. >> they agreed to work levenson that vanished during his trip.ut his fate. tonight, his family is speaking out. garret tenny reports. >> well, several american families are celebrating the release of their loved ones from iran. former fbi agent is still missing. his family is asking why. he disappeared off of an island in two touz seven while working as a freelance spy for the -- 2007 while working as a freelance spy for the cia. they say they don't know where he is. the family said on their facebook page quote we are happy for the other families but once again, bob levenson has been left behind. we are devastated. u.s. officials say the retired fbi agent was a part of the prisoner exchange though, iran has agreed to cooperate with efforts to find the 67-year-old american. >> iran has agreed to deepen our cordmation as we work to locate levenson, missing from iran for more than 8 years. even as we rejoyce in the safety of others we will never forget about bob. each and every day but especially today our hearts are with the family. >> reporter: le

levenson will be sentenced in may he could get as much is five years in prison. reaction continues to pour into president obama's final state of the union address. issue stood up for both people -- for people on both sides of the aisle, unifying the country. >> speaker . >>reporter: president obama delivered his final state of the union address them conceded his partly to blame for the political divide the shut down washington. >> one of the few regrets of my presidency the rancor and suspicion between parties has gotten worse instead of better. >>reporter: south carolina governor nikki haley praised for her republican response, echoed the point when she said r party needs to resist the siren call of the angriest voices. >> all i am saying we got a responsibility. the way we handle issues and talk about issue should be toward solution not toward division. >>reporter: president obama has one year and one week remaining in office. presidential copy -- presidential candidates jockeying to succeed and had plenty to say. >> hillary clinton tweeted her administration's

white house officials say they believe levenson is not in iran.g up the investigation into levenson's disappearan disappearance. >> reporter: fbi investigators believe that if robert levenson is still alive, he's being held in iran. that's in contrast to the comments we heard from the white house and state department officials saying that levenson is no longer believed to be in iran. he's a former fbi agent and at the time he disappeared in 2007, he was working as a cia contractor. his family have been highly critical of this deal announced this weekend in which iran released five u.s. citizens it held in prison while the u.s. release the seven iranians it held and dropped charges against others. >> just days ago, iran released five americans and tehran has promised to help with the levenson investigation. >> zarif is speaking for the first time since sanctions against his country were lifted. christiane amanpour spoke to him. >> the first senior iranian official to talk about implementation and the new day. is iran happy about this new chapter? >

family said on their pfacebook page, quote, we're phappy for the other families but ponce again, bob levenson has pbeen left behind. pwe're devastated. pu.s. officials say the retired pf.b.i. agent was not part of the risoner swap but iran has pagreed to help find the pamerican. p>> we work to locate robert plevenson, missing in iran more pthan eight years. peven as we rejoice in the safe preturn of others, we will never pforget about bob. peach and every day and pespecially today, our hearts are pwith the family. p>>reporter: the family said we ptruly hope he keeps his word. pour family needs to be whole phashtag, what about bob. plevenson hasn't been seen or pheard. pin 2011 his wife anonymously preceived a video with him in a plong beard and chains, holding a psign saying, help me. panother american, 44-year-old pbusinessman was also not preleased in the prisoner pexchange. pu.s. officials say they plan to pcontinue working with iran to psecure both his and levenson's prelease. proughing it and then there's proughing it. p>>laura: there's the river prendezvous where people are reserving th

sandra: let's bring in bob dewise, christine levenson and his son dan. thank you for having us.people can possibly imagine what you're going through as a family. what did you make of the swap against the president and his administration announced this this weekend and that your husband would not be coming home? >> we were devastated. absolutely devastated. we had no information that this was going to happen and we found out about it on tv just like everyone else did and it was very disappointing that they had not at least given us some information that this was going to happen. sandra: you find out about the swap and five americans are coming home, but not your father. what information, what is the latest information you received from your father? >> oh, from our father, we've never had direct contact with him in the almost nine years since he was abducted. we received a strange video and pictures back in 2010, late 2010 and then six month later in 2011, but the u.s. government has not gotten back to us since the swap date. we had one quick phone call where they apologized for n

. >> american bob levenson disappeared in 2007. iran says they don't know where he is and have made offers to help find him. three of the freed americans have spent the night in this u.s. base in germany. we were told the plan was to first take them to the hospital for medical and psychological finally head back to the united states. and their families. back to you. >> we would like to invite you to watch a your voice, your future discussion on guns in america. this will broadcast live on my lvtv on tuesday at 4:00 p.m. we'll also stream it live on news3lv.com. will be a round table discussion on the epidemic of gun violence in our country, the support for the second amendment and president obama's efforts to tighten gun control. well, it is now mid-january, and that means the peak of flu season is on the way. the flu historically peaks in february. last week, nive, though ranked first among states and las vegas was second nationally among metro areas for flu activity. current getting a flu shot remains the best way to protect your

officials tell abc news levenson was part of the negotiations and they still do not know why he was notncluded in the swap. but the door is now open, talks with the iranian government about him. >> in the meantime neighboring iraq, security forces have been searching the baghdad neighborhood where three americans were kidnapped over the weekend. the troops have closed streets and conducted house-to-house searches, u.s. officials have not said what they were doing in that country at the time. >>> back here on the home front and to politics the race for the white house, donald trump and ted cruz really beginning to mix it up doing some schoolyard name calling. trump says cruz is nasty and unlikable and then prove cruz -- cruz took off the gloves and called trump a liberal. >> hours after taking aim at senator ted cruz, he quoted scripture at the liberty university. >> two corinthians, right, 3:17, where the spirit of the lord -- right -- where the spirit of the lord is -- there is liberty. >> reporter: on this week leveling this attack on cruz. >> he's a nast dwri guy, nobody likes him, n

each and every day but e specially today our hearts are with his family. 72 it is not clear if levenson is still alive. in 2011 his wife received video with this picture of him with a long beard in chains wearing a jumpsuit holding a sign saying "help me". >>> hayward police are looking for suspects in the shooting of a man in his car at noon today. now, this happened on harris the police say the victim is a 30-year-old man and injured and hospitalized but we have not heard back from the police yet on how badly he was hurt e. community activists gave the police chief a wake up call this morning to protest deadly police shootings. >> rise up ... >> four dozen members for asians gathered outside of the home. this is video. protesters is set up a breakfast table and invited the mayor to join them. but the police kept protesters away from lee's front door. they gathered earlier and lined the street with fake dead bodies. they are call are -- they are calling for justice for 3 killings. >>> a man threatened grocery store workers with a knife. when he was confronted by store officials while s

not included in 9 prisoner swap was former fbi agent robert levenson, the 67-year-old disappeared in iran in 2007. jonathan karl, abc news, washington. >> but as those americans are now out of iran, three others have gone missing, this time in iraq. u.s. officials say that the three are civilian contractors not part of the military. the ap reports that they were kidnapped from their interpreter's home in baghdad taken to another neighborhood where all communications cut off. so far no group has claimed responsibility. >>> in hawaii conditions are expected to impve today in the waters where teams are looking for 12 missing marin and two helicopters, crews have been fighting waves as highs 30 feet. but still working around the clock. the two helicopters crashed during night exercises on thursday, the marine corps has now identified t missing who range in age fm 21 to 41 and >>> two residents from florida are dead after a pair of diddley tornadoes,oth came within minutes of each other in the middle of the night. the first picked up the uple's mobile home andmashed it. their son and gran

ajent bob levenson who was not released is no longer on. >> a professor at kent state university in ohio is under fbi investigation for alleged tied to isis. he's reported under investigation for a year in a half. he's not been charge ds with any crime and continues to teach. >> everything that i've done is perfectly legal. i've fulfilled my duty as an american citizen by speaking out. >> the 55-year-old is a cuban native and con vert to islam. he made headlines in 2011 avenue shouting death to israel at a public lecturer. he blamed his rhetoric for possibly sparking the investigation. >> anger over the water crisis in michigan is showing no signs of easing. the governor is promising to release e-mails today. abc news reporter has more. >> i'm sorry most of all that i let you down. you deserve better. >> michigan governor snyder is apologizing to the residents of flint. but, of course, not everyone is accepting. these protesters outside the state capitol are demanding him to step down. >> they were sigh lentd. they were staring at a public health emergency and they sat on it. >> there's

(sot:)(professor laurie levenson/loyola law school)(:38 from start) "it's not at all clear that sean penn actually violated any american laws by this interview. it may not have been particularly ethical, but it wasn't neccsarily illegal." penn told associattd press he "has nothing to hide" today, sergeant bowe berghdal will appear in court in fort bragg, north carolina. berghdahl faces charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy following his disappearance from his base in afghanistan in june 2009. he was captured by the taliban and was held captive for nearly five years. he was released in may 2014 as part of a prisoner swap in exchange for several detainees from guantanamo bay. sergeant bergdahl did not enter a plea when he was arraigned in december 2015. a student at sioux city's north middle school arrived on campus yesterday with a handgun. sioux city community schools superintenden t, dr. paul gausman, says the district received the information that a student might bring a weapon to campus before the day began. once the student got to school, they were able to search,

pbut there is still the question pabout robert levenson the former pf.b.i. agent who has missing in piran since 2007. phe was part of the discussions pregarding the exchange. pand according to president iran phas said they will actively help pto find this man. p>> well it's the last battle on pstate before voting begins. phillary clinton aligned herself pmore with president obama. pand status quo. pshe also went after rival bernie psanders. psaying he is flip flopped his osition on universal healthcare pand gun control. pand it will be an interesting ptwo weeks. psanders gaining on clinton and pnational polls in iowathat. pcaucus just two weeks from ptoday. pit could pose problems for pclinton if she does the no win. pwe will have fox 13 political peditor craig patrick coming pcoming up a 9:30 to talk about pwhat that would mean if sanders pdoes in fact get upset. p9:0 eight. pdevelop emergency to story out pof ohio. pa danville police officer has pshot ask killed. pdetails still unfolding what pauthorities are saying the pofficer was reported missing pwhile

we're going to continue our cooperation to ensure that we find out the date of robert levenson and get him home to his family as well. so there's more work to be done, but it was a good day for america, a good day for these families and a good day for diplomacy. >> i wanted to ask about robert levenson. we'll get to that. . if you can, as much as you can, take me behind the scenes. you were at the table for so many months. how did the deal get done? and when did the iranians come back and say, no, we'll only do this deal if you release iranian prisoners, which were initial demands long ago rebuffed by the u.s. >> i'm not beginnigoing to go i specific tick tok, but what i can say about the process is on the margins of every nuclear negotiation, i would have a meeting just myself and one of my colleagues with two iranian officials. we talked about this for quite some time. it came up through that process that perhaps an exchange was the way to go as has been reported. the swiss were very instrumental in all of this. they are protecting power in tehran since we don't have an embassy. so t

pbut there's at least one pamerican still missing in iran probert levenson. pyesterday problem programed his pfamily he would not be pforgotten. pat the white house kristin pfisher, fox news. p>>> an hoe police officer is pshot and killed in line of duty. pcolumbus. pofficer was reported missing pabout midnight last night during pblood stained hat. pand then later his body. ptwo people were arrested in pmurder. pinvestigation. pin hawaii for a dozen missing pmarines. phigh surf hampering rescue pefforts and spreading out pdebris. pmarine disappeared late thursday pa. two helicopters went down. pboth choppers were carrying six pmarines. pit's not immediately clear was pcaused helicopters to crash. pu.s. coast guard rescue two psailors off cost of washington pstate. ptwo people have been travel at psea for ten days. pthey were unable to get out of ort because unsafe sea pconditions and mccall problems. pcoast guard hoisted them um from ptheir sailboat in end no one was phurt. p>>> enough to make your skin pcrawl. pcell phone video showing a pcockroach crawling

situation, pbut, it important for people to punderstand that the padministration has been in touch pwith levenson family. p>> this comes a u.s. officials psay that none the iranian preleased during the swap pactually went back to iran. pthey say that a plane left for pswitzerland with empty seats pfrom somewhere on the east pcoast. pthat that plane left anyway as pit was a flight schedule to take pthe american prisoners back to pgermany. p>> now to developments on the pthree americans kidnapped in pbaghdad. pgovernment officials believe the pgroup is being held by at piranian backed shiite militia. pabducted from interpreter's home pon saturday. pu.s. officials say the woman and ptwo men are iraqis with american pcitizenship while working at the pembassy. psecretary of state john kerry pcontact have constant contact. pabducted in iraq in five years. pcloser to home the coast guard pjust announced it called off a pmassive search for 12 marines pwho have been missing since last psearch started late thursday pnight after two marine phelicopter crashed mid mid air poff north coast of oahu. pcoast gua

the reaction is if this is what they're doing to him, what is done to robert levenson captured five yearsntelligence community and i came away from that interview and said to myself that poor guy, robert levenson is never coming home. stuart: maybe i am stretching a point but it seems to me america has been humiliated. we signed a deal with iran on news and since then has been one humiliation after another. one slight after another and yet this deal is pretty much a done deal. there is no way out of it, is there. stuart: the iranian president is making huge business deals in italy, worth billions of dollars and that just issue is backed there will never be significant fresher impose on the iranians again equal to what the sanctions were. the iranian regime has no more incentive to change. the believe that somehow by empowering moderates like the president and foreign minister you can change the behavior of the torturers, the revolutionary guards is ridiculous because now all that pressure is gone. there is no more incentive for change. stuart: i returned to my original question. morale wi

there's also robert levenson who's been in custody since as far back as '07 or so. we do not believe he is of dual citizenship so he is perhaps not included in this operation if, in fact, it is going on. that's one big question a lot of people would have. if these prisoners are on their way, this nuclear deal about to happen, it's a very, very delicate time. obviously, there's been a lot of criticism of the obama administration for signing this deal without getting the release of these prisoners. first time the deal at all for that matter, as you well know. for the next however long, it's a delicate time while all these places move into place. if in fact it is all true and it's all happening, it is a huge day, a significant day, not just for the american prisoners and their family bus certa, but cer the obama administration as well. >> thank you ron allen at the white house. >>> i want to now bring in cal perry, msnbc's senior editor of video and digital content. good morning, cal. talk to me a little bit about what we're hearing. obviously, we don't yet have confir

. >> but you know what is interesting, colonel, is that levenson former hib guy who is alleged to be a cia operative on an unapproved mission they said they're going to look for him. this guy has been missing since 2007. why do you think he wasn't included? and why do they get so many more than we do? all the time? >> well you mentioned it before the bergdahl trade, five for one, are you kidding me? this is leverage judge. i'll bet money, i would bet a month's pay that the iranians know exactly where levinsohn. this is going to be something they continue to hold over our heads for leverage because they see that we will not stand up for anything. and that is but one more thing to keep kind of over on the side ready to bring out and leverage if they need to do something that we're not doing for them. >> let's talk about the optics of what happened. >> sure. >> with those sailor. >> sure. >> and those two vessels. >> yeah. >> you've got them on their knees. >> right. >> with guns to their heads. their hands behind their heads. not unlike the positions that you know, a lot of people were

agent, robert, levenson and disappeared in 2007. >> liz: werl learning that an american was killed at that terrorist attack in that hotel in west africa. we told you about it on good morning cincinnati saturday, they stormed a hotel and a cafe and it happened on friday and killed, 28 people. now the mother-in-law of michael ridering who was 45 said that he died during that attack he was an missionary in the area and leaves behind a wife and four children. >>> a united nation's panel is saying that the world is in the midst of a humanitarian crisis and that $40 million is needed to help a growing, number of people in need of aid as a disasters, the full report is due to be released today when the u.s., secretary, general speaks in dubai and the un estimates that he have a $15 billion shortfall in the monthny needed in the past year. >> adam: democratic candidates are going to face off in south carolina, hillary clinton along with bernie sanders and omaly attended the dinner, and being the first state to vote after iowa and new hampshire. donald trump, and ted cruz have been taking jabs

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says as part of the agreement iran has promised to seek information about levenson's whereabouts. cnn, washington. >>> so it does the release of the prisoners mean relations will continue to improve between the u.s. and iran? analyst michael of the hudson institute does not think so. he says hard liners in iran still hold sway. >> i still believe all decisions are still being made by the supreme leader and the supreme leader and his revolutionary guard are not big fans of this iran deal. i hope that the moderates actually win. but when you look at what happened just yesterday with 99% of reformist candidates disqualified from running in february's election, you have to look at things like that, too. those are tangible things happening on the ground in iran that we have to pay attention to. >> michael pregent there with the hudson institute. we'll hear more from michael next hour. will the families of four former captives being reunited with them another american remains unaccounted for in iran and robert levinsolevinson's loved continue to wait. >> span two presidential administra

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but it does not include robert levenson who case peered during a 2007 visit to iran. his nate fate sun known. not every up with is happy about the implementation of the iran nuclear deal es sperly israel. the prime minister hassan riew what knee says iran has not given up it's nuclear goavmentz he is urging world leaders to monitor iran closely and vows to do everything necessary to protect it securit and defend it itself. >> back here at home, a viole wrong way wreck on i-75 in davie with we brought this store you to you as breaking news in yesterday's morning show. quait investigators say 24 yeerld was heading south in the the northbound lanes whether he dplieshed blue honda. three others taken to the hospital. one listed in critical condition. it sun clear why ruiz was going the wrong way. but at the time. crash there ways heavy fog advisory and visibility was poor. >> investigators are still looking moo it. >> todd: developing right now, the search on to find the driver who struck a motorcyclist and then just took off. that rider was seriously hurt and rushed to t

half years tells nbc news saeed has yet to see his family, another markings former fbi agent bob levenson is still missing in iran, iran consistently denying knowledge of his disappearance and has offered to help in the search for him, but his family criticizing a deal they say didn't include him. >> i was shocked. i was disappointed. i was extremely angry, and i felt betrayed. >> he's given his life to this country for decades. done over 30 years of work for the u.s. government and he's been abandoned and he's a soldier that was left behind. >> reporter: at one point the iranians even tried to present -- prevent jason rezaian's wife and mother from flying out of the country with he and amir hekmati are undergoing more medical evaluation and one representative tells me that they both, both spiritually and physically, matt and savannah, are doing great. >> all right. keir simmons in germany on that store we good news. keir, thank you very much. >>> the mayor of flint, michigan is heading to washington, d.c. today looking for help dealing with her city's water crisis. mayor karen weaver is

former fbi agent bob levenson is missing, promising to help find him a statement from his family says we are devastated. a mystery surrounds a fifth american who was freed but chose not to leave iran. we don't know why. perhaps he didn't want the attention because, tamron, we're told that the others were waiting at the airport for a they can leave here while they undergo psychological tamron. >> keir simmons thanks so much, let's get more on this from rich engel in tehran. time >> reporter: well, this is an tehran. and optimism. deal. they think they got the better half of the deal, and they are looking forward to a better economy. the sanctions that had been put in place now lifted devastated the iranian economy and put a stranglehold on the economy. it is a illegal for iranian people and businesses to move money in and out of the country. now banks can do that. oil. now iran can, although oil clearly is not worth what it used to be, and tens of billions of dollars have been unfrozen. that money hasn't hit the economy he had, but it could we were just in the bazaar area, right in the