and chuck, apparently, it worked. >> that's right. what's more, abdulmutallab is now giving up valuable intelligence, particularly when it comes to operations in yemen, having to do with al qaeda. it's a boost for the administration politically, as they've been sharply criticized for its decision to let the fbi interrogate the 23-year-old and not the military or the cia or other intelligence. so nbc's justice correspondent, pete williams, who obviously has been following this very closely. and i want to get into the politics of it quickly here. listen to what susan collins said over the weekend. it's very important to the time line of this story. take a listen. >> the obama administration appears to have a blind spot when it comes to the war on terrorism. there's no other way to explain the irresponsible, indeed, dangerous decision on abdulmutallab's interrogation. there's no other way to explain the inconceivable treatment of him, as if he were a common criminal. >> she -- this aired saturday. >> this radio address. >> radio address

i think chuck is right. a lot of people with their heart are pulling for new orleans because of all the city has been through. the saints in so many ways have really sort of epitomized the rebuilding. a lot of people in their hearts are pulling for them but the colts will be hard to beat. >> i'm rooting for you. thanks for helping us out. chuck todd, always, thank you. thank you. that does it for this edition and this week of "andrea mitchell reports." join us next week when we talk about the super bowl winners. our guest will include public congressman paul ryan, wisconsin ranking member on the budget committee. tamron hall takes it over from here. [ male announcer ] when it comes to reaching your big milestones, and all your little mile-pebbles ameriprise financial can help. we have over ten-thousand advisors ready to listen to your dreams and help you plan for them. because the first step towards reaching what you want is reaching the person who can help you get there. our advisors. your dreams. more with

>> reporter: well, chuck, there is a lot of questions right now. you can imagine some of them will go unanswered. there is going to be a press conference with the ceo of seaworld later this afternoon, around 1:00. and we're hoping to find out the future, if you want to call that, of the shamu show. it is one of the biggest, if not the main attraction here at seaworld. you can imagine it is going -- the show is going to go on. but you can rest assured there is going to be some changes to how the trainers interact with the killer whales here. the killer whale in question there was home video of the interaction between dawn and the whale moments before her death. in that video you see both of them, everything seems normal, she was playing with him, dancing around, splashing some water at him and then witnesses say the killer whale just somehow just went up and grabbed her by the ponytail when she was on a platform and dragged her down. at this point, there is a lot of questions of what the behavior was that led the killer whale to do that. but that's

i'm chuck bell, meteorologist.oss southern pennsylvania and to the northeast of downtown washington. light coating of snow is a possibility. temperatures are at or slightly above freezing in many spots. windchills, mid-20's. highs in the high 30s and low 40s. any little snow first thing this morning will not last. that is welcome news. >>> coming up on "news4 today" at 9:00 a.m., awful hour and a half of more news, weather and sports. >>> we are back on a saturday morning, february 27th 2010. >> i'm amy robach in rockefeller plaza in new york. we have been talking about it all morning. bricking news this morning. a massive earthquake in haiti overnight, lester. >> this was so big, i understand it's 500 times the energy of what we saw in port-au-prince in january. just to give you an idea, more modern buildings in santa yago, but the damage will be great. >> it was a magnitude of 8.8 at the epicenter. that was in south central chile that was 200 miles southwest of the capital. a tsunami hit the easter islands and th

chuck, is that a pretty much a gimme for them? >> it is. i would say delaware, democrats did find a good candidate, a better candidate than they found against hoeven in north dakota. and delaware is still delaware, in that it is a lean blue state. castle has to run a very moderate, sort of in the middle campaign. he's perfectly suited for it. he should be able to do it. but, you know, delaware is, of the two, you would say democrats have at least a shot at it. >> a former governor in delaware and current governor in north dakota. looks like a pretty good bet. >> very popular governor in north dakota. the longest serving governor in america. he's not going to be facing the only credible democrat who could have run against him, pomroy. >> a good bet, they should be able to move those 41 teems to 43 seats. here's a possible, we're calling it a full house. suppose they knock off three vulnerable democrats. pick up biden's seat there. pick up dorgen's seat in north dakota. and they beat the senator in colorado. and harry reid gets beaten. that s

>>> thanks, chuck. chuck and i will be here throughout the morning. stay was. let's take a look at the temperatures at this hour. it is right now near 30 degrees in washington. we're in the upper 20s in montgomery, fairfax and prince george's county, throughout much of the region. it is below freezing. right near the bay at right at the freezing mark. these counties in red are under a blizzard warning. includes areas to the north of washington in howard and frederick county, maryland. eastern shore, highlands of west virginia, coming from a developing low pressure system swinging out of the ohio valley. that will be dwropg off the coast today. that will be giving us a lot of win. eight to 12 inches across much of the metro area, late less farther south and west. how is the traffic? >> a little sampling around the metropolitan area where it is tough indeed. pictures really prove it all out, making the trip around town, northeast washington is difficult. let's head up to the interchanges around aspen hill in maryland. show you georgia avenue and aspen hill road.

so his company put together a fund raiser it is called new lungs for chuck. there is raffle tickets being sold at businesses around there for $50 a piece and you could win a prize package including a new 2009 mercedes sl convertible, golf course town home in sarasota florida, cash prize of $200,000 not the first time they have raised money for chuck in 2006 they had a raffle to go towards his transplant. good community there. >>> all right quick outer look for extended forecast, maybe some flurries this afternoon we melt and refreeze overnight. dry tomorrow more melting at 40. plan for this major storm to move in second half of friday. friday afternoon and evening and snow could mix with ice and then back to snow and impact stays with us on saturday. kim. >> justin, volume is lighter than normal causing most of our commute to go well. northbound 95 route 32 and route 175 all off to the shoulder not impacting the commute. >> every time i get close to you you predict snow. cut it out >> i thought it was the sniffling. >> see you at 9 it was a horrible feeling,

chuck bell is outside. chuck, is it still snowing out there? does it look like it's snowing out here? yes, indeed. a couple of snowflakes. plenty of gray hair mixed in, also, unfortunately. also, as i'm standing out here looking around, you can hear light rain and perhaps even some sleet mixing in with the snowflakes out here. there's still plenty of snow out here. there's a little bit of that sleet and rain mixing in. this is going to be a very big problem for anybody who needs to shovel or treat any kind of a road or a driveway out here. any kind of a mixed bag of precipitation to begin with is going to stick. anything that's snow-covered on the ground is going to ice up harder before the next layer of snow falls down on top of it. that's the observation, veronica. mostly snow but some rain and sleet mixing in. >> our higher totals come tomorrow with 8 to 12 inches through d.c. more further north. most of the snow and wind hits tomorrow. >>> well, the snow is leaving some people panicked and anxious. maybe even lonely. but experts say all of

chuck, i'll begin with you. my words, my words. it's a tv show, gentlemen, i have to have a little bit of fun. >> i didn't know we were going to be demon sheep here. >> if you wear the wooden stake and the garlic, you'll be all right. chuck, you say they're helping you. how? >> i've had about 240 events, so i declared for the u.s. senate in california against boxer about 14 months ago. a good number of those are with tea party groups. and i think the most important thing, and hi, dan, good to see you on tv, dan's one of the good guys. but we have a bit of a disagreement. >> don't be too friendly. he's going to call your green grass crab grass. >> here's where we disagree. i commonly ask a question when you show up to speak at tea party rallies and groups, i asked, how many of you prior to 2008 were ever active in politics, ever wrote a letter to the editor, ever showed up to a rally, ever donated. what i find as i go to the tea party groups, only about 10% of the people have ever been active in anything at all. and then i asked the

chuck's forecast is coming up. >>> meteorologist chuck bell joining us now.g, chuck. >> good morning, kimberly. a good sunday morning out there, everybody. out there in the news 4 nation, off to a fairly cloudy start this morning, but we'll get brakes of sunshine by late this morning and early this afternoon. temperatures in the mid- to high 30s. 38 at the friendly peacock. doppler continues to show very light snow showers across southern pennsylvania. maybe one or two lonely raindrops now down into portions of southern maryland and the northern neck. by and large, not much in the way of a precipitation concern for today. a little bit of sunshine coming our way later on today. high temperatures in the mid- to high 40s. bright sunshine returns tomorrow with a high near 50. a little light rain late tuesday, maybe a rain/snow mix tuesday night into wednesday. kimberly? >> coming up on news 4 today at 9:00, you've heard of dogs, bears, and raccoons exploring your trash, but how about a panda hanging out on the porch, chomping on a bone. that story just ahead at 9

meteorologist chuck bell has been asking you to send in your snow totals, but give us your idea of what you think we should do with all that snow out there. so much just sitting around. we'll be reading your ideas on the air. meanwhile, in terms of snowiest winters ever, you know, we've been adding up the totals, take a look at where we stand. we've gotten more an 50 inches for the season, or at least close to that, 48.6. it's not going to take much more. actually, we should be able to add to that already from what we've gotten today. i took a look at what the great lakes, gets places downwind of the lakes, raw chester, erie,

i'm savannah guthrie. >> and i'm chuck todd. let's get to the rundown.on from the administration on umar farouk abdulmutallab. a small group of us got a briefing last night at the white house, a briefing that came after national intelligence director dennis blair, in testimony before congress yesterday, revealed earlier in the day that abdulmutallab is actively cooperating with investigators and has been since last thursday, providing fresh intelligence on a number of investigations. a lot of them having to do with yemen. we've learned that abdulmutallab's family has been an asset in the investigation. on new year's day, fbi agents flew to nigeria. and on january 17th, they returned with members of abdulmutallab's family, who the white house says helped persuade the suspect to talk. the latest information may help the white house make the political case against republican critics, who have attacked the administration over the decision to read abdulmutallab his miranda rights. >> and chuck, the cia director, fbi director, and the director of national inte

chuck? >> thanks a lot. you say it's good news that this storm's coming on a weekend, some of us say, maybe not so much. >> we don't look at it that way, but thank you for trying to be positive. >>> up next on "the daily rundown," good news/bad news today on the job front. the unemployment rate may have dropped, but it's not good news behind the numbers. we'll ask some experts. >>> and later on, should accused terrorists be tried in u.s. civilian courtrooms? we'll talk to a man who's done it. the attorney who defended 9/11 co-conspirator zacarias moussaoui in federal court. he'll be here live in the studio. >>> but first, a look ahead at the president's schedule. he's on the road today to suburban washington, maryland, weather permitting. you're watching "the daily rundown," only on msnbc. i never as a woman thought i'd get a heart attack. just, out of the blue at 43. now i'm on an aspirin regimen because it helps me live the life i want to live. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you b

just to get the word out. >> chuck says his only hope it is to get the transplant but cannot even get on the waiting list until he has >> $1 million > i will fight for my life. i have to reach as many people as possible. i hope there are people out there listening. >> joining us now, chuck campbell and his wife vickie. >> this is an unusual way to go about doing this, but you have 19% lung function right now. and he desperately need a double-lung trans plan, as simple as that. the complexity is that you cannot get on a transplant list until you secure the funding? >> correct. >> you have to secure private funding? >> percentage do you have? >> about $300,000. we need $1 million. >> you were telling you have been encouraged, and are working still -- as a marine, but you have been encouraged by people in the medical community to stop working and go on disability, and medicaid would kick in in six months and then -- >> yes, stability kicks in in six months, medicaid not for two years. two years later to get the operation and have it before. >> but you want to continue working and provide

. >>> we want to bring meteorologist chuck bell in now. you are saying we may see more of that snow now? >> we will have the possibility of seeing more snow as we get into the tuesday night/wednesday time frame. everything will be fairly quiet. we'll keep you posted on that as we get closer in time. folks out in western maryland, western virginia and western pennsylvania getting plenty of snow even today. outsid right now though, a still partly cloudy sky hangs over washington. our high temperature today, a little bit of bonus material up into the mid and high 40s. 47 at national airport after a 31 degree start this morning. right now we are at 43 with a west wind at 12 miles per hour. only a trace of snowfall here in washington today. about 3:30, 4:00 in the morning as i was heading into work. right now it's 43 downtown. 41 in prince george's county, 42 in springfield and ft. belvoir. manassas 39. falls church 31. leesburg 40. frederick, maryland, down to 38. a west wind with wind chills in the high 30s. i want to show you this picture th

chuck, what's you got? >> d.c.'now melter, springtime, a little ways away. >> they did not need a melter on the track. danica patrick leaves nascar with a dud. the georgetown hoyas run out of luck and the terps and hokies were delayed three hours, but, man, was it worth the wait. >>> seaworld reopened to the public today but noticeable changes to its killer whale show. a trainer drown when a whale pulled her under. hundreds packed the amphi theater for the first show since the attack. trainers are no longer allowed in the tank with whales. >>> two planes collided on the tarmac at reagan national around 9:30 this morning. the two us airways clipped wings while taxiing. one flight was headed to ft. lauderdale. the other plane just arrived from laguardia. it had to be taken out of service completely. fortunately no one was hurt. officials are trying to figure out who or what may be responsible for the collision. >>> the ongoing mystery surrounding the whereabouts of d.c.'s snow melter may be over. it has been spotted i

, chuck? >> the totals continue to come on in. if you have a snow report please feel free to send it to me at chuck.bell@nbc philadelphia.com. janet in stafford, virginia, four inches of new snow there. ray up in walkersville, maryland. todd in hagerstown, 11 inches of new snow in hagerstown, maryland. sue and bill have eight inches of new snow at their place. northwest berkeley county in west virginia. tim reports 12 inches of new snow up in the panhandle of west virginia. he also reports near whiteout conditions, also as you get towards ridge, west virginia nine inches of snow. winds are gusting between 32 and 35 miles an hour. that is creating near whiteout conditions and only 25 feet of visibility there. also in williamsport, maryland, 10.5 inches of new snow there. this is going to continue to people up. before the snow started, we already had 21 inches of snow in the washington area, picked up another four inches last night. so where is this stacking up on our snowiest months ever? febru

on the images a lot of you have been sending in to see. >> what do we have, chuck? >> it's been a great day to get a couple of pictures and send them into us here at channel 4. the address you should send your pictures or video to isee@nbcwashington.c isee@nbcwashington.com. that's the preferred address for people who know how to get pictures to us here at nbc 4. if you have any snow reports, send them directly to me at chuckbell@nbcwashington.com. tons of snow coming down. let's take a look at some of our pictures here. we'll be able to show you, oh, t the tension, the stress, there we go. a lot of great pictures coming in. we appreciate everybody sending them in, just all over the place. prince george's county, out towards annapolis, a lot of good snow pictures there. a lot of barbecues look like that these days. a fresh 15 or 20 inches of snow on the barbecue. that's very typical of visibility right now. visibility now less than 500 or 600 feet in many locations. that's why driving has gotten to be so dangerous out there. a lot of back porches and patios buried u

mine's chuck roberts hln.ch for that and join the discussion. >>> the movement of conservative activists better known as the tea party begins its first national convention today but there is a split in the ranks. sarah palin is to be the keynote speaker on saturday. critics say the $549 ticket price alienates people at the core of the grassroots effort. the sold-out event will build alliances can that force changes in both major parties. >>> two giant american-born pandas are making their way to china. 3-year-old mei lan flew from atlanta joining 4-year-old tai shan in d.c. they'll become part of a new breeding program. tai shan is the first cub to grow up in the nation's capital. the other cub was born at the zoo in atlant. there they go. to make sure the transition is easier, they trained tai shan with hand signals so he wouldn't be confused with his new handler speaking chinese instead of english. >>> they keep her locked up in a little room all day, they won't let her do anything. what else misty croslin h

one thing that bothers me, chuck.y said they press conference today that he apparently went to the school about noon and signed in. then he left. what was he there for? you know, if i'm at a principal's office and i'm signing somebody in, where are you going, who are you seeing, what business do you have here and how long are you going to be? if somebody comes -- you stay there until somebody comes to meet you. otherwise you wait outside the school or leave the school grounds completely. >> plus he had a rap sheet. >> the colorado bureau of investigation said he's been arrested at least nine times. assault, menacing with a deadly weapon, disorderly conduct, dui, he had a fugitive warrant one time and numerous traffic offenses. apparently just a 32-year-old drifter. he lived seven and a half miles from this school. something that's also ironic, chuck, is apparently the school back in 1982 had another incident where one student shot another student in a bicycle storage area, shot and killed him, but that was back in 198

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chuck interrupted your time. every day is not election day, chuck.-- sometimes we have specaw elections, but we have elections every two years for congress. if every day is election day, we're never going to solve our problems, because everybody is going to be too busy not trying to save somebody else's job but trying to save theirs. the american people want democrats and republicans in government that represent them to work together to solve their problems. >> you're making my point. the point is that democrats control the house, the senate, and the white house. why are you guys not capable of making these tough -- >> jake, because -- >> are you just saying that -- because it seems to me you're making the argument that,ñr essentially, underneath it all is, right, democrats -- these are going to require very tough decisions and the democratic party is not going to do it by itself because we're not going to go down and lose our jobs -- >> no, no, no -- >> -- without republicans holding our hands. >> jake, there's not uniform consensus in one party abo

chuck? >> hey, veronica. yes, the snow intensity, about 20 minutes ago i was out here with the aaa folks and the flakes were much larger then. we've gone back to smaller flakes now on the lawn of news4. but the proof is always in the pudding. i'm no pat collins, but i've got a bigger yard stick. here we go. out here we've got ourÑi fst inch of snow on the oval out here at news4. the smoenowfall rates have been moderate at time. everyone knows what heavy snow looks like or light snow, but moderate, it makes you think what are the definitions. we have the definitions for you. light snow, an eighth of an inch to a quarter of an inch per hour. quarter of an inch to half an hour, that's moderate snow. anytime you get over an inch of snow per hour, that's heavy snow. and two to four inches per hour is considered heavy, heavy snow across the area. that we do have the potential for a brief time to reach int the highest category of snowfall rates around the area. could see two to four inches of snow for a short period

chuck bell is outside measuring it and keeping track of it. firsthand account. >> absolutely right, bob. yes, indeed, everybody. the front lawn of channel 4, which was already white when i got out here at 3:00 this afternoon because of the snows we had over the weekend. now we've got a fresh coat of white. the sidewalk next to me was completely snow-free earlier. this is not the best way to measure the snow because it's just not the most accurate way to do it on the sidewalk here, but two inches of snow in the last 2 1/2 hours. that's what it looks like on the ground. our beautiful oak trees out here, they're starting to look like the cherry blossoms with the white caked on to all the branches out here. for people who are tired of the snow, i can tell you this. cherry blossoms usually peak around the last week of march, first week of april. start thinking happy thoughts about the cherry blossoms, which are only about seven or eight weeks away. in the meantime, heavy snow is in the forecast. what is heavy snow? anything you have to shovel yours

caller: typical move from chuck schumer.was interesting and that man from "politico," which i loved, he wanted the shareholders to have a say. i wonder if he feels the same way for the unions? people with their money in the form of union dues to use for political purposes they may or may not agree with. this idea, i truly believeÑi tht whether they are democrats, for public and both independents, or anxdÑi alien life form, all th'e interested in this themselves. host: david, what are we hearing? caller: even a lot of critics of the decision are green with senator mccain. we do not like this, but the supreme court has spoken in a fairly decorative way and we should try to work with the rules to our advantage. one of the callers mentioned labor unions. and the role that their member of at in overstaying the kind of political activity need to be involved with. you hear a lot of democratic activists saying that corporations can get into the action, so can labor unions. let's use this to our advantage, building up the union's and

i'm chuck roberts. welcome on the 2nd of february. >>> defense secretary robert gates is launching a process that would allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military, providing congress repeels the current ban. gates is telling a senate committee today how he would go about edgnding the don't ask, don't tell policy. >> the question before us is not whether the military prepares to make this change but how we best prepare for it. we received our orders from the commander in chief and we are moving out accordingly. however, we can also take this process only so far, as the ultimate decision rests with you, the congress. >> the secretary is ordering the pentagon to complete its review of don't ask, don't tell by the end of this year. joint chiefs chairman admiral mike mullen supports ending the ban on gay service members. he told the armed services committee it would be the right thing to do. don't ask, don't tell has become the focus of conversation since the president mentioned it in our state

reid, the other two people president obama has on the stage, i saw dick durbin and then i believe chuck schumer from new york. those two have started giving essentially a lot of money for other colleagues in races to try to build up their own goodwill politic politically in case harry reid does not win his re-election. dick durbin and chuck schumer want to be in a position to essentially try to appeal to be the next senate majority leader if the democrats hold on to the majority or at least the party leader in the senate. what do you make of that? >> it's natural. now they have a their own political action committees, durbin's has been around for a while, where they do make donations to other members. so this eidea is not new. senator durbin and senator schumer would be the logical successors to senator reid. kind of amazing how we're already writing him off nine months away. >> lynn, i'm going to cut you off because president obama is at the microphones. let's listen in to the president speaking to the democratic senate caucus. >> you guys had to listen to me at the state of the union,

chuck did not see the shadow, breaking news coming into the cnn center there.g. there you go. these clouds will bring in a little moisture, but most of the action is down in parts across the south. and we have a winter weather advisory out for the locations. a coating of ice for western parts of north carolina. and dusting of snow across parts of virginia and rain across florida. quickly, 400 giant squid caught off the coast of california. monsters in some cases up to 60 pounds. fisherman got out there to snag them up. i would have guessed they would be cuff tough. >> deep fried anything tastes good. even a groundhog. >> almost. >>> well, let's check in with kyra phillips. >> you would eat a groundhog? >> no. they deep fry everything. >> punxsutawney? >> no. no. >> i heard about having a deep fried snickers, but a groundhog? >> let's talk about totally switching gears. this is basically, how low can you go. in liberty, missouri, the deep is low. i don't know if you have seen this or not. can we roll this. this couple coming in to order food, and they walk away

this isn't even the heaviest of the storm as chuck and the weather folks have been telling you. is going to come a lot later and it's going to snow overnight, well into tomorrow and it's going to look very different ouhere in just a few hours. we are live in college park. now back to you. >> he is smiling this time. >> yes, he's feeling better. >>> coming up, the snow is causing cancellations and delays at airports all over the area. we'll tell you more about that.

caller: typical move from chuck schumer.esting and that man from "politico," which i loved, he wanted the shareholders to have a say. i wonder if he feels the same way for the unions? people with their money in the form of union dues to use for political purposes they may or may not agree with. this idea, i truly believeÑi tht whether they are democrats, for public and both independents, or anxdÑi alien life form, all th'e interested in this themselves. host: david, what are we hearing? caller: even a lot of critics of the decision are green with senator mccain. we do not like this, but the supreme court has spoken in a fairly decorative way and we should try to work with the rules to our advantage. one of the callers mentioned labor unions. and the role that their member of at in overstaying the kind of political activity need to be involved with. you hear a lot of democratic activists saying that corporations can get into the action, so can labor unions. let's use this to our advantage, building up the union's and having t

staten island chuck or -- >> jimmy: no, staten island chuck is not working anymore.xsutawney phil, he lives in a tree stump, right? >> steve: punxsutawney phil? >> jimmy: yeah. >> steve: he lives somewhere. >> jimmy: a cage? >> steve: i saw the documentary on him that bill murray made. that was great. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: it was a good documentary. it was good. we've got a great show tonight, you guys. the lovely host of the "today" show is here, meredith vieira is here. [ cheers and applause ] i love her. oh, this guy's funny. from "modern family," jesse tyler ferguson is joining us. [ cheers and applause ] and we've got some good music tonight. motion city soundtrack is going to be here. [ cheers and applause ] play the rock 'n' roll music. they're really good. as i said earlier, today is groundhog day. >> it sure is. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: anyway, thousands of people traveled to gobbler's knob in pennsylvania to see the groundhog, to see if he saw his shadow. >> oh, yeah. i know what you're saying, jimmy. i catch your drift. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: sorry. c

as it has been removed on purpose -- according to chuck -- i have no idea.nced as a communist plot in three, two -- >>> something to expect from the experience of modern american airline security. the transportation security administration is announcing it will start randomly schwabing travelers' hands to search for traces of explosives. you may have seen these swabs that they use to test already. screeners use them to check bags and shoes. the new gimme five policy where they check your hands has received a provisional thumbs up from the american civil liberties union provided the policy is not implemented in a zram natory fashion, the aclu says this is the right security measure that is not an invasion of privacy. we contacted security expert bruce schneider to get his take. he's very critical of tsa measures that he calls security theater. he told us about the testing and quote -- so you can file that under faint praise, damming whiff. the tsa already has about 7,000 explosive trace detection machines. many from the federal stimulus bill will provide for

took a square foot, 18 inches deep of snow, from outside front of news4 today and with the help of chuck bell we weighed it. now, the old snow and the ice weighed in at about 20 pounds. if you add to that the nu12 inches that we expect, that's supposed toeigh another five pounds which is 25 pounds per square foot. a fairfax county structural engineer told us today residential rooftops are designed to handle about 30 pounds per square foot. we sort of made it. experts say that a structure can withstand two times that, so most roofs should be just fine. we want to emphasize do not shovel the snow off your roof. it is extremely dangerous. very, very dangerous. some people have asked how stro is a deck when it comes to heavy snow? first, you should know that decks are designed to handle more weight than your roof because they're designed to hold people. decks hold about 40 pounds per square foot. you can shovel your deck if you want to, but it should withstand the weight of this snow. if you have lots of heavy stuff on it, though, like a stack of firewood, consider shoveling it. on to ice da

host: senator chuck schumer entering the room, along with max baucus.ir. caller: hi. i have a problem with the politics of this, from the republicans and democrats, to one side or the other -- and i am ended ended because of that, because i don't want to go to one side or the other -- i am an independent because of that, because i don't want to go to one side of the other . they should say, let's not to health care reform this way. let's do insurance reform first. that would take care of the costs that they say -- and i have a problem with. host: let me take up that point and ask julie rovner question -- is this health reform or medical insurance reform? guest: iis a little bit of both. a lot of people have been asking, what is the one thing that everybody agrees on? one thing that everybody agrees on is stopping discrimination based on pre-existing conditions. we actually did this in 1996, the health insurance portability and accountability act, for people with group health insurance. if you go from one job to another job, they cannot discriminate agai

i think chuck is exactly right on the. that doesn't mean we're going to withdraw from either these countries anytime soon i don't think. >> if i could say first though, i mean, let's be clear. congress authorized both of these wars. i mean, one may not like it, but in fact, they did do it and they haven't, they haven't repealed it. that authorization is there. i think of the president clinton's deployment to bosnia, which is also incidentally announced for a year. i went in with very significant force. there was no violence in that year. it was successful. and at the end of the year, the deployment continued with virtually no public opposition. and so what i imagine lies behind -- i think that president obama is sincere in what he is saying, the idea is that we bring in significant additional force, say to commerce omission as we did in bosnia. and then the situation is better and you hope you can withdraw. again, for the reasons i outlined, which are primarily, which have entirely to do with the absence of a credible loca

can you picture that, chuck? the meeting did go well. we had a good and frank conversation.i hope it is one we can continue on a more regular basis. we all understand there are legitimate and genuine differences between the parties, but despite the political posturing that often paralyzes this town there are many issues upon which we can and should agree. that is what the american people demand of us. they are tired of everyday being election day in washington and at this critical time the people sent us here and expect the seriousness of purpose that transcends petty politics. that is why will continue to seek the best ideas from either party as we work to address challenges ahead. i'm confident, for example, that when one in 10 of our fellow citizens cannot work we should come together to help business create more jobs. we should provide small businesses with additional tax credit and additional lines of credit. we ought to agree in investments and crumbling roads and bridges. we should agree on tax breaks to make homes more energy efficient, all of which will put more ame

chuck todd is now with us, nbc news, and co-host of the daily rundown, cnbc john harwood, also of theyork times" and steve liesman, cnbc senior economics reporter. welcome all of you. first of all, steve, what do we really know? take us inside the unemployment numbers that went down to 9.7%. you did not hear a whole lot of celebrating in washington. >> the reason, andrea, there's two different report that is come out every first friday of the month. one is a household survey where they call and say are you employed? that gave us the number that showed the unemployment rate declining to 9.7%. in the other survey, the payroll survey, they get reports of some 300,000 businesses and say how many people are employed there? that still showed a decline of 20,000 workers. so, two different reports. these things usually come together over time. especially at turning points, where a lot of economists think we are,

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the letter was signed by company founder, chuck colgan.even years later, in 2005, colgan was still not meeting its regulatory requirements, says chris monteleon, who was a lead faa inspector overseeing colgan's growing operations. >> there were not enough managers, there were not enough check airmen, there were not enough maintenance personnel. >> o'brien: were they just overwhelmed? óç were overwhelmed. they couldn't control their business... the safety part of their business. >> o'brien: monteleon says he %> o'brien: monteleon says he to his office manager at the faa, recommending enforcement actions against the company. but his manager, he says, was getting push-back from company president mike colgan. >> mike colgan would call or, in >> mike colgan wouldiy)[m or, in where he wrote about me to theo. and the office manager one time told my team, he said, "mike colgan is a friend of this office," and that was the message. well, i mean.;c)Îx4>mwkuuuuuuuut the need to reinforce it.ç=ñ1 >> o'brien: did you, in the course of that, feel pressu

but over there on the other side of the screen, we have staten island chuck, and chuck says, no, we'rerly spring. but he's staten island. how did he say it? >> i'm in a box over here. no, i don't see my shadow, everything is good. he's calling for spring right away. >> happy groundhog day 2010. >> good morning, i'm robin meade. haiti has stopped all adoptions unless they were in motion before the earthquake. now that news as taken americans stand accused of trying to take 33 children out of haiti illegally. their attorney says the children came from a collapsed orphanage. the pastor of the church that many of the group attend says the group's motives are pure. >> there's a lot of misinformation. we haven't had a lot of communication with the folks on our team, but the directives they were given were to go in and work with an established orphanage so they could avoid exactly some of the situations we've heard about, children who have been displaced but vntds found layer parents. that's the type of situation we were trying to avoid. >>> last half hour, we heard from a father who gave his

this is staten island, chuck and his forecast, not quite in the agreement with them.hen they came out of the winter home, they did not see the shadow. they grabbed that winter box. >>> things were not so smoothly in georgia with that leaked. he's probably the second most famous furry progress most -- prognosis. climbing to trees and then they hid from his handlers. they are petty sure he missed the shadow in all of that. they are counting on the predictions of six more weeks of winter and let's face it, it doesn't seem like he's out on the limb with that as well. >> whether the way that things are going that is pretty safe. >> i think about 93% of the time for them. >> to go with that, you know what, spring is right around the corner. >> right. >>> we have a winter warning in affect t-r for them. not a huge storm. getting below freezing for them in the north and the west, beginning to accumlate. here is your forecast first. the next three days. we're looking at temperatures in the low 40s for them tomorrow. really a nice pretty day for them in the morning. low 40s on

at who wall street has been giving money to, it is about evenly split -- actually more of it when chuck schumer was a member. i will close with this one thought about some of the proposals. i find it out. you will all hate this. the administration is so worried about foreign involvement in our politics what the politics. what i would say is that number one, this administration should make available to the public all of the donors. that would demonstrate whether or not money came from foreign sources. there is good reason to believe that there were foreigners given money -- getting the money to the campaign under the radar screen. i also find it odd that the administration that would give constitutional rights to would- be terrorists would deny the same constitutional rights to a foreign corporation domesticated in this country, that employs americans, pays taxes to the american government, as the first amendment right to lobby the government. . . next i'm here in all of those capacities as a pastor, a politician, is president of an institution, and now has a ceo of a charity, nonprofit

i like chuck schumer, too. but i believe in term limits.ross perot brought it to the public's attention. a guy can make a living. scommoip we'll leave it there. the "wall street journal" reporting, via the associated press, alexander haig is in critical condition at johns hopkins hospital in baltimore. the hospital spokesperson said friday that the 85-year-old was admitted january 28 and remains in critical condition. mr. stephenson says he cannot say why mr. haig is hospitalized. four-star general served as a top aid veers he to three presidents and had presidential combation of his own. president richard nixon appointed him white house chief of staff in 1973. st. clare shores, michigan, vir jail our democrats line. we're asking folks if your member of congress deserves re-election. caller: yes, i do. host: who is your member, by the way? caller: my member of congress is senator levin, and my senator is carl levin. host: ok. caller: and they don't always vote the way -- you know, in my best interests, but most of the time they do. i can't

the same sin eam tographer who shot "pretty woman," chuck minceky, shot this. he makes girls look very, very beautiful. you can't believe all the hype, "oh, he's a legendary director." i weant -- went to new york recently. i wanted to go to marty short's show. i said can i come on pens -- wednesday night, get me tickets? the guy said it will be great, marty calls a celebrity out of the audience. you can be it. i said "i'm sure you can find a bigger celebrity than me." he said, "not on a wednesday." that's where i am. i always say i'm a wednesday celebrity. jay leno, always. wednesday night. tavis: when i mentioned -- opened the show, i wasn't teasing, all my friends know and fans do because over the years i've been sent coims -- copies of "pretty woman." i have a closet of like 200 copies of "pretty woman" now. i watch this movie all the time. i love it. is there -- crazy question -- is there ever a danger in a movie being seen too many times with too great a frequency? could -- do we lose the pressuriation for it? because "pretty woman" is on some channel ever

i'm savannah guthrie. >> and i'm chuck todd. let's get to the rundown.ment. the unemployment rate has dropped to 9.7%. that's a mild surprise and comes despite the fact that employers cut 20,000 jobs. analysts had predicted the unemployment rate would rise. but, of course, these predictions never seem to be correct. at the same time, though, we're getting a clearer look at the scope of this recession. after updating its numbers, the government now says 8.4 million jobs, 8.4

. >> reporter: senator chuck schumer says this is not the way it was meant to be, stimulus dollars wereded to create jobs here in the united states. >> this is one of these stories in washington that when you tell people five miles outside the beltway, or anywhere else in america, that they cannot believe it. it makes people lose faith in government and it, frankly, infuriates me. >> reporter: but congress may be to blame. the way the law is written, projects get money regardless of where the equipment is made. senator schumer wants that changed, but the administration refuses to acknowledge there's a problem. is there anything in the recovery act that requires these machines to be built here in the united states? >> those historically haven't had by american provisions and they don't under the recovery act either. >> reporter: that's a bitter pill for the nearly 100 workers at this turbine blade factory in pennsylvania who were temporarily laid off before thanksgiving and are only now beginning to be called back to work. >> when we're employing other countries, we can't feed our kids a