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Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Were following major stories breaking right now as the United States and its allies step up their air campaign against isis targets. The terror group issues a new hostage video. It shows the british hostage john cantley acting as if hes reporting from the wartorn city of aleppo. He calls this the last the last of a series. President obama is grappling with another bloody crisis as ukraine tries to hold off russian aggression on the border but is a major ally standing in the way of a u. S. Move to arm ukraine . The Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee, congressman adam schiff is standing by live along with our correspondents and analysts. We go to the front lines of the war against isis in just a moment but lets begin with our justice correspondent, pamela brown. She has got new information for us. Pamela . Well british journalist held by isis for more than two years, right here john cantley, is resurfacing in yet another isis propaganda video. This time he is sending an ominous message after appearing in multiple isis videos he is seen in the video in the city of aleppo and looks like a journalist just doing his job. Analysts say he is doing this under duress and in the beginning of the video, he says something very disturbing. Take a listen. Hello. Im john cantley. In the last film in this series we are in a city that has been at the heart of the fighting since summer 2012. He says there the last film in a series. Meantime u. S. Officials are working around the clock to determine the fate of that 26yearold american aid worker Kayla Mueller. Isis claimed that she died in a Jordanian Air strike last week but u. S. Officials tell cnn there still hasnt been proof of death evidence that has surfaced. Muellers family is holding out hope, even sending a direct message to isis saying telling isis that it has sent that private message and is awaiting a response. Meanwhile, in the wake of the gruesome murder of a jordanian pilot, galvanized Coalition Forces are stepping up strikes against isis targets and the United Arab Emirates is reentering the fight after pulling out, sending in a squadron of f16s to fly alongside jordanian fighter jets. Wolf . So jordan is clearly trying to establish a major new arabled sunni arabled coalition, the uae coming in other arab states presumably going to join in and intensify attacks against isis as well. Its clear they are galvanized in the wake of the killing of the jordanian pilot, and now you see the uae which had initially pulled out when that pilot was kidnapped, now rejoining the fight and helping out jordan. An impressive coalition. Lets see how they get this thing done. Thanks very much. In iraq right now, Coalition War planes have been pounding isis targets around the city of mosul. Kurdish forces are battling isis on the ground. Ahead of an expected offensive aimed at retaking the city from the terror group. Cnns phil black reports on the front lines in northern iraq. Reporter Kurdish Peshmerga fighters alert, watching. Their enemy is close. The commander points out a factory complex only a short distance away. He says isis is there. We hear more rounds fly overhead and kurdish fighters respond. The exchange is no threat to this fortified position. What the fighters do fear is the darkness of night, fog, mortar rounds and Armored Vehicles converted into massive suicide bombs. They say isis makes use of them all. We travel north with peshmerga, past the ruins of abandoned villages isis once controlled and climb to the top of the mount. Isis also held this position and its commanding view across a wide plain. The fighters point out the towns and villages factories and roads, all still occupied by isis. In the hazy distance its greatest prize so far. The city of mosul. Overhead that circling aircraft is a constant presence. We hear regular thundering explosions. From the direction of mosul. Thats an air strike in the distance. They seem to be hitting every few minutes. Is that normal . He says aircraft have been hitting the area around mosul very hard for several days. Trenches and defenses stretch across the countryside. Kurdish officials call it phase one of the campaign containing isis stopping its fighters advancing again. Phase two will be very difficult. Retaking mosul. These peshmerga fighters are willing to join any effort to free mosul from isis but the time frame really isnt up to them. It comes down to the Iraqi Government in baghdad and its efforts to rebuild, retrain the iraqi army. The same military force that ran away and abandoned mosul when isis first came charging through this region. The peshmerga dont want to take mosul alone because its an arab city and because the iraqi army has better weapons. As proof, they show us this historic artillery piece. Its from england. Yes. Reporter how old . 1941. Reporter it was made in 1941. Yes. Made in 1941 in england. Reporter not surprisingly ammunition for this relic is hard to source. They have just 20 precious rounds left. From this vantage point, its easy to see the progress these fighters have made in the battle against isis. But also the great challenges still looming on the horizon. Those containment lines are clearly holding but its only part of the job. They may have stopped isis cut back its ability to actually surge forward and claim new ground but they still have to retake mosul. There is a question over when such an operation can begin. U. S. Officials have suggested within just a couple of months. On the front lines, kurdish fighters believe that is optimism but they still believe it will happen this year. Its pretty shocking that the peshmerga, the kurdish fighters are using artillery pieces from 1941, with 20 rounds left. I know they have complained often in the past that the u. S. Is still providing them weapons but only through the shiiteled government in baghdad. And most of those weaponry they rarely get to the peshmerga. How bitter are they that the United States isnt directly sending weapons, artillery, armor, directly to the kurdish fighters who are taking such a major assault right now, leading the fighting, if you will . Reporter they are frustrated. There is no doubt about that. That old artillery piece that is an extreme example but it really does back up what we have been hearing at every level and every front line we have visited. They have limited weaponry. They have old guns. They have no heavy weapons. They are frustrated because isis has advanced weaponry. It does have heavy weapons, that it stole from the iraqi army when it fled this region. As a result they believe the kurdish fighters are taking much higher casualties than they should. They are frustrated because they want to be treated as equal partners. They believe they are effectively the ground force in the International Coalition and in order to keep doing it they want the weapons that will enable them to do the job. Yeah. Those isis forces have u. S. Weapons that they took from the Iraqi Military who simply abandoned those weapons and ran away. So in other words, american weaponry is killing those kurdish fighters trying to retake mosul. Phil black, good reporting for us. Thanks very much. President obama, meanwhile, is wrestling with another major crisis. The bloody fighting in Eastern Ukraine which is fueled by Russian Military might. The Obama Administration is weighing lethal aid, military aid, to ukraine but when the president met with a key ally today at the white house, it was clear they are not, repeat not on the same page. Lets go to our senior White House Correspondent jim acosta for the very latest. Jim . Reporter president obama and german chancellor Angela Merkel tried to show a united front when dealing with russian aggression in ukraine but they sounded very far apart when it comes to sending arms to the Ukrainian Military. President obama made it clear he may well take his confrontation with russian president Vladimir Putin to the next level. And ship arms to ukraine to fight promoscow separatists. What i have asked my team to do is look at all options. What other means can we put in place to change mr. Putins calculus and the possibility of lethal defensive weapons is one of those options thats being examined. But i have not made a decision about that yet. Reporter the german chancellor Angela Merkel wants the white house to wait at least until wednesday, when she is expected to sit down with putin to hammer out a peace deal. I have always said i dont see a military solution to this conflict but we have to put all our efforts in bringing about a diplomatic solution. Reporter with russia already accused of violating past agreements and sanctions having little effect on putin, the Obama Administration is dropping plenty of hints. Too many times, president putin has promised peace and delivered tanks, troops and weapons. So we will continue to provide ukraine with Security Assistance not to encourage war but to allow ukraine to defend itself. Reporter even the president s nominee for defense secretary is open to more weapons. I very much incline in that direction. Because i think we need to support the ukrainians in defending themselves. Reporter a move to arm ukraine could further strain relations with germany after those disclosures the u. S. Spied on merkels phone calls. In a sign of the internal debate within his administration the president downplayed the impact of helping ukraine defend themselves. I think both angela and i have emphasized that the prospect for a military solution to this problem has always been low. Reporter still, if putin balks at another deal merkel conceded the world may be running out of diplomatic options. If we give up this principle of territorial integrity of our countries we will not be able to maintain the peaceful order of europe we have been able to achieve. Reporter worth noting the president was asked if he had a red line for Vladimir Putin. He offered no red lines for when russia might go too far but ukraine was not the only subject today at the white house. The president and merkel grappled with the war on isis the looming deadline for a nuclear deal with iran. This is hardly a good time for the u. S. And germany to be moving in opposite directions. They have lots and lots of International Issues they are trying to deal with. Jim acosta thanks very much. Lets talk about some of them. Joining us the Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee, democratic congressman adam schiff of california. Congressman, thanks very much for joining us. I want to get back to ukraine in a moment but lets go first, lets get through the latest isis threat. Specifically this chilling new video isis released today of the british hostage john cantley who says in this video this is in his words, we assume he is forced to say so the last video in this series. The last video in this series. What does that mean, congressman . Im not sure what it means. Hopefully that doesnt mean that its the last appearance we are going to see of him because i think as long as he has utility for these terrorists they will keep him alive and plainly hes doing whatever is necessary to stay alive. We are doing everything we can to try to identify where he is as well as any other hostages and what might be done to help them. But obviously this is very difficult. Our intelligence resources are limited in syria and its a very grave situation. It certainly, the fear is that they are about to kill john cantley cantley, right . That is certainly a fear with all of their hostages. We cant tell what to read into that phrase that he uttered, whether this is the last of this series or he is going to make an additional series or whether they contemplate this as the last time we are going to see him. Obviously we hope that he stays alive but the record of isis hostages is a very discouraging one. What about Kayla Mueller, the 26yearold american aid worker that isis said was killed in a Jordanian Air strike the other day . Theres no evidence to back up that isis assertion. What is the Current Assessment . Do officials believe shes still alive . I think the reality is we dont know wolf. Obviously we trying to find out and hope and pray that she is but i dont think anyone gives credibility to the isis claims that she was killed in a Jordanian Air strike. Its all too convenient a propaganda message. So thats i think very plainly not the case. The question though is is she still alive or was she killed earlier by isis. This is just the way they want to roll out that gruesome fact. We are trying to find out, we dont know the answer and we will make every effort to find the answer and if she is alive obviously do everything we can to help and rescue. Congressman, i want you to stand by. We have more to discuss including a very Disturbing Development that isis may be moving beyond what is called the aspirational desire to go after targets right here in the United States to a more specific plan. Much more with congressman adam schiff after this. Like, literally ran into him. [rambling]. This story had 30 minutes left. Until kim realized that Stouffers Mac and cheese is made with real cheddar aged to perfection for 6 long months. When you start with the best cheddar, you get the best mac and cheese. So, what about jessica . What about her . Stouffers. Made for you to love. Nestle. Good food. Good life. Toenail fungus . Dont hide it. Tackle it with new fdaapproved Jublia Jublia is a prescription medicine proven to treat toenail fungus. Use jublia as instructed by your doctor. Once applied jublia gets to the site of infection by going under, around and through the nail. 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In the beginning i think isis was so preoccupied with trying to establish its caliphate, it had little time to focus on directing attacks outward at the west but those days are probably behind us and we have seen in paris with coulibaly how very little inspiration and very little material assistance if any, was necessary for that terrorist to carry out a lethal attack in the name of isis. We have had many thousands of foreign fighters enter the fight from europe. We have had many many hundreds return. Some of those undoubtedly who were discouraged by what they saw and just wanted to get away from the fight, others who are returning with the idea of attacking the west in europe or the United States. So i think that is a very real concern and something that we are doing Everything Possible to guard against. That represents a major new threat. Another threat paul cruickshank, our terrorism analyst, told us about this one, is that isis is now seeking to capture more american and european hostages even if they are in neighboring countries like jordan or lebanon, for example, and then bring them back to syria or iraq to hold them hostage. What if anything can you tell us about this . I think thats also a very realistic concern and americans need to be very careful anywhere in the region anywhere in the proximity of syria or iraq. Some of the hostages were close to the border in turkey. They may have been within the border area when they were abducted. So i think that journalism has now become very dangerous in many places in the globe but especially in this region but all american citizens are a great value to these terrorist organizations for their propaganda purposes for purposes of ransom and we have to do Everything Possible not to give them that opportunity. We are told the president will now ask congress for new authority to use military force against isis on wednesday. You have worked on this i think since last september. Its taken a long time but i assume you welcome this move by the president. Absolutely. We have seen some real deep engagement now by the white house with congress. I think something is forthcoming in the next 24 to 48 mowers and thats very positive. It will definitely gel the debate in congress about what a new authorization will look like and that authorization will move forward. Its been frustrating to gain traction on this. We are half a year into this war. There will be some key issues about whether we preclude Ground Forces and what the sunset date is. Most significantly i think we need a sunset not only the new authorization but the old ones as well. That may be an area of contention. I assume you are also frustrated the president hasnt made up his mind about whether to arm the Ukrainian Military. Well this is a tough decision but yes, i strongly favor arming the Ukrainian Military helping ukraine defend itself. We are trying to reach another agreement in minsk but we already had an agreement with the russians. The problem is getting them to uphold the agreements they reach. The only way to do that is to raise the cost of their further aggression. I wish this wasnt necessary and i wish the economic sanctions had worked but they havent worked. They havent deterred russia. We have an obligation not only to ukraine which gave up its Nuclear Weapons at our request and insistence and we represented along with others that we would help protect the territorial integrity of ukraine so thinkss is also about nonproliferation and about ukraines neighbors and curbing russian aggression against them. One final question that came up in the president s news conference. He seemed to be irritated that Benjamin Netanyahu is coming to washington on march 3rd to speak before congress two weeks before the israeli election. Thinks is this a bad idea . Should the Prime Minister reschedule that visit to the United States . It was a bad idea for the speaker to extend the invitation right before the israeli elections but he did extend it it has been accepted im planning to be there to welcome the Prime Minister but i think it was a serious mistake by our speaker and i lay the responsibility on our own shoulders. Was it a serious mistake for the Prime Minister to accept that invitation . You know thats a decision the Prime Minister will have to make. Im sure that they are having deliberations in israel about that. But thats a call hell have to make. You would be happy if he postponed it . You know again, wolf im going to be there to welcome him. I wish this hadnt happened to begin with because its a terrible distraction from the weighty issues of Irans Nuclear program and i think kind of this kerfuffle over this has to be greatly well received in iran because to the degree that it shows any division between us and our israeli allies or within the two parties in congress is simply not good for the relationship. I look forward to this coming to an end. Ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee adam schiff thanks for joining us. We will have much more ahead on the threat of the potentially new atrocities committed by isis. We are also following a very dangerous storm hitting millions of people right here in the United States. Theres a snow emergency in boston where they are buried under five feet of snow already. We go there live. Also coming up the latest threat from north koreas kim jongun. New missiles capable of hitting ships more than 100 miles out at sea. You cant predict the market. But at t. 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It is snowing, the wind is blowing, the snow is whiteout conditions here in quincy. They received more than 24 inches more than two feet of snow here in quincy in just this one storm alone. Boston transportation authorities telling us that they are going to suspend service from 7 00 p. M. Until at least midnight tonight because in some cases, the wheels are falling off of trains. If we can pull over to one of the neighborhoods here i want to show you what the side streets look like down here. It is absolute misery on these side streets. The snow piled six, seven feet high on some of them and the wind is whipping so hard here that it is sometimes very hard to see without goggles which is why i have these goggles on and im going to don them before we jump out. This is a typical neighborhood here in quincy massachusetts. You can see they have been trying to keep the snow out of here as much as possible but it is nearly impossible to keep it completely out. This right over here is the bay. You come around this way, this is all the snow blowing from the bay. They are trying to dump as much snow as they can on to this side but it keeps blowing all the way into the neighborhood. It is an absolute massive amount and incredibly painful to be in as well. Wolf . It looks awful out there. Be careful, Miguel Marquez on the scene for us in quincy massachusetts. Today the governor of massachusetts complained that the record snowfall is shattering cleanup budgets. The governor says in just the past two weeks, crews have removed enough snow to fill the football stadium used by the new England Patriots 90 times. As for where the snow really goes cnn reporter chris welch is joining us from a facility right there. What are they doing, trying to melt all this snow . Is that whats going on . Reporter thats exactly right, wolf. They have had so much of it here, this is what its come to. They are trying to figure out exactly how, what would help get rid of some of this. Take a look behind me. There is a lot of activity here right now. We are essentially in an empty parking lot which are now being called snow farms. These front end loaders have been going back and forth from these piles of snow and taking it over to this machine on the left here. That is the snow melter. That little baby right there can melt about 350 ton of snow per hour. If you take a look they put it in the top, you see the massive amounts of steam coming off, then out the bottom turns it into water. We have puddles, essentially little mini wading pools. I dont think this is a wading pool anyone wants to get into right now. Wading pools, pools on the street pools in the parking lot, but take a look to our far right over here. Take a look at just the sheer size of some of these snow mountains, if you can see them. This snow farm was filled with 10,000 truckloads of snow. Now, these front end loaders have dwindled that down to about 5,000 truckloads left but you know whats going to happen . Today they have been plowing the streets. Tomorrow the streets they have been plowing from todays snow that snow will be brought here again so the removal process off the street continues and the melting process will continue as well. Wolf . Theyve got a lot of snow to melt if they can. Chris, thank you. Lets bring in our meteorologist tom sater, who is monitoring the storm from the cnn Severe Weather center. Whats the latest forecast . Whats going on . We have got a few more inches still to fall until morning and believe it or not, in the 140 years of recordkeeping in boston this now ranks as the tenth snowiest year. By the end of the week we will be in the top five as another round is coming that could drop a foot. 19. 7 in boston. Those numbers as mentioned, maybe 21 22 by morning. The numbers are in the 20s as far as temperatures. A little mix moving toward philadelphia a spotty mix of sleet. More snow for hartford to providence, to boston overnight and the coldest air of the season will be moving in too, followed by another round of what we can say will be the coldest air of the season. Right now, i95 patchy snowfall, a few breaks now and then. Heres the concern. Once this storm system leaves the Conveyor Belt of snowfall continues. No one knows where the off switch is. Out of canada another area of low pressure a clipper, will transfer its energy to a developing storm on the coast, a noreaster the kind we do not like to see. This is where accumulating snows could easily top a foot. Models still in disagreement but even for boston the lighter model, six to eight inches. The heavier models over a foot. We will be in the top five we just have to get to 85 inches to be in the top five and we are about 74. Its amazing. Look at the cold air saturday morning, four in boston sunday zero. After the coldest air of the season a secondary round will follow and dare i say even a weekend storm after that. We have to find the off switch. I know you love stats. In the 140 years of recordkeeping for boston if you find the snowiest 40 day period we have surpassed that in only 17 days. Wow. Tom sater, thanks very much. Good luck to all the folks in boston and new england. Tonight, there are also new questions about the fate of an American Woman isis claims is dead along with new video of a british hostage and hints isis may be planning another atrocity. Also coming up kim jongun is showing off what North Koreans claim is a cutting edge new weapon. Kid hey dad, who was that man . Dad hes our broker. He helps looks after all our money. Kid do you pay him . Dad of course. Kid how much . Dad i dont know exactly. Kid what if youre not happy . Does he have to pay you back . Dad nope. Kid why not . Dad it doesnt work that way. Kid why not . 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Reporter well wolf you touched on something that this family is desperate for and that is proof, that is something they do not have. They only have that picture of that building and given isis track record this family has no reason to believe it. Over the weekend, they said that they urged isis in a statement to please reach out to them that they had kept their end of the deal they kept her name out of the news. They now want isis to reach them. So how. We have heard through the family spokesman that what they want is to be reached through quote, the original channels. What those channels are, we dont know but the family trying to seek some direct contact with isis private contact with isis. What they want wolf is simply an answer. Wolf . I hope they get an answer and they get an answer soon. Thank you. Lets dig deeper with our Law Enforcement analyst tom fuentes, former fbi assistant director and our justice reporter evan peres. You have been following this story very closely. Whats the latest information youre hearing . You know u. S. Intelligence and Law Enforcement is still looking for any proof that indeed, what isis says that they are done which is kill this hostage, whether that is indeed true. They have some normal intelligence sources that they usually see turn up things for example, if they killed a hostage, they filmed it they produced videos. They havent been able to identify anything yet that proves that she is indeed dead. We do know there was a special Operations Unit that tried to rescue james foley, the american hostage who was later beheaded tried to and they found some hair in this area where they went in the dna from the hair showed it was the hair of this young woman. Could that at all be helpful in the search for her, maybe assuming hopefully she is still alive . Well its helpful to show she was with the other group of hostages they were all together. The rescue attempt came close but the hostages were moved before the rescuers got there. Really thats the last time they have evidence of her presence. That goes back to last summer. There has been no recent proof of life even during the time when the japanese hostages were being negotiated for by isis during that time the jordanian prisoner was not shown publicly. Shes not been shown publicly at all during any of this. I assume what they are trying to do is listen in either surveillance intercepting communications to get some chatter, if you will to try and determine if shes alive or dead. Thats what theyre trying to do. Frankly, if they in fact had any lead on where shes at and that they could do a rescue we would be the last to know. They would go ahead and try to do what they could do to get her but absent that there has been no Public Information about her condition. There has been absolutely since that original statement that isis released showing the still photo of a bombedout building in roqqa in syria, one of the bases of isis claiming that a Jordanian Air strike killed this young woman, there has been nothing from isis right . No statements no video, no nothing. There has been nothing. The expectation is that we are going to hear something. Sometimes what we know from previous cases from Law Enforcement and the intelligence agencies know that these guys take sometimes weeks before they finally produce any evidence of what they have done. They believe that thats likely the case here. The working theory is that she was likely already killed. The new video isis did release had nothing to do with her but john cantley, the british hostage who pointed out in this video in ominous words, this was the last in a series of videos that they are releasing. When you saw that tom, what did that say to you . Nothing, frankly, that was useful. I thought theyve got this guy out there under threat of death. Hes producing these videos or making these commentaries. Doesnt tell us where hes at or why hes doing it. Apparently he said aleppo. We dont know. He says that but we dont know for sure where these are being produced. When he says its the last one, we dont know whether they will stop producing them with him, whether that means hes going to be killed. We just dont know. Its weird that they used this one british hostage almost like supposedly a reporter doing a video for isis. This is the last in a series of videos he points out. Very weird. Its very weird because they do gruesome beheadings and burned the jordanian pilot alive, then here they have him talking in a reasonable almost newsman demeanor as if they are trying to get credibility, as if they want respectability in terms of putting out his video. Evan u. S. Law enforcement intelligence they will look at this video, they will be able to determine if it was done in aleppo for example, based on whats around it. They can usually tell pretty quickly whether these are videos that were produced with some kind of backdrop thats superimposed. These are very highly produced and thats one of the things that has been a marker of the isis operation. All right, guys thanks very much. Stand by. Coming up another important story we are following involving north korea who tests a new missile it claims is cutting edge technology. Whats really behind kim jonguns latest show of military force . Doug, we have the results, but first, we have a very special guest. Come on out, flo [house band playing] you have anything to say to flo . Nah, ill just let the results do the talking. [crowd booing] well, he can do that. We show our progressive direct rate and the rates of our competitors even if progressive isnt the lowest. It looks like progressive is not the lowest ohhhh when we return well find out whether doug is the father. Wait, what . Well, a mortgage shouldnt be a problem your credit is in pretty good shape. Pretty good . I know i have a 798 fico score thanks to the tools and help on experian. Com. Kaboom. Well, i just have a few other questions. Chuck, the only other question you need to ask is, what else can you do for me . Ill just take a water. Get your credit swagger on. Become a member of experian credit tracker and find out your fico score powered by experian. Fico scores are used in 90 of credit decisions. Just days after threatening the United States request final doom north korea test fired what it is calling a cutting edge new antiship missile. Brian todd is here in the situation room taking a closer look at the test. What are you finding out . Weapons experts are telling us this say more advanced Cruise Missile than north korea has shown us before. It represents a new threat. The test firing of this missile comes at a time of high tension between the regime and the most bitter enemies. The dramatic pictures of a launch at sea set the tone of confrontation. Kim jongun is seen in a command posture. Tonight, new concerns about north koreas ability to strike u. S. And allied warships off the korean coast. This is a new antiship Cruise Missile test fired by north korea. It appears to be a more advanced weapon of its kind than north korea has revealed before. This is a big step forward in terms of what north korea has tested. If north korea wants to hold a risk either u. S. Japanese or perhaps sorjuth korean this is a good way to do it. Analysts say look at how it compared to the russian kh35e missile. Its similar from here to here. Its a Cruise Missile. Its operated on arrow dieerodynamicaerodynamic. This appears to be a solid fuel booster that gets it off the ship and moving quickly. Did the North Koreans buy this missile from russia take the design and repurpose it . No response from officials. At the same time, the north was testing five other shortrange missiles. It comes just ahead of joint u. S. south Korean Military exercises. Analysts say kim jongun exercises his might to get the u. S. To cancel the drills. This cops scomes a few days after they say they have no reason to negotiate with the gangsterlike United States. Its born of north korean frustration because they understand the United States has capabilities they dont possess. They feel for their own political purposes they have to make these threats. In effect their language is suicidal. That doesnt mean their actions will be suicidal. As worrisome as the missiles tested are, experts say the North Koreans are developing a much longer range missile that could be a lot more dangerous. Its the typadong 2. It could strike as far away as alaska. Theres doubt as to whether it could carry a heavy payload that far. What is this saying about kim jongun personally . There have been suggestions maybe he is under some sort of internal threat right now. Thats right. Its hard to determine that right now. One analyst says he has such heavy layers of protection around him he may not be under an immediate threat. But there are doubts on the outside, doubts about his ability to lead the impulsive nature of his decisions. The more those doubts linger on the outside, the more it might under mine kim among those closest to him. As you know wolf they watch the International News cnn couldnt stant ly constantly. Other news were following as well. U. S. Officials work to determine the fate of an American Woman hostage. The terror Group Releases a video of a british hostage saying ominously its the last in a series. As ukraine struggles against Russian Military might, is a major american ally standing in the way of the u. S. Way to arm ukraine . 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We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. You are in the situation room. Breaking now, growing fears for the life of one of the last western host ajzages by isis. He says his appearance in the last in a series. This as the parents of american hostage Kayla Mueller await proof of her fate days after isis claimed she was killed in an air strike. Were following dangerous new developments in the u. S. Led war against isis and in the escalating war in Eastern Ukraine. President obama talking publically today about the possibility of sending u. S. Weapons into the mix. Senator king is standing by. A top member of the Armed Services and Intelligence Committees. We have our team of Analysts Covering all the news breaking right now. First lets go to our justice correspondent pamela brown with the latest on isis and its hostages. Pamela . Reporter wolf we are learning tonight from sources that new intelligence has surfaced since the isis claims about Kayla Mueller, but nothing conclusive to prove that she was killed. This as another western hostage sends an ominous message through one of the most recent propaganda videos from isis. Hello. Reporter a british journalist held for more than two years is one of isis last known western hostages. After appearing in multiple propaganda videos he claims this is the last in the series. That could be his signoff saying this is my last film. Now my fate is with isis. Reporter new intelligence shows isis has been developing plans to kidnap more western and International Hostages in neighboring countries, including lebanon and jordan. Its a very plausible scenario that isis could move to the refugee camps on the Turkish Border and target an aid worker or reporter and pull them into syria. Reporter the fate of Kayla Mueller remains unknown. Isis claims she died in an air strike but has made public these images of a deilapidated building as proof. Her family is holding out hope and sending a direct plea to isis. We have sent you a private message and ask that you respond to us privately, the family said in this statement. You told us that you treated kayla as your guest and as your guest her safety and wellbeing remains your responsibility. There has been a living hell for the family and it is today. Reporter following the gruesome murder of a jordanian pilot, Coalition Forces are continuing strikes against isis targets in syria and iraq. The united arab exratsmirates have joined in now. The u. S. Military is trying to gather intelligence about isis defenses in mosul. They are trying to make a key decision about whether the u. S. Should step up involvement of u. S. Troops in the fight to retake mosul. Almost two Million People that isis simply walked into because the Iraqi Military abandoned positions. Thanks very much. Lets get to the bloody war in ukraine right now. President obama says he is exploring all options to respond to russian aggression including sending u. S. Weapons to the Ukrainian Government military forces. For now, he is trying other ways to pressure the russian president. Lets bring in our chief National Correspondent jim sciutto. Reporter wolf what was clear to me in kiev in the last few days was a deep sense of urgency and fear about the expanding war in the east. You get a sense of it here in the map. The line here of russian controlled territory moving westward. All of these contacts between Russian Forces and Ukrainian Forces. The number going up. In the words of one ukrainian mp we are fighting for or lives here. Today you heard some of that urgency from the american president. On the ground in Eastern Ukraine there is allout war. Russian forces ss and russianbacked separatists launching rockets. Ukrainian forces firing back with civilians caught in the cross crossfire. Merkel and obama described it as a threat not only to ukraine but to europe and nato. We are in agreement that the 21st century cannot have us stand idle and allow the borders of europe to be redrawn at the barrel of a gun. Translator if we give up on this principle of integrity of countries, they well will not be able to maintain the peaceful order of europe. Reporter they agree that the root to peace is diplomacy. A return trip on wednesday to resurrect a september ceasefire that quickly fell apart. Failing diplomacy they disagree however on whether to arm the Ukrainian Forces as a next step. President obama leaving the option open. What other means can we put in place to change mr. Putins calculus . And the possibility of lethal defensive weapons is one of those options thats being examined. Reporter they agree to disagree. There may be areas where there are tactical disagreement disagreements. Translator on certain issues we may not agree. Reporter since the september agreement, russian had a solidified its military occupation of the east with a massive influx of heavy weapons, soldiers including special forces and command and control. Lack of military help is certain to das point ukrainian officials who told us in kiev they are simply trying to defend their country. Why we are asking for an increased defense capabilities of ukraine. Its not for the offensive operation. This is for the defensive operation. Reporter the challenge now is that a diplomatic solution depebdde depends on the same outlines of a Peace Agreement and the same russian president as the last Peace Process that as we know immediately was broken. Can they come to an agreement this time . I heard skepticism in the ukrainian capitol. They are very worried for good reason. One of the arguments u. S. Hear from europeans, critics who say the u. S. Should not be providing arms to the oohukraineian military is they are not up to the job. If you give these weapons to the ukraineian military they could wind up in the hands of prorussian separatists as u. S. Weapons given to the Iraqi Military have wound up in the hands of isis. The same concern Obama Administration had about arming rebels was that. In addition to that whether or not the weapons end up in the hands of prorussian separatists or russia forces is how does russia react . Do they use weapons coming from the west as further impetus to send even more weapons in there . The trouble is they are sending propoetentialsetentiale nents will say they already are. Jim sciutto, thanks very much. Lets talk about both of the wars in ukraine and the middle east the war against isis. Senator king is joining us. Senator, thanks very much for coming in. I want to get your analysis, first of all on the new video that isis released today, showing this british hostage. He is supposedly in aleppo. He says these ominous words this is the last film in the series last video in the series that he is going to be releasing. Whats your analysis of what this means . It sounds that way, or canit could be. He doesnt look look hes under great duress. He is talking. And acting like a reporter. You dont know how long he has been there, how much pressure he has been put under. It doesnt sound good. He is one of the last western hostages. One of the rules of dealing with hostages and these kinds of situations is you really cant you shouldnt put a lot of credence in what people say because they have been under such tremendous duress. We dont know whether hes been tortured or what he has been through to get him to make what amounts to a very slick propaganda video. Clearly, isis has propaganda interest. They are releasing a video like this. We will see what it means if anything. Do we know how many western hostages are still being held . He is still being held. We know this 26yearold American Woman, they claim she was killed. No evidence to back that up. Do we know how many hostages are still being held by them . Its a small number. I dont have an exact number. I think were in single digits. No other americans beyond Kayla Mueller, assuming shes alive, and we hope she is some. Not that we know of. We she is. As a parent, i cant imagine what her family has been through. Theres no evidence to back up isis assertion she was killed in a Jordanian Air strike right . Theres no evidence to back that up . None that we know of. They have been known to misrepresent these things. They represented to the jordanians that the pilot was still alive. They were negotiating. It turned out he was killed a month ago. You cant put a lot of credence in what they put out. Is there hope this young woman might be alive . There might be. They treated her differently. They communicated to her parents that they were treating her as a guest. You know i think they made a major mysticaliscalculation with the gruesome video of the jordanian pilot being burned. They may maybe they realize that killing a woman, particularly in a public way like they have the prior hostages would just be further inflamed Public Opinion and particularly opinion in the arab countries and the muslim world against them. Public opinion is really turning against them. You see jordan really stepping up the United Arab Emirates sending f16s to jordan. I assume other sunni moderate arab countries will step up their campaign as well. I have never seen anything like the way that action unified the muslim world. In egypt, even in iran all over the muslim world. It was condemned, it was condemned in mosques. Like i say, i think it was a major miscalculation. It really sort of outlined for the muslim world what were dealing with. It seemed almost like they were taunting the world with that gruesome video of this young jordanian Fighter Pilot in a steel cage burnt to death. If they thought it was going to intimidate the jordanians i was in a meeting with the king within an hour of that video being made public. He was anything but intimidated. He was furious and resolute i think would be the right word. Certainly, thats Public Opinion in jordan. But throughout the middle east. Wolf thats the only way this problem is going to be solved. We cant solve it. Its got to be solved by people on the ground in the region who say, enough is enough, were not going to tolerate these people perverting islam and simply brutalizing their own people. Senator king we have more to discuss, including a suggestion by one of your colleagues from the Senate Intelligence committee that isis may be moving beyond aspirationally going after american targets in the United States but beginning to implement plots. Stand by. 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What are you hearing . I dont think theres much doubt if they could, they would. In the United States . If they could. I think right now, i dont think they have the means. We have them pretty well pinned down. I think the air strikes over 2,000 air strikes have really diminished their physical their infrastructure if you will. Its not only them. My father used to say you cant tell the players without a program. We have Aqap Al Qaeda in the arabian peninsula. They are in yemen. In yemen. Then we have al qaeda yengenerally. These groups they are all thinking about how to make a big splash. One of the things about these videos that isis keeps producing is thats how they recruit. They want to show they are tougher and meaner than anything else. Apparently there are young people throughout the world that are excited to join these organizations that show how brutal they can be. The appeal is lost on me. Who is the greatest threat to the American Homeland . Core al qaeda . Would it be isis . Would it be aqap . Any of these other groups . I think the greatest threat to the American Homeland now are some obscure bomb makers developing bombs that will go through airport security. That sounds like aqap in yemen. They have that master bomb maker maker. Thats one of the things they are working at. Thats one of the difficulties is that we dont know where the threat is going to come from. Thats what keeps me up at night is the small a plot you can deal with because theres intelligence and you hear communications and those things. Its the small group like the guys in paris, two guys apparently. They are pulling off an attack or somebody in america thats selfradz selfradicalized through the internet. We have to be vigilant on all fronts. How close are they to building a bomb that would not be that would be could you bring it through the metal detectors at an airport and board a plane . They have master bomb makers working on it. The short answer is pretty close. That sounds like an enormous threat if they can get away with Something Like that. It is. And its we have to keep we have to keep developing our capacity to detect these things. How do you detect a bomb if its not detectible . Well it still has physical characteristics. Im not go going into the specifics. Just be it known that were working on the protection and how to deal with these threats. Thats a realistic, credible threat that the u. S. Is deeply concerned about right now . Yes, it is. Im deeply concerned hearing about that. The other concern we heard from one of our terrorism experts. They are getting information that isis could go ahead and kidnap americans who may be in neighboring countries, jordan or lebanon, and bring them back to syria or iraq and use them as pawns. Have you heard about that threat . Hostages are coin of the realm to these guys. We dont pay but a lot of countries have paid to get their host anls sojages out. This is one of the ways isis makes money. I wouldnt put anything past them. They are operating they have so much territory thats really ungoverned in Eastern Syria and western iraq that they could go up toward some of those refugee camps. I think thats something again that we have to Pay Attention to. They are being squeezed down. Cornered rats are most dangerous. Theres no question between the air strikes and peshmerga and pressure thats coming from other directions, i think they are feeling some pressure. Also internally, wolf, these guys cant govern. They are controlling a city of mosul, two Million People. They have to pick up the trash and provide schools and keep the electricity on. My impression is theyre not doing a good job. Internal pressure, they could implode by not being able to deliver to the people they are supposedly governing. Let me gets your thoughts on ukraine. Should president obama authorize the sale or dispatch of lethal military equipment to the Ukrainian Military in the face of whats going on in Eastern Ukraine with russian aggression . I think its a hard question. My inclination at this point would be no particlarly because the european allies dont want us to do that. The other question that you have to ask is okay if you provide arms, what happens theven ss then . Putin will respond. You will have an escalation. Its a very tough question. Its hitler when we didnt respond and he kept going. Or its the danger of stumbling into world war i. Theres no clear answer. There is no riskfree alternative here. You are with merkel the chancellor of germany, shes opposing any dispatch of lethal aid to the ukraineian military feeling that would make a bad situation worse. Im inclined in that direction. You know i think its something we have to assess on an hour to hour basis. The people of the ukraine are brave, they are fighting for their lives. You know how do you distinguish between defensive weapons and offensive weapons and as your correspondent said how are you sure they dont fall into the wrong hands . We arm the ukrainians what does putin do. You hear these assessments that they give you. I think he is coldly rational. I think hes coldly calculating and makes these decisions. Theres people that say, when russians start going back to moscow in body bags that will change the calculation. I dont think so. I dont think hes going to be responsive to that. He sees this sometime u. S. Have to you have to put yourself in the other guys shoes. He sees this as part of the russian sphere of influence. The u. S. And europe are trying to invade or threaten. He sees this as a very highstakes game. For us its a distant country. You have to think about him and what hes going to do. Hes not going to say, oh the american sent in arms well keep where we are. Thats why you when you make a strategic decision like this you have to think two, three and four jumps ahead and deal with the consequences. Senator king of maine, thanks for coming up. Last in the series what are the words from an isis hostage really mean . Our terrorism experts are standing by. Look at these live pictures. Its a record snowfall that wont stop. 40 million americans are at risk right now. We will tell you who is hitting being hit the hardest. Stay with us. [ male announcer ] you wouldnt ignore signs of damage in your home. Are you sure youre not ignoring them in your body . Even if youre treating your Crohns Disease or Ulcerative Colitis an occasional flare may be a sign of damaging inflammation. And if you ignore the signs, the more debilitating your symptoms could become. Learn more about the role damaging inflammation may be playing in your symptoms with the expert advice tool at crohnsandcolitis. Com. And then speak with your gastroenterologist. 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Wealth management at Charles Schwab. Chilling words from a western hostage. John cantley has been forced to appear in a propaganda video. He is calling this one the last in the series. Lets dig deeper with our analyst philip mudd our National Security analyst peter berg enand our Global Affairs analyst james reese. I want to get to the video. Let me get your thoughts first of all, philip mudd i will start with you. Senator king just told us moments ago that aqap and their bomb makers in his words, they are pretty close to making a bomb that would not be detected by airport screening. It would be very hard to detect. Thats pretty ominous right now. They are pretty close, he says. What do you make of that assessment . Look, i think you have to put a few factors together. The first is the near successful attack over detroit in 2009. That was the bomb maker in yemen who is still around. The second fakis the factor the under wear bomber. He has had six years to figure out how to come up with a device that doesnt use metal components. Now we have a safe haven. Isis in syria has been around long enough to organize bomb makers to try to build on that technique they almost used successfully over detroit. To draw the conclusion they might be able to be at a phase where they could have the success that they couldnt get to in 2009 i think is a fair judgment. Pretty close. Thats pretty ominous. Peter bergen you are familiar with that master bomb maker, the aqap bomb maker. He is very wellknown by how. A high value target. The u. S. Cant find him. They would like to capture or kill him. He knows what he is doing as far as making bombs. Yeah. They are at the point where they can get airport security. They are not close to that point, they got past that point several years ago. This guy has trained other people, not to the degree of his. He expertise. There are people from yemen who have gone to syria and have hooked up with this group there which is al qaeda in syria and are training them on making bomb making skills. I have talked to officials who are concerned about a lockerbielike event. So this is quite real. Its ongoing. It has been going on for several years. How do you deal with that colonel reese . You heard the senator say there are other means they are trying to develop now to deal with a bomb that could go through metal detectors, for example, without being detected other indications, other features. Wolf three things. Vigilance, technology and theres intelligence. The vigilance is everyone here in the u. S. Thats looking at it Homeland Security tsa, they have to know about it all the Lessons Learned have to get put out. The technology has to continue to evolve. I know thats happening. We have Great Technology companies that are always looking for this. Finally, the Intelligence Community never stops, 24 7 they continue to look continue to press. Its a difficult task they have to do. Try to fine this and disrupt this operation. Im sure they are working on it. You heard the senator say thats what keeps him up at night. Philip mudd this new video showing the british hostage saying this is the last in the series of videos there he is supposedly in aleppo narrateing the video. What is this telling you . What it tells me is this is a group looking at europe and the United States and send a message to a 17yearold in a city like london or denver. We saw an event out of denver where teenagers were trying to travel out. The message is if you want to drink tea with isis see a place where Islamic Education is practice practiced, a peace on the streets, they want to get away from simply projecting an image that says we behead people. Projecting an image to someone in america or europe who wants an islamic nir have a icic vir have a na. We practice what we preach. You can live in this islamic world if you get own an airport. Peter bergen whats your a natural sis of your analysis of this video . That may speak for itself. What does that mean . It may be the last in a series. He may be the last they have been keeping him alive to play this kind of faux news reporter. We have seen him in other cities not just in aleppo. I agree. I think isis has a very mixed message. They are trying to present themselves as an organization providing services and has a normal life. Its a mixed message. When you behead people and burn them alive and show social services provision, most people arent going to buy that. It shows also colonel reese, he is supposedly Walking Around in aleppo a major syrian city. It shows him doing a stand up as if hes a Television Journalist if you will. Its pretty sophisticated propaganda. Whats your analysis . The clues of where this british hostage may be held. Wolf bottom line is it brings credibility to isis production of their propaganda. Using him, this former british reporter. He speaks well. He understands whats going on. He understands he is under the spotlight. He is doing a good job. It gives them the credibility. We do have the tools to find out the data where this is being taken care of. But we also know that isis has very sophisticated tools to put this on green screen or to tape it in time. It could be difficult. Our Intelligence Community will find out where this is and hopefully we will see john again. You know philip mudd this notion that isis in its desperation for more hostages i dont know how many more western hostages they might have. You heard senator king say they probably have a few more that they may go to neighboring countries whether jordan turkey lebanon, look for americans, europeans, kidnap them and bring them back to syria. How realistic of a concern do you believe that could be . I think hostage taking should be a key concern. I wouldnt start with neighboring countries. I would start with what we saw from the jordanian, the prospect of an airman. I would start with another serviceman with the american or european servicemen out there. I would start with aid workers we have seen trickling over into jordan. The prospect that isis could organize an operation lets say from turkey or jordan and transport an american across that border if we saw that happen were going to have to sit back here on the news and is a what kind of new entity are we dealing with . Thats an operation the likes of which i wouldnt expect and would show a degree of sew fis 2i ty indication that is remarkable. You believe isis is moving beyond the aspirational desire to strike at the u. S. Homeland to a more practical, actual plot if you will as senator risch of the Intelligence Committee told me the other day . I would endorse what senator king said which is there is no evidence that this is the case. That they can do it . They have the aspiration but its not operational. People will be motivated to do something. But were not seeing isis operationalizing cells in the United States. Theres no evidence of that. Guys stand by. We have more news were watching. More on the new isis video and the effort to learn the fate of the female american hostage. Up next a state of emergency declared as millions face record snowfall. Look at this. Live pictures coming in from boston. They are trying to get rid of the snow scooping up the snow. They are trying to melt it. Toenail fungus . Dont hide it. Tackle it with new fdaapproved Jublia Jublia is a prescription medicine proven to treat toenail fungus. Use jublia as instructed by your doctor. Once applied jublia gets to the site of infection by going under, around and through the nail. 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Liberty mutual insurance. Breaking now, a state of emergency declared in massachusetts as the state struggles through what owe fishes arefish officials are calling unprecedented snowfall. Theres more ahead in the forecast. All boston rail will be shut down tomorrow. Miguel tell us what you are seeing right now. It looks pretty bad. Reporter its miserable, wicked miserable they say here in massachusetts. This is what they are dealing with. This is just east of quincy massachusetts, just in the south boston bay. Very difficult to get through this. You can see the wind whipping at 30 Miles Per Hour the gusts you can see its whipping across the antenna or the steeple. Incredible winds. Incredible power. This city is crippled by it. Mountains of snow slam the northeast tonight. Everybody is fed up. Reporter massachusetts, boston and surrounding cities again and again baring the brunt. It has been 14 days. We have gotten 70 to 80 inches of snow around the commonwealth. I mean this is pretty much unprecedented. Reporter so much snow the city is working around the clock to melt it. Across the region, schools closed once again. Its good because, like we get to go outside more. But its like the wind is so hard. It makes it worse. Reporter transportation stopped cold. At bostons Logan Airport, most flights canceled. Authorities urging drivers, stay off the road. Emergency workers have no choice. Every call gets more difficult. If someone doesnt have their sidewalk dug out or their stairs dug out yet, we have to try to carry them through snow or put them in plastic sleds. Reporter in connecticut, piles of snow dwarf equipment struggling to remove it. This is ridiculous. Im ready for the summer. Im tired of it. Reporter the snowfall weighing down roofs with collapse. Crews have a new job, climbing to shovel them off. If we get any wet snow on top of this snow thats going to become a weight issue. Reporter im going to try to finish the walk. Im going to try to finish walking towards you here wolf. One good thing about the snow here is because its so light that it is not sticking to the electricity polls as much as it would and taking them out. People dealing as good as they can. I can say that despite how difficult this snow has been for this city and this region new england knows how to move snow. Its impressive to see smaller towns clearing out roads, keeping them open and making sure that life at a minimum can go on. Wolf . Dangerous situation. Thank you. Boston has seen a record 62 1 2 inches of snow in the last 30 days alone. With more in the forecast officials are running out of places to just move all of that snow. They are trying to melt it right now. Chris, explain whats going on behind you. Reporter wolf miguel mentioned in his piece there the snow farms. Were standing in one of those snow farms. Right behind me is one of two snowmelters that the city of boston owns. Look at this. The front end loaders have been dumps snow into the snow melter which can melt snow at a rate of 350 tons per hour. Look at some of the steam coming off of that. These run on diesel engines. The snow farms and the mountains of snow to our right, these have been here for quite a while. This is the third major storm we have been talking in so many weeks. This pile of snow was 10,000 truck loads big. Their goal is to get rid of it. It will take time. They have only gotten through half of it. Take a look at that steam coming out of that right now. Thats an incredible sight. You know what . Its going to take more than just these two snow melters in the city and other cities around eastern massachusetts looking at possibly throwing it into the ocean. A lot of water after all that snowmelt s melts. Its taking a serious toll on air travel with more than 2,000 flights canceled, thousands more delayed. Rene marsh is working this story for us. Reporter were talking about two storms that slammed the northeast in the past two weeks. Now were talking about another one. Of course, that means really bad news for people trying to travel by air. I want to give you a live look. This is real time. All of the red, cancellations. Lets look at an airport like chicagos ohare. You know, when you talk about cancellations, this is the ripple affect. It doesnt just impact the people who are flying in and out of chicago but it also impacts flights going as far as los angeles and san francisco. The same goes for new york city. You see all the delays as a result of the problems happening in new york city. This is boston here. I could tell you that as it relates to bosbostons Logan Airport where they are seeing a lot of cancellations, one company says that the number of cancellations actually higher so far this year compared to last year around this time. I want to zero in more on boston because thats where they are seeing the record snowfall. This is real time. This is the activity going over boston. This is usually a very busy airport. You can see maybe three flights in the air. This is what it looks like on a normal day. That gives you some perspective of just how things are really slowing down as the hours go by. Because, again, no flights going in and out eventually as that storm continues to move in. The cancellations, they are costly not just for the airlines but for passengers as well. You can give us a picture of what the Economic Impact of the storms has been . This were, winter storms alone, we can tell you the storms all throughout 2015 and late 2014 they have caused more than 19,000 cancellations. This comes at a cost for the passenger. Were talking roughly 693 million. Thats what it costs a passenger every time there are cancellations. It and it costs the airlines quite a bit as well. 60 million. All of this courtesy of an anna lit analytics company. Its not just an inconvenience, theres a cost involved, too. 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Ash carter the man who will be his secretary of defense, has already said he thinks we ought to arm the ukrainians and so have Bipartisan Group members of congress. The president himself today said that he hadnt made up his mind. As we know his inclination is to try and do things through diplomacy and not do things unilaterally. But i think we got a little tip from Angela Merkel today that if the president were to say, were going to arm the ukrainians that she wouldnt come out and say criticize him and a unilateral act that would harm nato. Its very clear that they understand where each other are coming from but its obvious to me that it wasnt useful to her as she goes into this meeting, this summit on wednesday, that the u. S. Isnt giving her leverage and threatening to arm ukraine. Jeffrey, a major legal decision by the United States Supreme Court allowing samesex marriage to go forward at least in some counties in alabama. In the whole state. Not all states are following the Supreme Court but by a vote of 72, a very significant vote that samesex marriages can proceed in alabama. Justice thomas and Justice Scalia wrote an opinion saying wait a minute we havent even considered this issue. The issue hasnt even been argued. How can you let these marriages proceed . The majority did not respond but i think its a real signal that this court is ready to order samesex marriage. Nationwide because theres a big decision they have to make before the end of june. Theres a hearing coming up. Thats right. And the fact that seven justices let these marriages proceed really does seem like a signal. Justice thomas even said that in his opinion, that it sure looks like they are going to order samesex marriage in all 50 states but they havent done it yet. You know when the issue came before the Supreme Court, it seems that people arguing for samesex marriage were asking the court to do a really heavy lift here. But whats entintervened is that american Public Opinion has shifted so dramatically. The states have moved so dramatically towards samesex marriage that it may not even be an issue for the court but certainly in the political arena. It may take it off the table, at least in the republican primary. Jeffrey, look at this map. You see more than 30 i think 37 states now 30 states. Plus the district of columbia allowed samesex marriage to go forward and what youre saying is you suspect the Supreme Court will let it go nationwide and that will happen in the next couple months . Karl rove got on the ballot in swing states voter initiatives, he thought that bringing samesex marriage vote would drive turnout to the republicans. By 2012 mitt romney hardly even raised it at all. And i think, based on my report the republicans want to hishhis issue to go away. And what may have worked ten years ago on the issue of samesex marriage is not going to work anymore because generationally its kind of off the table and i think the Supreme Court is bowing to the demographic and the reality. Remember six years ago when president oembama was running for he was opposed to samesex marriage. Look how that has changed. Very quickly, you have a major article in the new yorker. Andrew cuomo, who is not running for president , not this time and probably ever a very complicated politician very different from his father not a great order but someone who has got a lot done in new york state and hes not someone who likes to entinteract with other people. And his father was the opposite. His father used to hug you with his words and his arms. Andrew cuomo doesnt like dimestore psycho analysis about him and his father. Its a great article. I recommend it to our viewers. Thats it for me. Thanks for watching the Erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Outfront tonight, breaking news a massive snowstorm hits new england. The governor nor of massachusetts declaring a state of emergency. Plus a. A new hostage singing isis praises. Is he under duress or has he turned. And the parents of another american hostage speak out. And also former olympian bruce jenner involved in an accident. Was the paparazzi trying to get a picture of him as he is trying to transition to a woman . Lets go outfront