today thousands of middle schoolers took part in the annual future city competition, at archbishop john carol high school, to show us their visions for the city. for months these middle schoolers have been developing new ideas for sustainable farming, in particular in and around cities. first place winners will head to the national future city finals in washington d.c. >>> all right. much more to coming on "action news" tonight, an update on the the islamic terrorist holding japanese hostages. they say only one remains as isis makes new demand. >>> former eagles quarterback donovan mcnabb is in town weighing in on the deflate gate controversy. what he says tom brady should have done. jeff skversky has the story in sports when "action news" comes right back. >>> volunteers will search again tomorrow for a young mother who disappeared from her home in delaware two weeks ago. keisha hamilton went missing january 11th a along with her two children age four years and four months. the the children were found with their cortez hamilton in indian at next day. cortez hamilton has been since a arrested

. >> joe smithson and john carol, both from rural kentucky, have been charged with a litany of crimes which think say all stem from their addictions to prescription drugs. >> hill billy crack. >> just like heroin, but, you know, stick it up your nose. >> carroll has been sentenced to five years for theft and giving false information to a police officer. >> smithson was sentenced to one year for carrying a concealed weapon. >> >> he don't have no peace. >> for years. >> looking over your back. >> got 11 kids. i got eight boys and three girls. my oldest will be 19. i was real promiscuous when i was younger. >> i'm from kentucky. >> i got uncles down there bootleggers. like 190 proof, you're on fire. >> last time it was like $10 a jar. i don't drink no more, all my money goes to pills, now. i don't drink no more, i don't smoke pot. all my money goes to the pills. >> prescription pills create problems inside the jail as well. >> several nights ago we had inmate workers observe on camera passing what appeared to be pills. the officers reacted. . they recovered 21 pills which were identifie

john. >> carol, if you look at that republican field, we may get barry sanders on the democratic side. if you look back to the republican field, when you think back to 2012 and you saw herman cain and rand paul and michele bachmann unlikely they would be the next president of the united states. former florida governor jeb bush. you have senator lindsey graham. you have ted cruz. marco rubio. rand paul. freshman senators. governor scott walker. maybe governor bobby jindal of louisiana. chris christie of new jersey the governor making indications he wants to run. this is a very deep and very substantial, credible gop field. that's part of governor romney's decision and part of the competition dana was talking about. romney is making these phone calls and he would start with way more infrastructure than any other candidate even jeb bush. however, he's told he's losing some of it. some staffers signing on mostly to jeb bush and some to scatott walker and others to chris christie. as governor romney makes this decision you would have a former nominee in mitt romney running against a member

carol? >> i hope that doesn't happen. that's unbelievable. joe johnse from washington thank you. >>> search crews have recovered nine victims as i said also pulled from the water, two black bags a gray suitcases and pieces of stairs. grim reminders of what was supposed to be another flight for many of those on board. for the families of the victims the recovery process is agonizing, of course. the big question that so many want answered is why something like this happened. let's bring in aviation attorney justin green, also a former military pilot and president of the international air and transportation safety bar association. good morning, and thank you for being with me. >> good morning, carol. >> good morning. the investigation into why this happened will of course take years, but the families will want answers immediately. so what rights do the families have when it comes to the airline in turning over information? >> there's, that's a very good question. the families in the past have been very frustrated by the lack of information that's come out

johns is at the white house with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol.paesce at the white house and it's been so for decades. this incident pointed out how hard it is to stop even a recreational device flying so slow so low to the white house. the larger issue is about rules for drones. this is something the faa has been working on for a long time haven't finished them yet. the president talked about the issue of rules for drones in an interview with cnn's fareed zakaria. listen. >> i've actually asked the faa and a number of agencies to examine how are we managing this new technology because the drone that landed on the white house you buy at radio shack. you know that there are companies like amazon that are talking about using small drones to deliver packages. >> reporter: now the man who reported that the drone was his does work for the defense department. he works for the geo spatial intelligence agency and, of course they do mapping and imaging for the defense department. he actually told according to sources, the secret service, that he was out do

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in the meantime, we have learned that carol glover's funeral is set for monday here in d.c. in southwest washington, john gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> the d.c. rabbi accused of secretly videotaping a woman had a hearing today. he was charged with six counts of voyeurism. his lawyers asked for more time so his next hearing will be in february. he was fired from georgetown's kesher israel synagogue after 25 years on the job. the ohio man accused of planning an attack on the u.s. capitol is expected in court today. christopher cornell was arrested on wednesday and court documents state that he posted on twitter his support for muslim terrorists and jihad. authorities say he was arrested after meeting with an f.b.i. informant about his plan to plant a series of pipe bombs and shoot lawmakers. police overseas have arrested 15 suspects in an anti-terrorism raid in belgium and france. these raids are reportedly targeting people linked to the kosher supermarket gunman who claimed ties to the islamic state. marcy gonzalez has the details on growing terrorism threat fears. >> cracking down on what's being described as

johns joins me with more. good morning, joe. >> reporter: good morning, carol.in the last hour and a half we saw a number of united states secret service officers in what is essentially a grid search here on the property the white house lawn. they're looking for any other evidence of that device that landed on the lawn today. they had to wait until daylight. earlier, during the hours of darkness there were a number of emergency vehicles here as that device was first discovered. we don't know a lot about it. it's described as small. we don't know how small. it's a drone and would have had propellors on it. no indication it had a payload or danger to any in any way here at the white house. josh earnest, the white house press secretary traveling with the president in india talked about it earlier today. >> a device that has been recovered by the secret service at the white house. early indications are it does not pose any sort of ongoing threat by anybody at the white house. >> reporter: nothing from the united states secret service on this. they are under new mana

john kerry coming and bringing james taylor. should he have sang rockabye sweet baby james -- but just watching the body language -- >> carole kingid, quote, i'm a steamroller for you a burning, churning -- a napalm bomb for you. the reason he's hunched over, they didn't have his microphone mic'd properly. he's standing there with a microphone over his head because they didn't have it mic'd properly so he's hunched over to get his voice and his guitar mic. >> this was your country represented abroad. this is by the administration that was going to make the rest of the world respect us. remember how no one liked bush and he was so divisive, this is obama going to fix it all. rush limbaugh crystallized it. >> john kerry, i'm literally embarrassed. he actually dragged james taylor and had -- and kerry spoke french again, which is embarrassing again in itself. and then james taylor sang "you've got a friend." my -- i'm embarrassed to be an american today. oh, my, what a bunch of wasusses, what a bunch of mush and squishy and islamists all over the world cannot believe the good luck they have been handed. >> wow. let us know your thou

cnn's senior washington correspondent joe johns is following this part of the story. hi joe. >> hi carol. the uss "sampson" is a destroy destroyer, has been deployed for some time. we received word the ship recovered two bodies on thursday. now the uss "fort worth" has set sail from singapore. still not clear what the role is supposed to be but here's what we know about its capabilities. the u.s. combat ship went out on a 16-month deployment starting at the end of december. "fort worth" is one of the navy's newest vessels, essentially on its first mission. its side scan sonar should be use informal the search for the plane. side scan sonar takes an image of the ocean floor and that of course is something they might be able to use. but we're not clear yet on its role carol. >> gotcha. will the united states be sending any air support. >> the u.s. has said it would send aircraft to assist, a poe a poseidon aircraft. it can do long range reconnaissance. we don't know how they'll use it but it can be in essence the controller of a fleet of drones as they look at specific areas of the sea. it

carol costello. "@ this hour" with berman and michaela starts now. 'm john berman live in paris.identify jihadists before they strike again. an intelligence source tells cnn the threat appears to involve up to 20 cells with as many as 180 people ready to launch attacks. france germany, belgium and also the netherlands. we're told that the belgian threat was imminent. the terror cell was on the brink of unleashing a major attack on police. police swooped in and launched a dozen raids and killed two suspected terrorists wounded a third and arrested a dozen others. german authorities say they arrested two men in berlin on suspicion of links to isis and in france police arrested 12 people overnight. these 12 individuals are believed to have offered some kind of logistical support to amedy coulibaly, the man who attacked that kosher market leaving 12 french jews dead.

johns is here with new details. good morning, joe. regime >> reporter: good morning, carol.es are trying to be as precise as possible with their language. what they think they know the shots were fired from a car passing vice president biden's house saturday. almost 8:30 at night. the vice president was not in the residence. secret service agents were not able to find any evidence the rounds actually hit the house. we do know multiple shots were fired. they were heard by secret service agents on site and those shots were fired from a distance away. any suspects? no there was a guy on the scene who apparently got locked up for resisting arrest at the time but authorities said that did not have anything to do with the shooting and we also know the vice president as well as president obama were both briefed on the situation. that investigation is ongoing. >> is it possible the gunman did not know that was joe biden's house? >> anybody's guess. these things happen from time-to-time. it's very difficult for secret service or police to get a handle on it if they can't find rounds

carol oates and david foster wallace. as the president and publisher of "harper's" for the last 31 years,john r. "rick" macarthur has been as ferocious a champion of democracy and journalism as any of those illustrious bylines that have appeared in its pages. i've never known him to pull his punches, whether he's writing in harper's, or in his newspaper columns, or in such books as "the selling of free trade," an expose of bipartisan collusion to enact nafta, the north american free trade agreement, and this one, "the outrageous barriers to democracy in america." macarthur's fierce arrows of outrage are aimed at both political parties, but recently he's been especially incensed by democrats for abandoning their progressive roots to serve wall street, k street, and crony capitalists. rick macarthur, welcome. >> thank you for having me, bill. >> you have opposed these so-called free trade agreements for as long as i have known you. why isn't anyone listening? >> well, because the big money doesn't want them to listen and the editorial pages of most american newspapers are pro-free trade, quote, un

johns. he has more on that for you. good morning, joe. >> good morning, carol. this is just an enormous job when you think about it.p out where all the pieces of the plane are, a lot like how a crime scene technician might try to log evidence when and where he or she finds it. then the heavy lifting begins:. how do you pull a plane up from the bottom of the ocean? >> what you want to do first is to really map the entire accident scene. >> reporter: we spoke with peter goelz, a former investigator with ntsb who worked on the recovery and building of twa flight 800 that crashed after takeoff from new york city. >> you document everything until you really get the information off the data recorder and voice recorder. >> reporter: he say it is site needs to be treated like the crime scene and mapping the debris field before removing objects could be key to finding out what happened. then comes the process of pulling up the giant pieces of debris from the bottom of the sea. >> you would have a number of lifting cranes and you would have teams of divers. the divers of course even working at 100-foot depth, you'll have dec

john boehner is suggesting. tell us more dana. >> reporter: this is happening as we speak, carol.peaker is telling this behind closed doors to rank and file republicans, that he has unilaterally on his own without the white house invited the israeli prime minister to address a joint session of congress on february 11th. the reason why this is so -- such a big moment surprising moment no other way to put it a big poke in the eye to president obama, is because they want the prime minister to come and address the fact that they believe that he's wrong on iran. that the president has said in private and public please do not pass more sanctions against iran and in the words of the speaker, prepared remarks that we got from a republican source that he's giving again as we speak behind closed doors talking about the president, his exact message to us was hold your fire. he expects us to stand by idly and do nothing while he cuts a bad deal with iran. two words, hell no. we're not going to do any such thing. so that gives you a sense of why they invited the prime minister. just another bi

carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. we begin this hour with the rampant spread of terrorism. world leaders scrambling to contain it. secretary of state john kerry speaking later this morning. he's now in london leading a coalition of 20 nations uniting to combat isis. the terror group forging a new front in its war on the west. isis is gaining ground and recruiting new killers in yemen as the critical u.s. ally spirals deeper into chaos. >>> americans on edge in yemen's capital. u.s. troops on alert. they're awaiting orders to evacuate the embassy and there's growing fear that time is running out. >>> the rise of isis is creating a power struggle of sorts in the region as al qaeda and its loyalists control more territory and more recruits. in yemen isis is challenging the dominance of the local branch al qaeda, in the arabian peninsula. cnn's brian todd has more for you. >> reporter: disturbing new information on the most dangerous terrorist groups taking advantage of the chaos in yemen. cnn has learned isis is now active in recruiting inside yemen. that's according to a yemeni official who says isis militants engaged in a gun battle agai

carol wynne, a can of is is, ecstasy. >> sender schumer wants bitcoin restricted. black tar heroin there is a list. johnto pass rules and those who wrote the article about how bitcoin are used by international criminals they say don't blame bitcoin for what criminals do. so a few of us will use them? >> we want to abide by the same rules that it is a currency is to fold its own against cash. john: every time someone makes a deposit more than $10,000 you have to tell the government. >> by show put their briefcases five printer thousand dollars in cash they need to do paperwork to ask a few questions. >> did is interesting that he brings up money-laundering and grows the biggest laundromat is the federal treasury with a median exchange of course, -- a choice. john: most dash money is not even in america. the treasury has 1.2 trillion dollars. i understand why he goes after mom-and-pop laundromat down the street as it is just a fraction of that amount. >> but most criminals is very difficult to put into a bank account to pay somebody a lot of money in cash. >> is bad law enforcement. go after the criminals

john berman thanks. i appreciate it. the next hour of "cnn newsroom" starts now. >>> good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. new this morning, the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has accepted an invitation to address a joint session of congress. he'll focus on iran and his appearance just three weeks from now is pointed to say the least. it comes as congress prepares to fight the white house and president obama's vow last night to veto any new sanctions on iran. that's not the least of it. joining me now is dana bash. she broke this news last hour. tell us more dana. >> reporter: i'm at the press conference where we expect the house speaker and the rest of the republican leaders to come momentarily to speak about this. they were as i said earlier in the hour they were talking to republican rank and file members explaining what they're doing and explaining that they have invited benjamin netanyahu to address a joint meeting of congress on february 11th. earlier i reported according to prepared remarks that we got that the house speaker was going to say to his rank

john mccain losing his temper. that and more when we come up after you at 7:00 tonight. >> thanks brian. >>> carol has sports. >> uprshawn lynch opens up to the media. finally. i know you're excited to hear that. >>> plus maryland versus ohio state, featuring two of the top freshmen in the country. >>> can we establish off the base that marshawn lynch should not have to talk to media if he doesn't want to? >> no we cannot establish that. >> it matter what is he plays on the field, not what he thinks about world peace or anything else. jayson werth doesn't want to talk? i don't care. i want to see him at the plate. >> hi carol. >> and that's it! vance has sports. honestly as someone who's been there and having to get sound bites, it's a tough job. >> yes. >> because everyone else has to do it he should have to do it. >> did anyone ask him about world pesace? no. >> marshawn lynch not talking has been a story line all week. his last media session for the players today and he finally did speak and he's telling us why he's not talking. it was a lecture, really. lynch gave us some insight into why he's so terse with med

carol booth and tanya blackwell in the bay area. tanya's brother said he never thought this day would come. >> she was a little girl. she never add life. she couldn't live her life. >> john blackwell knows police could never have enough evidence to charge hillbauer for his sister's death but hopes justice is served for other families who lost a loved one. >> prosecutors will not seek the death penalty because it was deemed unconstitutional when the crimes were committed. hillbauer will be back in court on monday. reporting live in redwood city i'm michelle roberts, nbc, bay area news. >> thank you. >>> also at 5:00 the fbi says if you can identify this man, seven bank robberies could be solved. it is believed all that facial hair could be disguised. sometimes he has a fake beard to go with the phony mustache. he wears a fe dora hat and trench coat. three of seven robberies began in october. the recent was last week. man handed the teller a so-called demand note. if you know anything, call the police or fbi. >> there is an unexpected side effect from the movable median barrier preventing head-on crashes. chp says the drivers are feeling safer on the bridge but may be too

john: finally, chris says another surprising way to expand your brain and think about the knockoff economy is to think about charles dickens. did you read the christmas caroltations or tale of two cities? these books have sold millions of copies and yet at the time book sellers in america were not required to pay dickens a dime. >> when the united states itself was a developing economy, it refused to sign treaties and had no protection for foreign creators. charles dickens complained about america's bustling piracy book market. john: and yet you say he still made out. >> dickens made out when. dickens visited the united states on a lecture tour he played to the standing room only crowds. people paid a lot of money to see him. the equivalent of millions in today's currency. john: they wanted to buy cheap books, read cheap books. >> they fell in love with him. at his desk, a significant portion of his estate came for that trip. it became literate in part because books were cheap. books being cheap helped us develop to be the world power that we are today. that came from the absence of copyright. john: thank you, chris sprigman. >>> coming up, who owns a joke

carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. isis terrorists have released another video. it shows two japanese hostages kneeling behind a knife wielding jihadi johninto the going to show you the video because it gives isis what they want. one is a freelance journalist the other is a security consultant who is believed to have been traveling with rebel fighters when he was captured. while we won't show you the isis video, we will talk about it because it's a little different from the other videos we've seen. the terrorist in this video asked the japanese government for a $200 million ransom so what does that mean? is isis using this opportunity for cash or is it cash strapped? joe rafini joins me. thanks for being here. >> it's a pleasure. >> joe, what do you make of this? why is isis asking for ransom? >> you know it can be one of two reasons. either they're trying to play the game a little bit differently. i don't think isis is cash strapped but this may be an opportunity for them to make a little cash. and, you know they're very flexible. they're very asymmetric in their tactics. they're going to switch it up. certainly nothing to be surprised

carol booth body found near kaiser hospital in south san francisco hospital in south san francisco. 14-year-old tanya blackwell her body was discovered in the gypsy hill area of pacifica. tanya brother john attended the da briefing today. >> i feel that he's the person who did it. i wish he would admit to it but i continue see that happening. >>reporter: if convicted rodney hell bauer could spend the rest of his days in prison. vic lee, abc 7 news. >> president obama is expressing his condolence tonight over the death of saudi arabia king abdul a.saudi state tv reported the monarch patsing late today. he's believed to be 90 had been hospitalized for several weeks with a lung infection. he was seen as powerful u.s. al lay who joined washington fight against al qaeda and made some moves to modernize the ultra conservative saudi king do the president praised him last year for taking bold snep advancing the arab peace initiative. 79 the arab peace initiative. 79-year-old half brother prince solomon inherits the saudi thrown. >> yemen officials say the country u.s. back president has resigned under pressure from shi'a rebel. the rebel had stormed the capitol da tuesday. this comes after years

. >> reporter: john blackwell's little sister tanya was stabbed in pacifica when she was 14 years old. blackwell knows he may never be charged in her death or for the murder of carol boots whose body was found in san francisco, but he hopes other families will find peace knowing he'll face justice. >> some closure is better than no closure. >> prosecutors will not seek the death penalty in this case because it was deemed unconstitutional when the crimes were committed. live in redwood city michelle roberts, nbc bay area news. >>> happening now a demonstration has disrupted a meeting of b.a.r.t.'s board of directors. you see our cameras inside that meeting. an activist with the group called black lives matter chanted and carried signs as police escorted them from the room within the past hour. they're demanding that b.a.r.t. directors pass a resolution calling on protesters to drop all charges against those arrested during last november's black friday demonstration and to dismiss a demand that those people pay restitution of $70,000. >> i think there would be a lot of folk who is would be say the same thing so, i think if the expectation is that this is an agency t

john cornell now. he's on the phone. he's the father of christopher cornell who is accused of plotting the attack on the capitol. good morning, sir. >> is this miss costello? >> it is carol costello. thank you for talking to us. this is difficult for you. it must seem so unreal. have you talked to your son? >> no. we actually hadn't even found out where he was. the fbi wouldn't even tell us where he was being held what he was being charged with or any of that information. i actually found that out from one of your people late last night, and we've -- we've been in touch with the jail. there's no bond or i'm not allowed to visit. visiting day is not until saturday. he goes to court. we will be out there to drop him off some money for some of the essentials that he's going to need while he's in there because he will probably be in there for a while. >> does he have a lawyer? >> well actually your -- your guy gave us the name of his public defender. we haven't even had -- we found that out late last night. we will be calling her early this morning to find out exactly where we need to be what we need to do and i guess we'll have to take it from there. >> how are you and your

carol booth whose body was found near kaiser hospital in south san francisco and 14-year-old tanya black well, her body was discovered in the gypsy hills area of pacifica. her brother john attended the d.a.'s briefing today. >> i wish he would admit to it. i don't see that happening. >> if convicted, rodney could spend the rest of his days in prison. vick lee, abc 7 news. >> developing news in san bruno, where a motorcycle crashed into a car after a police chase. this is happening at the san bruno avenue exit off northbound 280. sky seven hd was over the crash in the last half hour. at least one person went to the hospital. the california highway patrol was chasing the motorcycle at speeds of more than 100 miles an hour. we'll bring information to you as soon as we get it. you can look for updates by following us 24/7 on twitter. >>> the san mateo county district attorney is deciding whether charges will be filed against the owners of two dogs involved in a rampage yesterday. the pit bulls were running through the streets near san mateo high school. one person was bitten and they attacked a gardner who used a leaf blower to fend them off. one officer hit both animals wi