we get more from sicily and bill nealy. >> reporter: in the dark heart of sicily near the mafia stronghold of corleone, new muscle works the land. migrants have taken over vineyards confiscated from jailed mafia bosses. they fled violence and poverty at home to work in a place that's known for both. but here they are paid, fed, and clothed. many though are afraid to be identified, afraid of mafia vengeance. from time to time you feel a bit scared? >> some times i feel scared. >> you are looking over your shoulder? >> i am alone here, maybe, maybe sometimes we fear. >> reporter: many migrants already know mafia or at least the word. it is originally arabic, meaning "a place of refuge" which is what they have here. safety in mafia country. for now. hired from refugee camps, they now live in houses once owned by mafia leaders, like toto "the beast" rena, jailed for dozens of murders. men who may one day want their land back. >> corleone. >> i tried to protect the guys. i tried to protect myself. >> reporter: in corleone, they sell the wine from the migrants' vineyard. but not everyone is buyi

hundreds more migrants landed in sicily in recent days. authorities want more of them in the mafia's old killing fields. the godfather is behind bars can do little as the migrants work backs. bill nealy, nbc news, sicily. >>> next here tonight, they're a family of four. now the newes (toilet flush) if you need an opioid to manage your chronic pain, you may be sooo constipated it feels like everyone can go ...except you. opioid-induced constipation, oic, is a different type of constipation, which may need a different approach. longing for a change? have the conversation with your doctor about oic, and ask about prescription treatment options. this just got interesting. so why pause to take a pill? and why stop to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use, is the only daily tablet approved to treat erectile dysfunction so you can be ready anytime the moment is right. r plus cialis treats the frustratingpurinary symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently, day or night. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions heart is healthy enough

hundreds more migrants landed in sicily in recent days. authorities want more of them in the mafia's old killing fields. the godfather is behind bars can do little as the migrants work their land and watch their backs. bill nealy, nbc news, sicily. >>> the scene at the national arboretum in washington, as a second bald eagle emerged from its shell. moment captured on live video stream. the parents known as the president and the first lady. one of them was seen feeding the new arrival that came after a first eagle hatched friday. >>> think about the sun. now imagine a group of stars at least 100 times more massive. an international team of scientists say they have identified a cluster of stars. nine of them using nasa's hubble space telescope. needless to say the monster cluster known as r-136. nasa says they're also far brighter than the sun. >>> and two emerald green comets are expected to make relatively close encounters with our planet. the first will fly within 3.3 million miles of earth tomorrow morning. the second will be just 2.2 mi

these oranges come from sicily. now, what makes them have either the blood orange or the redness in them is basically it's because mt. etna where they grow in that area. and because of t he volcanic soil. good rain, volcanic soil. you know, that's where you get these oranges from. now, these are relatively new this year in the market place. they've been around for a long time. but this is when they're in season right now. they just started. and in fact, we got these off of the boat. the first boat just came in this weeko so they're going to be in some of the stores. i'll let you know some stores to find them. >> i love the color. it looks like a hybrid almost. like an orange and -- >> the first of these which are the tarocco. they are the most popular of all the oranges, of the blood orange group. but because they're easy to peel. you can peel them like a regular they section out. sweeter. now, the first ones you're going get which are the ones now are tart to sweet. as the season goes on, they get sweeter and sweet

[ laughs ] >>> the net friction hit show house of cards just got even sicily tyson has joined the cast has tacks congresswoman doris jones. >> finds out she is grooming her daughter to take over her seat in the house but the first lady wants jones to endorse her instead which doesn't go over too well. >> we haven't accomplished everything we set out to do, but the one thing my constituents have always had is the pride they take in being represented by one of their own. i refuse to rob them of that. >> this is such a great scene. sicily tyson, good morning. >> good morning. >> you have always portrayed strong women and here you are doing this in 2016 on "house of cards." what has that been like, that experience on that show? >> i'm doing it because i can do it. where i would not consider doing it because i was on a mission and at that time it was really important for me to serve the issues that i thought were important for me to serve in the way that i served them. now i feel i can just be an act actress, do anything wherever, whenever. >> you've served your mission well. because of you

>> couldn't really send them to sicily after that. >> weird. we're going to join them. >> how can they have a party without them. we see yo of ambush ndke tand-new wedding dresses for thi the contest we called my big fat today wedding. and three couples started out competing against one another. america voted. this couple is from chicago, dating five years. she's a teacher. he's in software. and, you know, it was pretty cool. >> and they seemed up for everything. more than that, the people who are voting on this, the fans watching the show, really wanted to be out there with everything, you know? >> it was cool. and you know what's interesting, sometimes when it's so big, you wonder -- i was watching the family members while it was going on, and they were so into it. like it was just -- it was beautiful. >> okay, go.se everyone loved the last bridget jones movies. now the trailer is out for the bridget jones' baby. that's the name of the movie. >> relationship with mark darcy, colin firth, has recently ended. and she starts dating patrick demps

. >> you know what, i'm going to say sicily, because you get the best of italian, greece and african food all wrapped into one beautiful cuisine. [ applause ] >> yep. >> so i think that's my favorite place in the world to eat. >> i wonder if batali will say italian. >> mexico. >> absolutely, maybe. [ laughter ] there's no place that i'm going to be one place for the rest of my life.

joining the cast is ellen burstyn, sicily tyson and that campbell. a fifth season will film in maryland later on this year. take a look at this, the light snow did not panda's at the zoo. enjoying the time outside. we want to get back to the developing story, news out of los angeles. >> regarding an alleged knife that may have been recovered. possibly in connection to the o.j. simpson case. this is what we know. lapdn the last month, became aware of an item that was allegedly recovered by a citizen ghamhe rocking him -- rockin during theossibly demolition of the site, we do not know if that is an accurate account of how the item became in our possession. the item is described as a knife. i will not go into the description of the knife because it could be germane to the turning whether or not this actual piece of evidence is in fact e facsimile or a made up story. our robbery homicide will look into that. what i can tell you is that the story, as it is told to us i the person we received it from any person we received the knife from is a retired lapd

they've been taken to sicily on an e.u. vessel >>> refugees and migrants stuck at the northern boarder of macedonia are refusing to be moved to government-run shelters. the occupant have been protesting calling for the e.u. countries to open their borders. scuffles broke out. police stopping them crossing north to macedonia. many refusing to go government shelters >>> let's take you back to the breaking news out of the u.s. capital where gunshots have been reported. let's go to our correspondent. what has been the latest update on this? >> we received a defeat from d.c. police staying there's no active public threat. it was an isolated incident on capitol hill. we are getting varieties other reports. the problem with social media is it's very - the news is aggregating and it's not clear in what order a lot of tweets are coming out in. so we have to be cautious about this. initially we heard there was a shooting at the visitor's center on capitol hill. congress is in recess. that was the main matter we can be confident about

. >>> more than 600 refugees have been brought to shore on the italian island of sicily. refugees were from sub saharan africa and asia hoping to reach europe. mien while in greece thousands of refugees are trapped as neighboring balkan states shut their borders. many european governments consider them to be economic migrants and not refugees. mohamed now from lesvos. >> reporter: with the macedonian border closed. greece has been turning into a giant holding pen for refugees. most live in camps, but those from other countries are roughing it up in a tented camp set up by volunteers from across the globe. a place in this makeshift camp is the only welcome they have received, and perhaps the warmest they will get. >> some people are facing big problems. they are not taking a breath, just like that. what is going on? i have no idea. it's a crucial time for me. i have never ever seen this situation in my life history. >> reporter: those here are mainly from afghanistan, pakistan, and morocco. the european union considers them economic migrants and unqualified for refugees st

sicily. no way. no way. did anyone come to an island with a good intention?ver in this new world. best case in the world, bring syphilis. pretty much. at the very least. >> yes. captain cook put his sailors ashore just a little northwest of here. hawaii killed its first tourist. philippines killed their first tourist but people on the islands born on the islands. view anyone who comes ashore with suspicion. >> what defines a hawaiian? maybe should go back in our imaginations to could have been 2,000 years ago. the tahitians had this voyage way before any other culture was exploring the deep seas. somehow, someplace in the south pacific, single most isolated in the planet. fast forward to captain cook and his identification. get a glimpse, very productive people. they're industrious, healthy. strong, time for the arts. that was a large population, more than half of what we have in hawaii today. fully sustainable, because there was no other choice. so over time, the native hawaiian population goes to 22,000. it's the same story. introduced disease. introduced t

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she says at a time procedure is being used in places like sicily and greece and has proven ineffectively. >> the pentagon disciplined more than a dozen service members for an airstrike in kunduz who killed 42 people. the u.s. military said the bombing was accidental. no one will face chim charges. the punishments have not been made public but reports say they are mostly administrative. a kurdish t.v. channel posted a video of an american isil fighter who certain rendered to the peshmerga earlier this week. he said he regrets his decision to join isil and tried to contact kurdish forces to help him. >> i didn't really support their ideology. and at that point, that's when i decided tu needed to escape. >> he is a village native. a man has been convicted in an attack on a cartoon contest on u.s. soil. john henry smith has the story. >> reporter: courtroom observers in phoenix say he went from staring ahead to hanging his head when he heard he had been found guilty both men were shot dead by police. prosecutors said karim was the motivator, the bank roller, the trainer and age intended part

last month, exxon sent oil to a refinery in sicily. u.s.an on exports ended in december and independent traders have taken the lead in exporting american oil. amazon says customers were not using the service. they made the switch when it inroduced its new fire september 2015 with new flyer tablets. that is your bloomberg business flash. a minority owner for the yankees are selling a 1% stake in the franchise. scott broke the story and joins us now. who are the owners, the minority owners? scott: we'll know who is selling this particular stake but we did get the teaser. bankers whosent to might have clients for the purchase so we got hold of that. we do know with on the market, we are just not sure whose share it is. >> how can you market more than one share? scott: it is like an option. how do you bid on it? they will sell the full 1% as is but there are married reasons people would be involved. some lps use it as a training ground for future purchase of a majority of the team. be ablek it's cool to to close a business deal or bring them in

the state with subsidized the ods did -- thes sicilies. there is the potential for layoffs in that press conference that he gave today. rishaad: excellent for that. -- thanks a lot for that. george soros and the likes are saying they are seeing a hard landing in china right now. what about the responses to that? -- response is to that? of makers areicy responding and saying, if you are one of these bears betting a hard landing, this is rhetoric we have heard from chinese policymakers that came from the head of the top economic planner. hear what he had to say. >> we are certainly able to run china's economy within a reasonable range. we are fully confident about prospects. china's economy will never suffer a hardly -- hard landing. those protections will surely fail. fail.dictions will surely >> was to economists looking at china right now are seeing the rising level of debt. is in this new targets with more fiscal spending and monetary base growth expected. 350% of gdp has been growing incrementally, and quickly. we heard from the finance

he used tomato basil red sauce from sicily baked in square pans used by auto workers to hold nuts, boltscrunch, and in addition to the red top. >> the pizza has been around 70 years, 80ers just hitting it. >> still have pans that have been here 80 years. >> wes picula started as a dish waurer at buddy's 41 years ago. today the vice pmt of operations. >> you hear about chicago, new york, wait a second. we've got something to offer. >> reporter: detroit pizza's big moment is welcome development for famed food critic sylvia rector. she says it only makes sense. immigrants that rolled into work on booming assembly lines, also reworked food basics. >> everybody embraces everybody's else's food. that's what you do with food. a cultural currency that everybody understands. >> reporter: the type of pizzas made in detroit's italian households inspired imitations. little caesar's first commercialized square pies. now, suddenly it's hip for pizza to hail from detroit. it is amazing to see these great lakes cities, were written off years, decades ago. now there is this hip quality to them that every

. >> you know what, i'm going to say sicily, because you get the best of italian, greece and african food all wrapped into one beautiful cuisine. [ applause ] >> yep. >> so i think that's my favorite place in the world to eat. >> i wonder if batali will say italian. >> mexico. >> absolutely, maybe. [ laughter ] there's no place that i'm going to be one place for the rest of my life.

they have been taken to sicily that is part of the eu border patrol. still ahead in this half hour. anger in israel at a new law which could see parliamentarians vote to end the careers of their colleagues. plus how moves to tackle the armed group boko haram is causing a meat shortage in parts of nigeria. >> i was just trying to make music that transferred what was in my heart to other people. >> i lived that character. >> we will be able to see change. >> welcome back, here's a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. special powers have been enacted in pakistan to help authorities track down those responsible for sunday's suicide blast which killed at least 70 and injured hundreds more. >>> a sit-in near pakistan's center of government has entered a second day as thousands rally in support of the country's blasphemy laws. >>> iraq's parliament has extended a deadline for prime minister to deliver a cabinet reshuffle prompted by mass protests across the country. >>> belgian police has released one of the men arrested after last tuesday's bombings in brussels. have released a secu

>> couldn't really send them to sicily after that. >> weird. we're going to join them. >> how can they have a party without them. >> look at nia and joey. we see you. >> are they eating? >> they're eating. >> must starved by now. >> i know. >> also a special wedding edition of ambush makeovers. and brand-new looks and brand-new wedding dresses for two brides-to be and they'll see themselves for the first time. >> in a wedding dress. in wedding dresses at the reception. >> that would be fun. >> if you haven't been following caitlyn and john, they were married here. they won this thing that -- the contest we called my big fat today wedding. and three couples started out competing against one another. america voted. this couple is from chicago, dating five years. she's a teacher. he's in software. and, you know, it was pretty cool. >> and they seemed up for everything. more than that, the people who are voting on this, the fans watching the show, really wanted to be out there with everything, you know? >> it was cool. and you know what's interesti

the prime minister insists that sicily will accept nothing less from the troops. >> no charges yet, but the man accused of hijacking a plane from egypt using a fake suicide belt has appeared in court. he's described as psychologically unstable. his motive is still unclear, and all of the passengers and the crew are safely back in egypt. >>> brazil's president is under increasing appreciate to resign. after the partner decided to pull out. the central lift democratic party of brazil ru review withdf its ministers. the president is facing corruption alleges. >>> belgium has revised those killed in attacks gown from 35-3 2. they say some of the dead were counted twice. some in hospital. and some in critical condition. >>> the chinese president will meet u.s. president, barack obama o. the sidelines of a nuclear summit in washington. north korea's nuclear program is expected to be one of the topics discussed on thursday. reporting from beijing. >> the largest nuclear safety center in asia pacific is to be reopened in beijing. funded by china and the u.s. a sign of the two countries closely

it is clear threats like these will be taken sicily by police. that teenager now in custody. reporting live andrew setters, , wlwt news 5. mark: thank you. a local woman falls to her death at a nature sanctuary. police have now identified the hiker as 22-year-old mary investigators say she slipped run nature sanctuary in lexington saturday afternoon. rescuers tried to move her body using a boat, but the boat capsized with six firefighters and stewart on board. the firefighters swam to safety and recovered the body from the river. last night stewart' s classmates and coworkers held a vigil. >> katie was an extraordinary young lady. she lit up a room anywhere she went. i called her a beacon of light, so anytime she was around she would fill a room with joy. she was incredible in the way she cared for others. mark: katie' s classmates have set up a go-fund-me page to help her family. we have more information on our website, wlwt.com lisa: happening today, the trial begins for a norwood man accused of luring a teenager for sex and then holding her against her will. cody lee jacks

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you can get it at sicily. she's working with the plaza hotel to sell it there. it's 12.50 for a tube of 10 tablets. you can't make or buy your own green juice. steve: more expensive than cocktails. >> reporter: the reason i called i stumbled on these. they were so good. i want to know the deal. i like them. dari: i'm sold. i'm going to get some. >> she said it can't replace your greens but it's a great way to get extra goodness. steve: thank you. let's talk about the weather today. it was sunny and cold. >> we saw improvement further in the day. we started off with snow across the east end of long island. the sun broke through and melted out most of the snowfall we did see from this morning. in central park, we had a half inch of snowfall recorded. the high was 50. we hit that at 2:45 this afternoon. that's about average for this time of year. right now we dropped back to 47 in the park. it's 49 in islip. 46 towards montauk. 50 up towards poughkeepsie. 42 in sussex. 30s up to monticello. and these numbers are actually several degrees warmer than they were at thi

. >> they came and sicily, italy spain is germany. >> hatzel: most of the immigrants came from cuba. this is the center of life for cubans during a crucial time in cuban history. jose marti is set to have visited in building 20 separate times between 1893 and 1895. eachch time hoe was here to seek help for cuba's independence marti, the george washington >> this is the most historic city. >> hatzel: this is the origina cigar company ybor built. >> this is it. >> hatzel: incredibly important to the cubub's cause and the island's history. >> did most important each speech that jose marti ever clifford was delelered from these steps. >> hatzel: he stayed at a home where this park is now, land that still pays homage to marti, may. pay a visit and they say you're on cuban soil. >> this is deed towed the country of cuba. >> and that's twaites legal necessity our hillsboro county records. this is a point of pilgrimage bor the cuban people. they'll come here to pay ohrn to him. >> you cannot write the history of cuba without talking about him. >> hatzel: and you can not talk about tampa with

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imagine you had been the first division from north africa, sicily, and then d-day. you are told, they have enough replacements now so you will go in the general placement system and be assigned elsewhere. we have lots of anecdotes, healed and partially healed, casual saying forget this and going awol from the hospital and going back to the front lines with their units before they pushed on or got assigned to another unit as a replacement. not until march 1945 that eisenhower and shake finally relent, permitting all men to rejoinder units. this is a battle for the duration of the war in europe, keeping casuals from going back to their units. by august and september, combat observer reports began filtering in two headquarters. combat observers were typically officers rank of colonel who would go around from division ii division, court to corps, army to army, and submit reports on anything. but by september, the replacements that started to receive complaints about unfit and untrained replacements, division commanders complaining that they reduce their unit's fighting

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he used tomato basal red sauce from sicily and in a pie pan used to hold nuts and bolts and car participates and gives it a crunchy crust in addition to the racy red top. it's been around for 80 years and still hitting its traction? >> i think we have pans been here for 80 years. >> reporter: wes started as a dishwasher at buddy's 41 years ago today, he's the vice president of operations. >> you always hear about chicago. you always here about new york. i'm like, wait a second! we have something to offer. >> reporter: detroit's pizza big moments is a welcome development for civil via rector. >> everything here has been touched by the auto industry. >> reporter: she says it only makes sense. on booming assembly lines also reworked food basics. >> everybody embraces everybody else's food because what you do with food, you know, it's a cultural currency that everybody understands. >> reporter: the type of pizzas made in detroit's italian households inspired imitation. little caesars first commercialized square pies. now, suddenly, it's hip for pizza to hail from detroit, including here in hip c

the allies coordinated their strategy against the axis powers, decided to launch an offensive in sicily and in italy. on january 27, 1943, american bombers from the eighth air force conducted the first american air raid over germany. on january 30, japanese aircraft torpedoed and sank a cruiser named the u.s.s. chicago in the south pacific. 62 men lost their lives. over a thousand survived due to a daring and swift rescue. the nation was clearly engaged in war. there was every reason in the world for the president and even the united states senate to say this is no time to talk about a supreme court vacancy, but instead the president and the united states senate, even in the midst of world war ii, understood their obligation under the constitution. the senate judiciary committee held a hearing for rutledge on january 22, 11 days after his nomination had been sent to the hill by president roosevelt. the committee reported rutledge's nomination to the floor on february 1 and he was confirmed by the full senate on february 8, 1943, 28 days after his nomination. mr. president, i wanted to p