what's richard engle's favorite olympic event? >> reporter: well, i -- you're right, it's probably not newsworthy. i'll tell you. i was at that hockey game that you were just highlighting and was there and saw the -- that final shoot-out with oshie. that was pretty exciting. and people here are hoping that there will be another moment where there is a u.s. gold medal hockey event. so that's the hottest ticket right now to get. we at nbc, i can tell you, have a limited number of tickets. and that is the one that everyone wants. we had a little bit even of an office pool going around today. i didn't win the pool, but that's the ticket that everyone wants. >> richard engle -- >> reporter: hopefully the u.s. gold medal hockey match. >> richard engle with a wink-wink, nod-nod to management. he appears to be looking for tickets -- >> reporter: i would like a ticket. >> not even a wink-wink, nod-nod -- >> reporter: i'm not winking or nodding, i'm saying it directly. >> thank you, be safe, sir. >>> back to domestic politics. to president

chairman and ranking member engle for holding this hearing. in the stability in the iraq government and the syria conflict, the number of al qaeda affiliated fighters in iraq has reached levels not seen since 2006. the off-shoot is now the primary perpetrator of violence. al qaeda disavowed the use of violence in syria for the use of tactics deemed to be too violent. al qaeda, one of the worst terrorist groups has disowned the group for being too extreme. an bar has turned the page from simply labeling this a spillover to a full-scale insurgence in iraq. particularly concerned for the 140,000 who fled their homes as rockets were indiscriminately fired and need for humanitarian aid. it's too great to ignore deputy assistant mcgurk. i hope you can shed the light on what level we'll provide to the iraqis and the comprehensive strategy for the threat. i yield back, mr. chairman. >> thank you mr. deutsche. now lastly we'll go to judge ted poe of texas chairman of the terrorism subcommittee followed by brad sherman of california, the ranking member

this letter to russia can expect to be hacked and as richard engle found out upon his arrival there it's not a matter of if but when richard good evening. good evening brian it is not just hacking the state department warns the travelers should have no expectation of privacy even in their hotel rooms and as we found out you are especially exposed as soon as you try and communicate with anything back at the hotel well he was using special software to monitor my two computers and sure enough they'd also been hacked you were able to tell the very very quickly somebody was exactly. but now people are saying that angle's report was misleading say the least and some are going as far as saying it was one hundred percent false it was misleading because while engle was talking about the risks of connecting to the internet while attending the sochi olympics he was filing a report from moscow and had logged on to the internet there and to make matters worse he got hacked because he opened a malware infected website that cracked open access to his computer something his security expert certainly wou

. >> good evening, commissioners, and i am sergeant engle side station and i am representing captain falfe and i will just say right off of the top that my officers and i have met with mr. escoloero and his staff to explain the policy as it relates to abc and the entertainment commission and to convey to him our ideas on best practices. specifically with regard to security. and every time that he has been incredibly responsive and he strikes me as being someone who is genuinely interested in having a good business that the neighborhood can be proud of. to that end, with the specifically with regard to the last two issues that we ended up with last, at the last meeting, he did have his community meeting, at engle side station, which i understand went remarkably well. and i would only add that it, and that the probably one of the reasons that it did not happen sooner is because it was not clear that it had to take place on one hand and on the other hand because there is a significant language barrier. and it, but it sounds to me like his taking steps and both measures, and he is making

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let's bring stephen engle to flesh out the numbers. better here. >> a little better is right. 16.1 increase in foreign direct investment into china in january after a 3.3% increase in december. we were expecting about a two and a half percent increase, so it was a sizable jump on word -- upwards in investment. if you are looking at the number $206 billion.s we are getting numbers from a press conference saying this jump in january was in line with their expectations, even though it didn't match the median expectation by economists. also they are saying this 15% rise was due largely to growth in services industry investment, and the spokesperson goes on to say this momentum will continue throughout the year. this is the 12th straight month of fdi increases into china following eight straight month of declines during 2012, so there is increasing optimism the sustainability of the chinese economy is going to reap rewards for foreign investors. top five sources into china, number one is right here in hong kong, but singapore was number two

stephen engle's is in hong kong, what is going on?these concerns and my earpieces giving me trouble again. i'm going to take it out. we had a bit of a cash crunch. the pboc is concerned about shadow banking. in debt levels we had december, there is concern that the tightening by the bank is going to choke off potential growth in the chinese economy, dipping below 7% potentially. look at these numbers here. in january, new lending, 1.3 trillion. that is 1.3 trillion, the highest number since 2010. do the math, almost triple december's number. flip the page and look at aggregate lending. >> should be we -- should we be worried? >> look at this, this is a record high. 2.50 8 trillion yuan in january. that is the highest figure. lending in china is often frontloaded in january. >> so you are saying these figures are skewed. >> there are definitely skewed. whether this is going to be a continuing trend is that a question. most economists we have spoken to saying, no it is going to slow down. the bank is still concerned by the excess credit

nbc news chief correspondent richard engle has more. >> it has all the sign of a revolution.'s independence square. anti-government demonstrators barricaded themselves in, setting bonfires, throwing stones, and lobbing molotov cocktails to keep riot police 23r6 getting them out. they dared the police to kill their own countrymen. radical protesters tried to march on parliament. but rye i don't know police drove them back with rubber bullets, stun grenades and protesters say live ammunition. the protesters had weapons of their own, including, the government said, guns. police officers were reportedly shot dead. government forces tried to shut down kiev, stopping subway traffic to keep new protesters from the square, and issuing a chilling ultimatum to clear out or the state would use all legal means to restore order. but the protesters made a stand in independence square and now there's talk of revolution. even civil war with international implications, reminiscent of the cold war. the ukrainian government is backed by moscow. the protesters want closer ties with europe and th

inthank you, david engles hong kong. review.nterest rate in jonathan ferro is here with more on those items. .> we had a unanimous decision i read the minutes. nothing unanimous about the conversations going on. $10 billion at tapering every single month. is noe been told there preset course, but several people want to make it a clear perception that it will be $10 billion a month. they say economic recovery would lead a substantial deviation to change path. q you said, there is a very interesting conversation on interest rates. side, there is a very interesting conversation on interest rates. we know that individuals at the fed would like rates to rise at the end of the year. definitely want to talk about forward guidance. do they go down the qualitative avenue? right now they are on the quantitive avenue. do they moveure, away from tying it to a bigger one? what is that debate? >> the take away is that there's concern about the inflation. there is a lot of concern about the slack in the labor markets. all down to is ja

the instant they log on to the internet. >> interesting report from nbc's richard engle. we'll get more on the olympics in just a second. >>> south africa is going to hold a general election on may 7th, according to jacob zuma, the president of south africa. may 7th, general election in south africa. >>> we listened to richard engle's report about security. meanwhile, an estimated $50 million has been spent on preparations for this event. this figure would make the sochi games the most expensive in olympic history. it's going to reap the benefits from this influx of capital. joining us is pabel berko. nice to see you. >> good morning. >> thanks soucher indeed for joining us. it's a lot of money. where has it all gone? >> exactly. most of this money is taken from the taxpayers pockets, either directly from the states budgets, regional budgets or indirectly from the budgets of state controlled companies and banks. >> you're saying half of that budget into into infrastructure in the area and -- >> even more than half, according to most estimates. more than half of this money

let ring and stephen engle who is here. a pleasure to see you. what is going on in china? likes we have the big credit crunch. year. them last in june, the beginning of the summer. a lot of fears that perhaps the reining in of shadow banking was going to hurt the prospects for economic growth. in january, we give these new lending numbers. aggregate financing. son of the highest number since 2010. in january, the bank lending is often in china first loaded in the few months. especially before the lunar holiday. barry go. let's get to the numbers. , 1.3 2 trillion. year ofmost the entire having in the hundreds of billions of remnant be. the last time it was and trillions was right around sandwiched between the lead unit -- lunar new year holiday. we had one point seven something trillion in march. february did off because of the lunar new year. we cannot jump to a lot of conclusions even though the numbers are pretty high. they are representative of a lots of frontloading of lending. let's turn the page to aggregate financing which is the broadest measure of credit which in

community meeting, at engle side station, which i understand went remarkably well. and i would only add that it, and that the probably one of the reasons that it did not happen sooner is because it was not clear that it had to take place on one hand and on the other hand because there is a significant language barrier. and it, but it sounds to me like his taking steps and both measures, and he is making it a point, to meet with people, and provide a telephone number and the only other thing that i might add is that he be certain to make arrangements for or add an accomplish speaker because most of the people who live in the neighborhood who have or many of the people who live in that neighborhood who have concerns are english speaking. >> we also talked about security. he, at the first time that i went in he had a rather inaccessible security system and i told him that it can't be in the ceiling it has to be 234 the place that is immediately accessible and i told him about the codes that with the language that would suggested that it would be and the best practice a

my name is jordan engle. some of you know me at this point.'m here as a representative of a group of concerned property and business owners on the broadway corridor. a few of which appeared at the last small business commission legislative hearing in late january. we were under the impression after that meeting that an agenda item was to be scheduled to discuss the proposed liquor license moratorium on broadway introduced by board president supervisor david chiu. when we received the agenda on friday afternoon and did not see anything related to the moratorium, we were confused and frustrated. this moratorium has frightened many property owners and business owners who feel it would be disastrous for the neighborhood. obviously we all are well aware of the ongoing problems on broadway, however the solution for the neighborhood [speaker not understood] responsible growth and friendly legislation, not moratoriums that increase vacancies and blight and punish property and business owners. on a more personal note in regard to my family's building a

well i think one of the problems is that it's a big corporations out of control engles and media they had a nice little any time can we tell people are trying to control wards. hell if you policies big corporations and the so-called corporate libertarians those whom girlish fiat and smith but they don't really. they they basically engage in massive come pains. basically museum floor and people of all the true information whole foods so all i think is is very very difficult but if. we can fight to be stupid and meek by some reforms here and there i don't see the courts into of course there is also this idea of deregulation has become almost like a montra. all you want to get regulated by the so-called south correcting market this as shown to be a flawed idea especially during the financial crisis in two thousand and eight so we need to read discussion of the fundamental economic policies regulate global and national policies on an economic historian. article. didn't market needs of plays but the market needs to be kept in explain what about these giant corporations that you're talking

aboutn engle, bloomberg -- bloomberg, beijing. >> i would not raise a family there.hat would be mean. i would get scuba gear, an astronaut suit. >> we'll be right back. ♪ damageoin is in need of control again. prosecutors are investigating possible criminal violations after they went off-line earlier this week without returning about $400 million worth of the clients fund. they try to quell the masses this morning, publishing on the site "i would like to reassure everyone that i am still in japan and working very hard to find a solution to our recent issues." no word on where that $400 million is. it's a lot of people would like to know. -- which a lot of people would like to know. but bit point does have a lot of sad investors betting on its future, like mark andreessen, the winkle boss twins -- i do not know what size they are. >> they are very tall. >> but maybe the most important is berry filbert. that may just be what bitcoin needs for legitimacy. worst of all, thanks for coming in. secondly, i thought it was interesting, the timing of your announcement that you

stephen engle shows us just how bad the air really is. >> we in the media sometimes like to use cutems like airpocolypse to describe the smog in beijing this week but it was perhaps a government linked think tank that said it best, calling beijing almost uninhabitable. the evidence for such a claim is as clear as the air should be. how uninhabitable is beijing? >> [indiscernible] >> it is disgusting to go outside? the concentration of the fine particulates post -- that pose the greatest risk to human health sword in the past few days. 16 times the maximum exposure health organization recommends. >> it can cause many different symptoms. it can cause cancer coaches the most severe consequence i can appear after many years to ron kind is to infections that happened because the lungs and the system is actually attacked by the bad air pollution. >> you want to see what we are breathing in beijing? check that out. vips are not exempt. it is not just the area to worry about in beijing, but the groundwater is polluted as well. a 2009 report from the government itself, i might add, of all the

yes, we can keep calling engle side and have calls for service out there, but then what? there are other issues that the police need to be taken care of in the district and tending to one bar is not part of it. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> and excuse me, i just, a point of information, i was just wondering, and could you tell me again, what neighborhood organization that you have represent? >> the outer mission merchant merchants and association, all the way from the city border to 280. >> he could also discuss or meet with the... >> okay, great. >> okay. >> any other public comment on this? thank you. >> good evening, my name is julana huvaten and i own the 6 unit building on the corner and i did send some pictures to miss black stone and one of the pictures that you saw, earlier was from my building with the vomit. and i do not get the noise, because i am the third building from the bar. so, i think that the other two buildings butttres me but i do get the vomit and the urine and the bottles. okay? so i pass by the building once a week and i have to clean up. i

. >> thank you very much indeed for that, stephen engle. >> some other stories making headlines, problems? what problems? chinese policy makers don't seem to be worried about a slowdown. the central bank governor expressed confidence in the economy, signaling that china can sustain growth of 7% to 8%. theyinance minister says are not a big problem. he played down the impact of they uan -- the yuan's declined. a steelmaker is back, making a profit of nearly $3.5 million during december. it is up from a $23 million loss in the same time period a year ago. performance from the asian and australian businesses were behind the rebound. china is on hold. >> i think there is a pause in investment on till people understand where the chinese economy is going. so much investment has gone into capital infrastructure that people just want to get a better return for that before they expand again. downturn.it is a at best, it is a pause. i will call a pause for the moment. buzzers --profiting measures are continuing to rise but at a slower pace. 18% jump in shen zhen. in 69 of the 70 cities tracked by t

nbc's richard engle says his electronic devices were immediately hacked and a russian official says there were security cameras monitoring the hotel bathrooms. that is seriously creepy. i know some of these complaints can sound whiney. but news organizations are spending a small fortune to cover the olympics and the challenge for nbc are to cover these and other issues at the olympics. along with a bizarre mention of soviet communism rather than offering the usual uplisting stories about athletes. >>> half the break, mark zuckerberg sharing a tribute to facebook as it turns ten. but young i must begin my journey, which will cause me to miss the end of the game. the x1 entertainment operating system lets your watch live tv anywhere. can i watch it in butterfly valley? sure. can i watch it in glimmering lake? yep. here, too. what about the dark castle? you call that defense?! come on! [ female announcer ] watch live tv anywhere. the x1 entertainment operating system, only from xfinity. >>> time for our digital download. facebook is cell breying its 10th birthday and it just rolled out a new

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laura engle is live on the streets of new york city to see what it's like out there. laura, good to see you again. how's it going? >> reporter: hi. well, good to see you, too. things are starting to mellow out on the streets of manhattan. we're still on the upper west side and the big fat snowflakes we saw earlier have turned to crunchy rain drops. on the quick response vehicle as we drive around manhattan to show you what's happening out there. the snow has a slush to it creating a seriously messy commute. new york city mayor bill de blasio taking a lot of slack today for keeping public schools open. earlier today in a news castle, the conditions told, sure, they were not perfect but good enough to get kids to class. listen. >> we started to get heavy wet snow falling overnight accumulation, depending on not only the buroughs but part. >> governor andrew cuomo has declared a state of emergency for several areas around manhattan. warned earlier that it could turn dead by. we now have the report of a tragic death confirmed by the police department that a 36-year-old pr

nbc's richard engle says his electronic devices were immediately hacked and a russian official says there were security cameras monitoring the hotel bathrooms. that is seriously creepy. i know some of these complaints can sound whiney. but news organizations are spending a small fortune to cover the olympics and the challenge for nbc are to cover these and other issues at the olympics. along with a bizarre mention of soviet communism rather than offering the usual uplisting stories about athletes. >>> half the break, mark zuckerberg sharing a tribute to facebook as it turns ten. but young people, well, they can be fickle. om the flu is a really big deal. with aches, fever and chills- there's no such thing as a little flu. so why treat it like it's a little cold? there's something that works differently than over-the-counter remedies. prescription tamiflu attacks the flu virus at its source. so call your doctor right away. tamiflu treats the flu in people 2 weeks and older whose flu symptoms started within the last two days. before taking tamiflu tell your doctor if you're pregnant, nursin

laura engle is live in our news room with this story. this is so scary because you don't even know you're being poisoned unless you have a detector in your home or in a business. so what's the latest now from new york and maine? >> hi, gretchen. well, investigations are ongoing in both cases. but there's one common and concerning threat here. neither the restaurant on long island or the timeshare in maine had carbon monoxide detectors. now, there are 25 state laws that require carbon monoxide detectors in certain residential buildings, hotels and schools. there appears to be no laws in the u.s. require general businesses to have detectors. now, at the long island restaurant, legal seafood, fumes were circulated in the basement by a leaking heating system. even the first responders, who fell ill themselves after being called to that restaurant. manager steven nelson was found unconscious in the basement. as authorities were evacuating the restaurant, he was pronounced dead at a local hospital. president and ceo of legal sea foods says mor

engle is right there in the midst of it. he reports seeing people using pieces of wood to drag their injured into makeshift field hospitals including one at a luxury hotel. at least 28 people are now dead, hundreds have been hurt. >>> the crisis in ukraine has forced one olympian to withdraw from the competition. early this morning a ukrainian alpine skier withdrew as a show of solidarity. she posted on her facebook page. the olympic committee says she is the only member of the ukraine team to withdraw from competition. >> no bow out for san jose's polina edmunds. tonight she competes in the final round. >> it's going to be so exciting to see. she showed so much poise on the ice. i think they called her what -- >> iron butterfly. >> exactly. her beautiful yellow out there. we're going to check in with janelle wang in sochi coming up in a bit to talk about polina's performance. and hear all of the support we've seen in the bay area. >> it's so much fun to have this one person from san jose, our girl, that's right we have lots

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. >> richard engle, you actually are covering the sort of scariest part of the beat being in russia but time doing it. which makes me envy you. thanks so much for being here. >> it's still time. you can be here. we'll make that call together. >> i'm going to wash my hair. >> we don't know that the water [ female announcer ] did you know the average person smiles more than 50 times a day? so brighten your smile a healthy way with listerine® whitening plus restoring rinse. it's the only rinse that makes your teeth two shades whiter and two times stronger. ♪ listerine® whitening... power to your mouth. >> i believe that we're at a point where we could say that we see light at the end of the tunnel. >> you can use your however you like. you can drink it, bathe in it, use it how you like. >> i don't have any problem. i've been drinking the water for the last couple of weeks. and the only thing that we can rely upon is what the experts tell us. we must assume that it is safe. can i tell you it's 100%? no. a. >> i drank a couple of sips. it had an after taste and an odor, i could not finish th

here to help us answer those questions and more, msnbc contributor jonathan alter and bob engle, co-authortie: the inside story of his rise to power." thank you so much, gentlemen. >> hi, karen. >> you bet. >> bob, i want to start with you. there was a story in "politico" yesterday that reported on the mood within the christie camp and kind of noted that the governor's been a bit down. he didn't really like getting booed at the event last week for the super bowl. you've covered him for so long. give us a sense of what is going on. i mean, he's lost some of his top staffers. what's going on with chris christie, and what's going on inside that inner circle? >> i can't imagine anybody would like being booed, especially chris christie because he likes to be popular. my impression in the staffers i run into in the hallway when you can, they've been hiding lately. the morale is very, very low. they're not used to this. they're used to being popular. here's a guy who won re-election by huge amounts. they're not quite sure how to handle it, and they're making really big mistakes like that memo tha

. >> (in english) richard engle, thanks so much this morning. i'm joined now by the man who headed up the olympic games the last time they were here in the u.s., former governor of massachusetts and republican presidential nominee in 2012, mitt romney. governor, welcome back to "meet the press." >> thanks, david. good to see you. >> i want to ask you about the security threats. last weekend on one of the sunday programs, the chair of the house homeland security committee said about the games in russia he fears that something will detonate, something will blow up. do you think the security concerns have been overblown? >> no, i think they're very real when you have the kind of specific threats that were leveled at the games, you have to take them seriously. at the same time, i think russia has shown not only through the application of their security forces but also through their intelligence work that they have the capacity to keep the games reasonably safe. there's no such thing as 100% guarantee, but i think at this stage people feel pretty com

i don't think she's sharon engle. how they turn this into a referendum -- he made it on himself. that's the mcconnell job here. it's not easy because he has to spend two months getting conservatives back -- he's going to win but not going to break 60. there is a chunk of republican voters who will punish him a little bit. he's going to spend time -- >> that's the question, right. >> and it's tough. this is harder than i think some people realize in washington for mitch mcconnell. >> interesting stuff. >> the question is -- >> jonathan? >> the question is do those conservatives work for bevan in the primary, do they come out in the fall because they can't stand obama and see grimes as the person fiction of obama or stay home all together, that's the key question. >> we'll have to leave it there. what's on the political menu at the white house with boehner? >> we'll see. it is an unusual -- one on one meeting. we'll see if we get much out of it. some has to do with what's coming out on the budget. the budget rollout of the president, part of this is to brief him on the budget rkts