Plus, hostage review. President obama ordering a comprehensive review of our policy against negotiating with terrorists. Should American Families be thrown in jail for trying to pay a ransom . And whiteout. A third of america, a third of america, snowcovered and shivering harsh winter winds set to break records for millions of us. 49 of 50 states waking up below freezing this morning. Lets talk. Live in the cnn newsroom. And good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me. We begin this hour with breaking news out of the middle east. Two men armed with knives and axes storm into a jerusalem synagogue and hack away at worshippers. Four israeli civilians are killed and just over an hour ago, we learned three of those victims were israeli americans and because of that, the fbi will launch an investigation of its own. Lets head to ben wedeman, hes live in jerusalem with more for you. Hi, ben. Hi, carol. Yes, the Israeli Emergency Services received a call at 7 00 in the mo
Cnns chris cuomoen the p ein t protests. Chris, chris, what do you have for us . You are looking at a shot of new york city now. Chris cuomo is out there. Chris, can you hear me . As chris gets ready there well continue on here. And talk about the protests, again, spreading all across the country. We are looking now at new york city. There are also protests as we said in chicago. These are more organized than last night. More people are showing up to these protests. We are going to speak with the daughter of of eric garner. A short while here on cnn. Meanwhile, why dont we go to brook, brook is in new york city out in the crowd. There she is. Brook, last we saw you you were going back across the brooklyn bridge. Where are you right now . This has been. I dont know huh to put the last couple hours into words. You are right. For the last, 6 00 eastern time. We, and i say we, hundreds of pooh ha people have been walking from the heart of downtown manhattan, around where city hall, federal
Outside this is fine, i dont care about the emergency thing, you see the car coming by us technically, if he gets stopped, its a huge ticket. It is. 100 or more. What should we know . New york got missed. But its the exact forecast we talked about yesterday, on the gfs, we saw yesterday, 10 to 12. But its the first time we took the model out for a test drive. We took the brand new model out. The brand new car out and we liked it. Who is not getting missed connecticut, rhode island long island massachusetts. The word historic still works out there. The word historic here is a bust. Is it true i was looking at during early start, i was watching the storm track. When it stalls over an area to my mind that means its stalled, thats done. Thats actually worse, right . Youre old enough to remember hurricane agnes, it stalled over the poconos and flooded the entire susquehana valley. In eastern long island, montauk, its just unbelievable. It looks like youre on the surface of a different plane
The rough seas. Divers say they are facing zero visibility on the sea floor which is sure of course to be littered with sharp tangled wreckage of the plane. Search officials are still hopeful that Large Shadowy objects are, indeed, the planes fuselage but one piece has already been dismissed. It turns out to be that of a ship wreck. So electronics could play a bigger role in the search. The uss fort worth becomes the second u. S. Navy ship now to take part. The fort worth is equipped request sidescan sonar and can help map the area. This morning, were learning of a remarkable twist in the investigation. It turns out, the doomed flight should never have taken off. It did not have permission to fly from the surabaya airport to singapore on that fatal day on sunday which, of course ended in tragedy. Lets go to surabaya where the flight originated and where david molko is standing by. David, how significant of a development is this . Ana, lets start with whats going out in the search zone
Footage, the plane dropping down cartwheeling and smashing into a highway and plunging into a river near taipei. Several people were able to leave, scores of rescuers went to the scene by boat. By any other means necessary and pulled people out of the wreckage. Tragically some 21 people have died according to authorities, they have managed to retrieve the flight data recorders so we can get some sense of what exactly happened. But this morning,s crash must have shocked residents in taipei caught from the camera right in the car on the highway. I know youve been updating the numbers, well be back with you. In new york state we had the deadliest crash of the history of the metro north train line seven people are dead after a passenger train slammed into a jeep right at the height of rush hour. Deb feyerick join us from the crash site in valhalla new york. Can you see the train behind me this is the tail end of the train. The smell of smoke still very, very heavy in the air. This is a ver