these are children from harriet tubman elementary school.hassle for their parents but the kids didn't seem to mind the early dismissal. tom sherwood has more. hi, tom. >> hi, doroon p first things first. you guys made fun of my hat. the nice viewer named diane, she says she kind of likes the hat but she thought my ears were cold so she brought me this ear muff thing to wear. as soon as i get my nerve up enough, i'm going to put it on. but let me check the mailbox here. we've got maybe a half an inch, not much down here. the roads are certainly getting a lot more snow on them. they're very slushy. people are telling you to be careful. people around the logan circle area are heading home, shopping at all the stores. some of them have been visiting logan hardware around the corner. we thought we'd go in and we took a look. >> the salt is environmentally friendly salt and that's $17.99. >> you guys are open until 8:00? >> yes. >> and then what are you going to do? >> going to go home. >> go home. go home is what you'd like to do. the logan hardw

when we read like certain books, we can start with harriet tubman, nat turner, martin luther king, it looked like at one time that the cosmos was aligned against us. because when you read this you're like, you know, did they really lynch these people? like early in the morning on some, you know, and then walk into houses and did they really bomb churches? and it looked like the cosmos was aligned against us. and martin luther king still was like, no, i'm telling y'all, this is going to change. and even us at times we looked at the man like he was crazy, what is he talking about. and i really think that for haiti the possibility of change is definitely near. >> i think the one thing that you -- of course being a haitian have known your entire life, the many times i've been to haiti, we have known for many years the spirit, the strong constitution that haitian people have. but i'm getting a sense now that through this tragedy, particularly around the stories of people surviving seven days, eight days, nine days. >> 14-days. >> 11 days, 14 days. those are just metaphors, if you will, jus

no, you don't know to need about harriet tubman. here is fried chicken. at nbc? >> we're a very progressive company. >> is the whole damn company on medical marijuana? what is going on over here? >> with us from washington, nbc news white house correspondent, of course, savannah guthrie, co-host of "the daily rundown" with chuck todd. and john ridley. and msnbc chi bnch krncbc chief correspondent, norah o'donnell. i want to see more clips of o'reily and stewart. >> we'll have that as well. >> and wanda sykes. >> but, first, mika brzezinski with some of the top stories. >> yes, finally. time for a look at today's top stories. the toyota story. toyota's chief executive will hold a news conference today as the company faces a public relations nightmare over a series of safety concerns. executives are considering another major recall this morning, amid new issues involving the braking system in its 2010 prius hybrid it would affect more than 100,000 drivers in the u.s. and 170,000 in japan. that is on top of the 4.5 million other vehicles already being recall

harriet tubman, who went back into the south to rescue her brothers and sisters from slavery.aul robeson, a singer, an actor, assault -- a scholar, a philosopher, one that could have got along very well by going along but who would speak out against injustice. so when honor percy sutton, who taught us to speak truth to power, for a moment, i'll like for power to speak to the truth. the state over the last four years has had revenues down twice the national average. working with the legislature, since i became governor one month before two years ago, we reduced $33 billion of deficit. this has been painful, this has been challenging. we have had to reverse course on some of our most prime believes of the past two years to try to keep the state from running out of money. we have had to veto legislation that at any other time would have brought opportunity to our community. i had to veto a piece of legislation that would help children afflicted with lead poisoning, but at that time and cost us $50 million. it was legislation i introduced when i was a senator. these are very diffi

harriet tubman, who went back into the south over 40 times to rescue her brothers and sisters from slavery paul robeson, a singer, an actor, a scholar, an activist of a philosopher and one who could have gotten along well by going along but chose rather to speak out against injustice with the truth. so in honor of percy sutton, who taught us to speak truth to power, for a moment i would like for the power to speak to the truth. this state, over the last four years, has had revenues down twice the national average. working with the legislature, since i became governor, one month before two years ago, we have reduced $33 billion of deficit. [applause] >> this has been painful. this had been challenging. we have had to reverse course on some of our most prime beliefs over the past two years to try to keep the state from running out of money. we have had to veto legislation that any other time would have brought opportunity to our communities. i had to veto a piece of legislation that would have helped children afflicted with lead poisoning, but at the time it cost us $50 million. it was legis

harriet tubman, who went back into the south to rescue her brothers and sisters from slavery. paul robeson, a singer, an actor, assault -- a scholar, a philosopher, one that could have got along very well by going along but who would speak out against injustice. so when honor percy sutton, who taught us to speak truth to power, for a moment, i'll like for power to speak to the truth. the state over the last four years has had revenues down twice the national average. working with the legislature, since i became governor one month before two years ago, we reduced $33 billion of deficit. we have had to revert war on some of our most beliefs of the past two years to try to keep the state permitting out of money to give -- state from running out of money. i had to veto a piece of legislation that would help children of victims of lead poisoning. it was legislation i introduced when i was a senator. these are very difficult times for new york. these very difficult times all around this country. 48 of the 50 states are currently in deficit. 29 states have laid off or furloughed work