it was not a custom in england. yes, sir? >> was there any organized support, the colonyies -- >> support for -- >> loyalists supporting the crown? >> oh, yes, across the nation, at least one-third of the population. only days before the actual declaration of independence, john dickinson offered the olive branch petition to the king pledging our american loyalty to the king, love for the king, love of being british subjects and simply asking for him to control the parliament and let us raise our own taxes and keep parliament out of our business. had he accepted the olive branch petition, we'd probably have become a member of the british commonwealth. there was tremendous amount of loyalty and loyalty forces. there was a major battle that is not often mentionedded, prejudice or what, but a major battle at moore's creek, north carolina, not far from wilmington, north carolina. a british fleet was going to land soldiers at wilmington, and an army formed inland, marching towards the coast to join up with the british regulars. a f

i heard from soldiers in england the remembered training with them in westminster england it so i was able to get a lot of information. >> of the five, how many survived world war ii? >> three survived. my uncle and another fella named jack brister were both killed very close to the end of the north africa campaign in april 1943. >> what happened? >> how did they die speak with your uncle. >> well, he was in an isolated position. i went to tunisia to see what the land was like, where they were fighting. this wonderfully interesting and exciting. it's a very broken, dry, rocky, hilly kind of terrain. and any small group of men who was kind of separate from the body of the battalion was very isolated, and user difficult to get, i'm giving away the end of the book. do you think it's a good idea bikes. >> it's up to you. >> i won't go into too much detail. he basically, a sniper killed him. it was kind of under no circumstances. he volunteered to go out with another man to find a can position that had been caring for troops. and in the course of that, there was a guy behind a haystack who

when she's down there in the vault and she found out that england had sold sixty percent of its gold to germany in two thousand and one she threw up yes well here is an image of her looking at the gold in the bank of england now in light of the fact that china is accumulating massive tens of thousands and thousands of tons of gold and you see the queen there posing in front of the gold bars in the bank of england and remind me of only just a few days ago that there was a university of nottingham released this video from professor martin poliakoff and he was allowed entry into the bank of england vault and he's looking at all that gold there and he says this in some ways i think it's quite disappointing to see because the goulds is an exciting and it has interesting chemistry and it's just sitting here doing nothing you know want to shame it's only moved up five hundred percent in the last ten years and will replace all of the fianna currencies as the standard of wealth around the world know the queen is a tough old bird she's down there defending what's left of britain's gold so when

, plymouth, england. lot were in alexandria, egypt, where the french, or the british had a large fleet. and the two biggest but not quite finished battleships of the french fled to the car west africa and casablanca. but there was a very large hotel in a place called, on the algerian coast but for a couple of battleships, some big cruisers. and the british came up with this idea, they called it operational catapult. on the morning of july 3, they were going to seize as many friendships as they possibly could by agreement, hopefully, but if not, by force. and they figured in portsmouth and plymouth, england, this would be fairly easy because these ports are surrounded by british ships and british coastal batteries and that kind of thing. and in alexandria, egypt, kind of the same thing because there was a british port with british ports and big guns and british fleet around. there was a different situation because there was only a french flotilla, a french naval base, and the admiralty which is the british

and you see the queen there posing in front of the gold bars in the bank of england and remind me of only just a few days ago that there was a university of nottingham released this video from perfessor martin poliakoff and he was allowed entry into the bank of england vault and he's looking at all that gold there and he says this in some ways i think it's quite disappointing seeing these bottles because the go it's an exciting and the money has an interesting chemistry and it's just sitting here doing nothing you know want to shame it's only moved up five hundred percent in the last ten years and will replace. the standard of wealth around the world know the queen is a tough old bird she's down there defending what's left of britain's gold so when these other countries come to repatriate expect a queen no easy and take them out or fire only if the queen doesn't do what monarchs of old used to do you're going to see the likes of this headline the first shop in europe to sell teens opens in madrid the headline in spanish this. record is so necessary i was already in madrid that pre-ma

as far north as central and northern new england. this stalled front will continue to sit and give us that heavier rain tomorrow and finally it will start to improve. we have an icing situation here you see across portions of southern massachusetts, falling as mostly snow in new hampshire. because of this, we have winter storm advisories and warnings across portions of new england. picking up as much 6 to 12 inches of snow, just because that's where the coldest of the air is locked in, where we're seeing this lighter shade of gray across southerning new england, it will start as snow tomorrow morning. and then change over to rain. then, down around southern new england, again just rain out of this event. most of the east coast will be seeing all rain. but the heaviest of it will work its way back in by tuesday. it will push that rain as far north central, northern none hampshire and maine. >> victoria? >> thank you. >>> coming up next -- president obama makes a bold promise during his remarks at newtown memorial. >> and a mother desc

but in england was out in front. the british knew the big trouble was coming out of new england. >> what was the reason the patriots wanted to be separated from great britain? >> a number of layers. the underlying population of new england tended to, the beginning from east anglia, which was the old section of england that was most against the crown and we saw that in the english civil war. after parliament triumphs but then loses in the restoration, you have a continuing flow out of east anglia. a lot of the settlements in the new england colonies, especially massachusetts, you see so many names of towns in eastern massachusetts that are also the names of towns in east anglia. so they had bad heritage, but they were from a part of england that had been against the crown in the english civil war. so they were in trouble making. their religion intended to be congregationalist, which was against the church of england prepare business was maritime. there were seafarers. the english were starting to think too many of the

they had to send it to england. and essentially, you had to send it to britain and you generally had to take back -- you could not get all your money. they got what they thought was a better price. there were unable to get the marked up. they could not sell directly to france or hollander spain. there were -- they did not like the junk there were sent back in trade. you could not have a currency in the colonies. you basically had to cobbling together from various sources. you had to get the gold or silver from the spanish caribbean or somewhere else. you had to issue certain types of notes that colonies were allowed to issue. but basically your whole currency was not really there. so businesses was hard to conduct. they were anxious to expand to the west with settlements. the king was trying to stop anybody from going over the appalachians. so they had a different set of concerns of than new england. >> what do you think would be the reaction on part of the people who lived back then to what we see now of the britis

. >> reporter: the storm is expected to continue its march into new england on thursday, bringing more than a foot of snow to upstate new york. kurt gregory, nbc news. >> and now nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer is tracking the storm for us this morning. dylan, any relief in sight? >> we are going to get relief from the severe weather. no more tornadoes in the forecast, but we are still looking at that heavy snow now pushing across northern new england, upstate new york, northern vermont and eventually moving into the maine area as well. but you can see from boston back into hartford, right down into new york city, it's all rain at this point. we did have a line of heavy thunderstorms move through new york city last night, producing torrential downpours and very gusty winds, but look at some of the snowfall totals so far. there are so many areas from new york through pennsylvania back into ohio that have already picked up a foot or more of snow. in connecticut, we picked up about six inches of snow before it did change over to rain, which it's going to stay as all rain at this point, but

touring the bank of england's vaults as we did just recently and you see there what we don't get to see is transparent disclosure of the gold transactions of central banks in terms of their lease things wapping that sort of thing now though we may know of this see if he sees investigation into silver market manipulation it's been ongoing for years still with no result but here to discuss some of the latest developments in precious metals in light of what we do know are bill murphy and chris powell of the gold antitrust action committee better known as gap and they are together at the same desk in our studio which is just so exciting thanks so much for being here gentlemen good to be here alone it's great to have you so let's start with today gold and silver moving down not a lot of big news anything to see here. yeah actually it's been part of a not an ambush attack by what we call the gold cartel for the past month they've been trading and when asian markets are thinly traded just about three weeks ago they had to call next twenty five dollars an ounce in one minute twenty four out

but they were not in england ready to go back to france. the canadians paid in hong kong and australian and british in singapore. so after dunkirk here was a country like a boxer is down on one knee and the ref is about to call in a day. host: when did the blitz of london occur? . this is actually part of the battle of britain. the air battle, the hollywood battle of spitfires and everything began in bid july, july 10 officially. host: of 1940. guest: of 1940. that is when the invasion scare began. the germans were soften up for the final blow which churchill never believed was coming. never for a minute did he believe the germans would invade. but he had to pursue the invasion scare tactic in order to build up his armies and get more planes and get equipment from the u.s., which was dragging its feet. the final plan, the german plan, would be to soften air bases then in lit august or september crush the remnants of the r.a.f. it was a good plan but it wasn't working and goring got hitler's permission to bomb the ports. bombing was so ineff

[applause] >> food for thought for the east of england? yes, gentlemen from east of of england. thank you. >> i am part of a society that equal. as a matter if you're gay chemistry, man, woman, christian, muslim. however, there's a hurdle. it may just of them a safe language, but i believe passionately that the language is important. the weblog. if we want to encourage marriage to be important, which i believe it should, we need to have everyone regardless whether you're gay first-rate. thank you. [applause] >> colleagues, my record show we've not yet heard from him and from yorkshire and humberside. that man is not itching to address them forward to hearing from you, sir. >> leon cotler from north york shire. we are facing the campaign, not the issue. equal marriage is very topical minis. i wonder why. this is because during those of organization of bringing to the forefront. so i ask you then, do we follow the crowd? re: innovative for duplicate this? we are ukyp and we are unique and that is why you should vote for some canals. [applause] >> who have what god wanting to speak

she genuinely believed that was the queen of england. the queen would not ring and go what time should i come and visit. it is my country my hospital, i'll bloody welcome when i want to. that poor woman her christmas is ruined. >> john: she will be working all night. >> australian, radio gold. you know that. that's gone everywhere. the worst impression i've ever heard. >> the worst. >> john: it would have been easy to be charles or prince phillip. >> actually said tummy bug. that's something the queen would never say. >> she hasn't been wretching on my watch. >> unbelievable. >> john: this is diana's first grandchild. americans will be going crazy over it. >> there is a new rule. they brought out literally in the last couple of months whether it is a boy or a girl, whoever comes out first will succeed. in the past, if it was a girl, if the boy were younger, he would become king. they think maybe twins. two generations. >> one has to come out first. >> what if it is a cesarean. can you imagine? that's the king. >> joy: that's interesting.

he was american but was racing england. came back to america to go to harvard and he of course was desperate to get back to england to help his friends fight the knots he -- at that point in 1941 england had just barely been invaded by the germans. the battle of britain was pretty much over but they were still being bombed regularly. they were in a terrible position and they need all the help they could get. i think that appeal little bit to my uncle's sort of sense of chivalry. he like to help the underdog and anyway getting back to your previous question, as far as beating the leader of the group he knew about this opportunity. he went one day to his old prep school for their homecoming event and met with an nx remake, former roommate who was there that went to dartmouth. he tried to to talk his friend in the going with him. his friend decided not to go but he took news of this opportunity back to the dartmouth with him when he went back to school and told his friends there who were very active in the interventionist move

no tennis in new england today unless you're indoors.our attention. 14 in albany. 19 in hartford. wind chills in the teens all the way through vermont and new hampshire and maine. it's one of the days where you have to grab all the winter gear. d.c. to philadelphia, it's not nice. temperatures with the wind chill are only in the low to mid 20s. as far as what we'll deal with today, the sun will be out. this is improving over the next couple days. we're going in the opposite direction. after one sunny day in new england, we're going to get cloudy and a chance of rain four days in a row. forecast for new york city, it warms up. it's not going to rain the whole entire time. there will be a chance of rain each and every day with periods of rain all the way through monday. so today is not bad, lynn. that rain will develop on friday and spread from there. >> all right, bill, thanks so much. just ahead, this year's grammy nominees and the cbs head honcho finally weighs in on the angust. jones drama. and he may lavish living in his video "gangna

we're almost done across southern new england. we also have very strong wind gusts especially along the coast of new jersey an area that does not need additional wind damage. we did pick upwind gusts up 70 to 75 miles per hour but these are easing too. >> such bad timing. so many people trying to get home. >>> well, president obama is aboard air force one right now and some lawmakers will weather the storms to return to washington today with just five days left to avert the fiscal cliff. now all eyes will be on the senate after house republicans said it's up to them to reach the deal. nbc's danielle leigh is on capitol hill. what's the latest? >> it's another day and another standoff. john boehner may not even bring the house back to town until the senate comes up with a possible plan. >> reporter: obama leaves his tropical retreat in hawaii for a wintry washington, tension on capitol hill is on high. >> i don't so how you could hammer out any kind of a grand bargain or large plan involving tax reform and entitlement changes in a

but, new england scored 28 unanswered points.ouchdown ties the game to therein with six and a half to go. the 49ers bounced back after a long kickoff return. crack tree breaks free for a 38-yard touchdown and that blows the game winner. they clench a playoff spot. raiders and chiefs, a little left on the line and here's five field goals, this 57 yarder put them up nine to nothing. all the raiders needed was a field goal because the defense was fan staftic. they stopped on four downs. they win 16 to nothing and snap their losing streak. crazy night in the nfl. 49ers are going to be playoffs and we'll have a report coming up from new england. >> they're going to the playoffs. >> i know, but they still have a challenge. >> they can win the nfc east by beating seattle next week. >> they have to win one of the next two games. >> all right. game day. that's it. thanks for watching. good night. ,,,,

the new england patriots sent up 26 flares in honor of each victim. in st.ers wearing the number 26, met in the middle of the field, held hands, symbolizing the 26 lives lost. new york giants wore s.h.e.s. on their and vick tore cruz found out one of the victims 6-year-old jack pinto, he wrote his name on his shoes. jack, this game is for you. other sports events were marked by those lost in the sandy hook elementary school. miami heat brought their children on to the court for a moment of silence before the game against wizards, including lebron james and other teams new york knicks honored the victims before the game over the weekend. >>> while so many of us were affected by friday's event, those at the center at tragedy are becoming to come to grip with what happened. some of the teachers are sharing their terrifying stories. here's what they told nbc's matt lauer in their own worsdz. >> i heard what sounded like a popping sound and then, some noises coming over the loud speaker, sounded like weeping noises and really wasn't sure what was going on at that

he wants to get rid of the whole idea what little modicum of responsibility the bank of england has been bracing itself for you know gracefully not disciplining him at all and that's why gold and silver moving up again because this is a money printing fanatic well he said to achieve a better path for the economy over time a central bank may need to commit credibly to maintaining highly accommodative policy even after the economy of potentially inflation picks up if yet further stimulus were required the policy framework itself would likely have to be changed for example adopting a nominal g.d.p. level target could have many respects be more powerful than employing threshold under flexible inflation targeting so max nominal g.d.p. target can't they make that whatever they feel like it is oh yeah well this is the current britain's going to try to debase the currency to improve their g.d.p. to improve their exports and this is something that the global game of economies are participating in it's global currency debasement it's a suicide banker you know you see the suicide bombers blowi

and, b um, i did go to england. i went to the regimental museum, the king's royal rifle corps has a museum where they document and record everything, pretty much everything they do. they're a regimental chronicles there that you can read. and i saw where he had lived. and i also managed to track down relatives of the other four, the other four soldiers who also had stacks of letters and diaries. three out of the five young men saw themselves as writers. two of them were committed to being professional writers when and if they returned from the war. so they kept really good records, you might say. so that's the main way that i learned it. and i interviewed, um, for instance, some people who remembered them and knew them. i heard from soldiers in england who remembered training with them in westminster, england, so i really -- i was able to get a lot of information. >> host: of the five how many survived world war ii? >> guest: three survived. my uncle and another fellow named jack brewster were both killed very close

mark carney the incoming governor of the bank of england has suggested abandoning inflation targeting to rescue alien economies and his speech there rewrote the central banking rule book again so he's just like this woman he said well i saw that there and i decided to drink it he's like well i came up with this crazy idea and i decided to tell people about it i know marconi to many parts of the brain that i just going to go to the bank of england he wants to get rid of the whole idea of what little modicum of responsibility the bank of england has been bracing itself for you know gracefully not disciplining him at all and that's why gold and silver moving up again because those guys use the money printing fanatic well he said to achieve a better path for the economy over time a central bank may need to commit credibly to maintaining highly accommodative policy even after the economy and potentially inflation picks up if you have further stimulus were required the policy framework itself would likely have to be changed for example adopting a nominal g.d.p. level target could many respe

new england, some spots in the 20s, too. the forecast for today, a gorgeous day, a picture perfect friday, ordered up special for lynn today. 59 in atlanta. we could see a few showers late today. that's after dark in areas of texas. as we get to the weekend forecast, len, it does look like on the eastern seaboard saturday is your day. because sunday could be a little rainy, kind of ugly. >> stay in, watch some football. thanks so much. >>> the royal hoax deejays in a safe house. a california judge's incredible rape cents and the friendliest, cleanest and safest cities to visit. >>> plus, the bizarre stories of doctors treating a little baby with a feather sticking out of her neck. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. [ male announcer ] citi turns 200 this year. in that time there've been some good days. and some difficult ones. but, through it all, we've persevered, supporting some of the biggest ideas in modern history. so why should our anniversary matter to you? because for 200 years, we've been helping ideas move from

we also have snow falling all across new england right now, heaviest in upstate new york. we still have the wintry mix of sleet and freezing rain back through the hartford area, and that is going to be an issue for anyone traveling early this morning. we also though have to keep an eye out for these storms where we do have a severe thunderstorm watch posted and eventually we will see severe storm warnings get issued i'd say all across louisiana. all of those flooshz of light, that's the cloud to ground lightning we're seeing. so very strong storms back through louisiana and up into northeastern texas, as well. then you go a little further north. we're talking about snow. we have winter weather warnings and advisories and watches, basically from texas all the way up into northern new england. we are slowly going to see this thing start to the spread eastward. however, for the gulf coast area, we're going to see the biggest threat for tornadoes. even the shading of yellow from eastern texas all the way into western south carolina, we have the potential of very strong storms

new england up 13-0. third drive of the game for new england.recognized no one's covering hernandez. quick out. touchdown. see it again here. hernandez yelling, brady, i'm hope, give it to me. i'll get in. patriots up 21-0. fourth quarter we go. patriots up 28-7. brady, to danny woodhead. check out j.j. watts. phenomenal player. tracks him down, punches it out. then, it's lloyd, johnny on the spot. falls on it for the touchdown. brady, four touchdowns in the game. patriots win 42-14. improving to 10-3. they've now won seven in a row. >>> that's your "sportscenter" update. i'm hakem dermish. have a great day. >>> if those were the highlights, let's call this the low-lights. it comes to us from sunday's appalachian state men's basketball game against western carolina. >> you have to feel sorry for app state's brian okam. this is being called the worst free throw ever taken. straight up in the air. nowhere remotely close to the rim. >> brian has been successful on two of his five foul shots this season. but that is pretty bad. wow. >>> up next, eve

good morning, everyone, we have one area of rain and snow exiting new england today. you saw that from the live shot there in connecticut. just pouring rain this time of year, definitely a little bit on the strange side. we are watching only cold air in northern portions of maine are the only areas that will deal with the snow and sleet. it's a soaker this morning. even in areas like vermont and new hampshire. temperatures are good. don't have to worry about the roads. as far as the morning, through the rockies, through the higher elevations, this is going to head out to the plains today and tonight. tomorrow, a snowstorm is developing. through green bay, through the heart of iowa, blizzard watches here in areas, a little bit of colorado, but mostly western kansas. then winter storm warnings through all of utah. how much snow? it's a ribbon of 6 two 12 inches from wisconsin, iowa, right back through nebraska. th look at weather outside yours. >> today, we're talking about rain and a little snow shower activity around areas of minneapolis. slait city, areas like utah,

[applause] >> food for thought for the east of england? yes, gentlemen from east of of england. thank you. >> i am part of a society that equal. as a matter if you're gay chemistry, man, woman, christian, muslim. however, there's a hurdle. it may just of them a safe language, but i believe passionately that the language is important. the weblog. if we want to encourage marriage to be important, which i believe it should, we need to have everyone regardless whether you're gay first-rate. thank you. [applause] >> colleagues, my record show we've not yet heard from him and from yorkshire and humberside. that man is not itching to address them forward to hearing from you, sir. >> leon cotler from north york shire. we are facing the campaign, not the issue. equal marriage is very topical minis. i wonder why. this is because during those of organization of bringing to the forefront. so i ask you then, do we follow the crowd? re: innovative for duplicate this? we are ukyp and we are unique and that is why you should vote for some canals. [applause] >> who have what god wanting to speak

i am a lender. -- a new englanders. i began at palm beach -- i was doing some freelance columns for "the boston globe." i traveled abroad to do free- lance magazine pieces. then i began at the "post." -- palm beach post, as an intern in 1996. the smart money i found out later in the office pool -- this 46-year-old guy is not going to move from boston to be an intern. but i wanted to be a newspaperman. >> and so? >> i was an intern. >> for how long? >> 10 weeks was the internships. it began january 6, 1996, and there were other intern's there who were 22 years old. i'm 46, i have kids, i am buying a house. with my half of the old divorce settlement. -- and i was an intern. i was covering the county fair and cooking contests. there was a callow at the county fair whose skin had a map of america on it. i remember the first president's day weekend -- six weeks into the internships, i went into the editor's office and said, have a nice weekend, i will see you tuesday. what you talking about? i said, it is a holiday. they sai

to do while going by that on a new england weather beside the football is completely different. and david back in has revealed the daily lesson he gives to his four kids on how to fulfil your ambitions in life after the former manchester united and rail madrid start signed off six seasons in america with that second straight m.l.s. cup final victory. you know being successful doesn't come easy you have to work more children every single day that if you want to be successful it's hard graft it doesn't come easy. and staying with football with russia is set to host the world cup in twenty eighteen the pressure is on the home nations who produce a side that could win it academies are being built across the country to improve football from the grassroots and reach of important went across to see one of the best. if this is the future of football in russia but it certainly looks in good hands the state of the art account i mean cross under trains of a free thousand kids from around the south of the country from the ages seven to eighteen and the great thing is it's absolutely free th

george osborne that you know she saw the gold at the bank of england the other day she adds regrettably not all the bars are ours. and i was warmly plies well you know we still have some of that is the key question to whom does this gold belong how many competing claims are there to this gold we know the bank of england has been in the gold leasing business we know the bank for certain of national settlements is in the gold sales swaps leasing business you talk about conspiracies floor and when the when the board of the bank for international settlements which represents all the western central banks holds its monthly meeting they don't call you and say we're having a meeting would you like to attend when the g ten gold and foreign exchange committee meets so committee of representatives of the treasuries of all the major western countries when they meet they don't post a notice they don't say would you like to attend conspiracies by definition these are secret meetings of of government people in a national government people where they may take action bearing on the gold market in the w