hari simran's body was found in a ravine in a wooded area. this is a picture of hari simran. it was sent to his wife at 12:30 on tuesday. while he was on that hike he capacitied it looking down on you. it was referencing the yoga camp they were at. tonight the family says it carries a much more significant meaning. tonight jacquie is in sterling where that community is gathering at this hour. they're calling it a memorial vigil. we'll see if we can get some updates from that vigil and bring them to you, jim. >>> storm team four is watching a winter weather advisory. we're talking sleet and freezing rain. >> and then it's going to get even wackier. >> that's exactly what we've got over the next 24 to 48 hours with temperatures skyrocketing up to the 60s and then freezing rain. we've got it all. we're in for a very nice evening. however, if you have plans on your saturday this is what's coming. we've got a lot of moisture down to the south around atlanta. they've seen a lot of ice back towards texas and oklahoma. that same system moving our way. and there will be enough cold ai

and comedian hari kondabolu. and comedian ted alexandro. (applause) all right zephyr i want to start with you. you had a campaign you ran against andrew cuomo last time. and he outspent you 40 times. >> a little more. >> larry: per voter. and you wrote about this very eloquently saying you had someone like you doesn't stand a chance and you proved your point very nicely. (laughter) >> larry: no, no no. no had you had you would have proved your premise. but is it possible for someone like you to win in this election. >> it's absolutely possible but it's harder and harder. it's a tiny little squeaky chance. and one of the things the election showed is how many people are looking for taking on money in politics directly. i ran as an anti-corruption candidate. i think people are really hungry for that like let's really talk about who has power in this society, why they have power and whether or not it's democratic. >> larry: i'm not going to say what side i'm on on this debate. but why are you on the wrong side? >> give me your weak-ass argumen

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after looking for four days search teams found the body of hari simran. surae chinn is outside the yoga studio with more. >> reporter: this is not the outcome many had hoped. this is a heartbreaking time for the sikh community and its yoga studio where hari simran and his wife taught yoga. >> he was always an angel. he was an individual that inspired everybody. he gave so much love and just true essence of what a real human being should be. he was very selfless and my hope is that one day i can just be 1/10 of who he is. >> reporter: search teams in central mexico found the body of 25-year-old hari simran khalsa in the mountains of southern mexico. the yoga instructor had gone on what was supposed to be a short hike on tuesday. he had texted this note to a wife saying looking down on you. then he texted a friend that he was lost. they were hiking south of mexico city. a close family friend read a family statement. >> the journey has been a testament to the enormous amount of love he shared with us all during his time on earth. his last picture said lookin

hari simran lived in leesburg and along with his wife taught yoga in sterling. they were in mexico as part of a yoga retreat. the 25-year-old had with him just a liter of water and a handful of trail mix. now, he texted his wife a couple of times suggesting he may be lost. it's been three days of searching since. the family had to rely on donations because government resources for scarce in that search. they'd

. >> search teams say hari simran fell in a ravine and died from a head injury, missing since tuesdays 25 years old. he and his wife lived in leesburg and they were in mexico for a yoga retreat. >> singh was a devout slooek. temples held memorials including this one in new mexico. ja >> dozens gathered outside the spiritual center in sterling, virginia, where hari simran was deeply loved and respected. just 25 years old when he was found dead this afternoon ofc apparent fall during a hike+je in mexico. his faith and adherence to the principles of she cannism is described as that of an old soul. >> he lived his life full of the virtues of being giving and giving to anybody that wanted it. that's something i could say if i could be 1/18 of him, one small percentage of him, i would be a complete human being. >> those who gathered prayed for his widow emily seen next to a search helicopter in this recent photo from mexico. show told news4 last night they were part of a group attending a yoga retreat when her husband set out for a short hike to a nearby mountain december 30th. i later text

good evening, i'm hari sreenivasan. judy woodruff is away. also ahead. in the u.s., teaching unaccompanied child migrants. how special schools in california adapt the classroom for undocumented students who wait for their day in immigration court. >> we don't have desks, we have tables, and we have very purposeful groupings. a student from asia and a student from central america at the same table. so english becomes the common language of that group discussion. >> sreenivasan: and it's friday. mark shields and michael gerson are here, to analyze the week's news and look ahead to the year in politics. those are some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by:

haris, welcome back here. what has this week meant for muslims in this country?> well, what i think that it's done is that it's reignited the debate around islam and violence again. and american muslims are having to come out and say that this type of violence and extremist ideology does not represent who they are or what they believe or even the 1.6 billion muslims across the world who practice their faith peacefully on a daily basis. >> but are there specific responses? are there, you know, practical things that the u.s. muslim community can do within this environment? >> there are. the first thing that the american muslim community can do is engage fellow citizens, really understand, really help people understand who they are, what they believe, and where they're coming from. there's a lot of misunderstanding. four out of ten americans only know a muslim. if that number increases, i think the misunderstanding, the misinformation, will also decrease. >> is there something that you can suggest here that the united states government can do to wipe out or control

music, tears and even laughter hari simran's family and friends remembered a man who packed a lifetime of warmth and generosity into just 25 years. >> angels welcome a great soul into their midst. >> he like completed his life sooner than us. >> reporter: hari simran and his wife of just a year and a half ran a yoga studio above the raj khalsa sikh temple in sterling. they were on a yoga retreat in tee pots lan, mexico. -- in tepoztlan, mexico. on december 30th he texted a message i'm looking down on you, then another message that he was lost and then he disappeared. hundreds searched for him on the rugged terrain and on the internet organizers raised tens of thousands of dollars to help find him, but on january 2nd searchers found hari simran's crumpled body at the body of a cliff. >> i cried a lot at some points, but i've come to a point where i feel like he's gone on to his next journey. >> reporter: hari simran grew in brooklyn, the son of a sikh american father and mother and many of his friends from a sikh boarding school in india have come to remember him. >> he lived his life a

a search team found the body of 25-year-old hari simran. richard reeve has how he is being remembered. >> behind me is a house of worship. it was here that this young man attended services, taught yoga. and outside, a very emotional gathering to remember a life cut short. they gathered in sterling, virginia. >> we all have heavy hearts. >> and in new mexico. >> he was a beautiful human being. >> to honor and remember 25-year-old hari simran whose body was found in rugged terrain south of mexico city. >> he was a bright and beautiful soul. >> this photo was the last image of simran before he went missing tuesday afternoon hiking in the mountains after a yoga retreat. >> he was on a large mountain in mexico and trying to figure out how to come down. >> he was wearing only a t-shirt and shorts. in a place where night temperatures fall below freezing. search teams on the ground and in the air began to looking. one crew made the sad discovery. >> he tripped over something because of the terrain and hit his head on a rock. >> friends believe that

hari? of pbs newshour weekend looks at how colorado's law allowing the recreational use of marijuana is working and how other states are now following colorado's lead. in this excerpt, newshour special correspondent rick karr talks to one marijuana businessman. here's an excerpt from that report. >> this is an industrial manufacturing plant that grows marijuana. >> reporter: stores like these can now sell up to an ounce of marijuana to customers who are 21 and over. the products come in all kinds of forms. cancannabis buds from range of varieties treat particularly ailments, provide a mellow buzz or deliver a powerful rush. pre-rolled joints pot-laced brownies, chocolate bars. marijuana infused beverages and massage oil. consumers spend tens of millions of dollars a month on those products but williams is sure there is a lot more money to be made in his business. >> right now i know of new chip companies that are on the start line. they're going to come and buy people up and i want to be on

hari simn lives in virginia and it's been days since anyone has seen him. his friends a family are looking f him. jackie bn jt spo with his wife and has the latest. >> chris, she is in mexico and despery trying to get additi resources to the area to help with the search. >> the website, find hari simran is heading the s this photo was sent to a friend on december 30th. about three hours into what was supposed to be a short hike c be seen pointing to the se of yoga retreat held near a town 30 miles south of mexico city. his wife who also attended the retreat spoke to news 4 by phone from mexico. >> he was wearing shorts and tennis shoes, t-shirt. he had af w in a metal bottle. he had his cell phone. he had a knife underneath his clothing. he had a very small handful of trail mix. >> smith says the terrain is daunting. [ inaudi] -- helicopter. we chartered our own helicopter and the federal police came. he has friends all over the world and we put this out like on facebook and on twitter and we created a web page and the support all over the world is pouring

this is the last picture seen of hari simran. it was sent to his wife.lfie he had taken during that hike one afternoon of december 30th. he later sent a text message to her saying he was running late and another text to a friend saying he was lost. that was the last anyone had heard from him. simran and his wife traveled to a yoga retreat last friday in tepoztllan, hour south of mexico city. on tuesday, he went on that hike in mountains wearing a t-shirt and shortsz carrying only a liter of water some trail mix and a knife. that was very rugged territory. his body was found this afternoon. >> he was always an angel. he was an individual that always inspired everybody. he gave so much love and just true essence of what a real human being should be. and he's very selfless and my hope is that one day, i can just be 1/10th of who he is. he's an amazing human being. >> also reading that statement from the family in which they expressed obviously a great deal of sadness but also a great deal of gratitude for those who took part in this search effort which invo

this room here is where hari simran teaches his yoga classes. it sits empty this afternoon as the desperate search continues in mexico. congregants at this sikh temple say they've been praying nonstop for his safe return. >> i was worried. i immediately went into a state of prayer. >> international sikh community prayed and recited a global chat for him last night. >> everybody wants, he should become alive and he should be back soon. >> i frantic search is under way in the rugged terrain. within the last hour crews were able to get access to helicopters with infrared technology. also, after several days of back and forth with t-mobile over access to g.p.s. information, the company just released all relevant data. but simran's g.p.s. locator was turned off. specialists are now working to triangulate his location based on his last messages. >> we know that it's getting really late and we need to find him really soon. >> in sterling jeanette raez abc 7 news. >> taking part in that frantic search, family members. an hour and a half ago, i spoke wit

outpouring of support from the sikh community tonight in sterling to remember the life of 25-year-old hari simran singh khalsa, a yoga instructor here whose body was found in mexico today after some sort of hiking incident south of mexico city. >> we have very heavy hearts. we really love this young man. he's 25 years old, young man born into our community. his parents are westerners who embrace sikhism like i did. >> reporter: khalsa was last heard from by his wife tuesday. he sent a picture of himself from the mountain top and the message looking down on you. two hours later he messaged he accidentally summited another mountain and vanished. search crews have been looking for him ever since. >> he had a kind heart. he was somebody that just had an amazing spirit. so i can tell you he's somebody that i always will try to emulate, but i'm not sure i'll ever achieve. >> reporter: word started to spread of the man's death as people arrived for an afternoon gathering of reflection in sterling. the 25-year-old khalsa had revived the yoga center and planned to return to his home brooklyn later

there was a -- hari simran khalsa went on that hike tuesday south of mexico city. he had texted his wife the last picture on the summit of a mountain. a last text to a friend indicated he was lost. his family believes he fell, hit his head and died instantly. many of the couple's friends are in mexico and had been traveling with them on a spiritual yoga retreat. people in mexico and here in northern virginia are heartbroken. >> he was always an angel. he was an individual that always inspired everybody. he gave so much love and just true essence of what a real human being should be. he's very selfless and my hope is that one day i can just be 1/10 of who he is. he was an amazing human being. >> reporter: she was already distraught and asked for prayers here in the united states. unfortunately tonight they are mourning his loss and now making funeral arrangements. friends have been talking to me and one person said that hari simran before he and his wife tookstudio above the community center there may have been three or four people who attended. now 25 people regula

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he was a very beloved young man. >> hari simran was 25 years old. he and his wife lived in leesburg and were in mexico for a yoga retreat. >>> video of a daring rescue by u.s. park police from the district. the police used a helicopter yesterday to save an injured hiker at shenandoah national park in virginia. take a look. the hiker fell about 20 feet and broke his leg. this was at the summit of old rag mountain. park rangers hiked to the summit of the mountain about 4,000 feet up. realizing it would have taken hours to carry him down that mountain. the national park service then called in the helicopter. air crews lowered a rescue basket to him and hoisted him to safety. they flew him to the foot of the mountain where an ambulance was waiting to take him to the hospital. >>> a developing story. a 7-year-old girl the sole survivor in a plane crash. that wreck killed four other people. the aircraft crashed in lyon county in kentucky where police say they received a 911 call when the girl walked to a nearby house and told the residents she had been in

from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. france's prime minister today declared war on radical islam, following two terror attacks that left 17 people and three terrorists dead. authorities now believe a 26- year-old woman wanted in connection with one of the two attacks left the country days earlier and might now be in turkey or syria. hayat boumediene had been sought in connection with the fatal shooting of a policewoman and the capture and shooting of hostages at a kosher store in the french capital. her boyfriend, amedy coulibaly, was killed by french police who stormed the store last night. meanwhile, in the small town north of paris residents were celebrating the killing of the two terrorists who shot up the offices of charlie hebdo, a satirical magazine, and later fled to dammartin en goele, where the siege ended yesterday. i.t.n.'s jonathan rugman is there. >> reporter: in dammartin en goel's main street, no sign of the trauma which gripped this town yesterday. shoppers nursing their baguettes

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>> it's a momentous election, very significant hari for the future of greece and perhaps the europeanon. the greeks themesselves some commentaries are saying, this may be as important as the civil war in the 1940s, the military dictatorship and return to democracy in the 1970s because it may by a big point of departure. if the left party wins elections and governs alone or in a coalition is likely going to challenge the compact between the greek people and the european union yon. the hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to the greeks will the greek government under new leadership pay by the rules and meet commitments and pay off loans or effectively challenge theine yon union to renegotiate them? it will be a showdown between the leftest greek government and the germans. >> sreenivasan: is there a possibility greek could get kicked out of the e.u. or opt out? that would set a precedent in itself. >> it would and be consequential perhaps for how financial markets see the stability of theertheeurozone. they have been saying they won't tolerate a reconsideration or renegotiation of t

>> well, hari it took a long time, to tell you the truth.aughters were diagnosed in 1983 and the first thing we had to cope with was the devastation of this kind of a diagnosis. we were told that they would experience bone marrow failure, perhaps leukemia, that they probably would not live to adulthood, that there were really no effective treatments or a cure for this disease. bone marrow transplant outcomes were absolutely dreadful back then and we were told that if they did live to adulthood, they were at very high risk for cancer. so the first thing we had to cope with was this absolutely devastating news that, ultimately, all three of our daughters -- we had five children, three with fanconi anemia -- had the same dreadful, dreadful disease. it took us two years to form a family support group and we did that in 1985. it wasn't until 1989, six years after the diagnosis, when we finally had the courage and strength to begin to work on, okay, what can we do about the horrible diagnosis? you've got to be able to pick yourself up off the floo

tonight's "share" comes from our own hari sreenivasan.e on a reporting trip for the newshour, hari got a presidential surprise. at 90 years old, jimmy carter is apparently still campaigning. working the aisle, the former president shook the hand of every passenger on the commercial flight from new york to atlanta, hari's too. some habits, it seems, are hard to kick. >> woodruff: again, the major developments of the day. french investigators probed deeper into the weapons and financing behind last week's terror attacks. meanwhile, lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to continue military operations against islamic state forces. and president obama met with leaders of the new congress and called for unity, even as he threatens vetoes of key bills, from keystone to immigration. majority republicans said they're going ahead anyway. >> ifill: on the newshour online right now, american families are getting smaller. but writer wendy thomas russell says many question her decision to have only one child. for wendy and her husband, three is their family'

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hari simran's family said he fell off a cliff and hit his head while hiking.ay in a ravine. his memorial service will be today. >>> three armed meno a home. it happened blocks away from the university of maryland on potomac avenue. the man inside the home said he feared for his life and gave the men his belongings. . >>> a former redskins player will be in court today. prosecutors say he hurt his former girlfriend valerie jackson at her home in ashburn. she posted pictures on instagram of her marks on her arms. >>> in fairfax county a judge will set a trial date for jayson werth. he was convicted of reckless driving and sentenced to 10 days in jail. he is now appealing that conviction. last july virginia state trooper clocked his porsche over 100 miles per hour on the beltway >> there will be more women and minorities in the 114th congress when it returns on tuesday. although lawmakers still remain overwhelmingly white and male a record 104 women will serve in congress. for the first time african-american members of both genders will be among the ranks on capi

hari went for a hike on tuesday, has not been seen or heard from since. search teams and helicopters have been looking for simron but she worries he might be heard. she's getting support from all over the world. >> this is a long shut but this follows a law passed last year that required state officials to ask colorado colleges to be allowed to grow pot. most pot research has been blocked by federal laws. colorado's state health department believes pot research gives scientists a chance to look into what it can do to tale ill is money -- channel the money. >> and the start of the new year, taking a live look outside. cold start against the bay area. hope you get a chance to bring in the pets, cover the fragile plants out there. christina's got more on the forecast. playing hoops, sam is number one. at st. jude i was number two. yeah, but that was a good thing. sam was the second of seven patients to receive a new cancer treatment available only at st. jude children's research hospital, and that discovery will be shared with hospitals all across america. s

coming up at 7:00 tonight, there's going to be a prayer service in honor of hari simran. abc 7's richard reid will have that story for you tonight at 11:00 and much more on this very sad situation. live in sterling jeff goldberg abc 7 news. >> ok thank you. a couple is dead. two police officers injured after a multistate crime spree. and it came to an end yesterday in lewisburg, west virginia, when police arrested edward campbell and his 21-year-old son! this was after a shootout. police say they found the bodies of jerome faulkner and his wife dora inside one of the campbells' vehicles. investigators believe the campbells killed the faulkners and then set their north carolina home on fire. >> this is west virginia police had not stopped them this crime spree would have continued on. >> police said the injured officers were both wearing body armor and their injuries are not life threatening. one of the suspects was also wounded in that exchange of gunfire. >> three people were injured at an underaged drinking party at a hotel. this happened at the hilton hotel on seminary

i'm hari sreenivasan in new york for the pbs newshour. >> woodruff: moments ago, i spoke to mark austinependent television >> mark austin, thank you for talking with us. what's the who's on the ground in paris. about authorities trying to find out how these men were able to pull this off? >> well, there's a great deal of effort going on tonight to find that out. i mean the main issue at the moment is finding this woman who may have been involved in the supermarket siege. hayet boumddiene. authorities said they thought she was in there, there is a hunt going on for her. although the information i'm getting is that it's not at all clear the role she played in this, although they believe she played some sort of role. that in many ways impacts how limb the authorities had gotten on these people. they were on their radar some years ago. one of them was in prison for terrorist offenses some years ago. but they seem to have fallen away in the minds of the police and i think that's causing a great deal of frustration and maybe even embarrassment in the security services here. although the secur

a missing virginia man has been found dead in mexico. 25-year-old hari simran ran a yoga center in leesburgs wife says he went for a day hike in the mountains of central mexico on tuesday and hadn't been seen since. a mexican civil defense official says simran's body was found a few hours ago in one of the narrow ravines in the mountains. tonight, a close friend of the family read a statement. >> the journey has been a testament to the numerous amount of love and goodness that you shared with us all during his time on earth. his last picture says "looking down on you." we know he is an angel in the heavens now looking down on all of us. we love you. >> this evening, a prayer vigil will be held at the yoga studio in leesburg where simran worked. that's tonight at 7:00 and richard reid will have the latest on that tonight at 11:00. cloudy skies this evening could give way to wintry weather by the morning. meteorologist steve rudin is in the weather center to tell us which areas will be affected. steve? >> all right maureen, it looks like it will be mainly north and west of us here in d.c. and