Wife now claims she was misquoted about the scandal surrounding her former costar. What shes saying now. And get ready for garth, a today she first, garth brooks is here for all four hours today, thursday, january 8, 2015. Announcer from nbc, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Morning, everyone. Welcome to today, 7 00 a. M. On the west coast on a thursday. An emotional 24 hour for the people of paris and all over france france. The images seen, people gathering in the area to show support and share grief for what happened 24 hours ago. They said its their 9 11 and the wounds are raw there. Breaking news this morning, that operation, Ongoing Police operation in the search for the gunmen, the brothers accused of carrying out that deadly attack on the paris offices of charlie hebdo. We are in paris, lester, good morning to you. Reporter some dramatic developments here, matt. 90 minutes north of paris, the two suspects reportedly spotted at a gas station earlier today. That touched off a massive search underway. There are helicopters in the swat teams going door to door, roadblocks, and convoys of the Police Moving in the region, some with heavily armed, almost military style assault vehicles because of the sighting. At the same time, more an siesty in paris, a Police Officer shot and killed. They have not made a link to the shooters involved in yesterdays attack, but still investigating that. The Prime Minister here says the terrorist could strike again, and so this city is certainly on high edge. At the same time, its a day of mourning here all across france today, people coming to squares like this to leave their tributes and honor the victims. With flags at half staff and security at full strength, the bells of notre dame chimed at noon as paris paused to take in the last 24 hours. Amid the flurry of arrests overnight, authorities announced they were looking for these two men in connection with the deadly assault on the offices of charlie hebdo, calling them armed and dangerous. An 18yearold named by police turned himself in overnight. It was around 11 30 a. M. When mass gunmen yelling in arabic, god is great, forced their way in the offices of the weekly paper where employees were gathered for a staff meeting. They killed 12 people. One of the killers murdered a Police Officer as he lay wounded on the ground. Its a major attack on the freedom of the press. Reporter Security Experts saw the hallmarks of professionals. They are well known by the french intelligence for several years now. One of them, the younger brother, has been involved in a network for jihadist to go in iraq. Reporter wednesday nights, thousands crowded into the square to honor victims, Holding Signs that say je suis charlie, e am charlie. They are known for skaifing mockery of religion including the prophet mohammed. Four of the paper con toonists are among the victims in the latest attack, and in expression of solidarity, cartoonist around the world penned their own try buttes, this shows a pencil at the point of a gun. Another shows a paint brush writing the words down with terrorism, and this shows a weeping charlie brown. President obama expressed his solidarity with friends. The values that we share with the french people, a belief, a universal belief in freedom of expression is something that cant be silenced because of the senseless violence of the few. Reporter savannah, people here anxious to see these men caught. All right, lester holt in paris for us, thank you. General michael hey den, the former director of the cia and nsa, now principle at the Risk Management advisory firm. General hayden, good morning to you. Im sure you looked closely at the video as we have, but you have a more trained eye. Tell me what you see. Are they attackers, who, in your estimation, have a lot of sophistication and training . They do, particularly compared with other attacks weve seen in ottawa, in sydney, and elsewhere. They are very comfortable in their own skin, comfortable with their weapons. They were calm. This was not a random attack. It was well planned. It was not a suicidal attack. They escaped in order to be able to kill again. So this is kind of the high end of the new genera of attacks im afraid were going to see for some time now, the selfradicalized, selfmotivated kind of individual, living in full view inside of western democracy. And i wonder if this is the new flavor of terrorism that we should come to expect in the wake of 9 11, you dont see, thankfully, massive operations, but now these lone wolf attacks. We saw what happened in canada and what happened before christmas in sydney, australia. Thats exactly right, and, frankly, savannah, thats a bit of a measure of success. The big mass casualty attacks on iconic targets were moving, complicated, mull. Actors, and weve gotten good adds preventing those now. They just take too long to evolve. We get involved, and we stop them. Now what we have are driveby shootings and selfradicalized individual, and suvs in times square. The attacks that we saw in a Shopping Mall in kenya, and now what we saw yesterday, and i should add and repeat again what we saw yesterday is probably the high end of this kind of assault. But on the other hand, these suspects were not exactly unknown to authorities. One of them has served time in prison for trying to go to iraq and fight american soldiers there. Does that just speak to how difficult it is for french authorities, frankly, any authorities, it is to track these guys . Oh, it really, really does. Give credit where credits due. The french are good at this. The exteshlt external and internal services are strong. Under french law, they have more freedom of action than we do with Similar Services under american law. The fact that these guys survive and thrive in france, of all places, should be particularly troubling. Very, very quickly, you mentioned this earlier, i want to pick up on it, i dont know if were making too much of it, but in contrast to many, many of the attacks, these are two suspects who planned to get away, a get away car. They were not there to die as martyrs, but to kill. Exactly right. Im afraid its a measure of the increased sophistication of this kind of attack. General michael, good to get your perspective. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Turning to a story a lot of people are dealing with. It is the coldest day of the winter season across much of the east this morning. Record lows are being flirted with from new england down to the deep south, and the wind chill is making conditions downright dangerous. Todays dylan dreier is doing her best to stay warm in minneapolis. Reporter last time i was this cold it was a year ago standing in this exact location describing how to dress to stay warm in this weather. Again, im bundled up, facing wind chills about 10 to 20 degrees below 0. Parts of minnesota have seen wind chills 50 degrees below 0, and as well as the dangerous cold, the snow and wind made for treacherous conditions on the road. Frigid temperatures are affecting nearly 200 Million People across the country this morning, but the snow is making driving downright dangerous. In michigan, Poor Visibility caused a family to slam into a semitruck. We ran into the back of a semitruck, and hes not stopping and our car is embedded underneath of it. Reporter the truck dragged the van for 16 miles, a frightening ordeal lasting nearly half an hour. Were going to go where he goes. We have no choice. Reporter police came to the rescue after pulling the driver over and alerting him of the extra cargo. Hours away, a crash involving 40 vehicles including four semitrucks shut down highway 31. Police blame drivers going too fast in whiteout conditions. While outside pittsburgh, more wicked weather on the road, heavy snow and 0 visibility resulted in a fatal crash. Three killed and Dozens Injured in an accident involving nine trucks and nine cars on interstate 80. The extreme weather means no school for students this morning with Public Schools in cities like boston, chicago, cleveland, and milwaukee are telling kids to stay home and stay warm. Because of the cold, there are several States Running at two and three hour delays, wind chills around 30 0 and 10 degrees, and, al, that is dangerously cold. Absolutely is, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Stay warm. Reenact the open to the Mary Tyler Moore show, shed keep the hat on today. Wind chill warnings, advisories, hard freeze warnings and watches stretching from texas into florida all the way to the northeast, and, in fact, wind chill and frostbite times. Okay, in these areas of pink, if you have exposed flesh out there, your nose, ears, hands, it takes you 30 minutes or less to get frostbite, so, please, be care care careful. Its 1 below in cleveland, feels like 20 below, in atlanta, its 1 below, 22 in houston, and 30 in orlando, and today, temperatures only get up into those mid teens and low 20s, and, in fact, its going to continue right on into friday morning moderating just a little bit, not be much, but a little bit. Thats the good news, theres a clipper coming across, dropping 1 to 3 inches of snow throughout the area from minnesota all the way into the great lakes. The lake effect snow machine kicks on once that moves through, guys, but this weekend, in western new york and North Western pennsylvania could talk a 2 to 4 feet of snow. Oh, gosh, its a broken record. Pardon me. Its only early january. We mean that in the best way. Natalie chimed in, and shes here with the headlines including the search on the airasia flight. Making progress in the java sea, divers and six ships equipped with underwater detectors scouring the sea where the tail of the plane was spotted on wednesday. The planes socalled black boxes are located in that section of the aircraft. Thats why its so important to get there. 40 bodies and debris from the plane found in the waters, but strong winds and high waves hamper efforts to reach larger pieces of wreckage. The u. S. Navy released this video helping in that search. The ship is operating in the vicinity of the tail section, and it is supporting indonesia led efforts to locate more of the downed aircraft. A powerful new antibiotic could save thousands of lives. Researchers at Northeastern University say the compound that is found in soil, unlike other onty buy octoberioticsbiotics, it works in a way that bacteria becomes resistant to the drug. Scientists say theres an urgent need for this type because more than 23,000 people die each year from dangerous infections. College football will crown a National Champion on monday when oregon takes on ohio state, but if you just have to know right now who is going to win, well, weve got help for you. Absolutely adorable puppies made an appearance as they always do on the tonight show wednesday night to weigh in. Jimmy led golden retrievers to the food, and after coaxing, the dogs finally picked oregon as the winner. A Scientific Study there. Adorable Scientific Study ever seen. Natalie, thank you. Natalie, thanks. Mr. Roker, what else do you have . Fog in the Pacific Northwest, maybe oregon having problems, freezing fog from idaho down into parts of the southwest. Sun on the gulf coast, but its windy there over the next 24 hours. Well get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds. Bring in your verizon or at t bill, turn in your old phone and well cut your rate plan in half. Visit us online or visit a sprint store today. Happy thursday. Meteorologist Christina Loren showing you a beautiful sky over san jose. We have particulate matters, nor spare the air day. Temperatures about 10 degrees above average. As we get into your weekend, looking towards better air quality and cooler temperatures. Hope you have a great day. And thats your latest weather. Thanks. The California Department of health is investigating nine measles cases linked to family trips to disney theme parks. We have the story from los angeles this morning. Hi, halle, good morning. Reporter good morning. Public Health Officials think they were exposed on vacation. Ficials think the victims were exposed while on vacation with two utah cases a part of a larger investigation. A major scare at the happiest place on earth after the California Department of Public Health confirmed nine cases of piece measles, and disney adventure park. They say it probably happened between december 15th and 20th at the height of the busiest season. Health Officials Say its likely a Single Person exposed the other visitors. Infectious to others from four days before they develop any symptoms until about five days after that develop the rash. Reporter six of the infected patients were not vaccinated. Two are too young for the shots and one had the vaccine. I dont think there is anything to be concerned about. I think as long as your child is vax that itted, you should be fine report. While measles had largely vanished in the United States there has been an increase in confirmed cases. According to centers for Disease Control from january 1st to 29th of last year the u. S. Experienced a Record Number of measles cases, 610 confirmed cases in 24 states, the highest numbers since measles was documented in the u. S. 15 years ago. Experts say the upswing in cases could be caused by parents opting out of having their children vaccinated. The children that havent been immunized or not completely immunized or they had been immunized so long ago the immunity is warn off. Reporter Health Professionals say the best protection is full vaccination, matt that is two doses of the vaccine. Halle, thank you very much. Meantime carson is here with more on the attack in paris. Really a response online of support, really. It did, the hsh tag sweet charlie emerged in english, it means i am charlie. Its how people are sharing their support. It had over 2. 5 million tweets. Its a top twitters trending topic, as you may imagine. Heres a few ways it was displayed. A sign on the street. This was a shot store frontings put up the sign. Heres a bunch of headlines from yesterday. Try to kill one newspaper, face hundreds. Resilience sweet charlie. They were sending out powerful images before the shooting the day of the shooting and possibly the hope from days ahead. Guys back to you. A poignant image. Maving images. Carson thank you. Coming up bill cosby returns to the stage amid new protests while Felicia Rashard claims she was misquoted surrounding the scandal of her new costar. Also the parents of two rising stars of american skiing killed in an avalanche are speaking out now for the First Time Since that tragedy. We will have more on that first on a thursday morning, this is today on n b c. Coming up garth brooks kicks off a historic morning on today. He is making appearances in all four hours him one thing is clear, carson needs a hat. He does. Coming up on Home Trending what are your treasures worth . What if getting ready was this easy . 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