>> john yang in chicago for us tonight. , thanks. >>> many of those hoping for the first american pope were hoping it would be cardinal timothy dolan of new york. he just wrapped up a news conference tonight in rome talking about the new pope from latin america. >> can you imagine when pope francis goes for world youth day, which may probably be his first international trip in july to brazil? can you imagine the welcome he'll get? a pope from latin america. >> cardinal dolan of new york. a news conference just wrapped up in rome. we are back in a moment with some of the other news of this day including the growing opposition now over the tsa decision to allow knives back on planes. >>> a look at some of the other news tonight begins with a scene in louisiana as a huge fire continues to burn at a pipeline in the middle of the bayou. it started last night when a tugboat pushing a barge hit a liquified gas pipeline. smoke was visible 30 miles away in downtown new orleans. this section of the pipeline has been shut down. they ar

nbc's john yang with us from michigan avenue in chicago. john, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. in the chicago area, already about eight and a half inches on the ground in some places. this is the most snow chicago has seen since the blizzard of 2011. the fierce late-season storm is pummeling the midwest, making a snowy mess on sidewalks and highways. >> we could have blowing snow and that makes it tough. >> reporter: this morning, a tractor trailer slid off a snow-covered wisconsin interstate, plunging into the river. authorities said the driver died and a passenger was missing. for air travelers, a giant headache. nationwide, airlines cancelled about 1300 flights, more than 1,000 of them at chicago's midway and o'hare airports. >> it started at midway airport, and that flight was canceled. so i rebooked out of o'hare to kansas city and now i'm here waiting. >> reporter: the snow's falling at a rate of as much as an inch and a half an hour. the storm's snow accumulations are impressive. 7.1 inches in minneapolis. 8.6 in newha

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decades long cease fire between north and south korea could cease to exist john yang lashing out at itssouthern neighbor m.e.u.'s amid looming american backed sanctions you find out why this time china is back in washington over its traditional ally that's still to come stay with us here on our team. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't i'm sorry is a big picture. speaks to language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here. reporting from the world talks of the ip interviews intriguing story to tell you. that. visit our big. thanks for staying with us quarter past the hour now with every nation besides the k. in agreement that bankers' bonuses need to be curbed britain's taken it upon itself to champion executives greatest perk london fears smaller checks at the end of the year may drive managers away depriving the country's last great industry of talent artie's polly boyko has more. it's that time of ye

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