>> right to work is, of course, new in michigan. we're the 24th right to work state. they announced after the law passed they would do everything to fight it including not accepting any applications to resign from the union that were, quote too early or any that came too late. >> the application was sent in too early. you can't make this up. >> that's what they said. yes. that was from steve cooke, the m.e.a. president. >> what's the next step? >> we have it before a labor board in the state of michigan. we are trying to fight it out on behalf of miriam and others like her including ray arthur, a 34 year teaching veteran in petoskey, michigan. he thought after 34 years of giving union dues he should be given the right information at the right time. instead you have a union choosing power over principle, must be money over members. >> they go to the ends of the earth for the convicted child molester. here you are young teacher doing your job. have you been bullied by anybody? have people mistreated you because of your public position on this? >> i have had several e-ma

in the area mopping up. today, the meeting starts at 10:30 at the big sur station. >> it could take until the weekend to get power restored from michigan to northern new england with 500,000 spending christmas in the dark while crews tried to get the lights back on. our reporter has this story. >> from michigan to northern new england, thousands of storm survivors are waiting for power to be restored and the christmas lights to come on. tom has not had electricity since monday and he had to pack up and leave home in maine. >> it has been challenging. >> this is the worst time of year to have something like this happen but it happened and it is not a lot you can do to keep mother nature from doing this sort of thing. >> the deadlyic storm hit the great lakes region putting hundreds of thousands of people in the dark in toronto in the height of holiday season before hitting new england. shelters in michigan have been busy providing food, warmth and comfort for those looking heat. >> struggling utility crews sent to the hardest hit area with many repair workers a long way from home and spent christmas away from families. >> lack of slope. elements are tough. >> the r

sleet and ice caused outages and treacherous driving conditions in michigan, new york and parts of new england while residents in the south cope with deadly flooding. >> reporter: wild winter weather sweeping across the u.s. making for pretty pictures. >> going to be nice to have a white christmas. >> reporter: but dangerous conditions. >> about 2:30 this morning we woke to the house shaking and discovered the tree next door fell on our house and cars. >> reporter: ice and wind storms left hundreds without power and heat this morning in michigan, new york and new england. >> we knew it was coming but it is kind of hard to prepare for something like this. >> reporter: bad weather is being blamed for a number of deaths including here in kentucky when three people died when their vehicle was swept away by flood waters. and at at least one tornado tore through parts of arkansas damaging homes and injuring several people. and wide spread delays at the nation's airports. mother nature sending the gift of winter weather and all of the problems that come with it. >>> members of an arlington ch

. >>> we're also following developing news in michigan. a judge has ruled the man accused of killing 19-year-old renish amc bride will stand trial for second-degree murder and manslaughter. over the past two days, prosecutors argued 54-year-old theodore wafers' use of deadly force was unreasonable when he fired through his screen door, hitting mcbride in the face. the judge said wafer made a, quote, bad decision when he brought his gun to the door. >> yes, this court recognizes we can't automatically penalize one for making a bad decision when pressed to react quickly. but at the same time, we can't allow one to use the bad decision as a shield to criminal prosecution. >> investigators say mcbride had been in a car accident hours before the shooting and wandered to wafer's suburban detroit home where she knocked for help. wafers' attorney claims he feared for his life and should be protected by the state's self-defense law. nbc legal analyst lisa bloom joins us now. the attorney for mr. wafer argued that the prosecution did not present eno

in cash. a new proposal in michigan would ban truant students from driving.o know what you want thing. tonya says this is a good lesson. if you are not responsible enough to attend school you are likely not responsible enough to drive. ed says it seems misguided. dave says i understand the intended lesson to be learned but it seems that should be up to the parents to teach. if they can't or won't get involved, then revoke. thanks to everyone who responded. anna kooiman right now getting ready for "fox & friends" which stars right now. >>> good morning. today is friday, the 27th of december, 2013. i'm anna kooiman in for elisabeth. president obama signs a budget with controversial costs. what it means for our veterans and the terror suspects at guantanamo bay. >> remember this government official enjoying wine at the spa on taxpayers' dime? whoever thought today good news would come out of this photo? >> really? >> yeah. >> ditching class used to be easy. >> bueller. >> here. >>

putting hundreds of thousands of people in the dark in toronto, in the height of holiday season before hitting new england. shelters in michigan have been busy, providing food, warmth and comfort for those lacking hit. and utility crews sent to the hardest-hit areas. many repair workers are a long way from home and spent christmas away from their families. >> rough. lack of sleep. the elements are tough. >> reporter: the repair work is now going into its fifth day, after one of the worst storms of its kind since the 1990s. >> much rather be at home with my family and my kids. but there's also kids out here that have no power. my kids are at home in a warm, playing playstation and x-box. these kids are just trying to stay warm. >> reporter: and the utility crews say they will stay on the job perhaps until the weekend, until the power comes back on. rob nelson, abc news, new york. >>> and more snow could soon add to the misery of those without the power. >> meteorologist jim dickey joining us this morning from the weather channel with more. jim? >> good morning, john and reena, tracking some snowfall this morning. most of it fai

from here in michigan to northern new york to new england, more than 400,000 homes are like this one. dark. no power. utility crews are working as hard as they can hoping to get the lights on by christmas. but in some places in michigan they say it won't be until saturday. in michigan today, more than a quarter million households woke up to another frigid, and dark morning. utility crews are working as fast as they can, but kim and gail avery just can't wait. >> it's too cold. and he uses a breathing machine at night. and no electricity, he can't use his machine. >> start taking this stuff. >> reporter: the averys are packing up a few presents and driving to their daughter's home. it means eight people in a tiny apartment. but at least there's heat. >> we're just thankful we had a place to go. >> reporter: today the storm took aim at the northeast, flooding near buffalo, new york. and in maine, ice-covered roads and just about everything else, from trees and bushes, to christmas lights. nationwide today, more than 5,000 flights delayed. at the detroit airport, a delta plane carrying 1

new york. >>> in michigan, police in riot gear had to be called in after hundreds of michigan state students rampaged through east lansing celebrating their team's win over rival, number two ohio state. that win puts auburn in the bcs championship game. after number -- with number one florida state. the loss ended ohio state's 24-game win streak. >>> and a smiling merrill newman is back home again in palo alto, california. the 85-year-old korean war veteran was freed by north korea after being detained there for more than a month. he arrived in san francisco saturday afternoon. the north koreans accused him of committing what they called hostile acts during the korean war. he was released after he made a public apology. >>> a memorial later today to honor actor paul walker at the site outside los angeles where the star of "the fast & furious" movies died in a car crash just over a week ago. hundreds of people are expected. a group organizing the event says that one of the cars that walker drove if the films will be at the memorial. filming on the seventh installment of that series has been p

more than half a million people are without power in michigan, new york and new england. i have no power or water, i don't have a phone now. >> it's been hard at times, but i get through it. >> emergency shelters are kept open in most states for those without heat and more snow is expected, especially in the midwest and great lakes region. >>> compared to what we have lots of sunshine, temperature, five to 10 degrees above the average and lots of 60s and a few low 70s. some patchy cloud cover, there's a chance of fog developed near the immediate coastline. as far as current temperature it is cooling off. fair feel down to 45 degrees. mountain view 54. san jose 57 degrees. for tonight mostly clear skies, tomorrow hazy sunshine, another round of warm temperature. san francisco tomorrow morning at 7:00, 44 degrees, on track to reach the 60s. and in the extented no rain clouds, dry weather pattern will continue. a few clouds by friday and saturday. overnight lows, we 62 have -- could have freezing. locally dense early tomorrow morning. fran san francisco 44. not much change fo

ing hundreds of thousands of people in the dark in toronto the in the height of holiday season before hitting new england. shelters in michiganave been busy providing food, warmth and comfort for those lacking heechlt also struggling those utility crews sent to the hardest-hit areas. many repair workers are a long way from home and spend christmas away from their families. >> rough, lack of sleep. the elements are tough. >> reporter: the repair work is going in to the fifth day after one of the worst storms of its kind since the 1990s. >> i'd rather be at home with my family and kids was there's also kids out here that are no power. my kids are home in the warmth, playing playstation and x-box and these kids are just trying to stay warm. >> reporter: utility crews say they will stay on the job perhaps until the weekend until the power comes back on. rob nelson, abc news, new york. >> never a good time for something like. this but man, the holidays, christmas, wow. >> has it been a week even that we have been in to winter yet? it seems like it's been snowing nonstop. i'm hearing some counties are out of their snow removal budg

new york. the roads barely visible. >> slow down, i was only doing 50, people were passing me big time. when they pass you, you can't see. >> reporter: she was part of a 40 car pile up in michigand in upstate new york, blinding bands of lake effect snow, dropping just inches in some towns, and more than four feet in others. our rob nelson is there. >> here in new york, it snowed overnight and half the day, now almost two feet of snow on the ground. >> reporter: then we had him drive just six miles south, six miles, and you get another two feet of snow. >> now we're here in downtown, you can see just how deep it is here up to my thighs. >> reporter: watch how fast it covers this car in lockport, new york. one hour later smothered. right now more than half the nation covered in snow. this time last year, only 27%. and tonight, more is on the way. so that lake effect had nothing to do with the snow that is now falling in parts of illinois and will speed overnight through the southern great lakes into the northeast. let me show you snow totals printed out by one of the computer models, take this. some of the areas just south and east of chicago could pick up close to a half foot. b

in the mail and they'll help you. david stevenson, ktvu news. >>> hundreds of thousands of people lost power in michigan, north and newngland because of the ice. many could spend their christmas without electricity. massive flooding in the south is being blamed for at least five of the deaths. it's also making it very touch to get around. >> i walked downhill to the parker, around the neighborhood and through two corn fields. >> reporter: a tornado in arkansas killed one person while ice and snow in oklahoma are blamed for three traffic deaths. unlike other storms slammed areas the situation in new york city has been almost balmy. people were running in shorts yesterday because of 70-degree weather there. >>> a winter spare the air alert here is in place and another has been issued for tomorrow. you know what that means. the burning of wood is banned unless it's your only heat source. we just saw a string of spare the air days ending last week. >>> this is the scene looking through san francisco. through the layer of haze. this was at 3:30. it -- in terms of the air quality we have an atmospheric risk. typically you w

doesn't make any sense to provide to dream all of the professors who are currently teaching in michigan or in new is there a limit to the extent to which there ought to be a pat kron edge of the university system in california? >> well, of course you aim at the stars there are always stars further away. you keep trying for quality. i think there are reviews necessary that there is a temptation in california to say the university of california is the greatest university system in the world and therefore we sit back smugly. i think we have to be pretty realistic. i don't think it's the greatest with regard to teaching under graduates. the university of california built the reputation on research and on attracting great scholars under the guise these are professors that teach our young and we bury them under research projects and the students never see them and the students are caught by teaching assistance. every once in a while we have to shake ourselves and take a look and say wait a minute -- we put up a great marquis and the display case and are we beigoin over board in filling that display cas

in the mail and they'll help you. david stevenson, ktvu news. >>> hundreds of thousands of people lost power in michigan, north and newngland because of the ice. many could spend their christmas without electricity. massive flooding in the south is being blamed for at least five of the deaths. it's also making it very touch to get around. >> i walked downhill to the parker, around the neighborhood and through two corn fields. >> reporter: a tornado in arkansas killed one person while ice and snow in oklahoma are blamed for three traffic deaths. unlike other storms slammed areas the situation in new york city has been almost balmy. people were running in shorts yesterday because of 70-degree weather there. >>> a winter spare the air alert here is in place and another has been issued for tomorrow. you know what that means. the burning of wood is banned unless it's your only heat source. we just saw a string of spare the air days ending last week. >>> this is the scene looking through san francisco. through the layer of haze. this was at 3:30. it -- in terms of the air quality we have an atmospheric risk. typically you w

new york to activate the state emergency center. more than 1,000 plows deployed to clear roads of up to two inches of ice. downed power lines knocked out electricity to more than 300,000 customers in michigan. and tens of thousands more in new york, maine and vermont. >> about 2:30 this morning, we woke to the house shaking, transformers exploding, the skies lighting up, the branches crackling and trees falling. >> reporter: the storm stretches north to toronto. hundreds of thousands of residents remain without power. utility companies there describe the damage as catastrophic, the highest emergency level situation. back in new york city, a very different scene. visitors at rockefeller center shed heavy coats on this springlike sunday. across the region, record high temperatures, new york city, a balmy 71, breaking its old record of 63 degrees. in philadelphia, 68 degrees up from 66 degrees, the previous record. augusta, georgia, 79 degrees. the same storm produced powerful tornadoes and straight line winds. in hughes, arkansas, severe structural damage. just south of louisville, kentucky, falling power lines sparked a fire, nine cars ablaze, forcing a highway to be shut down. in indiana,

there is some good news for those in michigan, the power slowly being turned back on.ing ice and freezing temperatures to bring back the lights and the heat. one man says instead of calling to yell at the power company, though, you should do something nice for those hard-working crews. >> the more you get upset about it, try to argue with somebody at customer service to get the power back on, it's not going to help. wait. let it happen. treat them nice. bring them some coffee. see what you can do for them. it's cold out here. they're stuck out here. be nice to them. >> and it's christmas. chad myers is live in new york. cold and frozen conditions. tell us more, chad. >> it had to happen first, before we could get these power lines up. crews in the buckets, for the wind to die off. you can't put a guy up there with 30 miles per hour with the bucket going down and the power lines still coming down. vermont, maine, through toronto and all of ontario back to detroit, that's where the main ice event occurred. we're finally getting down to tens of thousands rather than about

in july an italian astronaut nearly drowned when his helmet filled with water. n.a.s.a. are battling with suits almost 35 years old. the next spacewalk will be on new year's eve. >> a tower in michiganas brought down with explosives. an investment town brought it for $1. they plan on turning the site into a family friendly science park. >> veterans are likely to be three times more likely to be unemployed. we are told about a company that only hires veterans to make its patriotic view. >> the makers say it's america's most important beer. why? the new brew that customers are knocking back is 100% patriotic. in the summer of 2012 veterans advocate paul jenkins wondered why veterans faced high unemployment rates while americans held them in high regard. >> why beer? >> i couldn't thing of anything else. it was july. a lot of ads related to alcohol. if i could come up with something better i would have done it. >> jenkins went on a mission as focused as anything in the navy. his plan to launch the veterans company using veterans as employees - from the breuer to the logo designer and promoters. being a jack-of-all-trades served him well in the military, but not the job markets. a lot o

the stanford men took on michigan in brooklyn, new york, glen robinson iii finish the alley-oop. after a fair of wolverine free-throws, randle a chance to tie. no good. michigan hangs only for the 68-65 victory. stanford drops to 83. the sharks playing host to dallas. san jose without hurdle for at least a month because of a knee injury. this little guy from the santa clara blackhawks shows off some nifty stick handling. the stars take the lead in the first, then whitney past the goaltender. then in the second on the delayed penalty call, the pass offhe foot, into the back of the net. his eight only the season, 2, 0 dallas. now after two periods the stars lead 2-1. >> perennial high school football power de la salle trying to win its fifth straight open division state title tonight. second quarter, the spartans quarter qb under pressure, picked off. that leads the first touchdown of the night. josh rosen up top for the 60-yard score. the extra point made it 10-0. now at the half. de la salle trails 17-7. the college football bowl season kicked off this afternoon, in las vegas, usc

in states john mccain carried. this means next year purple states like new hampshire, michigan, minnesota will be difficult. >> franken, shaheen -- >> and an open seat in michigan. there is a new poll. >> senate race, the gop leads there. how do you feel about the candidates now? we have had problems over the years with picking the right candidates. achen was a disaster. >> the quality of candidates is better than in the past. you have a democrat who voted for obama care. he's being weighed down, too. the difficulty for democrats, this is not an issue in red states. it's powerful but we learned in 2010 it has influence in purple states. there are at least four and could be five or oh six senate races. >> you said something that's key. cautionary tale. you don't want to go out on a limb because a lot can happen between now and then. >> the quality of the campaigns matters. we learned it in 2010. whether it was indiana or missouri. should be 2012. you know, those were states that looked ripe for us. we lost both of them. >> one thing i will unveil in january. i'm not reinventing the wheel. buconservative solutions to am

ice storm in the north causing hundreds of thousands of power outages from up state new york and michigan and sheets of ice falling off in a mall roof in oklahoma. >> in the northeast spring in december. many wearing shorts and t-shirts in 70 degree temperatures. what's next? maria molina is tracking all of this wild weather. >> what do we have in store? >> basically the same storm system that produced wild weather over the weekend is still on the move. we are seeing heavy rain from the florida panhandle to parts of maryland. why flood watches are in effect today. you mentioned those warm temperatures mild across the northeast. in new york city we reached 71 degrees for the high temperature that did set a record and multiple cities across parts of the southeast. a little unusual for late december. otherwise a look at the rainfall moving through parts of an l atlanta that will be the trouble today and parts of the southeast. further north it is tough to see it on the radar but we have freezing rain coming down across portions of new england, ice storm warning in effect across parts of main

new york to activate the state emergency center. more than 1,000 plows deployed to clear roads of up to two inches of ice. downed power lines knocked out electricity to more than 300,000 customers in michigan and tens of thousands more in new york, maine and vermont. >> about 2:30 this morning, we awoke to the house shaking, transformers exploding, the skies lighting up, trees falling. >> reporter: the storm stretches north to toronto. hundreds of thousands of residents remain without power. utility companies there describe the damage as catastrophic. the highest level emergency situation. back in new york city, a very different scene. visitors at rockefeller center shed heavy coats on this spring-like sunday. >> fantastic. i'm in a t-shirt. >> this is what people in florida must feel like. >> reporter: in baltimore, christmas shopping in the sun. across the region, record high temperatures. new york city, a balmy 71. breaking its old record of 63 degrees. in philadelphia, 68 degrees. from 66 degrees, the previous record. augusta, georgia, 79 degrees. overnight the same storm produced powerful tornadoes and straight line winds. in arkansas, severe structural damage. in monroe, louisiana --

utility crews are working to restore power to thousands of people in michigan and in upstate new york the peak of the outage, more than a half million people were left in the dark. they say the cold temperatures will stick around for the rest of the week. he will make his around the world trip and they will be using their satellites and radar and i am posting the results on google map. you see the annual reindeer and santa is dropping off gifts and they are updating facebook and they lawn muched the watch back in 1955. >>> time is now 6:49 a smash and grab robbery inside a busy san jose mall which was filled with san jose shoppers, what the armed robber managed to get away with. >>> some of them had a little too much fun and they had the details, san francisco poll just shared this with us and it is all coming up in just about 10 minutes,. >>> well, it's not a workweek for a lot of people, we have tara moriarty who is in for sal looking at some of the bridge traffic. >> that is right, all of your bridges are looking very clear at this hour, there is not much of a backup and that's the

ice and snow, more than 400,000 homes and businesses in michigan, upstate new york, new engla. st nine deaths are being blamed on the storm. there are high temperatures are unseasonable in parts of the country. heavy rain, new york ntral park h a recd 65 degrees yesterday with temperatures expected to drop back to the '30s ltetonight. the storm also having a big impact at the height of the busy pre-christmas travel time. more than 1100 flights were canceled over the weekend. today black ice causing passenger planes to side off the taxiway. viually no one hurt in that indent. an agry shoppers filing lawsuit against taet for the class-action lawsuit, two of whh were filed in california and oregon, alleged that target failed to implement anmaintain reasonable security procedures including credit and ebit card data and social security numbers taken. it is unclar exactly what the criminals have actually done. and stocks moving higher with the dojones and s&p 500 adding 73 points, i is the 48 record close this year. the nasdaq also gaining 46 points, th s&p 500 up 10 points. and they

new york. unemployment benefits due to expire for thousands in new york and ann arbor michigan, cutting benefits for christmas and in va silla, california, one reads, crisis remains, jobs benefit still vital. the idea is to get similar news coverage in every small market in the country. this is going to be the conversation. where do you stand? they hope to pressure republicans into an easy vote. just a vote. just get a vote, mr. boehner, and the congress in early june january. you can't call this a dog and pony show. this is real stuff. democrats really want to get this done. this is what was excluded out of the budget bill. and the republicans know the democrats have been honest brokers and come to the table and giving them things they want. tax loopholes have not been closed. taxes did not go up. there will not be a shutdown. and there are more reasons to slam the republicans on not extendsing unemployment. a new report from the congressional budget office shows letting benefits expire could cost 300,000 jobs nationwide. that's a step backwards, folks. and economists believe that the economic

new year's eve. get ready for that chill. >> it's going to be cold night in times square. thank you. >>> you heard the report there. power still out from michigan so maine and now the cold and the next storm coming. we wanted to bring in new england's news leader, and mike wallcum. always great to have you. and first, your concern playing out right now? >> across the dakotas we have strong winds. out of the north, 20 to 30, gusting to 50 miles an hour. and the windchill index, 50 degrees below zero in parts of north dakota and mini. look at the windchill indexes tomorrow. they are going to be dropping way below zero, south to kansas city. this is a real arctic blast. >> mike, you were telling me, the real worries there in new england, the next storm system, in time to hit before new year's? >> that is right, the storm right up in the gulf of mexico, dropping an incredible amount of moisture. washington, d.c., new york tomorrow. and once it gets to boston and north of there, it's going to be changing over to snow. the areas that had the power out they are going to be mitt with between 6 and 12 inches on ever snow, additional problems for that. a

new england and canada spent christmas without power. many lost power last weekend and ended up spending christmas in shelters when their homes got simply too cold to stay in. parts of new england, maine and michigan helping of snow today. utility officials say the freezing temps prevent the thick layer of ice along power lines from melting which could leave people in the dark another day. i know, olga, a lot of folks were saying -- helping to plan your day, wusa 9's first alert weather. >> but at least we haven't been dealing with those sorts of situations. >> exactly. we're thankful for that. it was nice and cold and brisk for christmas, so it felt like the season, but as long as we keep it dry, that really is a good thing for us. i can't guarantee you how long we're going to keep it dry. we are tracking some of that moisture passing on on our radar, but overall i think today is going to turn out to be a pretty good day. we are now looking at mainly sunny skies, and, in fact, we're going to see the opportunity for the temperatures to take a little bit of a bumpup as we get into that extended forecast. but, first, let's take a look outside with our michael and son camera. look at all that blue, n

in suit the lens. this accident happened -- suitland. this accident happened near allentown road. one person has life-threatening injuries. >> a storm is causing a travel might mayor for thousands of people. michigan and newered in a thick layer of ice. it has delayed thousands of flights across the country. midnight is the new deadline to sign up for health insurance on healthcare.gov. that is if you want coverage to start on january 1. the obama administration and extended the deadline by 24 hours. they did not want a last-minute rush to crash the webs -- that could crash the website. suzanne kennedy is that the live desk with the latest on the story about the meningitis outbreak last year. >> about 750 people died after about 750 people developed fungal meningitis and 64 people died. they have agreed to set up a victim compensation fund worth more than $100 million. the massachusetts-based company gave up its license and filed for bankruptcy. michigan, tennessee, and indiana had the highest number of cases. the company says it denies any liability or wrongdoing, but wanted to establish a fund for people who died or suffered. victims have until january 15 to file a claim. >> thank you very much. this mo

the new investment tonight, most of it, for a factory. a truck plant in ailing flint, michigan -- $600 million. factories in detroit and romulus, michigan. toledo, ohio and bedford, indiana helped, too. those factories, employing 7,500 people. gm says the new investment will help save and create 1,000 jobs. and it comes just as ford reveals it plans to hire 5,000 workers in the new year. that age old question -- apparently answered. ♪ have you driven a ford lately ♪ 3,300 of those jobs in tonight we checked in tomorrow and his family. he's still making ford trucks on the line. not long ago he was worried. >> were you worried about the company. >> everyone was worried. i have a family. >> reporter: the global market, in asia, like the one they cornered in mexico. "world news" seeing it first hand in mexico city as fords built by american workers arrived on the trains. >> all of these fords come from america. >> reporter: we checked. even asking to get on the train that had just arrived to see where they had come from, which workers truly benefitted. built in michigan and bought

nbc news senior investigative correspondent lisa meyers reports from michigan. >> reporter: 40 employees of extreme dodge in jackson, michigan, just came face to face with the new realities of health care, and most did not like what they see. >> how is this helping the average american that works 40 to 50 hours a week? how are we supposed to live? >> reporter: at their annual benefits meeting, they were told their current insurance was canceled because it doesn't comply with the new health care law and that the dealership had decided to take things in a new direction. >> it doesn't add up. >> reporter: the company is changing how it handles health insurance this year. instead of actually providing a company health plan as it has for 35 years, the business now will give each worker $2400 to buy insurance or spend on something else. that $2400 is slightly more than the company spent per worker on health insurance this year, the owner says. the change is to control future costs. and is it a step back in your commitment to provide health care? >> as a business owner, you know, we have to be viable first and the

snow and ice knocked out power to homes in michigan, new york and new england. amed on the storm which delayed air travel ahead of the christmas holiday. nato service member died in eastern afghanistan today after coming urn direct fire. nato has not released the nationality of the victim. 126 american service members have died in afghanistan this year. >>> more news later. now back to msnbc "under cover." >>> after four years of living the punishing life of a modern day slave in northern california, 24-year-old lily had lost all hope. working up to 22 hours a day for a demanding diplomate and his family. lily says her employers even made her work when she had debilitating fevers. penniless because the family refused to pay her she lived desperate isolation and growing depression. >> she's my everything. >> back in indonesia, lily's husband andy had heard nothing from his wife for three long years. he feared she was dead. >> who can i call? somebody here. i don't know. because don't have no phonen couldn't give me a number. really hard. no communication with her.

thirty-two patients were infected in new hampshire, seven in maryland, six in kansas and one in pennsylvania. kwiatkowski also worked in michigan, new york, arizona and georgia. >> for a former bp engineer accused of deleting text messages and voicemails about the company's response to its massive 2010 oil spill in the gulf of mexico. kurt mix is charged with two counts of obstruction of justice. prosecutors claim mix tried to hamper a grand jury's investigation into the spill. >> we will see a shift for the afternoon. let's take a look at the data plan of the temperatures are fairly mild this morning. later on tonight we will have besprinkled for those of the north of the golden gate bridge. today is the last day for mild conditions for rest of the week. we are preparing for a cold snap. campeau will have a high of 67 degrees. we will see a mix of sun and clouds. walnut creek will have a high of 66. the temperatures man will be in the mid 60's for places like vallejo and richmond. downtown sampras's expect me it to 60's for the east shore line. daly city will have a high of 59 degrees. the big story for satellite and radar is

they are trying to do as much as they can before a new storm hits tonight. in michiganroughly 100,000 homes and businesses are still without power after sunday's storm. it could be saturday before everything is back up and running. and in canada, snow has hampered efforts to restore power to 100,000 customers. why oklahoma residents have a new fear. we have has tornadoes and hailstorms but never an earthquake. and a far reaching zeal has human rights activists worried. debate. and a host willing to ask the tough questions and you'll get... the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5pm et / 2pm pt only on al jazeera america here is more. >> beneath the fluorescentsun in a former meat packing plant is the latest trim in farming. they call it "vertical farming." these fields grow on floors on at industrial park and farmer john adel and his staff agrees user. >> my shipping proceed did you say 1500, 2,000 miles to get are. >> the plant of the indoor -- as the indoor formers call it doesn't grow corn or soybeans but mustard, high end micro greens on the plat

and campaign against them and give that very same speech in wisconsin, and also in ohio and in michigan and in new, where these guys have been opposed to everything he has wanted to do when it comes to jobs, when it comes to opportunity for people. >> right. >> how would that -- how would that play in wisconsin, if that were to happen, rukt? rukt? >> i think it would be fantastic. we're in a state hurting economically. we're lagging the other states around us. we have a republican governor who has been incredibly divisive here. but when it comes down to it, really our economic situation is what hits home with people. and i think all of these fever dreams about impeachment and talking about benghazi, it's fine for fox news and republicans to drag it out in primaries in iowa. but the truth is, people have to live their lives. they need health care and decent wages and those issues profoundly resonate with them and i think they're very open to hearing that pitch. >> and david corn, it's not as if the president is just giving some political speech today. i mean, this was a visionary in what he believe

in 5 u.s. factory. come back for the american auto industry 5 years ago they were on the brink. this new investment tonight for factory truck plant in ailing nrirngts michigan600 million dollars. factory in detroit and toledo and bed ford indiana help too. those factories employ 7500 people and new investment will save and create 1,000 jobs. and this comes just as ford reveals plans to hire 5000 workers in the new year. age old question. >> have you driven a ford lately? >>reporter: 3300 of those jobs in engineering and production. tonight we checked in tom and his young family still making ford truck on the line. not long ago he was worried. >> were you worried about the company. >> i think even was a bit nervous. i was personally because young family. >>reporter: ford tonight eye more global market in asia like the one they corner in mexico. world news seeing it firsthand in mexico city as built by american workers arrived on the trains. >> all of these come from mevrjt louisville kentucky and asking to get on the train that just arrived. see where they had come from. which workers were truly benefiting. >> michigan. >>reporter: built in michigan and boug

in new york city. domestic workers from los angeles to michigan to ohio. ar wash workers in new york and the west coast. we are organizing. >> you are seeing other signs of people getting interested. you are seeing fast food workers that are fed up with minimum wage and the bad treatment they get starting to come together and demand better wages. walmart workers, thousands across the country coming together to try and change the walmart model, which quite frankly drives the low-wage model in the country. >> a lot of what you have been talking about is developing friends and allies as opposed to formal news paying members. a formal membership probably peaked? >> i think we are on the rise. we have more members this year than we had two years ago. we re-affiliated the labor. we re-affiliated, we have more members than we did a couple of years ago. the question is, is it enough? is it enough to do the changes? change the economy, change the legislative environment? the answer is no. we decided we have to reach out to progressive groups because all of us will h

more than 200,000 people still without power in michigan, new england and canada. weather slammed the area, knocking down trees and power lines and leaving families without electricity for the holidays. with below freezing temperatures, hundreds spent christmas at red cross shelters. power crews are working around the clock but may not be able to restore lines until this weekend. >>> now to a super size pr blunder, mcdonald's has taken town the employee website resource line. its latest internal tip, stay away from fast food? the site advised employees to avoid the chain's signature cheese burger and fries and opt for healthier options like a sandwich and salad. this isn't the first embarrassment. it also encouraged workers to get a second job and suggest their monthly budgets should not include money for extravagances like heat. the company says the site is being reevaluated. >>> a texas man is being charged with a hate crime with an assault on a so-called elderly black man. you're looking at video of another such attack where people are trying to knock out unsusp

lingering effects of an icy storm have left more than 200,000 without electricity just in michigan and parts of new england alone. this is the christmas chris fink and her husband dick will always remember for being all bundled up in their winter coats inside their house in kalamazoo. but it's little conor hergert without power in flint, michigan, who may best sum up the mood of many without saying a single word. as terrell brown reports, forecasts calling for more snow are not going to make it any easier to get the power turned back on. >> reporter: crews are scrambling to help restore hardest hit areas. this team traveled nearly 500 miles to help restore power. workers like erik collins have been clearing branches and reconnecting lines nonstop since monday. >> much rather be at home with my family and kids. my kids are at home in a warm -- playing playstation and xbox and these kids are just trying to stay warm. >> reporter: in maine, about 60,000 customers are without power. down from 100,000 tuesday. in vermont, nearly 1,500. and across michigan about 150,000 customers are still in the dark. t

in october. >>> thousands of utility workers continue to work overtime to restore power to homes and businesses from michigan to new england and eastern canada. this is a look at crews contending with ice and snow in east lansing, michigan one of the cities hardest hit. the power outages are the aftermath of a major ice storm that pelted the region last week. about 140,000 homes and businesses are still in the dark. and at one point, that number was in the 700,000 range. >>> roberta, are we even seeing snow in tahoe? >> no, except what they are making overnight. >> manmade no. >> it is cold enough to do that. they are firing up the snow guns every night overnight. but right now, any chance of snow i'm looking at and it's a long-range forecast so things certainly can change, january 10th. on that note, let's look at what's going on today. first off, count it it five. five straight days of "spare the air." it is illegal to burn for the rest of the day. for five straight days we are also looking at very unseason bly mild conditions. right now 57 degrees in san francisco. that's typically the high temperature experienc

east coast, football fans, you saw it over the weekend, the systems making an icy mess in new england and michigan, while states to the south are dealing with heavy rain. tomorrow, another storm expected to hit the east coast with more ice and snow. the frozen mess made for dangerous driving. slick roads caused pileups. cars slid out of control. officials in philly report they got nine inches of snow. more than the city had in all of last year. it caught a lot of drives offguard. >> this guy comes up on the left-hand side shoulder and just blew by us. hit the gentleman in front of us. his car kept spinning, his motor was smoking. >> there's no salt down, everybody is struck where they are. >> people are driving like idiots at usual. >> the snow also covered up the field markers in the football game last night. look at these giant sheets of ice slighted right of the roof of an apartment complex in texas. at the airport hundreds of travelers are still stranded. airlines report canceling more than a thousand flights today alone, most of them in hard-hit dallas. look at some of the tweets we have gott

. >> some 400,000 homes app businesses are were you the power in michigan upstate new york and northern new england. and it's the third day without power for 200,000 people in toronto. where storm knocked down tree and power lines. hundreds of people are spending the night in one of the city 9 warming centers. >> back here of course we need rain. it doesn't appear it's anywhere on the horizon and temperature is pretty mild. sandhya is back with the full forecast. >> yes dan. almost make you feel guilty when you is he all the weather there. bitterly cold in some parts of the country tonight. wind chill factor 20 and 30 below. not happening here. live doppler 7hd showing you few patchy cloud made it across the coastal bay side community tomorrow. hazy sun in fresno. 56 yosemite heading up to rur eek a sunshine down in los angeles. san diego in the 70' 70's. mid to upper 70's for this time of year. hazy sunshine continues her in the bay area for your tuesday. temperatures mostly in the 60' 60's. up to 70 in clover dil. spare the air alert as you can see on the accu-weather 7 day forecast a