reporter: that s right. also the houston herald reporting that the shooter has been found dead in a parked car following a long night. the officials in tyrone missouri, are not releaseing a lot of information about the shooting and the suspect. there are four crime scenes they are looking at the possibility of a fifth crime scene and even potentially a sixth crime scene outside of texas county. neighbors are telling some of our affiliates about the night that they had. one neighbor says that she was woken up at 3:45 in the morning. authorities came knocking at the door. they were asking if anyone inside had been hurt injured in any way. other neighbors also saying that they were asked by authorities to actually stay inside. given very little information about what was happening out there but told overnight to stay inside to be safe to stay in their homes. we are again hearing from this paper, the houston herald that the shooter has been found dead in a car. we don t know the circumstances surrounding his death. we don t know if these crime scenes are connected in any way. keep digging. thank you, alexandra field reporting live. on capitol hill the battle continues to keep the department of homeland security up and running. you think with isis threatening our national security that would be a cinch but, no actually the senate will do its part in the next hour. it will likely vote to fund dhs through september, but the house, that is another story. house speaker john boehner had a tough day thursday trying to convince conservatives to vote to fund dhs. by late afternoon he was tired of all the questions. mitch mcconnell has said exactly what he s going to do. you know exactly what you re going to get. it s going to be a clean dhs funding bill. are you going to put it on the floor? are you going to kill it? are you going to let him vote on it? have you had this discussion? when we make decisions i ll let you know. in the end boehner came up with a proposal that, wait for it kicks the can down the road. the house plan will only fund dhs for three weeks. cnn s athena jones is live in washington. so what happens today? take us through it. good morning, carol. there is that phrase we all love kick the can down the road. we hear it so often. i want to tell you a caveat from the start. this is just the plan. we have to see how things pan out here today, but i believe we have a graphic we can put on the screen of what speaker boehner plans to do in the house. that bill we mentioned, the house convening at this hour expected to vote the next hour on a plan that would fund the department of homeland security for the next three weeks at the same levels as last year. so it would just continue the funding into march. the idea is that doing so would give the house republicans time to press for a conference with the senate bill. that s the bill that would fund the department through the end of the year but that doesn t block the president s immigration actions and that s what they ve been fighting over. so house republicans want to see if they can get the senate to come together and try to conference and reach a compromise on those two bills. of course that doesn t look very likely. democrats are going to stand in the way of any efforts to block the president s executive actions on immigration. that s what the whole fight has been over. here s the thing, carol. even the three-week continuing resolution it s not a sure thing it will be passed. house democrats are likely opposed to it because they want the house funded flew the fiscal year. there are conservative republicans who don t want it done because they think they should stand their ground. we re going to be watching. the votes are set between 10:20 and 11:20 on the house side is when we should see if this goes through. if it does the senate is prepared to take it up. as we know here it s not over until it s over. what s crazy about this is this is not a fight about the final resolution of the funding of the department of hoemgs,fof homeland security it s just a fight over the next three weeks. athena jones reporting live from capitol hill. we appreciate it. joining me now to talk more about this democratic senator bob casey of pennsylvania. welcome, sir. thanks carol. thanks for being with me. senator mcconnell bit the bullet and pushed for a clean bill. in your mind did he show strong leadership? well i think he s doing the right thing, but this has taken many many weeks when this should have been done weeks ago. we should fund homeland security through the whole year with no questions asked about conditioning it and then have a debate about anything including immigration if folks want to do that. the idea that we re going to hold up or possibly shut down homeland security is really a mistake for the country. but you have to admit senator mcconnell was in a rough place and he did what he could. he bit the bullet and he managed you know, he s going to take some criticism for this because conservatives are going to call him a sellout. so did he show strong leadership leadership? i said a moment ago he did the right thing and but it it took vote after vote. it shouldn t have taken this long. look republicans in this town have a problem. they allow their extremes to dictate on a regular basis. if they do that, we re going to have a lot of these cliff hangers, which we shouldn t have especially on homeland security. making sure that if there s a terrorist attack we can respond immediately to the natural disaster. we can respond immediately. but this allowing an extreme group to play games with homeland security has to stop. well some republicans absolutely agree with you. for example, republican peter king ripping what he calls self-righteous delusional republicans tweeting that they are detached from reality if they wanted to fund dhs. why do you think john boehner can t corral his people like mcconnell did? carol, if i could answer that question i d be making a lot more money. i don t know. we ll see what the house does but i would hope that they would finally say, let s get homeland security fund theed for the year and then have a debate about anything that they want but the idea that it s taking week after week doesn t make a lot of sense. i hope speaker boehner can work with his caucus and get this done. speaker boehner did come up with this three-week extension plan. do you think that democrats in the house will go along with that? because word is some won t. i don t know if they ll go along with it but why would we do a three week why would we do three weeks? why don t we just get it done now and then we can have long debates about anything but let s not let s not continue the drama. i think people back home probably think what is going on down there when this is about homeland security. this is not a subject about which people aren t anxious, especially in light of recent events. senator bob casey, many thanks to you. thank you for joining me this morning. thanks carol. i appreciate it. this morning there are chilling new concerns about isis and its ability to recruit young people to its deadly cause. officials in canada say at least four teenagers are believed to have traveled to turkey apparently with plans to slip into neighboring syria and join up with isis. there could be even more and a community college may be a central link in the unfolding investigation. so let s begin our coverage of this story with reporter kate mckenna of cbc news. reporter: four of the young people who left canada were students. one of the students took a course taught by a man arrested on terrorism charges and then released. now the school has suspended its contract with his organization. we interrupt the contract we have with this organization until we have more information. reporter: they say it s unearthed an online video of a member of the organization spewing hate speech. that was enough to suspend the contract. our concern is about the students who are still here and if they need comfort, we re there. they also suspended a contract with its muslim community center but that says that s unrelated to the student s departure. they say there s a link between young people and radicalization. it s happening all over the world. canada has been relatively protected from it. if you were in england, this would be a daily story for you almost. france as well. young people are leaving the west. reporter: students in montreal schools are asking the same question. probably seeing something that doesn t happen. i think it should be discussed. it s something that i don t think should be done. everyone s looking for a home. everyone s looking for a community. reporter: canada s public safety minister says to watch out for signs of radicalization in their loved ones. our studies clearly demonstrate that in 80% of the case when an individual is willing to travel for terrorist purposes the people around are aware or informed of that situation. all right. our thanks to kate mckenna of cbc. let s turn to cnn s rosa flores. she s been taking a look at the college professor in this case accused of promoting values that are contrary to canada s. tell us more about this guy. this is very interesting because it really seems like the plot thickens carol, here. we started looking at both the college prej and this college. this is a community college that the students who authorities say went to the middle east to join isis attended. so here is what we ve learned. so the college is saying that this professor abile sharkowy that he was using hate speech. the speech carol, that you were talking about. so we don t know what that alleged hate speech is. what we do know is he was using the alleged hate speech in class? that is what the the college is alleging. they re investigating. we looked at his twitter feed. you know right now in this day and age a lot of people disclose a lot of things on social media. take a look at some of these tweets. he s a very avid tweeter. i should preface this by saying that he s quoting here an article that discusses the state of muslims in quebec. he says the muslim is considered suspicious no matter what he does. if he s quiet, it s fishy. if he speaks it s suspicious. now here s another tweet. he says islamophobia must be discussed as discrimination, period. the government must fight against islamophobia in the same way it fights against anti-semitism, sexism and racism. to give you a little background and i know that reporter mentioned it to bring it home that doesn t sound like hate speech to me. in 2003 he was arrested to give you a little background he was arrested for being a terror sleeper agent and then he was completely cleared, he was completely cleared by the authorities in 2009 of any wrongdoing. and so that just kind of gives you an idea of what he s been experiencing though we also found that there s a website that kind of like for his justice type of web side. that is called the coalition justice for adil charkaoui. his treatment was unjust racist islamophobic. they didn t agree with how he was treated, how the government pursued this man. a lot of loose ends that thorts still need to figure out. we did reach out to this professor, cnn did, and we have not received a comment from them however, he is speaking at 11:00 today. so we re going to be there. we will definitely bring you that. rosa flores thank you very much. we ll talk about this in the 10:00 hour of newsroom as well. still to come in the newsroom, the israeli prime minister is coming to the united states. who s rolling out the welcome mat and who isn t? 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bad blood between the white house and the prime minister. it gets more ugly and the jobs ever more personal and sharper. prime minister netanyahu is coming. he ll be addressing a joint session of congress on tuesday, and aids say that he understands there s a politically fraught tone to this visit but he s trying to if you can, creating a new word departisanize. he will be addressing a small group of bipartisan senators carol. so i m just curious. israel s election is just two weeks away. what do netanyahu s chances look like? reporter: well he s kind of in a neck-in-neck race with the labor candidate, isaac herzog. there are a lot of undecided questions. is this visit really affecting his chances, and it doesn t seem to be because israelis are really split on whether they should go. about 43% either way saying he should go or he shouldn t go. those supporters of netanyahu think it s a good idea for him to go and speak up about iran which is a very important issue to israelis. those that don t support him feel he s damaging the u.s./israeli relationship. prime minister netanyahu s security is his big issue. iran is his big issue. the more he keeps the iran issue and security in the forefront of the campaign the better it is for him, carol, because that s where he polls the strongest. it deflects on the weaker areas where he doesn t poll well. it is true that netanyahu s address before congress is actually helping him back home, right? well, i think it depends how the visit geese. if he gets a rousing reception as he has many times in his addresses before congress certainly he goes back and he s able to say, i did the right thing. if it doesn t go so well and there are a lot of empty seats in that chamber as many democratic senators have been threatening, it might put a little bit of a dent in his numbers. it doesn t seem to be the big issue that israelis at least say that they re voting on carol. housing prices food prices very high here. the economy seems to be one of the things people are most talking about, but when they go to the polls a lot of people think when they get in that booth to make their vote that security is in the forefront of their mind and that s an area where prime minister netanyahu is trusting over his other opponents to protect israel over iran. i might add that president obama does not poll so well in israel when it comes to the issue of iran. three in four israelis do not trust president obama to protect israel when it comes to iran carol. elise labott thanks so much. still to come in the newsroom, critics slam wisconsin governor scott walker for comments he made at cpac. up next why governor walker says his comments are being misconstrued. when heartburn comes creeping up on you. fight back with relief so smooth. .it s fast. tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue .and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. tum, tum tum tum. smoothies! only from tums. sometimes the present looked bright. 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state battles against labor unions and collective bargaining rights have prepared him to take on isis. i want a commander in chief who will do everything in their power to ensure that the threat from radical islamic terrorists do not wash up on american soil. we will have someone who leads and ultimately will send the message not only that we will protect american soil but do not do not take this upon freedom loving people anywhere else in the world. we need a leader with that kind of confidence. if i can take on 100,000 protesters i can do the same across the world. of course that didn t take the unions very happy. walker rejects the idea that he was comparing public employees to terrorists. as i said union critics are not buying it. the aflcio said quote, to compare hard working men and women who work for a living to terrorists is a disgrace. in bring than keilar. reporter: carol, scott walker walking this back a little bit i guess you could say trying to do some cleanup saying he wasn t making this comparison. of course, he was certainly talking in the same breath about the experience he had as wisconsin governor. he did enlist the national guard. there were thousands and thousands of protesters that he did have to deal with as governor but he sort of talked about how if he had dealt with these, as you heard him say, if he had dealt with these protesters he could deal with isis. he later said he was just drawing upon his leadership experience as governor to show how he would lead but it just shows you some of the pitfalls of maybe being a governor and drawing from your executive experience there to talk about how you might be president. also something that even though scott walker is surging in the polls, carol, he s also a new by newbie. he s made mistakes punting on a question of evolution. not committing when asked if president obama is a christian. he wouldn t say. these are a couple of mistakes he s made carol. but in the end be he s blamed the media. he said he is not surprised by the media misconstruing his comments. that s something that certainly plays well with the people he s trying to attract here carol. yes, that is certainly true brianna. something else that plays well is attacks against the irs. i understand that was a hot topic of conversation yesterday. reporter: yeah it was. this was interesting because this was even before we heard this news that the independent watchdog who looks at the irs is saying to congress that there may actually be some potential criminal activity when it comes to lois lerner s e-mails. you probably remember that scandal over whether whether conservative groups were targeted by the irs. this was even before that. listen to what ben carson who is a retired neurosurgeon who has his eye on the white house, and what texas senator ted cruz said yesterday. i m for putting our health care in our hands and not in the hands of some bureaucrat. and and for balancing our budget and for a fair taxation system that allows us to get rid of the irs. abolish the irs! take all 125,000 irs agents and put them on our southern border. that s some of the red meat that you re seeing here, carol, thrown to the crowd. funding for planned parent hood is another and abolishing obamacare. and hillary clinton. she certainly has taken a lot of hits from those speaking here at cpac. brianna keilar reporting live from cpac this morning. thanks so much. and good morning. i m carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. in washington all eyes are on the senate where in about half an hour lawmakers will vote on a bill that would fund the department of homeland security through the end of september. now that bill is expected to pass in the senate but will likely be dead on arrival in the house of representatives. the showdown coming as the current funding for the department expires at midnight. we ll have a live report from washington coming your way shortly. also in the news this morning, right now canadian officials are trying to track down at least four teenagers montpelier might be trying to join isis. authorities believe the group may have traveled to turkey with plans to slip into syria. this morning there are new fears that some of the students in that group may have been radicalized by a professor teaching religion at a montreal community college. with me now is akbad eldon. thank you so much for being here. thank you. i want to center on this professor in question because he has a colorful interesting background. he was accused of jihadism but was cleared of all charges. he was teaching a class at this community college on islamophobia and religion. should should the community college have hired him in the first place? that s the right question. there are concerns around exactly how young people who travel to turkey who travel to syria are expressing interest in the islamic state are radicalized. this is a buzz word. the broader question is as we look at these specific cases, it s tough to find a pattern. how is isis able to be so effective. one of the ways that some in america think students are sort of brainwashed are by their professors. right, by their professors by social media, by people in the community that are tapping into people that are vulnerable. for as much as that s true i think it over emphasizes the role of social media in actually driving recruitment. i think there are other aspects of this that aren t often discussed. for example, you know this cycle of violence the fact that this is often perceived to be about injustice for these young people who may very well be alienated or discriminated in their community so therefore, vulnerable. a lot of this can be about moral outrage, it can be about their own personal life circumstances. i think that if we focus on that that maybe it will be a more constructive conversation looking into here s the thing. the president of this community college in canada says look there is no profile. right. it s not like they wear a sign that says i m going to go to syria and fight with isis. it s hard to figure out who s been radicalized and who s not? right. where in the process is that going to take someone from tweeting about isis sympathetically or retweeting some of these horrific beheading videos and actually getting on a plane and trying to go there as we saw with the three suspects earlier the other day. what i m trying to get at is a lot of this is about revenge, whether or not revenge is something that we actually agree with whether it makes sense in the sense that there is a lot of recruitment happening in the region amongst, you know muslims themselves who are choosing to join isis because of this perception that for better or worse, the way this has been framed since 9/11 is as a clash of civilizations, islam versus the west. you know i think it would serve us well to look into those avenues and not just these kind of oversimplifications of oh, it must be because isis is sophisticated on social media because that has been held in contention. how sophisticated. it could have happened this way, right? these students could have been watching stuff online right? right. then they go to this professor s class and he s talking about islamophobia. right. and what he personally went through because he thought he was unjustly accused of jihadism. right. that all sort of played into what their final decision was. yes. i think the final decision can be a factor of many things as we ve skuszed. one of which that i think we need to pay a little more focus on is there s a notion that the west specifically america and america s foreign policy in the region since 9/11 is something worth fighting against. in the sense of over i think it s half a million iraqis were killed during the iraqi occupation. even though it s easier to overlook these things i think it does play a very critical role in the mind set of people who choose to join these kinds of groups? what s the answer because this college president in canada right. is now going to ask she s going to say we re going to counsel all of these students to see if there are anymore who have been radicalized? will something like that work or should it be done? i think you re right. we need to have broader conversations about how we can prevent this both in canada the u.s. in the west but also in the region where there are many many more recruits who are joining isis and have been joining them long before we ve seen some of these kind of more sophisticated methods of recruitment. when you talk about like you know this big broadway to stop it yes. we need to stop it right now. right. because it s happening right now. right. we don t really have time to take months and months and months to if i can this out. of course. that s why we need to be starting to address kind of the bigger issues that may very well be leading people to be joining. that s why i think it s important to try and quash this notion that this is a perpetual clash of civilizations, a war between islam and the west. this is a war between islam not islam, rather forgive me this is a war between extremists extremists between people who have perverse interpretations of what islam is and the rest. extremism really thrives on extremism. i think we need to look at the way in which this is being framed the way in which it s been framed because as you know and as you say, we don t have time on our hands and this is something that we ve been fighting for, you know, well over a decade and i don t think necessarily that we ve been as effective as we can by not pinpointing the real issues that underlie why people may very well choose to see this as a war between islam and the west. ahmed, thank you for joining me. i appreciate it. this morning surprisingly strong comments from the nation s top law enforcement officer. attorney general eric holder says washington will stop at nothing to find jihadi john the masked terrorist found in the beheadings. holder would not confirm reports of his identity but told pamela brown that jihadi john has nowhere to hide. we have shown that it doesn t matter how long it takes, it doesn t matter where you are. we ll find you, we will hunt you down and we will hold you accountable. in a war zone like syria, can you really do that? whether it s through the use of our military law enforcement capacity if you harm americans, it is the sworn duty of every person in the executive branch to find you and hold you accountable. do you think that we would go as far as sending in our u.s. troops to find him and hunt him down? i wouldn t put anything off the table. jihadi john is believed to be the man seen in at least six beheading videos. now that investigators believe they have identified him, we re hearing from the daughter of one victim british aid worker david haynes. this is what she had to say to itn news. it s a good step but i think all the families will feel relief once 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chris frates thanks. score one for consumers. the fcc approves new regulations. brian is breaking it down for you, hi, brian. reporter: it is so important, the phrase net neutrality. it s so confusing. we ll explain what it means and what it doesn t mean right after this. introducing new flonase allergy relief nasal spray, now available over the counter in full prescription strength. when we breathe in allergens our bodies react by over-producing six key inflammatory substances that cause our symptoms. the leading allergy pill only controls one, flonase controls six. and six is greater than one. flonase the 24 hour relief that outperforms the #1 allergy pill. so go ahead , inhale life. new flonase. six is greater than one. this changes everything. the fcc wants your internet fast and fair. the commission voting in favor of net neutrality. netflix is calling the vote a consumer win. president obama putting pen to paper to thank reddic support. thanks redditors. wish i could thank every one of you for keeping the internet open and free. why do consumers win? once and for all, what is net neutrality anyway? here s brian stelt ter? reporter: what is net neutrality. nothing to do with a volleyball or tennis court. the net refers to the internet something that s become as necessary as water and power for most of us. the neutrality part is about keeping the net the way it is today. it s a set of rules the fcc approved in 2010 to prevent speed traps on the information superhighway. in other words speeding up access to some sites and slowing down access to others or blocking certain sites entirely. so are these rules a bad thing? it depends who you ask. the companies that deliver your internet like comcast, verizon, at&t have spent millions in lobbying money to get rid of net neutrality arguing that having the government micromanage their business is not good for them or their consumers. on the other side they have streaming services like netflix. they say that it should be regulated. they say that the companies that own the pipe lines can play favorites. in direct competition with comcast which owns nbc universal. it controls access to the internet for more than 20 million customers. you can imagine a scenario where nbc might want to speed up streams of its shows and slow down its rivals like netflix. now netflix can afford to pay for a fast lane. they make $4 billion a year. the next netflix, some awesome startup, can t. okay. that was very helpful, brian stelter. so tell me why this is a win for consumers that net neutrality is in. reporter: well it may be a win for consumers. it may be a win because it ensures there won t be winners and losers. some startup, the next netflix is able to exist on the internet without being in a slow lane but really as i was describing that package, these are mostly theoretical concerns right now. it s not like comcast, verizon, at&t whoever you get your broadband from is slowing down your service in order to hurt its rivals and help itself. what the government is trying to do is put rules in place to avoid that in the future. these companies like comcast have concerns. they say it will get lit i galtigated by the courts. they are worried about price controls. the fcc says that s not the plan but that s the kind of dispute that will still be going on in the years to come. as far as like let s say my internet service, it s just as fast as netflix s internet service and that s really what this does right? it guarantees that. reporter: that s right. hulu netflix, amazon youtube, all of them are delivered to the same speed to your house. that s what the government says they re trying to make sure keeps happening. essentially they re applying the new sets of rules to make sure they have like police officers on the beat in case there is crime in the future. it s a little bit strange and some people look at this saying why are they trying to do this why are they trying to regulate the internet? the government says it s because they want to make sure there are rules in place in order to make sure there s not bad behavior by the companies in the future. as you mentioned, president obama has been a staunch supporter of this ever since he came out three months ago and said he wanted this to happen things moved quickly. now his administration can call this a big victory. brian stelter, thanks for the explainer, we appreciate it. still to come in the newsroom, russia s president has been photographed shirtless on a horse and practicing martial arts. now we re learning about another one of his manly pursuits. that s next. quiet! mom has a headache! had a headache! but now, i.don t. excedrin® is fast. in fact for some, relief starts in just 15 minutes. excedrin®. wow, that was fast. 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the number blowing away expectations. in fact the number 295,000 jobs added in february kind of off the charts here. what you re seeing is a continuation of this solid trend for 12 months where you are seeing triple digit gains for jobs then there s that unemployment number the lowest in seven years. that rate falling from 5.7% to 5.5%. plus according to the labor department people aren t just getting low wage jobs. they are finding jobs in finance and accounting in i.t. so what you re seeing is really momentum here that s expected to continue. but you said all these good things. why isn t wall street popping the champagne? what s the problem? that is really the money question today. so we know the fed is looking to raise interest rates and the question is when. so what the fed is doing is it s looking for signs that the economy is strong so what this stellar jobs report essentially does is give the fed the green light to go ahead and raise rates which by the way, would make loans more expensive so it would be more expensive for you to say refinance your mortgage or take out a loan for a car. also raising rates could potentially slow down the economy. here s the beef that wall street has with it though. wall street hit the sell button today because investors aren t sure if the economy is ready for these higher rates. they look to other reports that are weak to mixed at best. you look at retail sales down. auto sales down. durable goods orders down. all of these reports are showing weakness in the economy, not to mention wages. those wages that we make the earnings we make in our jobs not making the strides that they should. rents are up if you have been to the grocery store you see meat s higher. for a lot of people it doesn t feel like the recovery is with them. it feels like the recovery has left them behind. wall street is worried about all these things. thanks so much. turning to the top story, from the front lines of the middle east where hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians are potentially caught in the cross-hairs of isis 350,000 people in a syrian city are currently under siege from the terrorists according to a human rights group. but if you hop across the border to iraq you can see progress against these brutal terrorists. overnight the iraqi military and shia militias liberated a town on the outskirts of tikrit. the fighters there are taking on isis and they look stronger and better prepared than we have seen in quite some time. the opposite of the overmatched soldiers who tucked tail and ran away from isis last summer. a possible reason why is most of them are not iraqi military. they are shia militias and they are being commanded by iranian generals. let s go to cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr. is the pentagon concerned about this change in the makeup of who is leading this war against isis in iraq? reporter: well jake the pentagon keeping a very sharp eye on this because while there may be some short-term gains from iran s heshgs there may be some very long-term dangers lurking. the latest u.s. military intelligence assessment? most of the fighters here are iranian-backed shia militia with iranian weapons fighting to reclaim the city of tikrit. signs of iran s influence everywhere. iran s farsi language heard here as field commanders review their plans. the pentagon watching iran with a close eye, happy to have the iranians doing the bulk of the ground fighting but worried it could again open up a cauldron of shia versus sunni violent. the sectarianism that has happened for thousands of years, it could be strategically disastrous. reporter: u.s. officials also worry the fragile iraqi government in the long run will become a client state of tehran. with the u.s. spending millions to train iraqi units, the risk is that it all falls into iranian hands. in terms of ensuring that our resources don t migrate over to shia militia, there s no easy way to be absolutely certain that that can t happen. reporter: the u.s. wants iraq s prime minister to guarantee a military with sunni representation. vital to stopping sunnis support for isis. just announcing security forces east of fallujah and west of ramadi are launching new operations in the sunni heartland. iraq s reliance on iran apparently working south of tikrit which baghdad says has been liberated. a potential u.s. victory of sorts, these marines in western iraq helping advise iraqis the nearby town of al baghdadi now liberated from isis according to the coalition. just don t count on the u.s. joining forces with iran. there is no cooperation between us and iranian forces. we will have to count on the iraqi government to do those things necessary to number one, ensure that things don t trend towards greater sectarian violence. reporter: now, no formal cooperation with iran but a senior u.s. military official reiterates here s what does happen. when the u.s. is flying those coalition war planes they tell the iraqis when and where they are flying and they count on the iraqis indeed to tell the iranians to stay out of the way. jake? barbara starr at the pentagon thank you so much. let s bring in cnn counter terrorism analyst phil mudd. he used to track terrorists for the cia. phil good to see you. looks like iranian development involvement here runs pretty deep. if you were still with the cia, how concerned would you be about the iranians being involved in these operations especially in the leadership role they re playing? you ve got to be concerned because going back years after the iranian revolution in 1979 when we have seen power vacuums across the middle east lebanon, fast forwarding to iraq remember we talked about the houthis, backed by iran in yemen. bh when there is a power vacuum the iranians will move in. in this case you have a country on their border that is two-thirds shia. we forget that. not surprising the vacuum after the u.s. departure the iranians are there in force. what can we expect? the bottom line is look i understand the iranians are state sponsor of terror but if isis is this enemy and the other arab countries, saudi arabia uae, qatar, aren t stepping up and sending in troops and the u.s. isn t sending in troops to combat positions, shouldn t we be grateful that somebody s doing it? i don t know if grateful s the word i would use. this is the organization that murdered people americans, backed hezbollah to murder americans in lebanon 30 years ago. the point is you asked the right question. what s the reality here. the reality is if we leave this situation in a shia-led government run by a shia administration looks across the border and says there s somebody that s not only going to provide weaponry they will provide expertise on the front lines, not a surprise about what you get at the end here. that is iranians in the battlefield which is what we just saw. let s talk about the other battlefield, cyber. a new study mapped out the isis presence over social media. anywhere from 46,000 to 70,000 accounts supporting isis terrorists. what do you do? not much you can do. to me this is so striking because when i started in the world of terrorism decades ago, the cauldron was afghanistan. if you wanted to get in touch with somebody in al qaeda, you had to travel out there, find somebody physically. there wasn t a virtual world, and get in that way. now we are talking about facebook and twitter. this is not just about operations and terror operations in places like paris. it is about the spread of a revolutionary idea to european cities american cities. it s stunning how quickly this is taking hold around the world. revolutionary and also of course terrorists. phil thank you so much. appreciate it. the national lead now. surprising new poll on race relations. 50 years after that violent clash on that bridge in selma, alabama, signified a crucial turning point in the civil rights movement. despite how far the u.s. has come including electing the first african-american president, many americans now feel that race relations in this country may actually be taking a turn for the worse. that s next. the real question that needs to be asked is what is it that we can do that is impactful? 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i m still analyzing it. reporter: you re still looking at it. don t you think you should have known some of the things that came out, the racist e-mails, the numbers? were you just trying to bilk people out of money instead of protesting them? telling your department to just go ticket them? thank you. i will be in touch. get ahold of jeff. reporter: i have talked to everyone. i have given you literally every opportunity. we have been talking for days and days and days. all we want is an answer from you. what do you think of this doj report and what are you going to do about it? just any idea what it is you are going to do yourself about this as chief of the department? i m going to analyze the report and take action where necessary. that doj report of course found a pattern of discrimination in ferguson by police and by the court system. it s a situation cities face nationwide. we have an officer just next door to ferguson in st. louis with us now. thank you for joining me again. i appreciate it. attorney general eric holder gave some extreme examples of racism when he outlined the doj report this week. he said ferguson police exclusively reserved the use of dogs when it came to dealing with african-americans. he said blacks were twice as likely as whites to be searched in routine traffic stops. the police chief there had to know about these things one would think. should he be held accountable, do you think? absolutely. when he says he s going to analyze the report and take action, i have zero confidence in that. there s no way that he couldn t be fully aware of the culture that exists on his department. he s the man at the top. i m sure he s clear on what kind of officers are serving under him and he s also part of shaping that culture. you think he should step down? absolutely. i think he should be gone. i think the mayor should be gone. i think they need to look seriously at disbanding the entire police department. a similar action was taken with the department adjacent to ferguson the jennings police department, for very similar reasons. there is a broken trust between police in communities nationwide and i think ferguson provides the best example of that right now. new york city too. let s talk about that nationally. president obama addressing the doj report said he doesn t think what happened in ferguson is typical, but he also said it s also not isolated. how prevalent do you think it is institutional racism in police departments? it s absolutely prevalent. institutional racism permeates just about every system that we have in this country but especially is it clear in the criminal justice system and especially in the police community relationship. we have seen many many examples of officers who act on bias and racism from the position of power on citizens who have no power to respond. the president of my academy class when i graduated police academy, afterward some years later in 2008 when president obama was elected, sent out an e-mail that said he can t believe he lives in a nation full of n-lovers. he said the actual word in his e-mail and accidentally hit send on it to people who weren t supposed to receive it but he policed in black communities all over st. louis. institutional racism is something that nationally, you have to come to grips with. it is part of the foundation of our country. francis scott key was a member of the colonization society which advocated the repateriation of african-americans back to the country they came from. he understood the institution of racism in this country would probably be too much for us to overcome. there are a lot of african-american policemen as i don t need to tell you as a former police officer. a heroic african-american police officer was shot and killed last night in my hometown of philadelphia. what is it like for black police officers if there is this institutional racism on police forces as you say? for too many of them it is a struggle internally to reconcile being a part of the culture and activities of some of the officers they work with with their identities and the connection they have to the communities that they come from. in that respect, we have put together a group of officers current and former from around the country. the national coalition of law enforcement officers for justice reform and accountability very newly formed who absolutely are invested in building relationships with the communities we come from by aggressively attacking the institutional racism and lack of accountability that exists throughout law enforcement in this country. we know that the best way to change the culture that you have seen manifest itself in some very ugly ways in new york in los angeles, in ferguson is from inside the culture. we are planning to be very aggressive about addressing that issue. one last thing i want to ask you. in a new cnn/orc poll nearly 40% of americans said race relations worsened since president obama was elected. that s not just african-americans saying it. it s whites liberals conservatives. how do you interpret this poll? do you think there is more racism now, more accusations of racism? are we just talking about it more? are we seeing it more because of the prevalence of cameras? why? i think the election of president obama is where the topic started for that poll was a catalyst to bring out what was always there. it made it more pronounced. it gave people more racist and act on racist ideas and ideologies and incentive to act, a motivation to act because they see change is coming and the idea of white supremacy is hard to give up for some people. always a pleasure. thanks for joining me. appreciate it. all right, jake. up next on the lead, it is one of the biggest aviation mysteries in world history. one year later, we still do not know what really happened to malaysia airlines flight 370. what the pilot s sister has to say now about claims that he was at fault. plus it seemed to be hillary clinton or bust for democrats in 2016 but in the wake of that e-mail controversy, is her party now scrambling to find a plan b? 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the sister says don t blame my brother for this. it s not his fault. it s really hard to believe it s been a year since this plane disappeared. it s one of the greatest mysteries of aviation history. the families of those 239 people on board, they still want answers. they want some closure. they want to lay their loved ones to rest. so the search it does continue as well as a host of some of these theories. they are bizarre in terms of what happened to this plane. one year later and still nothing. the search team still insists the debris field is here on the ocean floor, a location they say satellite data points to. above the water s surface, search crews are still weathering cyclones and 50 foot waves. below, mountains, trenches and volcanos make up the treacherous terrain. 40% of the priority search zone has been covered but no wreckage recovered. and with no real clues as to what happened to the boeing 777 after it lost radar contact less than an hour into the flight which took off from kuala lumpur theories abound. a recent new york times report cites investigators who favor the rogue pilot explanation, the suspicion that the captain or his copilot intentionally took the plane off course. there is however, no evidence that either had motive to do so. the chief of malaysia airlines continues to defend the crew. we do not suspect any one of our crew. the captain is a very capable man. reporter: the pilot s sister today urged people to stop blaming her brother, saying as things stand today with no tangible evidence none of you have the right to blame him for any wrongdoing. even adding that as an average student in school he would not have been able to mastermind such a plot. nobody knows why the plane lost contact, but some aviation experts theorize there could have been a massive electrical problem or a cockpit fire or loss of cabin pressure and oxygen, turning it into a ghost plane. why something hasn t shown up yet, that is the true mystery of it because of the fact that if it had crashed, in the way we think it did which is to run out of fuel and hit the water and break up into pieces there would be pieces somewhere. reporter: aviation analyst jeff wise carried on his own investigation into the missing plane, and has another theory. russian hijackers who took the plane to kazahkstan for reasons unknown. none of these theories of course can be proven or disproven until some shred of the plane is found and even then we may never know exactly what happened. the families are afraid that if nothing is found by may, and that s the anticipated date of the search in the priority zone that it s actually going to be complete they are afraid it is actually going to end the search. malaysia s transport minister tells us if this missing plane is not found by then investigators are going to go back to the drawing board. that s his words. 239 people disappear. thank you so much. the politics lead. we have just learned that a top ranking u.s. senator and very high profile powerful democrat is expected to face criminal charges. he s the same guy who was once under investigation for soliciting prostitutes until the women said that it wasn t true. they changed their story. what are the feds going afr senator bob menendez for now? 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we expect it to be announced probably by the next attorney general, loretta lynch. attorney general eric holder has already approved the request by prosecutors to go forward on this. this is not the first allegation of wrongdoing against senator menendez who we should point out has been on the show many times to talk about foreign relations and other issues. has his office responded to this allegation at all? they have responded. they have denied this before and we have a statement from the senator s spokesperson. as we have said before we believe all the senator s actions have been appropriate and lawful and the facts will ultimately confirm that. any actions taken by senator menendez or his office have been to appropriately address public policy issues and not for any other reason. he as you said has been looked at for many many things before including by then u.s. attorney chris christie back in 2006 and more recently for allegations that he hired underaged prostitutes and all these things are not going to be part of the federal case when this comes forward. be interesting to see what the actual specific charges are, because the world of politics and fund-raising and favors it s going to be a tough case. it s often murky business. thank you. appreciate that. in other politics news revelations this afternoon that the white house and the office of former secretary of state hillary clinton were both aware of the controversy, potential controversy of her use of private e-mails for public business back in august. a senior administration official telling cnn the white house was concerned over the private e-mail address she used for official business and they did have conversations with hillary clinton s personal staff about the issue. cnn senior political correspondent brianna keilar joins us live with the latest. sounds like there s some tension between the obama and clinton camps over this? it s almost palpable isn t it as you hear white house officials talk. it s interesting to note the timeline here. the white house, certainly some white house officials were told by senior administration official who talked to our white house correspondent michelle kosinski they were aware secretary clinton used a personal e-mail account. they were aware back in 2009. not too concerned about it because they expected she was turning over that information to the state department recordkeeping system. the white house became concerned about secretary clinton s sole use of this personal e-mail address this summer once house republicans subpoenaed benghazi documents and it came to light that she wasn t complying with the policy certainly as they understood she would be. the firestorm over hillary clinton s use of personal e-mail while secretary of state dominated the state department briefing friday. i m not the spokesperson for her office. people may have been confused about that this week. reporter: reporters asked if clinton failed to follow the e-mail rules she signed off on an internal department cable from 2011 said employees should avoid using personal e-mail to conduct government business. but state department spokeswoman marie harf downplayed the guidelines calling them helpful tips when using personal e-mail. this cable is a guidance on best practices. it s certainly not regulations. reporter: in 2012 a scathing inspector general report admonished u.s. ambassador to kenya for, among other things using personal e-mail to conduct government business. at the same time clinton, his boss was doing the same. today, he told cnn he was very surprised at the double standard. at clinton s request, the state department will review 55,000 pages of e-mails the obama administration directed her to turn over last year. a clinton aide has said she turned over anything having to do with her work at the state department. but harf conceded they are taking secretary clinton s word for it when she says she s handing over what s relevant and keeping what s not. meanwhile, the white house says clinton abided by the federal records act, even as it touts an e-mail policy clinton did not follow. did members of the administration receive e-mails from hillary clinton while she was secretary of state? that, i don t know. i do know that obviously the president has a very firm policy that e-mails should be kept on government systems. he believes in transparency. reporter: some political observers wonder if the controversy leaves an opening for any other potential democratic candidates to challenge clinton s expected run for president. former maryland governor martin o malley is traveling in the coming weeks to the early states of iowa and new hampshire. and passing on a chance to run for the senate seat that barbara mikulski announced monday she will soon vacate. there are rumors that former maryland governor martin o malley may enter the race and challenge hillary for the democratic nomination. hillary s not worried. who s going to go from being totally unknown to beating her for the presidency. how would that ever happen? pretty funny but a lot of political folks believe there isn t some obama-like person waiting in the wings ready to kind of jump in there. i was talking with one strategist one democratic strategist who said this is really going to be the primary for hillary clinton, episodes like this. it seems like maybe she s in a primary against herself. as you can see, the competition is fierce. brianna, thank you so much. the girlfriend of a murdered russian opposition activist fears she could be next. now russia s world-famous chess master who was also a vocal putin critic says she has reason to be afraid. we will talk to him live next. plus it s a blanket, it s a robe it s a scam? 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i doubt very much she s in any real danger if she is now in kiev. i would more worry if she was kept in moscow and now since she left moscow i guess ukrainian security will find ways to protect her if these threats are real. who do you think is behind nemtsov s death? there are only two choices. either putin himself gave an order or his closest allies his inner circle. because this murder took place at one of the bridges that led to kremlin. those places are the most protected places in russia maybe in the world. there are more video cameras there than fort knox. to imagine that these cameras couldn t catch this event is inconceivable. so it s quite suspicious that the only camera that is being used to present this video is the camera of the moscow city channel. also there was one more video from the video register on the car passing by and those videos proved that it was a well-prepared murder and i don t believe that anybody but kremlin security could operate in this area. is there a reason to do it specifically on the street right near the kremlin? it seems an area that a, would point to the obvious at least acquiescence by the russian government and it would seem to be more difficult to do. actually, to the contrary. if i m right in assuming that the russian security service has been involved this is the safest place for them because they control it completely. and this is probably only place in moscow where you don t have city police. there are plenty of city police anywhere. no passersby, almost no cars. the bridge it s quite a long distance where you can spot any car or any stranger who is approaching to the spot so i think from the point of view of those organized and carried this murder one of the bridges leading to kremlin is the best place for this atrocity because they control it totally. you are a high profile putin critic. are you afraid for your life speaking out like this? if i was afraid for my life i wouldn t leave my country two years ago. boris was an optimist probably the bravest of us you will he stayed there and kept blasting the regime published his reports and the last report he was about to release was about putin and war on ukraine, where boris collected evidence to prove the presence of regular russian troops in eastern ukraine. here in new york city or even traveling abroad in europe i feel safer because no one is 100% safe but it s much safer than being on the bridge opposite the kremlin. we hope you stay safe. thanks so much for joining us. appreciate it. up next on the lead, an infomercial misleading? 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analysises say they don t think so. the one mitigating factor is whether he ll now go further underground now that western intelligence and military forces know more about him. brian todd, cnn, washington. for some analysis on this story, we turn to justin hastings, a terrorism expert at the university of sydney. he joins us live from sydney via skype. thank you for your time. first, from jihadi john to the four teenagers in canada we keep hear thing recurring headline of young men and women becoming radicalized. can you explain why you believe this continues to keep happening? well look i mean isis is very good at propagating their message, at using the internet and social media to make themselves attractive to people in the west. what you see is a lot of these people are sort of above average educational level. they are generally above average intelligence above average in terms of material wealth. as a result they re attracted to the romanticism. it was described that this is an opportunity to be important. do you see it that way for people who go to syria to join isis do they see an opportunity to have a voice in the group? yes, certainly they do. they sew an opportunity to be important, to do something heroic in their view and to make a name for themselves. please, go ahead. now that he has a name increases his utility to isis because he s the most famous member of isis in the west. and as far as people who describe jihadi john, people describe him as very polite. people are surprised that this would be the person that officials, the united states has identified as jihadi john. what are your thoughts to that? it seems to be a disconnect there. well i think many people tend to have this image of terrorists as people who are somehow off with society. but many terrorists are quite well liked by members of their community, are normal in many ways and these are the people who would be good fighters. you don t want somebody that s mentally problematic. you want somebody that s normal and well liked. normal and well liked by some. justin hastings joining us live from sydney via skype. a similar story line in the city of new york. neighbors there are speaking up about two young men arrested on terror related charges when they tried to fly to the middle east to join isis. the landlord says they didn t really stand out. one of the men even lived with his mother. but authorities say they know exactly where the money to finance their trip was coming from. cnn s deborah fayrick reports. reporter: he had multiple conversations with the 19-year-old suspect, the one who was picked up as he tried to board a plane to turkey. according to the fbi, the money man provided about $1300 to this young man and took him to the travel agency where he helped him pay for his ticket to get to syria to join isis. the money man promising he would pay his expenses certainly enough to help him buy a weapon and send cash if he needed it once he got to syria. according to the fbi, the money man did reach out to other individuals asking them to chip in to help defray the cost of this venture saying that they should help to provide for the brothers. it s a code word for jihadis. it s unclear when this money man arrived in the united states but he was here long enough to open up a string of kiosks up and down the east coast at malls in virginia beach, savannah as well as philadelphia. he did overstay his visa about two years ago. he signed up as a part-time student at a technical college here in new york. unclear whether that was an attempt to stay in the united states legally once his visa expired. right now the fbi is tracking down the other individuals. a hong kong woman has been sentenced to six years in prison after being found guilty of brutally abusing her former housemate for several months last year. that former maid was in court to watch as the 44-year-old started serving percent tense immediately after that hearing. a few weeks ago, she spoke with cnn and said china s migrant worker policy needs to change. translator: i think the government has to reform its policies. policies that are disadvantaged to migrant workers, but forcing us to live with our employers. this exposes us to exploitation and abuse without other people knowing it. for example, not giving us enough food or enough rest working hours are too long. because we re humans not robots. she also faces a fine of almost $ 2,000. there are sweeping new changes meant to keep the internet free and open. many people are applauding the new rule except the telecom companies who say a bitter legal battle is on the horizon. the latest showdown in washington. politicians are going back and forth and it seems the speaker had enough. have you even had this discussion? 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joining us now to break it down is brian stelter. so an open internet what does it mean for folks? it s basically addressing a largely hypothetical theoretical danger to the future of the internet george. but it s something that s been theorized about for more than a decade. there s a professor at columbia university who started talking about this 13 years ago, and today it reached the highest levels of the u.s. government. it will also over time affect other governments how they regulate the internet. these rules are intended to stop companies like comcast and verizon and at&t from creating fast and slow lanes on the internet. those companies say they have no interest of doing that but these rules intend to stop them from trying to do that in the future. essentially, they re applying land line phone type regulations to the broad band internet. they re taking laws from the 1930s and applying them to this 21st century technology. here s what netflix said. they said consumers win. the net neutrality debate is about who picks winners and losers online. today, the fcc settled it consumers win. so they re trying to say the next netflix, some sort of startup shouldn t be blocked in some way by internet service providers. so netflix is say thing is a good thing for consumers. but it s a largely theoretical concern for now, and there are concerns that these rules could be used to hurt these companies in the future. another question where does it go from here? these companies certainly plan to sue to overturn these regulations. yes, there have been threats of lawsuits in the past. verizon sued to stop an earlier version of these rules. here s what comcast said today, which was dropping some hints about this. they said we are disappointed that the commission chose this route, which is certain to lead to years of regulation and regulatory uncertainty and may harm investment and innovation. comcast said they re going to have to re-examine their investment plans for broad band a warning that they may not choose to spend as much on wiring parts of the united states that don t have broad band or fast enough broad band. these rules apply to wireless internet as well. my phone connection your phone connection can also be affected by these rules, which seek to make sure the internet is fast and available to everybody. but some people who are concerned about these rules say there could be unintended consequences down the road. this is going to be battled and settled in the courts over the next many years. but as one source said to me at least there s a cop on the beat. the rules are not entirely clear, but now there s a cop on the beat, the fcc is going to try to enforce some net neutrality rules. brian, we appreciate your reporting, live there in los angeles. the u.s. department of homeland security is set to run out of money today, but congressional sources say house speaker john boehner will offer up a new plan to fund the agency temporarily. dana bash has the story. reporter: three men arrested and accused of trying to join isis inside the united states. today, democrats are seizing on that and other threats to warn about the dangers of cutting off funding for the agency that keeps americans safe. the american people are frightened and rightfully so. isis appears to have money. the terrorists appear to have money. why shouldn t our homeland have the ability to protect itself? reporter: the homeland security secretary is on capitol hill again walking the halls, begging lawmakers to fully fund his department. this is not just an inside the beltway political jousting. a failure to fund the department of homeland security fully has real impacts on public safety. reporter: in the senate even conservatives backed off threats to hold up homeland funding. but all eyes are on republicans in the house. who are still insisting on also blocking the president s executive action on immigration. this is a violation of our constitution. it s a violation of the balance of powers in our constitution. and it needs to be addressed and we re doing it. is it worth shutting down the department of homeland security? we have passed a bill to fund the department. reporter: but that bill stops the president from carrying out his plan to allow millions of undocumented immigrants to stay legally. to save face with conservatives, some senate republicans argue a texas court is already stopping the president s immigration plan. accept the victory that the courts have given us which is the president does not have the authority to do what he has done and vote to continue to fund the department of homeland security. reporter: but house conservatives don t see it that way, and the house speaker is in a bind. if ands and buts were candy and nuts. reporter: at a loss of new ways to avoid questions, he did this. [ making kissing noises ] when they make decisions i ll let you know. kisses from the speaker there. many americans will not feel the immediate impact if the department of homeland security does shut down though. that is because of thousands of government employees, they could be forced to work without pay. you can find out more information on the looming dhs shutdown on our website. just go to cnn.com/politics. in the hours ahead, german parliament will vote on whether to approve an extension of greece s bailout. lawmakers are expected to give the final green light, although many fear the greek government won t deliver on its reform promises. hardline finance ministers are backing the extension, arguing greece is getting more time rather than toned down term conditions. a former aide to osama bin laden was convicted for his role in the deadly bombing of a u.s. embassy in africa. he faces life in prison after a u.s. jury convicted him on four conspiracy counts. those 1998 embassy attacks killed 224 people and injured more than 4,000. vladamir putin s ratings continue to soar despite troubles at home. and his biggest supporters apparently ride on two wheels. plus how the artist is using his skills to draw attention to gaza. i already feel like we re the most connected but i think this solo date will seal the deal. sure! i offer multi-car, safe driver, and so many other discounts that people think i m a big deal. and boy, are they right. ladies, i can share hundreds in savings with all of you! just visit progressive.com today. but right now, it s choosing time. ooh! we have a winner. all: what? [chuckles] he s supposed to pick one of us. this is a joke, right? that was the whole point of us being here. at least 35 people are dead after two bombing attacks ripped through towns in northeast and central nigeria. the first happened at a bus station on thursday. that is where military officials say a suicide bomber detonated explosives killing 18 people and wounding 6 others. hours later, 17 people were killed when bombs were tossed at a crowd from moving cars in the town of jos. boko haram militants are the prime suspects of the attacks. russian president vladamir putin s popularity remains high despite the crisis next door in ukraine, and russia s faltering economy. some of his staunchest supporters are members of a motorcycle gang. reporter: it s no secret russia s president enjoys motorcycles. when vladamir putin rides with the biggest bike club his wingman is a staunch ally. alexander, nicknamed the surgeon, is the night wolf s president. he says his admiration for putin is religious. i believe vladamir putin is a gift from god to us he says. after so many years, we have a president we re not ashamed of. so i certainly believe we need to help him and give him our shoulder. those are not empty words. when what vladamir putin now acknowledges were russian troops entered crime last year the night wolves were already there, setting the scene for the invasion. the separatist flag flies inside the night wolves compound. and alexander acknowledges members of the club are fighting in ukraine. there are many of our ukrainian night wolves there, he says. unfortunately, we ve lost three of them. they all died as a result of shelling. the night wolves involvement in ukraine has caused the group to be placed on the u.s. sanctions list. but as he shows me some of the machines the club designs, he says sanctions will never cause him or russia to budge. they continue to fight. reporter: alexander has become a celebrity here. his night wolves organize patriotic youth events and biker meetings. he firmly believes he s fighting a western conspiracy to oust his friend vladamir putin. do you think the west is trying to get him to lose his presidency? i think so. first of all, this is for sure. reporter: as russia s economy buckles under sanctions, unemployment rates soar and the currency tumbles, like alexander, a majority of russians remain faithful to their president, unfazed by criticism. six months after the end of the deadly conflict with israel there s an ongoing anguish and decay in parts of gaza. now british graffiti artist has released a film. this creation we see a kitten that appears to be playing with a ball of rusty wire. his message there, the world cares more about pictures of cats on the internet than human suffering. a weeping goddess in hand covers all that s left of this decimated buildling. the international community pledged several billion to rebuild gaza but hardly any has arrived. the news continues here on cnn. we now know the name for the man known as jihadi john. we re tracing his journey from london to his role in isis. and after months of protests in argentina, a judge is weighing in on whether the country s president was involved. welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m george howell. the headlines this hour on cnn newsroom. canadian police are looking for four young people some of them students at a montreal college who may be trying to join the group isis. most of them are in their late teens. police say they left canada last month and flew to turkey. a hong kong woman has started serving a six-year sent tense for abusing a house maid. during the trial, the indonesian maid testified she was starved, punched, even assaulted with a vacuum cleaner and the tube shoved into her mouth. the u.s. federal communications commission approved a net neutrality law, requiring network owners to provide equal access to websites. the rules won t be official until perhaps this summer but already telecom companies are threatening to bring legal action. u.s. congressional sources say house speaker john boehner will unveil a new plan to fund the department of homeland security for the next three weeks. the agency which handles airport screening and border security is scheduled to run out of money today. more now on our top stories. the executioner in the isis beheading videos has been temperature feed and atika scubert is retracing his steps from london to the epicenter of isis. reporter: his british accent was one of the only ways to identify him. the man may be muhammad enwasi. this is his last known address. we ve knocked on the door, but nobody from the family is answering. i spoke to a neighbor who told me he knew muhammad and described him as a polite young man. other neighbors say the family is quiet, kept to themselves. but everyone here is shocked to learn the news. this is a nice area. everybody mixes. you ve got afluent. you ve got working class. everybody gets along with everybody. you don t expect it to be on your doorstep. that s what shocked me. so evil, and it s disgusting. reporter: he came from a middle class family had a degree in computer programming from westminster university. but this was a young man on the edge. allegedly harassed by british security services when he tried to travel to tanzania in 2009 and was put on a terror watch list. when are we going to finally learn that when we treat people as if they re outsiders, they will inevitably feel like outsiders and look for belonging elsewhere. our entire national security strategy for the last 13 years has only increased alienation and people feeling like they don t belong. reporter: he says he tried to build a new life in kuwait unsuccessfully. in 2012 he was reported missing. police told the family their son had left for syria. british authorities have not responded to the allegations and both u.s. and uk officials have not given anymore details. what we know so far is only a partial picture out even a photo to identify who is the man behind the mask. atika scubert, cnn, london. the washington post first broke the news about the identity of jihadi john. we had colleagues and people that we had known getting beheaded by so called jihadi john. for us this was a very difficult story to deal with. also because we had to be certain. when you hear all these adjectives and people are describing him as somebody who was very gentle a nice person who cared about others of course there s a big difference between muhammad enwasi and how people here in britain describe him and the so-called jihadi john who we ve seen in all these videos. but on the other hand you know look i ve been working in this field since 9/11 and i covered a lot of so-called jihadis. i interviewed leaders within the isis group, and very often when i went back to talk to family members or to talk to friends of theirs they would all describe them as very nice people who cared about others. it was as if you were talking about people with different identities. isis militants have sparked new outrage by using sledge hammers to destroy ancient assyrian statues in iraq. priceless figures dating back 2700 years were reduced to rubble in mosul. isis says they were made by infidels. analysts say they were made just as replicas. the u.n. s cultural agency wants the call an emergency session for the sake of iraq s antiques and national security. now to argentina. a judge dismissed charges against the country s president after it was accused of conspiring with other leaders to cover up iran s involvement, alleged involvement in the 1994 bombing. it s a charge she s always denied. a judge says the case did not meet the minimum standards to warrant the criminal investigation. the prosecutorer who originally brought the case was found dead just days after making the accusation. now to venezuela, where there is a rising tide of anger over the country s financial meltdown. anti-government 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snowfall we re seeing in the northeast and new england has been for the most part light. this is not part of the system that s expected to move across the region by this weekend, but there will be variations. you can see all the way from the southwest united states into the south central u.s., moving across midwest and great lakes, then towards the northeast. where you see the darker purple shaded areas, those are the regions where we expect some of the heaviest precipitation. for boston this could spell out perhaps the number one season where they have seen the most snowfall since snowfall records have been kept in boston. but there may be a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel. we re expecting those temperatures these are in degrees fahrenheit. we see by sunday now we re seeing the temperature boost up to above that freezing mark. in the latter half of next week more definitively. new york city the temperature may bounce around but running well below average. then as we go into the latter half of next week, those temperatures look substantially warmer. this is from our i-reporter. jay is in boston in the financial district. this is a view from his office. it is on the seventh floor. they have a deck and as you can see, the snow goes above their window. they are saying that there s so much snow that it s compacted and looks like a gracier. so out of his window what has been horrendous snowfall totals look like compact ice. this is very typical for snow that is continuing to pack down on each other. here s a beautiful view as we take a look at the nation s capital. and the temperature is above the frozing mark and a lot of that snowfall i wanted to snow you that. there has been snow on top, on the ground. now that the temperature is above the freezing mark george it looks a lot better. but there s another round before it definitively gets better. then we ve got about 20 days until spring. say it ain t so. i m still trying to get over that image you just showed us. that was the seventh floor? yes. they re on a deck and the deck is piled up with snow. so as you can imagine, the snow has piled up on top of those cars and that s what they re seeing out of their window. how do they get that out of there? karen, thank you so much. prince william is on a week long trip to asia where he s promoting uk relations with japan and china. this hour he s in tokyo. our david mckenzie is monitoring the trip and joins us live with more. david, good day to you. what can you tell us about what the prince hopes to accomplish with this trip to asia? it s a bit of business and diplomacy and pushing the royal family certainly in asia as a brand for the more cynical. but certainly prince william is in japan, he s been in tokyo. he visited the yokahama cemetery laying a wreath for the commonwealth war dead and significantly it s also a place where his late mother visited. you don t see that kind of rock star status that you saw for the late princess diana in japan. but there is a level of interest in prince william s trip to japan. he ll be visiting the tsunami ravaged areas to show how japan is getting back on its feet, and more significantly is his trip to china. that will be the first in three decades for a british royal family member and certainly a big test for his diplomatic skills and for where the royal family sits in terms of popularity for the world s most populous nation. as far as popularity in china, the chinese consume british culture, movies and shows. what do you suspect the reception will be for the prince in china? well certainly you re right. there s been this flowering of british entertainment here in china. you know, you see the union jack on the street as much sometimes as you see the chinese flag. there s a great deal of popularity sherlock these kind of british period and drama series. and so whether he can capitalize on that is unclear. one challenge of course is that the coverage will be dominated by state media. so it s really what the party and the government decide will be the level of reaction to his trip. but he did make a positive step speaking to the chinese people before his arrival whichishing them happy new year in chinese. announced today, they said they would put a moratorium on the sale of ivory coming into the country. this is a close issue to the duke of cambridge s heart. this is also about business and he s pushing created businesses here in china, including attending the premiere of paddington ben. you don t get more british than that. cnn s david mckenzie following all the latest for us. we hope to hear more reports how this goes in asia. a pair of llamas make a mad dash for freedom in the united states in the state of arizona. what it took to reel them in, next. people with type 2 diabetes come from all walks of life. if you have high blood sugar, ask your doctor about farxiga. it s a different kind of medicine that works by removing some sugar from your body. along with 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adhered to by pyongyang before it considered sitting at the negotiating table. russia and china wanted no preconditions. these talks have been stalled since 2008. what can you tell us about the context of this? certainly promising news for these talks to continue but at the same time we re seeing north korea more defiant. what is the context with those two things? it seemed very much on opposite sides of the spectrum. that s right. the context is really these five nations realize that north korea, according to the foreign ministry was making great leaps in its nuclear weapons capability. so they realized the urgency of the situation and had to agree to get back to the negotiating table. so we could be weeks away from a deal being offered. he called it a package or a compromise to entice north korea back to the negotiating table. but it comes at a very tense time. the joint drilling between the u.s. and south korea are starting on monday. every year these anger pyongyang. we ve seen some very harsh rhetoric from pyongyang. the foreign minister did agree that obviously this is not necessarily the time to be talking. he said it s the harsh rhetoric does not give many signs of hope or many positive signs. it s really a contradiction that the korean relationship does not appear to be likely to improve because of these war games. but at the same time it looks like the regional efforts in the six-party talks may reap benefits very soon. paula, you did conduct an interview with south korea s foreign minister. let s take a listen. i believe that we are getting closer to the kind of consensus which may trigger the resumption of dialogue. but the devil is in the details, so we have to work very hard on the details. that could be accepted by all members of the six-party talks. paula, asking you this question is the tone one of optimism? is it one of caution? what do you suspect from what you heard there with that interview? certainly it s interesting that the six-party talks appear as though they may resume fairly quickly. that was certainly the indication i was given. i was surprised a deal could be offered to north korea within weeks. certainly when you re hearing this harsh rhetoric from north korea, threatening war and threatening all sorts, even retaliation for these war games as they see as a prelude to an invasion, which the u.s. and south korea say are defensive in nature. at the same time on a separate track, we could see these wider talks in the region restarting again. to it just shows that there are a number of different tracks being pursued at the same time. the military obviously is not positive but the talks may resume. george? cnn s paula hancocks in seoul, south korea. thank you for your reporting. back here in the united states two llamas are back in custody. this time in vancouver, washington after they made a run for freedom. tv news crews did not get there in time to shoot footage of this chase. but another llama palooza got plenty of coverage. reporter: when the law closed in there was no shootout, just some fancy footwork. for a couple of hours, the llamas led authorities on a wild llama chase. llama palooza 2015 continues. reporter: msnbc switched from the strategy of terror to llamas on the run. i m not kidding, this is a pair of llamas on the loose. not sure what the strategy is here in trying to get these two llamas. reporter: just talking about it induced anchor giggles. we ll update the status of this white llama. reporter: the two llamas were doing therapy work at an assisted living facility in arizona, when something spooked them and they took off. they ve gotten loose and we ve been out here for an hour trying to capture them. reporter: over and over authorities tried to cut them off, but it s not easy to cut off a llama. even a golf cart was deployed. one news banner echoed the double llama calling it a low spoed chase. sometimes they ran against traffic. another time they changed into the proper lane to go straight. we ll get to the news. we have 24 hours a day to do the news. enjoy with us the llamas. reporter: at one point they were surrounded and separated. the younger black one barely escaped. managing to rejoin the white one. together the two gave the slip to an ever-growing number of pursuers. i feel silly talking about this because it s not something cnn typically covers but it s hard to take your eyes off the screen here. llamas are twice as big as el packas. but tweeted jack tapper watch out, that one on the left may be in heat. the llamas have been captured. let s move on to an important story now. reporter: what could be more important for our country than this? the sheriff s department said the llamas were taken back to the ranch. there was no therapy. no therapy? this was therapy. for the llamas there he goes. he wants to be free. reporter: and maybe for the news casters. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. something about watching looped videos of llamas. just can t get enough 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critics. also coming up a war of work zone between the u.s. president and the prime minister of israel. and a man killed on the ground. we ll hear a witness explain what he saw. hello, everyone, i m errol barnett. eye welcome hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, this is cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with the latest information out of moscow at this moment. mourners are gathering to pay their final respects to boris nemtsov. you re looking at some footage that just came if to us moments ago as people gather around his open casket this morning. a memorial service has just begun for the prominent opposition activist. he was shot and killed while walking across a bridge near the kremlin on friday night. our senior international correspondent, matthew chance is there at the memorial and joins us now with more. just set the scene for us as this gets underway. what s happening around you? and what will happen throughout the day? reporter: that s right. we re at the center in the middle of moscow where this memorial service has now got underway. you see the open casket of boris nemtsov behind me. there are security guard been the casket somebody s family members. i can see his mother his daughter, his niece, a number of other family members, as well. obviously at the start of this long process of mourning throughout the course of the day that willum youly end in the funeral itself. that will ultimately end in the funeral itself. outside, hundreds have gathered in the streets and park that s just outside the center to carry in bouquets of flowers and tributes to boefr is nemtsov. that process will go on for the next four hours, we understand to give people the opportunity not you just family and people who knew him, but members of the general public in moscow to pay their respects. after that the casket will be closed and taken to the cemetery elsewhere in the capital where boris nemtsov will be laid to rest. we are at the start of a process which will take much of the day. this funeral process to see off finally boris nevermtsov. there is much more to see and do. we ll stay connected as the memorial continues. as far as who was in the rom and who was able to attend i understand some ukrainian officials were denied visas ahead of the funeral. i m wondering if we have a sense of who will be there today. reporter: well certainly it are going to be dignitaries here from russia opposition figures. i just saw a former prime minister of russia here paying his respects and laying a wreath at the coffin of boris never sopho. diplomats from various countries nemtsov. diplomats from various countries. a number of officials from poland and ukraine say they ve been denied visas for the country, for russia for various reasons. not specifically because they were going to be denied to come to this funeral you but because of the onmicrosofty of course, that exists at this point between russia and the european union and specifically with ukraine. despite this we are expecting to see a stream of dignitaries from the various foreign embassies here in moscow who will send representatives to of course pay their respects. i think as i speak now, i can see the american ambassador. if we could pan over to the american ambassador here. about to pay his respects there. jose gentleman. there shaking hands with people about to walk toward the coffin of bories theme of boris nemtsov to pay respects. the you united states has been condemning the killing and calling on russia and on president putin specifically to make sure that the culprits whoever carried this out, whoever ordered the killing, whoever pulled the trigger to be brought to justice. and of course vladimir putin and the kremlin have vowed that they will do that. although there s skepticism i think, among the russian public that this will happen. month use chance speaking to us from inside the memorial service. boris nemtsov s body is being seen now by relatives and well wishers. and matthew chance with diplomats also in the room. we ll connect again with you as this all gets underway today. as matthew mentioned, there are many theories swirling around nemtsov s death. some going as far to be conspiracy theories. the former deputy prime minister was one of president vladimir putin s vote spoken critics. investigators are looking into the possible that it could have been behind the killing. ivan watson walks us through nemtsov s final steps. reporter: the staff here at the liberal russian radio station echo is in mourning for buddy named soft. he gave thousands and thousands of hodelia intercareer. his final interview took place in this sued hours earlier. he was murdered on friday night. the focus of his conversation was the war in neighboring ukraine. created by the russian government. boris nemtsov spoke about the need of reforms, of democratic reforms, political reforms just to struggen against surprises and stop the war. reporter: after his okie must be interviewed, he came here to moscow s iconic red square. of after 9:30 p.m. he met his ukrainian girlfriend and they came to this upscale restaurant bosco, to have dinner. after 11:00 at night, the two came out of the restaurant and walked through red square. you ve got lenin s tomb down there. of course, you have the magnificent st. basil s cathedral and would have walked past the memorial. this area is bristling with security cameras, red square is arguably one of the most closely monitored, heavily guarded places in all of russia. it s here on the bridge mears away from the red brick walls of the kremlin that nemtsov took his final steps around 11:30 p.m. on friday. he was walking here with his girlfriend when at least one unknown attacker fired a series of shots, threw his back killing him almost instant and leaving the world with the burning we can who killed boreis nemtsov. that was ivan watson. we re showing a live look from moscow as the memorial service for boris nemtsov gets underway. he will be laid to rest later today. matthew chance is in the room. we will have continuing coverage throughout the hour on cnn. we re focusing on the other big story. iran s nuclear capabilities. world views are clashing in washington. israel and the u.s. agree iran should not have nuclear weapons. when it comes to how to achieve that there s a big and bitter divide. in a speech to congress tuesday, benjamin netanyahu is expected to lay out what he believes is the beginning of a nuclear deal between iran and the u.s. netanyahu, though wants tougher sanctions against iran. he downplayed any friction on monday. my speech is not intended to show any disrespect to president obama or the esteem office that he holds. i vhave great respect for both. israel and the united states will continue to stand together because america and israel are more than friends. we re like a family. this agreements disagreements in family are always uncomfortable. but we must always remember this we are family. now when it comes to u.s. and israeli relations, president barack obama and mr. netanyahu seem to be on the same page. you but the president says the best plan for iran is to freeze nuclear activity for at least a decade. i don t think it s permanently destructive. i think that it is a distraction from our focus. and our focus should be how do we stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon. mr. obama says the object of all the strife, a nuclear deal with iran doesn t each look promising right now. diplomats involved in the iran nuclear talks including the u.s. secretary of state and his iranian counterpart aren t letting the events in washington derail things in switzerland. they re meeting to keep working toward a pact. john kerry s warning mr. netanyahu not to spill any sensitive information. we are concerned boy reports that suggest selective details of the join going negotiations will be public in the coming days. i want to say publicly there doing so will make it more difficult to reach the goal this israel and others say they share. what s interesting is that on the political side mr. netanyahu s facing both criticism and support for his upcoming speech to the u.s. congress. what do the people of israel think? cnn s kate bolduan met with people in the heart of jerusalem. reporter: as diverse as the landscape, the culture, and the israeli poem themselves so are the opinions here on their prime minister s decision to speak before congress. a marine poll suggests the public is split down the mid. i saw that firsthand at this dinner party in the heart of - jerusalem. thank you very much for having us. this woman thinks it s wrong and all about re-election. what do you make of it? i think this is a classic move of distracting voters from domestic issue to foreign policy. you think this is a campaign snuf. totally. this woman disagrees. i m amused by the power that left seems to give to netanyahu heat. wins he is giving a speak e speech on a topic that he knows a lot about, but it s still just a peach. reporter: just a speech but its focus remains a central issue concerning all israelis. the threat of a nuclear iran. every israeli no matter what their politics on some deep level feels a deep sense of insecurity about our own survival. reporter: do you think anything that netanyahu says in the speech can push the needle on the negotiations with iran? one way or the other, i think netanyahu isn t going to be the reason that america makes this decision. i agree. i m worried that he will be blameded for it. blamed for it. will he be given credit if america stays out of it? and i doubt he will be begin credit. it s lose-lose. that s why i think it s such a good idea. most people think that the speech is not going to affect the negotiations with iran. most people are concerned about this wolf trap between the united states and israel. reporter: the professor is an expert on the american/israeli relationship. there were many crises but this is the worst. reporter: you think it is the worst? because it has been lingering for a long period of time. there s very little trust between the leaders, and the disagreement and the crisis is about almost everything. reporter: back at the dinner table, these israelis hope that doesn t mean irreparable damage. the connection of israel and the united states goes so deep and on so many levels yeah we re going through a bad time, but we ll get over it. reporter: cnn, jerusalem. to understand our very high interest in this story you ve got to remember the back story to this visit. house speaker john boehner invited mr. netanyahu to speak in front of congress without letting the white house know. a major breach of protocol. our fareed zakaria weighed in on that. i think the whole episode is a very bad precedent. to have the opposing party when it controls congress inviting a critic of the president s foreign policy, to present that criticism in a joint session of congress is unprecedented and a bad idea going forward. this really is a big deal. much more coming up in the effects half-hour including his thuts on whether anyone will get thoughts on whether anyone will get their way in the iran nuclear deal. stay tuned for that. coming up a police shooting caught on camera. and still there are questions over exactly what happened. ahead, an you audio expert tells us what the sounds reveal. also a major offensive underway in iraq. the latest on the fight for tikrit. and the russian opposition leader gunned down just outside the kremlin being laid to rest today in moscow. you re looking at live pictures coming in. denver international is one of the busiest airports in the country. we operate just like a city and that takes a lot of energy. we use natural gas throughout the airport - for heating the entire terminal generating electricity on-site and fueling hundreds of vehicles. we re very focused on reducing our environmental 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say he was shot when he reached for an officer s gun. the police chief says it appears they did everything they could to defuse the situation, but blackburn says the situation got out of hand quickly. i ve never seen something like that turny to horrible hoe quickly turn so horrible so quickly. you hear the officers saying can you back up? can you back up? that was one of the officers this fired the shots. after he came and stayed mad, i was ready to get up out of there. blackburn also says he did not see africa the man known as africa reach for the gun. meanwhile, investigators are analyzing video from two police body cameras, as well as that cell phone video. jason carroll took the recording to an audio expert to see what it might reveal. [ gunshots ] reporter: key to the investigation in the lapp shooting will not just lapd shooting will not be just what the officers did but what they said. paul ginsburg is a recorded evidence specialist. he has been in the listening business for 40 years. think of him as an audio archaeologist, a man who digs for sound. it s a puzzle. each of my cases is a puzzle. reporter: first, listen to a portion of that amateur video captured by a by stanner in its original bystander in its original form. [ shouting ] [ gunfire ] reporter: that s a lot of noise. it sounds like you can hear someone saying drop the gun in that. yes, and it will be much more prominent after we subtract out all of the background sounds. reporter: now listen again. this time to the enhanced version. some of the ambient sound has been suppressed background sounds minimized. drop the gun! drop the gun! drop the gun! reporter: listen again drop the gun! drop the gun! reporter: and again drop the gun! drop the gun! drop the gun! reporter: the enhanced version was run through a sophisticated computer program which shows five distinct so-called markers for the sound of gunshots. there you can very clearly hear five shots? five shots. i hear and see them. reporter: each of the spikes is gunshots? one, two, three, four and five. reporter: that s what the spikes are? these are markers. reporter: but is there even more here? police say the officer shot the suspect during a struggle after the man reached for an officer s gun. you can hear the young officer who is primarily engaged in the confrontation saying he has my gun. he has my gun. reporter: the los angeles police department made it clear that it appeared to them they definitely heard one of their officers saying, he has my gun. he has my gun. he might well be here. reporter: we listened to the enhanced audio again. drop the gun! okay i heard the word gun four times. you can hear it four times did comes out. reporter: when we listen more closely, you can actually hear the word gun four times, meaning someone is using the word two more times. the use of the word gun barely audible. who says it? the police or the man on the ground? even with the audio enhanced, it s unclear. like so much in the case. [ bleep ] reporter: jason carroll, cnn, new york. the mayor of cleveland, ohio is apologizing for a legal document that blames a 12-year-old boy for his own death in a police shooting. you may remember tamir rice was playing with a pellet gun in a parker in his home when officers shot him within seconds of arriving. the officers he didn t know the boy s gun was fake. in responding to a lawsuit from the family the city said tamir s death was caused by his failure to exercise due dire avoid injury. the mayor admits the wording was insensitive. tamir s mother says there s no excuse. this is not the character or personality of the city of cleveland. this is not to be that insensitive to family even to victims is not our character or personality. and so once it became gun me that this happened that we immediately went to how can we correct this. the whole world seen the same video like i seen. i m sure the world is saying you guys never gave him a chance. with that said, it can never be justified. the rice family says it wants an apology for the officer s lack of proper training. one of the biggest attacks against isis yet. coming up the fight to route the militants from tikrit. so,as my personal financial psychic, i m sure you know what this meeting is about. yes, a raise. i m letting you go. i knew that. you see, this is my amerivest managed. balances. no. portfolio. and if doesn t perform well for two consecutive gold. quarters. quarters.yup. then amerivest gives me back their advisory. stocks. fees. fees. fees for those quarters. yeah. so, i m confident i m in good hands. for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. tikrit. australia plans to send 300 more respect to to iraq to help train iraqi forces in their fight against isis. the troops will join 600 australian airmen and soldier already in iraq. australia s prime minister made the announcement just a few hours ago. i want to stress that we haven t taken this decision lightly. ultimately it is iraq that must deflate the death cult, but we do leave the iraqows their own. at this hour iraqi troops are clawing away at isis-held territory less than 200 kilometers north of baghdad. as barbara starr respects, they re getting support from across the region. reporter: the iraqi prime minister says the fight to take back tikrit is back often the battle is a crucial test of the willingness of iraqi troops to fight after months of u.s. training. easier to reign in tikrit than trying to recapture the bigger prize, mosul. the key thing in my mind is proximity to baghdad. it s closer to baghdad. mosul is another 200 kilometers another many miles to the north from tikrit. reporter: the iraqi forces attacking from several directions in the effort to retake tikrit, engaging with isis north of the city at al alam and south at aldor. isis has its own versions of the event, claiming to show it is fighting back against the 30,000-man force iraq says it is fielding here. u.s. official are privately doubtful the iraqi numbers are that high. the u.s. is saying little about the operation, viewing it as a gauge of iraq s sectarian divide. tikrit is a sunni town. the troops are shia led. even as u.s. tensions with iran grow they van in the thick of the tikrit fight. the iranian news agency reporting that the commander of the elite iranian brig aid is in welcome overseeing the operation. iran is also providing iraq and its shia militias with weapons and ammunition. another sign no one can predict isis next move. nearly two dozen christian hostages released by the group, nobody knows why. we should not let up on isis because we saw this activity that seems to be a gesture of good faith. there is no good faith in isis. doesn t exist. we should continue to pound them as hard and as viciously as we can. now members of a canadian church are worry about their pastor who hasn t come back for a humanitarian trip to north korea. the reverend entered north korea from china the end of january. he was supposed to return to canada february th. his toronto-based church says he s made more than 100 trips to north korea and speaks fluent korean. the church says the canadian government is trying to help find the reverend. another big story we re following this hour. you re looking at live pictures coming in to us from moscow as mourners pay their final respects to russian opposition activist boris nemtsov. we re told the u.s. ambassador is there, the former prime minister as well as the mother daughter and niece of mr. nemtsov. relatives and dignitaries will be filing through throughout the day. we ll get you live to the memorial service after the break. meet the world s newest energy superpower. surprised? 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supporter including the administration say a deal would restrict iran s path to a nuclear bomb and extend the time it will need to embark on a weapon program. the so-called breakout period to a year. all while allowing the civilian nuclear program under international monitoring, much like the interim agreement signed in november 2013. opponents including prime minister netanyahu and some u.s. lawmakers say the only way to prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon is to prevent it altogether especially in light of the past cheating. just today the iaea said iran has not provided information on past force to research weaponization. we have asked questions, and the questions are clear so they can answer. reporter: iran says it will never give up its nuclear program entirely meaning that if no deal is reached, military action and perhaps war could follow. reporter: even as the gaps narrow, another key disagreement was exposed. if there is agreement, the west wants sanctions lifted gradually to retain leverage. iran. the sanctions lifted all together right away. our negotiating partners particularly the western countries and particularly the united states must once and for all come to the political understanding that sanctions and agreement don t go together. if they want an agreement, sanctions must go. with our own fareed zakaria joining us from new york and host of fareed zakaria gps, first what do you think of the issue of sanctions as far as what s in this deal? is iran likely to get its wish for all sanctions to be lifted at once? no. there s almost no prospect that that will happen. remember the sanctions are essentially the american sanctions are ten ax of congress as i understand which will mean there would have to be ten acts repealing or one omnibus repeal. there s almost no prospect that that would happen from a republican congress at this point. so that s not going to happen. the president can unilaterally waive some of those sanctions, weaken others, and then of course there are the international sanctions. the sanctions put on by the u.n. so iran could get some sanctioned relief. but the idea that it would get a repeal of all sanctions particularly the u.s. ones which are the most punitive, the ones that have hit the iranian economy the hardest is highly unlikely. what do you make of the possibility being reported now that prime minister netanyahu might reveal classified information about the deal just in order to make a point about how bad it is? i think it s wrong. i think it s frankly disgraceful if in fact he were to do that. let s give him the benefit of the doubt and not say this he s going to do it. i think this whole episode is a very bad precedent. to have the opposing party opposing the foreign policy, to oppose it in a joint session of congress is unpress denned and a bad idea going for. there s an article in the the washington times that made the point this imagine if the democratic congress or democratic senate had asked jacques chirac president of france, to explain why george w. bush s policies on iraq were all wrong. how will we have felt? imagine if during president reagan s two terms one of his many critics and he had dozens of them around the world had been invited by the democratic congress to speak to a joint session of congress. how will we feel? the president is the lead conductor of america s foreign policy. and for congress to play this role of allowing somebody to come and giving them this institutionalized platform to criticize american foreign policy strikes me as a bad idea and a very bad precedent. it does appear to put salt in the international diplomatic mix, which is tough enough. considering that you have talks underway in switzerland. each side does want to walk away with something. despite this, you could call it side show what do you think the chances are that we will see a deal in the end? i ve always thought it was unlikely. i think that there s there s serious negotiations so i d say maybe 60% to 70% against the deal. 30% this we will get a deal. because on both sides the negotiators don t have much leeway. by which i mean president obama doesn t have much leeway to make many concessions because netanyahu is breathing down his backs. the republicans in congress are breathing down his back. he has to stand very tough. so tough that it s tough difficult to see what concessions he can make. on the iranian side don t forget they have a similar program. rohans rohani s not a very powerful president. they re watching over him. in both cases, there are hawk who want no concessions, which means the guys negotiating down have a lot of leeway. in that circumstance imagine negotiating the opening with china where he wasn t able to deal with the issue of taiwan because that would be an uproar and imagine if there you had a situation like that in china. the you need a lot of negotiating room. neither side has it. we ve got to make the point that the deal is far from being complete. fareed zakaria, thank you very much for joining us and providing some of your insight tonight from new york. thank you. u.s. house speaker john boehner, the man who invited mr. netanyahu, says ticket demand for the congressional speech is off the charts. there will be some notable no shows. chief among them of course president obama. the white house says he may not even watch the speech. personally i find it hard to believe. he won t be meeting with the prime minister either. also vice president joe biden, he will normally attend the senate president. you could say coincident low he is in guatemala now. and of course john kerry, america s chief diplomat will be meeting iranian officials in switzerland as he has been doing all week holding the very talks that mr. netanyahu will be lobbying against. i want to take you to the memorial service of boris nemtsov in moscow. live pictures as they re coming to us here at cnn. hundreds of people are expected to attend. our matthew chance telling us that some of the late opposition leaders immediate family members are in the room. someone gunned down nem sophofriday while he nemtsov friday while he was near the kremlin. police haven t made any arrests. this has heightened a sense of fear in the country when it comes to speaking out against the government. nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister himself, was a vocal critic of vladimir putin. many say his murder was politically motivated. our senior international correspondent, matthew chance has been in the room during the memorial the past hour joins us on the phone. i m wondering if you can update us on what you re seeing and hearing there this morning. reporter: well we re seeing a constant stream of people coming across carrying bouquets of flowers, tributes to boris nemtsov and laying the tribute at his open casket. also speeches have begun. a couple of prominent people said a few words including the u.s. ambassador saying that he will long be remembered boris nemtsov, as a great russian patriot. so it s the former prime minister of russia addressing the mourners, as well, saying that name of an enemy for many that boris nemtsov was an enemy for many because he would not come forward. and the tributes are continuing. i just noticed that john major, the former british prime minister is here also. representing obviously the british government. there were officials are all over europe united states, and elsewhere who have come history today pay their respects to this opposition figure in russia. matthew chance speaking to us from inside the memorial service for boris nemtsov. relatives, dignitaries look at his open casket while laying their own memorials, flowers and respects. poem continue to connect with matthew chance and cover the service as it unfolds in moscow over the next five hours. do stay tuned to cnn for that. after days of questioning, boris nemtsov s model girlfriend flew back home. we ll talk to her mother whos she s concerned for her daughter s safety and her emotional well being. stay with us. photos are great for capturing your world. and now they can transform it. with the new angie s list app, you can get projects done in a snap. take a photo of your project or just tell us what you need done and angie s list will find a top rated provider to do the job. the angie s list app is the simple, new way to get work done on your schedule. the app makes it easy, the power of angie s list makes it work. call, click or download the app for free today. the traffic jam. scourge of 20th century city life. raiser of blood pressure. disrupter of supply chains. stealer of bedtime stories. polluter. frustrater. time thief. 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it how successful this trip was with shoring up business interests. but considering that his you know prince william s father had a bit more of a frosty relationship with the country this time, it seems as though thing may have warmed. do you get the sense that without any major gaffes to speak of so far this trip of a success? reporter: certainly if you look at the commentary not just in the western media but the chinese modia, it seems positive somebody. you re referring to a couple of really unfortunate incidents in the past with the royal family. prince charles once described the chinese officials that he met appalling wax works and prince william talked about slitty eyed people. it was awkward. pral talkprincipals talked about slitty eyed people. it was awkward. but you see prince william having opportunities certainly means that the chinese authorities are open to working with him. it is a very long-term relationship. and i know that prince william s office sees this as a first step in a long-term relationship. and that would have been transmitted back to the chinese authorities. and it seems so far to be a great success. just this meeting itself. yeah. if he can get out unscathed without any unexpected gaffes it should be a good trip. max foster live in london with a bit of details on prince william s asian tour being wrapped up. now, severe floods are threatening nearly a million people in northern spain as the area nears record levels. pedram javaheri with more. very serious situation. reporter: the snow is melting across the pyrenees. the water is melting down. and it has the largest volume of water for spain as far as the river is concerned. and about a million people live along the river in one of the biggest cities in spain. and we ll show some of the images that we have of the flooding. this river has been known to have flooding concerns. the images show the tremendous flooding. some 800 hectors, 25,000 acres of farmland damaged boy the waters out there. you look at the satellite depiction, the color depiction from january, want to show you the river as we touched on. carrying the largest volume of water across spain. the perspective january into march, you see the river balloon. as we go in for a closer perspective, hard to pick it out in january and in march expanding quite a bit. we ve had drainage pumps put in place along the see it alleviate the problem. the concerns remain quite high as the forecast continues to bring snow showers across northeastern areas of spain. as that s the case as the temperatures warm heading into the middle portion of march. melting will cause more of an issue when it comes to the volume of water picking up in intensity. speaking of water, look across southern california. strong and isolated thunderstorms on the southern california coastline from malibu toward long beach. get up above 4,000 feet across the ventura mountain ventura county mountains, los angeles county. you can begin to pick up one to four inches of snowfall. in fact closer perspective across the greater los angeles basin. look at the burn areas taking on quite a bit of rainfall this hour. we had not only strong thunderstorms but funnel clouds reported into the early afternoon hours across the region with wintry weather. more than 120 million people dealing with wintry weather. more snow rain sleets in the forecast. want to leave you with the video, what occurred across huntington beach in southern california. hey now! look at them. people taking on unusual hail that came down an inch accumulate on the beach. people making hail balls and even a hail man as you ll see. what do you think of that in boston? yeah boston it s that california surfer dude mentality. just enjoy it. absolutely. no matter what it is. hang ten. hail on the beach. and you surf at all? i have not, no. i failed many times. thanks. so you next hour. that s it for this edition of cnn newsroom. zain asher joins me after this break for more of the biggest stories. stay with us. if you haven t heard about the latest sale at hotels.com, then you haven t seen this commercial. book now and save during the spring break sale at hotels.com. as israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu gets ready for his controversial capitol hill visit, we ll look at why today s speech is coming upper such heavy fire. happening right now, mourners paying respects to a slain kremlin critic. and you ll hear from the man who roared this video of a deadly police shooting in l.a. hello and a warm welcome to our viewers wherever you you may be watching. i m zain asher. i m errol barnett. this is cnn newsroom.
reporting tonight, lester holt. good evening. with a shooter of two police officers still out there, every nightfall brings growing anxiety to the streets of ferguson, missouri. ferguson already is in upheaval amid cries for change and the abrupt firing of officials including the chief of police. the shooting yesterday morning came as the city was still grappling with how to fully respond to that justice department report which found a pattern of police bias towards the city s poor and minority residents. in a moment my conversation with the mayor of ferguson and his answer to those who want him to step down. but let s begin here with ron allen in ferguson. reporter: for a second day a huge police manhunt. an exhaustive search for a gunman accused of targeting a line of police at that demonstration this week. i cannot tell you at this point that an arrest is imminent. there s certainly nobody in custody. reporter: the two wounded officers recovering at home today, one with a bullet still lodged behind his ear. president obama spoke out last night. whoever fired those shots shouldn t detract from the issue. they re criminals. reporter: overnight protesters and now missouri state and st. louis county police kept their distance. hands up! don t shoot! reporter: among the demands dismantle the entire ferguson police force. others want the mayor gone. since the justice department began investigating ferguson, six city employees, the police chief, city manager have left. every police officer has had mandatory diversity training. and court reforms are underway. some fees and fines eliminated, seen as targeting the poor. leslie bell sees himself as the kind of change ferguson needs. the son of a cop and himself a law professor. he s one of four african-american candidates for city council in april. seeking to push the number up from just one. how important is it there be more diversity on the council? i think it s very important. i think when we work together, when we get to know one another we reach better understandings. reporter: through it all a high school senior with offers from universities like howard and morehouse still sees his future here. you would? the movement will always live. this is not a moment. this is a movement. ferguson is a movement. reporter: tonight he says he ll be out there marching in the streets. adding to the tension police investigating the ambush that happened out here say it s still unclear whether the gunman was someone involved with the protest or an outside age tater as demands continue for a complete overhaul of the city of ferguson. lester. all right, ron. thank you. before we came on the air this evening i spoke with ferguson mayor james knowles. i began by asking him about the emotional climate in his city right now. well, you know, we ve gone through a lot over the last six or seven months. and we ve been working very hard to try to bring this community together. i think unfortunately the events of the other night is going to start hopefully, unfortunately, i think, create a climate that is going to be difficult to get past. has this shaken your resolve to stay in office despite the many calls for your resignation? no, i mean, i get continued support from a lot of residents. you know i hear it from phone calls, e-mails, facebook people who want me to stay in office. i mean, obviously there s always going to be people who are against you. and those people have been vocal out there. but, you know, there s ways for them to remove me if they so choose. do you agree with the conclusion that there was a pattern of bias within the police department? i don t think that the individual officers were out there looking to affect african-americans any differently than they were white americans. i think you probably we ve seen that there s been some bad apples out there. i think that but i don t think that that is indicative of the entire police department. you said you don t want to resign. would you embrace a recall election to put this behind you once and for all? i think that s just another setback for the community. i mean, if that s what a majority of the community wants, then that s fine. unfortunately, the events of the other night only serve to divide the community. a recall election will only serve to divide the community. but if that is the will of the people, then so be it. but right now i m focused on moving this community forward. my conversation earlier with ferguson mayor james knowles. tonight, a salvage operation is underway at the site of that black hawk helicopter crash off florida that killed 11 u.s. service members. seven of those killed were u.s. marines, and they were identified today. our report tonight from nbc s mark potter. reporter: a salvage barge hired by the u.s. army arrived at the crash scene early this afternoon and didn t take long before it began pulling up the twisted wreckage of the downed black hawk helicopter from santa rosa bay. first to be seen the blades of the chopper. complicating the recovery is that the bodies of two members of the louisiana national guard flight crew were still trapped inside. today, the u.s. marine corps released the names of its seven special operations combat veterans who died in the tuesday night training accident. they include master sergeant thomas saunders from williamsburg, virginia who served in kosovo, afghanistan and iraq. and staff sergeants marcus bawol and trevor blaylock, both from michigan. our thoughts and prayers with the marines, soldiers, their family and friends as we all mourn that tragic loss of life. reporter: also killed in the accident staff sergeant andrew seif from holland, michigan. he was the 2013 marine of the year and was just recently awarded the silver star the millary s third highest decoration for valor. captain stanford shaw from new jersey was his high school student government president and served two tours of duty in iraq. and staff sergeant kerry kemp from washington, and staff sergeant flynn from queens new york, both decorated from combat service and proud fathers of baby girls. the names of the four army victims have not yet been released. and as you can see out there in the distance, the salvage efforts to raise that chopper is still underway. in fact, moments ago they brought a big piece of that chopper and put it on that barge. this effort is expected to go into the night weather permitting. lester. mark potter tonight. thank you, mark. a newly hired attorney for the fraternity kicked off the university of oklahoma campus as some members are receiving death threats. now the chapter is considering suing the school in a bid to unsully its name after some members were caught on tape chanting racial slurs. we get a lot more now from nbc s gabe gutierrez who s on the campus. reporter: for days the racist chant has been widely condemned. today the university of oklahoma sigma alpha epsilon chapter fought back. we need to avoid a rush to judgment. reporter: its alumni have hired high-profile attorney stephen jones who represented timothy mcveigh in the oklahoma city bombing trial. after the video became public, university president david boren quickly denounced the fraternity. real sooners are not bigots. they re not racists. there is zero tolerance for this kind of racist and bigoted behavior. we don t want to be defined by those who completely violate our values. reporter: some experts question whether a public institution expelling the two students is legal. the first amendment protects all ideas, including really evil ideas. reporter: sae s national headquarters says it supports the stance that ou has taken and it s moving forward with the plans to revoke the membership of all suspended members here permanently. sae s under fire across the country. its headquarters is investigating allegations of racism including at louisiana tech university. the sentiment that it may be embedded in national oration is just absurd. reporter: but members like mikhail psychs in mississippi say that s not what sae represents. the easy thing to do is to judge a large population by the actions of a few. reporter: tonight at ou the local sae chapter is not ruling out a lawsuit at the outreach from this video stretches on. gabe gutierrez, nbc news, norman, oklahoma. we ve gathered new information about the car crash at the white house involving two secret service agents allegedly after a night of drinking. we ve learned the president wasn t told about it until quite long after the fact. now some lawmakers are questioning the leadership of director joseph clancy who was brought in to restore the agency s reputation. we get more on it from nbc s kristen welker. reporter: it took five days for president obama to be told that two top secret service agents, mark connolly and george ogilvie, allegedly drove into an active bomb investigation outside the white house last wednesday. there s absolutely no excuse for any delay with a breach this serious on the white house grounds themselves. reporter: the congressional committee that overseas the service is demanding answers from director joseph clancy next week. including why an unnamed supervisor allegedly allowed the two agents to go home without undergoing field sobriety testing, as was recommended by other officers at the scene. the two senior agents have been reassigned and have not responded to requests for comment. these instances are starting to pile up and starting to have a cumulative effect on morale. reporter: clancy a 27-year secret service veteran, was tapped to lead the agency after a series of embarrassing incidents including last year s fence jumper who forced his way all the way inside the white house. can he make the tough decisions with people who have been his colleagues for 20, 30 years or can he not? and so this is going to be his big test. reporter: and today the man who jumped over this fence last september, omar gonzalez, pleaded guilty to two federal charges. he ll be sentenced in june. kristen welker, nbc news, the white house. well, the big thaw that many of us have hoped for is finally under way, except it means flood advisories are in effect tonight from mississippi to new york as frozen waterways begin to melt. on land there s another hazard as millions of motorists are finding out. we get more on this tonight from nbc s ron mott. reporter: in the middle of lake erie, the coast guard is slicing through thick ice to prevent flooding the three large rivers there. thickest ice we encountered today was probably approximately 20 feet above the surface of the lake and 15 feet below the surface of the lake. reporter: near cleveland it s too late. it came inside my house about three feet in my house. reporter: some ohio rivers are spilling onto streets. millions of people from buffalo to biloxi are under flood advisories. and here in boston closing in on an all-time record for snow, giant dirty piles like that are reminders of a tough winter. but now that most of it has melted off the roads, new hazards have emerged. potholes. they come in all sizes from mere bumps to bone-jarring jolts. and it can be a pain in the wallet, too. business is picking up at gary sack s tire shop. broken rims, suspension issues, exhaust issues from bottoming out. reporter: the cost of potholes? $6.4 billion last year alone. back in cleveland the pothole killer is on the loose. a one-stop patch shop. 90 seconds from start to finish. near baltimore along busy i-95, 100 potholes a night are being filled as temperatures warm up. out west potentially record heat for southern california into the 90s. we re gearing up for a big weekend this weekend. reporter: technically still a week of winter left. ron mott, nbc news, boston. overseas now, there is no shortage of controversy surrounding vladimir putin. the crisis in ukraine, a crumbling economy, the recent murder of a top dissident. now add to all that a mystery. he hasn t been seen publicly for more than a week. where is he? nbc s keir simmons is on the hunt. reporter: this is the last time vladimir putin was seen in public, last thursday with italy s prime minister. a planned visit to kazakhstan this week was canceled without explanation. trending today the hashtag #whereisputin. he likes to flaunt his health, famously appearing shirtless on horseback. has the 62-year-old leader fallen ill? there s absolutely no reason for doubt about the state of his health. his health is really perfect and everything is okay with him. reporter: the kremlin s own website has been reportedly misleading showing putin in a meeting it said happened wednesday when really it took place a week earlier. the president s vanishing act has triggered some wild speculation that he went to switzerland for the birth of his girlfriend s baby. some ukrainian children even drew pictures of the russian president abducted by aliens. it all reminds some people of the soviet era when kremlinologists searched for clues about public appearances. today, friday the 13th, the kremlin released pictures of putin it said were taken today. but doubters pointed out the meeting was not public and not shown live. privately u.s. officials tell nbc news putin may be under the weather. the mystery may be solved monday in st. petersburg where putin is due to appear in public. keir simmons, nbc news, london. pope francis marked this second anniversary of his election today with the prediction about his tenure. the pope celebrated mass at st. peter s basilica and also heard confessions from the faithful. in an interview he said he thinks his time as pope will be short, perhaps four or five years. he also said that while he doesn t mind being pope, he misses going out in rome unrecognized for a pizza. still ahead tonight, they can t make it on their own. but suddenly they re washing up onshore faster than rescuers can get to them. also, the island too new to appear on any map which no one has set foot on until now. we re back with a rescue mission that s becoming increasingly urgent as more and more sea lions are washing ashore in southern california. many of them hungry and sick. our report tonight from nbc s hallie jackson. reporter: peter waller s team scoops up another starving sea lion today. this is skinny for a sea lion. yes, very skinny. probably 50, 60 pounds light. reporter: one of hundreds of pups he s helped so far this season. it s kind of overwhelming. we re going all day. calls at 3:00 in the morning, 4:00 in the morning. reporter: the pups are washing up onshore in record breaking numbers, emaciated and dehydrated. like lucy who looked like this when she was rescued and now looks like this. typically about 60 sea lions are stranded in california in january and february. this year it s skyrocketed to more than 1,200. this is the most sea lions i ve rescued in 30 years. reporter: it s gotten so bad sea world announced this week it s suspending its sea lion show so trainers can help with rescue missions, which can get emotional. this week as i see the commitment every day. reporter: the sea lion pups usually stay on the channel islands off california s coast, but scientists think warmer waters forcing their mothers deeper into the ocean to look for food leaving the babies to fend for themselves. they ended up on our beaches skinny and cold and looking for space. reporter: problem is rehab facilities are filling up too fast. the sickest and weakest nursed back to help at shelters. and eventually, hopefully, released back into the wild. that s the first priority for rescuers. and for the pups a second chance for survival. hallie jackson, nbc news, santa monica. here s to those coming to their rescue. when we come back no time to waste. skiers dig through the snow to find a friend trapped under an avalanche. there is a brand new island in the south pacific never before touched by man until now. here s some pictures taken by a team that is believed to be the first to set foot on the new land formation, which was created only months ago by eruptions from an underwater volcano. it s considered very unstable though, and may not stay together for long. from europe scenes of a dramatic rescue after an australian skier became trapped in an avalanche. it was all captured by a gopro camera worn by one of his friends. there was a frantic search. then, once located, the frantic effort to dig him out of the snow. the trapped skier described a wall of powder and said he thought he was going to die. he was buried for about an hour until his friends finally reached him and brought him out of the snow alive. anyone who s taken a walk down the aisle knows weddings don t come cheap. according to the wedding website, the knot the average cost last year was more than $31,000. that s a new all-time high. the least expensive place to get married, utah around $15,000. the most expensive, not surprisingly, right here in manhattan. but listen to this number. $76,000 for a manhattan wedding. honeymoon not included. when we come back, the boy living out every 7-year-old s dream by becoming iron man. how google exposed private information of more than a quarter million people. hepatitis a. the health department is closing in on the source. the news is next. superheroes do exist, but they don t always look like we might expect. sometimes all it takes is a desire to help someone else like the nonprofit group that just changed a little boy s life with a little help from iron man himself. nbc s stephanie gosk has the story. reporter: all alex knew was that he was getting a bionic arm. we re looking for 912. reporter: the 7-year-old was born with a partially developed right arm. he was greeted by robert downey jr. hey, alex. how are you? pleasure to meet you. reporter: but if you are a 7-year-old this isn t robert downey jr., this is tony stark, the genius inventor who turns into superhero iron man. do you know who that is? iron man. reporter: only fitting given the delivery. it s even cooler than i thought. i m having a technical glitch, as you can see my light isn t working. keep working on it kind of like you re working on it. it keeps working and working until he gets it right. reporter: albert manero is a ph.d. in engineering and an actual superhero. he and a team of students at the university of central florida developed the arm using 3d printing technology. and they give them to kids for free. most prosthetics cost tens of thousands. the price tag for this arm is in the hundreds. our whole team has been so impacted just seeing the emotion and being able to actually help someone with engineering as opposed to working with like old machines. reporter: alex s mom says the change in her son, in his confidence, was instant. there are really no words for that. like, all you can say is just thank you. reporter: downey posted the video as part of a charity campaign to spotlight student innovation. and he s secured iron man s awesomeness in the mind of at least one little boy. i think of him as the greatest guy ever. reporter: and a moment alex won t soon forget. bang, nailed it. reporter: stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. what a great moment that was. a great way to finish things up for us on a friday night. we re glad you ve been here. i m lester holt. for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. . right now at 6:00 google is exposing private information online. good evening and thanks for being with us on this friday. i m jessica aguire. only on nbc bay area, a tech giant splits up. google admits they exposed the private information of a quarter million people. but how? scott is here and google apologized, but how much at risk are users? we will find out in the weeks to come. a glitch opened a virtual doo are and google admits 280,000 people have certainly information exposed. here s what happened and why some of those people are concerned tonight. small businesses like restaurants are the backbone of our economy. but they just got bad news. it s their contact information that was exposed. if they registered online presence on google apps, a software glitch likely made their information public. 280,000 google customers have their private information briefly leaked giving scammers and identity thieves a window of opportunity. i can use my knowledge and perhaps title or his location. to convince sco