Tonight we have exclusive reporting on the contents of that white paper. Joining us now is nbc News National investigative correspondent michael isikoff. We start on a day where up to three feet of snow and winds nearing hurricane strength are expected to batter the northeast, and well have much more on that throughout the broadcast. But we begin in washington where we are awaiting the president to speak at a farewell tribute to defense secretary leon panetta in washington. Its a ceremony marked by a 19gun salute, an inspection of troops, and all accompanied by the United States pershing zone army band. General Martin Dempsey spoke first and he will soon be followed by the president. All to honor the man whom on thursday senator barbara mackowski said was the one person as cia director who never jerked her around. This comes a day after john brennan, the man who hopes to be the next cia director, walked into a volatile confirmation hearing room full of protests and pointed questions ov
Nato is not commenting on the reports, specifically about the nationality of the troops. Its important to note many of the isaf troops stationed in southern part of afghanistan are american. U. S. President , barack obama, recently announced plans to remove all combat troops by the end of the year. Mondays incident comes days ahead of the run off of afghanistans president ial elections. Last week, suicide bombers set off bombs. It happened in kabul. He is replacing afghan president , hamid karzai. It takes place saturday and the taliban are vowing to disrupt the vote. Back to you. Thank you. Members of the house were briefed on the deal that freed former american p. O. W. , bowe bergdahl. Many members are not convinced. Tomorrow, secretary of defense, chuck hagel will testify before the Armed Services committee. Susan mcginnis is in washington. Good morning. Reporter annemarie green, good morning. It was clear that anger among lawmakers keeps growing on who was kept in the dark about t
Of ashley judd, it could not have been a weirder week for politics. All this is coming up. First an update on the storm hitting the northeast. Alex, thanks to you. Im craig melvin. Here is the very latest on that winter storm. New York Transit Authority has suspended the system that goes into kkds. Rhode island and new york with limited in maine as well. Governors have issued travel bans this afternoon for all nonessential vehicles. Nearly 5,000 flights have been canceled so far. Amtrak suspended Northbound Service out of new yorks penn station earlier tonight. This was governor Chris Christie earlier tonight. The overall safety issues is an obvious one, stay home. Lets go to bill karins with the latest on this. What can you tl us . Were halfway through with our blizzard. That we know for sure. Some areas are fairing well and some are doing as bad as we thought they would, rhode island up toward the boston area. Let me show you the wind gusts. Now were cutting it to the peak winds of t
Stuck going up the hill. Storm knocked out power to 645,000 customers. Rhode island has the second most outages. Frustrated flyers waking up in airports this morning. So far, airports canceled more than 5,300 flights through today. Newark liberty airport had been closed. But expecting to open this hour. So are we close to the end . Well get the latest now on the forecast. Snow totals from nbc meteorologist bill karins. Good morning to you. Good morning, alex. An amazing storm conditions. Were not done yet. All our friend up in maine are still dealing with brunt of the storm from portland to Southern New Hampshire and boston, very cold and very windy. Typically a satellite picture of the clouds that i show you during hurricanes, this one i used because it looked so impressive. And now up in the gulf of maine and dragging off to the east as we go throughout the day today. Underneath the clouds this is what radar looks like. Blue and white shows you where the snow is. The blue bands where
For as you mentioned 6,000 people or so, Long Island Sound took on brutal winds and that caused a lot of the Power Outages here in rhode island. About 185,000 customers of National Grid without power. So about almost 40 of their customer base. Thats a lot of folks, unfortunately. And its going to be a long time, perhaps, before a lot of them get their power back on because of all this snow out here. Now, this is stuff piled up by snow crews, as plows coming through trying to keep portions of downtown open here. Fortunately, theres not a lot of traffic. Thats a good thing. They got to keep the roads open because these are arteries to trauma centers. Hopefully, we wont have muched me for that today. But obviously, theyre trying to get everything out of the way for power crews to assess the situation. One thing we can talk about, the fact that this snow will stop falling, hopefully, within the next hour or so so the crews can start working in earnest today to get the power restored. Massa