derstand, over 100 or so cases a year >> reporter: the truck is moving from thenation's capital on totlanta to be put on display in the dayse the super bowl. chris gordon,4. ne >>> the cold weather has a lot but heading indoors, hidden allergens inside your home could be making you sick while you're there. doreen gentzler working for y r health with an important warning on how to solve the problem. >> reporter: it's the season for sneezing and coughing. doctors are seeingur a in patients this time of year, and realizethem don't they're allergic to dust mites. the symptoms might seem a lot like a common >> i have some sneezing, stuffy nose, ihy nose, itchy, watery eyes. >> reporter: did you know those symptoms could be allergies too? >> we don't sleep well, we snore at night, wake up exhausted. >> reporter: the doctor is the director at watergate and burke allergy and asthma centers. he says dust mites can hide all over your home. air vents, curtains, those fluffy feathered pillows on your bed and your couch, even the down comfortersha twe like to use to keep warm during the cold winte

the president made his abrupt announcement that we would be withdrawing from syria, whiches led to thenationthe secretary of defse -- this administration is not coherent in any way on syria policy in terms of the messaging. however, i bieve what we are seeing today is indicating that the president's will has not changed. the order remains that the u.s. wille getting out of syria. rajini: as someone who has insight into dod, what do you think ofcials there are inking? derek: i think officials there are believing they are implementing the order given to them. they like many are trying to understand what is hpening in the middle east, with the national security advisor it will be a conditions-based withdrawal. vertheless, the beginning of this process, the timing shouldn't surprise us.qu thtion that will remain is w how fal this be, over what period of time, will any troops be left behind. if we don't have 2000, could relieve several hundred behind? as well as what fills the gap that the troops will leave. that is apparently what secretary of statealompeo will beng about with our partners in th

life-threatening frigid temperatures endangering millions around thenation. mail stopped. trains and planes canceled. schools closed. warnings for dozens of states. we have lifesaving details ahead. >> >> reporter: with wind chills of minus 50, every inch of your body needs to be covered, including your es, which i why i have these goggles. your corneas can actually freeze if they're unprotected in the wind and cold. >> tragedy near times square. a young mot carrying her baby in a strol downstairs to a subway platform falls to her death in a busy station. how could this happen? >> contradiction. the nation's top intelligence chiefs at odds with the president. painting a very different picture of north korea's nukes, isis and more. >> the star on tv's empire ambushed, men calling him racist and home pho names all while wrapng a rope around his neck. details ahead. >> it was a putt that sent thousands into a frenzy. "ely today" starts right now. >> good frigid wednesday morning. i'm frances rivera. >> and'm phillip mena mostly of the country waking up to dangerously low temp

. >>> new developments this morning in a plot to carry out a terror attack in thenation's capital. >>rrested a man who planned t use an anti-tank rocket to storm into the white house. justin finch is live outside of the white house with more on hof th stopped the plot. justin, good morning. >> reporter: eun, good morning. scary stuff here. it took fbi undercover agents, law enforcement team work, a source, as well as a year-long investigation to foil this white house plot. now under arrest, we have 21 hasher jalla taheb of atlanta, georgia. he is accused of trying to damage o destroy a u.s. building using fire or explosives, in this case, the white house. and we know he had his eye on prty big weapons, including explosives like ieds, or improvised explosive devices, and a tank rocket. he had his eye on other targets, including the washington monument and the lincoln memorial. this plot waske bro down because someone was paying attention. >> it's important to point out this investigation and arrest werehe direct result of a tip from the community. >> reporter: as you heard, in this cas

made thenator manchin point that west virginia is one states that went the strongest for president trump and even in his state people are going to start paying attention especially with the food stamp issue. is that resonating at the white house? >> it was the strongest margin for any state in the 2016 election. in has amanch point. it is one thing to talk about a hundred thousand federal workers, that is -- 800,000 federal workers, that is not a huge number, what people will notice is when people stop getting their food stamps. they can go through this month without that being a problem but after that it would be difficult to continue handing out benefits. military survivor benefits would stop going out. imagine how families would feel about that and what that would do to the president's political standing. people are starting to see and feel the effects of the shutdown. it will be tens of millions of americans seeing and feeling it not just hundreds of thousands before the president would back down on something that is essential to his political identity. david: senator manchin said th

talking about these issues in 2016 and 17 and 18, not just hat the house changed control, but look at thenate. the senate map in 2018, it was ortilted very much in fa of republicans. it was red state democrats who were on the ballot, and, so, there was a lot of politic calculation from folks like chuck schumer, the minorityle er, ability protecting those vulnerable incumbents. well, guess what? in 2020, there's on one red state democrat on the ballo there are a number of blue and horple state republicans on the ballot. many of them? we've already seen a number of them come out and say we would like to see the shutdown end. it's going to take a lot more than a couple of them, but they're certainly mucmore vulnerable -- republicans are more vulnerable on this issue than they were, at lea ithe senate, back in 2018. >> one of the senators on the ballot in 2020 is mitch mcconnell, the majority leader who has been mostly absent from this. >> and he's much more worried about a primary challenge. guess who else is on the ballot in 2020? lindsey graham, who is linds linde more worried about a primary

michael smith is a blogger at thenation. com, a fellow at the nation institute, a free lance writer, and work appeared in places like the guardian, ebony, huffington post. gary young is author, broad katzer, and award winning columnist at the guardian, the nation, and a fellow at the nation institute. he's written four books, his fourth back, the speech, the story behind king's dream, is why we are here tonight, giving the fuller history on the march in washington and reflects on current policy of this civil right's history and season of memorialization. i'll turn it over to gary, kind of give us introduction remarks, michael, conversation up here, and then we'll open it up to question and conversation with you. thank you. >> for those who have not seen me before, i'm gary young, and for those of you who have seen me before, i'm gary young in a suit. [laughter] it's not a particularly flail sight unless i'm at a wedding or funeral. the book is called "the speeches" which is about king's famous speech at the march on washingt