400,000 outages. Rhode island has nearly 173,000 without power. Connecticut more than 38,000 outages. Other states fared a little bit better. Even though new york area airports began receiving flights today, the Ripple Effects across this country, airlines cancelling more than 5300 flights this week. And reporter Jonathan Hall from our nbc affiliate whdh was on the coast in massachusetts as the high tide came in. Reporter the water has definitely come up. Id say a good three or four inches just in the last ten minutes or so. And the National Guard is here on the scene helping people evacuate. No mandatory evacuations at hall, but they are strongly urged. People in lowlying areas, areas that normally flood, are told get out. And now it might be too late. Weve definitely got the high tide flowing in here at hall. Were going to check in with reporters throughout the region today. Nbcs ron allen is in connecticut. Were beginning with nbcs ron mott in prof dend, rhode island. Ron it was pre
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Suarez the world witnessed something today it had not seen since the 15th century a sitting pope, benedict xvi, announced he is giving up the papacy. The news reverberated around the globe and stunned many of the worlds 1. 2 billion catholics. It was a big surprise because this doesnt happen all the time. And my first reaction was to pray and to call my friends, texted my friends and asked even my noncatholic and nonbelieving friends to keep us in their thoughts and in their prayers. I had never heard anything like this in my life. The pope has to be there until he dies. And he is resigning . Popes cant resign. This hasnt happened in 600 years. A pope cant resign. This news isnt right. Suarez a pope abdicated in 1294 but the last pontiff to do so was gregory 12th in 1415. Pope benedicts decision at age 85 came in an announcement made in latin during a meeting of cardinals at the vatican. Dear brothers, i have ca
Thompson who would have turned 26 years old today. Sergeant michael s kru sa. Sergeant joshua kirk. Sergeant christopher griffin. Staff Sergeant Justin giagos. Staff Sergeant Vernon martin. Sergeant joshua hart. Specialist stephen mace. Each of these patriots gave their lives looking out for each other. And in a battle that raged all day, that brand of selflessness was displayed again and again and again. Soldiers exposing themselves to enemy fire, to pull a comrade to safety. Tending the each others wounds. Performing buddy transfusions, giving each other their own blood. And if you seek a measure of that day you need to look no further than the medals and rib bobs that grace their chests. For their sustained heroism, 37 Army Commendation medals. For their wounds, 27 purple hearts. For their valor, 18 bronze stars. For their gallantry, nine silver stars. These men were outnumbered, jut gunned and almost overrun. Looking back, one of them said im surprised any of us made it out. But th
Go. Even though no pope has resigned his seat since the year 1415, and this resignation announcement today from Pope Benedict was totally unexpected, despite all of that, there is apparently an agreed upon protocol for what happens in an instance like this. Once Pope Benedict leaves the vatican on february 28th, the church says he will go live for a while in castel gandolfo, which is the popes summer house in a small town outside of rome. He will live at that castle while construction work is done on a cloistered monastery inside the vatican complex. Then when the construction is done, he will move back into the vatican. And living in that cloistered monastery, provided that papal cloistering is like other kinds of cloistering, i think that means he will have no contact with the outside world while he lives there. He will be closed off. In any case, the cardinals will then meet, they say before the end of march, to choose Pope Benedicts successor. And then we will have two living popes
And increases the risk of proliferation. The United States remains vigilant in the face of north korea provications and steadfast in our defense commitments to allies in the region. This is an evolving story developing all over the world. Well have more on the north korea situation on morning joe and all day here on msnbc. Tonight 9 00 p. M. Eastern time, president obamas going to deliver a state of the Union Address. Its a speech thats going to focus on his longterm ideas for the country and also deal with the pressing economic issue that is unfolding now, those are the sequester cuts that kick in the first of march. Can you expect the president to talk about it in tonights address. Youll hear from the president a very clear call for the need to take action to help our economy grow and help it create jobs. You will hear from him a wall as he have heard in the past recently from him on congress not to shoot the economy in the foot unnecessarily, to allow the sequester to kick in when i