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Winterwary boston area facing another two feet of snow by the time its all over. Its only been 14 days folks and weve gotten 70 to 80 inches of snow around the commonwealth. I mean, this is pretty much unprecedented. And on the waterlogged west coast, the Pineapple Express is dumping more rain on the region with some areas getting up to a foot of rain since friday. We have coasttocoast coverage on the rundown. Amanda is in boston and bill tracking storms on both coasts. Amanda, start with you. We heard from the governor of massachusetts this morning. Where are they going put all of this snow thats coming down . Amanda . Can you here us this morning . Reporter yes. We dont have i. V. Well try to reestablish communication with amanda. You see a live shot of the treacherous weather. Look, theres bill karins. Hes got the forecast for us for the east and for the west. Bill, good morning. Yeah. Both coasts suffered this weekend, now the west coast slowly improves. That in a second. The east the beginning of a historic brutal stretch for this region. In boston we surpassed our snowiest 30day period officially on record. Most snow their records go back 150 years. Never seen this much snow in 30 days. Over 62 inches still snowing. Moderate steady snow. Already at 12 inching with this storm alone. Probably add another 6 inches by the time it ends early tomorrow morning. Can sue you can see, its not just boston but that area of massachusetts and cape cod and all the way up into maine, easily hit the hardest. About official statement out of the Weather Service from bangor maine, 53 inches of snow on the ground. Thats 4 1 2 feet of snow on the ground tying the most snow ever on the ground at one period and no signs of that melting. Over the next five days boston lucky to get into the upper 20s. Another snowstorm is possible for coastal portions of massachusetts, and maine on thursday. Thats the next thing we have to watch, and then behind that a well advertised we call this crosspolar flow. Cold bitterly cold air, coming down from the north pole. On this map, the white shows where the coldest air is. Right now where it should be. Northern canada and up to the north, but as we go through this week, huge High Pressure builds in the gulf of alaska and that cold air makes a run at the great lakes in the east. One shot comes down into the northeast on friday. Windchills as low as negative 30. Thats dangerous category and then maybe an even colder air mass comes down. It looks like chicago, green bay on saturday and that covers up much of the east coast with it peaking in the northeast on sunday. So, jose you get the idea here. We are going to go from historic snow amounts, no melting, to bitterly cold air. I mean dangerous cold over the next couple days. Man, youre saying at least probably until sunday . Oh at least through sunday into monday. And some of the extended stuff takes this cold and snowy pattern right through almost the end of february. Really no signs of relief for that area. Bill, see you shortly. Thanks for being with me. Amanda try this again. Msnbcs amanda sacuma in boston. Good morning. Reporter hi, jose. Yes, were here in front of the seaPort District, in front of a vacant lot here. One of two locations where city officials are dumping snow that theyre taking from the streets. Taking it here to temporarily store and then hopefully it will melt later on. Theres a grave amount of concern that theyre running out of locations to store this snow. Theyve rented out some industrial machines to melt the snow. Its in front of us here now and city officials told me this morning they have melted some 7,500 tons of snow already since yesterday morning. And so they will continue to do these efforts, but bostons mayor has already raised concerns that theyve blown through the 18 million budget for snow emergencies, and so right here is where you can see how high the snow is towering. Its practically a ski slope, and this is one of two locations, as i said and theyre really hoping that they will be able to melt the snow and cut through what they have already in time for the fresh layers to come down. What a difficult situation. Amanda, thank you so much. Out to the west coast. Its been a soggy 72 hours there. Bob redell with nbc station k ntv joins us from redwood city california. Very difficult for you . Reporter some of the busiest people here in the bay area pacific gas and electric workers works around the clock trying to restore power to thousands of customers who lost their electricity during this weekends storm, and as you can see by the lights overlooking Silicon Valley here it appears their work is paying off, instead of thousands without electricity, now those numbers are in the hundreds, and they hope to make progress in the next few hours to come. We had this Pineapple Express descend upon us a few days ago bringing in lots of rain saturated the roots of a lot of trees and with the wind a lot of those trees came down known on car, homes and also power linesout knocking out power. This as we enter another year of the drought. Here in redwood city california, back to you. Thank you. And today could be a make or break day in the yearlong fight thats killed more than 5,000 people in ukraine. German chancellor Angela Merkel will be at the white house in about an hour bring wig her a new peace plan to present to president obama. Its gotten support in europe almost none in russia. It may be up to the u. S. To determine where things go next. Chris jansing is nbcs senior White House Correspondent at the white house this morning. Chris what is the president going to have to be weighing in the future . Reporter several options he has, jose. One and the most pressing question is will he decide to arm the ukrainians . And he has a range of option a range of arguments that are on this desk right now as we waits for Angela Merkel to come. Theres always the option of tougher sanctions, but what hes going to hear from Angela Merkel is let his Peace Process play out. Let the draft of a Peace Agreement that has come together with france and germany see if it can take root even though the argument on the other side is that such agreements have not worked in the past. America is uniquely positioned for this. Shes from east germany. She speaks fluent russian, that taken the lead on this doing shuttle diplomacy over the weekend, by some counts talked to Vladimir Putin about 40 times over the last year, and the message will essentially be lets wait. See if this can work. Lets not act hastily. Whats going on on the other side well you heard ash carter, the president s nominee for defense secretary, when he was before Committee Last week. Suggesting that the ukrainians should be armed. We also heard it from a Bipartisan Group of u. S. Senators recently just there over the weekend in munich. So theres a very difficult decision for the president to make, and as we often hear in these case without Officials Say hes not going to be rushed into it. Hes going to consider it very carefully and there is a press conference with both the president and Angela Merkel late this morning, jose. This isnt the only thing the president and the german chancellor will be talking about today. Right . Reporter no. I mean obviously, this will be probably the focus of this discussion and i would think the focus of the News Conference, but isis is also very much on their minds. Obviously, germany a key part of this coalition and just as Angela Merkel is uniquely qualified to lead these negotiations with Vladimir Putin, theres a large Muslim Population in germany. 5 . Thats the largest in the European Union. They expect that to go up and obviously after what happened in paris, there is a lot of concern about the threat of isis. So that will probably be the other key topic. There are others including trade, but you can bet they will be very brief in their conversations that these are the top two conversations we expect them to have jose. Chris jansing at the white house. Thank you so very much. And steve clemons, washington editor at large forary the atlantic and an msnbc contributor. Good morning. Good morning, jose. What is your sense of how president obamas going to navigate the International Pressure from people like merkel to keep the conflict contained and the domestic pressure to get tougher on russia . Well i think hes going to listen carefully to Angela Merkel. If he breaks away from her he jumps in and arms the ukrainians and john mccain and others would like him to do that could well drive a wedge deep inside nato and for the president to really begin thinking about arming the ukrainians with lethal weapons requires him also to think about what happens if russia escalates not only there but elsewhere . What else is the United States prepared and willing to do . He has to have those questions answered before he would think about it. I think the president wants to buy time to think about it and not rush into action because hes got enough conflict in enough parts of his plate that it is overwhelming at the moment. This is another case where senator mccain, senator graham and others are calling for quick action and the president is saying, lets study. I want to read you part of what Angela Merkel said over the weekend about the possibility the u. S. Sends weapons to ukraine. She wrote, the problem is i cant see any situation in which an improved equipment of the Ukrainian Army leads to a situation where president putin is so impressed he will lose the military as far as militarily. Does she make a good point . A very good point. The costs that Vladimir Putin is paying for what hes doing in ukraine are very very small. You could say that his economy is imploding. As both with sanctions and the combined effect of cheap oil, but that hasnt deterred him from the rather low level of costs it can take to continue to keep ukraine destabilized and the world distracted by this. Hes negotiating with this and what needs to happen a large, strategic discussion. What does russia want what do we want from russia . Can we come to a deal . Hell keep doing this no matter how many arms we flood into ukraine. Unless were fully engaged, very disastrous for the world, but theres not a point he loses and ukrainians automatically win. Theres got to be a negotiated outcome. Thanks for being with me. Good to see you. Thank you. Also expecting to see president obama and chancellor merkel just before 10 30 eastern time. Holding a press conference at 11 40. See it right here on msnbc and weve just Getting Started on the monday edition of the rundown. Isis launched from jordan. Can they halt the advance of this terrorist group . The news we dont like to hear from as far at the gas pump. Why thats happening, ahead, on thethe rundown. Car insurance. Everybody knows that. Well, did you know words really can hurt you . What. . Jesse dont go jesse. No im sorry daisy, but im a loner. And a loner gotta be alone. Heee yawww geico. 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And just within the last couple of minutes the Supreme Court apparently by a vote of 72 declined to grant that stay. Now, theres a dissent here. Justices Clarence Thomas and antonin scalia. Thomas said this is a strange thing for the court to do. We ought to be more respectful for the states. Yes, he says i know the u. S. Supreme courts going to take up this whole issue of samesex marriage. Quote, this acquiescence may well be seen as the senate of the corporate intended resolution of that question. Thats an interesting little line from Clarence Thomas predicting that the Supreme Court might be prepared to say that samesex marriage has to take place nationwide. In any event things are very dicey down in alabama, because the state Supreme Court justice down there roy moore, has said that state judges cant issue samesex marriage licenses that the federal judges ruling striking down the ban on samesex marriage is an interesting legal precedent but doesnt directly affect what happens in alabama. Advocates of samesex marriage said any state official whose refuse to grant licenses now could be legally liable themselves. Pete williams in washington. Thank you. You bet. Of course, well get reaction to this decision in alabama from the president of g. L. A. D. Later in the hour. As friends and family of american hostage Kayla Mueller await word about her fate insisting air stooikrike did not kill her. Its unclear whether the 26yearold aid worker is alive or dead. Meantime, u. S. Led forces launched another nine air strikes over the past two days. Jordan says their planes have been responsible for nearly 60 strikes since last thursday. On nbcs meet the press, secretary of state john kerry said the strategy is working. We have taken out a significant proportion of the top leadership of isis. Their command and control facilities have been attacked interrupting their command and control. Everything including the governing process in iraq itself is moving in the right direction. But the man in charge of the fight, marine general john allen, would say only that this is a far tougher fight than the one we faced in years past. Isil is as an entirely different level than al qaeda was. Are they harder to find now . They have adapted . They have and we expected that would be the case. You dont see the long convoys with flags flying in broad daylight, but we have also adapted our targeting process. Nbcs keir simmons at an air base in jordan near the town of azaraq. How is jordan working with the United States as this battle intensified . Reporter jordan has been taking the lead over the last few days. This is one of the f16 fighters theyve been using to target isis. This is a 2000pound bomb the kind of bomb they have been dropping on those isis targets that the secretary of state was talking about there. Targeting fuel depots ammo depots targeting the isis fighters themselves. One military leader says here that he believes that these f16 f16s have managed to kill 7,000 isis fighters. So they do think here in jord than they arejordan they are having a real effect. Because of what happened to the campaign, theyve stepped up this campaign. He was flying one of these f 16 16s, captured by isis and killed in that horrible way, burned to death. What appears to have happened it had a real effect galvanizing effect. Uae planes have come in to support jordan on this very base, and that seems to have been a real misstep for isis if you can describe it that way, that has turned the tables on them. The question now of course is whether there will be some kind of a ground offensive, what forces might be involved in that. The u. S. John kerry clear it wont involve u. S. Boots on the ground, what are they though planning to back up this air power and try to push isis out of that territory that its been holding . And i just want to take advantage of the fact youre in a pretty unusual place. Has there been a lot of movement there throughout the day . Reporter there have been. To be honest weve been here two days and we have seen many many flights take off both jordanian and u. S. F16s, u. S. F22s coming in to land here. Uae fwlaens gathering. This appears to be increaseingly an aaron central for the air battle, if you like, while that said, as i mention, in the end it may come down to Ground Forces and that may well be down to the iraqis, and there are lots of questions about that, jose, because after all it was the iraqi army that withdrew when isis pushed into mosul and into that part of iraq. So were looking at potentially relying on that same army to try and take that territory back. Keir simmons, thank you so much. Good to see you. Appreciate it. Coming up here on the rundown, zooming through some of todays other top stories including, hooded gunmen reportedly opening fire in southern france. The details here on the rundown in just moments. Jacks heart attack didnt come with a warning. Today, his doctor has him on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. 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Just minutes way from the opening bell on wall street where stocks are headed for a lower opening. Mapd mandy drury joins us. Good morning. A number of things going on here, jose. Its not just greece. Also disappointing Economic Data from china. Weve watched that. Its the worlds second largest economy. Yes, youve got the greek debt negotiations. Theyre actually causing a lot of headaches here in the United States as well. The bottom line is not getting into too many wonky, messy details about the negotiations but if things dont work out, and greece leaves the eurozone the question is whos going to be next . Will it be portugal . Italy . That certainly is one of the concerns for our markets. Also sort of just changing gears a little. Have you noticed whats happening at the pump . The low gas prices they were great while they lasted but the average price of a regular gallon of gas jumped 13 cents in the past two weeks to 2. 20. Thats, of course the average. Then that recordlong sort of sustained drop every day. We saw a decline in gas prices. Now they are ticking back up. What happened mandy . Crude prices are ticking back up. Back above 50. I think around 52 and change right now. So of course last week you might remember a number of people were coming on saying maybe weve sooner the bottom in crude. The jury is still out. We dont know. Nonetheless, it trickles through to gas prices as well. Good news jose ill end on a good note here. The price for a gallon of gas is still 1. 10 below where we were this time last year. So got to put it in perspective. Thanks, mandy. Good to see you. See you tomorrow. Keeping an eye on the opening bell on the program. More on the breaking news out of alabama. The Supreme Court steps in and samesex marriages are set to begin in that state. Up next talking to the president of g. L. A. D. Plus a trial for the man accused of killing the inspiration for american sniper is set to get under way in texas. 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Pleasure to see you. Nice to see you, too, jose. Whats happening in alabama . A great day. The heart of the south is moving forward in a rapid way and half of the 14 states left to go are in the south. So its great to see one of the biggest ones moving forward. You know your organization is releasing new data on the state of gay rights. You found people are in some cases uncomfortable or very uncomfortable when it comes to same sex weddings and lgbt persons in general. What did you find . I think the highlight is weve come a long way. Twothirds of americans are comfortable, but there is a third that are still uncomfortable. And thats where the hard work starts. Thats building an acceptance across america for the lgbt people. How do you do that . Well i think its by dialoguing about it by visibility. Weve been very successful in this movement creating visibility and showing lgbt people and also about engaging our allies. Bringing the people who are nonlgbt along with us to support us. And they have a lot of power, obviously, in this country and a lot of numbers in this country. So really engaging and empowering them to help us along the way. And for example, on this situation in alabama today, that that do you think it certainly brings up a discourse on it. I mean people are talking about it. Yeah. I think, you know were talking about the south. Were talking about this is very progressive, i think, for the south. Especially for alabama. Theyre not the last state to come to the table. And so i think its really positive in a lot of ways. I think the discourse is kind of sad, because today should be the happiest day for so many couples in alabama, but instead its got this dark cloud over ter with the discourse, but nonetheless i think that building acceptance changing hearts and minds, is the job that g. L. A. D. Is doing in the south and its working. When can tums to the transgender community, the poll finds more than half of people would be uncomfortable to find out their child was getting a transgender person. What prizesurprises you about that . I think the Transgender Movement in our community is building visibility. Its been a phenomenal last year in 2014 and im seeing more and more in 2015 and visibility is critical for gaining acceptance and understanding, and so im really inspired that as we continue to build the visibility that youll see those numbers start to come down. But thats a baseline. Now we know what were working with and we can work to move hearts and minds and gain visibility. President and ceo of g. L. A. D. Thank you for being with me. Good to see u. Good to see you, phoo, thank you. At the top of the hour jury selection underway in the socalled american sniper trial in texas. Eddie ray routh charged with capital murder of his friend chris kyle at a shooting range in 2013. Chris kyles story was one of americas deadliest sniper became the main character in the movie american sniper. Reporter good morning, jose. A small texas town is consumed by this big trial that is now under way. Jury selection is under way. Theyve called in about 800 potential jurors. Theyve got the number down to about 260 right now. They hope to have it down to 12 and 2 alternates by the end of the day tomorrow. Testimony on the trial begins wednesday and ralphs attorneys plans to use insanity as a defense and bring up past mental problems as well as struggles with ptsd. Kyles widow spoke. What did she say . She spoke in a synagogue. Kayla is under restrictive order not to talk about this case or this trial and she didnt do that but what she did do was encourage Everyday Americans to support veterans. To tell veterans thank them for their service and help them in any way they can. Asked about the movie, she said it was perfect. She wouldnt change a thing. Jose . Thank you very much. Hooded gunmen a deadly shark attack and generosity drives away. Zoom through some of todays top stories were following. Developing news from france reports of hooded gunmen in the Southern City of marseille, reportedly fired automatic weapons from a car into the air. Police sealed off a housing estate. Its unclear if this shooting is drug, gang or terrorist related. The french Prime Minister is due there later today. And 272 dead in egypt. Police opened fire and the crowd. The head of egypts second largest soccer team says it didnt happen and the violence was orchestrated to foil upcoming parliamentary elections. The National Soccer League Suspended indefinitely. A japanese man killed by a shark surfing off the coast of australia today. The 41yearold was sitting on his board when the shark came up behind him, grabbed the back of his board and ripped both his legs off. The site is 12 miles south from where another surfer was bitten sunday, however that surfer survived. 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Seeing more snow. Everything around us covered in white. The front of the blue mobile what were driving around in you can see there is nothing but white on the roads. The snow banks on the sides of the roads are getting higher because since january 10th we have had five feet of snow fall in this area. This is already the fourth major snowstorm in the past 17 days. Now, the difference between this one and the other storms is that this isnt a classic noreaster with those really strong winds and those blizzard whiteout conditions. This is more of a Long Duration snow event with just steady snow falling. Its been falling through the night. Its going to last all day long and even into parts of tonight. So as you mentioned, schools are closed today. Theyll be closed again tomorrow as crews continue to try to clean up everything thats falling here. Now, the problem is theres really no place to put it. So there are snow farms where the snow is loaded up into dump trucks and delivered to these snow farms where its actually melted down, just to try to get rid of some of it. The benefit of snow it melts if you put enough heat into it. Well be in and out of snow showers all day long and they have to keep up the best they can with the roads. Its not coming ought al once and they might be able to stay ahead of things. No travel ban. Im surprised. The area were at not a heavily traveled street. Water off to the left here but we are seeing a lot of people on the roads. I think that could be an issue with the crews themselves, just because its very hard to clear the streets away when theres tons of cars on the roads. Im surprised no travel ban is in effect. See how it plays out here today. Thank you so much. Dylan dreyer great sow tea you are. Massachusetts, residents seeing another chill this morning. Their home state senator Elizabeth Warren is feeling heat from her own party. The new york working familys party is joining other progressive groups in calls for Elizabeth Warren to get into the president ial race and challenge the likely frontrunner Hillary Clinton. Meanwhile, another liberal center independent Bernie Sanders isnt pulling any punches. What he told my colleague Steve Kornacki over the weekend. I dont know shes going to run. I assume she will run. I have not made a decision if im going to run, but if i do run, and if Hillary Clinton does run, trust me there will be a real clash of ideas. Msnbc in pennsylvania over the weekend with senator sanders covering all the democratic action. Good morning. Good morning. With elizabeth warn, shgs, what is this new Group Pushing for her to into into the race against hillary . Its directed as much at hillary and elizabeth. This is hillarys home state. Getting de blasio elected mayor of new york. This is a shot across the ballot, a warning there are segments of a Democratic Base not totally onboard with her candidacy and a lot are smart enough to realize warren is likely not going to run for president. Seven if she did, would not be able to beat Hillary Clinton. This is an effort to move Hillary Clinton to the left to pressure her on certain issues especially wall street reform and as one democrat strategist put it to warrenize. Elizabeth warrenize Hillary Clinton. If warren decides, as shes repeatedly said shes not going to run who will be that foreign push hillary . Right. One might be Bernie Sanders, who i was with this weekend in pennsylvania. And a big benefit for him is that hes willing to show up. This was a conference of progressive activists in pennsylvania. They invited warren sanders, Martin Omalley Hillary Clinton and sanders was the only one who showed up. Hes an unapologetic progressive, calls himself a socialist, and people like that. So if it comes down to the two of them he will be the one to try to move hillary to the left in the primary. Told steve he wasnt decided whether he would run or not. Lets talk about him. Does he have a National Following . Have what it takes to run a campaign of that level against Hillary Clinton . Thats sort of the big question about Bernie Sanders for me. He definitely has a surprising following. Ive seen him in iowa and across the country. There are people who will come out who be who will give him Standing Ovations and cheer him and love his style. I havent seen the infrastruf infrastructure needed. What you need to run a national campaign. Part of that is he detests a lot of this kind of politics. He hates the fundraising hates the cultive personality. Im not sure he has the stomach to run for pled. Resident. He might feel an obligation if 2340 one else. Does. What will that look like . Well find out later today, the Brookings Institute hes laying out a big agenda. Single Payer Health Care hes a proponent of that. Wall street issues proponent of that. Wants to keep it very ideasfocused and probably wont go after Hillary Clinton specifically or even to go after things like her connections to wall street or donations from wall street. Other progressives have talked about that and instead will keep it on policy and extract key concessions are certain policy issues. If she were to become the nominee and eventually president , he would hope she woen act them to law. Thanks for being with us. Thank you. And a note senator sanders will be on with my colleague joey reid at 2 00 p. M. Right here on msnbc. Come uging up the president and Angela Merkel meet at the white house before an 11 40 a. M. News conference. And the president had a special message at the grammys. Just one of the many moments talking about. More on that, next. Wont you stay with me cause youre all i need im jerry bell the second. And im jerry bell the third. 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Kanye west instead of interrupting the winner west smiled and jumped off stage. Live to los angeles. Jessica, pleasure to see you. Good morning, jose likewise. It was definitely a great moment in Music Industry and we definitely have to talk about many things many of the highlights that happened last night. Lets talk about biggest performances. Styles people are buzzing about. We have to talk about madonnas performance. She proved once again why shes called a music legend with this performance, like a matador style outfit also was surrounded by bulls, it was one of the biggest moments at the grammys last night. Definitely she rocked the stage. She actually had a standing ovation once she finished her performance. This is one of the things that happened last night. Also we have to talk about pharrells performance. He made the audience happy with a different version of happy. You know he was definitely dressed a little different than we are used to. He is always what was he dressed as . Like a combination outfit with yellow shoes. He had everybody rocking, right, jessica . Definitely, jose. This is one of the happiest moments last night. He was dressed up as a bell boy. You know he also had a piano performer in his performance. Let me tell you something. There he was. Let me tell you now another thing that everybody is talking about, it was tony bennett and lady gagas performance, which was definitely like an epic moment at the grammys. They definitely sang their four five second song. It was one of the biggest things last night. Definitely this song actually award for the grammy for traditional performance of the year. We expect to see lady go go in very different outfits, but last night she definitely rocked it with her style. And jessica, the show took time to address Domestic Violence. Tell us about that. Definitely jose. President obama was the one who actually spread the word and sent out this message about Domestic Violence and this is one of the moments that you have to put your word out there, all of the artists, especially at these events they have strong drive to pass along the message to their fans and followers, so definitely president barack obama took time to address to stop Domestic Violence and followed that it was a survivor for Domestic Violence who shared her story with the audience followed by katy perrys performance, by the grace of god she sang and it was another moment related to the Domestic Violence and stopping this issue. Domestic violence a big issue last night, as was music. Thank you for being with me this morning. Appreciate your time. Thank you jose have a good one. As we take the turn on the rundown, the president meets with the german chancellor at the white house, topic one, the crisis in ukraine, and to boston where theyre defiant over winter, but winter is not done with them yet. And the latest on what we know about the fate of an american held hostage by isis militants. And potential signs for potential president ial kntd rand paul, what it means to the gop field ahead on the rundown. C rand paul, what it means to the gop field ahead on the rundown. A rand paul, what it means to the gop field ahead on the rundown. N rand paul, what it means to the gop field ahead on the rundown. D rand paul, what it means to the gop field ahead on the rundown. I rand paul, what it means to the gop field ahead on the rundown. D rand paul, what it means to the gop field ahead on the rundown. At rand paul, what it means to the gop field ahead on the rundown. E rand paul, what it means to the gop field ahead on the rundown. 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We are also staying on top of the west coast super soaker more rain courtesy of the Pineapple Express. First, amanda is a couple a jones us from boston. How bad is it there now . Reporter good morning, jose. You know one of the ripple effects of the storm is once the roads are clear, sidewalks are safe to walk on, what do you do with excess snow. City officials are less concerned about the individual storm, more worried how this will impact the already record breaking snow theyve seen the past few weeks. Thats why we are here in the sea Port District of boston, one of two snow farms where theyre storing snow trucking it in from the streets, bringing it here to temporarily hold and eventually melt. There are two locations, they have this industrial melt machine that effectively melts the snow. 150 tons of it in about an hour. City officials tell me they have melted some 7500 tons of snow in the past day alone. And thats only expected to continue. These numbers are expected to balloon through tuesday. We were in Downtown Boston this morning, i stood next to some of the piles, they were twice my height, coming close to blocking out some of the road signs. Boston is literally getting buried in snow now, and the city officials, crews are working swiftly and fast to try to clear the roads, make it as safe for people to go on with their day and commute, but theyre asking for people to stay inside be safe. Amanda thank you so much for being with me. Bring in peter judge on the phone, Public Information officer for massachusetts Emergency Management agency. Hi, jose. Let me ask about the situation with the mbta line. Well passengers have been cleared off the train itself, back to the station. Theyre working on it. Working around it as far as buses for the route going forward. We are having issues the last few days with freezing of the third rail so to speak. Therefore theyre working on it but certainly it is not an easy thing. What can you tell us about the roads this morning, peter . The roads are in pretty good shape. The fact is the storm has been intermittent if you will there have been down times where crews out there have been able to play catch up in some cases get ahead of the storm. Hasnt been one to two inches an hour. Other than that total numbers will be pretty good i think ultimately theyre going to handle the roads better than in previous storms. Look at that. What do you do with all of this snow. Spring. We are hoping for a warm spring quickly. I think youre right. That has become an issue, trucking it is obviously something we have to do but it is not really efficient theres no help in sight. Particularly metropolitan areas, inner cities the snow is stacking up. On the highways you can push it to the side not a problem. It is cities that have major issues with this again. Peter, thank you, good talking to you. Youre very welcome. Stay safe now. Heading overseas new air strikes pounding isis targets in iraq and syria in the past 24 hours. At least nine of them according to u. S. Officials. Not clear how many were launched by jordanian planes but jordan has launched nearly 60 air strikes less than a week since isis released a video of their pilot being burned to death. Richard engel is nbcs chief foreign correspondent. Good morning. Reporter good to talk to you. There have been more air strikes. Jordan is claiming success. Jordan is saying it has significantly intensified its air campaign and that it is more and more engaged in this fight. The question is how much impact they are. It doesnt seem to be slowing down isis in a major way, it is more of what we have seen before, not a significant change, not a qualitative development. On meet the press, secretary kerry said they have been effective pinpointing and hitting isis leadership that much of the infrastructure has been destroyed. Is there any evidence of that in this battle . Reporter some. Secretary kerry said 22 of territory that isis held has been taken away. He also said that many top leaders from isis have been killed. The problem is that we have seen with al qaeda in the past you take away the leadership and they can quickly be replaced. Isis still holds the vast majority of territory it held before. We were out on the frontlines with some of the Ground Troops and there are still the same problems that they had before. Not enough support, not enough partners on the ground, different visions. Too early for jordan or the United States to claim any significant success. Richard, friday they claimed the american hostage was killed in an air strike. Is there any proof one way or another this monday . Reporter there isnt. The only evidence that has come out so far, alleged evidence is a series of photographs tweeted by isis showing a few damaged buildings which it said were on the outskirts of rubbing awe. And they said it was hit by Coalition Air strikes and that the American Woman was inside and killed. But they havent produced any more specific information than those photographs. Richard, thank you for being with me from istanbul. Bring in. What does it mean her parents say she was supposed to be treated as a guest. The idea of the guest is sacrosanct. The islamic faith and culture is welcoming and protective of guests, i think theyre trying to in some ways remind them about as a guest, she deserves their protection, rather than their abuse. It is so tragic that the group doesnt have that at all as part of their modus op rand eye. What can we expect. Richard was saying theres been no real information other than release of her email address, et cetera so someone has some knowledge of her details, but theres been no confirmation one way or another. No, there isnt. You know my fear of course and i voiced this with you on the show last week was that that death would be used as justification. We dont know if kayla is alive, i hope she is dont know if she was injured a long time ago. Like what happened they negotiated not in good faith. So we have no information, we dont have a lot of human intelligence to generate actionable information as to whether she is still alive or not. I hope she is. We all do. I want to ask about the spread of isis. We heard the past week about potential of isis spreading to afghanistan, north africa former head of the Defense Intelligence agency said this sunday. Listen to it. The biggest challenge now is what i kind of describe as the wolf pack closest to the sled is isis. But there are other wolf packs around the world right now that are actually part of this larger expanding violent extremist version of islam. How do you get your arms around the threat that grows, when one part is feeling the heat can go somewhere else . This has always been the case with terrorism that we have to look at it as a multi headed hide ra. Others use the example of whack a mole. The moment youre focused on one area, trying to defeat the terrorists, theres a possibility of emergence elsewhere. I think for me whats disconcerting is that if youve got groups previously that were affiliated to al qaeda and the Larger Network that are in pakistan, afghanistan, africa that are now squaring allegiance to yids this allows isis to project its power well beyond iraq and syria, and give the impression it is a more powerful organization. But also it will allow it to recruit a lot more people in those countries because these groups that were previously connected to al qaeda will now be a funnel allowing people to go from africa to isis. So this is very problematic as we are trying to increase attacks against isis theres a possibility of more and more recruitment. Thank you for being with me. Good to see you. Good to see you. Coming up this hour german chancellor Angela Merkel expected to walk through the doors at the white house for a meeting with the president. Take you there live as a matter of fact. And the road to 2016 goes through New Hampshire. A new gop poll out. We will tell you who is on top there. And we will take you to boston where theres too much snow. Up next, to seattle, where the problem is too much rain. Residents cleaning up there today. A live report when we come back. Tigers . Dont be modest. I see how youve been investing. Setting long term goals. Diversifying. Dip you got our attention. We did . Of course. Youre type e well, i have been researching retirement strategies. Well thats what type e s do. Welce home. Taking control of your retirement . 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Traditionally republicans are hawkish, more willing to endorse military action to achieve u. S. Goals. Rand paul is very different than that. Some candidates are running who want to point that out to republican voter, includes senator Lindsey Graham john bolden, pete king all of these people are long shots to become president but all think they can have impact in the debate by focusing on National Security Foreign Policy where rand paul differs from traditional republicans. As youve seen with rand paul he sometimes gets flustered when challenged. Imagine this in a debate. Definitely something to watch, even if they arent necessarily serious contenders for president. And jeb bush barely beat out paul in a New Hampshire poll. Shows immigration and common core resonating with New Hampshire voters. 41 say allowing undocumented immigrants to stay is a deal killer supporting push. 20 say common core is a deal killer. Can bush run . General Election Campaign strategy in New Hampshire . Remember these early polls are mainly driven by name identification. People see that bush name, it is familiar. You have a slice of the electorate gravitate toward that. If jeb bush wins the nomination he probably needs to win New Hampshire. His brother wasnt able to but jeb bush also probably has problems on issues you cite common core immigration in iowa so New Hampshire is going to be where he plants his flag but as you pointed out, rand paul although he had a tough week last week still has a high favorability rating with New Hampshire voters. I think youll see jeb bush rand paul and Scott Walker Chris Christie two other governors competing. And let me play what ted cruise had to say about jeb bush. Jeb bush is a good man, a good governor i respect him. If he chooses to run, certainly looks like he is going to he is going to have to make the case to republican primary voters concerning his record concerning certainly his support for common core concerning his policies on immigration. I think we will have a debate on that. Seems those two issues are the ones everyone will be focused on visavis bush. Thats right, jose. Theres no mystery what primary lines of attack will be from other candidates especially more conservative Tea Party Candidates like ted cruz. It is immigration and common Core Education standards. Now, worth noting that bush tried to approach this by not shieg away from his positions. He has been making it clear he wants to run unapologetically on his record when it comes to immigration, education. It will be a fascinating test. But we will see how it goes. He knows the attack is coming he is doing everything he can to prepare. We will see what happens when he makes first contact. Thank you so much for being with me this morning. Appreciate it. Thank you. Now to the waterlogged west coast. Some areas could see up to a foot of rain by the time the Pineapple Express makes it out of the region. We have the latest from seattle. Reporter jose good morning. Wild weather out west here over the weekend. Socalled Pineapple Express delivering a knock out punch to many areas in the region. Here in washington state, we saw three feet of water in one community. It was steady rain for five days. We are going to continue to see more rain here to our north, excuse me to the south in california. This storm system did help out the drought, is not going to solve it it was a warm weather maker, didnt add much to the snow pack. That area reeling with downed treegs, power outages, widespread issues across the roads. It is a day of cleanup across the west. Many folks try to get on their feet and dry out. Thank you so very much. Up next we are going to zoom through some of todays other stories making headlines. Bruce jenner often making the front pages of the tabloids. Over the weekend was involved in a mysterious car accident. And fast moving developments in alabama in the past hour surrounding samesex marriage. Judges there started to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples after a last minute stay from the Supreme Court. The latest on the rundown. And we could soon become number one in oil. Because Hydraulic Fracturing Technology is safely recovering lots more oil and natural gas. Supporting millions of new jobs. Billions in tax revenue. And a new century of American Energy security. The new Energy Superpower . Its red, white and blue. Log on to learn more. [ female announcer ] we help make secure financial tomorrows a reality for over 19 million people. [ mom ] with life insurance, wre not just insuring our lives. Were helping protect his. 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Investigators are looking for video, witnesses, phone records to see whether texting or talking played a part in the four car pile up. This morning, jenner promises to cooperate in every way possible. Yet another headline for the reality star who has been in plenty of them lately. Nbcs Halle Jackson has more from los angeles. Reporter cameras captured the exact moment broois jenners cadillac slammed into the car ahead of him, video shows him outside the suv seconds after impact. The police say the paparazzi who track nearly every move jenner makes probably did not trigger the Chain Reaction crash that killed one woman and hospitalized seven other people. Unlikely due to the fact there was traffic and other cars stopped. Reporter police say a toyota prius slowed or stopped on the highway, was rear ended by a woman in a lexus. Jenners escalade hit the lexus, pushing it into ongoing traffic where a hummer hit it killing the woman behind the wheel of the lexus. Jenner wasnt hurt. In a new statement calls the crash a devastating tragedy adding i cannot pretend to imagine what this family is going through at this time. I am praying for them. The former olympic champion and current reality star has been a tabloid fixture lately with reports he is in the process of transitioning to life as a woman. Police say jenner was cooperative on scene, passing a sobriety test offering a blood sample. Say it doesnt appear general were the cause of the crash. We should add the Sheriffs Department is looking into the other two drivers involved in the crash. Legal analysts say no one could face charges if investigators determine it was all an accident. A california wildfire american brothers, missing in mexico, an upcoming state visit. Zoom through some of todays top stories. Evacuation orders in effect for 250 residents in the town in northern california. Wind driven fire destroyed 39 homes, knocked down power lines in swal meadows. Officials dont know when residents can return to survey damage. Chinese president will make his first state visit to washington this year. Both sides are reportedly working out details of the trip according to chinas ambassador to washington. The announcement is days after president obama unveiled a new National Security strategy including the u. S. Relationship with china. A mexican judge has thrown out the five year Money Laundering sentence for a woman known as the queen of the pacific. Shes accused of being liaison between mexican and American Drug cartels. The fbi is helping search for two american brothers missing in mexico. They left brownsville, texas to visit their grandmother, but never made it home. The area has seen an upswing in gang violence. Still ahead this hour on the rundown, critical meeting is about to get started at the white house between president obama and german chancellor Angela Merkel. She arrived at the white house moments ago. 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Theyll be discussing a peace plan to end fighting in ukraine. The german leader arrived a short time ago at the white house. We got new pictures showing why a Peace Agreement is so important. These are from the city of donesque showing an Apartment Building on fire after being hit with a shell. Kris, give us a preview of the meeting going on. Reporter high stakes meeting. It is about whether or not the United States will dive deeper into the conflict 5,000 miles from washington by providing arms to the ukrainians. Heres the argument on the side of doing it. The president already heard from a dozen bipartisan members of the senate implication was given by the man he nominated to be defense secretary, carter that maybe it should be done. First of all we know theres been a lot of bloodshed there, more than 5,000 lives lost the fighting has escalated. Ukrainians seriously outgunned. Opponents say the only language that Vladimir Putin understands is force and that means antitank missiles, small arms ammunition. On the other side it will be Angela Merkel, leading the diplomatic push hoping to find a peaceful solution. She has been doing a tremendous amount of shuttle diplomacy that will continue even after she leaves here in washington, d. C. With other members of the European Union, all of whom are saying to the president take a wait and see attitude. We think theres possibility that the Peace Process, that diplomacy can work. Even though theyre skeptical, know the record of Vladimir Putin in russia they know theyve broken agreements before they think arming the ukrainians could lead to escalation. A critical meeting followed by a press conference and both World Leaders will be taking questions. And whats the feeling in europe about this . Over the weekend it was a whirl wind shuttle diplomacy, not only merkel but the president of france. Do people feel it is realistic to think russia could agree to i dont know, step back on this issue . Reporter well there are a couple things we do know one of which that russian president Vladimir Putin wont do anything that puts russia at a disadvantage whether that has something to do with western aggression or western plan that looks like a western victory, neither of those things are something that Vladimir Putin wants. We understand we are talking about European Union, 28 separate states separate competing agendas. It is hard to agree generally on anything. Even at the problems on hand talking ukraine as well. When you talk about European Union members, the big buzz has been whether or not they could support the u. S. In terms of the weapons to ukraine. And it is interesting we are hearing from Baltic States earlier, they couldnt agree whether westerners were a good idea or stick with the merkels diplomatic solution. And the relationship with the United Kingdom doesnt extent to support back in the u. S. And sending weapons to ukraine, so it has been a mixed bag in brussels today. The only thing they seem to have agreed on the new round of sanctions in terms of western sacks sanctions on russian activists, the thing about that theyre putting that off as well, another week including time for Angela Merkel to make this peace plan work. Thank you so very much. We will be carrying that News Conference with the president and Angela Merkel scheduled for 11 40 a. M. Eastern time. Now to the american sniper trial, the jury Selection Process under way as we speak. Hundreds of potential jurors are reporting to the courthouse in the cry of eddie routh. Accused of shooting chris kyle and chad littlefield at a shooting range in 2013. The story depict in the oscar nominated film american sniper. Bring in kendall coffee pleasure to see you. Thanks for having me. Lets talk about this. This is one of the biggest movies biggest wartime movie in history. You can expect probably a lot of potential jurors have seen this movie. How do you deal with Something Like that. It is a huge challenge, and the movie seen recently. In theaters. The judge has taken the position that reading the book american sniper or seeing the movie is not enough to disqualify a juror, has to be more to show they cant give the defendant a fair trial. But, you know whether the jurors see it or not, kyle is an American Hero it wont be easy to say the killer of an American Hero should get away. Talk to me then as this gentlemans attorney. What are you trying to do . The defendant has admitted to killings, both killings. All turns on the defense of insanity. Theres little doubt the defendant had mental issues diagnosed several times, post Traumatic Stress syndrome. Exactly. Kyle was trying to help him through his issues. There has to be severe mental disorder that causes the defendant to not know right from wrong. In this case the prosecution has evidence that however troubled he was, he knew it was wrong. What are the issues they bring up . After the shooting he fled. And if you dont know what you did is wrong, you dont take off. Theyre also going to focus, try to get in evidence a statement the defendant made to a texas ranger. The texas ranger asked him point blank at the time he was arrested, did you know what you did was wrong, he said yes. And if thats the way the jury sees things hard to get the defense of insanity. Pleasure to see you. Thanks for being with me. Serious moment at the grammys with award shows taking time to address the issue of Domestic Violence. Basic love is not silenced shame or abused. If youre in a relationship with someone who does not honor and respect you, i want you to know that you are worthy of love. Please reach out for help. That was brooke actionel in a three part moment included a video message from the president and song from katy perry. Theres focus on violence on women in new orleans. Specifically Sexual Assaults. The new orleans inspector general, five Police Officers in special victims unit routinely failed to investigate allegations of assault for years. One is charged with reopening the cases, overseeing the investigations. Msnbc National Reporter traveled to learn more in this msnbc original report. You call somebody say how you doing, i am paul noel i am assigned to investigate your Sexual Assault. Paul noel has one of the toughest jobs in the new Orleans Police department. He runs a newly formed taskforce, reinvestigating hundreds of Sexual Assault cases that were improperly dismissed or simply ignored. We dont want them victimized again by a Police Investigator not conducting their interview properly or sometimes misinterpreting things that happened. Last year the independent monitor found something strange. The number of reports of Forcible Rape in new orleans were 43 lower than in cities with comparable crime rates. A closer look found napd misclassified 46 of the offenses to anything but Forcible Rape. The more we heard from victims, the more people came forward and said these things are happening to me. Reporter in the wake of the investigation,er in cofounded a victim advocacy group. You were out drinking at a bar. They were being blamed by the officers explicitly blamed in some regards for what happened to them and then suddenly being blamed as well by some of the other officers during the interview process where the officers say things like you were allegedly raped. Reporter evidence showed five special victims detectives had not been investigating rape reports at all or left no proof they had. In three years, only 14 of the cases the detectives were assigned to had any documented investigative efforts at all. Those officers have been reassigned while under investigation. They could face criminal charges. Some city leaders say thats not enough. Any heads rolled due to this . Im sorry . Has anyone been terminated due to this . Have any heads rolled due to this . Otherwise, we are transferring that problem, and i have a serious problem with that. Reporter tonya is working to retrain officers how to deal with victims of Sexual Assault. What are some barriers victims face in reporting rape . It is a relief to say the police dont blame them dont focus on somehow discrediting them. Prostitutes can be Sexual Assaulted, College Students under age drinking can be Sexual Assaulted. Reporter they arent just logistical, theyre emotional and psychological. Given the nature of the investigation, many of them are upset about having to go over the same information they have gone over maybe two or three years ago. Reporter one of the things mentioned by the advocates is it is a good sign when rape reporting goes up but the police want reports of crimes to go down. How do you reconcile that. We talk about reducing crime. I am not saying we want Sexual Assaults to occur, but we want the public and want victims of Sexual Assault to feel confident enough if they are Sexual Assaulted that they can come forward, they can work with us and we will get the investigation right. That was msnbcser in carmone reporting. In the last hour the Supreme Court denied a request to stop samesex marriage in that state. We will go live to montgomery speak with a couple that just got married next. The relentless snow hasnt let up in the boston area. The city broke the record for the snowiest 30 day stretch in history. And Mother Nature is not done through new england. Bang or maine, has four and a half feet on the ground. We are watching the weather here on the rundown. Look at all of that white stuff. 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The Supreme Court would not step in to stop wedding. The ruling came after late night opinion telling officials to ignore a federal court ruling that struck down alabamas ban on samesex marriage. Melissa johnson of wsfa tv is outside the courthouse in the state capital. What can you tell us . Good morning. Reporter well, good morning, jose. It has been a very smooth peaceful day outside the courthouse in montgomery. Inside the Probate Judges Office a couple dozen couples have come out to cheers. Theres one lone peaceful protester, peaceful is indicative of whats happening in montgomery. At 8 00 this morning they opened the doors, a couple of couples went inside and got the marriage license after 8 00 this morning. The first couple in line join us live this morning. Talk about how youre feeling, being part of such a historic day in alabama. It is humbling. Came out here yesterday to camp out, received a lot of reports, people came by, gave us donuts chocolates, got a poem from a lady i didnt know. It is exciting. Youre part of the human rights campaign. This is close to your heart personally but also professionally. Is this what you expected in smooth day we had so far today . I did. I expected it to be smooth. This is important to us not just personally but also professionally. This is why we do the work we do so that more people can come out and get married, yeah. Walk us through the day. You went inside got your marriage license. You came out to a crowd of cheers. You immediately had your ceremony. I saw there were a few tears you both had as you exchanged vows. She was the crier, i had to hold it in we cant both be teary eyed. Our god parents came i am glad they came they mean the world to us. Thats basically what happened. In your hands youre holding your marriage license. Do you want to show us what it looks like talk to us about the feeling you have. It has been a crazy couple days for you. Yes. I am exstatic, i am a little overwhelmed and overjoyed that it went smoothly. The two of you live in tuskegee alabama, both from other states live in another part of alabama. What made the decision to come to montgomery to get that license. Two weeks ago when judge reed sent out that tweet and said if there wasnt a stay he would marry everyone we came and wanted to be sure there was no rough patches. Go ahead, get through, be legal, happy, married. We appreciate your time this morning. It hasnt been this smooth at other Probate Judges Offices, but this is what it looks like in montgomery. Back to you, jose. Melissa johnson, thank you for being with us this morning. Turning to texas and a tussle in the lone star state. Former governor rick perry going after the states junior senator ted cruz in interview with the washington post, he compared cruz to president obama. Here is how cruz responded sunday. Listen i like rick perry, he was a good governor in the state of texas, hes a friend of mine. People occasionally throw rocks in politics. Thats his choice. Im going to say i think he did a good and effective job as governor of our state. Meanwhile, Congress Gets back to work today. Lawmakers try to figure out how to Keep Department of Homeland Security up and running. Here with me to frame the debate victoria soto and joe watkins, former aide to george hw bush. Whats between the two texas gop big wigs . I did a double take. Was that rick perry saying that or ted cruz it sounded more like ted cruz. We are seeing rick perry beef up. He is dropping comments like these. More importantly, playing the money game. Just last week he released a list of 80 top donors in texas. We also know that he has been beefing up in terms of studying in terms of international policy, domestic relationships, and he is in it to win it. The only but is that indictment hanging over his head. He is in a very strong position unless the indictment doesnt disappear in the next five months, then all bets or off. Kred cruzzism. Breaking that rule to not speak of another republican in a bad form . I guess he is doing what candidates do in tough president ial primary battles. Right now polling behind senator cruz. Senator cruz is probably seventh place, most polls i have seen and rick perry is in about ninth place. He has some ground to makeup. Maybe this is a way he makes up ground. It will be tough getting the dollars. You have governor jeb bush really leading the pack followed by Chris Christie and some others but it is going to be a real scramble for campaign cash. Candidates are going to be serious about doing that. Turn to immigration, jeh johnson is pleading with lawmakers to separate that immigration fight from funding Homeland Security. How dangerous is this game of chicken . It is very dangerous, at the federal level and state level. Most states are in session, and here in texas we are seeing some very extreme propositions being put forward. One talks about having a texas Border Patrol and funding that and essentially having Border Patrol separate from national government. This is making me very nervous, at the federal and state level. I hope that ultimately some middle ground can be brought on by the veto threat by the president. Meanwhile, the immigration debate as it continues on this issue, for example, will have impact on 2016 potentially. Absolutely. You dont want to be the party against immigration or finding a way for people who are here illegally to become legal residents of the country, legal citizens of the country. So it will be a challenge. I think what we are going to see is short term funding measures. Yok i dont think dhs will be defunded. I think we see in short term funding measures, 30 day measures until the issue is resolved. Continuing resolution, gives three months more time. Thanks for being with me this morning. Appreciate it. Up next beyonce closed out the grammys with a soul filled performance, but it was what her friend kanye west did earlier in the night making headlines. Show you that in todays five things. And hot night for the grammys on social media as well. Check out tweets using grammys2015. 4. 1 million tweets in that time period. vo after 50 years of designing cars for crash survival, subaru has developed our most revolutionary feature yet. A car that can see trouble. And stop itself to avoid it. When the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety tested front crash prevention nobody beat subaru models with eyesight. Not honda. Not ford or any other brand. Subaru eyesight. 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Legal help is here. Good morning, everyone i am tamron hall. This is newsnation. We begin with breaking news. Right now, president obama and german chancellor Angela Merkel are in the white house meeting ahead of a News Conference that starts 40 minutes from now. The meeting expected to focus on the escalating crisis in eastern ukraine. Shes expected to pressure president obama not to send arms to ukraine, which she strongly opposes, as she and the french president seek to get a peace deal. Key allies clearly disagree on potential decision from the administration here. What more do we know . Reporter this meeting is an effort to project unity between the president of the United States and european allies. Everyone is on the same page from the perspective that theyre trying to deter putins aggression in the ukraine. The question is how. As you said the question of whether or not to arm the ukrainians is on the table. Germans known to be opposed to it the president open to it, over the weekend, secretary of state john kerry left the door open, didnt say one way or the