our reporter bill mitchell came up. he said we probably ought to get back to the station. i said, yeah, you're probably right. but she looked really convinced. i would hate to leave and then hear it had fallen down. we waited. we almost both gave up at this point. almost turned our heads away from it. then all the sudden a big slab of rock came down. >> 30,000 tons of mountain crashes down on to the road. it takes only seconds for rocks, earth, and trees to descend on to the road where the men were just standing. >> the rocks hitting the ground, you could almost feel it shake. all you could hear was that rumbling sound. it sounded like something out of a movie. it sounded like cars crashing. rocks were hitting the ground. all of a sudden it stopped and everything came to a standstill. >> i was looking at this thing not believing my eyes and then the whole thing comes rushing down the slope. an immense amount of noise and dust. and you never see something like this in person. >> there's so much stuff going through your mind. to see rocks the size of greyhound buses come off

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andrea mitchell coming up next. >> i'm meteorologist bill karins.e storm after another and now watching another arctic blast heading down from the great north. look at the high temperature in minneapolis today. minus 1. thankfully a lot of that icy weather we dealt with overnight and this morning is over with in areas in the northeast. drive carefully, the refreeze is tonight. [ sniffles, coughs ] shhhh! i have a cold with this annoying runny nose. [ sniffles ] i better take something. [ male announcer ] dayquil cold and flu doesn't treat all that. it doesn't? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms plus has a fast-acting antihistamine. oh, what a relief it is! he loves me. he loves me not. he loves me. he loves me not. ♪ he loves me! that's right. [ mom ] warm and flaky in 15, everyone loves pillsbury grands! [ girl ] make dinner pop! >> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," the pilgrimage, 89 heads of state are making their way to south africa to honor nelson mandela, the man who became a symbol of freedom and reconc

. >> thank you, sally, ben, for tomorrow see you then, "andrea mitchell reports" coming up next. >>> i'm meteorologist billcember 4 forecast. we are looking at a nice mild start to the month. we have a big storm brewing in the pacific northwest and northern rockies. but for the rest of us east of the rockies especially a mild day. there's lots of clouds out there. some fog in central plains. otherwise all your travels look dry and safe. enjoy. hi honey, did you get the toaster cozy? yep. got all the cozies. [ grandma ] with new fedex one rate, i could fill a box and ship it for one flat rate. so i knit until it was full. you'd be crazy not to. is that nana? [ male announcer ] fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with the reliability of fedex. [ male announcer ] fedex one rate. i use my citi thankyou card to get 2x the points at the coffee shop.at the office, which will help me get to a beach in miami and they'll be stuck at the cube farm. the citi thankyou preferred card. now earn 2x the points dining out, with no annual fee. go to citi.com/thankyoucards ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] everyone deserves the g

we have mitchell and richard joining us now. the first question to billmer. >> because i am invincible. michelle, how do you sell obama care to young americans. >> you can't sell it. in the end of the day a bad deal they are a bad deal. we have 16 percent unemployment rate with young people and the amount of student loan debt is 35,000 authorize. and now this administration is asking us to pay for the law? pay more on the premiums to subsiddize younger people? that is a bad deal. >> that's interesting, i want to build on what michelle talked about. not only the usa poll but harvard snout shows the president's approval numbers dropped 11 points. is it at a pointed with obama care or stoupt loans and unemployment et cetera. >> young people don't look at the one-on-one. they look at the world global. they have a bad taste in washington and the disfunction in washington. michelle is right. we have a raising rocket number of student loan debt going on and we have high unemployment rate and that is a relationship why they need to epiroll in the affordable care

"andrea mitchell reports" is coming up next. >>> i'm meteorologist bill karins. the northern plains and northern rockies. a major winter storm. first the snow and then the cold will be following behind it. be careful areas like denver, a snowstorm on the way later tonight and tomorrow. same for minneapolis. that cold air will make it all the way to texas with icy conditions by thursday. if you're seeing spots before your eyes... it's time... for aveeno® positively radiant face moisturizer. [ female announcer ] only aveeno® has an active naturals total soy formula that instantly brightens skin. and helps reduce the look of brown spots in just 4 weeks. for healthy radiant skin. try it for a month. then go ahead and try to spot a spot. aveeno® positively radiant. naturally beautiful results. >>> now on "andrea mitchell reports," the white house boasts 1 million people successfully logged onto rebooted healthcare.gov today. this afternoon the president will launch a new pr push on the positive benefits of his health care law. will that be enough to get the health car

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mitchell. >> i should apologize for it and don't shoot the messenger and it will be brutal in the north and billingse pointed this out yesterday morning and i was saying it's 40, enjoy it while you have it, it has done nothing but go down since and during the day yesterday and now at 14. the temperatures will continue to go down today, not up, during the heat of the day so to speak so we will have single digits by later this afternoon. so this is what is happening, with the front coming in it's going to just keep funneling the cold air in so some of the temperatures that will be single digit today will be negative as we head toward the weekend. ahead of that we have a little warm air and memphis and 60 and 70 the next couple of days and watch for the chill because it will be deadly and so cold by the weekend and back to you. >> it was a scandal that rocked one of the world's most renown troops, a dancer accused of targeting the ballet's director in an acid attack and a judge handed down a verdict this morning saying he was guilty in the january attack and al jazeera's is live in moscow and good morn

bill >> he is acting totally different from his father, which was reasonably predictable when it came to these american political prisoners. >> reporter: but now, nobody can say whether this will appeal for his release. andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >>> and we're back in a moment with the football fans who made the earth measurably move. >>> not to be outdone by the proposed amazon.com air force, ups is reported to be pursuing its own plans to deliver by drone. presumably brown ones. the report on the website the verge says u.p.s.'s project has been underway for some time, but before any of this happens the feds and congress will get the vote where some fear that the skies over the country will become thick with unregulated drone traffic >>> and billy joel has a deal with madison square gardens that would make him a regular part of the deal like the knicks, he says he is tired of traveling and will be kind of an artist in residence. he's big at the garden. 46 shows since 1978. he has two new hits. he's about to turn 65 and says at his age he kind of likes the idea of commuting to work. >>> delta airlines has a lot of explaining to do after passengers on a delta connection were bumped in order to fly the uni

bill clinton's role. >> if you ran, what would they call your husband, first spouse? >> i have no idea. first mate. i don't know. >>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. bad news on retail front. during this busiest shopping time of the year, retail giant said credit and debit of 40 million customers may have faced unauthorized access during a massive breach that started on black friday and went unnoticed. from that up to president obama to limit the powers of the nsa i'm joined by nbc justice correspondent pete williams and michael leiter, nbc news counter-terrorism export and former director of the national terrorism center. mike liter, y e liter, you know. how is this possible and implications. >> there is something in common with target and edward snowden. that's we as companies and governments but an enormous amount of incredibly valuable information including privacy information with credit cards in our computer systems. that means crime today affects people. when it happens to a company like target, which is so committed to public safety, anti-fraud, it's really one of the best in the nation, it shows it can happen fir. >> shoppi

mitchell. andrea's time as a correspondent has overlapped so many of the modern american presidents who all had nelson mandela in common. talking to jimmy carter here yesterday, having talked to billale to tell. >> in your recollections and your meetings with jimmy carter and bill clinton they are so much on point. also, bush 41 because of his age he doesn't have particular health problems but at 89 this would not be an easy travel for him. he was actually very close with mandela. i was looking at the video yesterday. it was february 12 that he came into the briefing room for one day after mandela came out of prison. george herbert walker bush said how meaningful it was immediately declaring how important it was for history that mandela was out of prison. he has been a big supporter and quickly embraced. this against the back drop of ronald reagan's long-standing resistance. you have to remember that nelson mandela's first interaction with american presidents was in the cold war context where he was viewed as part of the [ inaudible ] regime. that is why ronald reagan not seeing the bigger picture. even went up against then secretary of state and against republican leaders who fin

mitchell reports" is coming up next. do not forget tonight a special edition of "hardball" when our very own chris matthews goes mano y mano with a man named president obama. >>> i'm meteorologist billnvasion moving south. soon we'll be dealing with icy mess in areas that had record heat temperatures will drop from dallas to oklahoma city, little rock to memphis. as we go through the night and day on friday an ice storm moving your way with possibility of significant power outages. have a great day. hoo-hoo...hoo-hoo. hoo-hoo hoo. sir... i'll get it together i promise... heeheehee. jimmy: ronny, how happy are folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico? ronny:i'd say happier than the pillsbury doughboy on his way to a baking convention. get happy. get geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. medicare open enrollment. of year again. time to compare plans and costs. you don't have to make changes. but it never hurts to see if you can find better coverage, save money, or both. and check out the preventive benefits you get after the health care law. open enrollment ends december 7th. so now's the time. visit medicare.gov or call 1-800-medicare i have obli

mitchell. >> we are going to see some of our warmest temperatures of the whole week is what you have this morning if you are walking out the door in billingss not bad and said the bottom was going to fall out and it will be going down today and tomorrow and eventually sub zero and enjoy the 40s while we have them and mild in the south and 50s and 60s and the rest of the day the south is going to be the warm spot of the country with temperatures 10-15 degrees above average, 77 degrees in houston, 61 all the way up into memphis. we have a couple days of this before we get more back to reality. i mention the temperatures contrast as we get in the northwest and already by tomorrow 40 degrees this morning in billings, tomorrow the high of 17, that might be after midnight with the temperatures continuing to fall. back to you. >> thanks, nicole. walking a diplomatic tightrope, biden on a delicate mission to the far east and shrelanka, a small country with a big problem, one fourth of the people are suffering from diabetes and we will tell you what is being done about the health crisis. raising a glass to a new business detroit. the first distille

mitchell. david grower and cardinal donald wuerl will join us. next the top stories in "the politico" playbook. bill karins has a check on the forecast. >> weekend warm and toasty in d.c. 70 by sunday. yesterday was 60 in d.c. people thought that was warm. wait until sunday opinion let's talk about this crazy december weather we're going on. this is a roller coaster ride. temperatures are going up and crash right down before christmas. as far as the warm air goes this morning it's 46 in d.c. at 67 to start your morning in texas. what's going on, summer like morning. we do have freezing rain out there. be careful on the roads north chicago, milwaukee, iowa, in wisconsin. just some plain old rain through the ohio valley. but this weekend it's going to rain hard over a snow pack areas of illinois, indiana and ohio as much as three to five inches of rain and for that reason we're concerned with potential of flooding. biggest concern, today we're okay, just some isolated storms in texas. by saturday we could see strong thunderstorms in the deep south feign live from the memphis area to central louisiana

mitchell and tom brokaw. up next the look at the headlines from papers from around the world but first bill karins tracking theor ice storm. >> as far as we're going throughout the morning commute the roads are treacherous this morning in the dallas area. you may have seen scenes around little rock, memphis later. this was in missouri yesterday as the ice and snow moved into oklahoma. let me show you what we're dealing with. what a winter we're starting out with. this map shows you where the wind chills are the norts. that's the northern plains. ice and snowstorm from texas now all the way to new york state. then a new winter storm coming in the west that's moving across the country this weekend. right now if you're heading out this morning be careful in ohio, southern indiana, southern illinois, western kentucky, southern missouri, down there northern portions of arkansas are just coated in ice. this is where the worst of the ice storm is now, north of little rock and dallas an inch of sleet last night. just the crunchy stuff and it won't warm up much. as far as the snow goes that band of six inch, southern o

mitchell. mr. speaker, this bill, h.r. 2650, provides the legally required approval by the congress for an exchange of land between the fond du lac band and the carlton county in my eighth congressional district of minnesota. by way of brief background, federal land allotment policies in the early 20th century played havoc with an 1854 treaty that set aside the 101,000 acres of reservation land exclusively for the fond du lac band. i would like to point out to my colleagues that as they enter the chamber over here from the west front there is a bust of chief buffalo, the great chippewa chief from the minnesota territory who negotiated this treaty in 1854. and he and fellow band members got in a canoe and they canoed starting in lake superior all wait through the great lakes out to new york city and then took a train from there down to washington to negotiate this treaty, and then of course took a train back to new york and canoed all the way back through the st. lawrence seaway, great lakes, and back to the chippewa nation in the minnesota territory. as i enter this chamber myself each day, i'm rem