2014 will have been the most lethal year for global terrorism. Isil conducted more attacks than any other terrorist group one of the victims u. S. Journalist james foley was executed in front of the world by jihadi john. His mother is demanding the u. S. Do more for hostages. Our government needs to have a clearer policy and be more up front about what they can and cannot do. Nbcs kir simmons with more on her sons killer. We are an islamic estate reporter his british accent was one of the few clues to his identity. In isis propaganda videos only his eyes showing from behind a hood. But today he was identified. He is Mohammed Enwazi college educated, born in kuwait came to the uk in 1994 the son of a well to do family reportedly living in this home. Where police and reporters gathered today far from the desert where enwazi was the front man for a string of murderers. Journalist james foley. British aid workers. American aid worker peter cass significant. This man knew enwazi in london. Does that sound like the man you knew . A little bit. I dont want to be certain. But i cant deny the fact that i do find a number of similarities for sure. Reporter the reporter who identified enwazi says he wasnt always violent. He was a shy person very devoted to religion, devoted to family. Reporter he studied Computer Programmer at Londons Westminster University leaving in 2009. Sources say while in the uk enwazi did have connections to extremists in somalia and was borne to the British Security agency. He left britain in 2012 for syria. Where he rejoined isis became a symbol of their brutality. The daughter of one slain hostage said identifying enwazi was a good step but she wants more. I think all the families will feel closure. That was kir simmons reporting. This morning new images of isis in action. Soldiers smashing ancient artifacts in a museum in mosul, iraq. The men use hammers and power tools to destroy priceless pieces of history. Some of the statues more than 2,000 years old. New video released this morning from the defense department. Inside iraq the u. S. Led coalition hammering isis with nine air strikes. The targets, buildings, vehicles, and a training camp. Five air strikes were conducted in syria. In washington, a deadline is getting closer and still no deal. Homeland security is hours away from having no money. The funding fight once again drawing criticism from nypd commissioner bill bratton, said given the current threats facing this Country Holding an Agency Responsible for protecting americans from terrorism hostage to politics is irresponsible at best and dangerous at worst. Nbcs tracie potts is live in washington. Good morning. We hear the house may have a shortterm solution here. Reporter the house may have a shortterm solution. Theyre voting today. No word is said if democrats will go along. The senate has a longterm solution theyre voting on today. No word if the house will go along. Neither of them mention immigration. And separately neither of them gets us any closer to dealing with this midnight deadline. Programs and paychecks will keep rolling after midnight with a temporary fix Congress Votes on this morning. Money for Homeland Security, but just for the next three weeks. Then a meeting between the house and senate. Hopefully the senate will go to conference with us and we can work this out. Time for the senate to act. Reporter but the senates voting on a different plan this morning. Full funding, not temporary, with no mention of immigration. Homeland security secretary jay johnson tells congress a temporary fix will not work. Just makes his 230,000 employees anxious about what happens next. This is not just an inside the beltway political jousting. A failure to fund the department of Homeland Security fully has real impacts on public safety. Reporter new yorks Police Department is weighing in this morning. In a statement, commissioner William Bratton outlines all the programs he would lose if Homeland Security shuts down. He calls it irresponsible at best and dangerous at worst. Lawmakers are exploding in frustration. Republicans are criticizing each other. Whatever it takes to get it done. It shows how off the rails the Republican Party is. Reporter now the Congressional Budget Office is weighing in on this immigration issue. They say if you get rid of the president s orders that allow undocumented immigrants to stay here and work here this country could lose 6. 3 billion in terms of deficits over the next decade. A busy day ahead. Tracie potts reporting live in washington. Republicans best and brightest on full display at cpac and they have one thing in common likely 2016 president ial candidate hillary clinton. Check this out from our friends at msnbc. Com. We could have had hillary here. But we couldnt find a foreign nation to foot the bill. 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Breaking away from their owners at times from each other, seizing their moment and their shot at freedom. Something you dont see every day. Well keep an eye on this folks. Reporter the twohour chase, carried live on local and cable news. This wild tale dubbed llamas on the lam. Laum drama trending on twitter. The Arizona Cardinals agree to oneyear deals with llamas on the loose. The llama chase, the biggest since o. J. At one point, one of the deputies was trying to capture a llama with crime scene tape. Reporter like most getaways it didnt end well with the suspects. Running out of breath and time they were lassoed by modernday cowboys. A good run while it lasted. Miguel almaguer, nbc news, los angeles. And what is the worst thing that can happen when a reporter is doing a story about safety . Yes. Of course. This quickly went viral. Wyyf reporter mira ruiz crashes into part of a snowman. The South Carolina reporter managed to keep her perfect smile and thankfully she wasnt hurt. Tough times down there. It almost looks like she steered into it at first. But you know when you are on snow and ice sometimes you cant really get the right path. You can jump off and tuck and roll. Heres bill karins to tell us about the new snow coming possible arctic weather. A lot more. This is a storm moving through the west the last couple of days. The cold has really spread now. It hasnt been all that cold this february. Many areas of the intermountains west. Salt lake city windchill 23. Chilly compared to lately. Denver negative 22. Some of the cold air from the east has shifted a little bit into the middle of the country. Yes, we are going to see that next snow storm, already starting here in lubbock to amarillo another southern especially at least for the first two days. Then it heads up into the ohio valley and into the northeast. Heres the snowfall totals. Were going to get nailed in the rockies. Even some of the mountains here california can see some of this snow. Notice our projections here. This is over the next 72 hours. Pretty good swath of snow that goes through the rockies with heavy snow. Then that patch of snow as the storm moves east through the ohio valley into the northeast. So as far as the forecast for today goes i showed you the snow in texas. Intermountain west not bad this afternoon. Well warm up for the cities. But the Higher Elevations youll have a little wintry mess to deal with. In the southwest, were seeing some of the warmest air in the country. So the weather pattern is changing as we head into march. That can be a good thing if you want some wet weather. Were coming in like a lion or a lamb . In between. Its not a big lion. Its a baby cub. Thank you, bill. A major al qaeda conspirator is convicted in new york. Plus the controversy over the dress. You see a black and blue tres . Or gold and white . Details up next. New beauty bff. Hi there new colgate optic white express white. Wait, dont you mean me . 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They are just laying here. Its nothing, theyre just laying is there someone else there i can talk to . Because its so hard its only my little brother, im talking better than him right now. The girls father died. His fiancee was seriously injured. A shoutout to this burger king Franchise Owner in arizona. Tom barnett got a new corvette and rolex after being awarded the companys froon chits of the year. He sold them and got other franchises to pool together money and they handed out bonuses to more than 100 of his employees. Lets get down to business with c nebraskas landon dowdy, good morning. Good friday morning to you. Stocks were a mixed bag thursday trading mostly flat. The nasdaq closed up just under. 5 , closed up 11 out of the last 12 days at one point during trading within 11 points of the 5,000 mark which it has not reached since march 2000. The s p 500 and dow closed down marginally. Sbc voted to implement new rules to design net neutrality. 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Thats what weve done heavy band of rain through the puget sound. Just over the top starting to kick on out. Hopefully by the peak of rush hour, a lot of that rain will be ending. Notice the snow level, going through the higher passes its a little bit colder. There is snow at Higher Elevations. As far as this weather pattern going through this weekend, the east is well below average. A little bit below average in the middle of the country with the highs on saturday. And then the west slightly below average. This is kind of a change. We havent had many days like this. 55, 60 a little cooler than we should be in much of the west. They wont really notice it. Looks like a good weekend ahead, bill thank you very much. To entertainment news. Actress la pitas dress made missing. The gown made of 6,000 pearls is worth 160,000. D. C. Comics Catwoman Selena kyle is coming out of the closet. Issue 39 contains a scene in which kyle now retired, shares a smooch with iko, the current cat woman. An American Horror story actor ben wolf who died sunday is credited with saving three lives. His liver and kidneys were transplanted into three women. In a statement his father said in part ben was the kindest person i ever knew. He would be very glad to know three people are alive because of what he would give. Supermodel Naomi Campbell is apologizing. While in havana she grabbed an nbc news camera and yelled at the cameraman to stop filming her. Campbell later contacted nbc news and said, i am soar sorry for what happened it was all a big misunderstanding, please forgive me. Gisele bundchen reveals the dress she wore on her wedding day posting this Throwback Thursday picture to instagram celebrating her sixth wedding anniversary if i looked like that id throw my picture out there too. Opening this weekend, con man drama starring wil smith, the lazarus effect starring olivia wild. I had a hard time figuring out olivia while when she gets into that scary face. 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More than 100 syrian christians were kidnapped by the militant group on monday. From nbc news astronomers find super massive black hole 12 billion times the size of the sun. Scientists sate black hole is so big it challenges the theory about how they grow. Nas sa defines a black hole as a region of space that has such an intense gravitational field that no matter can escape it. A group of Iowa High School students set the new world record for the longest continuous web cast. They started at 3 00 p. M. Tuesday afternoon and continued until 10 00 a. M. Thursday morning. The students say they were inspired by al rokers marathon. A shoutout to al there. Landon mentioned the controversy in business. The controversy over this dress continues on social media. But even debate right here in our news room weve all been talking about it. Take a look at this dress. What colors do you see . White and gold . Or black and blue . The debate began on actual where when a user asked about the color and the social media exploded. Thedress was the number one trending topic worldwide. Thats huge. Now the today show a little later actually has the dress. It has the model in the dress. Oh its going to be interesting. I can tell you what it really is. Everyones seen it. Its supposed to be blue and black. 75 see white and gold. I think its a pr marketing genius move. Think theres two dresses and were being played. I hope maybe you can try it on later. Ill do it. The official portrait of outgoing u. S. Attorney general eric holder will be unveiled this afternoon. President obama will speak at the ceremony that will be held at the justice department. The portrait was completed five years ago. Now keep it right here for more news weather and sports. Im dara brown along with bill karins. Thanks for watching early today. Have a good one. If we keep hating one another and hurting one another, how do we ever get to peace . This morning with he hear from the family of an american killed by isis. Why the newly released identity of the man who may have killed their son doesnt matter to them at all. Disturbing new details on the homicide in hercules. Officers shoot and kill an armed man in San Francisco but the investigation far from over. Taking a live look outside this, what friday morning. Dont say monday. Lets make it a friday. Its february 27th. This is today in the bay