and we hired a wolf also. we hired a real wolf.usky or a dog like everyone kept saying on the internet. the wolf, in fact, the wolf's name is rugby. and there's rugby. and his trainer molly. molly, what percentage wolf is rugby? >> so rugby actually is a timberwolf mix. so we don't know for sure the percentage. we did rescue him. but we believe about 80% to 95% wolf. >> jimmy: look at guillermo, by the way. do you want to give him a big kiss? >> guillermo: no, no. >> jimmy: really? do you want to pet rugby a little bit? >> you can pet him. >> jimmy: thank you, molly. thank you, rug bbyrugby. you did a great job. ka kate, would you like to do this again. would you bring a live bear to the closing ceremonies? >> i'll see what's going on. anything for you, jimmy. >> jimmy: we would like to present you the gold medal for pranking. have fun at the rest of the olympics. there she is, kate hansen, the girl who tweeted wolf. thank you, kate. one more thing before we march towa forward. it's thursday night. we bleep and blur things whether

so, wolf, take it all in. we don't get access like this very often where you did see the planes just sitting there. they are just sitting ducks, essentially, as crews are trying to clear out all of that snow right by the terminal. because not only is the runway the issue, but you have snow right here. so you have to make sure that when things are up and running they're able to move those planes. so that's what the focus is. that's where the concentration of the work is at this hour. wolf. >> so you're saying washington dulles airport they're getting ready to reopen. the runways have been cleared. what about reagan national, any word when that will reopen? >> you know, they hoped that they would be able to reopen these runways at around noon. however, not the case. no clear indication as to when they think it's safe. look, bottom line is this, wolf, they want to make sure it's safe for these planes to land and take off. we actually spoke with the airport's operation manager. we have a little sound from him. he

well, that's right, wolf.e're poring through 26 hours of these tapes, and getting a sense of what was happening to the residents of ft. lee. remember, ft. lee sits right at the foot of the bridge, and two of the three rains on the george washington bridge were closed down. and that led the ems coordinator there to complain publicly that it was taking three times longer for responders to get to these 911 calls. we have some of these tapes. let's take a listen right now. >> been waiting for over an hour. >> they have a new pattern. they're testing a new pattern. traffic from north of washington. it's down to one lane now. >> at 211, traffic is a nightmare. >> 10-4, we're getting calls from irate motorists. >> you are aware the town is a total gridlock, right? >> so why are these tapes -- it's dramatic, and there were more. i know you're going through more of these tapes and people were trying to get to the hospital with pregnant women or others for emergency services, and they were screaming and crying. but why

wolf? >> well, i guess a lot of folks who have 401(k)s, other investments, portfolios, are wondering, how worried should they be, the dow jones going down 1,000 points over the last few weeks? >> that's a good point. that's a lot of points, right? it's not easy when you open up your portfolio and see it drop so much from last year. but last year was really unique. i mean, you saw double-digit gains for the major indices. but at this point, wall street isn't too worried about what's happening, and many analysts aren't either. something to keep in mind. a correction doesn't mean recession. it doesn't mean, you know, a repeat of 2009. what it does mean is the market is resetting. it's a way to avoid bubbles, and you know what, everybody is saying it's time. many are saying we're overdue for a correction. that a correction is actually the understatement of the year. especially since the market hasn't had one in more than two years. now, there are a lot of concerns about how the economy will do

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i did, wolf.urity has been an issue that has been ever-present in the build-up to these games, hasn't it? i first traveled here to sochi six months ago. and then spoke to the man who's in charge of sochi 2014. and he told me then that they were doing all they could liaison to make the games the safest it could possibly be. last month they banned all liquids and gels on internal flights within russia. and when i caught up with him yesterday, wednesday, despite the recent volgograd bombings, despite the threats just this week to members of the austrian olympic team, he stood by his claim that there should be no safety concerns to anyone coming to sochi. how disappointing is it though you have athletes arriving to compete at an olympics fearing for their safety? >> sochi likely to be the most safe place in the world. and from the beginning of the project in preparation with international expert and security and supervision of the ice here russian do utmost to organize the safe and friendly environmen

>> really staggering, wolf.e report, interviewed 300-plus witnesses, 400 pages of this. it details systematic enslavement, rape, murder, torture, especially in prison camps. more than 100,000 people believed to be held. one camp survivor, just one example, told of a pregnant woman who was nearly starved to death, gave birth to a baby. a security officer heard the baby's cries, beat the mother as punishment, and then forced her to drown the baby. just one account. and it goes on and on and on about these prison camps. another account from a survivor named park ji hun, in a labor camp, told a story about women being treated like livestock. take a listen. >> jobs included plaining do planing down the hills, we didn't have shoes, and the road had rocks and broken glasses. they didn't -- they thought we were going to escape. we were risk of escape. and instead of using ox or cows as the carriage for us, four of us actually worked as a cow, dragging the cart. >> one analyst we spoke to says this is a huge breakthrough

wolf? >> barbara, thank you. with the new warnings of explosives possibly hidden inside a toothpaste tube, we wanted to see the damage that that could do. the results of our test are very disturbing. brian todd is here with an exclusive look. what are you finding out? >> wolf, it does not take much. 6.3 ounces of an explosive, not much more than the amount of toothpaste in this carry-on. here's what the explosives did in the test that we commissioned. explosives hidden inside of a toothpaste tube can be powerful and potentially deadly. this bomb in a toothpaste container blew off a car door, sent parts of it across the quarry in southeastern england with the help of an expert that helps first responders understand explosives. what kind of damage could this bomb do? >> i wouldn't want to be in an airplane with that kind of an explosive, even a big one. >> reporter: he mixed this powder with an ingredient to create a paste. he filled three-quarters with his explosives concoction and the rest

wolf?ah, certainly will be, nick valencia, thanks very much. there's also a state of emergency. as you point out in north carolina, david mattingly is on the scene for us there. he's joining us now with more on what's going on. they have had a lot of snow already, david. >> reporter: that's right, wolf of the snow was very chloe to get here, but really making its presence known right now. it's falling at a rate of about an inch an hour. and the roads that were clear a short time ago now covered. for instance, right here in downtown charlotte, take a look. this road right here, an hour and a half ago, completely clear. now you can't see it at all. and the ice isn't even here yet. this is just the snow. they're expecting an ice storm here, as well, that could come this far north. but mostly to the south and east of charlotte. so that will cause a lot of people to be in the cold and the dark tonight. that's still to come. in fact, the governor having some very straight -- some straight talk fo

in 1926, park rangers exterminated the wolf population, triggering a cascade effect.n the following years, the elk population soared, seriously impacting other species. the elk consumed much of the vegetation in the lamar valley, an area in the north of the park, and many species that depended on this vegetation, such as beavers, grew scarce. to combat this problem, different methods were adopted over the years to control the elk population, including trapping and killing them. finally, in a controversial move to restore the park's natural conditions, wolves were brought back into yellowstone after a 70-year absence. dr. crabtree: in 1995 and 1996, after 20 years of effort by a lot of organizations, wolves captured as social groups in canada were transported down, acclimated in pens, and released. the fundamental question is, is the wolf gonna fit right back into the niche it once had, or have things changed substantially enough to where their new niche is actually different than what it was at the turn of the century? narrator: scientists hoped that, as the top preda

wolf? >>> jake, thank you. new savage ree in syria's civil war. fears that the violence could spread to this country. is america's syria policy failing? >>> heroin on the rise. the death of philip seymour hoffman as an old plague brings addiction and fear to a new generation. >>> and a new poll shows new trouble for chris christie. just as conservatives welcome him back to a gathering, he may be crossing his biggest rival. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we begin with new concerns that syria's savaged violence could spread to the united states. the regime drops and islamic are beheading people as one of the allies has gone too far. is the obama administration's syria policy falling apart right now? let's go straight to barbara starr. she has the latest. barbara? >> wolf, the question is, how bad is it? consider this. al qaeda is still there and possibly heading for u.s. shores. chemical weapons are still there and civilians are being killed by the hundreds. the horror for

wolf? >> and we know that anwar al awlaki's 16-year-old son was killed in a separate drone strike, but he wasn't targeted. that was what they call collateral damage for some other strike. is that right? >> that's absolutely right. his son and the other americans, at least a couple of them, that had been killed by u.s. drones over time have been said to be -- and we don't know a lot of information, not a lot has been revealed, have been said to be people that u.s. was not necessarily directly targeting. and, of course, this is why u.s. drone strikes overseas are so controversial, and why they're so resented by so many countries. there is a very strong view outside the united states that these drones have indeed been killing civilians in places like pakistan and yemen. people in those countries understandably very resentful. wolf? >> all right, barbara, thanks very much. obviously very sensitive subject. coming up, we have more news, including iran. it has now agreed to allow more access to s

wolf? >> do we know the nationally of this suspected hijacker? >> reporter: well, according to turkish media our affiliate cnn turk he's a ukrainian national, that could mean a lot of things because in the former soviet union a lot of people give citizenship from other parts of the area. but hearing the man was a ukrainian international that did not necessarily immediately scream at me north caucasus or extremist from southern russia because there isn't a particularly big link between eastern ukraine and this part of the world where i'm standing here. it doesn't rule it out here at all if it turns out in the end this was, in fact, some sort of plot or some kind of real threat. wolf, remember in the air people can get erratic. strange things can happen. stupid things can get said, so the key thing, though, is the hijacked signal. the pilot's put out, that suggests they were adequately worried or scared and the fact now that it's in a safe zone presumably in the hands of turkish security forc

wolf? fighting back is one thing. he's got to take on david wildstein. he's got to question his character. he's got to question his judgment. because he's going to say that the guy is lying. right? but when -- you know, politically, where is that line that you cross where you don't look like you're bullying your opponents? and i think that's -- that's very difficult. but it's clear chris christie is going to defend himself in a full-throated way. and we'll see how people judge that. >> let's not forget, it was governor chris christie who put wildstein on that port authority. >> right. >> he nominated him, he got him admitted. he was his big backer. >> right. but then you saw the original two-hour press conference that christie did when he was asked about wildstein, and his allegedly close high school friend. he kind of threw the guy under the bus at that point and said no, no, we weren't friends, we hung out with different groups, i don't really know him. i don't hang out with him. so it's

wolf? this promo -- it's just a proposal right now by congressman camp, for some popular tax breaks? >> reporter: yeah. i mean, the simplification for those tax breaks really means that taxpayers could wind up, believe it or not, losing things like the deduction for home mortgage interest. but it may be worth it for some people. you know, just to have, you know, a simpler experience when filing their taxes. otherses say good luck, because some americans are concerned about eliminating those kind of things during an election year. it could cost voters. regardless, though, none of this likely to happen any time soon. lawmakers will maybe get around to it by 2017. and something to keep in to it, but this plan itself has been in the works for three years now. wolf? >> it has been in the works for a long time. don't expect this current president of the united states to sign any close to that into law either. he has a different view. maybe one of these days they will work out a grand bargain, gra

i'm wolf blitzer in washington. baldwin starts right thousand. >>> wolf blitzer, thank you, as always. great to be with you. i'm brooke baldwin. a lot of news to get to today. we want that start with this direct threat from president obama. every single american troop could be out of afghanistan by the end of this year. and today the president called hamid karzai and for the very first time, we're told, that the president is ordering plans for a complete withdrawal from the war zone. both sides are fighting over exactly how many troops will remain there, past this year. currently, there are more than 33,000 american troops in afghanistan. for more context, barbara starr joins me live from the pentagon. and barbara, this is a big deal. the president obama

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> this is cnn breaking news. >> here in washington, d.c., we're bracing for the relentless winter storm that's affecting more than 100 million people in 14 states. roanoke, virginia, just got clobbered. we're also seeing a foot of snow or more in parts of the northeast. it fell at a rate of 4 inches an hour in some places. many roads are treacherous with countless accidents. at least 11 people have been killed since the storm first hit the south on tuesday. about 700,000 customers don't have power right now. more than 6,000 flights have been canceled alone. brianed to has a look at the mess up and down the east coast. he's been on the road all day and he's joining us now live from maryland. what are you seeing? >> reporter: i'm seeing some very tough going. we just got word from virginia state police that they've responded to 1100 accidents throughout the state. two fatalities there. we're going to show you what we're seeing. we're north of baltimore,

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> possible terror threats only hours before the start of the winter olympic games in sochi. the united states is arriving airlines with direct flights to russia to be aware of toothpaste or cosmetic tubes that could be concealing explosive materials. nick paton walsh is standing by in sochi. let's get the latest from our justice correspondent evan perez on the story in washington. evan, what are you learning? >> wolf, this is a very big alert that just went out to airlines that are flying in to russia. this is not something that they're concerned about being directed here in the u.s., but as you mentioned the olympics getting under way on friday, they're very concerned about airliners that are flying into russia and the concern is about the possibility of explosives being hidden inside toothpaste tubes and cosmetic tubes and about whether or not that could be used to detonate a bomb on board airliners. now, this is obviously something that has been a c

say hello to wolf blitzer. wolf, back to you in the studio. >> cute dogs. you grew up in the south, so this is a whole new -- you live in new york now. but this is a whole new world for you, isn't it? >> reporter: it is. i did grow up in the south. but i lived in -- there kita is talking now. i lived and went to school here. so i kind of got used to not having so much snow when i lived down in atlanta. but i moved to chicago a little bit ago. not this much snow in chicago, but cold. but this is certainly out of the ordinary. because this stuff came down fast, wolf. when we started out this morning, it wasn't snowing. we got on the train earlier this morning and by the time i got here, just within a couple hours, all of this snow was already on the ground. so it came down pretty fast. >> it looks nice. have a good time with the snow. enjoy it while you're up there. all right, don, thank you. >>> new york also in the bulls-eye for this storm. chad myers is there on the scene for us. what's it like there, chad? is. >> you know, two storms over three days now.

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> it's like a scene out of homeland. elite u.s. forces nabbing an alleged al qaeda terrorist on the street in a matter of seconds. this is amid a new debate within the administration about the terror fighting tactics. the key question right now, should the united states kill, kill an american citizen who may be plotting an attack right now against the united states? our pentagon correspondent barbara starr is covering these new developments. what's the latest, barbara? >> wolf, let's get right to it. we're getting a very inside look at how the u.s. is going after some of the most critical terrorists facing the united states. in this dramatic newly released security camera footage obtained by "the washington post," a van pulls up next to a vehicle on the streets of tripoli, libya, last october. watch as u.s. army delta force commanders jump out and grab an alleged al qaeda operative. in seconds, the suspect is captured. the usual option, drone strikes.

but "the wolf of wall street" is a hideously true tale.its many laughs with fist-shaking rage. >> if you get into the mind set of these guy, this guy is bragging about the drug, he's bragging about what he's doing. you're going to feel this is not the right way of going about it. not only that, it's charming and funny. >> i don't work for you, maen. >> you have my money taped to your boobs. technically you do work for me. >> it can be tasteless at times. but is it more offensive than what's happened? >> reporter: before his 1998 arrest and indict, joe belfour made $100 million with his company by bilking unsophisticated investors into buying sketchy stocks. he did 22 months in prison and wrote a book, which dicaprio brought to scorsescorsese. >> you just tried to bribe a federal officer. financial. >> financitechnically i did bri anybody. >> the eighth nomination of his unparalleled career, scorsese uses the "wolf of wall street" to depict the culture of excess as another film explored the mob mindset. >> using elements of a style i develo

my colleague, wolf blitzer, is up next with "wolf." up next with "wolf." it starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> right now, shrinking the u.s. army down to preworld war ii size. chuck hagel will roll out the pentagon's plan to make that happen. we'll bring the announcement live and talk about what it means for u.s. national security. >>> also right now, the streets are calmer. the ex president is on the run. but ukraine's future is full of questions. he'll speak with the u.s. ambassador to the ukraine about what comes next. that's coming up this hour, as well. >>> and right now, president obama plays host to the nation's governor. on the agenda, the economy, health care, and just who might take over the white house in the election in 2016. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer, reporting from washington. we start with big cuts over at the pentagon. we're awaiting the arrival of the defense secretary, chuck hagel, and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey. they'll be laying out the details of the new proposed pentagon budg

wolf? >> we also have new information about how preoccupied he was with his own security. >> that's right. we're hearing that he lived this robin hood existence when he was on the run for many years, giving to the local population but also being protected by them. the sort rtory is, when he woul into the restaurant, the restaurant would shut down while he was there. no one would be allowed to leave. all of the cell phones were taken away from the patrons, he would get up and say good-bye and pay everyone's bill and he would get the cell phones handed back to them. we're told he got sloppy near the end. >> we'll see what happens next. more on that later. brian, thanks very much. >>> he's accused of the mass killings in civilian's last week's bloody violence. now an arrest warrant has been issued for viktor yanukovych. yanukovych, who fled kiev over the weekend, is nowhere to be found. let's go to nick paton walsh who is in the ukrainian capital of kiev. right now, nick, the last we heard fro

. >>> and crying wolf. this video quickly went viral claiming to show a wolf in sochi, but we now know the real story and who's behind it. >>> good morning. i'm marci gonzalez in for diana perez. >> and i'm john muller. we're getting word from ukraine that days of bloody battles on the streets of kiev may be coming to an end. >> you're looking at a live picture from kiev where settlement talks between opposition leaders and ukraine's president have been ongoing overnight. >> this morning kiev's main square is crowded but peaceful following the most violent confrontation yet in the months-old crisis. friday started with relative calm in kiev, quieter streets, few signs of police, far from the carnage seen yesterday, the bloodiest days in weeks of protest. a brief truce shattered as government security forces fired on protesters. these people willing to die for the freedoms that america enjoys. >> basic rules of all what you have and all what you were fighting for 200 years ago, we are fighting for this today

thank you for watching, everyone stay tuned for my colleague wolf. wolf. his program starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> the taliban offering to free five detainees from guantanamo in exchange for sergeant bowe bergdahl. also, the director of national intelligence opens up. he says the nsa's controversy could have been avoided if the u.s. governments had been more transparent from the beginning. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. we start with new details on efforts by the u.s. to get u.s. army sergeant, bowe bergdahl, back home. bergdahl worked away from his base in gaenafghanistan back in9 and captured by the pentagon. barbara starr is joining us now. barbara, is the u.s. actually offering a new prisoner swap for bergda bergdahl? >> reporter: wolf, i have to tell you, this is some of the most delicate information held by the administration at this point, obviously. a young soldier's fate is at stake here. what we do know here at cnn, there are new discussions with intermediate areas in the region. most likely t

we're not just crying wolf. it is serious business and it is something that the greatest cooperation that we can receive from the public will be our best asset. >> and wolf, as chad mentioned, the brunt of this storm, really the most severe parts start hitting in the overnight hours into early tomorrow. so when people wake up tomorrow, we'll have a much better sense of how severe and how much ice we'll be dealing with throughout the day tomorrow. wolf? >> as you know, people in the atlanta area, they went through hell a couple of weeks ago. how are they reacting to the current forecast? >> you know, this interstate that you see behind me is one of the places with the notorious images of people stranded along the highways. highways have been turned into parking lots. people expected to be trapped in their homes for the next couple of days are making runs at grocery stores for bread, milk, essentials, pictures of empty store shelves, pictures of parking lots at these grocery stores packed with cars. people really

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we begin with a horrifying report issued about north korea's regime. the report, based on testimony from hundreds of witnesses, says north korea's leaders use murder, torture, slavery, and mass starvation to keep themselves in power. it says the brutal regime has no parallel, no parallel in today's world. brian todd has been going through the report getting reaction. he's here to report on what he found. brian? >> wolf , it is the detail and some of the imagery. we have to warn viewers, some people might find the drawings at the top of our story disturbing. images of skeletal, starving people eating snakes and rats, emaciated human remains left for rats to eat, prisoners being accused and tortured. they are part of disturbing and exhaustive report of human rights in north korea. hundreds of former prisoners and other witnesses were interviewed. a survivor tells of a starving woman who gave birth in a camp. a prison official repeatedly beat the mother, s

wolf?ara starr, thanks very much. there's some more breaking news coming into "the situation room" right now. the national weather service has just issued a tornado warning from memphis, tennessee. let's go straight to our meteorologist chad myers standing by at the cnn weather center. so what is the very latest, chad? >> it's going to be a bumpy afternoon and night for people all the way south of crack down to the gulf coast. there's memphis, tennessee, right there. the big, red box, the watch box, which means sthat something is going on. it's moving ten miles to the southwest of memphis proper but this cell right there is rotating and will move into memphis in the next 15 minutes, maybe even less. now, even if you don't get a tornado where you are and it's likely that you don't because this one is fairly small, there is a large line of wind coming with the system as well. those winds could be 60 to 70 miles per hour so you need to get inside and take the pets inside. a tornado warning for

wolf? at first glance, it might be hard to tell. wolf is a licensed radiologist.has never held office before. he is a distant cousin of president obama. they have the same great, great grandfather, but wolf is a firebrand when it comes to the right wing's obsession with obama hatred. he has compared president obama to hitler, mussolini and stalin in a strange way. here is the quote from wolf's twitter account. quote, scapegoats of history, hitler, jews and gypsies. bolsheviks, i waited for the bunch line. >> the point is the only qualifications these people need to have to pass tea party muster and get the support of right wing groups is they hate obama, they hate government. i guess they love freedom in the way they define freedom. that's all. it doesn't matter what their experience. it doesn't matter what their past affiliations are, and so on and so forth. the only qualification is ideology. >> so this guy -- i guess that's what elections are about. he goes to washington. he meets the place. he looks around, he hasn't been there before, and it's fine. mr. smith

i'm wolf blitzer.'re in "the situation room." >> this is cnn breaking news. >> and we're following the fast moving and rather ominous new developments and the growing concerns that russia is stepping over a dangerous line. cnn has learned that u.s. officials now believe russian forces have landed on ukrainian territory with troops likely numbering at least for now in the hundreds, perhaps as many as 2,000 ukrainian officials are accusing russia of what they're calling an armed invasion. we have correspondents in ukraine, in russia, here in washington. they'll bring all of us the latest on the breaking news. first, let's hear what president obama said just a little while ago about this growing crisis delivered at the white house. >> good afternoon, everybody. over the last several days, the united states has been responding to events as they unfold in ukraine. throughout this crisis, we have been very clear about one fundamental principle, the ukrainian people deserve the opportunity to determine their

because it chills people that's a wolf well it was a wolf except not in sochi but in a big. the studio in los angeles in a specially constructed for the replica of the athletes' dorm hallway in sochi turns out there is no wealth of sochi we were all duped but that's not the point this fit with the whole the whole paradigm they have created about oh russia is so scary it's so crazy it's pandemonium people wrote their heads on fire and so this fit in there and so they loved it they gave it up and it shows how there is a very small thought paradigm that's allowed on most of our media and the things that paradigm or perfect you thank you rugby you do a great job kate i'd love to do this again would you consider bringing a live bear to the closing ceremony. yeah let me see what i can find out of course going on here it might have as well be fair the media would still bite jimmy kimmel's prank like nothing else has called out the us media on their obsession with finding faults with the sochi olympics. in washington i'm going to shut down. good to see that jimmy kimmel can not take

i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we're getting new information about the breaking news, an attempt to hijack a passenger jet and force the pilots to fly into sochi, russia. even as this frightening ordeal was playing out, cnn has learned new information from intelligence officials about other suspected olympic terror plots, including the use of suicide attacks and small bombs. our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto has been tracking the developments for us. he begins this hour with the very latest. jim? >> this is exactly the target authorities have worried about. a passenger jet. we have the very latest. within the last two hours, turkish special forces boarded the plane in a swift operation and took the hijacker into custody. the hijacker, we're told, did not go volume lnteerly. now, during the flight the ukrainian national attempted to have the plane diverted to sochi from istanbul. he said he had a bomb on board. pilots alerted the authorities about the hijacking but ignored his demand and continue

wolf?> and we're just getting word right now, it's fascinating, barbara, because phil black is joining us on the phone from kiev. he's there on the streets reporting for us. phil, we're just getting word that the ukrainian opposition lead has arrived at yanukovych's office for talks. this is according to the spokesman for the opposition leader. explain what potentially this could mean. because the violence, the explosions that we're hearing, they seem to be escalating even though it's approaching -- it's after midnight now in kiev. >> just a few moments ago, wolf, we saw what is described as russian security forces that drove through some of the opposition lines here. they are surrounded by security forces with shields and protective gear trying to drive their way through. crowd and that triggered enormous panic here. some of the thousands of people here are fleeing in one direction and then others running in the opposite direction trying to build up their line with the barricade. this went

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wolf?hose explosions we're hearing, those loud explosions, you're saying those are fireworks. is that what it is? >> reporter: it's a mixture. the very loud bangs we think are probably some sort of stunt grenade. that may be something used by the police for the sheer size of the barrier we hear but more often we see homemade or locally purchased fireworks fired by protesters. we went down and saw one man, very simple, you take a firework in hand, light it, put it over the top of the barricade and fire it at the police. the police in riot gear, not sure how effective it is injuring them but it's an act of aggression on the police. but they're not matched evenly here. there are protesters digging up the pavement, throwing rocks at the police, trying to make barricades, whatever they can possibly find against a heavily equipped police force changing shifts in regular numbers. >> tense situation remaining in the pictures, so dramatic from kiev. >>> eerie echoes of the cold war and the collapse

wolf, i know you said 100,000. easily, in my opinion, if this happens, like i forecast, it will be millions of people without power. and many of them will be without power for a long time. because you can't put 2 million power lines back up that quickly. there will be millions of trees down. augusta, you're right in the middle of this bulls-eye. there's usually a golf tournament in augusta. think how many thousands of trees will fall with the ice. we could see an inch of ice on every tree. trees can't handle that kind of weight. so the warnings from texas all the way to north carolina, into new jersey, as well. the storm comes in tonight. although it's raining now, it's the raining of 35. it starts to ice after midnight tonight badly. and it rains and ices in atlanta, in shore shore charlotte, augusta, columbia, south carolina. scarest forecast i've seen. two inches of liquid water raining at 30 degrees. your only hope is that it's sleet, wolf, and that when it hits the ground or tree, it bounces off or bounces off

i'm wolf blitzer in washington.> tonight on "crossfire," president obama reaches out. >> i'm going to be seeking republicans who are game to work with us. >> will he find any takers in republican red states or democratic blue states? to be left, van jones, on the right, newt gingrich. in the "crossfire," pat quinn, the democratic governor of illinois, and rick perry, the republican governor of texas. the great divide, red states versus blue states tonight on "crossfire." >> welcome to "crossfire." i'm van jones on the left. >> i'm newt gingrich on the right. tonight we have two guests who represent profoundly different philosophies of governing. here in washington in weekend democratic governors who believe in high taxes, ironclad unions and greater indebtedness are gathering with republican governors who are relentlessly cutting spending and taxes and letting the private sector fill the gaps. today in the theater of absurd watching president obama in a meeting with only democratic governors attempting to reach tout

wolf blitzer, that's just about to start. to start. have a great friday. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> right now, ted nugent apologizes. he says he crossed the line when he called the president of the united states a sub human mongrel. >>> also right now, a peace deal reached in the ukraine. the president and the opposition agreeing to the terms. now the world watches and waits to see if the deal will really hold. >>> and right now, new information coming in about al qaeda in syria. the group may be recruiting americans to carry out attacks right here on u.s. soil. >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer, reporting from washington. a surprising apology today from ted nugent for calling president obama a sub human mongrel. was he sincere? you can judge for yourself. here's what he told conservative radio talk show host, ben ferguson, just a short time ago. >> sub human mongrel -- is a derogatory term. most people agree with that. did you cross the line by calling the president of the united states of america that, and if you saw barack

wolf?ou've been there now for a while, david -- the folks of north carolina were warned about what was about to happen and that they were fully prepared for it and clearly this has been a disaster? >> they were prepared here in charlotte. and i can tell you why. they were definitely looking at what happened in atlanta a couple of weeks ago, making sure that they were going to stay out in front of this storm. the state crews and the city crews were putting salt solution down on the roads 48 hours before the first snowflake even fell here. so that means that it wouldn't freeze quite so fast and the plows would be able to make better headway. we've seen some very aggressive action here by the city, both on the expressways and on the city streets with plows coming through keeping as much cleared as they possibly can. and those plows jumped into action as soon as there was accumulation. right now the mayor has issued an emergency warning here that's essentially just saying they're going to need

>> it was really powerful, wolf. i don't think i've seen a president more laid bare and with his defenses down. it's an issue that is sort of personal to him and moving to him and we've never seen him connect. he's talked about his drug use earlier before but we've never seen him connect his drug use to answ anger that he had and not having a father there. clearly this is an issue dear and near to the president's heart. >> why do you think it's taken so long? this is year six of this presidency? >> i hear criticism like that truth of the matter is, look, in a hyper partisan environment where he has to run for re-election, an issue like this can be polarized. any issue around race, as you know, wolf, sends people to their full rise corners. the last thing the president wants to do when he's running for re-election is to have a country more polarized. i think the beauty of this time now is you can have more risky conversations that are important for moving this country forward right now in his second term. so i'm thank

wolf. >> let's see if the u.s. or the europeans call for an urgent meeting of the united nations security council. that would be an immediate first step if they sense something was about to happen. all right, barbara, thanks very much. this map illustrates the divide in ukraine. on the left the western side of the country people mostly speak ukrainian, on the eastern side closest to russia they mostly speak russian. kiev as you know is the capital. and there today the parliament has chosen a new prime minister to lead what's called the interim government. meanwhile we now know more about the whereabouts of the former president, viktor yanukovych. here's cnn's phil black. >> presidented viktor yanukovych, a man who is now a fugitive in his own country, had requested personal protection from the russian government. and the russian government had granted that protection. on the territory of the russian federation. now russia media is saying that viktor yanukovych will hold a press conference in russia in the southern

media were there to wolf it down next to cam as the details. jimmy kimmel knew that the u.s. media would take the bait when he conspired with king ten some from the u.s. louche team and posted a video of a wolf supposedly wandering the whole ways of her dorm in sochi but even the comedian could not imagine the scale of the media frenzy that followed seventeen second clip shows a large canine actually want to run. wolf in the hallway and i'm not talking blitzer to you being out from the door outside the olympic village i'm glad you're not in this hallway got to get out of there there's a stray dog problem maybe they also have a straight wolf problem you've heard of the wolf of wall street how about the wall of the olympic village the world. that's not the me from wall street to the movie thing you know not just. on here it's just unbelievable. because it chills people that's a wolf well it was a wall except not in sochi but in a b.b.c. studio in los angeles in a specially constructed for the cajun replica of the athletes' dorm hallway in sochi turns out there is no wolf of soc

wolf? >> as you know, fred, ukrainian authorities have ordered the breakup of one of their elite security police forces accused of randomly shooting into crowds in kiev. we're now learning that many of these police units, they're moving into crimea, where you are right now. how significant is that? >> reporter: it is very significant. as you said, that force was disbanded on tuesday by this new interim president. and now what's going on is this mayor that you just saw in that report, he says that he's actually willing to continue to pay those people. he says he's gotten money from somewhere. he didn't say where he'd get it from. he was going to continue to pay them. when those forces came from kiev back to the region, they were cheered by the people there. certainly they will have to face any repercussions and there are some people who want to actually still keep that force alive. one of them is that new separatist mayor there in the town. so very charged situation right now. that is certai

robert wolf, this is "bloomberg surveillance." i am tom keene, our guest host is robert wolf.iland, two people were killed as police moved in to clear a cap of protesters in bangkok, a protester was shot as adjusters threw grenades. the protests began in october. inflation slowdown of over in the u.k., consumer prices rose 1.9% in january, down from a 2% rise, putting inflation below the bank of england target for the first time in more than four years. a slowdown. making his debut as the host of "the tonight show" on nbc. he welcomed guests like will smith and u2. the return of the show to new york after 42 years on the west coast. bring it back to new york city, movies are being made here, now we have "the tonight show." >> much better on the streets of new york then la. >> you are going to get hate mail. >> i remember johnny carson playing both cities, he would make jokes. >> who am i? [laughs] >> santa? >> ed mcmahon. ceosre's a question, are making more dumb mistakes or are there mistakes just more publicized with the internet? tim armstrong is the latest ceo after his di

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