mary anne? >> that can't happen. that can't happen and it's clear that the the president's going to do everything he can and he's made that clear last week. he's not going to put up with the last minute drama again. not going to put up with the last minute brinksmanship. >> jamie: how does he do that? >> well, i think the republicans have to understand if they don't get this job done with the president, if they shut down the government, if the country on the bills they've incurred, then they're going to lose the next election, that's what happened in the '90s. that helped-- when they shut down the government and reelected bill clinton-- >> and address republicans you're saying that can happen mary anne, and tell them what the president will do to bring consensus in order for that not to occur. >> republicans have to allow the debt ceiling to go up to pay the bills they've already done and what they're threatening is going into restaurants eating a meal and running out on the bill. you can't do that and can't shut dow

a picture of laura and mary ann. and laura's son. and she told me -- she asked me if i knew what had happened. she said she died in a fire in her house. i was just devastated. >> reporter: 60-year-old mary ann guarder were a student. >> they came to our wedding and they came to every different get together we have. >> reporter: at this point, there's still no explanation as to why this falls church house erupted into a ball of flame. investigators have yet to say whether an explosion of any kind caused this. meanwhile, their friends are left with heavy hearts mourning the loss of a mother and daughter who were considered to be like family to them. >> they should be remembered as people who cared about other people. they were beautiful from the inside out. laura was an amazing professor, an amazing mentor. she supported everyone. and really would help every student as they needed it. >> reporter: as it turns out, both mother and daughter were huge animal lovers. unfortunately, both of their dogs and 8 cats also died in the fire. we're

mary ann, something you want to say. >> yeah., i think the most important thing you can do is be aware during the game, watch how the coach coaches, make sure there's a trainer or a physician or physical therapist available who can -- who can judge. but as a parent, you have to get educated on what affects your child. and you have to know when their personality changes, when they're sleeping or they can't deal with things due to hits they may have taken. >> ta-nehisi, the look in your eyes is sort of horrified. >> i'm sorry. >> no, no, it's good. one of the things here is we're talking about how to manage risks. as you talk about them, they become more and more macabe, grotesque -- >> how about not play? how about not play and watch. this is not like a big moral thing for me. you can look at my clothes, look at the products i have and see that they were designed in sweat shops. i'm not try to put myself up as morally clean but this notion that football is so essential to our lives, that we must find some way to negotiate the inju

i'm anne-marie green. we begin this morning with the battle over immigration reform. overnight a bipartisan group of senators reached a deal on legislation, that, if enacted, would rewrite the immigration laws in this country. they plan to officially announce their agreement later today. susan mcginnis is in washington. susan, good morning. >> good morning. after a failure at immigration in 2010, washington is gearing up again, but there is evidence, including the growing hispanic vote that the political mood has changed here in washington, and many on both sides say now is the time for immigration reform. congress will again take up immigration reform. this time there's bipartisan support to get a deal done. >> i'm department, guardlely optimistic that this time we can get it done. >> the deal include tougher border enforcement to apiece republicans and a path way to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants now living in the united states. >> first of all americans support it in poll after poll. secondly

gallaudet university as those here remembered laura snyder gardner and her daughter, 16-year-old mary ann. the love expressed through words. hundreds showed up to celebrate their lives, many wearing their favorite colors, pink and yellow. >> seeing this pink and yellow is just amazing. i don't think i'll ever be able to look at pink and yellow without looking at these two -- thinking of these two women, both were deaf and part of the gallaudet university community. 48-year-old laura taught there, and her daughter tended the model second try school for the deaf. as family and friends spoke at this memorial service, it became clear both were known for their love of laughter. >> she loved to say that laughter was the best medicine. >> reporter: the evidence in pictures and videos, as well as the personal stories shared by those who knew them best. laura's son told this story about how his mother taught him to do laundry. >> i look all my underwear and socks are pink. i said mom what happened to my upped wear? i said -- to my underwear? they are all pink. i washed them with the red stuff. it

i'm anne-marie green. have a great day.ac -- www.vitac.com >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald >>> good morning, it's wednesday, january 30 here in the bay area. i'm frank mallicoat. >> i'm michelle griego live in new orleans. we're on bourbon street the famous street to celebrate mardi gras and, of course, looking forward to super bowl 47. we had to move locations. we're on the balcony right now of the royal sonesta hotel located in the heart of historic french quarter. we moved because of the weather. it's windy now. earlier we have been in jackson square the last few days but they are forecasting rain in the area and the wind is really starting to pick up. kind of feels like the bay area, lawrence. >> i have to tell you, you have an impressive cold front headed your way. get prepared, during the show we'll see heavy rain and lightning, aren't you lucky? so you can see the cold front sliding in across the big easy and well it looks like that rain is going to be picking up as we head throughout the morning ho

i'm anne-marie green.- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald >>> good morning, everyone. it is thursday, it's the last day of january. good to have you with us, i'm frank mallicoat here in the bay area. >> and i'm michelle griego live in new orleans counting down to super bowl xlvii. >> michelle, last time we chatted with you, it was raining to beat the band. and i talked to some friends in the big easy last night and i understand it's the big freezey. it's cold there, right? >> i like that, frank. the big freezey, that's exactly what my hands are doing right now, freezing. there is this chill in the air. but take a look at how it looked yesterday on bourbon street. that rain was just coming down early yesterday morning along with a little thunder, a little lightning, some pretty dark clouds hit our area. it lasted for hours. it was causing a little damage. it made covering the super bowl happenings a challenge for us and other media in new orleans. heavy rain

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good morning, susan. >> good morning, anne-marie. this could be quite a rumble here on capitol hill. you have wayne lapierre head of the nra, gabby gifford's husband strong advocate and some of the strongest senators we've got all talking about one of the most devicive issues we face. emotions cou run high today when the husband of former congresswoman gabriel le giffords joins wayne lapierre. patrick lay hee called the hearing in response to the newton shooting where 20 children and six adults were killed. but lapierre doesn't believe the shooting should lead to new gun control laws. he plans to tell the committee law and gun owners will not september the senator dianne feinstein gets her turn to question lapierre at today's hearing. feinstein has been an outspoken critic of the nra. tuesday she told reporters they have fought virtually every kind of regulatioregulation. the time has come to changed course and make people safe. lapierre says the government shouldn't pass any new laws until the government start ts enforcing the laws

she was a math professor and mary ann attended the school.he two died january 23rd when their home in falls church caught fire, engulfed in flames in seconds in the early morning hours. >>> police are investigating two robbery related incidents near the university of maryland. the first one happened outside the shanghai cafe. minor injuries to a suspect when three suspects punched him and took his wallet and cell phone. there was also a robbery tavarasty, a man tried to rob a student of a laptop there the two bought and the suspect took off. >>> i am watching your money. here's something you may have missed. it now caused 1 cent more to mail his letter. the price increased. post cards cost you 33 cents. >>> the federal reserve begins a two day meeting tomorrow. at the feds's previous meeting policy make ires promised to keep interest rates near record lows. last month the unemployment rate was 7.8%. friday the labor department will release jobless figures for january. >>> the irs will begin accepting 2012 tax returns. that begins wednesday, e

susan, good morning. >> anne-marie, good morning. the ban would be tougher than the assaults weapons ban that expired in 2004. it would ban 157 different military-style filearms, so with such a tight fight again they believe public support will help them win public support measures. vice president biden is heading to virginia to try to gain public support for president obama's gun support proposals. >> it's not about keeping bad guns out of good people but keeping bad guns from bad people. >> they joined a group of democrat it lawmakers. dianne feinstein introduced her own bill. >> military-style assault weapons have but one purpose and in my view that's a military purpose. >> the lawmakers say the shooting at sandy hook elementary school show that assault weapons need to be banned. >> a number of the police who came to newtown said to me we could not have stopped that shooter. even with the body armor we were wearing with that kind of assault weapon. >> but vice president bind downplayed the need for an assaults weapons ban thursday

anne-marie?san mcginnis in washington, thank you very much. >>> the president has also addressed the struggle for equality in this country and broke some new ground. major garrett has that part of the story. >> reporter: for the first time in the nation's 57 inaugural celebrations, the push for gay rights was equated with earlier struggles for women's rights and civil rights. >> our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law. [ applause ] >> for if we are truly created equal, surely the love we commit to one another must be equal, as well. >> reporter: the president elevated manmade climate change higher than at any time since winning re-election, resurrecting an issue he's barely touched in more than two years. >> some may deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms. >> reporter: with 11 million illegal immigrants in america, mr. obama

let's check the starts with mary anne bartels at bank of america merrill lynch. happy new year to you. >> thank you for having me in today. >> tell you what you see. >> right now, the s&p is approaching the 1500 area. we are starting to get into the 2008 and 2009 range. we were bullish looking for a year-end rally, which worked out really well. we still think january can rally a little bit now. we're concerned about the month of february. and as we move into the month of february, we're concerned you can get a 10%, 15% correction. >> what would make you think that correction is actually coming? >> well, one of the things that we're monitoring is the vix. and that still remains really low. it tried to move higher, it's back down into the 14 range. so, we think the vix is signaling somewhere in 2013 we're going to see volatility. we've actually even stated the vix could go up to 40. we also have at our firm global financial stress index which is the lowest weevil seen since 2007. in addition, it's the fourth year, and typically in the four-year cycle, we generally

anne-marie? >> susan, thank you. >>> this morning the senate foreign relations committee is expected to confirm john kerry's nomination to be the next secretary of state. kerry, the current chairman of the committee, sailed through his confirmation hearing last week. the full senate could vote by the end of the day. >>> a $50.5 billion relief bill for the vict uperstorm sandy is on its way to president obama's desk. the senate approved the aid bill yesterday, two weeks after the house. we have this report. >>> the bill is passed. >> reporter: the senate approved the superstorm sandy aid bill by a vote of 62-36. three months after the storm devastated the northeast coast, congress passed the $50.5 billion emergency relief package. >> the bill we passed today is almost everything we wanted in the senate bill. >> reporter: all 36 votes against the measure were from republicans, many of whom opposed adding billions more to the national debt. >> if we don't apply at least some discipline to how we eva

i'm anne-marie green. well, folks in the southeast are assessing the damage this morning after dangerous tornado producing storm system demolished homes and killed at least two people. the giant twister tore through the town in georgia about 60 miles northwest of atlanta. one man was killed when a tree crashed through his mobile home. the storm tossed trucks around the interstate like match sticks. >> i cracked the door and it didn't give me time. when it got inside it tossed me into the bedroom and i went in the bathroom. it seemed like it would never be over. >> the system spawned least seven tornadoes through the southeast yesterday. damage was reported from georgia to virginia. another man was killed in tennessee. meteorologist david bernard of our miami station wfor is following the severe weather system. >> it's been a rough 48 hours for the eastern two-thirds of the country. income, we can take a look at the map that shows ought of the storm reports since tuesday. those blue areas, over 500 reports

>> in a candid one on one interview with oprah winfrey, the former champion bares it all actual mary ann rafferty has the story. >> i made my decisions. they are my mistake and i am sitting here today to acknowledge that and to say i'm sorry for that. >> reporter: ending years of accusations and speculation, lance armstrong has come clean. >> yes or no, did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance? >> yes. >> reporter: the admission comes after more than a decade of denials. time and time again, he rebuffed claims that he used performance enhancing drugs to catapult him to the top of his start. >> : i'm sorry you can't dream big. >> reporter: armstrong now admits that feat wouldn't be possible without drugs. >> yes or no. in all seven of your tour de france victories did you ever take banned substance ors blood dope? >> yes. >> in your opinion was it humanly possible to win the tour de france without doping seven times in a row? >> not in my opinion. >> reporter: armstrong was stripped of all his titles and banned for life from competing and the international o

i think about two and a half months ago and anne marie and brian and we were in my office talking about what we could do and what we could do to help and it went from that to this because of anne marie conroy so i want to give a big round of applause to anne marie. as everybody in the room knows she's a force of nature and that's all i have to say and to futures without violence and for this beautiful facility. we got support from the school district and various people and terrific from the mayor's office and of course the mayor and the bully project. we couldn't be more grateful. from the san francisco police department from greg sir to denise flair erty and cheryl jennings and the girl friday and kept us moving all day and to the communications that we got the word out through the media and laura who kept us moving today and financial support. if you read about the justice department in the paper you know we can't pay for anything. when people come to my office quite literally i can't give them coffee. people think the government is high flying and i am here to tell you it's not true.

first let's go to our new york news room where mary anne rafferty is standing by with the headlines.ilot arrested just before takeoff after failing a breathalyzer test. before he boarded his american eagle plan at minneapolis-st. pa paul. the flight bound for laguardia airport took off with a replacement pilot. and two months after superstorm sandy hit the northeast, new helps for the victims. nearly 10 billion dollars for the flood damage claims and without it the it would have run out of money next week. calling the funds a good start. congress will have to vote on another 51 billion dollar aid package later this month. i'm mary anne rafferty, now, back to "on the record." . >> greta: a very strange plea deal raising eyebrows in florida. a judge ordering a neglectful mother to stop having children. she was convicted of child abuse, left her kids in the hotel room while she went out partying and the judge banning the woman from having any children during her 13 years of probation, can the judge do that? and how is that going to get enforced. joining us our legal panel, michael cardo

laura snyder-gardner and her teenage daughter mary ann died in a house fire last week in falls church. both were hearing impaired. she taught math and helped coach the girl's soccer team. the family is asking for people to make donations to a scholarship fund in lieu of flowers. you can find out more information on our website, nbcwashington.com. search gallaudet. >>> bipartisan agreement today about immigration reform. leaders of both parties saying they're optimistic about overhauling the system this year. president obama is scheduled to unveil his immigration plan on tuesday in nevada. former vice presidential candidate and wisconsin congressman paul ryan says lawmakers will be watching. on "meet the press" today ryan said he's cautiously optimistic about passing immigration reform this year. >> i think there's a balance between respecting the rule of law and adhering to the reality of the day, and i think marco rubio probably touched on it. i support and agree with the principles he laid out about earned legalization. >> he also talked about budget and deficit issue this is mornin

. >> i'm going to figure it out -- >> reporter: king and his wife mary ann intend to spend time in washington, getting to know the other senators. >> the pattern is, the senate meets three days a week, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, everybody goes home. and so the relationships don't develop. >> reporter: when he left the governor's office, king took his family on a year-long trip around america. and what he learned is that from coast to coast, the country has common concerns. red state and blue state. >> we got the feeling that everybody is dealing with those problems, and that we ought to be able to find some common solutions. >> reporter: one of king's political heroes is joshua chamberlain, four-term governor of maine, and a hero for the north at gettysburg. >> chamberlain, i think is the greatest citizen maine ever produced. >> reporter: chamberlain's accomplishments remind him about what others have done against far greater odds. but he has no illusions about what he's up against now. >> i'm not arrogant enough that mitch mcconnell is going to say here's how we're going to do this, but i

i'm anne-marie green. today defense secretary leon panetta will make a historic change for the united states military. the pentagon will lift the ban on women. more than a quarter of a million, 280,000 women, have served in iraq, afghanistan, or neighboring countries in support of those two wars. susan mcginnis is in washington with more. good morning, susan. >> good morning, anne-marie. today's announcement overturns a 1994 ban on women serving in battlefront operations and it opens up about 230,000 military jobs that until now were closed to women. the new pentagon policy makes women eligible to serve in army and marine infantry units. there's also the potential for them to be part of an elite operations team like the navy s.e.a.l.s and other forces. >> working side by side with special forces teams with pretty cool. >> but in order to join women must be able to withstand the rigid strength requirements with those units. >> there are jobs women can't do physically because they don't have the physical str

anne-marie's basic point is exactly right. they're going to be gone and the real question is going to be how messy is the aftermath? >> how messy? you have done some work on the incredibly fractured nature of syria. >> right. how messy both within syria, because it's very unlikely there will be an effective government to replace assad's regime as they withdraw and also the enormous impact of refugees streaming across the border. over 500,000 already in jordan and turkey and iraq and north africa, as well as jihadists sa laughists causing violence in places like jordan and iraq. so, it's not only messy in terms of a continuing bleeding human rights problem on the ground in syria, irrespective if assad is still there at the end of 2013 or not, but also because we're going to see more sectarian violence metastasizing because of the outcomes from the syrian war. >> i think ian is absolutely right. if you look at the number of refugees, they are already starting to destabilize jordan, just in terms of inability to cope. in turkey,

her daughter mary anne was a high school student on the gallaudet campus. both were hearing impaired. two dogs and eight cats also died in the blaze. still no word if the home was equipped with fire alarms for the hearing impaired. >>> they say a plan to close 15 public schools in d.c. this year is unfair. so some attorneys and school activists are suing the d.c. government. they say it disproportion natalie affects black students. the group rallied yesterday outside city hall. donald temple is one of the attorneys involved in this lawsuit. >> the leaders of the city who occupy this building should take steps to ensure that there is equality, fairness, and accountability in the decision- making process. >> the d.c. school chancellor says she wants to close the 15 schools because they're basically half empty. many of the schools are in anacostia where the enrollment is going down in the public schools and growing in the charter schools. the group suing the city says many of the parents are choosing these charter schools because the district is not putting en

. >> as mary ann rafferty explains, two battery-related incidents led to the plane's grounding last weeklators around the world. >> reporter: the national transportation safety board stepping in to investigate boeing's dreamliner battery nightmare. ntsb chairwoman deborah herstman highlighting the gravity of the problem. >> the expectation in aviation is to never experience a fire on board an aircraft. >> reporter: but that is exactly what happened last week when an overheated battery forceed a 787 dreamliner to make an emergency landing in japan. just one week earlier, another fire on a dreamliner in boston. while the ntsb isn't sure yet if it is the cause, they are point tying chemical reaction which overheats the battery. >> there are multiple systems to protect against a battery event like this. those systems did not work as intended. we need to understand why. >> reporter: boeing said it welcomed progress in the investigation and continues to work with investigators both in the u.s. and japan. transportation secretary ray lahood says there is a lot to do before the plane can be retu

. >> it includes a ban on assault weapons and expanded background checks for gun mary ann rafferty hashe late. >> reporter: president obama and vice president joe biden laid out their proposal for new gun control legislation earlier this month. it includes a ban on assault weapons. gun rights advocates suggest the move infringes on our second amendment rights. others suggest assault weapons are only intended to cause harm. >> do you need assault weapons? these are weapons made to chill large numbers of people in close combat. >> reporter: the pros president's proposal calls for an enhanced background check for gun purchases. >> the guy who killed people tragically in newtown was using his mother's guns. so the background check wouldn't have done any good. >> reporter: some lawmakers say a more in-depth look at mental health issues would help curb the violence. >> we need to be looking at mental health and the root causes, some of these psychotropic drugs and not let this be about the weapon. an assault ban is not the answer to helping keep people safe. >> reporter: colorado democrats a

i have a great panel richard haass, ann-marie slaughter and lionel barber. will israel bomb iran and will the euro zone finally break apart? >>> then the fiscal cliff. the view from across the pond. how did our political process look from a perch overseas and what will it all mean for the u.s. economy and the global economy? >>> also, will this be india's awakening? the nation confronts its own dark corners after a despicable deadly act. i'll look at some parallels with america's recent tragic school shooting. >>> first, here's my take. the deal to avoid the fiscal cliff is a small victory for sanity, but what it says about the future is somewhat bleak. washington will probably lurch from crisis to crisis kicking problems forward and placing band aids small solutions on those it does address. there will likely be no large-scale initiative on entitlement reform, energy policy, probably even immigration reform and this is the real worry. because beyond the self-inflicted crisis of the cliff and the forthcoming debt ceiling, the united states faces a much deepe

and democratic strategist mary ann marsh. good to have you with us. let's begin.about the republicans already threatening to shut down of the government. >> good. shutting down. if you want to get some savings, as the only way we will do it. the only thing, it's a case where this there were only shutting essential services. aren't you supposed have all the sential services? whenever does not shut down, get rid of it. lou: you have to have a rejoinder to that. >> if you want to lose the next election shut down the government because that's exactly what will happen. lo the republicans have been at think there well-prepared. >> the shutdown with clinton when he got elected. >> but the republicans lost when they shut down the government. if you want to make sure that if the democrats of the white house, the senate and congress, shut down the government because after last week in the fiscal of negotiations with a median age a look good, you shut down the government, you all but guarantee republicans will lose a majority in coress which is fine by me. >> republicans shu

anne marie served in the administration.ma administration, relations with israel have been very tough. they may have reached a bottom and mare they're on an uprise, but once again, i think this comes down to president obama's policy. remember, she's the secretary of state. she implements the president's agenda, and i think a lot of the problems out there, i think, were president obama's vision. i think i may be wrong here, but i think secretary clinton would have done things a little different on some of these situations such as iran. in fact, i think she's more to the right on iran than president obama is. >> interesting point of view. this has been very much how he sees things, anne marie. a question, though, for you, about her popularity. that to me is what seems to be the most amazing thing. how has she achieved that to be so popular? i ask you that because you know her and you worked for her. early on in her campaign, people saw her at shrill and over the top, and now she's the beloved lady. >> i think that people see w

we go to mary ann rafferty with an up close look of this nasty weather. >> a stonowstorm expected tothe midwest and east coast today as many across the country are dealing with a bitter cold snap. in mid town manhattan bryant park many people wearing layer upon layer to try to combat the cold while walking the streets. take a look at what happens when this wet t hit is left out in the cold in duluth money minute 18 degrees below zero taking only 4 minutes to make this shirt rock hard. >> making it all the more difficult for firefighters to battle a massive 3 amrarm blaze. icy roads leading to dangerous driving conditions in west virginia. this truck flipping over after hitting a patch of black ice. the people inside luckily weren't hurt. in condition ken it's hands on deck preparing for potential snowfall to bring down trees and cause widespread power outages. >> we are expecting the worst. we always do doesn't matter if it is part of the forecast or the whole one. >> temperatures are expected to rise modest lee but the rise is expected to be met with snow. >> very modestly. >> extre