it's cut cape denison off from the ocean. the drama at sea didn't upset the passengers who messaged friends they had a wonderful christmas. the latest news is that a chinese ice breaker, the snow dragon, should arrive within 24 hours to try to cut them free. martin fletcher, nbc news, london. >>> still ahead tonight, big health news about a popular surgery for knee pain. how doctors used fake surgeries to determine a lot of people may not need to go under the knife. >>> and later, how one amazing mother/daughter bond is now making a difference for a lot of families across the country. >>> as we said before the break there is important medical news out tonight that involves one of the most popular knee surgeries in america. for a lot of people living with knee pain, it seems there's no choice but to go under the knife. but for one knee ailment in particular, doctors now say surgery might not be necessary for some patients. we get our report from nbc's ron mott. >> gently give that a little pull. >> reporter: in new york, jessi

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. >> officer dave denison set his tampa police helicopter down feet from this crashed and burning plane. the officer put out the cessna's flaming engine and ignoring his own safety pushed into the wreckage and pulled out the unconscious pilot away from danger. >> many canadians were stunned when they learned lottery winner tom crist planned to give his entire jackpot to charity. recently lost his wife to cancer and said the tom baker cancer center would be near the top of his list. >> he's probably one of the most generous men i've known throughout my whole career. >>> yet another d.c. police officer accused of wrongdoing tonight and this time it's a 5th district officer charged with trying to kill his wife. >> 45-year-old d.c. police officer samson lawrence is charged with beating his wife with a metal lamp post in the head so badly they have a he was trying to kill her. -- they say he was trying to kill her. it was the sunday before thanksgiving and a fight over missing screws to hang a tv turned vicious and violent. prince george's county attorney spokesperson says the 23 year vetera

the iceberg has cut them off from cape denison. passengers messaged family and friends that they had a wonderful christmas. the snow dragon, the chinese ice breaker, should arrive within 24 hours. >>> major pileup about 50 miles west of philadelphia. 35 vehicles involved along interstate 78 causing a four-mile backup. officials say the crashes were likely due to a fast-moving band of snow coming through. >>> here's dylan dreyer with a look at your forecast. >> not a lot of snow in that area. it came fast. just enough to make the roads very, very slippery in a short period of time. that snow is long gone. we're looking at lake-effect snow off lake ontario and steadier rain, heavier rain through southern texas. closer look at the snow, cleveland through erie into buffalo. across the tug hill plat teau. that's where we'll see the heaviest snow. we have a lake-effect snow warning, 6 to 12 inches of snow possible on on the of the many inches and feet they have out there now. an area of low pressure producing heavy rain in southern texas

>> guest: she was a social worker at denison house in boston. and she flew in her spare time. she had been in the papers a couple of times because she was a pilot and she had done a publicity stunt for denison house. but she was not--she was just kind of a local celebrity. she was not well-known at all. c-span: and how did--then did--did she get into this mix of who was going to be chosen? >> guest: well, that was just pure luck. the--amy guest had told the lawyer, family-friend lawyer, david lehman, to find somebody to take am--to take her place. and he was trying to decide what to do next, it being a little bit out of his line of work. and then george putnam heard about it through somebody else and went to see him, and said that he would like to try and find that woman and--i mean, it was just right up his alley 'cause it's the kind of thing that he'd been doing. and so david lehman said, 'ok. sure,' you know, 'have a go at it.' and that afternoon, according to putnam, a friend of his from boston popped into his office, a publicist friend of his. and so putnam said, 'look, t

denison schomberg illinois schomberg by the way the town where the nazis wanted to march in the and the a.c.l.u. stood up for their right to do so back in the sixty's hey dennis you old up remember that. you are what you go. i'm sorry. sure that was in skokie l. and i was a skokie i thought it was schoenberg a the maybe not in skokie ok i'm sorry mix and match them lights out well i i don't want to detract to track you too much for the subject which is very important subject but today i am so glad i had a chance to talk to you because you've been such an advocate for promoting a consciousness on climate change i tried to get ahold of my tammy duckworth who's a you will you let representative and he sent me a picture of a a list of concerns that that i was both the categorized as far as far as being important and you know what not a single category listed climate change really and i was appalled right and i was told to get called i called up to i called up our local office i called up d.c. i wrote a letter to her and then i had a chance to talk to mike they represented by to this party m

with the most shocking part of this is that they get to the end of the denison others this morning that's what we do what to put a number that says that there will sort it out later i mean again this is this is the type of operating practice that if you did it in your own business if you try to do with your own taxes for the government deployed off to jail. what contributes to the massive waste is the fact that for two decades the pentagon has gotten what it means. nobody checked if the numbers in garrett county meet insects commerce's discuss the budget allocates about six hundred and thirty billion dollars to the pentagon roughly the same route as last year. much of that will be wasted taxpayers will never know in washington. i'm getting sick and archie. what you can use to wake up and stop cracking down on unaccountable to the spending frenzy and that's the view of retired us army colonel douglas macgregor. i have actually begun this position whereby was the director joint operations that shape headquarters. for reasons that i did understand why pay was suddenly reduced. and it took th

that was sent to the forestry association was actually sent to his predecessor, a man named william denison. but he had retired and mr. murray had replaced him. the unabomber was proud of himself. it didn't matter that his bomb had killed the wrong man. they were engaged in the same kind of work, which was anti-environment in his opinion. and so it was okay. >> i'd been to a number of bomb scenes over my career, and the last one in sacramento was probably one of the more horrific. the shrapnel is usually what maims or kills the victim. most of the cases, nails, staples, and screws were used. that's an antipersonnel device. that's used to maim or kill. >> when you go to those crime scenes or when you see the devastation that was left behind and then you read about what he says and how he felt about those bombs, it's really chilling. it's chilling that someone can think like that, behave like that, and do that kind of thing. >> by now, the unabomber had been at large for almost 17 years. >> we talk about lone actors a lot, how difficult they are to catch. the unabomber was the lone wolf in th

because it does give lyle denison a pass. the court is not trying to block us. we are members of the bar, so we will sit into the lounge, and keep our phones. the press corps is locked in. they used to allow us to keep our phones and leave. but they adopted a rule to keep your phone in the locker. >> blog from the -- >> this is the fourth rule that was created to address our practices was there was an oral argument. the audio was being piped in. i was -- no problem with this. i'll just live tweet the oral argument. and i got a call from the marshal of the court who said, tom, we noticed this twitter thing. we don't know what that is. but straight on to the blog. straight on to the blog. that's right. i didn't see you in the courtroom, what was going on? i said i was in the lawyer's lounge writing away. she said that's not going to happen anymore. and the next day there was no el electronic devices in the lawyer's lounge. we have great advantages. experience and form present opportunities but they also constrain. if you go in there and say, look, i have this tech