tobacco products from the shesms. >> i could have lost myself. >> as philip seymour hoffman is remembered, a heroin addict says it could be her. we begin with the winter olympics. beginning just hours from now. the department of homeland security has warned airlines to be on the lookout for explosives being in tooth paste tubes. the possible threat was detected in intelligence that authorities have been monitoring ahead of the winter games. joining us is rick nelson, the former directors of national security office's combating terrorists. welcome. >> hello john. >> what jumps out at you? >> the tooth pace tube route and the flights, going into russia. they have pretty good indicators that some terrorist groups are pursuing this methodology. >> any way how this can work in toothpaste tubes? >> i'm not an explosive expert, but we have seen where terrorists are adaptive. we have seen the sm shoe bomberd are underwear bomber. >> what would be the procedure to deal with this? >> that's overy good question, the reason why intelligence is so important. to limit the places they have to search. if they know that there are flights that go into russia, there's one airline that does that. and they can limit all of their articles closely, rather than all the air flights within the united states and globally. >> not to warn people unnecessarily, is it possible we'll see more of these warnings in the coming days? >> well john you're absolutely right. that's the hard thing about this. how much information do you put out there so the public can be smart and be wise, at the same time, you don't want to tip your hand how much information you know to the terrorists. so i would expect, you know, that there will be more indicators like this. we'll never know how much information is actually behind them. it's a very difficult thing for department of homeland security and even the international olympic committee to bring on. >> i don't know if we've seen this kind of security. is this the world view? >> for a number of dade now, from out of the caucasus, these militants are focus ed on russia. in many ways this is an internal struggle. it just happens that the olympics are in russia and this is a venue to go ahead and elevate their cause. >> thank you, rick. >> thank you john. >> the command vessels of the u.s. are available to respond. the u.s.s. wit an whitney and u. taylor are in the area. gian gomeshi works for cbc radio. >> one is caught in the juxtaposition of feeling kind of overwhelmed by all of this security and military personnel and police and not really wanting it all around but at the same time, taking some solace and safety from that. that i mean, quite frankly, the fact that it isn't like london, it isn't a big city that has an underground and tunnels that were built hundreds of years ago. i mean, this is -- they plotted a bunch of buildings on a piece of land. and you know, completely unscientifically to me, it seems a lot easier to secure this kind of an area than it would be an historic, massive city like london. so i think some of the threats are probably legitimate. but i don't feel particularly unsafe. and i feel like one thing that they do seem to be on top of here is a lot of security. >> gian gomeshi a reporter for cbc, we'll talk about the readiness for the olympics later on the hour. security experts and the state department have people going to the games and they say those people who are going to the games need to expect to be hacked by local criminals, even the russian government. our science and technology expert jacob ward is in san francisco. why should they be concerned about being hacked at russia than the other games? >> the particular conditions at russia make it vehicle unique. certainly for americans. it isn't bound by acquaint laws around privacy, your secrets will remain secret. anything you do inside the borders of russia, literally belongs to russia. snooping on facebook and whatever, is absolutely legal there. it vaited televated to an art fg software developed in russia. there's an incredible amount of hacking going on. >> so what do travelers do to protect themselves from hackers? >> do not use faiks and twitter on your -- facebook and twitter. if you have go an old phone kicking around in a drawer, bring it with you, and get it unlocked and throw this thing in the river, change your passwords, never connect it to like a hotel connector or any physical device you would connect to it that you don't know about. there are all kinds of ways for people to pick up very, very damaging information on your phone. you don't want to set it down anywhere. if you would travel like you did in the '80s that's what you would do. >> you don't want to bring your computer and connect to e-mail or anything of those things. >> one thing that a cyber-security person would tell you, don't get on the hotel's wifi or cafe's wifi, inevitably bringing $300 laptops with them that they bought especially for that trip and destroy it before they go home. it's not a where you want to be texting and e-mailing wildly from your phones. >> jake ward thanks very much. >> thank you. >> another story, the winter storm is having an impact on millions of americans. the latest series of storms have caused problems for schools, retail stores, travel in the air and supplies of heating and road salt are running incredibly low. paul beban has the news, paul. >> good evening, john. rain will be falling but turning to freezing rain. city buses and trucks going by with chains, commute home will be treacherous, big delays on trains throughout the region and the big question for thousands of people across this region is will the lights and power be on and heat be on when they get home? across pfnlings pennsylvania more than 750,000 people are without power. more than half a million of them homes and businesses in the suburbs of philadelphia. the cause by and large downed power lines. dragged down by heavy snow and freezing rain. pico, the major supplier of power, says it may be days before the power is turned back on. they've requested crews from neighboring states to assist them. officials are meeting with local leaders, and keeping a sharp eye on another storm forecast for the weekend. in new york city the second storm in less than a week left sidewalks clogged and made driving treacherous. governor andrew quomo said that salt reserves were dangerously low, and also, budgets low. >> we are already $66,000 below budget because of the storms this year. >> governor moll loi igovernor g travelers to stay in place. >> flight aware.com reported up to 3,000 many flights cancelled. for some it's a welcome day off from school, but as cold sets in many pennsylvanians are wondering where to go, how soon their power will be turned back on. where local officials are officials across the ream are asking to check in on their friends and neighbors. particularly if they're elderly. penn station, walk safely on the sidewalks. blood drives have been cancelled. the mayor of new york city, bill deblasio, asks people to give blood. john. >> paul beban. already stretched pro pain supplies, the fuel shortage is hitting rural test in the midwest very hard. since november they've seen a dramatic increase in propane prices. at the same time, propane supplies have fallen to some of the lowest on record. timothy brewer, executive director of energy services incorporated. energy services is a nonprofit group that hems wisconsin residents with heating assistance. thanks for having me. >> what is the situation for people who use propane in wisconsin? >> never since the oil embargo of the '70s which brought on long gas lines at the pumps and doubling of fuel oil price he, have we seen such a magnitude of scale. currently in wisconsin we have about 250,000 households that heat with liquid propane, lp. and hit the hardest are the elderly disabled, veterans and working families with young children who are the most vulnerable. for them heat which is a basic necessity has become an unaffordable luxury. we are seeing 200 to 300% increases in literally a tank of fuel. we've seen deliveries that are taking as much as a week to ten days to actually fet to the homes -- get to the homes. assuming of course if they have the dollars. if you are elderly with a $1,000 a month income is completely consumed within one month for an low pressurlp delivery. the only light at the end of the tunnel appears to be an oncoming train. for the generosity of keep wisconsin warm/cool fund which has been literally fielding calls each day with households less than 5% fuel in their tank they would be a life threatening crisis and right behind them thousands of households are also calling us that are threatening a life threatening situation. >> tell me what some of those people are saying when they call you. >> well, i think you know clearly, we're dealing with a population that our folks who have never been in the situation about. these are people because of their pride haven't come forward and often we're getting calls from medical community that are telling us about those who are facing life threatening situation, hypothermia and the like, and individuals coming in that are totally destitute, many who have been going without heat. life threatening situations. keep wisconsin warm fund giving a helping hand that is really giving of themselves to adopt one of these households, totally destitute, have no place to turn. and but-for again the generosity of these donors and the quick action of our governor they would be homeless and out on the street. >> what is the options for them? >> there are no options. i think that's what we're dealing with now. we only have enough charitable funds based on the demand, literally we are dealing hundreds now going into the thousands every week. and for them, these funds exhaust out by next monday or tuesday. these are donor dollars from other wisconsinites, utility has been incredibly generous on the leverage site. the only -- electricity site. the only light at the end of the tunnel is an on coming train. >> thank you very much. let's bring in kevin corriveau. kevin. >> well, john, situations have improved in terms of snow and freezing rain. eastern new york and new england are seeing the snow, that's going to end in about the next six hours. what we do expect to see is those temperatures beginning to drop over the next several hours. right now, we're going to be seeing temperatures dropping tall way down to 22° -- all the way down to 22°. they need to get the roads cleared and then focus on the side roads. that could be still fairly dangerous by tomorrow morning. philadelphia is expecting 23. the areas without power they are expecting to go all the way into the mid teens for that location. so it's going to be fairly cold. the snow, the slush, is not going away any time soon. now why are we locked into this situation? it has to do with the atmosphere. right now we're looking at a trough along the east coast. that louse the rain to come down, storms to form, and this situation several weeks, since 2013, also what that means is we have a ridge of high pressure out here towards the west and that has meant we have seen very, very warm conditions and dry conditions. that has been the ongoing pattern. we need a pattern to shift this and keep the west a little bit moister out there. >> i'd vote for that. of course, how the drought is impacting one of california's biggest exports. but up next: cvs gives up cigarettes. the drugstore will no longer sell.tobacco products, giving up billions of dollars of income. and also the woman giving up the habit. interone of the nation's largest pharmacy chains is not going to sell cigarettes anymore. cvs. jerjohn terrett has that story. >> cvs is receiving widespread praise for doing it. it is true that it's going to cost them $2 billion a year to clear these products off the shelves but they hope to make that up with a healthier product, healthier customers, healthier company and ultimately, a healthier bottom line. a landmark decision from a nationwide pharmacy chain. a decision to stop selling all tobacco products could be a retail game changer. >> and when we ask ourselves where we expect to be in the future as a health care company it became clear that removing tobacco products from our stores is the right thing to do. >> reporter: cvs says it will cost the company up to $2 billion but crives sales account for $125 billion a year, cigarettes a small piece of that. reaction to the news was swift and surprising. the president of the united states responding with a written statement. today's decision will help my administration's efforts to reduce tobacco related deaths, cancer and heart disease as well as bring down health care costs. the first lady tweeted now we can breathe a little easier. and the health and human services secretary, kathleen sebelius, on the spotlight for handling the obamacare website, the tobacco industry less than pleased. one spokesman says, we value our relationship with cvs and respect their decision. the news was greeted with a cheer. >> bravo cvs, bravo. it was an extraordinary and powerful statement that will build on exciting momentum that we have to really reinvigorate our war against needless tobacco death. >> reporter: now that cvs has made its decision what will happen next? >> well, that is the big decision. walgreen's will be next. wall street categorizes these as drugstore chains. the spokesperson today says at the very least john they are going to reevaluate the place that tobacco products have on their shelves. john. >> so john what will the tobacco company response be to this move? >> reporter: that's a great question. it's been very, very muted. i said in my report there that one company spokesman had said they understand crives's position and -- cvs's position and respect it. for that they have turned to developing nations in latin america, africa and asia where they hope to build their business. cvs winning widespread praise from the medical community. >> john terrett, thank you. there's a big focus on a different type of addiction, following death of actor philip seymour hoffman. richelle carey is here with that story. his story of death is highlighting a bigger problem. >> the focus is the autopsy but we don't have any answer yet john. we have learned that the autopsy results is actually inconclusive so far. new york city medical examiner, needs to do more tests of to figure out what killed him. he died of a suspicion of heroin overdose. many continue to mourn him, tonight broadway marquee lights here in new york will be dimmed in his honor. and the actor's death has cast a light on the spike of heroin use. full blown heroin crisis. across the nation in colorado they are also reporting a surge. jim hig highjim hooley spoke too is battling. >> she's addicted to heroin. >> nobody wants to be putting a needle in their arm. it's not easy. >> she started using the drug four years ago. >> i was just getting lie by myself. like just sneaking off to the bathroom or doing you know, just in the car. >> now she's haunted by the idea of being a junkie. >> i had a person who just kind of introduced me to shooting it. they were like, if you do it this way, like your stuff lasts a lot longer and you don't need to use as much. >> as a child courtney was prescribed ridalin. she began using port and cocai cocaine. her addiction cost her friends but not her dad. >> you're watching a person that means everything in your world that there's flog you can do to help. >> no amount of love can help dan maestes save his property. >> can you tell me what you're about to lose? >> everything you see here. >> he's literally selling the farm, giving up his 40 acre home to cover courtney's legal bills and treatment. >> i'm surprised he had lasted that long. most people would give up on you. >> you saw the story of philip seymour hoffman, did you think wow, that could have been me? >> like holy crap, someone as respected as philip seymour hoffman could die just as easily as a homeless person who is sticking needles in their arms or a 25-year-old girl who is doing heroin. it doesn't judge. >> for now courtney is staying with her dad and going through the last stages of her withdrawal. >> i'm being cool. it sounds dumb but i am. like i could have lost a lot more than just people in my life. i could have lost myself. >> with a clearer mind courtney now sees the damage she's done and is eyeing a drug free future. >> i'm done. so done. >> jim hooley, al jazeera, longmont, colorado. >> that story clearly exhibits how it can ruin families. this number will break your heart. between 10 and 20% of rehab patients are able to stay positive. and heroin is one of the hardest to kick. her father is putting it all on the line to for her to kick this hand. >> we are breaking the stereotypes for all of them. >> yes, we are. >> thatching richelle. >> you bet. investigating sex assaults in the catholic church involving children. what a u.n. report is accusing the vatican of doing. >> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. there's a lot to tell you about this half hoir. we're looking at the more severe fallout of the california drought,. plus expansion work on the panama canal, suspended for a billion dollar disagreement. and soccer star david beck hawmm has a new business. richelle carey. has the story. >> explosive in toothpaste tubes, the warning is flights who have direct flights into russia, including some from the u.s. the department of homeland security wouldn't confirm any specifics but intelligence being monitored ahead of the winter games in sochi. the nation's second biggest pharmacy chaifn says it's ready to quick cigarettes. cvs announced today that it will end the sale of tobacco products by october 1st. the ceo said it wants to help its customers to better health. and the storm that's dumped snow from the midwest to new england, 750,000 power outages in are pennsylvania alone. new jersey, new york and several other states have declared state of emergency. and john forecasters are still talking about -- >> no. no. >> yes, yes, there's more to come along the east coast this weekend. just stay home for weekend. >> thank richelle. the drought in california having a major impact on one of the state's largest food exports, almonds. melissa chan has the story. seven years ago, bill moved from planting corn to growing almonds. the price offal mondle was soaring -- almonds were soaring. when the drought hits, the water must still flow at least to keep the trees alive. >> we still have a chance for some rain so we're loapg. i've seen -- hoping i've seen march become very, very wet in the valley. we're hoping we can get a reprieve from it. >> bill may not be in a panic just yet but when almonds have become the dominant crop in the country, that means many others are drawing water, and it makes the water crisis here particularly urgent. over the past decade, almond orchards have replaced land for cattle. driven by the global demand for nuts. california's almond industry produces over 80% of the world's supply, many of the demand driven by overseas consumers in china and india. canals used to bring water down from the mountains for the farmers' use. but people have taken to drill wells themselves. the county has seen a spike of application for drilling permits, impact on groundwater, one group last filed a lawsuit against the county in an attempt to stop the drilling. the drought has also had an impact in the city of modesto, the county seat. >> from how often can we water our lawn, to how many loads of clothes should i economically do a week? someone needs to know what's going on or we're going to run out of water. is. >> reporter: for bill, this entire water crisis could have been avoided if this state had planned ahead. >> we're going to have to think about maybe you know building more reservoirs for when we do have the snow, we can capture the water and store it, rather than just let it go. >> reporter: that's one solution. but not a project that can happen in time to save this season's farming. melissa chan, al jazeera, stanislaus county, california. >> and new developments on the water in swrap. west virginia. many residents still refuse to drink that water, despite investigators giving the all-clear. robert ray joins us live from charleston on that. robert, why is the governor making the move and why now? >> reporter: john, good evening. public pressure, heavy public pressure over the past couple of weeks over the smell, the licorice smell of the chemical that went into the elk river. even though many people have flushed their homes out and their pipes out that smell is lingering in the city and in their homes. we al jazeera america field team applied our own pressure on officials and the governor as the governor brought the cdc and epa in front of field cameras. the governor asked as to why they are not looking into homes and the pipes and the fact that the chemicals could be bonding into the pipes, creating the smell. here's what the epa said to our producer david douglas. >> we feel that it's unlikely that this chemical is bonding to your piping. but we understand that issue has been raised. we are working with other technical experts to look at that further. but as i said we feel that that's not a likely scenario based on this chemical. >> reporter: john, right after the epa stepped to the side, i then asked the governor of west virginia, as to whether he himself would consider listening to what the citizens are saying. whether or not they could go inside some of the homes and take a sampling. here is what the governor told us. >> i'm not sure that i could tell you that we're going to go out and test 100,000 homes. but i think yeah, i don't have a problem in looking at testing samples. >> john, about an hour after that, after the press conference was over and we were back in our satellite truck preparing for our next live shot our producer received a text message from the governor's director of communications and it read governor tomlin is directing his team to evaluate home testing options. it appears that public pressure and our own pressure on the governor and the epa has come out with a good result here, today, john. >> robert ray in charleston, thank you. as we mentioned at the top of the hour, competition at the 2014 winter olympics begins in just a few hours, yet some are not ready. visitors to sochi have been posting pictures of partially constructed buildings. more than 24,000 rooms have been in sochi, more than the number of hotel rooms in moscow. gion gomeshi is in sochi, spoke to us from the game's media center and agreed that the hotel media accommodations leave a lot to be desired. >> on the one hand there are beautiful buildings that are glittery and brand spanking new but on the other hand there is an emptiness of a manufactured town built around the olympics that has little more, little legacy, little to do with sports in the past and kind of just been plopped down here. and feels particularly unfinished for all that we've heard about the $52 billion, some are speculating $60 billion that has been spent. it is not actually done. there are some hotels, venues, et cetera, that are less than complete in their services, and in their construction. and that's leading to some sarcastic tweets and comments from the media. yet from the hotel, you know, i don't want to be whining. but just factually put it that way, i have no wifi no hot water no curtains no furniture. and this doesn't -- it isn't just for me. i mean this is a number of people in the media, the media village saying the same thing. it's particularly inadequate. so they just don't seem prepared. i think you know i think inevitably what's going to happen here is that i think it's a legitimate journalistic story that a lot of money has been spent on these olympics. a record amount of money has been spent. and that some of the resources and some of the infrastructure is not adequate. and hasn't you know, there's a story there. having said that, we see this almost every olympics. and it's important to remember this. i mean greece you know leading up to the opening ceremonies was expected to be totally ill-prepared. beijing it was about suppression of free speech. london was about the security of lock down. vancouver was called the worst olympics in history, worst games ever from a catty british newspaper two days into the games, i think that changed during the course of the games. when the games begin it changes and it becomes about brilliant athleticism and heartwarming stories and medal counts and nations cheering on their athletes and i think the focus will be ton athletes. a week from now nobody will be talking about the infrastructure in russia. everybody will be talking about how the athletes are doing. >> gian gomeshi is a a cbc radio reporter. billie jean king's trip orussia has been delayed. the gay rights are supporter, outspoken to russia's anti-gay law, reports she can't make it because her 91-year-old mother is ill in arizona. the most decorated snowboarder of all time pulse ps out of an event. this came as a big surprise. >> throughout the snoabting world. since he first burst on the scene, sean white has rarely been afraid to try cutting edge tricks that were once considered dangerous. that's why he has won winter olympics medals. white who injured a wrist in an earlier training run feels the run is a little bit too risky for him. >> definitely have concerns about the course. developed and changed over the past few days and i guess the big question is if it will continue to change. because every day they have a riders meeting, they give feedback, sometimes there's changes, sometimes there's not. >> after that news conference white then announced in a statement that he is officially withdrawing from the run. even after watching fellow athletes getting hurt, it's too much to gamble my other olympic goals on. unquote. two days ago a medal contender from norway fell off a rail feature and broke his collarbone, he's out. another competitor forced her to withdraw from the women's competition and are finland competitor has not made an announcement regarding her status. as far as the course is concerned, take a look at this video. a russian competitor recently went down the course with his video, first started their training run some adjustments have been made including reducing the height on some of the jumps by as much as six feet but the danger is still there. canadian free skier called it unnecessarily risky. a snowboarder from canada said the course felt like jumping out of a building. down playing the dangers of the course. >> when you are in a number of disciplines and want to try one, you concentrate on that. if you really want to concentrate on one then maybe the chances and he's decided to take it he knows a lot more about it than i certainly do, maybe he's taking the decision that his best way is to concentrate solely on that. there could be the possibility of an injury. >> white still has the chance to dominate in halfpipe. they talk a lot of trash almost like american sports, two of the contenders for a gold medal actually went on twitter and gave sean white a little bit of cricriticism for pulling out. it's easy to pull out of a contest when you think you can't win and also from canada, maxon perrot, says sean pulled out because he's scared. both of these guys deleted their tweets. perrot actually issued an apology for what he said. sean white says it's not safe. >> you got oworry if it's safe are not. all right michael, thank you. joie chen is standing by to tell us what's coming up on "america tonight." joie. >> wait until you hear the story that we have on "america tonight." there is more to the story. soledad o'brien's story of a haitian teacher who inspires confidence. the teacher mckenzie desalot lost his school in the 2010 earthquake in haiti. now he's got an anonymous donation that's going to change everything . this is a very happy ending. there's a great deal of pain in haiti and deep wounds there. >> how does it feel to look at your school? >> actually i try avoid coming by here because it hurtsdz, it hurts deeply. >> i know what you're saying even though i don't speak your language. feels terrible. >> it make me pain in my heart. >> our special correspondent soledad o'brien will follow up with an incredible story, of a "america tonight" viewer. it's coming up then. >> joie, thank you very much. roman conflict church must work now. in a new report the u.n. accuses the vatican of systematically turning a blind eye. the vatican says the u.n. report is, quote, distorted an unfair. the church claims the u.n. didn't consider measures it has taken to protect young people. grinding to a halt, still ahead, the $1 billion problem putting the brakes on the panama canal extension. plus selling soccer in the south with a little help from a superstar, he's david beckham. fighting back. >> they don't wanna show what's really going on >> fault lines columbia: the fight for land only on al jazeera america dominant,. >> we are looking at some better conditions than we had 24 hours ago across the northeast. over the next six to eight hours that will basically be out towards the atlantic area but what's going to be left on the ground is a lot of slush and snow for the day. temperatures are going to go down you can see in new york we expect do go down to about 22 overnight. washington 28, pennsylvania 22. lot of people without power and those temperatures will be going down towards the tee teens and t is going to be an issue there. texas and new mexico, that won't bring too much in terms of accumulation but it will make transportation along the highways fairly difficult. we do have those winter weather advisories in effect, lasting through the nightly as well. freeze and fog advisories, in the west of text. more snow and rain for parts of california that's going to be a good thing for the next few days but we are watching our next big storm developing on saturday over the great lakes and sunday it's going to be a major problem up towards the northeast. national weather, news right after this. >> it's known as a wonder of the world, but the pan ma canal is being expanded for bigger ships. leasmed rampieti has the story. >> negotiations over $1.6 billion in cost overruns have broke down. this is the biggest setback in the very ambitious project. we're talking about one of the biggest infrastructure operations in the world, will allow ships more than double this size to move through the canal. both sides are blaming each other here on this stalemate. and have risked over 10,000 jobs of the people working on the expansion right now. and of course the revenues of the nation of pa panama. but furthermore also a risk or a big part of international commerce, international shipping companies are very eager to have the bigger ships be able to go through the canal, and every delay is a big setback for them. also, major countries around the world including the u.s. and china have already spent billions of dollars to expand their ports. the administration of the canal says they are ready to take over the operations and they're promising they will finish, one way or the other, the project in 2015. but many sorvers feel that's are too optimistic. david beckham is bringing professional soccer back to miami. natasha guinane has the story. . >> one of the biggest soccer stars is bringing a team to miami. >> it is the biggest sport in the world and it's time the two came together. >> david beckham says, owning a professional soccer team is a passion, only one after his family. he's making the team a world class one. >> as a kid, i never dreamed of doing. only a professional soccer team. now that i'm an owner, it's kind of surreal. >> beckham paid $25 million for the franchise. it was an inducement to lure him. the owners paid $100 million but beckham and his investors will be paying a hefty price for a stadium. taxpayers are not pitching in one single sent. hasn't settled on a name for the team. arun sharma says, in spite of the fact that he is an international celebrity, beckham faces challenges. >> the primary thing to do is of course have a good team. have a good team that has the ability to win and consistently win. the second thing you have to do is at the end of the day, sports are entertainment so they will have to back a soccer match and make it very entertaining. >> reporter: miami had a soccer team from 1998 to 2001. major league soccer eliminated the team. >> a lot more stronger than two years ago, the sport is a lot stronger and more exciting than it was ten years ago. this city is definitely ready for a soccer team. >> but not everyone is convinced. sports talk show host andy slater says sure, there's an enormous buzz now. but what about in a few years when the players suddenly hit the field? >> is it going to be a big thing or on the back burner like some other sports in town? >> there is no timetable for when the team will be ready for the town. beckham says players have already been calling and texting saying they want in. natasha guinane, al jazeera, miami. >> michael eaves is back to talk about the deal. they give him huge concessions in exchange for what? >> they gave him credibility he didn't have before. david beckham is one of the best players in his prime. if he can lure more top players to the mls it makes them a little bigger stage. >> a great place for soccer. what about sock irinsiders. >> there are pros and cons, david beckham hasn't failed at anything, seemingly unlimited resources. but international fans in that city, based on latin american cities included, they are not interested in american soccer or the mls, specifically. what they want to do is bring more spanish players to america, more european players to america, maybe that's beckham's plan. as natasha said, notoriously miami is a tough sports town. >> obviously who's going to build a stadium, they said they're going to do it with private money. who's involved in this? >> obviously, lebron james, has a lot of money and pop culture, wealth if you will but he has also invested in liverpool and the epl, so they're looking to bring in that money and that background to help beck ma'am to do it in america. >> thanks very much, michael. >> absolutely. >> coming up at our 11:00 eastern newscast, the case against woody allen. the latest allegations about the film maker's personal life. plus, giving an amputee the sensation to feel again, the new bubionewbionic hand. vladimir putin cuddling a leopard. he has some time to spend at the leopard sang wear at the athletes village in sochi. "america tonight" is following headlines. >> oh my! >> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm richelle carey in new york. here are the top stories. people flying to russia for winter games are told to be on alert. the concern is explosives being smuggled into sochi in toothpaste tubes. concerning airlines that have direct flights to russia including some flights originating from the u.s. also concern in the cyberworld. people going to the games should expect to be hacked. they say that the culprits are local criminals and even the russian government. a storm moving from the midwest to the northeast have left people without power. about 6,000 businesses and homes in the philadelphia area do not have electricity, highways closed and schools closed. cvs, is first drugstore the to be selling tobacco. it could cost the company about $2 billion a year. the eurnt united nations sae are roman catholic church, turning a blind eye to sexual abuse for decades. the u.n. report, according to the vatican, is distolerated and unfair. maint with joie chen is up next. -- "america tonight" with joie chen is up next. check out our website at aljazeera.com. why. >> on "america tonight": enforcing the law or breaking it? our in-depth look at crime and punishment, new york city's trorvel policnew york city'sconk putting a stop, to stop and frisk. >> particularly to men of color, you as a criminal, not because you what you are doing but who you are, how you look. >> also a terror warning, airlines on the look.

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