0 dirty politics in new jersey. a bridge, a traffic jam and a political rivalry all involving governor chris christie. newly release e-mails and texts reveal suggesting one of top aides engineers a traffic jam. nbc's tracie potts is live in washington. this story gives a bridge over troubled water a whole new meaning. >> well, we're going to hear more about that bridge today and in the future. now washington may get involved, betty. federal officials are telling us that the justice department received a request to look into this, to see if any federal laws were violated. >> reporter: it appears the four day traffic jam that backed up over the george washington bridge last september may have been orchestrated to punish a democratic mayor who did not support republican governor chris christie. according to e-mails subpoenaed by new york lawmakers. >> none of this surprises me. i'm embarrassed that people are involved and completely disheartened. >> reporter: this woman, a top christie aide tells one of the governor's high school buddies, time for some traffic problems in for the lee. got it, the official replies. it is wrong that i'm smiling, another says. someone else jokes the students stuck in traffic are children of christie's political opponent. >> he's got to come clean and say what he knew and when he knew it. >> reporter: last month governor christie denies having anything to do with it. >> absolutely unequivocally not. >> reporter: now with the embarrass, he has some explaining to do. >> either he doesn't know what is going on in his front office or that there is lying going on. >> reporter: in a new statement, christie says advertise staff misled him that the e-mails are completely inappropriate and that he knew nothing about it. and now that high school buddy who's also on the port authority, friend of governor christie's, he's been subpoenaed to testify in new york today about these e-mails, his involvement in the e-mails but he is fighting that subpoena. >> thank you. north america seize the first ever bird flu death. a canadian died on january 3rd. the virus rarely passes person to person and health officials call this an isolated case. but they are tracking down everyone who came in contact with the traveler. the virus has been worrying health experts for a decade now. the world health organization confirmed 648 human cases of the avian flu mostly in asia so far this season. 384 of them have been fatal. drug companies are working on a vaccine. now to a desperate search and rescue mission off the coast of virginia. one sailor is missing and two are dead after a helicopter crashed. two survived, one is in serious condition. they were on a routine training mission when it made an emergency water landing wednesday. the 99 foot craft is capable of speeds of more than 170 miles per hour. the cause of the crash is under investigation. one official says he has no concern about the helicopter's safety. federal authorities say they have busted up a sex trafficking ring of freeing sex slaves from a san diego street gang. 24 people have been charged in connection with the alleged prostitution operation that spanned 23 states and 46 cities. prosecutors are calling it modern day slavery. they say bms members branded women and girls with tattoos and bar codes after luring them over the internet with promises of a luxurious lifestyle. more arrests are expected. there is good news and bad news orbiting the space station. the first solar flair of the year forced officials to scrap a rocket launch for the third time. the supply vessel was kept on the ground. streak. down to the wire. kevin garnett breaking up a pass there. the nets, 102-98. i cried. new york's jr smith was fined $50,000 for unsportsman like conduct. yeah, that thing there. >> you can't untie a guy's shoe, right? >> he did, twice. not once, but twice. in games against dallas and then detroit. smith known for off court antics, shall i say. he tweeted he does this every game. he's going to get a lot of $50,000 fines. >> the heat are karaoking for underserved youth and teens. they're singing. the event is hosted by miami's shane batie. it is $150 to be part of this. ♪ >> it's like they should pay us $150 to listen to that. >> nba players can't sing. >> collin kaepernick gets video bombed. he likes to do his weekly press conference in different spots in the locker room. to get him back for doing it in the lineman's locker area, they played dunk into a trash bin right in front of him and the cameras over cap irnick's head. the niners play the panthers on sunday in the quest for a consecutive super bowl berth which they will do. >> all right, you're confident about that. we'll see. now that polar vortex that froze the nation seems to be heading back north to canada, it's time to assess the damage. the big chill is projected to cost the u.s. economy, listen to this, up to $5 billion. thanks in part to the 11,000 canceled flights this week. it wasn't just the airlines that had trouble, though, new york's hudson river was so frozen a ferry had to actually be carved out of the ice. but some good did come out of this polar vortex. scientists say the subzero temperatures will slow invasive insects that are killing off different plant species. all right. i don't know what the invasive insects are, do you? 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