[ music ] priceless theft a stun gun, a concert master and the mystery of who stole a 300yearold stradavarius. [ music ] atlanta will recover from the ice storm and life will get back to normal. For now the city is reeling from Mother Nature and mistakes from those in power. Thousands stranded on highway, children spending the night in schools and buses. Good samaritans rescuing those in need. We know it happened, but why what went wrong . We begin with robert ray in atlanta. Atlanta, paralyzed by a few inches of snow that turned quickly into dangerous ice. The ice on the road people are trying to drive up and down the road and couldnt make it. Tyres lost traction, everyone hit each other. A million commuters and schoolchildren trying to go home simultaneously tuesday as the storm bore down. The result a colossal regionwide traffic jam. Many people driving. If you can call it that, for over 16 hours, marking their progress in inches. Some stranded overnight, forced to leave their vehic
Companies employing tens of thousands of people that didnt exist 30 years ago. A model or economic recovery, how a city went from near ruin to riding the wave of new industry. Welcome to al jazeera america. Im Thomas Drayton. Missouri death row inmate Herbert Smalls has been put to death, shortly after the u. S. Supreme court denied his appeals. The lethal drug used was at the center of his legal challenges. Herbert smalls is the sixth ban executed by lethal injection in the u. S. There was appeals over the pharmaceuticals used to carry out his order failed. In 2008 the u. S. Supreme court ruled three drug protocol does not amount to cruel and unusual punishment. With pharmaceutical d Companies Failing to allow their chemicals to be used, states are struggling to find alternatives. Dennis maguire was executed using a combination of drugs not used before. It took 26 minutes after witnesses gassed, choked and convulsed. Are these inmates entitled to a painfree death. The constitution doe
Groups of all time today, thursday, january 30th, 2014. Stayin alive announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning. Welcome to today on a thursday morning. Im matt lauer. And im tamron hall with the dancing kings and queens, i guess we are this morning. Al roker and Natalie Morales. I am tweeting out sound tracks of a generation. I think the best sound track of all time, saturday night fever. Is that yours . The year was 1977. My suit was white, white flare on the legs and i stood against the wall because i still couldnt dance back then. A lot of hits came off that album. I wake up to the sound track every morning for the past 13 years. Its my wakeup. Thats my alarm. And their sound still today carrying into the music that were hearing and listening to. Well talk to barry gibb later on. Also more on those overnight terror arrests seven days away from the Olympic Games. But let us start with our top
Paralyzes the deep south. A thousand accidents reported in the atlanta area alone overnight. It is a solid sheet of ice coming through. Stopping highways stranding students at schools overnight, even triggering a National Guard rescue. 1,000 flights cancelled atlantas international airport. I hope to get out tonight really, or im going to start walking. President obama, a bit defiant in the state of the union address, says hes ready to act without congress. Im eager to work with all of you, but america does not stand still, and neither will i. I get sort of a feeling that were being given a threat or not certain it will help us get anything done. A congressman from new york is defending his actions after video surfaced of him threatening a reporter [ bleep ]. Jonathan martin is speaking out for the First Time Since he left the dolphins amid the seasons bullying scandal. I felt trapped, lie i didnt have a way to make it right. It came to the point where i had to relieve myself of the si
Congressman to threaten a reporter and why the lawmaker is standing by his action. And breaking his silence. The nfl player who says he was bullied, Jonathan Martin tells his story publicly for the first time in an exclusive interview. Comments of a raceful nature, aggressive, sexual comments were related to my sister and my mother. Will he ever play in the nfl again . Today, wednesday, january 29th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, welcome to today on a wednesday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie alongside carson daly and Natalie Morales. Weve got al roker in washington, d. C. This morning. Matts got the morning off, and boy, do we have a weather story. The news is the weather, and especially down south, the storm is so devastating. They dont have enough salt or plows to deal with this weather. Theyre not used to it like we are up north. Things are so bad, a number of School Distri