common sense especially with handcuff keys and suggest making a second set. did you ever think your career would come down to giving advice like this at the end of a news cast? people need to know. we ll be back at 6:00. terror attack. a manhunt underway after a deadly ambush during a free speech event in europe. tonight, chilling echoes of the charlie hebdo attack. piling on, yet another big storm bearing down on new england packing near hurricane force winds and record cold. why some are saying it could be the most dangerous blizzard of the season. weighing in. the controversial plan that could become law. should parents pay a fine if their children are obese? and flying high, the race to save a colorful and gentle creature that s disappearing before our very eyes. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this
of texas in critical habitat. along their annual trek from mexico to canadian border. numbering plummeting from 1 billion in 1996 to 30 million years ago. last fall conservation biologist karen overhouser showed us the launching pads for these important pollinators threatened by development and agricultural practice. the answer is to use any kind of pesticide, insecticides or herbicides judiciously. reporter: now by planting milkweed, everyone can help. what do you see in their eyes if you teach them about the monarchs? wonder and they re inquisitive. reporter: it s evident in the faces of diane s students. anxious to help save the creatures that light up their imagination. anne thompson, nbc news, brooklyn. up next here tonight on this valentine s day, a weighty debate in the city of love.
has gone from a billion in the mid- 90s to fewer than 30 million now. it s been nearly 46 years since neil armstrong took one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. and tonight almost three years since he died we re learning about some hidden mementos from a mission that he kept for decades. his wife found the artifacts in a white cloth bag in his closet including utility lights, a wrench and a camera that recorded the lunar lander s final approach and buzz aldrin s walk down the ladder before touching the surface of the moon. when we come back here tonight, the thing driving people crazy in bangor, maine. or is it bangor, maine?
sam smith may have dominated the grammy awards winning record and song of the year as well as best new artist, but it was kanye west who dominated the conversation. when beck won album of the year, west rushed the stage in what looked like a repeat of his mike-jacking of taylor swift in 2009 only to back off like he was joking. later west said beck should give his award to beyonce. beck was polite about the whole thing even saying he also thought beyonce was going to win. if we re not careful pictures are all we re going to have left of the monarch butterfly. that s a fear of the u.s. fish and wildlife service which today announced a $3.2 million campaign to save the monarch from extinction. most of the funding will be used to restore 200,000 acres of habitat. the estimated monarch population
blossom. severe weather certainly not out of the question. the pattern continues for the next 24 to 48 hours on into early this weekend with a couple of inches of rainfall around portions of say northern texas just north of dallas, even portions of southern oklahoma, the u.s. state of oklahoma and for heavy rainfall, as well. quick weather hit here but i want to share with you pretty fascinating image. this radar imagery courtesy of the national weather service in the u.s. state of missouri in st. louis coming out of a couple of weeks ago, they noticed it was a clear day, sunny skies but kind of saw a butterfly object appear on radar imagery, curious what was going on here and later they investigated and found out the butterfly object ironically enough was a migrating butter y butterflies around 5,000 to 6,000 feet, 1500 meters, hundreds of them were migrating across in region. the national weather service says the oddity, the monarch in flight would like naturened and