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In minnesota, when you hear a huge snowstorm is coming, you know school's out. >> kids across minnesota and kids in milwaukee and madison, wisconsin that get an extra day to play in the snow. >> so officials have canceled school because of a dangerously potential blast of cold weather that's expected to blast the midwest today. and places could feel the coldest temperatures in more than a decade. there was a close call in lexington, connecticut. a 12-year-old boy fell in a frozen pond. and offduty firefighter heard that call on the scanner on his way to the movies yesterday. that's when he g...

Was no connection to the tsa. i bring this only because i bring this up only because there had been reports that perhaps this was an offduty or former tsa official. we've been told repeatedly that is not the case. they don't seem to see any connection at all between this young man and the tsa. instead they say, their initial check is that this was a someone with very strong anti-government views. why this person chose the tsa as his target, we don't know. but we believe that the shooting victims here, at least those we've been able to determine, were all employees of the tsa. one of whom was k...

Of gang assault and felony assault. his lawyer says he is cooperating with police but worries simms may not be fairly treated. >> they need a fall guy, somebody to take the weight for this. >> reporter: while the investigation moves forward, the police are now coming under fire. senior nypd officials tell nbc news an undercover officer may have been on the scene as well during the final moments of the attack but didn't intervene because he was worried about blowing a sensitive operation and there may have been as many as five other offduty police officers who took part in the unauthorized rall...

He has been charged with atte t attempted assault in the first degree. gang assault in the second-degree and criminal possession of a weapon. fred? >> and so an official says, margaret, that an offduty police officer may have been riding with the group and saw the confrontation. do we know if that was true and what was the person's role in all of this? >> right. susan candiotti reported one off-duty police officer was riding in the group. but he's just part of the motorcycle group. he could be a key witness, because we're being told that he not only saw the suv hit the biker but he also saw th...

That would be appropriate? could the suv driver have done anything differently? >> in my opinion he was in fear for his life. he has a baby in the car. i don't think he has any other option. >> so what is the advise for the average person? >> call # 11. basically yield the right-of-way to the bicycles. the issue here is really the volume of motorcycles. the issue here is the operation of these motorcycles. >> now there's one more twist to the story. there was an offduty police officer on the scene, and questions are being raised as to why it took four days for him to come forward. >> margaret ...