join us every sunday 4:00 eastern time. stay tuned for the latest news right here in the newsroom. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we begin with the latest on the rare and deadly snowstorm that hammered the northeast this weekend. it is winding down now but not before knocking out power to more than 4 million people. four states have declared emergencies. new york, new jersey, connecticut and massachusetts. all kinds of travel across the east coast is impacted. this amtrak train from rochester, new york, was stranded near palmer, massachusetts, for 13 hours. many flights were also grounded or diverted. airlines are still trying to clear out the backlog. the storm is blamed for at least five deaths. a pennsylvania man was killed when a snow-covered tree fell into his house. two people were killed on icy roads near philly. two others died in connecticut and massachusetts. cnn is covering every angle of this storm. our chad myers is in york, pennsylvania. susan candiot
haul. more than 700,000 are without electricity there. utility crews are out right now assessing the damage. connecticut light and power says all of the cities and towns its services were impacted by the storm and us it could be a week before all power is restored. cnn crews working every angle of this major storm. susan is in new york, chad meyers in pennsylvania and jacqui jeras is in the severe weather center. let s go first to new york city. the metro area there. fun for some, a nightmare for others. that freak winter storm gave one family a jack-o-lantern snowman in new jersey. a couple of miles from the hudson river and downtown manhattan. let s go to manhattan where we find our susan candiotti. the snowfall has caused a lot of headaches there, although the sun is finally shining behind you? it s beautiful here, but i think everyone would agree when you re flying during the winter, there can always be problems. there were problems and it isn t even winter yet. most of
somalian-american community of al shabab recruiting, and then bringing over to somalia south american somalis to train and fight there. this has been a real priority with the fbi working with the somali-american community to try and prevent these kids from being pulled into this conflict in somalia. frankly we have a homeland security interest because once they are trained to fight, you don t want them to take that war-like experience and bring it back here to the home it will land. good point, fran townsend, cnn national security contributor, thanks this morning. other big story this morning, day 84 of bp s oil disaster in the gulf and the third day of an operation that could finally stop what you re seeing there. here is a live look, 5 nou feet under water. bp says it is putting on this new cap that s going to have a tighter seal. i should say looking at that picture, a tight seal and could stop oil from flowing all together as the company keeps drilling those two relief wells th
from. actually, there have been this somali american community has complained to the fbi and been cooperating because young men from the united states are recruited and then travel over to somalia where they re kept there to fight. and the big worry as you can imagine is not only will they fight there but that they may then use their american citizenship or travel documents to return to the united states. the whole notion though of somalia becoming a base, the argument was that since they have peacekeeping troops in somalia, part of an african unity force, this was unacceptable and they were going to go attack what was clearly a soft target, very soft target in uganda. that s right, wolf. somalia has been sort of an unstable hotbed for many years. i mean, i can remember going back to the time in 1998 of the east africa embassy bombing we worried then about cells in somalia that would cross over into kenya. so somalia has been sort of a hot spot in africa where we
he was using the internet for his own agenda for strategic locations. if you look at the cases in the u.s. such as david in the mumbai siege attacks in 2008, he was kmupi km communicating through the internet. the somali-american community in minnesota, many of those individuals were preyed upon through the internet and traveled to somalia to join al shabad. faisal shahzad seemed to flow totally below the radar screen. how do you uncover a plot like that before it s hatched? that is a difficult one. this is a lot of things he did in keeping it to himself. doing the best we can to keep an eye on the type of condition that s create people like this. when someone like this starts with simply complaint, that s