emmitt and ering. friends forever. >> reporter: with a friendship bridged nearly nine decades and two moves. ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ >> reporter: consider it true. >> you come back again. >> i will. >> reporter: when your heart tells you what to do. >> happy birthday. >> reporter: boyd hupert, nbc news. >> boy, is he ever growing. >>> that will do it for us this tuesday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching, and night. >>> lights, camera, access. >>> don't worry. you'll find someone. >> right. like no! >> lady gaga's got hers but is there a prince in taylor's future? taylor and the lady exchanging tweets about love. i'm billy bush. we've uncovered the interesting back story of this supe

emmitt and ering. friends forever. >> reporter: with a friendship bridged nearly nine decades and two moves. ♪ happy birthday to you ♪ >> reporter: consider it t >> you come back again. >> i will. >> reporter: when your heart tells you what t. >> happy birthday. >> reporter: boyd hup earth, nbc news. >> boy, is he ever growi >>> that will do it for us on this tuesday night. i'm lester holt. for all of us at nbc news thank you for watching, and good ni >>> we are getting reports the roads are becoming an icy mess out there. here's a look at i-95. a lot of people left work early, but check out that gridlock right now at 7:00. cars at a virtual standstill tonight. good evening. i'm jacqueline london. we have a team of reporters and photographers across our region. this video you see here was taken just about 20 minutes ago in king of prussia montgomery county. you can see the roads, some of the snow on the ground and the ice that is coming down making it very difficult to navigate and get around. here's a

emmitt till wasn't even a law enforcement officer. but when they make those sort of statements they are fanning the flames of racial discord. and so they're having it both ways which is what really bothers me. i'm not buying when they say some of these of course it's unacceptable. >> let me ask you -- go ahead. >> barack obama took the lazy way out, megyn, let me finish this quickly. >> sure sure. >> he took the lazy way out. he issued a tweet. he didn't have decency to put on a suit and go to the rose room and have condemnation for these assaults against officers. >> here's my question to you. do you believe that this is endangering -- that this situation is still dangerous for law enforcement officers? because an nypd detective, former, today said he believes officers may be afraid to immediately react the way they're supposed to right now. and he points to that as justifying, as explaining the fact that the number of law enforcement officers shot to death in the line of duty rose more than 50% in 2014. >> sure. we're at a tipping p

came out, and he compared the ferguson incident to the death and the murder, the vicious lynching of emmittill which occurred in 1950s mississippi where a black boy 15-year-old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white girl. president obama went before the united nations and the entire world, and he compared ferguson to isis cutting off heads. he compared it to russia invading ukraine. these gentlemen along with their civil rights consigliere al sharpton have set the tone and the environment where police officers' lives are on the line and they're being assassinateed. it's an outrage. lou: sheriff right now there has been a truce in new york city where mayor bill de blasio who had been a part of the assault on law enforcement in this country he has rather quickly pulled back in his, if you will, his offense against all law enforcement, but particularly new york's police department. do you expect to see a tone here? there are consequences to the rhetoric being used by this administration and others. >> no, because this administration has capitalized if you will on this divide and conque

i think emmitt smith or barry sanders. that the nfl really has to pay attention to because wh what this does is it tells parents and it tells kids that hey, now that i know an informed decision and i know all the facts that are out there, consulting with doctors and former players, i, as chris boreland am making the choice not to play in the nfl and then parents and kids are going to say do we want to play this game in the first place or are we going play a different sport. >> i'm a father of a son and it makes me think twice about letting him play football. cte is a degenerative brain decide found in athletes that causes memory loss depression and more. there are all of these former nfl players all discovered to have cte after their tragic deaths. that's what the current players are most worried about and you have said that the league is not doing enough to ease these concerns. what should they be doing? >> one of the big factors that drives players to go back into the game after they have had a concussion is since the nf

murray broke emmitt smith's cowboys record for single season rushing last year. he also had hundred yard in each of the cowboys first eight games as there are reports, that he wants to play for chip kelly and with his college roommate, sam bradford. >> i called him, text him, i have done everything. we have been in communication. i think if we can land dimarco it would be i great pick up. not only is is he a great player but great person and close friend of mine too. i think he could help this ballcluby watch that press conference and he lit up talking about dimarco murray. brad forward was introduced yesterday. former heisman winner says he likes eagles tile of play. byron maxwell was also there who played with that tremendous secondary of the seattle seahawks. coach kelly is remaking the bird but he insist moves he is making will not mean marcus mariota a is on the way. >> let's dispel that right now. i think that stuff is crazy. you guys have been going with that stuff all the along. i think marcus is best quarterback in the draft. we will never mortgage or fu

people first hear this then they hear the involvement of a white woman, you know you think back to emmitt till you know he was lynched for flirting with a white woman. in this case mr. boyd had been convicted and served 25 years in jail for murdering a white woman. is it possible that was involved that's relevant here? >> could be. it is possible. and again, the fbi has taken on the ku klux klan for 100 years and all the other white supremacist, neo-nazi type groups that have sprung up in the last decade, from aryan brotherhood brotherhood, and there's a variety of those groups and they're still out there alive and well and strong and that's why they're investigating this to try to eliminate the possibility that we have domestic terrorism rising again in this country and trying to determine exactly what happened. >> all right. tom fuentes, thank you very much as we said. the former assistant director of the fbi. >>> and next this caught on tape. a black college student, his face bloody during an arrest. he called it racism. you're going to see the entire tape and judge for yourself. >>> a

i'm thinking of emmitt mccarthy from season three and what he has achieved. you know charlie also think about the economic downturn and the retail calamity that corresponding to a number of those seasons. i'm just happy to have designers still working at all. it is a tough industry. >> rose: talk a bit about personal life. now you the idea of coming to terms with sexuality where do you put that in terms of becoming tim. >> well our sexuality is as inextricable from us as our gender in my view. and it's such an important part of who we are. and it's something that i turn my back on for quite a long time. and i would say to myself, i don't know who i am sexually. but i know who i'm not. >> right. >> rose: and even that was very very helpful. and i am proud to be a gay man. and i will repeat it it's inextricable from who i am. and it is something i would never dream of changing. whenever anyone asks but i will say this. i had a very troublesome adolescence in particular. >> rose: you tried to commit suicide. >> i did. i was hospitalized for quite a long time. an

to see what emmitt and sarah does up close and the tireless work for israel and america on capital hill. they are making a difference. check out emmittonline.org. i have to give everyone credit for coming out tonight. there is easier things to do after a long day at work than coming to hear about isis. god bless my wife and she is somewhere in the room. i see her in the back. but we talk about this issue and we talk about isis and this is my third book and every night when my head hit the pillow over a five month span i would be thinking about isis and i had to share it with someone and how about my significant other. beheadings, burnings keeping the marriage together. but i say to her would you rather know or not know at the end of the day. and she said i would rather know. but you are sleeping on the couch tonight. [laughter] >> without further ado, folks, thank you for coming. i want you to know what i am going to focus on. we are in america and the united states and i really want to focus here on what isis its supporters, and sympathizers are doing on american soil. a lot of time to

nearly 60 years after emmitt till was buried black mothers still worry about the voofl their sons' lives when they leave home. we're reminded of this every time we look in the eyes of trayvon martin's mother. we are better today than we were then and the changes we made to our laws paved our path to prosperity. the president spoke of this in selma and republicans and democrat alike were united in our feeling that we must uphold the promise of the nation we inherited because of selma. the u.s. senate should vote to confirm a very qualified and exceptional u.s. attorney, loretta lynch, as the next attorney general. the c.b.c. devoted an hour of floor testimony last month in defense of her confirmation. but in her role as attorney general, loretta lynch will be tasked with defending the federal laws that protect the right to vote and that brings us to our topic this evening. tonight's c.b.c. hour is entitled "the battle wages on: securing equal voting rights in the united states." this topic is truly timely. this conversation needs to take place now. work remains to secure equal voting righ

i was there with emmitt smith, troy aikman, irving and all those guys back in the 90's.was just something that just kind of happenstance. >> a video game made you a fan. >> yes. >> really. >> video game made me a fan. >> let me call security for when you walk out here because that is big trouble for you. just take him out of here. >> we're eagles all the way on "good day philadelphia". >> 8:20. >> this one is a tearjerker. he saved it for a special fan with the big disability. this is >>> no question, one of the most popular films have of all time was frozen, right. >> right. >> so lets get ready for frozen two. it is officially happening. sequel does not have a release date or even a plot line. >> plot line. >> but director chris buck and jennifer lee they are teaming up for this again. >> give me some of the stars. >> kristin bell tweeted dreams come true and bell place ana, news of the frozen comes as a new short film frozen fever, hits theaters, today. it the day buys before disney's new cinderella movie. taking kid to see cinderella you have to show up early or you

i get to see what emmitt and sarah does up close and the tireless work for israel and america on capital hill. they are making a difference. check out emmittonline.org. i have to give everyone credit for coming out tonight. there is easier things to do after a long day at work than coming to hear about isis. god bless my wife and she is somewhere in the room. i see her in the back. but we talk about this issue and we talk about isis and this is my third book and every night when my head hit the pillow over a five month span i would be thinking about isis and i had to share it with someone and how about my significant other. beheadings, burnings keeping the marriage together. but i say to her would