there because they were out of business for a little while. >> reporter: well, thomas, i'll tell you. they're in business, but it's going to be a slow day. things much different than what we saw yesterday. it was dead silence, not a single person showing up at the airport. today things are back with a vengeance. really starting to work their way down the street. and inside the terminal, it is very busy right now. you know how delays tend to go when there are backups. they get worse and worse. we have seen more people inside. they have canceled flights today. they are looking at three to five hours in delays. it is going to be a while yet. speaking to the new york sport authorit -- port authority, it will be two days. le all of the folks who have been here since saturday will have to wait a little longer. 450 of them spent the night in the naeterminal. thomas? >> new york city is far from finished in digging out itself. it remains kind of slow, and many streets, they remain completely unplowed. mayor bloomberg says the city is doing the very best that it can. >> we're asking new yorkers to do a few things as well. first, your patience. it is a bad situation, and we're working together to correct it. we appreciate it. i've been to see it myself. nobody suggests that this is easy. nobody suggests that this is plesherable, but i can tell you this, we're doing everything we can think of, working as har as we can. >> city officials say the abandoned cars in the streets are making clean-up much more difficult. jeff rossen joins us. >> reporter: right now we're on the upper east side of manhattan. you can see the sidewalk. it's pretty good. you can walk on it, it owes been salted. then you step off the kush and you step into a snow drift. you can see up and down the streets. it's almost impossible to get out. so that's what people are working on today. it's leaving for after christmas and it's trying to get somewhere before new year's. some say it could take until friday, new year's eve to get everything back on track. you have all the major new york area airports. airports across the northeast are open. it doesn't mean the airlines are ready to fly. thousands of cancellations yesterday. it numbers more in the hundreds today but that matters very little. even sitting around for three days trying to get out because as fast as they can get the planes back into new york, they don't have the amount of seats it takes to get the people backlogged in. you can see. how narrow -- look at how narrow it is. mayor bloomberg had a news conference earlier today addressing new yorkers' angle addressing the city's response or lack of it. they're trying to get help, they're trying to hire private venn drs to help as much as they can. this is unusual for new york city which prides itself on clearing storms. ambulances have been called in from other cities. we're told it's a little worse in what we call the outer borrows of new york city, queen, brooklyn, the bronx, the isle of manhattan. air travel has been crippled around the country, thomas. >> jeff rossen, thank you very much. so, richard, as we're hearing, it is slow progress, but the good new, the major eastern seaboard airports all back open. it just remains to be seen how everybody is going to get where they need to go. >> thank you very much. a different story for president obama. he's prepared to announce a top economic adviser as soon as he returns to washington. the business community is watching to see if he will choose someone from academia or wall street. the first family is in hawaii until the end of the year. so is mike viqueira. there will set the tone for relations with big business. any speculation on who it will choose? >> reporter: well, there is speculation about who will replace larry summer. now serving as the national economic adviser, that is the top economic adviser within the west wing. he was supposed to be gown now. the president asked him to stay on into the new year. he's doing so, but the replacement -- the speculation about a replacement circles around a few names, roger altman. sbeen sperling also served in the clinton to administration and is now economic adviser to the administration. jason furman is lawrence summers' deputy and this list is by no means definitive. it's important not only for the 15 million people out of work in this country but also politically for the president, the unemployment rate as we know stuck at 9.8%. the economy's starting to grow now. obviously the administration wants to focus on that. meanwhile richard, the president stays on in hawaii. more trips to the gym. he went out for shaved ice, a tradition where the president spent the bulk of his youth. he took out his girls, family that he's staying with, boyhood friends and friends back from chicago. a lot of r & r. >> back to the decision of the economic adviser. how will this decision impact how the nation's economy goes forward? >> well, first of all, there is some criticism from some quarters that he's even looking at folks like roger altman who have close ties to wall street. obviously there's a feeling that they need to distance themselves from wall street, particularly because the president used harsh debate, both of which passed congress, signature legislative i havetries for the president, but the economy was something that democratnd and con grg. that's going to be the focus. education, job training, all centered around the economy. >> thanks very much. i was hoped you would be wearing your hawaiian shirt. >> i've got on shorts, but -- >> turning to alaska, where the unfinished senate race may be finally coming to a close. nbc justice correspondent pete williams is live in washington. pete, i thought the senate race was over. >> well, the counting is over, but not the fighting over the counting. in fact, it was november 19 when he went to a federal judge and asked to stop the count. it's blocking the state of alaska from certifying a winner. the state in newly filed court document asksed the judge to lift that by today. the state says if he doesn't hurry up and lift the certificationist will be too late to get her seated as a senator when the new members are sworn in next week. now, the state says joe miller doesn't have any more legal legs to stand on. he twice lost over the argument that they used the wrong formula. miller says alaska says when you vote in ak you fill in a little oval and write in the write-in candidate as it appeared on the form. he says presighly. the whel thing is voter integrity. i had a friend who said if we had some ham, we could have some ham and eggs if we had some eggs. even if you throw out the disputed votes on the write-in issue, she still leads by 2,100 votes. that's not enough to trigger an automatic recount. what miller hopes is if he can get his lawsuit to stay alive in federal court, he can argue that some convicted felons were allowed to vote, that people's identifications weren't properly checked. he wanted to limit that margin of victory down to the point where he could get a recount. it's a bootstrap sort of issue but i think a lot of experts who looked at it doubt he'll succeed on that. >> thank you very much. i guess he'll have to eat the egg sandwich without the eggs. up next, how safe are our embassies. the u.s. is rethinking security at embassies across the globe is. plus, drugs are intensify across the globe. this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. ...a 7 day plan to get going on that new years weight loss. get the box. get the code. get started! on that new years weight loss. this is my band from the 80's, looker. hair and mascara, a lethal combo. i'm jon haber of alto music. my business is all about getting music into people's hands. and the plum card from american express open helps me do that. you name it, i can buy it. and the savings that we get from the early pay discount has given us money to reinvest back into our business and help quadruple our floor space. how can the plum card's trade terms get your business booming? 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anarchists? when did these guys come back? >> i'll try. that bomb was found in rome. they came back recently, but they've been around all the time. this was found in the greek embassy. they were simple bombs, not much explosives. aimed at grabbing attention. police say they establish add link between the bombs in italy and similar kinds of bombs, 14 of them in greece last month. all of them foreign embassies. there greece called on other worldwide groups to carry out actions. now they responded with a package bomb campaign of their own. about nine suspected terrorists arrested right before christmas here. they were planning to attack the american embassy in london as well as key sites like the new york stock exchange and westminster abby. >> so anarchists in italy and greece in some sort of formal alliance sending small package bombs. martin, since i have you, have to ask yu this. there have been recent statements that israel would be willing to accept some sort of interim peace agreement. the palestinians have so far rejected that idea. is there any hope of restarting the israeli palestinian peace process? it seemed to have been stalled, maybe even dead for so long. >> well, people always say, you know, how's the middle east peace process doing and the answer is usually what middle east peace process. what happened now is benjamin netanyahu says he believes there will be one soon. the question is does he mean it for the first time. he laid the usual conditions, you see. the palestinians recognize the jewish state. they give up the right for them to return to their former home bus they always said no to those conditions. but still, just by hinting at the possibility of compromise, it does keep the question of peace talks alive, if not actual talks and that's what everyone needs. it's better than nothing, as you know. >> the appearance of progress. i guess that's not very far along. thank you very much. so often we talk about the war in afghanistan. we used to talk more about the war this iraq, but often unnoticed is the war in mexico. gunmen today kidnapped nine people in southern mexico. police found yesterday two decapitated bodies in acapulco. in the last five years nearly 30,000 people have been killed in mexico. retired army general mccafferty was a former clinton drug czar and he's an excellent analyst on all thinging mexico and u.s. military and it's a pleasure to have him with us. now, general, what is going on in mexico, and is this a danger just for mexico and having the drug lords kill each other, or is this really a danger for the united states? i've heard it on both sides. >> i don't think there's a question. the principal criminal activity in organized crime in the u.s. in more than 200 cities are mexican drug cartels. as you point out, mass mayhem in mexico. this core rangers mexican president calderon trying to maintain federal police force oonld law and order. that's going to be a hard thing to do. if it were not for them, mexico would be in great in term peril. we need to help them. they're fighting back. they need training and support from the u.s. >> do they think they need more than that or just sending in equipment, weapons, in tell support? what more can the u.s. do? i've spoengen with homeland security people. the u.s. is already doing a lot but the process doesn't seem to be getting better. what can they do to help a real urgent problem on the border? >> i think it's been top priority for the dea. they're heavily engaged. there's also a good amount of training and equipment. but, you know, put it in context, richard. it's a little more than a billion-dollars we're providing through the inish active over three years. the current campaign in afghanistan was running probably $8 billion to $10 billion a month. >> obviously, general, this story gets a lot of attention. i was going through mexican mag zahns. i don't want to show it on air. page after page, there are beheaded bodies, corpse-ridden bodies. they say they are run by those who may have links to the united states going back to the 1980s? is there a link to that? how mill terized is this fight and did the militants get training by the united states? >> i thench that ethink there's tenuous lineage. there were those who supported the gulf cartel, but right now overwhelmingly the violence is the juarez, gulf and others murdering each other, attacking police in the army, intimidated attorneys, mayors. that's been a mass exodus. maybe 08,000 people have pulled out of juarez and fled for their lives. these two cities are a great contrast in study. five years this year in el paso, more than 3,000 in juarez. >> what a contrast. safety on one side and maybe even an arcy on the other. thank you very much. next, the president's bat toll get wall street on his side. it's not going very well. plus, while the east coast is digging out, the west coast is bracing for impact. we're tracking the latest nasty winter whether. this is andrew mitchell reports. and if you wake up often in the middle of the night... rest is here, on the wings of lunesta. lunesta helps you fall asleep and stay asleep, so you can wake up feeling rested. when taking lunesta, don't drive or operate machinery until you feel fully awake. walking, eating, driving, or engaging in other activities while asleep, without remembering it the next day, have been reported. abnormal behaviors may include aggressiveness, agitation, hallucinations or confusion. in depressed patients, worsening of depression, including risk of suicide, may occur. alcohol may increase these risks. allergic reactions, such as tongue or throat swelling, occur rarely and may be fatal. side effects may include unpleasant taste, headache, dizziness and morning drowsiness. ask your doctor if lunesta is right for you. get lunesta for a $0 co-pay at lunesta.com. sleep well, on the wings of lunesta. wall street is trading flat so far despite two pieces of bad news. a new report puts consumer dense at a lower level than expected. and housing prices fell once again in october. now to a bigger picture. politico is reporting today that distrust runs deep between the white house and wall street. john is a reporter for politico. john, i have a question. what is this big divide? what is this big divide? i'm signing it, felt it here in washington. >> they came in the midst of the worst financial crisis in many decades. it was a financial crisis that most people, economists and people that are educated about this believe was caused in a large mesh by large banks on wall street. so they had to commence this. they ended up saying pretty tough things about those leaders on wall street and i think it's just narrow that there would be conflict there. i think there's also disappointment from some of the bankers on wall street because there are those who were running for president in 2008. gave about twice as much money to him as his opponent, john mccain. and they felt that just beyond the issue of regulation that the president tried to vilify them and complained about them being paid too much money and tried to lay an awful lot of the crisis at their door. it may have been deserving, but i think the fellows who supported the president felt a little burned. >> it must go beyond name-calling. it must be something they feel the white house is not addressing. what are those issues and what is the white house's response? >> well, there are issues. but i will say that the reporting at politico has found in talking to the ceos of these banks that a lot of it is very personal. they feel personally disappointed and to some extent betrayed by the president who courted them. and so there is a personal element to it. the issues beyond it. of course, are the regulation that was passed last year, a huge regulation of the financial industry, that's going to be implemented in the coming year or two, and how that gets implemented will be influenced by the decisions that the obama administration makes. so i think that's one reason why wall street is concerned that they're viewed in such a negative light, that they're worried that there could be more bad news on the policy front coming from the administration. >> john maggs from politico. up next, u.s. combat troops are already gone. now the prime minister says he wants all american troops out of iraq. colonel jack jacobs joins me. plus some discomfort. 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[ female announcer ] hard to say really. new caltrate soft chews, we put the yum in calcium. hi, everybody. i'm thomas roberts at msnbc headquarters in new york. six people were injured today on a ski lift on sugarloaf mountain when the lift derailed. winds were 45 miles per hour when the incident happened. none of the injuries were life-threatening. an accident on the runway. officials say a u.s. airplane bound for charlotte was flipped by another u.s. plane bound for philly. it happened as the runway was being de-iced. u.s. missile strikes in afternoon border killed 17 people today. they say the apparent drone attacks were aimed at militants but say civilians may have been among the casualties. >> in new orleans an abandoned house may have been. i want to bring you more on what lies ahead in if northeast. weather channel's vivian brown has the details. so vivian, relief in sight. >> i'll tell you what. we're watching the residuals of this storm system. who would have noun. 20 inches in the central park area. wreaking havoc. we have delays here at this time. you can see over four hours' delays. we also have reports of delays at newark and new jersey. let's show you some of the overall it ove overall totals. it is still very windy today, too, over northern new england, thomas, as you were talking about. the airlift that fell actually in sugarloaf in maine, probably certainly an incident because of these winds, and they are still very, very active across this region. northwest winds in excess of 20, 30, we even got reports over other 50-mile-an-hour winds in the northeast. it's all associated with the pressure that's slowly moving away, but this is the one that dumped 20 inches of snow in central park. now, as it moves as way, you know we have high weather dominating the picture for the rest of the nation until we get to the medial west coast. offshore right now and it's already bringing with it some of the heavier rains in northern california and along the coast of oregon and this will be on the move across the middle of the country, eventually making its way to the east coast. so we'll be watching this system as well. back to you, thomas. >> and southern california got over its deluge of rain that it got. so somebody's getting something. >> absolutely. >> more on the blast of cold air hitting the southeast. officials say it's costs millions of dollars in crops. kerry san derds joins us to explain. hi, there, kerry. >> reporter: good afternoon. i'm here in one of the groves. the temperatures hit a record low. in fact, i don't need to tell you. i'll show you. look at my car here this morning. you can see the temperatures down 25 to actually 21 degrees. and, of course, the question is this is through? indeed it is. the third time in a month. for the citrus growers, this was not good news in part because as i cut open this orange hereby, i'll show you. inside, that is the juice in there but the freeze got deep inside the fruit and so while there's still plenty of fruit right now, in a couple of days it's going to go dry meaning this won't be worth anything. they're tryinggoing to try to pick as much as they can. but clearly they have suffered some losses and eventually within a week or so, we'll get a good whether it's going to affect the cost of orange juice you buy at the store. as things get impackeded here, we see the prices go up and we see product coming from other parts of the world? we'll know soon enough. thanks so much, kerry. richard, as we see, something for everybody. one thing i didn't know, kerry sanders has such good handwriting. >> and he can squeeze orange juice as well. >> he can. he's multi-faceted. a story near and dear to me. now iraq's prime minister says he wants all american troops out of iraq by the end of next year. that's on schedule. he's not kicking them out early, but prime minister norwayry al maliki wants to make sure troops don't end up staying in his country. he told "the wall street journal" the current force amendment will not be staying. he says, quiet, those agreement is not subject to extension, not subject to alteration. it is sealed. jack jacobs is stuck in a tunnel. general mccafferty has graciously offered to stick around. why is the prime minister drawing a line under this point that he wapnts them out? is it experts his authority? >> i'm sure it is about politics. he wanted to prevent both of them from going to all-all civil war. he thinks the departure will help in the process. at the end of the day, he may be required to ask us to stay with air power and intelligence. it has no institutions yet that actually can provide for external security. but the good news for us. 36,000 kanld wounded. 800 billion dollars. it's time for us to come out. >> would american special forces or more likely special ones, seals, delta, the hunters, killers that worked in iraq and worked quite effectively for years, would they remain, or would this apply to what would be a blanket agreement for all american troops. >> i would assume he would want any action oriented ground forces out, number one. but, zbe, air power, intelligence assets in my view we're going to hear more of a discussion as the tate comes due. >> it looks -- go ahead. >> as i say, the kurds are in a new question. they vehemently don't want the americans to leave. do have a fault line between the arabs and the kurds in the north. they want to seize the kirkuk, to dominate the kirkuk oil base p. so the grounds for civil service strike are still present in iraq and the americans have opinion a mitigating factor obviously in that civil war. >> that is exactly the question. the kurds no doubt would love to see permanent american bases. it's one of the most proamerican bases i've ever been. but a few months ago they looked like they were on the brink of a civil war and then they managed to hold some kind of government. do you think they'll hold or do you think iraq is going to slip whack into civil war? >> you know, i'm an optimist. i think there are going to be ugly scenes in the decade. but the others think it does not serve their interest. even the iranians at the end of the day don't believe that would be a good thing. the turks, the sadyes, kuwait, jordanians, this is not good news. syria has been playing a remarkably positive role. i hope maliki can turn this off. he's turned into an astute politician. he's got to get the sunni opposition to join. the political process is going to be very tough but the national airport and political police appear to be doing well in protecting all the people. >> general, i hope your optimism, even with all the kav yachts you used to couch it will ultimately hold the day. up next, kidnapped by the taliban in broad daylight and held for nearly eight months in pakistan. he's here to tell his amazing story. plus a dash of by partisanship, a sprinkle of dom promice and they try in the knew year. this is "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. everything is better with swanson broth in it. an essential ingredient in any kitchen. swanson 100% natural chicken broth. the new congress begins next week with republicans in charge of the house. the final days of the lame duck session ended with some cross-party kiepgs but will it last. kar karen, will it last? >> we don't yet know. as i laid out last week on the hill there were a certain combination of elements that came together last week that maybe if we could create some of that going into the next congress, we might be able to see people crossing the aisles. let's not forget we now know there is a group of republicans who are willing to cross the aisle and do a deal. that group is going to be very important to the president as he tries to put together a coalitions to get, you know, on a range offishes to get some things done. >> you say there was this kind of magic formula that made things productive. >> yeah. >> what was needed for the formula and are the ingredients going to be there? >> i hope so. and i ho even the white house as they take a look at what worked specifically at the end of last congress, that they recreate those things. number one, one of the things i pointed out was values. when we talk about the health care 911 first responders, there's something about the values that cuts across the party lines and the labels that usually stops us from having a conversation or the opportunity for bipartisan ship. so laying it out is really important. the messages were crisp and clear and straightforward. you also had not just the white house driving the message but former secretaries of state for example when we talk about the s.t.a.r.t. treaty. you have is progressive group and the grassroots party actually engaged as partners and not adversaries and the president leading the charge as a chief executive, not just as another branch of government so i hope they will try to recreate that by engaging other parts of the democratic party and other outside voices to help drive its agenda. >> thank you very much. we'll see if they continue to return and be productive and willing to compromise. in november davids rhodes was kidnapped in afghanistan. for seven months and ten days he was held in captivity while his wife kristin who he married two months before worked to secure his relief. his wife a fashion photographiy editor most recently for cosmopolitan magazine. together they've written a book called "a rope and a prayer-a kidnapping from two sides". i remember your story. i remember when you went missing. and i can only imagine what it must have been like for you. >> yes. >> i hope you sell millions and millions of copies. >> thank you. >> what do you talk about in the book? is it mostly your experiences in captivity? >> well, it's my experience in captivity and i talk about what it was like where i was held captive. but kristen's story is sort of equally important. the war in afghanistan and even less in iraq. there's this sort of hidden war. we wanted to talk aboutless the separation a lot of families are going through. people don't really feel that. we wanted to bring one case of that. >> so the hid p war in pakistan which is a hidden war in general. what was it look for you? >> it really was tough. everyone asked how did you not fall apart? >> it wasn't an option during the kidnapping. i felt i had to be proactive, try to stay positive and do everything i could to try to get him released, and that meant meeting with government officials. meeting with "the new york times." we decided to keep his case private. people honored that. >> i remember when it was embargo and people didn't respect that. what did you learn most about what you a sudden the people who held you? >> i guess what's so troubling is, you know, i escaped from captivity nearly 17 months ago and nothing has changed. this taliban where i staid still exists. the young man who tried to set off the bomb in times square, he was trained in the same part of afghanistan and the military has asked them repeatedly to go into the area and they haven't done that. it ooh's direct security threat to the united states. this young man who tried to set off the bomb, he was trying to communicate with people in pakistan. that's what i'm trying to get across, what a grave thought and how pakistan and its army needs to act. >> it undortedly is going go a fascinating read. i know there have been some positive reviews of it so far. if you don't mind, i'm going to read a little section. it was a quote that was from the book. as i lie in the darkness, i wonder if trying to escape is another rash decision that will have disastrous consequences. i try to calm myself by praying. each day, i stair at the ceiling and say, forgive me, god, a thousand times while the guards take naps. counting on my fingers it takes roughly 50 minutes to reach a thousand. tonight as i make sure that the guards are asleep i ask god to forgive me 2,000 times. you're just passing the time. >> yes. >> counting on your fingers, counting the guards, praying. >> yeah. it's funny. during that time during captivity i saw religion at its worst and at its best. it was religious extremism. they thought i was unclean because i wasn't muslim. >> they wouldn't have let you drink from the same cup. >> i found that prayer sustained me. if a friend faced a crisis, i say, pray, it can help you, steady you. i also want to say moderate afghan and moderate pakistani helped me escape. most are moderates and they don't support the taliban and i want that merge heard also. >> thank you very much for being with us. that mini state waziristan hasn't changed. it's still a breeding ground today. >> absolutely. >> i'm glad you got it out there. i hope you survive your exhausting book tour. >> thank you. >> thanks so much. >> i hope to have you again. what political stories will make the headlines in the next 24 hours? 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obviously, the idea of redemption and having a second chance, those are deeply ingrained values in the country. >> right. >> why choose to weigh in on this particular case? >> they are values of this country, but it's something the president believes in. he's talked about this before. the other thing we have to keep in mind, this is not something the president did publicly. this shouldn't be confused with, say, in the press conference when he was asked about the situation in massachusetts between sergeant crowley and professor skip gates at harvard and what happened there. this was supposed to be apparently a private conversation between the president of the united states and the owner of a football team, and it was just the owner of the football team decided to talk about what the president said to him over the phone. >> if somebody gets a flattering phone call from the president, i'm sure he'll go public with it. obviously the weather has been a story dominating this building and this city. is it on the national radar? >> sure, it's on the national radar. everyone is looking at, you know, mayor bloomberg and his response to clearing out the streets. also in philadelphia they're looking because pennsylvania governor ed rendell sort of went ballistic on the cancellation of the football game on sunday. >> yeah. richard, i don't know about you, but i love that quote because it's typical governor rendell. he is blunt spoken, says what he meanings, and he doesn't mince words. walking, doing calculus, and we were closing games because of a little bit of weather. that does it for edition of andrea mitchell reports. tomorrow on the show pakistan's ambassador to the united states and mark seigel, who was a close friend to the late prime minister bhutto before she was murdered. that's it for me, richard engel. this is andrea mitchell reports here on msnbc. let me tell you about a very important phone call i made. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement insurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn't cover everything. in fact, it only pays up to 80% of your part b expenses. if you're already on or eligible for medicare, call now to find out how an aarp... medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company, helps cover some of the medical expenses... not paid by medicare part b. that can save you up to thousands of dollars. these are the only medicare supplement insurance plans... exclusively endorsed by aarp. when you call now, you'll get this free information kit... and guide to understanding medicare, i can keep my own doctor and choose my own hospital. and i don't need a referral to see a specialist. as with all medicare supplement plans, and help pay for what medicare doesn't. call this toll-free number now... "news nation" is following breaking news out of maine where a chair lift has derailed. that accident sent five chairs crashing as far as 30 feet to the ground. the resort says six injuries have been reported. none of them believed to be life threatening. this is one of the pictures we received at nbc news.