Massachusetts. Subways and trains are shut down in many, many cities, including new york and boston. Airlines canceled more than 7,000 domestic and International Flights today and tomorrow, stranding 15 million people. Both candidates suspended their campaign events. Weve got it covered from all angles with reporters in key locations and our meteorologist in the studio. First, lets go live to that dangerous, damaged crane in midtown manhattan. Its dangling over the streets of midtown manhattan. Nbcs rheama ellis is live. Reporter authorities are trying to get them up in the construction site to see if there is anything that they can do to fix the crane that is dangling over 57th street. Police at this time have blocked off the area nool what they have created they call a collapse zone. No pedestrians, no cars. They evacuated the apartment buildings, the commercial buildings, even the Park Meridian Hotel has been evacuated and the hotel guests have been moved to other hotels. Authoritie
Police officer who killed their son. That investigation did find a pattern of discrimination inside that police department. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Im christine romans. It is thursday march 5th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. Lets start with the u. S. Ambassador to south korea recovering from surgery overnight after a knife attack in seoul. Ambassador mark lippert slashed in the face as he prepared to give a speech. Officials say the surgery to repair the fourinch facial wound was successful. Police have a suspect in custody. Correspondent Andrew Stevens has the latest. Andrew the surgery was successful. Do we know why the man attacked the ambassador . Reporter what we know at this stage is the man is described as having a history of unpredictable behavior christine. Five years ago, 2010 he was given a suspended twoyear sentence after he threw a lump of concrete at the japanese ambassador to south korea. This man was on the council for the korean reconciliation a
Police officer that killed their son. Im christine romans. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. Are you out of salt . Im out of everything. This morning, the u. S. Ambassador to south korea is recovering from surgery. He was attacked. He was slashed in the face in seoul overnight. The ambassador mark lippert. You see the dramatic pictures. He was preparing to give a speech when he was attacked. The surgery to repair the fourinch wound in his face was successful. The police have a suspect in custody. We have correspondent Andrew Stevens tracking the latest. Reporter good morning, john. Mark lippert was the guest at Korean Council for reconciliation. What we know was before he was due to give a speech he was an approached by kim kei jong. He started shouting the maneuvers between the u. S. And south korea must stop. This is the report. He then assaulted the ambassador. As you say, the ambassador receiving some very very nasty wounds indeed. Not life threa
Blaze oliver. Megyn nice. How difficult the people in new york city have it. You know, spot, 133rd street. Isnt that great. That is not good. Thank you. The news begins anew on sudden stud yeo b. Intelligence officials in nigeria they are holding three hostages and they say it is pay back. The president signed 23 executive orders that he says can help limit gun violence but he is calling on congress to do much more. A fair and balanced look at the white house gun control effort is coming up. Did you see this . The woman who got trapped between two buildings and then she had to be cut out. Well have the amazing rescue firsthand. That is all ahead unless breaking news changes everything on studio b. But first, from fox, u. S. Intelligence officials have confirmed that alqaeda linked militants are holding at least three americans hostage along with other foreigners at a natural gas field partly owned by bp in the african makes of algeria. The militants attacked the facility near the borde
That does it for the cycle. Martin, its all yours. Just a quick question. How many rounds did Jared Loughner fire off before he was tackled . Whats your point . How many rounds had he fired off . Im not sure. I dont remember. 31. Okay. He was actually tackled because he was reloading. We should be trying to stop crazy people and criminals, martin, from shooting one person, not tenplus one person which all is accomplished when you ban high capacity magazines. Thats all thats accomplished. Okay. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. Its tuesday, january the 15th, and the pressure is on the white house, congress, and the nation to take action and prevent another slaughter of innocent children. Our hearts are broken. Our spirit is not. This is our promise h the sandy hook promise. If there is a step we can take that will save even one child from what happened in newtown, we should take that step. My dad would always say ben is going to do amazing things, and i always say now i just didnt kn