advice now heeded by goss, who never forked over ransom money but still paid the price. joe fryer, nbc news, mountainview, california. >>> and we're back in a moment with the reason being suggested to explain a major outbreak of tornadoes. >>> an incredible story about how interconnected our environment is. this is from the national climatic data center. it says smoke from fires in central america worsened a tornado outbreak in the u.s. in 2011. while some meteorologists are skeptical of this, this study at least says the tornadoes that year, that would include the tuscaloosa f-4 outbreak, were made more severe by smoke particles from agricultural land clearing fires to our south, which they say increased storm rotation and intensification. >>> charlie sifford has died. he was often called the jackie robinson of golf. he was the first black player on the pga tour, and his challenge to the only-caucasians rule back in 1961 led to the desegregation of pro golf. he later won the hartford open and l.a. open. he was awarded the presidential medal of freedom. dr. charles l. si

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. >> goss wouldn't pay, fearing no guarantee she would get her stuff back. >> you had to say good-byek really hard was in the files. >> she had to buy a new computer and spent a month replacing lost files. to help avoid keep security updated, back-up files and disconnect external hard drives advice heeded by goss who never forked over ransom money but still paid the price. >>> the president and first lady attend national prayer breakfast at the national cathedral. the event brings together people of various faiths. this year dalai lama expected to attend. it began with president eisenhower in 1953. happy birthday to "glee" actor darren chris, bobby brown turns 46. "saturday night live" alum tim meadows 54. keep it here nor news weather and sports. i'm dara brown with bill karins. thanks for watching today. we hope you enjoy your thursday. >>> disguise and armed. robbers at a high end jewelry store in the city then disappear. why the surveillance video might not be help to investigators. >>> cleared of arson but not out of trouble with the law. the new charges against a bay area suspec

. >> kate goss is joining us from comcast sportsnet. >> they're took the challenge to the big apple for a three-point shootout to remember. which would take home the trophy? that's the big question. we will find out next in the all-star edition of sports. is there an elk in your bed? with sleep number now there's an adjustment for that. you can only find sleep number at a sleep number store. right now save 50% on the ultimate limited edition bed. plus 24-month financing. know better sleep with sleep number. this... is the best part of the day. when we sit down together and talk. more and more, we're having conversations about the food itself: how good it is for us. how good it is for the planet. at monsanto, we're working with farmers to make balanced meals accessible to everyone. while using natural resources more efficiently. it's time for a bigger discussion about food. be part of the conversation at discover.monsanto.com >> east meets west in the all-star game but today was about the individual. the skills challenge, the dunk contest and he anticipated a three-point shootout. it was

i'm angie goss. >> we begin with the bitter cold blast keeping folks indoors on this valentine's dayay. we will keep them company. chuck bell tracking it all the way. a strange weekend of weather. >> the cold arrived, the first of two big waves of

able to work here we want to build as much affordable housing here because people prefer to else here goss close to their jobs and middle-income or upper middle-income housing people leaf san francisco because of other factors it is a quality of public schools because of the lack of larger housing so those are things we have to work on to meet those problems what of the also very disappointing was the retail industry record a very low attraction level retail is another leg of the business community we didn't emphasis but people historically come to shop they come for the uniqueness of the product they can go to other areas but see the same stores if you want to go to a really exclusive high-end or valencia or other stores that's a san francisco experience we have 80 be supportive of retail obviously that group feels the climate is not very good for them and the good news was i think remaining the employees is not a problem because people want to be in san francisco there's culture activities there's educational there's health and entertainment activities and it makes a place for people to

like tom ridge, paul wolfowitz and porter goss. >>> a new poll shows a tight 2016 field for republicans. and anything but for democrats. mike huckabee's narrowly leading jeb bush and scott walker. look at that 16 14 and 11. mike huckabee he is back. but not far behind, you have rand paul and chris christie. chris christie at 8% and doing well in states like new hampshire. and still within striking distance at 7% dr. ben carson. hillary clinton, meanwhile, she's up 47% over the next-closest democratic rival, vice president joe biden. these polls were taken before joe biden swore in the new secretary of defense. we'll see how his loving touch helps. >>> there's an interesting question in the poll. asking voters which candidates represented the past and which represented the future. hillary clinton's about even. people see elizabeth warren as a candidate of the future. christie, paul and walker are all slightry upside down. look at joe biden and jeb bush they're seen as creatures of a bygone era. that's going to be one of jeb bush's challenges. the money men that supported republican candi

it goss so warm yesterday starting to see temperature readings drop off here.ever, because of that, you know you will ends up with whole mix out there. we have got it all for you not just on storm scan already but throughout the day. out to the live neighborhood network, first and for most, up at pleasant valley middle and high school, campuses up there in broads heads ville. you can tell definitely moisture on the camera lens generally speaking, it is just cold enough that it might and sleet it, might be mixing with a little bit of snow out there, and you can see that there is a fresh coating of something, whether it is that wintery mix or just snow that has since fallen here, on the road surface up that way. so slick travel is our biggest concern. now, notice, you have got all of the pretty colors available to you here on storm scan. the heaviest snow, still not here yesterday. as this also drops in, i expect the precipitation to just be light scattered so there may be times during the day actually good part of the day not seeing much of anything falling from

every year around this time nationally price goss up because we switch over to summer blend gas. summer fuel gasoline is more expensive to produce. >> reporter: and refineries go through a maintenance cycle during the switchover. that means production is lower. an explosion at the exxonmobil refinery in torrance, california, last week, made things worse. and a strike by steelworkers at 12 refineries across the country is impacting 20% of oil production. nationwide gas prices have been dropping since april. but they have now risen for 32 straight days. a gallon of regular unleaded was $2.03 a month ago. it is now $2.37. and if you needed one more reason to hate this wicked winter it's also costing you money. extreme cold in the northeast has slowed oil production at three refineries that account for more than two-thirds of east coast oil output. the price of this gas station in los angeles is now $3.89 and analysts say that will jump another 15 to 20 cents in the next couple weeks topping out in late march. scott, we should keep this all in perspective. gas prices today are still

i'm angie goss. >> we begin with the bitter cold blast keeping folks indoors on this valentine's day today. we will keep them company. chuck bell tracking it all the way. a strange weekend of weather. >> the cold arrived, the first of two big waves of cold. we will get a hint of a respite. temperatures above freezing while we have a snow chance but the bottom falls out and brutal weather for sunday into monday. winter weather advisories across parts of pennsylvania and even down into parts of maryland for just an occasional chance of snow showers. it could be enough to whiten the ground recently. well below freezing with wind chills currently in the teens. it's a cold start and we will have plenty of clouds and sun first thing this morning. and passing rain and snow during the afternoon. temperatures in the upper 30s to near 40. not expecting a lot of this staying inside as much as i can and trying never to go outside. >> a blizzard warning in effect stores are crowded and people are preparing to hunker down. >> if nothing else you end up cooking and not being able to get out of the

. >> as well as you've got ridge, goss chertoff and all of his guys for his father are creating thiseign poll esi. i have to give him kudos right now, in fact i hope those at the terrorism summit were listening to this speech because they're going to get more out of it than they are from president obama's speech because he's actually taking a stand. we're in the situation we're in today because you're dealing with this jaems taylor you have a friend in me foreign policy. >> so judy, how important do you think foreign policy will be for 2016, it's a loaded question, because all polls usually show that americans don't ranning ingningraning it what high. >> it depengds on what americans feel threatened or ask tlechbed. i was very struck by his emphasis on check growth as the key to strength, military strength, the strength to project power abroad, all of that, he's concentrating on the economy, i i think that's the right way to go. >> interesting because voters always end up voting with their pocket book. >>> we'll update the news and we'll have a major celebrity appearance today the wi

porter goss and michael hayden and steven hadley. it was inevitable that the former florida governor would be forced to walk a fine line on the legacy of iraq. >> there were mistakes made in iraq for sure. using the intelligence capability that everybody embraced about weapons of mass destruction turns out not to be accurate. not creating an environment of security after the successful taking out of hussein was a mistake. >> jeb bush believes in second chances. joining me now is steve kornacki and casey hunt. was the audience convinced that jeb bush is his own man? >> well alex this is an audience at the chicago council of global affairs, it was a welcoming audience for him, although he blasted through his prepared remarks. there wasn't quite time for applause lines. it is hard to tell in some ways how they reacted. he was walking this very careful line saying i'm my own man, but largely staying away from criticizing them. criticism was not included in his prepared remarks, iraq was not included in his prepared remarks, but it did co

. >> impact staff feel the program can help trainees like goss overcome their dependency on drugs. >>guys can't drink. they can't smoke a joint occasionally. they can't work all week and decide i just want to pick up a six-pack of beer and drink it in my house. they don't have that opportunity anymore. >> not everyone is cut out for the rigorous requirements of impact. participating inmates must submit themselves entirely to their superiors or be expelled. >> i wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy. it's not no place for anybody to be -- i mean where you got to be told when you can eat, when you can go to the bathroom, when you got to shower, you got to be within arm's distance of another man at all times, so i mean it's just not a place that anybody would really want to be. >> we're not trying to punish you. we're not trying to enhance your penalties for coming to jail. we're trying to make it so that five years from now we run into you on the street and you're just a normal, working, tax-paying citizen. ♪ daddy, daddy, don't you cry ♪ ♪ daddy, daddy don't you cry ♪ ♪ your little boy

i'm live tonight from the fake ga lap goss islands. happy darwin today. 206 years ago charles darwin was born. he would develop his theory of evolution from what he saw right here in galapagos islands, all the way back to 1835 when darwin discovered the animals that led to his famous theory. look there's the famous galapagos seals, but back in reality people all over the world are celebrating darwin's birthday today. there are over 100 parties across the globe. in ohio they're wearing darwin beards and do 24-hour readings of the "the origin of species." in north dakota, you can hang out with a life-sized cutout of the guy. in portugal you can even go speed dating with evolutionary biologists. but one guy who hasn't rsvp'd to the parties, wisconsin governor scott walker who asked if he believed in evolution. >> are you comfortable with the idea of evolution? do you believe in it? do you accept it? >> for me i'm going to punt on that as well. >> no. really? >> that's a question a politician shouldn't be involved in one way or the other.

that were not according to the goss spell. >> do you know it was justified getting -- to go to war to sites that had been conquered by muslim invaders? >> you can't say in general it's always fair. self-defense has got to be the criteria. it's important to under line. that distinction the president was trying to make remember, christians have also done some bad things. any professor, any academic not even a politician, knows you can't make that comparison when something is going on right now like a soldier being burned alive and then a video being sent around the world. the president should know better. i think he does know better. i don't understand why. >> bobby jindal had a nice quote about that. i like the president gave a history lesson. today, however the issue is right in front of his nose here and now. assassination of journalists, the beheading and burning alive of captives. we'll be happy to keep an eye out for runaway christians it would be nice if he would face the reality of the situation today, the medieval christian threat is under control. >> that's why he abused his f

i'm live tonight from the fake ga lap goss islands.ars ago charles darwin was born. he would develop his theory of evolution from what he saw right here in galapagos islands, all the way back to 1835 when darwin discovered the animals that led to his famous theory. look there's the famous galapagos seals, but back in reality people all over the world are celebrating darwin's birthday today. there are over 100 parties across the globe.

chaired by senator bob graham, and the house committee on intelligence chaired by congressman porter goss, released the joint inquiry report into the 9/11 attacks. in a political move, the bush administration then classified 28 pages of the report even though the contents of those 28 pages posed no national security risk to the united states. rather, the contents of those 28 pages are probably embarrassing for the bush administration. senator graham has repeatedly called for the 28 pages to be declassified as a result. i have read the 28 pages and cannot divulge what's in them, but i can say that the contents deal with relationships. senator graham has openly said the 28 pages dealt with the bush administration's relationships with the saudis. my colleague, congressman stephen lynch from mass marks and congressman thomas massie from kentucky who have also read the 28 pages, have joined me in introducing house resolution 14 to urge the president to keep his word to the 9/11 families and declassify the 28 pages which he can do with the stroke of a pen. the movement to declassify the 28 page

a wild bar fight caught on camera as cricket fan goss after each other. >> that's about 40 or so fans. they were watching a cricket match between when that started happening throwing punches inside a bar. four people ended up in the hospital. to others in jail. >> i think it's disappointing that people can't go out and enjoy a quiet night at a registered hotel without um this level of violence. >> indiana defeated arch rival pakistan in yesterday's game. more than a billion people watched the match between the two nations. that's lot of viewers. >> that is a lot. >>> a scary traffic stop turns into a moment of bliss for a bride to be. >> i would have been so mad. the secret plan to send her on one roller coaster ride of a emotions unbelievable. as we prepare for snow, a look at the people who already have more than enough. we'll take trip to new england where the winter is breaking records. all right, scott, we got stuff on tap around here g we really do, lucy. we have that snowfall moving in. how much will your backyard see? the range is huge. we're talking 1 inch maybe 10-inches. >>

of homeland security, tom ridge and michael chertoff, and two of his former cia directors, porter goss and michael hayden. other key figures tapped from his brother's administration include john negroponte, who served as ambassador to iraq and the first director of national intelligence, paul wolfowitz, a key architect of the 2003 iraq war, and george w. bush's national security advisor stephen hadley. all three worked for both bush presidents. but speaking wednesday, jeb bush said he is his own man. >> for the record, one more time, i love my brother and i love my dad -- i actually love my mother as well. i hope that is ok. i admire their service to the nation and the difficult decisions they had to make, but i am my own man in my views are shaped, on thinking and my own experiences. >> another name on jeb bush's list include former assistant secretary of state roger noriega, a key figure in the overthrow of haitian president jean-bertrand aristide under george w. bush. meanwhile, hillary clinton, the likely democratic frontrunner for president, has come under fire from environmental

maybe john kerry feels this way i don't know mike, he goss from georgetown nantucket and back every weeko he is not in the real world. >> right. >> if you look at polls, majority of americans first time in five years believe our national security is as great a problem as the economy which was a first. i do want to ask you, mike, is the cia just not talking to the white house? what is the relationship between our tell against community and the white house today? >> well, you have to realize, as a result of 9/11 coming out of that we had a massive knee-jerk reaction and created dni, the director of national intelligence. that created a layer what used to be, you hoped for a close relationship between the director of the cia and the president. that used to, when you had that relationship, when it was good and it was close and contact go back to reagan and casey as a good example that is when things really tick along well. now there is layers here. you're right but the agency people aren't going to believe this right, because of feature films and books, the agency very apolitical organizatio

. >>> in dallas down south an 18- wheeler goss stuff, tilted and dangling over the edge of the interstate there. to the north up in amarillo slick roads and low visibility led to pileups involving some 40 cars and trucks. and an american airlines plane carrying 68 people veered off a taxiway at dallas/fort worth international airport. no one on the plane was injured. yesterday morning half of the arriving and departing flights from dallas were canceled. >>> this week californians can get a glimpse into the possible future of transportation. workers in sacramento are assembling a life-sized model of a bullet train. it will be open to the public at the state capital tomorrow and thursday. the mockium mockup is being put together by siemens who hope to get the contract. the contract will be award late this year or next year. >>> public transportation advocates want more bus and rail service. people who work overnight need safe ways to travel around town, according to a new study. >> patrons can get home without driving their car so that they don't encourage people to drunk drive. so that wor

we are goss going to answer other adds and go to them. we are going to have two teams. we are also going to post adds of our own and have men answer the adds and come to the hotel. >> today's operation is comprehensive, attacking both the supply and the demand sides of the sex for sale equation and focusing primarily on the digital street corner that is back page.com. >> first of aushlg there is hundreds of sites out there. back page has taken a hit because they are a largest. they are making millions of dollars off of. that they know what's going on, they have acknowledged what's going on and they are not going to make an effort to stop it because they are making so much money. >> the cook county task force also includes crisis counsellors like brenda powell, a former frost prostitute who now works the other side of the street, reaching out and offering guidance to girls young women trapped in the life. >> in the 25 years i was in prostitution i was shot five times, stabbed 13 times, beat, kidnapped, held against my will. all those things happen when you are in prostit

in fact not only were they ignored but this left wing journalist the thanks he goss from the fbi was they wire tapped him for years and sent fbi agents to follow him while he gathered his evidence. so it was only in the 1970s and 1980s that people started waking up to the idea that this guy may have been a concentration camp guard or supervisor or ss officer or worse. you almost had at types an overreaction in what you're suggesting where you had sort of -- if you had -- there were actually cases where somebody had a grudge against their neighbor, would say -- who had a german accent, would say he was a nazi and turns out he just didn't like his neighbors. so by the '80s we were finally going after these guys and then people who weren't nazis who were swept up in this. so we went from one stream to the other -- one extreme to the other. >> about the death camp had been turned into prisons for the former holocaust arrestees, where was the press? didn't the american press look at that situation? >> you know, surprisingly there actually were exteriors about this. that report to truman,

not going to happen this time, that 100-point move on top of old times, targets 2200, every selloff gosstance of that measure move selloff. liz: so goldman sachs, credit suisse, tracy, said year-end goal was 2100. as you know we already hit it. barclays, bar chris with them. deutch i think 2150. are these guys just undershooting? >> or did they set the barlow on purpose? look, i mean what we do know, inventory levels, merger and acquisition activity, spending all below historic levels. yeah, i mean, i'm with jeff on this one. i think we definitely have room to grow. i think foreigners have bond fatigue as well. they're coming to our markets. we're still the best place to put your money in entire world. people need a place to invest so the market will continue to march higher. >> let us not forget the very horrific headlines we had last year. israel-gaza conflict. isis drama, a lot of journalists beheaded, it was absolute horrible. airplane crashes. air malaysia plane crash. crimea snatched away by russia. we saw a 11% move to the upside. are we though very much at risk, jeff, when it com

plan "a" would have held back the things the president cares most about like goss on federal lands.idn't do that. we held out as leverage homeland security that will run on its own with all the fees of getting in. some of us knew we would get to this point because senate democrats would hold up the bill for debate. that has to be key and i hope people across the country during this week people are home that they will let their democratic senators know you get in there and debate at least amend the bill if you don't like it and get it passed. we passed what we believe. we conference it. we get a compromise and that becomes law. that's how it's supposed to work. they just have to do their job. we should have held out for leverage, the things the president cared about. we didn't do that. >> we're out of time but do you expect the shutdown to happen? really quickly what's your prediction? >> i don't think there will be a shutdown at all. the department of the homeland security has plenty of money to keep running. i hope the senate will bring it to debate. homeland security is the thing

going back to my previous it's basically to make sure that the goss aren't losing any money. you're trying to find the balance to go boom what's the cost. i'm not trying to trick you. this is a pretty simple, straightforward question. >> it's a straightforward question but it's inconsistent with the approach that a number of people have used that we should be using them to attract private capital. if we raise them to that level we would be making a bunch more money, but is that an appropriate thing to do -- >> my question for you, mr. watt -- >> is it an appropriate purpose. >> i'm asking you are you trying to get it to hit just right. ♪ not trying to bring in extra money, not trying to lose money trying to hit the nail on the head, hit it head on. or are you trying the make money or lose money when you set it? >> we certainly don't want to lose money. that i can assure you. >> are you trying to make money? >> but i think it would be more appropriate to wait until we come out with what we are going to do on them, articulate the reasons that we're doing it -- >> but this is an

you should see buying imbalancing dos imbalancing -- imbalsancing goss into the close. you have to keep an eye on what has been happening in the russell russell, the dax, and the nasdaq. the markets have been rising just not necessarily the ones that are usually watched by the investors at home. the markets have reacted positively even through the shiny thing that today we're calling greece. >> okay. very good. thank you all for playing ball here as the news was breaking out of brussels right here and michelle has gone back to monitor the news conference. we'll check back with her as news warrants on a pretty newsy day all of a sudden. >> and we're looking at the highs of the session. up nearly 150 points on the dow. >> good enough for an all-time high for the dow and the s&p and let's remember we're only 46 45 points away from nasdaq 5,000 as we head toward the close here. >>> up next a top wall street pro scouting potential winners from the rise in what he's calling health care consumerism. you may be surprised at some of the names on the list. stick around to hear th

goss saying he could hardly see -- >> people complaining he lost his rhythm.ing shark. >> the tiger had no problem. >> the shark on the left, you said? >> it's amazing katy perry didn't stop to say what are you listening to? katy perry is saying this show is about me. everyone is focusing on the dancer. >> everybody was dancing. i couldn't cece her for the trees and -- i couldn't even see her for the trees and the shark. >> i know what your next costume should be. >> a dancing shark? i thought in being at the stadium i thought that was probably the best half time ever and i was surprised everyone thought it was just okay. it didn't seem anyone was too impressed with it. when you come in on a huge tiger like that. taylor swift, i know you're going to get the gig next year. >> by the way, welcome back. >> 27 before the top of the hour. we've got a bunch of news and heather's got headlines. >> good morning to you. hope you're off to a great day. lawmakers on capitol hill will hold hearings taking a look at president obama's new cuba policy. senator marco rubio wh

chris put this vin diagram out on the over lambing names like tom ridge, porter goss and tom wolfowitzbush's speech. how do you think jeb did? >> i still think one of his problems on the stump is going to be he's a very wooden speaker. he just doesn't perform well. he's better in those q and a sessions. he loosens up a little bit. but somehow give him the prompter or a speech to read and he sounds like he's reading a speech. this is one of the curiosities about jeb bush. he's been in public life for so long. governor. planning this for ages. and yet get him out on the stump and he's not a great campaigner. >> john heilemann, do you agree? >> he's not great on the prompter. we saw that at the economic speech he gave in michigan a couple weeks ago. sometimes to struggle a little bit with that. i totally agree. i've not seen him in a long time on a debating stage which will be a big test for him, too. but he's got some time to fix those -- the stylistic problems. he got to get better on the stump, for sure. >> he also made a few bushisms yesterday where he got iran and ruk iraq confused,