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WCAU Today January 10, 2015

Weather. Third times a charm . Mitt romney reveals he may be up for another president ial run after all. And the winner is . As hollywood gears up for the biggest night of the year. The Golden Globes. There are concerns some of the winners may have accidentally been published online. We will tell you what happened today, saturday january 10th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on this saturday morning. Im erica hill. Im Peter Alexander alongside Sheinelle Jones and dylan dreyer. The hostage drama may be over, but the people of france cannot rest yet because of the fear of more. And one suspect, a woman remains on the loose. Hundreds of troops deployed to help the thousands of police and Security Forces on patrol. Top government officials are calling for quote extreme vigilance. Lester is live in paris for us with a look back at the drama. Lester you were near the grocery store. What is the latest this morning . Reporter peter, i think anyone who has been in paris the last several days had to wake up with a certain amount of relief. The fact is speaking to people on the streets of paris, there is a sense of dread and people are frightened about what may come next. Let me show you the papers. This one essentially says horror until the end. This one says resist. Think about the toll since wednesday. 17 innocent lives taken. Three terrorists killed and a region traumatized after one horrific day. It was terror in split screen. Two hostage dramas 20 miles apart. A nightmare scenario for Security Forces. Both ending in dramatic fashion. It started at 9 00 friday morning in an Industrial Area outside paris near Charles De Gaulle airport. The two suspects in the paris massacre hijacked a car and chased and exchanged gunfire. Said and Cherif Kouachi stormed into a Printing Company and took a hostage and s. W. A. T. Teams surrounded the place and helicopters flew overhead. Children in nearby schools were sheltered inside and finally ushered out away from the danger zone. The drama unfolded under the path of de gaulle flight path. In paris itself more terror. Hours before the jewish sabbath, a gunman holds a dozen people hostage in a grocery store. Very very bad. Reporter president hollande called it a terrify antisemitic act. Amedy coulibaly was identified as the associate as the kouachi brothers. They say he killed a police woman in a paris suburb on thursday. As a precaution businesses in the traditionally jewish district are ordered closed. During the standoff coulibaly spoke by phone with a french journalist. We only coordinated at the start. When they started charles hebdo, i started with police. As evening came the twin hostage simultaneously. Outside paris, the brothers made a run for it in dammartinengoele. Police opened fire and threw stun grenades. Killing the man. The hostage was safe. In paris, police made their move on the supermarket. Explosions and hail of gunfire. Coulibaly cut down by s. W. A. T. Teams. Apparently as he rushes to the exit. 15 hostages are rescued, but sadly four others are dead. Prosecutors believe that the four dead were killed by the terrorist, not in the hail of police gunfire. This is not over as we mentioned. A sense of trepidation and part of that is because of an outstanding suspect, an alleged accomplice of the man who took hostages in the grocery. We have nbcs bill neely with more on that story. Reporter good morning. More details emerging about the deadly end to the sieges. The man, coulibaly, was hit by 60 bullets as he ran from the supermarket. He told hostages he is not afraid to die. It is either death or 40 years in jail. The crisis is not the gunman may be dead but accomplice is not. She is still on the run. She is a terrorist on the loose. Photographed here with her partner, the man Authorities Say killed four hostages in the paris supermarket. French police say Hayat Boumediene is armed and dangerous. She knew all three gunmen well. Hundreds of their phone calls intercepted by antiterrorist police. Two of the men had been prisoner prisonersprisoner prisoners together. Her partner released months ago. They were all well known extremists. Once recruiting men to kill u. S. Troops in iraq. Were they on their own . Are others ready to strike . The french will try to find out how far this network extends. We know for a fact these individuals have connections to al qaeda. Al qaeda yemen. Reporter Cherif Kouachi said he was commissioned in yemen. His brother trained there for years ago. The supermarket killer said he was with isis and chosen a jewish target deliberately. This horror was the work of one cell. Is this cell bigger . Police and Intelligence Officers have a challenge ahead. French president Francois Holland called for unity. We tightened security he said so we wont face risk and threat. But the French Jewish Community is under imminent stress. An attack on the cabsabbath. This city is on edge. Extra antiterrorist police remain. France says its government is on high alert. Tomorrow erica, a major challenge for france. A major security challenge. The leaders of a dozen countries, including the prime ministers of britain, france and italy will be in the square for a rally to support democratic values. Reporter people still leaving tributes in the square. Erica. Still coming to pay tributes to the place behind you, lester. We learned the sense of dread which is understandable. You talked about nerves frayed about the people you ran into. When this dread, is there a sense that people are starting to take back their lives and shops opening again and people going about their business or is it still a little too raw . Reporter i think people are trying to find their stride. In talking to folks, there is a sense of whats next . There must be another shoe that is about to drop. I talked about a horrific day, eric erica. I talked about watertown. The hunt for the Boston Marathon bombers. The sense of dread and sirens blaring all day. The report of someone in the subway and other hostage takings. We were in a middle of a situation and we looked out the car window and surrounded by police with guns pointing across the street. We didnt know what was going on. Were crouched behind vehicles. It turned out to be another false alarm with the overwhelming response. You will see that ratcheting down. It is still on edge here. Very tense. Understandably so. So many comparisons people have talked about watertown. Lester thanks. We will check in with you later in the show. Michael sheehan is an nbc terrorist analyst and is chair at the center at west point. Good morning. Good morning, erica. Lester pointed out the sense in paris of could this happen again and what is coming next . This is the attack that seems to have been very much under the radar despite the men being well known. At some point, being under surveillance. How did they go from being well known to carry out such in many ways a surprising attack . Erica, the french will have time to review that. They made mistakes clearly. They were well known to officials. They had deep ties to al qaeda. Both brothers had connections to al qaeda. One convicted of recruiting people to iraq. Another gone to yemen and training in the arabian peninsula. The girl was arrested for involve involvement in a plot with a 1995 bombing attack in paris. These three individuals were well known and slipped through the cracks. This attack was under the radar. The french will have some deep investigation and try to figure out what went wrong. The woman the manhunt underway for her currently. How dangerous is she . It is not clear. We have photos of her shooting with a crossbow and close with coulibaly. Her boyfriend or associate. She is probably out there by her own right now not very dangerous. They will find her soon. The real issue is these guys had connections to a guy who is an aq recruiter in paris. This cell is going to have deeper connections with the french trying to unravel where the connections go to prevent any other cells from operating. That is a major concern in france. Terrorism laws were passed last month. Why is there seemingly a larger issue with this in france . The cause in europe contracted to the laws in the United States are weaker. Regarding travel to assist groups and fund raising and recruiting. People get off with light sentences like kouachi. If he was convicted in the United States he would have gotten 10 to 20 years for conspireing to work with a group known to kill. Michael sheehan, thank you for being with us. You are welcome. The bitterly cold weather here at home grimpping the country. Dylan is here with the forecast. It will stay cold. That also means icy on the roads. Take a look at the video we saw from this huge pileup in michigan. This is on i94. Nearly 200 vehicles were involved in the pipeup here. One caring crashing into another and one person killed and 22 injured in the pileup over the past couple days. These are the conditions we have been seeing. We also have extreme ice in parts of western and upstate new york. We have significant lakeeffect snow. On the niagara river, chunks of ice. Once you get the chunks of ice, you get ice jams. This is talawanda, new york. We will notice this over the next several days. It takes until next weekend before the pattern shifts and we lose the cold. We have windchill advisories from north dakota to western new york. Lakeeffect snow warnings where some areas near watertown have picked up three feet of snow. Currently we have temperatures below zero. The feelslike temperature in marquette, michigan is 26 below. As we go into high temperatures today, we will be running about 10 to 25 degrees below average. As for the snow, we could see an additional 1 to 2 feet of snow especially near watertown, new york and buffalo. When you get the winds off the water, it is relentless. It is the beginning of january. Dylan, thanks. Turning to politics. A familiar face in the Republican Party could be shaking up the race for the white house. Nbc White House Correspondent Kristen Welker has more. Reporter we are talking about mitt romney. He has been saying he will not run again, but now his tone has changed. He told a group of donors he is considering it as of friday. After a bruises defeat in 2010 former Massachusetts Governor mitt romney insisted he is not getting back into the game. Im not running for president. Not again. Not running for president. I said that so many times. Reporter even his wife ann is adamant. Now, romney may be changing his tune. Telling a group of donors on friday he is considering a run in 2016. According to those in the room, romney said quote, people ask if i want to be president. Yeah i want to be president. Romneys renewed interest comes as jeb bush announced he is exploring a white house run. Resigning from his board positions. Together we can provide conservative principles. Reporter with a number of key republicans weighing potential bids romney could shake things up. Romney would upend the field. You have jeb bush and Chris Christie in that establishment. Adding romney would be a huge competition. Reporter romney reportedly said friday his wife ann is encouraging the idea. It would be his third president ial bid. He will have to make a move in the next 30 to 60 days. Kristen welker thank you. This is familiar for you, Peter Alexander. My bags are packed. Sheinelle jones is here following the rest of the news for us. Including the potentially bad news for a man hailed as an american hero. Nbc news confirmed prosecutors have recommended bringing felony charges against retired four Star Army General david petraeus. He is accused of leaking classified information to his onetime mistress while director of the cia in 2012. Now to indonesia where a key piece of wreckage from airasia flight 8501 was just found. The planes tail was hoisted from the java sea overnight using inflate able balloons. No word if the black boxes are inside the tail or detached from the planes when it went down killing all 162 people on board. Awkward moments for bill cosby when hecklers interrupted the man. The comedian pleaded with the audience not to react. Protesters out side was growing. George zimmerman was back in Police Custody on charges of aggravated assault with a weapon. He has been involved in a string of Domestic Violence since the shooting death of trayvon martin. The Spacex Company launched supplies to the International Space station this morning. The revolutionary attempt to land the booster on a barge will not make the record books. Minutes after it launched the falcon 9 rocket. The rocket made it to the barge but, came down too hard and broke apart. The company says close, but no cigar. Now to what is called the shot of the year with just. 3 of a second left. Trevor booker gets the ball and tips the ball up and in. Watch that again. Back to the rim. Tip it is like a volleyball and gets nothing but net. It wasnt enough to keep the jazz from a loss to oklahoma city. He felt good about that. The zoo is all clapping their flippers. That was a run of a century. Dylan is here with another check of the forecast. It has to be worth extra points. I hope dont know anything about basketball. It will not happen. Lets take a look satat the weather across the country. The cold across the eastern two third. We have an icy mix in texas. Freezing rain down that way. It will turnover to rain especially across southeastern texas. It will be very slippery this morning. You may want to stay in early this morning and do errands later today. We have snow in the central rockies. West coast enjoying temperatures good saturday morning. Im meteorologist Michelle Grossman. Frigid start to the day. Temperatures in the 20s today. Were starting out in the teens though. Windchills below zero. Bitterly cold and breezy today. Were doing the rebound on sunday but feeling bet were a little more cloud cover in place. 34 degrees by monday. Icy mixture moving on to rain 34. Cold on tuesday, temperatures around the freezing mark. Staying in the 30s thursday, friday, and saturday. And thats your latest forecast. Perhaps a little rain in hollywood. Hollywood award season kicks off tomorrow not. 60 chance of showers there. Leave the forecasting to me. One of the most starstudded nights of the year. The Golden Globes. What can we expect off and on the red carpet . Nbcs joe fryer with more. Reporter the red carpet has been unfurled and it will be walked upon by hollywood as they walk into the ball room. It is like cramming the most famous people in the world in a small space. There is a chemistry that happens when you do that that is very exciting. Reporter the Golden Globes are the first major awards show of the season. It is a mix of movie stars and tv stars. And now your hosts for the evening. Reporter tina fey and amy poehler are hosting for the second time. Gravity is nominated for best film. The story of how George Clooney would rather float away in space and die than spend one more minute with a woman his own age. Reporter clooney will be there sunday receiving the cecil award along with his wife. We could see amazing fairy tale looks. Romantic. Not overly glam. You are saying love is absolute . Reporter the front runner is birdman. For drama . I think boyhood is the favorite. Even at the Golden Globes an independent american movie is favorite. Reporter many prognosticator prognosticators feel another movie. Just ask this years Miss Golden Globe grier grammar. I cant do that. Reporter nerves big stars and open bar. All making the Golden Globes the seasons most unpredictable award show. For today, joe fryer, nbc news los angeles. Also another question surrounding the anwardawards. Did the Golden Globes actually reveal the winners . Sheinelle is in the orange room with more. If you were on the web site and browsing last years winners. You may have noticed titles on the list stirring up excitement. Without further ado, the best picture for comedy or musical into the woods. Then selma. The Hollywood Foreign press Association Web press developer say it hasnt been spoiled. It is a technical error. Selma and into the woods were picked by random. You know it caused a bit of buzz. I wonder if it caused an uptick in vegas. If they win . We will have to find out here tomorrow night at 8 00 7 00 central here on nbc. Still to come who doesnt love a day of pampering and relaxation . Sgr we know you love that peter. How young is too young to spark controversy . Just after this, we are back on nbc. Still to come on today, a certain rossen report facing millions of kids that take the bus every good morning. Im rosemary connors. Its 7 26 on this saturday. The sun is coming up but not really going to help us out today. Lets check on on the weather with meteorologist Michelle Grossman. Were off to a good start. Its going to be so cold all day long. Temperatures in the teens. You mentioned the sunshine. Looks pretty out there but its not going to help to warm us up. Temperatures around 17 in philadelphia. 3 in mount pocono. 9 in lancaster. Factor in the winds, it feels like 3 in philadelphia. So for today, cold one. 22 degrees. Lots of sunshine though. Sunday more clouds cold 34. At least we tacked on 12 degrees. Monday it could be a slow commute. Icy mixture, 34. By tuesday, windy at the freezing mark. Wednesday, dry, 35. And watching the chance for rain and snow on thursday. You can get important W

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