Good morning. Im phillip mena. And im richard lui in for frances rivera. Bitter cold air is sweeping across the country, bringing with it dangerously low temperatures. This has some areas continue digging out from record snowfall over the christmas break. Erie, pennsylvania still with up to 63 inches of snow since sunday. Thats more than five feet, leading local officials to declare a state of emergency. So bad is it even this snowplow needed a helping hand. Nbcs ron allen has more from erie. Reporter its one for the history books. A recordbreaking snowstorm in erie, pennsylvania, now declared a disaster emergency. I wouldnt even go out in this stuff. Reporter nearly 57 inches in two days. Conditions so hazardous, the airport is still closed. Ive been surviving on vending machine food. Reporter Deirdra Walsh has been stuck there. They keep cancelling the flights. And now everything is overbooked. So i cant get home. Reporter and the snow is piling up on the roads too, burying cars, eve
Good morning. Im phillip mena. And im richard lui in for frances rivera. Bitter cold air is sweeping across the country, bringing with it dangerously low temperatures. This has some areas continue digging out from record snowfall over the christmas break. Erie, pennsylvania still with up to 63 inches of snow since sunday. Thats more than five feet, leading local officials to declare a state of emergency. So bad is it even this snowplow needed a helping hand. Nbcs ron allen has more from erie. Reporter its one for the history books. A recordbreaking snowstorm in erie, pennsylvania, now declared a disaster emergency. I wouldnt even go out in this stuff. Reporter nearly 57 inches in two days. Conditions so hazardous, the airport is still closed. Ive been surviving on vending machine food. Reporter Deirdra Walsh has been stuck there. They keep cancelling the flights. And now everything is overbooked. So i cant get home. Reporter and the snow is piling up on the roads too, burying cars, eve
Good morning. Im phillip mena. And im richard lui in for frances rivera. Bitter cold air is sweeping across the country, bringing with it dangerously low temperatures. This has some areas continue digging out from record snowfall over the christmas break. Erie, pennsylvania still with up to 63 inches of snow since sunday. Thats more than five feet, leading local officials to declare a state of emergency. So bad is it even this snowplow needed a helping hand. Nbcs ron allen has more from erie. Reporter its one for the history books. A recordbreaking snowstorm in erie, pennsylvania, now declared a disaster emergency. I wouldnt even go out in this stuff. Reporter nearly 57 inches in two days. Conditions so hazardous, the airport is still closed. Ive been surviving on vending machine food. Reporter Deirdra Walsh has been stuck there. They keep cancelling the flights. And now everything is overbooked. So i cant get home. Reporter and the snow is piling up on the roads too, burying cars, eve
Im john berman. Michaela pereira is off today. We would like to el with come our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Those stories and more. It is highstakes diplomacy and tit for tat threats happening right now as the world looks for ways to respond to russias military intervention in ukraine. Secretary of state, john kerry, face to face with sergei lavrov. They are both in paris for talks that have been planned before the russian takeover. The talks are so much more urgent. Perhaps the most important test yet as to whether dialogue can be used to resolve the crisis in ukraine. In some ways, there have been setbacks. If the us and eu impose sanctions on russia, washington is looking at a series of punitive steps including economic and diplomatic sanctions designed to isolate moscow. No sign either side is backing down from a somewhat polite standoff between russian and ukrainian troops. Polite so far. These troops are all armed and the Russian Forces do remain in e
Anderson, thats about all we know about the ban this evening. The president sent out those urgent messages early this morning saying, look, you know, the military service will not be allowed any transgendered member of the service will not be allowed to be an active member of the military. But beyond that, it was left at that. Just to give you a window into how things work here at the white house, there were background briefings today on whats going on in venezuela. There was a background meeting on what is going on with the job in wisconsin. Anderson, for a major policy change like this, there was not a single background briefing. Administration officials we talked to were, quite frankly, caught off guard by this. They could not answer basic questions of what happens to those active members of the military who are transgendered individuals who may be serving in afghanistan or elsewhere. So just in perspective, it was clear this was an announcement that happened abruptly. It took peopl