we go to siberia. 23-year-old man from morocco is the first person to be convicted in connection to the new year's attacks in cologne where hundreds of women were robbed and ssxually assaulted. he was given a suspended six-month jail sentence or stealing a mobile phonee in the chaos of celebration, crimes which shocked a country. hundreds of women robbed and sexually assaulted. face from thehis cameras, the first man to be convicted in connection. the young moroccan admitted he snatched a mobile phone from a young woman. he received a suspended jail sentence. they have identified 75 suspects, most from north africa who enter germany illegally or sought asylum. 13 were arrested for theft and one for sexual assault. in fact, cologne's police chief admitted it is possible most of the men who committed sex crimes will never be caught. >> i can't exclude it. footage is not clear enough to clearly identify sexual assaults. we can see some that's, but that is all. we are relying on witness accounts and victim

how about walking from siberia all the way to australia. our next guest actually did it she walked it. she's an accident explorer she's a professional explorer sarah marquise her new book right, wooled by nature from siberia to australia three years alone in the wilderness on foot. sarah welcome to "good day new york." >> thank you. >> are you crazy? >> why did you want to do something like this? >> wanted to when i was a kid. if you don't find me in the house i was outside in the the woods exploring birds and >> are you a loner do you look to do things alone? >> not sure like that much to be in a big group but i like people. i like to be like -- new york for example. welcome when you go on a journey look that what do you pack? what do we have here? what do you take own a journey? >> difficult to prepare, so i did for two years. everything has to be covered so we have in the backpack we have water to get the right water quality. we do have a little hammock to actually be able to sleep. >> who carries all of this stuff? >> i'm here. >> carri

. - like siberia. come on let's go. hey! - cheers! - [mark] this is where you say nostrovia and all that. - nostrovia! cheers! - great, so why don't we pour a couple drinks in here. i see the ladies got some coats on, you guys don't have microphones on so i'm gonna get a little close to ya. is this your first time in here? - in here, yes. - okay like i heard when you're in russia you go in the cooler, that's like going to the pokey. - yes. - but here it's like going to the cocktail lounge. - yeah, i think i would like it as long as they served (background noise drowns out voice). - [mark] okay, here we go. (laughing) okay so here we go. we're going to give it a little shot here. so the place is called europa, they've got great russian food, - absolutely. - we've got some great people having a great time here. - cheers! - we've got dances going on, we've got classes going on, and we've got vodka going on and it feels like we're in siberia. are you gonna have one with me? - yes sir. nostrovia. - nostrovia. - nostrovia! - more new day cl

not just arctic, coming from across the north pole, siberia.sunday morning, 13 in ocean city. 30 mile an hour wind, making it feel like it's 9 below in philly. 5 degrees feeling like 15. wilmington, feeling like 13. plymouth, 17. doylestown, 18. minus 18. the way it's going to feel, exposed skin. allentown, 20 below, close to record low temperature, by the way. in the poconos, 6 below. temperature 25 below zero windchill. at least it's not going to last that long. 23 degrees in philadelphia. 18 tonight. little bit on the breezy side. windy tomorrow. gusts of 40 miles an hour. temperatures going into upper 20s. seven day, colder and colder. chance of snow showers friday and dry over the weekend. but brutally cold. near record lows sunday. look how quickly it warms up so we have a chance of snow come in by late monday. could be snow or rain by tuesday. >>> hime john clark. flyers fading in the playoff race. what do they need to do to turn it around? eagles re-sign another player next. >>> flyers are six points behind with five teams ahead of them

coat the ground and that joins forces and it pulls down winds with an air mass that originated over siberia. over the weekend we are looking at temperatures, 20 to 30 degrees below normal and that is not including the windchills. breaking down the weekend the cold hard fact on saturday the high hits early in the day 20 degrees and temperatures dropping down into the teens and wind gusts 35 miles per hour and windchills all day long close to zero, and sunday morning is when the heart of the cold air moves over us and the poconos 12 degrees below zero, 5 degrees and the poconos 25 degrees below zero if you are headed up to go skiing, take a lot of layers and get the hand and foot warmers and take breaks with the hot chocolate and even at the shore we are looking at windchill 10 degree s below zero. the exclusive accuweather forecast below freezing until tuesday and tomorrow 29 and blufrt blustery and not that bad. friday night into saturday morning the snow squalls with the arctic front, the high 20 on saturday hitting the early temperatures fall and look at the low sunday morning that would

usual hangouts include canada, siberia and all parts of maine. police warn not to approach old man winter because he is ed: i think we' re going to get bitten again before this ends. coming up, we will take you to our a+ student. and then the next generation of sunscreen. however breakthrough formula developed locally could boost your health. we will take effect of the situation. it has apparently been improving rapidly. that fedex box that have the acid issue has been cleaned up. they have been prepared to restore the area and movement ed: when you think of a student council president, the first thing that comes to mind is someone who' s popular and outgoing. j.c.: but this week' s a plus got the job even though she was shy and felt out of place after a traumatic experience as a child. ed: newscenter 5' s antoinette antonio introduces us to abby schofield of foxborough high school. >> at the podium, giving a speech, she exudes poise and confidence. but the senior says she was actually pretty shy before joining student council. >> that his been h

from siberia to the arabian desert, cuts in oil prices. looking at this chart. less than two years ago a barrel of oil was $111 per parcel. since then it has gone down, down and down again at $250 and then less than $30, where since the end of last year it has been pretty much stuck. the-- our correspondent meets some of those struggling to make ends meet. >> reporter: protests like this one, organized without official approval are against the law in kasakstan but they want to be heard. they say repayments on their home loans have risen beyond their means and the property market has collapsed in a contracting economy. >> a small apartment, they cannot pay. >> reporter: they may be a small and vocal minority, but there is a silent struggling majority whose lives have been impacted by a falling nagts currency. the capital was built with oil money. now the oil price collapse has halved the value in six months, dramatically raising the cost of living. that's hurting everyone from employers like this woman and her employees an clientele. >> translation: the supplies

that's straight from siberia. we call it the siberian express. and the temperatures are single digits, wind chills below zero. >> not good. i'm john clark. the eagles close to a contract extension for fletcher cox? we have fletcher's take. cam newton says he is a sore loser. >>> i'm john clark. the eagles priority now is to lock up arguably the best player fletcher cox, nj.com reporting the birds are close to a deal for over $50 million guaranteed but hold on. fletcher tells comcast sportsnet they are not at all close. and fletcher tweeted out stop the nonsense, nothing is true that they are reporting. so i guess they aren't close. many people were not happy with cam newton that he walked out of his post-game press conference after the super bowl. cam spoke today for the first time since then. he's not apologizing, he says he will not conform to what others want from him. >> we've got all these people that's condemning and saying oh, man, he should have did this, but what makes your way right? i mean, i've been on record to say i'm a sore loser.

what do they call a russian who was exiled to siberia two weeks ago? mr. lucky. [ applause ] >> did you know last night the nuclear cloud was supposed to have passed over the los angeles basin? i don't know if it's-- any cause for concern, but i was at the forum last night, and her va villa shea was playing center for the lakers. [ laughter ] >> see the russians -- now the russians have claimed they have already cleaned up the reactor at chernobyl. you hear different pronounce, what do you call it? chernobyl, right? in fact they have a big, huge gigantic paper strip around the reactor that says sanitized for your protection. [ laughter ] >> did you know the soviet union waited something like apparently 36 hours before they told the people of kiev to evacuate. little slow giving out information over there, they just announced this week [ laughter ] >> czar nicholas from a long time ago. [ laughter ] >> and the saddest thing to report is because of that accident, americans have been advised to stay out of poland and romania. damn-- there go my -- [ laughter

are you going to blink me to siberia? give me a nice, warm coat. the last time you blinked me there i-- i got frostbite and almost froze to death. darling, i'm not going to blink you anywhere. i want you right here. close to me. [giggles] [magic boings] i know what you want. i know-- you want major nelson. and you want me to get him for you. well, you're not gonna get him through me, because he's my best friend. darling. i don't want major nelson at all. it's only you i'm interested in. you i'm mad about. yeah, you're mad about me, that's a joke. oh-ho, well, after all, what does major nelson have that you haven't? well, to begin with, he has a genie, and if you don't get me down from this swing, i'm gonna tell-- now, come on. will you cut that out? darling, how do i prove to you that i adore you? well, to begin with, you can disappear. well, your wish is my command, master. _______ow whoa. well, he's taken the bait. but he does not want you. he asked you to disappear. oh, yeah? watch and see what happens next. well, i... guess i showed her. anyway

. >>> on off the radar segment, sarah mckee is here to discuss her book wild by nature from siberia to australia, three years alone in the wilderness on foot. as the title suggests, the work chronicles her three year walking journey through some of the world's toughest terrain. it's an amazing book and you started, in fact ending your prolog by saying, we're going walking. what an understatement. you went through deserts and mountains you faced snakes and leopards anda alligator presidents. why? >> my journey is two years preparation. you started walking, now let's go walking, action time one step at a time. you have to let it go. all the preparation you have done all the knowledge because i've been studying every culture in every country. and the language most of the time i could actually speak few word in every language. >> so is it the challenge or do you just love being out there doing this? >> i think it's more different than this. i think it's a question of understanding of how we are built, you know what got inside. how -- ways of strengths, where we hide all that strength insid

the coldest air we've felt in a year is blowing in from siberia.means it's a bad time for this to happen. a water main break in west philadelphia at 63rd and haverford. this has turned the street into a sheet of ice and could be days before it meltss. here's a live look from skyforce 10. the water department arrived on the scene around midnight. and it took hours for them to shut off that main. good morning. i'm vai sikahema. we'll have more on that water main break in just a moment, but first let's find out just how cold it will get a

siberia comes to cleveland. it is going to get even colder by the weekend. but let's talk about what's going on right now as you head home, as you head out and about on this wednesday evening. here we go. you can see where the wind is coming from. it's basically coming from the north and west and moving across northern ohio now. let's show you where we have our current advisories and warnings. lake snow advisories for another -- well, this should say not four to eight. this should say one to three. i changed that. i changed to the one to three, but i must not have saved it. cuyahoga county, lake county, and northern ashtabula county. we're going look at another one for a total of four to eight, although some spots have already gotten nine to 13 inches. lake snow warnings for geauga and ashtabula counties. i think there will be some sort of squall setting up that could easily give at three to six inches. fighting. nicholas. right along i-90, that's a nine- inch snowfall. chardon four and a half inches. there really isn't any pure lake-effect snow yet. we had

now it's so far to the north it's not on this side of the pole it's across siberia and europe. dallas, 67. new orleans 62. atlanta, 51. because the vortex is so far out of the way, winds are out of the west southwest. this is northern canada, the arctic circle up here, this is alaska. you have to go that far to the north, 2500 miles to the north, baker lake 25 below, yellow knife 36 degrees below zero. as a matter of fact that might be the last time this past weekend we see the true arctic air move into the delaware valley. future tracker 6 today looks quiet, tomorrow is quiet, tomorrow evening the system rounds the bends and it could bring light rain to parts of the area, especially south jersey and delaware. there could a little light snow on the northern fringe of this, it shouldn't amount to all that much. monday and tuesday looks quiet. as we zoom in closer, 6:30, this will be tomorrow evening, starting out with sunshine and increasing clouds, the light rain overspreads the area. i do stress the word light. what you're not seeing the model is having a hard time picking it

we trace that air back across the north pole all the way to siberia. call it the siberian express and it's hitting this weekend. periods of snow, melting tonight, 31 degrees in philadelphia, 28 north and west. during the day tomorrow, generally dry, clouds and sun. temperatures getting up close to 40 but see how windy it is. gusts of 30 miles per hour. and then it gets colder every day. until saturday, the high of only 16 and a low of 8. with wind chills below zero for valentine's day. especially in the morning. before we warm up for the next storm. >>> we have breaking news out in delaware. we learned delaware has its first case of the zika virus, the state will make that official announcement at a news conference tomorrow but says a woman from delaware has the zika virus, it's travel related and pregnancy is not an issue. >> a famous rapper hospitalized after he collapsed. >> the musician just brought back from the dead. plus, assault with an alligator. the charge against a man after police say he threw a gator into a drive-through window. >> beyonce

deported to siberia because they participated in the struggle against it or they were just not loyalo the soph yes, it is. and of course, a could have been temporary poo almost two millio people. so they left their homes, the relatives i would say even one of my relatives. actually, i think that the acceptance of this was about the people's hearts were tuned. the same way as this song. it's about grievance. it's about a land for lost relatives. that's why people decided. i think that's my opinion. >> from kiev, thank you very much. is it ahead for you this hour. why a struggling economy in zimbabwe's land reforms program is turning full circle. a rough day in rio. details. another setback. why the stress of the economic crisis has turned to prayer beads. >>> welcome back. it's more than a decade since robert mugabe celebrates his 92nd birthday on sunday began taking land away from white farmers and givering it to black zimbabwe angels. the government plans to reissue land leases to commercial farms run by white farmers. more now. >> mitchell has been farming in zimbabwe for decades s

it's coming from siberia. we called this the siberian express. it does not happen often. but we're getting it this weekend. how cold? atlantic city, 13-degree temperature. 30 mile an hour win. feel like minus 9. millville, 10 degrees. 25 mile an hour, feeling like minus 11. wilmington, 7, 20 mile an hour wind. this is for sunday, the coldest period of this blast. 15 below in philadelphia. 17 below in plymouth meeting. doylestown, 18 below. the way it's going to feel to exposed skin. allentown, close to a record low of 1 below zero. feeling like minus 20. feeling like minus 25 in the poconos. tonight, nowhere near that. but it's cold enough for anything to refreeze. 23 for low in philadelphia. 18 north and west by morning. during the day tomorrow. colder today and wendy. 15 to 25 miles an hour, gusts up to 40 miles an hour. and then the seven-day forecast. another cold day on friday. chance of snow flurries friday night. not so concerned about snow, it's just going to frigid over the weekend. as you saw. it not going to last that long. you can see temperatures jump up next

that comes on saturday and sunday as that arctic surge, this originates in siberia, coming down, someof the cold of the air we've seep n at this ti of the year for a long, long ti time. it's not going to last. we'll see a warm-up on monday. and by tuesday, it may be warming up so it's rain or snow kind of thing. who would believe that after near record lows on sunday. 23 degrees for the low tonight in philadelphia. 18 north and west. tomorrow, gusty winds, up to 40 miles an hour. high temperatures struggling to get out of the 20s. similar story friday, flurries or snow showers friday night. fridged over the weekend. windiest period saturday and lowest temperature sunday morning and then it starts to warm up next week with a chance of rain or snow. >> thank you. >>> happening now, live picture off the coast of north jersey, the cruise ship that got battered by a weekend storm hours away from returning now to a port in bayone. a live update next. homecoming? it's awesome. but with the citizens bank education refinance loan, it gets even better. you know those people who pay a little ext

. >> we have got a european council meeting coming up in siberia. -- in february. is a very strong chance that will be a deal. if that is the case, we are looking at a referendum in june. if that is the case, yes, it is not a long time, but it is quite clear what we now need to do. currently, the debate is all about emotion. in those few weeks and months, we have got to lay the facts out in front of the british people an informedmake decision. francine: at the moment, we do not know if this country were to leave the e.u., we do not know what comes next. >> in terms of the economy and industry and the financial services sector, the argument is compelling. not only that, part of this deal which we will have in the council meeting will be to actually put the non-euro countries like britain and the interests of the city of london paramount. we will protect the position of those nine nations who have not been inth the euro zone. that is an important message. so much today is about emotion. to understandave the facts and make an informed decision. the an idea.e you're wo

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. >> we named this today in siberia because of this arctic assault we're seeing. >>> it's cold now and it will be really cold over the weekend. subzero temperatures and the windchills lower than that. the coldest air we've seen in a long time. let's go to chris lambert with what you need to know. >> keep the name through monday morning as the arctic air pours into new england. windchill warning in effect. windchill watch we're darker shade of blue is for cold windchill values 20 to 30 below zero saturday afternoon. saturday night into sunday morning. air temperature close to minus 30. that's crashing off to the south. that's what we expect to work in to new england. that won't be air temperature 30 below zero. morning. we're below zero a lot of time in the suburbs. the big deal this go around is the wind. that's what will drive the windchill values down to 20 to 30 below zero. right now it's 12 in boston. six in worcester. below zero in worcester. it's a cold day today. "today in new england" the appetizer to what we expect over the weekend. evening. a little bit more comfortable than

then we go really chilly, and just the bottom falls out over the weekend where we have a visit from siberia, and finally back to 40 later tonight. we went into the weekend 8 degrees below average and came out absolutely flat normal, which is really a statement to how cold it was over the weekend. if you look closely with precipitation type. we start to mix in sleet and rain after 7:00 in new york city. probably even a little bit earlier than that. then we climb above freezing. roadways start to get more wet than icy. i think around the five boroughs, we have mostly wet over to total rain, it will be icy on untreated surfaces. tomorrow, rain is light through the first part of the day. lunchtime is getting heavy. i think from one to 4:00 in new york city, and eastward through the early evening hours, we see very heavy rain and gusty winds over 45 miles per hour. getting nasty tomorrow afternoon, and soaking rain causing street flooding. there's the snow now climbing up into duchess county, steady over west chester and rockland, putting down an inch or two of snow. new york city and much of ne

the coldest air we've felt in a year is blowing in from siberia. and it will keep temperatures dangerously cold all weekend. the temperature plunge means it's a bad time for this to happen. a water main break in west philadelphia at 63rd and haverford. this has turned the street into a sheet of ice and could be days before it meltss. here's a live look from skyforce 10. the water department arrived on the scene around midnight. and it took hours for them to shut off that main. good morning. i'm vai sikahema. we'll have more on that water main break in just a moment, but first let's find out just how cold it will get and nbc 10 first alert meteorologist bill henley is here with our friday forecast. bill. >> vai, cold this morning, but the wicked cold will be here this weekend. we've issued a first alert for saturday into sunday. near record cold temperatures sunday morning. dangerous windchills will get started on saturday and there will be more snow showers in the next 24 hours and into the weekend. the winds during the day today will be light. at

the polar air mass but it connects to siberia. this is russia, and this cold air we're going to call it the siberian express moving in this weekend. don't be surprised when you wake up and temperatures are in the single digits. periods of snow mainly melt, temperatures right around freezing or colder, tomorrow mix of clouds and sun, but a windy day and cold day around 40 degrees. thursday we're around 30, we get colder into the weekend. single digit morning lows saturday and sunday afternoon highs in the teens, the wind will be making it feel a lot colder. >> so back outside the snow keeps on falling, really coming down in center city. hard to see. this shot's coming from the comcast center toward university city. but visibility low. we're going to get an update on coastal flooding from ted greenberg next on nbc 10 news at 5. >> it was a wet walk for this woman today. more coastal flooding hit the shore and left water covering roads, coming right up to people's doorsteps. ted greenberg joins us live with the latest. >> reporter: d

color change behind me which is really deep blue the temperatures are not as cold as they are and siberiaongolia and what leaks out is not below average as it is and it's cold and minus 11 and plus 2 in seoul and 10 in tokyo and more snow showers to come staying on this side of the frontal system with sun in between. on that note briefly japan and china are both in the polar air but it's the first time in hong kong that the sun has been out for about ten days. it's not overly warm, it's 14 degrees but the sun is back, nick? >> rob, thanks very much and see you later thank you. pro-government forces in yemen are continuing their offensive on houthi rebels and ally in sanaa province as they push towards the capitol and surrounding the rebel base east of the city and al jazeera is watching as government forces repel houthi fighters. >> reporter: you can see artillery shelling and the national army hopes to take control of the base in the coming hours, however they are worried about the ieds and the land inmines there and the base is powerless and less useful for forces as they are under tigh

because a good three-quarters of where they produce their crude oil from is in very, very cold areas in siberiaand they don't have those pipes insulated. they have to continue to pump crude oil through there. the iranians and the saudis hate one another. they have for lack of a better term a war going on, a gas price war if you want to call it that today from the old days. they are not going to let go, and the african countries innine gla, and the other areas of west africa, nigeria, they are not going to curtail supplies and neither can venezuela, and nor shall we, so this is a very -- it's a supply circumstance. you can see it in the term structure of the futures market on friday when you had a strong rally. the back months led the way up. that's not how bull markets function. that's how bear markets function and i think in this insthans mr. pickens, again, a hero of mine is wrong. i've been wrong before. i shall be wrong again but i've been very bearish with crude oil for a lock period of time and i still think new lows are coming. >> this is care. do you think it's possible that the venezue

discussion. 3 (bill)3 >> more than 200 people took their annual plunge in the ice-cold waters of siberia's weekend..buddhist pilgrims stripped down to their swim suits on the icy banks of the lake before jumping in.the icy dip marked 25 years of the event for buddhist travelers to the region.some of the people who took part say the annual swim helps strengthen their minds and will... as well as their bodies. 3 (samantha)>> this weekend.. news 4 held a contest to see which of our viewers could build the best snowman...you can see the winners over on my news four dot com...but here are some of the about 45 submissions we received... people got pretty creative with some of their snowmen... some of them were more than seven feet tall...and again.... we love seeing all your photos...you can always share them with us over on our facebook our twitter accounts...just search k-r-n-v. 3 (bill and samantha)>> we'll toss it over to meteorologist 3 for today...a tough commute especially this morning...otherwise quieting down...a mix of sun & clouds as well as breezy conditions that could lift and blow

russia, we have covered west siberia which is the size of the europe. a huge area.anctions that have been put in. the oil prices. francine: when you look at caterpillar distribution, are you worried about the commodity producers in africa? mohamed: we are rolling a sleeves and cutting down costs. the turnover was about $170 million. $1.5urnover today is about billion. there is a growth, because countries balance each other. some come down and others come up. it is very much tied to mining. yourine: do you cut investments and that echoed how do you deal with it? mohamed: investors, we think long-term. so we have to invest. we have in avco many locations in-- we have many locations nigeria, ghana did many of these ghana.es -- many of these countries are high risk but we know how to operate in high-risk areas. francine: what is high risk? five years? 10 years ago -- 10 years? commodities could be under pressure? mohamed: oil could be under pressure for two years. for the next coming two years, it will be a challenge. really lets sharpen our pencils and be prudent and h

. >> we named this today in siberia because of this arctic assault we're seeing. >>> it's cold now and it will be really cold over the weekend. subzero temperatures and the windchills lower than that.

no chris has officially dubbed it siberia saturday. danielle, how about traffic this morning. >> danielle: it's looking good out there actually. here's a look at the expressway northbound. typical slow and go, but in mange ibs december to report. from braintree into boston, that drive, well, hold on. i'm one ahead. it's 26 minutes. split. the pike from framingham into boston, mostly green. that's looking good. heading into town on 93 southbound from 495 over 128 into boston, slow and go, but mainly you're hitting the brakes as you head into somerville. route 1 looking good this morning. take a look at those drive times out the door. 24 minutes on the expressway from braintree to boston. into town on the pike from 128, 12 minutes. 93 southbound, 128 to the zakim bridge. that drive 21 minutes. if you're taking the "t," it's back to you, guys. >> sarah: now to the day's top stories. a school bus driver in dudley is behind bars, accused of driving drunk with students on board. police say 42-year-old scott poirier crashed into a utility pol

most of their production comes from siberia. they can't shut those wells off because they'll freeze have have to be redrilled. so do you think the meeting is going to be held? probably. will anything come of it? maybe. if an agreement is made, do i think they'll all agree to it and follow through? absolutely not. whatever opec says about curtailing product, never comes to fruition. everybody cheats. >> yeah. >> you learn that opec cheats. tt margin, can you expect venezuela to follow through even though venezuela is having for a reduction in production? they cannot. they won't. >> all things considered, that is a surprisingly optimistic tone from mr. gart man. >> yeah, short-term. you expect the bounce and maybe some selling up in gold. >>> let's get back out to pebble beach. becky, guys, what do you have coming up? >> thank you. we have a rundown of today's global markets moves including a rebound in european banking stocks. but first, i caught up with huey lewis yesterday and talked to him about everything from the changing mu

this is ivory discovered in siberia and elsewhere made easier because of warming weather and melting tundra due to climate change. there's growing concern that chinese ivory traders are passing off illegal elephant tusks as mammoth ivory in order to avoid international elephant ivory bans. but distinguishing between mammoth ivory and elephant ivory requires technical testing which makes, again, enforcement of an elephant ivory ban very difficult unless the mammoth ivory trade is also addressed. now, some argue that despite this difficulty, legal mammoth ivory can reduce the market for illegal elephant ivory. although i don't agree with that, i do understand the concerns, and that's why with this amendment we are simply asking the g.a.o. to study the issue, to look at what various -- what various experts have to say, give us some advice. to make smart policy decisions, we need that kind of information on how a ban on the trade of fosselized ivory from mom oths would affect the illegal importation and trade of elephant ivory within the united states. so i respectfully request your supp