Officials say they are aware of the video purportedly claiming to show they have killed hostage peter casic. They are investigating the content to determine authenticity. The 26yearold was captured more than a year ago doing humanitarian work. If it proves to be authentic, he would be the 30 they have killed. They killed two british aid workers as well. The reporter who spent considerable time in the region they will be joining us shortly. Now we want to give you an update from ferguson. The family of slain teen Michael Brown is speaking out about leaks biased against charging the Police Officer in theirsons fatal shooting. The new video of Darren Wilson entering the Police Station shows he was not severely beaten as an earlier alleged leak claimed. The dispatch reports said Law Enforcement is under great strain from the protest and aggravated assaults and robberies are up since Michael Brown was shot while arrests are down. The slous city and county police chief say. The community is
Happy friday, everyone, im john berman. Im michaela pereira. Well have much more ahead at this hour. Big story that could change the lives of millions of people with the stroke of a pen. It could also set off a firestorm in washington, all but paralyzing the relationship between the president and the new republican congress. President obama says he is on the verge of taking executive action possibly as soon as next week to fix the nations beleaguered immigration system. He says he has warned republicans this moment was coming. And i indicated to Speaker Boehner several months ago that if, in fact, congress failed to act i would use all the Lawful Authority that i possess to try to make the system work better. And thats going to happen. Thats going to happen before the end of the year. Action by the president could protect millions of people that are living illegally in the country from being deported. Newly empowered republicans are calling his threats poison. Were going to fight the p
The snow. And 200 troops from New York National guard arrived to help with snow removal, but the new york Governor Cuomo warned the snow is just too deep in some areas for plows to work properly. Nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer joins me from hamburg, new york where conditions are changing by the minute. Hi, tamron, literally by the minute. Minute to minute, you can go from brutal windy conditions to not much snow at all. Then if you go a couple miles over, you can see downpours of snow, or nothing at all. Right here, we are seeing nothing at all. I can see clear skies if i look to the west. If i look to the southwest, really dark clouds. Thats where heavy snow is, falling at rates of three to four inches per hour. That line will move back up here, where you can see we have feet of snow on the ground. We could see another foot, then it moves back south. The little bands of snow, this lake effect snow, about 15 miles wide, 15 miles long, and they set up shop in a couple different towns fo
Academics in japan that did have contact with isis and they invited them in to watch over and litigate a case interestingly enough and this exposed the fact there are a number of people in japan who have been back and forth to syria who have been involved. But japan blocked them from playing a role and traveling so right now there is a standstill between those people who did have relations with isis from japan and not allowed to contact the group. And steve, were hearing from u. S. Officials, as sect of state john kerry on thursday said allies are reversing gains made by sear so do you agree with that assessment . Well i think isis continues to control a very very large swath of land. It has not been rolled back nearly as much. When you look at the amount of fire power thrown at it. It has shown a real resilience as it may be taking hits in places like kobani near the Turkish Border in syria and other places in northern iraq. So i think the story that john kerry shared in london the ot
Page story today about the rally. Headlined it trump stumping in mobile, but why . Well, pictures like this is why. On the other hand though, look at this. A less than full house at the venue. That could be problem attic for this giant salesman. The Trump Campaign says they got upwards of 40,000 rsvps for the event. Does that look like 40,000 people. Looks like a lot fewer at this moment. Still it is a big crowd. Larger it seems than any trump event so far. But not the 40,000plus. This rally was originally slate ford a much smaller venue then a larger one. Finally ended up here at the big football stadium. Ryan nobles is there. Ryan just a few minutes away from the rally. Whats the mood there right now . Well, john you can hear right now the National Anthem is booing subeing sung. Crowd have stopped trickling in. They will fall short about the 40,000. The people here are energized and enthused to see donald trump. Spoke to a lot of people waiting in line. Some as early as 6 00 this mor