. >> cameraman lee roush begins recording an interview with assistant fire chief jim mitchell. >> jim-e-l-l. >> okay. assistant chief? >> assistant chief. >> have you guys been busy? has it been mostly calls like these? >> haven't been too bad today. yesterday was a different story. and last night, but today's been pretty uneventful. >> but it won't be uneventful for long. >> in this situation we had some ice on the line. the bigger problem was that snow and ice had collected on the limb. >> the firemen and news crew have no idea the tree limb above the power line is about to break. >> i was, you know, doing this shooting where you're looking through the viewfinder with your right eye and my left eye, i'm looking around, see what's going on. i see the tree branch move a little bit. i kind of looked over at it, and that's when everything let go. >> they're standing only a few feet away from live power lines charged with nearly 10,000 volts of electricity. >> the power lines. more today is medical emergencies, people are out shoveling their walks. >> the electrical explosion starts righ

jim maceda, in moscow. let's go now to andrea mitchell, traveling with secretary kerry. she joins me now on phone. i think i saw you in the background, following around john kerry as he was in the square there this morning. what more can you tell us about the aid package that kerry is delivering? >> well, it's $1 billion in loan guarantees, still has to be approved by congress. they seem to be pretty confident. when he arrived here, as you saw, we went immediately to the square. he lit a candle at the makeshift shrine to those who have fallen, surrounded by flowers, barbed wire as to how he felt and he said several times over, it's very moving. it's so moving, what people have sacrificed here. he has stopped and did stop frequently to talk to people, old and young and one older woman saying we are so poor. we are not separatists. we are poor. we need help. what the aid package also includes, chuck, is technical advice to the central bank, to the financial ministers, to try to recover stolen assets so they are sending people, the imf team is already on the ground. jack lew announced right now kerry

jim. >> there is a major storm tearing up the coast of new england. you are looking at cape codd. meteorologist nicole mitchell looks at the forecast. >> causing problems with wind and snow. you can see it blowing out there. it's not getting a lot of snow. there's more as it gets near the coastline. here is the broad picture. we are getting needed rain in texas, and this is part of what will brew, and more rain where we don't need it, where we had the mud slide in the north west coast. >> a japanese architect that built shelters out of cardboard tubes has been awarded high hon you ares, the pritsca produce. he was recognised for his work. his work appeared in haiti, japan, rwanda and the philippines. >> del walters is looking at what we are following at the end of the first hour. >> hundreds of rescue workers combing through the rubble looking for survivors in washington state. the death toll is at 16 and following. >> president obama is holding a conference in nato. >> an oil spill off the coast of texas, 100 ships have been waiting on both sides to do their jobs. >> in the next hour - whether switching from