the department may seek the enforcement of the nova scotia grand jury subpoena for the swiss recordsut those cannot always be effectively employed first only used against a foreign bank that has u.s. presence in the majority of the institutions are your current the investigating. second, the bank of nova scotia grand jury subpoena for territorial records could have protected the litigation. acquiescence by the swiss government the bank may be caught between contempt sanctions and the west were violating swiss law or blocking order. with ongoing criminal investigations we are limited but we can disclose publicly. just because we cannot disclose does not mean we're not actively pursuing these cases. i do want to discuss that we fully expect additional public developments over the course of the coming months. of authorizing four separate orders with the u.s. correspondents' accounts and successfully have to account holders with the personal records of the foreign drinking committees. in february 2009 the department has taken public action against two other banks january 20131 of the old

the couple of feet will be up into maine and also up into nova scot scotia.rry, canada, but thank you, chad. appreciate it. >> it's good unless you're watching from us nova scotia right now. >> thanks. >>> 36 minutes after the hour. immigration reform may have hit a road block in the house of representatives. several prominent conservative republicans are pushing back against leaders in their own party, insisting that now is not the time to try to get reform done. they've been telling reporters that they think it's better to wait until next year when the republicans might control both the house and the senate. >>> new worries this morning over nuclear talks with iran. the foreign minister telling reporters washington's "wishes are unlikely to come true," saying the u.s. wants iran to give up significant parts of its nuclear programs but insisting those demands will not be met. >>> in the senate today, another chance to move forward on restoring unemployment benefits for more than a million americans. democrats are pushing ahead with a procedural vote over a b

joining me now from halifax nova scotia is dr boris worm professor at the dollhouse a university biology department dr worm welcome. thanks very much thank you for joining us am i pronouncing your university correctly. you do ok craig eight years ago you and your fellow researchers projected that salt water fish could be really significantly depleted by two thousand and forty eight how would you characterize that do you still believe that. you still believe that fisheries are you global crossroads we depleting fish stocks faster than they control box but what we do document since then is that the rate of depletion is slowing in some countries particularly rich industrialized countries only investing into the rebuilding of stones and bringing them back from the brink and making them more productive again the trouble is that a lot of the pressure is not shifted on to countries that have less capacity of dealing with. countries in the southern hemisphere the high seas and poor developing countries that have bad in foresman and poor management and so that's a that's a growing concern right n

up next @stockanalyst5 asks, what is your take on canadian's back and the back of nova scotia. i want to be careful with both of them. for the canada dollar, i thought it would bounce and back in -- bank in nova scotia was my bank, but i have to back away from bns. however, i do like some of the american banks which i think are doing quite well. we have to get more tweets in next time. don't forget @jimcramer and throw in a hashtag. so on thursday, the personal finance stuff we're doing. i like it too. keep sending tweets. get a plan, #getaplan. got it? stay with cramer. >>> all right, repeat after me. the market opens up big monday, we are going to trim, or at least not chase it. that's what happened today. it opened down huge and i saw so many people panic. it is just driving me crazy. guys, if you are going to be in this business, do not regard these gigantic up or down moves as anything. there's always a bull market somewhere. i promise you i will help you find it here on "mad money." i'm jim cramer and i will see you on monday! till you hear about this special savings acco

the feet go to nova scotia.nada. >>> president obama keeping a tradition of his presscy alive. he will speak at this morning's national prayer breakfast. he has spoken at the event every year of his presidency. he'll be joined by the first lady and vice president joe biden. >>> returning now to the top story. officials say president obama has been briefed on the latest intel suggests explosives could be concealed in toothpaste tubes on planes heading for the games. we're live at the white house. >> reporter: good morning, chris. this morning, a senior official says the president has been made aware of the threat and that he is meeting regularly about olympic security. this is about terrorists using toothpaste tubes to smuggle explosives into russia is deemed to be credible and serious according to u.s. officials. the threat assessment has really been on the rise, something they've been looking at for weeks. they've been seeing an uptake in threat reporting. a senior administration official says they do not see a

snow for new york or for any place here that saw a lot of snow, just literally down east in e into nova scotiandland and into boston. big, big snow is possible with blizzard warnings, we could see winds of 50 miles per hour. here comes the snow there you see new york. snow in the poconos but the biggest snow will be right along the cape. if this thing decides to go farther left, we could get more snow. farther to the west we'll have to see. right now that doesn't look like the case. it will be out of there by late saturday night. >> chad, you just heard brian talking about the weather extremes we've been seeing. what do you make of these? >> it's all about what we call amplitude. the jet stream all winter has gone farther north than it usually does and farther south than it usually does. for a normal day. let's talk about a normal day, you get the jet stream to go straight across. we don't get very many norpal days. one day is 40, normal is 30. you add them up and divide by the number of days. this across zonal flow doesn't happen. what usually happens is a nice rice here a rice, rise here and

for the canada dollar, i thought it would bounce and back in -- bank in nova scotia was my bank, butrom bns. however, i do like some of the american banks which i think are doing quite well. we have to get more tweets in next time. and throw in the hash tag. so on thursday, the personal finance stuff we're doing. i like it too. keep sending tweets. get a plan, #get a plan. got it? say okay. [ coughs, sneezes ] i have a big meeting when we land, but i am so stuffed up, i can't rest. [ male announcer ] nyquil cold and flu liquid gels don't unstuff your nose. they don't? alka seltzer plus night fights your worst cold symptoms, plus has a decongestant. [ inhales deeply ] oh. what a relief it is. [ car alarm chirps ] ♪ [ male announcer ] we don't just certify our pre-owned vehicles. we inspect, analyze, and recondition each one, until it's nothing short of a genuine certified pre-owned mercedes-benz for the next new owner. [ car alarm chirps ] hurry in to your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for 1.99% financing during our certified pre-owned sales event through february 28th. [ male annou

where was he, in nova scotia when this was going on? we have pictures that he's with his people on september the 11th right in the heart of the backup of the traffic. i personally believe that mayor sokolich, that's who i believe. you can believe whoever you wish. >> is it possible, i mean, you're a member of the new jersey congressional delegation. this is -- we're talking about the city -- >> the last time i looked. >> we're talking about the sitting governor. we're also talking about the issue of prime importance if, i imagine, for the delegation which is the different waves of this federal money. can you work with this governor? do you trust him? do you view him as trustworthy? do you view his people as trustworthy? >> my record the last four years, the governor dually recollected, dually re-elected. i work for the governor. i said when he's right -- nobody's perfect. you know what, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. no one prove to me that this administration has been transparent on a number of issues. there are qu

as you get over to atlantic, canada, maine, newfoundland, nova scotia, that's when the storm really doessignificant i guess direction and also some moisture. here is another graphic, too. because i want to -- we focus so much on the east and now we're kind of -- late enough in the day, i can talk about the west. the big story is coming into the west. there will be feet of snow in the cascades. there will be 2 to 4 inches around seattle. 6 to 9 in northern california. they need the rain. need it farther south. they'll take when they can get. even jacksonville, wyoming gets two feet of snow. and sochi gets sunshine. >> i know. and you know what is cracking me up about your map? seattle has 2 to 4 inches of snow. and i predict that they'll probably struggle with it more than any of the places getting 12 to 20. >> well, yeah. i mean, it's down to about 1,000 feet. you have to get up a little bit. won't be to the ocean. but still, yes. >> it's harder when you're not used to getting it. chad myers, thanks so much. >> you're welcome. >>> and you heard chad, it's been a wild winter for sure. bri

this is all the way from nova scotia to virginia. this is finally the end. this is the tail of the comma. when you see a big low, you see the head up here and the tail where the cold front is. now finally it's pulling through here. but all of this weather in d.c., you just saw pictures of how hard it's snowing. it will move into philadelphia and new york city and finally up into new england overnight. at least another 3 to 5 inches for all of those big cities, on top of the slop that's there now, because for a while in the big cities, it either sleeted or it rained. it's going to refreeze, big cities down to about 25 degrees tonight. so black ice under the snow, so you can't see it before you fall on it. so, get home, stay there, and try not to go out. >> all right. thank you very much. >>> well, the storm has been barreling up the east coast. north carolina alone has more than 100,000 people that doesn't have power. charlotte, one of the hardest hit cities in the nation. david mattingly is there tonight with the latest. >> reporter: caught in a vicious cycl

the catskills, on up to quebec, ontario, nova scotia and the winter of 2014 doesn't stop. >> we have seen so much and heard so much over the last two days about this, chad. i did hear a word i had never heard before. that word, thunder sleet out of the mouth of wolf blitzer. when he said it it sounded very very menacing. what is thunder sleet? >> it is thunder and sleet happening at the same time. it happened at the university of richmond and southeast virginia today. sleet was coming down so hard that it actually -- think about this. you're wearing just leather shoes. you rub your feet on the polyester carpet and touch the doorknob. that's a shock. that's what was happening there. the shock of the sheer of the sleet up there freezing, bouncing off each other, made static electricity, made a lightning bolt although it didn't go to the ground it went cloud to cloud, not cloud to ground. you hear the thunder. the sleet comes down. thunder sleet. sounds like a bad movie. >> sounds menacing even when you say it. i wish i understood the chemistry there but i now it's scary. >>> new york m

storm that has blanketed the east coast in snow and ice stretches from charlotte, north carolina to nova scotiall totals of 11 inches are reported in the washington, d.c. area while parts of new jersey and long island have already received a foot of snow. more is possible tonight. at least 17 fatalities now blamed on that storm. nearly 500,000 people are also without power with the majority located in georgia and south carolina. a freight train carrying crude oil derailed about 45 minutes outside pittsburgh. one building was hit by a freight car, but there are no reports of injuries. so far no homes have been evacuated there. hazmat crews responded to that no official word on what caused the train to derail. >>> now president obama is expected to soon sign the bill to raise the debt court of appealing for the next 13 months that bill passed in the senate along party lines 55-43, avoiding a government default on its debt. >>> general motors is recalling nearly 780,000 older compact cars because of a faulty ignition switch. the company says 22 crashes resulted from the problem. six people have di

for the power to go out because later tonight all along coastal new england, from the cape up to nova scotia, we're expecting very high winds tonight. these will be 50-mile-per-hour winds that could easily topple some of these lines. as for the snow, it's not going to be a problem. these folks are accustomed to it. anywhere snow totals from z7 to 10 inches along the coast. here in portland, they're already above their seasonal average for snow. not quite as much as last year. we've seen some towns around the midwest run out of salt to treat the roads. that's not quite the story here, although they are running to that point where they're starting to get a little concerned. they started the season with 8,000 tons of salt. they have used three-quarters of it and you still have a good four weeks of this kind of weather to deal with in portland. they're probably crossing their fingers we don't see too many more systems like this before they start wondering whether they have enough material to keep the roads clean. i drove up from the boston area today. it was pretty easy driving a couple of hours

believe the heaviest snow, it's going to be boston and all the way into parts of new england and into nova scotia. this is not what i would consider a major storm. plus, it's hitting on a saturday. that's some good news as the storm comes on by. here comes the know through new york city, snow showers in parts of pennsylvania but there is your bull's eye. the heaviest snowfall stays away from new york city this time. >> take it on the weekend, though, chad myers. thank you so much. >>> and now to that 100 car pile-up and the traffic jam that is still going on. it's been going on for hours and hours now. cnn's margaret conley is on the it turnpike right outside of philadelphia. what's the latest, margaret? >> reporter: brianna, it's been a chaotic scene since 8:00. we were heading east on the turnpike from pennsylvania to new jersey and there was a mass pileup. we learned later that there were 27 separate accidents that contributed to this pileup. it was very difficult for emergency vehicles to get up through the traffic to try to get those people out that were injured. this turnpike has very few e

back up to the mountains and up towards nova scotia. that's the story now. we refreeze. almost everything on the roadway right now. it gets down to 24 or so, very close. new york city down to d.c., it gets down to 28 in atlanta, down to 26 in columbia, augusta, where there's a mess on the roadways there. a mess above the roadways, too. we haven't seen you a lot of pictures but parts of south carolina have been literally devastated with ice all over the place. trees are down everywhere. it's even hard to get there. wolf? >> chad, explain to our viewers what thundersleet is. >> well, there's convection. we can get air to go up in this. there's a lot of sleet here and it wants to make lightning and the lightning is in the sky. it's not really cloud to ground. it's cloud to cloud up there and you may see the flash and hear the thunder and think, how can that happen? it's 30 degrees. but it does happen and it's kind of startling. there's thundersnow as well but the thundersleet up i-95 has been quite something for people who are getting startled as they hear thunder. >> it's

case law in the bank of nova scotia that if a bank is based in a secrecy jurisdiction to do business in the united states with the grand jury subpoena if u.s. interest in criminal prosecutions that the bank must produce the requested information. are you aware? >> guess i am. >> you knew today employ come with the bank may be subpoenaed in switzerland. but in storage -- instead of enforcing the subpoena in the west court with the client names that the department of justice put the subpoena on hold in september 2011 filed a treaty request instead. is that true? >> it took two different request to court decisions to years ending up with 2308 accounts. is the correct? >> correct the tritium was request was made under the 1996 treaty as soon as the new treaty is ratified by and convinced he will get many maybe thousands of account names. >> there were 1500 accounts organized in the same way? those that were set up in the third country jurisdiction with a shell corporation? >> you are talking about entity accounts the federal court has set up conditions they consider the fall under tax ri

the death of president kennedy and i was with many of my colleagues at a security conference in nova scotia when it deal was announced in a great speech of senator kennedy's was running surmise that weekend and was discussing his career and a graduation speech that he gave at an american university a few months before he died in 1963 and he had started aggressive diplomatic efforts to try to reduce nuclear weapons between the united states and soviet unions. and he made a very aggressive cave for the fact that part of american strength is diplomacy and one of the phrases that he used in that speech and i would recommend it to anyone because it is interesting even when it was rewritten today is that with all appropriate skepticism and this is a direct quote, we can reduce tension without reducing our regard. it's needed to reduce this and it's needed to solve thorny problems and we don't have to relax our guard. and we want around have exactly the same. we want them not have nuclear weapons greatly with her for that we can get to that diplomatically rather than having to use military orders.

and i was with many of my colleagues at a security conference in nova scotia when the deal was announced. and a great speech of senator kennedy's was running through many of our minds that weekend. it was a graduation speech he gave at american university a few months before he died in the spring of 1963. he had started aggressive diplomatic efforts to try to reduce nuclear weapons and the nuclear competition between the united states and the soviet union, and he was heavily create create -- criticized as naive, foolish, a dupe for doing that. and he made a very aggressive case for the fact that part of american strength is strong diplomacy. and one of the phrases that he used in that speech -- and i would recommend the speech to anyone because it is a very interesting one that reads as if it was written today -- is that with all appropriate skepticism, and this is a direct quote: we can still reduce tension without relaxing our guard. aggressive diplomacy is needed to reduce tension, and aggressive diplomacy is needed to solve thorny problems, but we don't have to relax our guard. and i

this could be a nova scotia storm, not really new england or new york storm. here is the snow. it's in new england. it's all et way -- all the way back to chicago. if you see reds or oranges over you, that's sleet in the sky. 1 to 2 feet of snow in that purple area. in the darker area, it's 12 irmgs or more -- inches or more. certainly be gusts and drifts over 2 feet. there's the ice. that's what we're in right now. ice storm all the way into new york city. i suspect we'll lose power in some spots. power lines and trees will be down. it's cold out here. >> you're starting to sound cold, chad, and you're very strong. all right. we'll talk to you in a bit. >> your lips start to not move anymore. >> very true. >> get to the olympic story that we've been watching overnight. a drug raid in new york leading to the ar of four people in connection with the death of philip seymour hoffman. they're believed to be connected to the drugs found in the actor's apartment. >> big developments overnight. the nypd raided an apartment in manhattan last night. they arrested four people. police are