas is shaping up better than i thought. ( quiet conversation ) ♪ silent night... all: ♪ holy night ♪ all is calm, all is bright ♪ round yon virgin mother and child ♪ ♪ holy infant so tender and mild ♪ ♪ sleep in heavenly peace ♪ sleep in heavenly peace. ♪ woman: yeah! merry christmas! man: merry christmas. put the trays in here. ( sighs ): it was a lot of work, but, boy, what an experience. amazing group of people, huh? in these hard times, it could be any one of us. i haven't felt this much christmas spirit since i was a kid. would you like something to drink? sure. how about some champagne? champagne? yeah, well, christmas comes only once a year. all right. o.k. get your glass ready... here, here goes! any minute now... be careful. ahh, there. whoa. whoa... thank you. you know, i almost had tears in my eyes when you were singing and everyone joined in. here's to a very special christmas. to a very special person. to a grea

his statement, alex, i thought was shocking.nt proposes an immigration bill, will it fail? yes. because the president proposed it? whether it is a good bill or satisfies the goals? no. if it is president obama's bill, we will filibuster it. >> of course, the thing with president obama and his bill, he wants people to have amnesty after eight years. this is the wrong idea. people who are here illegally, they need to pay back taxes and follow the rule of law. the president wants to give them a pass. >> ron, i have no problems if they state their opposition to the president's bill for that purpose. let's not play this game if the president introduces it, it is dead on arrival. he is the president of the united states. you made a good point. we democrats supported a lot of president george w. bush's key items. >> this is where we agree. let's give it up or down vote. >> let's end it on that. >>> let's go to number three on the first five web stories. the russian meteor blast. it was larger than first thought. 40 people are still hos

think of it this way, alex.to wait on lines and who waited the longest times to vote in this past election? that was poorer folk, people of color. when he's talking about new schemes he's talking about things that republican legislatures or any kind of legislature can put in place to impact the vote progress says. so it seems to me that, yes, that's a more legitimate question than whether or not we should be e vlad kating this. when you look at the actual case, shelby county, sort of taking this to the supreme court, you know, these counties and ammunition pamies can be eligible to be bailed out or to be sort of freed from this voting rights act if they have a decade of essentially good behavior. shelby county is not even eligible for that good behavior bailout of this portion of the act. >> patricia ann, you know the court. how do you expect them to rule? >> i'm trying to be -- keep hope alive because i think the law should be upheld, but it's very hard to be optimistic in part because as i said in 2009 eight j

alex? >> here's part of the reason why nooim your corner as opposed to the groundhog's. the accuracy rate for punxatawney phil claims phil has been right 39% of the time since 1887. that is it. >> i thought something was fishy there. so many times it's cloudy, it could be raining, snowing in punxatawney, pennsylvania. he still she is his shadow. >> if he sees a shadow that would mean it would be spring. because the sun's out. it's nice out. >> right. >> i'm totally confused with this. >> i think we might be thinking too much into this. it its still a groundhog. >> we'll call this a wrap. thank you, dylan. >>> west coast headlines are next. one front page story about a man who hasn't spoken for 20 years. you may know him. and mixed word on the economy. one man we trust to tell us whether happy days are here again. that interview after the break. eucerin professional repair moisturizes while actually repairing very dry skin. the end of trial and error has arrived. try a free sample at eucerin

i think in some ways, in sort of a perverse way, alex is a victim.im of his upbringing. he's a victim of his father. he didn't have a father who took him, you know, and taught him how to throw a baseball or was involved in his life. his father's a criminal. he taught him how to be a criminal. >> while alex receives 14 years for the crime, trafficker michael erenhoff received a reduced sentence of seven years for testifying against his former partner. katya says neither sentence is long enough. >> i feel that when -- that she told judge that they will sit for that period of amount of time, i feel it wasn't enough for them. what they did to us, it was terrible. >> even today, with both men behind bars, katya lives in fear. her mother still lives in ukraine and the old rules still apply. >> alex's father, he was in ukraine and he knows my mom, he know where she lived and he visited her a couple of times after i ran away. he threatened her. he used very aggressive words. he said if i will not stop talking, that blood will come out from me. >> katya is on

alex. alex is over here. there's alex. riley, my daughter riley, is right there.ed on toilets. >> you are? >> we don't have a fish in it yet, but it's a fish and flush. it's just -- it's a fish tank and a toilet. the best place to put an aquarium. got the hands-free toilet. >> of course you'd have a hands-free one. >> you step in and it seems to understand and know your needs. >> whisper in my ear what we're talking about and we'll see if we can do some business. there you go. >> thank you so much. thanks for having us over. it's been a pleasure. >> see ya. >> bye, thank you. >> take your dead-beat son with you. . take care of him. he's a good boy. bye, alex! [ cheers and applause ] >>> coming up, we're going to see those awkward photos that make you say what the what? have given way to sleeping. tossing and turning where sleepless nights yield to restful sleep. and lunesta®(eszopiclone) can help you get there. like it has for so many people before. when taking lunesta, don't drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving, or engag

alex savage has more with this new crash scene, alex? >> reporter: it is all wrapped up and 101 is back open to traffic. police chased that stolen suv when it crashed and we will show you what this scene looked like before the tow truck pulled the suv back out of the ravine. the 23-year-old driver was killed and there were two teenage girls and neither of them were seriously hurt. this all began up near capital expressway in towers lane close to the 101 freeway. the driver tried to rundown a san jose police officer who was involved in an unrelated traffic stop on the side of the road. he came towards the officer with his lights off and the officer was able to jump out of the way and that's when the escape began. >> it is early in the investigation as to why he did this, we believe drugs and alcohol are involved and that will be determined later when the toxicology exams come back. >> reporter: an investigation moving forward, they will be looking for any signs of impairment with that driver. the two passengers in the suv were 16 and 17-y

i'm alex witt. the storm is blamed for ten deaths across the region, including an 11-year-old boston boy who died from carbon monoxide poisoning. he was just trying to keep warm inside a car with a blocked wind pipe. hundreds of abandoned cars are blocking snow plows rushing to clear the roads ahead of the work week. nbc's ron mot is there for us in boston. we begin with nbc's michelle franzen, who's live at laguardia airport. let's get to the travel problems with you, michelle. are they improving? >> reporter: they are improving, alex. this is probably one of the best days since the storm blew in here and buried areas of snow. we're at laguardia. people filing through here most of the day. a handful of cancellations here at the airport. overall, just fewer than 600 airports around the country. that is a far cry from the last few days. air travel as well as road travel frozen in time. the monster storm blizzard literally stopped vehicles in their tracks. >> snow all over the place. >> reporter: alon

alex?ows been out in this area? getting all the cars out of the way, that's going to be the biggest problem, it seems. >> reporter: there's still a lot of abandoned cars blocking roads and can bloing highway on and off ramps stuck in parking lots. i think there was a number of about 3,000 or so calls to the state police during the last couple of days for help. a lot of that was stranded motorists at the height of the storm. of course, they just left their cars where they were. they're trying to get the backlog done. yes, the problem here is, again, just a lot of snow everywhere. hartford is atypical. we're right downtown. there's traffic. there's a boat he going somewhere. i don't think that's going to help them get out of the marina that's frozen. but in smaller communities, people can't even get out of their homes or get their vehicles moving because there's such a big pile-up of snow. 40 inches in a town called hamden south of here. it's going to be a while. some towns are warning it cou

send alex but stay with us. >> oh, jim. i thought you meant alex smith.le has me traded. she has traded me for future considerations and a player to be named later. alex smith was not the most popular pick back in 2005 and didn't do much to help himself with his play on the field. then 2011. it was jim harbaugh who came along and turned smith from a bust into a winning nfl quarterback. today harbaugh and the 49ers did say good-bye to the former number one overall pick, and that is alex smith. multiple sources have confirmed the 49ers and chiefs have agreed on a trade. a conditional pick for 2014. smith 19-5-1 as a starter the past two seasons. his trade will have to be confirmed on nar 12th when it can officially go down. our 49ers insider weighs in on the legacy that smith is leaving behind in the bay area. >>> alex smith's legacy with the 49ers can't be summed up and placed in a neat little box. for 45% of the fan base, it was unconditional love and support. for another 45% he could do no right after being the number one pick in the 2005 draft. the othe

alex? >> the gunman was angry and distraught. but those two santa cruz officer whose came to his house yesterday were unaware of his problems. they came tie the home down this alley way to question the shooter about a sexual assault case involving a co-worker. the two were shot to death that door step of the home. >> reporter: killed during a routine investigation. loren baker and elizabeth butler were gunned down by jeremy goulet. after shooting the officers the sheriff said he stole both of their service weapons and drove off in one of their police cars. eventually jeremy goulet was killed by police and found dead wearing body armor. the sheriff said people who knew the gunman described him as troublesome. >> he made comments about being unhappy in his life and that led them to believe he may be suicidal. >> reporter: among other things he was upset about losing his job. he was fired over a disorderly conduct arrest and accused of making sexual advances towards a co-worker at this coffee shop. jeremy goulet had a long list of a

but at the same time, alex, we never talked to him. i think it would be very valuable for somebody to get a sense of what his thinking is. he's only 30 years old. but on the positive side, he seems to connect better with his people than his father did. however, what he has done with these tests shows that he wants his country to continue to be isolated. he's sort of thumbing his nose at everybody, including china. and then, third, he's continuing to invest in weapons and defense instead of feeding his people and his own economy. but that doesn't mean you just isolate and punish. i think you have to have some creative diplomacy, some ability to influence them in a positive way. maybe it's not just the u.s. let's engage china and russia and south korea and special envoys and philanthropic groups, not just the government. this is why i consider myself a citizen and trying to do some good. >> we appreciate your efforts. we appreciate your time with us. you make a lot of sense, governor. thank you very much for your time with us. we look fo

in vandalism, alex? >> reporter: they remained relatively calm and of course san francisco police had a lot of extra officers out in force and they had a lot of potential hot spots including the mission district and that's where we are now, things are still quiet right now. they had three times as many officers on the streets compared to an average sunday night and 49ers spilled out after that crushing loss to the ravens in super bowl 47. there was one situation where some fans threw bottles at officers but officers quickly got things under control there. they made one arrest for public intoxication and one person was arrested for trying to set something on fire on mission street. it did not cause significant problems and most fans were behaving themselves. they had extra patrol officers on last night and of course they were trying to prevent a repeat of what we saw where vandalism and violence took place in many areas across the city. as we bring you back out here live in the mission district a number o

steven straussburg is working on his mid-season form and alex ovechkin is back and has many hats to prove it and first hoops. the stories for the wizards this season. they rise to the occasion and mean that they play to the level of their opponent and they prove to hang with some big dogs and on that first half. and this is the wide open lay- up for him and up a point, 95- 94 and with that less than 30 to go and drives the fast field and lays it in to tie the game at 103 and the game high, 27 points. wizards up 1. okafor misses the free throw and the rebound. the wizards hold on and beat the rockets 105-103. the sixth straight win with the team and record over 500. >> and they're the worst team in the nba and when you play against us and that is -- and everyone is going to compete hard and if they take us for granted and with the best of them. >> and with georgetown and syracuse, it marked the end of an era and that is the final time they faced off in conference play at the carrier dome and with thattenning to a rivalry. bringing an eight-game winning streak and syracuse won 38 in a row a

alex smith may soon be moving to a new team in a new city. the 49ers have already agreed to a trade. one report says the deal involves the kansas city chiefs. but there has been no official word from the 49ers. and no deal can be finalized until the nfl season officially starts march 12th. alex smith lost his starting quarterbackto collin kaepernick last season after he had that concussion. >>> the san francisco police commission is studying whether officers should be armed with tasers. the commission just held three public forums to get feedback on the issue. san francisco police chief greg suhr allowed the commission to allow officers trained in crisis intervention to carry tasers or stun guns. opponents say tasers can cause serious injuries or deaths and cost other cities millions of dollars in lawsuits. >>> thousands of parolees included convicted sex offenders are removing their court ordered gps. a growing number of parolees are choosing to cut their tracking devices and often freed within days or hours after being arrested for violatin

and won the jim harbaugh took over, all of the numbers jumped up for alex smith. that he is always on happy with off-season. you always wants more money. now, he wants 16 million. we of the baltimore ravens on the radio this morning. he was promoting a movie that is going to go right to deviate de charett and it is did and eight twitter wa 8 twitter of war i was quite proud and surprised that some of the younger people were aware that i was on twitter. and on the radio, you have to to make a way for the younger viewers. ryan vogelson was the final giants performance and angel pagan with an 8-8 tie and this is still exhibition baseball... when we return, a stolen sausage >> gary: of the few fault milwaukee baseball they have a sausage race this is a fund-raiser, a $3,000 kostroma. and it is 7 ft. long. all of a sudden, they look up and they see that it is gone! i know that this is out of state. but if you haven't to seek a 7 ft. long sausage you know that people are distraught in milwaukee. if you follow milwaukee- based wahl? [laughter] >> the night you can't move

alex. >> terrible story.ch. >>> in his weekly address, president obama gave an upbeat outlook for the economy this year. >> we are poised to grow in 2013. the real signs of progress, home prices are starting to climb again. sales are at a five-year high. manufacturing is roaring back. businesses created $2.2 million jobs last year. we just learned our economy created more jobs over the past few months than originally thought. >> joining me is elijah cummings. sir, nice to see you. thanks for joining me. it was a mixed bag for the economy. the gdp detracted but there were good numbers in the report. listening to the president, he sounded optimistic. how do you see the economy? >> i see the economy as being fragile. but definitely moving in the right direction. alex, it's why we have to be so careful with regard to what we do in congress. a lot of the problems that could come about with regard to gdp is a result of the public and business feeling a certain level of uncertainty. we have to make -- we have to do

the other thing you asked about with the parent when sunset is referring to alex's dad. >> they are referring to his mom and dad being upset with him for not standing up for himself, i just wanted to cringe. >> what's clear is when dad said if you don't make a stop, this could happen to your little sister. then the sister gets in on it and it's, like, just puts the, as sisters will do, but i think as a, as someone who was a boy and had difficult conversations with my dad, i really really remember that sort of punch them, make it go away. a lot of families will give that advice. i'm not even convinced that's the wrong advice, the problem is when they doesn't work, then they shut down and quit coming to you because they are afraid it's a double disappointment. they can't please their peers and find friendship and then they so don't want to lose their fathers as well, this boy-father thing is so deep. >> every single person in this room wants to start making a difference. we want to start doing it right now. ros, how do you start giving a child the dignity that was taken away? >> i'm actually go

not believe that there would be any consequences to those actions because they have been bullying alex for so long in front of so many adults with no repercussions and so my presence became irrelevant, like, over time having filmed throughout a year in the school, you know, a guy with a small camera, kids really forgot about that really quickly. and you saw just normal life behavior go on that they would do on any given day. and so i think what's really intense about that is how normal it can be in a school where the climate is poor where bullying thrives and lives and is tolerated in all sorts of subtle or more obvious ways, just how easy it is for those kids to behave that way. so it's a very telling scene and from my perspective, you know, we broke the rules of documentary film making afterwards and we took that footage to the school and to alex's parents and it really changed the course of the movie. those of you who have seen the movie really know things shifted after that point. but it was really hard to be on that bus and to see that happening to alex. >> having seen the follow-

. >>> new allegations of doping against alex rodriguez. was it part of a bigger doping ring in florida? next we go live to new york for the latest on a-rod. [ male announcer ] when we built the cadillac ats from the ground up to be the world's best sport sedan... ♪ ...people noticed. ♪ the all-new cadillac ats -- 2013 north american car of the year. ♪ for a limited time, take advantage of this exceptional offer on the all-new cadillac ats. >>> new york yankees' store alex rodriguez is denying reports he used banned drugs. a-rod has admitted to using steroids in the past but says he has been clean for a decade. the "miami new times" reported this week a florida clinic supplied rodriguez with performance-enhancing drugs. how is a-rod reacting to the report? >> the slugger says none of this is true. but it's clear this talk of p.e.d.s and a-rod are nga, not going away. reports that originated in the local miami newspaper say there is a diary from a man named anthony boesch who runs a clinic in miami. and that diary allegedly has hand-written