haddie has been in the foster care system much of her life. her social worker says little kindnesses and surprises always bring smiles to haddie's face. >> she looks forward with just joy in her heart for her birthday for christmas. she fully enjoys the company of people. >> a surprise here? >> reporter: haddie was assured something was on the way. >> i hear that somebody's got a ? >> yes! oh yes. >> reporter: haddie was thrilled. >> i've known hadriana about four years. every person i meet who comes in touch with haddie feeling the same way. >> reporter: she's hoping to find a family for haddie that will love her and encourage letter to continue in her special school. >> that is -- >> do you have a favorite >> cooking. >> reporter: oh. wh have you learned how to cook? >> i learned thousand cook eded how to cook cookies and stuff. >> beautiful! >> reporter: her wish she said -- >> i want to go home for my birthday. >> rep hom a place for hugs and many many happy birthdays. >>> if you have room in your home and your heart for haddie or another

>> haddie was thrilled. >> i've known her for about four years. every person i meet who comes in contact with her feels the same way. >> she's hoping to find a family who will love her and encourage her in her special school. >> i do math and science and social studies. >> do you have a favorite subject at school? >> cooking. >> what have you l how to cook? >> i learned how to cook cookies and stuff. beautiful! her wish she said? >> i want to go home for my birthday. >> home a place for hugs and many many happy birthdays. barbara harrison news4 for wednesday's child. >> if you have room in your home in your heart for haddie or another child, call our special adoption hotline, 1-88-2-adopt-me or search wednesday's child on nbcwashington.com. >>> a northern virginia teenager who was told he would never have any feeling below his shoulders now, after a tragedy at the beach, we're getting encouraging word from his family tonight. >>> and our week-long effort to help you get a fresh start on your finances in the new year it continues next. consumer rep

kinds of groups but we all pretty much believed right away muslims included that it was probably je haddy muslims who had enganged in this slaughter. so that issue is real. but if we want to fight it, we won't fight it by having us thump about it. it is going is to be moderate muslims that are the mels effected. >> you wrote in your column last week, is islam to blame for the charlie hebdo attacks rather it is between terrorists and moderates those that are tolerate, and those who are otherwise. explain what your concerns are there. >> there is intrude. the je haddist cancer there. the oncologieses fighting l t it are also islam p they think they are acting out of religious reasons. but mala herself is muslim. and we have to bear in mind, the vastness of this faith and we understand that with our own faiths. so we know that christians serves engage in a again side in the former yugoslavia, but we don't impute that to all of christianity. but when it is something foreign, and distance, and we tend to it rise people based on race, and ethnicity and here i think we are doing that in religion

president haddi's moment came after shiite rebels were holding him captive in his home. the capital has not been evacuated, though. one official told nbc, quote, we are not moving a thing. >>> the fight against isis does continue. tracie potts is live in washington. she's following this for us. what's the latest. >> reporter: well the latest is that there is a new offensive this morning by the kurd to try to push back isis. the pentagon also thinks that the fight against isis has been significant, it's been tangible there have been measurable impacts on isis despite some of the frustrations we're hearing from iraq's government. as iraq's kurds launch new investigation against isis today, the president is responding to iraq's call for more raining ingtraining weapons and support. >> i do disagree with the prime ministers. comments. i would say even further i don't think they're helpful. >> reporter: missiles trucks and tens of thousands of small arms am munitions. a training camp will open soon. >> we're doing everything we possibly can to help the iraqis. >> reporter: se

and once that happened, president haddie had really no other option. he had to step down, and now yemen is a country without a president without a vice president, without a prime minister and without a cabinet. >> ifill: and the u.s. is a country without an ally where it had one in the past. how significant is this collapse to the u.s. efforts to curb terrorism, especially the kind that is rooted in yemen? >> reporter: right. this is very significant and i think it's very worrisome u.s. counter-terrorism officials in washington. what the u.s. has been doing over the past several years is essentially relying on president hadi and for a while president sola, for their permission to carry out drone strikes and for yemeny forces on the ground to follow the drone strikes up with offenses against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. now, we have to remember this organization, aqaip, is quite strong in yemen. at different times it's attempted to control territory. what's happened in 2014 and now in early 2015, as the government has clapsed in sanaa, the power h

. >> reporter: other neighbors say that i haddy see dy they did see police take a man out of the home in handcuffs. when i asked about that they couldn't comment but they did tell me no one is under arrest at this time. they said neighbors should not be worried. they said a killer is not on the loose. recording live in mount holly. >> also in south jersey camden county police are investigating a double shooting. investigators found steven johnson dead. and police are questioning a man in custody and chargings are pending against him. and there is questions about the sunday death of a 29-year-old man in police custody. police brought the man into philadelphia police headquarters on a dui charge yesterday afternoon and put him into a cell. that's where he was found unconscious at 10:00 p.m. he was pronounced dead at hahnemann university hospital last night. >>> isis claims it has beheaded a japanese journalist one week after beheading another japanese hostage. this video released today. the murder and days of the negotiations trying to save the journalist. isis demanding the release of

and one that has its own sectarian or ethnic divisions, we do have a committed partner in president haddi and his government and have been able to help to develop their capacities without putting large numbers of u.s. troops on the ground. at the same time we've got enough c.t. counterterrorism. lou: take it back now, ralph, your reaction to the president. he talks about, he's referring to spain, to france, to britain. >> well, that's what happens when you don't -- when a president doesn't take his daily intelligence briefs. this guy has no curiosity about the world. one thing that people miss is obama does fit the classic hard left ideologue. in the 30s in the 40s, in the 50s while famines -- lou: you finally moved into my decades there. >> you had the gulag killing millions in the camps in siberia, and the western left insisted stalin was a good guy. it was a utopia. nikita khrushchev revealed stalinism, the europeans signed up for stalinism, insisted the soviet union was perfect, and obama is the same kind of guy in our american left now, instead of stalin instead of stalinism and the

just a few hours ago the houthies and haddy signed a deal, and it collapsed. it shows you have a widening misinstruction in yemen. and both sides cannot solve this you need the international community stepping in p. >> all right, stay with us i am just going to go back to that quote from the state department. spokeswoman if you missed it, she was speaking about yemen with the press in washington d.c. she says despite the advance, there is no change in the u.s. position on yemen. >> we continue to support a peaceful transition, we -- we will continue to urge all parties to abide by the p.n.p. a, the peace and national partnership agreement, of course, the safety and security of our personnel are of paramount importance. we from prepared to adjust if necessary. >> let's bring in rosalyn jordan it seemed that the u.s. state department was possibly caught slightly off guard, she couldn't confirm these resignations what do you think is happening there? >> actually, jane, the situation is that it takes many layers of confirmation and discussion between the u.s. emba

. >> haddy remains the legitimate leader of the government. it's a challenging situation on the ground. as i mentioned the parties are talking. we're continueing to encourage that. >> all along yemen officials here in washington claim the houthis were protecting the president at his home. >> this time yesterday jennifer, it really looked like there was a strong possibility we might have to evacuate our embassy over there. >> there's still american ships in the red sea. they were moved to the red sea by the pentagon just in case. between those two warships there is enough fire power to respond to any contingency, that according to colonel steve warren. no military reinforcements have been sent to the embassy in recent days. they increased the security to a company of marines in the reaction of the wake of benghazi. in other words, the embassy is well protected and there are no orders at this point for an evacuation. >> let's bring in a former u.s. ambassador and former state department spokesman. where do you see this? >> as in most things with

now we understand that not only has president haddy resign but his entire cabinet, his prime minister has resigned. what this means is not clear at this point but it is certainly a setback for u.s. efforts to go against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula the group that has claimed responsibility for those paris attacks. there's a company of marines in yemen right now. more military personnel than civilian personnel at the u.s. embassy. no word yet as to what the plans are for the u.s. embassy as of yesterday. there had been no orders to evacuate the survey. obviously all eyes right now on the capital of yemen and what the plans are for the militants who have surrounded the president in his residence. >> so, the president just for you months ago said that yemen was a success story. what are we to make now in the last 24 hours? >> reporter: in the last 24 hours what we have been seeing played out since september when the militants took over the capital center and that was around the same time that the president, president obama made those remarks in his, when he was announcing the isil s

haddies backed by iran. vacuum in such an important place, does it not? >> it does.f i was going to bottom line it tonight we had two of the u.s. greatest adversaries in yemen. most active and lethal of the affiliates as well as a group backed by iran check the win box. that's important what we are seeing al qaeda in yemen has greater ability to plot to train and then also iran has been able to extend its influence in the region as liz cheney rightly pointed out at the top of the show. now with influence in yes yemen, also in iraq also in syria and to a lesser extent in lebanon. >> so you have got two adversaries checking the win box tonight. >> that's a huge point that she made about four places that iran is having great influence now in the middle east and that consolidates a lot of power for them. catherine, thank you very much. >> you are welcome. >> developing this evening is president obama the snubbing the israeli prime minister? today the white house announced that president obama will not meet with prime minister benjamin netanyahu when he comes to washingto

the only ally that the united states had was president haddi who happened to be the weakest player and et cetera gone from the scene. i think to what robert is talking about what we are seeing in yemen is the slow disintegration of a country in which different regions are slowly drifting out of each other's orbit. it's going to be basically a land grab for whatever group has the most guys with guns and they are going to be able to basically hold as much land as they can, as much land as they can claim. and that's a very dangerous situation when you have a group like al-qaeda that wants to establish training camps, that wants to do what isis is doing in iraq and syria and take territory because when they have territory, they can govern, but they can also attract fighters which then as we have seen in different places, they can send back to europe or the united states. rose: beyond the obvious schism between shia and sunni is there reason to believe these groups, while having different ends are prepared to come together and cooperate in the short-term? >> i think we are going to see for

this little country has the dubious distinction of having more suspected see haddy volunteers per capita that has gone to the middle east than any other country in europe. >> reporter: any idea of why that is, ivan? >> reporter: it says something, perhaps, about the alienation of immigrant communities here in belgium, that they do not feel connected, they don't feel part of belgium society as a minority here. and it says also something about the powerful magnetic pull that not only the syrian civil war has had for hundreds if not thousands of european citizens, but also in particular that militant group, the islamic state of iraq and syria. pamela. >> reporter: all right. ivan watson, thank you very much from brussel there. now we're going to turn to another breaking story. now we can bring in senior international correspondent jim bitterman. is there anything more that we know about these women and how long can france and these other countries detain people? >> reporter: well basically they can retain people for 24 hours without a lawyer present. and in terror cases which can go another

haddy? >> reporter: hey kelly.y understand now is that the police are searching for three suspects two of whom they believe to be brothers from the paris area. we also understand of course that these anti-terror police according to the paris daily, they understand that they have been searching apartment buildings in the area as well. now, you have to of course remember francois hollande is having a tough time as president and everyone is watching to see how he reacts to the situation. he was out on the scene just blocks from where i'm standing where this horrific attack took place today. 12 people murdered. 11 wounded. two of the victims, policemen we understand. some of the other victims, famous french cartoonists for this week lisa tir call paper charlie. we understand about these guys is that they're used to poking fun at french political figures. we understand also that these attackers obviously did not take kind to some of those political cartoons including those of the prophet mohammed. at the same point, tho