Between russia and ukraine. Its now under way. Already one prorussian leader is renouncing it. Is the violence about to begin again . Well have a report on that in a few minutes. And a very big day in this building. A very big night in this building. Just 12 hours from now its going to be the saturday night live 40th anniversary spectacular. And four former performers and writers from that show who will be at the special tonight, theyre going to be here first this morning to watch some classic clips with us to share their memories to share their stories. Really looking forward to that segment later in the show today. But first, deadly shootings in denmark that the countrys Prime Minister says represents a terrorist attack. Two victims dead after a gunman attacked a cafe where a cartoonist who had satirically depicted the prophet mohammed was speaking and later a synagogue in copenhagen. There are indications all of this could have been much worse. That suspected gunman now dead. Police saying they killed him. No information about his identify is known yet but the twin attacks bear an eerie resem blns to the deadly rampage in france just last month when a magazine that published his eded disparageing cartoons of mohammed were published. French ambassador his country still reeling from last months terror attacks in attendance at the Forum Saturday along with swedish cartoonist lars vilks who has received multiple Death Threats from muslim radicals since drawing a cartoon of mohammed as a dog in 2007. Hes under 24 hour Police Protection. Heavy Police Protection also stationed outside that cafe yesterday. The gunman trying to force his way through Security Force his way into the cafe. Firing about 30 shots in the process, killing one person wounding three Police Officers. Then escaping without making it into the cafe. Hours later just after midnight copenhagen time a second deadly attack. This time outside the citys main synagogue. A jewish man shot and killed two more Police Wounded there. That synagogue also heavily protected by police in the wake of the cafe attack earlier in the day. The man who was killed apparently standing guard at the entrance to a building adjacent to that synagogue. A massive overnight manhunt shutting down parts of central coopen hagen. At 5 00 a. M. Police identifying a location where they believe the suspect to be. The suspect then opening fire when confronted by police then shooting the police shot the suspect dead. They now say they believe this was the man behind the shootings. Again, no word publicly on his identity, no comments from police yet about possible motives, but the danish Prime Minister is saying emphatically that, we feel certain it was a politically motivated attack and thereby it was a terrorist attack. Other european leaders as well saying the same thing. The French Foreign minister saying france, quote, remains by the side of the danish authorities and people in the fight against terrorism. The president of the european council, dopp nald tusk calling the cafe attack another brutal terrorist attack targeted at our fundamental values and freedom including the freedom of expression and a columnist for Charlie Hebdo saying in response to saturdays shootings, quote, we are all danish tonight. Peter keldorf is a journalist based in copenhagen. Peter, thank you for taking a few minutes this morning. Let me start with this. Were seeing publicly no information yet about who this suspect is who this man who was shot and killed by the police is anything about his background. Are there any indications over there that can clear that up at all . Any information on his identify . Our Intelligence Service has said they know who the man was and they knew him in advance of the attack and the police know the identity of the man they shot this morning, but they do not want to reveal his name so the news is they know who the suspect, the guy they shot this morning, they know who he is and they knew him in advance. Thats the latest. All right. Were having a bit of a problem with the audio there, peter. Im going to thank you and let you go but peter said if you werent able to hear clearly, he gave us some interesting information saying that the authorities in denmark do know or do think they know who this suspect is who this man shot dead is. They have his identity he says but they are not revealing it public publicly. Also new comments coming in this morning, new Public Comments from the Prime Minister of denmark. This just moments ago. Lets play that for you. Our thoughts go to the whole of the Jewish Community today. They belong in denmark. They are a strong part of our community and we will do everything we can to protect the Jewish Community in our country. And those words from the Prime Minister of denmark come as the ap is recording israeli Prime Minister benjamin nnt is netanyahu is calling for the massive immigration of European Jews to israel following the danish attacks. Steve clemens is an editor at large for the atlantic and he joins us now. Look, we dont have any Public Information as we say from the authorities in denmark about who this is. I havent heard, we havent seen certainly any claims of responsibility, claims of linkage from any terrorist groups. At the same time this just has all of the hallmarks of what we saw in france last month. I mean, this started at an event where a cartoonist who depicted mohammed in a negative life was speaking and it went to a synagogue. And last month to a Kosher Grocery store. And vilks who has a line of attempts on him, another terror ring arrested in 2010 isnted of try suspected of trying to kill him at this time. He was on isis most wanted list. It does bear that. The other interesting dimension is if the gentleman just on the phone is correct and they knew who he was, that was also true in the case of france. It was true in a slightly different case but importantly in australia where there was the attack at the coffee shop. There are within our societies people being watched that have not yet crossed the line but yet just sort of lurk there with the possibility of doing that in some of these cases who are animated and we dont know what animated this individual yet, and certainly the attack on the synagogue is so deeply disconcerting, and it was heartening to hear the Prime Ministers words about that. But this is going to open up all of those raw nerves again and insecurities in various communities across europe. If you could talk a little bit, we had a conversation last month when this was in france and about the Jewish Community in froonsance relations with the Muslim Community muslims in the country but not necessarily a part of the society. Thats a dynamic that also exists in denmark . It exists across europe but what is isis and what are its adjutants trying to do . Theyre trying to create the impression of a clash of civilizations, a clash of cultures in which theirs is dominant over others. What i worry about Prime Minister netanyahus comments, though imds understand the fear many jews fear across europe they feel as though the Integration Project particularly with muslims in their levavened that out. And netanyahu is saying its time to leave europe which enhances and increases the strain and the sense that there is really a clash under way. I nind deeply distressing and it will really undermine the european project and it will exacerbate this high fear world in which many jews are living, and i think its also unfair candidly, to hold all muslims accountable for maybe what some individuals do. We dont even know if this individual was a muslim yet, but that tension is something thats become palpable and very disconcerting and needs to be addressed directly and quickly. Right. Thats right. And again to reiterate what we heard from peter in copenhagen saying that the authorities in denmark, he says do know who the suspect is and do know who the man they shot is are not revealing that publicly right now. As you said steve, we dont know if its a muslim, if its not. It could be a deranged person could go a copycat thing from france. Obviously a lot we will learn today. Well be all over the story on this show throughout the day certainly here on msnbc. For now my thanks to Steve Clemens for joining us. Really appreciate it. Thank you. Turning to the big story at home here in the United States and that has to do with weather. Some of the coldest temperatures in a generation in treacherous conditions all around out there as heavy snow and blizzard conditions are moving toward new england this weekend. Already in new england. Where dozens of crashes on valentines day as snow and high wind led to put. Wreck multiple wrecks. One pileup counted as many as 20 vehicles on interstate 90 in erie pennsylvania. Seven people suffered bumps and bruises miraculously. Amtrak between North Station in boston and brunswick, maine, has been canceled for sunday. We have someone who is brave enough to be outside for us right now. The weather channels sam champion is in boston where Something Like 4,000 snowplows have been deployed or at the ready. Sam, its snowing there. Thats not the head lyeline because its been snowing for three weeks. Tell us what life is in boston. You know boston pretty well if im right. Yeah, although i dont really recognize it right now. Yeah its been a long time since boston has had this much snow. Probably as weve said never as you work on that 80inch mark and a little above it in just 23 days. Folks around here are seeing snow piles they havent seen. Everybodys benchmark is that blizzard of 78. Of course, this has blown way, way, way past that. Two blizzards in this area has never really happened this close together. We have blizzard conditions in the overnight. Really picked up around midnight until like 3 00 4 00 in the morning. The worst here seemed to be right around 4 00 4 30 to about 6 00 in the morning where we got that thundersnow first starting here in the boston area. Thats the classic sign of this storm really ramping up. The power of this storm right at about 4 30 through boston at 6 00 as we started to look toward plymouth. This is quincy market, thats nathaniel hall. They have their own snow removal teams and theyve been out all night. They say theyll be here until it stops snowing trying to get ahead of the snow. Withoutaging this agedamaging this or clumping it, i want you to see this. This is going to be a problem later on today. Look how light and fine and powdery that snow is. Its just unbelievable. Its lighter than pulled cutton. So whenever the wind picks up here it really grabs anything thats on the ground anything you put in the snow piles, and just makes whiteout conditions. Even when the snow shuts down the governor just finished or theyre in their press conference, i can see them in the press conference and the governor has basically what theyve been Say Something give us some time. We need time to get the roads clear. If the snow shuts down dont just clear out your car and get on the roads. Give us until later on this afternoon because weve got a lot to clear. And when that mind im going to walk this way and show you the snow pile. When that wind picks up, even if its not snowing, youre going to think its snowing particularly this close to the snow piles. Now, im going to try to stay out of the way of the bobcat because these guys are working pretty hard and heavy and have been all night long. Just to give you an idea of how high this snow pile is gauge me at 60. This is just from that area right here weve been raking in. Im going to do it in a couple tiers. This is the first tier. Thats probably right around four or five feet. I havent even tried this yet to get up on top of it. This is level with that first story of the building. So this snow pile about 10 12 feet high and weve got more coming during the day today. I think we still have another couple inches left inside this system. So exactly what theyre telling everybody to do just hang tight, let them get the snow removed. Even when the snow ends guys this is going to be a windy one. We are actually hearing, sam, while you were doing that, we heard from the city council in boston. Theyre renaming that pile of snow Mount Champion in your honor. This just in. I was going to put a flag on it for you. Just send me a big msnbc flag i will run up and stake it for you. Its on the way. Thanks for the report and good luck in that storm. The biggest part of this for Many Americans is arguably the cold temperature, not just the snow on the ground. Msnbc meteorologist dominica davis is here. Thanks for being here. Its not just the snow. We are going to be dealing with extreme cold dangerously cold temperatures along with the wind. So Power Outages are going to be a continuing concern and its not only for the new england area but even down into the midatlantic. So here is still the blizzard conditions the blizzard warnings we have going up the coast from boston up to bangor maine. Wind gusts will be upwards of 70 miles an hour. That blizzard warning goes until 7 00 in the morning. This is some serious stuff. We could be looking at winds along the coast 70 Miles Per Hour. 60 Miles Per Hour right around the boston area. It gets a little bit better as you get through new york and philadelphia, but still those are strong winds that will cause Power Outages for sure. So everybody on the northeast needs to be aware of that today. Here is the current wind gusts right now. We have 32 in d. C. Its 39 in new york. 28 in boston. Those winds will pick up as we head through the afternoon and especially this evening. Now, with those winds its the extreme cold so this is really what were talking about, dangerous cold minus 23 right now for the feelslike temperature in binghamton. In boston it feels like five degrees and that is pretty good but minus 3 for the feellike temperature here in new york. Windchills will get as low as minus 15 along much of the northeast. So imagine that steve, you lose power, even if its just for a few hours, youre going to feel that. So thats our big concern today and tomorrow morning as well. Yeah thats some scary stuff. We talk about the snow but the cold too, just as much of a problem, maybe more. Dominica, thank you for that. Really appreciate that. Still ahead in the show 40 years in the making the big saturday night live anniversary spectacular is tonight. We got a huge allstar table of snl performers and writers. You wont want to miss that. But first, the tenuous cease fire in ukraine, is it going to last . Has it already been broken . Details are straight ahead. How much money do you have in your pocket right now . I have 40 21. Could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement . I dont think so. Well if you start putting that towards your retirement every week and let it grow over time, for twenty to thirty years that retirement challenge might not seem so big after all. 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Thats where that delicate cease fire that european leaders furiously negotiated this week between russia and ukraine is now in effect or is it . The president of ukraine and the leader of prorussian rebels in the eastern part of the country both declare fighting had stopped at midnight local time per the agreement. And there are signs on the ground now that the fighting has, indeed stopped. But at the same time another rebel leader is reportedly renouncing the truce saying it doesnt apply to the key city that is a rail hub where rebels have ukrainian troops surrounded and they apparently dont want to let up. Intense fighting around the city marking the runup to the truce. The president has warned his troops will respond if rebels strike. One lieutenant saying this cease fire wont amount to anything. This is a conflict thats killed 5 p 5,300 so far and has been resistant to past cease fire attempts. Joining me is nina khrushcheva. And julia laffey. Nina, let me start with you. What youre looking at this morning, big picture, the fighting has stopped. You have a rebel leader saying it doesnt apply to us. Do you think this truce is real and can last . This truce can last to a certain degree. It cannot last the way we think it should last that is there would be no flares up, there would be no fighting because the fighting has already happened and i dont think the rebels are going to give up the city. What theyre saying they have surrounded the ukrainian troops and as long as the president is not going to recognize it they are going to demolish the troops. They are saying it is up to the ukrainian president to admit the city is theirs and if he admits it they will let them go. He cannot admit it because then the city goes de facto to russia and thats what he cannot afford.