trying to find ways to go after those comcast customers. they might need comcast pipes to do it. walter: comcast has the broadband pipes, but what dishes -- dish is trying to do with respect to their position, erdogan -- charlie ergen has realized that with services, you've got a certain timeline on how long you can actually grow that business or sustain the ebitda they have now. comcast has been in the wireless business before and is now talking about a wi-fi strategy and there are other companies around the world that have done something similar. comcast will have to rely on the existing wireless providers out there to handle the traffic that they cannot handle on these wi-fi hotspots that they have in the market. it's a different approach for two companies that faced some challenges in a pay-tv business. cory: yeah, because the customers seem like they are looking for something different. andy harvey also joins us and he covers comcast. i wonder, when you look at what is going on with comcast and dish is there a common law in , their about what subscribers are showing a prefer

my next guest also covers comcast. when you look at what is going on with comcast and dish, is there a common line about what subscribers are showing they have a preference for? >> subscribers are showing they have a preference to watch what they want to watch when they want to watch it and that has created a lot of challenge for the industry. they are going about it in a little different way. they are just trying to address the people who say i don't want the big bundle. comcast is trying to address broadband and trying to make the video project better. >> when i look at the quarter comcast just reported, one of the that's was betting on content, not just the form to deliver. but that business only grew about 1% year-over-year. is that a trend or just a bad quarter for programming? >> it's a little of both. there are clearly pressures on the overall tv ad market. they've been a decent job executing and have improved cash flows there. i don't think you can look at that collection of assets and think the growth profile

and he joins us and he covers comcast. is there a common law in their about what subscribers are showing a preference toward? andy: subscribers want to watch what they want to watch when they want to watch it, and that is showing to be a challenge for the industry. there are people that have just said i don't want a big bundle. comcast is trying to address broadband and trying to make the video product better. cory: andy, when i look at the comcast quarter, they are betting substantially on content , not just on the universal acquisition. but that only grew 1% year-over-year. what do you make of that? is that a trend, or a dad order for programming? -- or is it a bad quarter for programming? andy: a little bit of both. they had tough columns on the film side. but i don't think if you look at the collection of assets you would say that the group profile is going to be anything other than low or single -- low mid or single digits. cory: walter, dish has been criticized by sec commissioners about the process by which they acq

switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. >>> i don't think i'm allowed to touch him, i don't know how he keeps getting back in here. but he is back. unnerving. now that you're here you may want to stay where you are. we have news concerning this guy. stay with us. >>> confusion and disarray in administration of the law, yes, and then some. after a judge overturned alabama's ban on same-sex marriage, alabama supreme court chief justice said if alabama did that. if they followed federal law, and followed federal court orders on this matter, it would create confusion and disarray in the law. last night, judge roy moore acted to prevent that. he corded them to not perform same-sex marriages despite the law saying they had to. thanks to him, chaos rains. pro bait judges grappled with conflicting rulings. they had to put together a county by county map showing what marrying was happening in which county today. they decided to not issue any marriage licenses at all. marriage unavailable for anyone. that is not c

comcast is the parent company of nbc 10. comcast executive's vice officer david cohen issued a statement on the fcc ruling saying, in part we fully embrace the open internet principles that have been laid out by president obama and chairman wheeler and that now have been adopted by the fcc. he goes on to say, we just don't believe statutory provisions designed for the telephone industry and adopted when franklin d. roosevelt was president should be stretched to governor the 21st century internet. >>> no charges will be filed in connection to tuesday's commuter train derailment. investigators say the driver of the produce truck caused the crash after getting stuck on the tracks. he abandoned the truck that was then hit by the train. 51 people were on board and everyone survived. the driver of the truck was found a mile from the crash and arrested on suspension of hit-and-run but released last night. >>> passengers from ireland to philadelphia had a scare after the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing. the pilot took

20-minute conversation, caught on tape last summer with a comcast customer representative recorded by a customer named ryan block. >> we'd like to disconnect, please. >> all right, so why is it that you don't want the fastest speed? help me understand why you don't want faster internet. >> help me understand why you can't disconnect us. >> reporter: frank eliason, a former comcast customer service executive, is now speaking out, blaming a culture that fails to make customers a priority. >> they keep apologizing. you know, it's not about apologies. it's about doing it right the first time.>> reporter: bauer says her complaints were ignored until she went public. >> customers should never need to have to go to the press or to social media or sending an e-mail to the ceo to get the right service. >> reporter: eliason believes comcast really is trying to change. they're just not there yet. ron claiborne, abc news, new york. >>> next, to all you dreamers out there. just a few hours until tonight's powerball drawing, $380 million up for grabs. the biggest jackpot in years. so, what would yo

comcast trying to buy time warner cable. pretty soon after the net neutrality debate finishes up, the fcc and the justice apartment will have to make a decision on that departure. a lot of people think that could have a big impact on the price for broadband, how much competition there is for broadband in the market. maybe it is not getting the sort of attention from the general outlook, but i think it is a big debate and a lot of industry analysts said this would go through. the networks do not overlap, so they say, ok, we will not reduce choices are the initial view was that the merger would go room and in the number of months since then, a lot of industry analyst are saying, we are not so sure. maybe regulators will not actually give the go-ahead. that is another issue giving attention but it is also a big these of how people access the internet. >> next up is illinois. caller: hello. my comment is capitalism versus socialism. we know this is part of the progressive era of the new deal. let these companies make whatever mo

as you mentioned, the ruling will affect comcast and other internet providers and comcast executive vice president and chief diversity officer has issued a statement on today's ruling by the fcc. mr. cohen writes in part we fully embrace the open internet principles that have been laid out by president obama and chairman wheeler and have now been adopted by the fcc. he goes on to say we don't believe statutory provision is adopted when franklin d. roosevelt was president should be stretched to govern the 21st century internet. our coverage of today's ruling continues at 5:45. we talk live to a professor thea the university of pennsylvania about what it all means for you, the consumer and that's all ahead as we said at 5:45. let's go back to the weather, the same system that brought parts of the area's storm. >> that storm clobbered places that were hit hard just last week. check out the scene in raleigh, north carolina. six inches fell here overnight and neighboring cities got even more. the weight of it proved to be too much for trees and power lines. at one point more than 200,000 cust

comcast business. built for business. >>> i have heard of many tragic cases of walking and talking normal children that had mental disorders after getting vaccines. >> when rand paul said that about vaccines, he also said this a couple moments later. >> the whole purpose of doing this is to bring money home, there is -- let me finish. let me finish -- kelly, shhh, let me calm down a bit here, kelly. >> calm down, kelly. hush. calm down. rand paul had a bad day in the press today, there was a bad day for more reasons. >>> do you feel there should be a requirement that parents get their kids vaccinated. >> i know some families are concerned about the effects of vaccinations. the science is pretty indisputable. we looked at this again and again. there is every reason to get vaccinated. there aren't reasons to not. >> are you telling kids to get your kids vaccinated. >> savanna guthrie talking to president obama. he made those remarks this weekend. that clarity from him, that direct message, that is a very

universal. >> i'll tell you my view on news, it's the crown jewel of comcast comcast. >> it appears that crown jewel and the other gems in the safe may need a polish or more. >> good evening -- >> the news division once famous for huntly and brinkley for katie and bryant for tim and for tom, for a long time it was the envy of the tv news business a place others wanted to work a place that was number one in every ratings race that mattered but now nbc has been struggling with a host of problems. ones that even pre-dated this brian williams scandal. >> and for all of you who saw me as a groundbreaker, i'm sorry i could aren't carry the ball over the finish line but man, i did try. >> the "today" show the news division's big effort moneymaker and ratings king lost its crown to "good morning america". >> i'm sorry i turned into a sob sisterer mriezplease forgive me. >> it began with the ouster of ann curry and the team that was almost as painful for viewers as it was for her and matt lauer. >> two and a half years later they finished the deal for cur toe leave the network. >> debbie turness

switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. >>> washington, d.c. is a symbol of many things. but a crack-cocaine epidemic in the 1980s turned the nation's capital into its murder capital. violent crime is down since then, but a d.c. native who is now at the fairfax county adult detention center in virginia says it's still a tough place. >> where i'm from, everybody use guns. you don't fight. fighting ain't going to do nothing. i have all kinds of guns, assault rifles, shotguns, i had them all. i'm not aiming to kill. i'm trying to hit you. my thought process is i want to shoot and later be like i should have never [ bleep ]. >> andrew conteh, who at 6'6" can nearly touch both walls of his small two-man cell, says growing up he hoped sports would help him escape d.c.'s violent streets. >> i started playing basketball when i was 11 years old. i really felt i was going to get famous off basketball. i felt that was the way out. i know everybody say that. i really felt that was a way out. the lack of father figur

switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. >>> at virtually every prison we profile, we've met inmates who have spent the majority of their lives behind bars, and are never getting out. in many cases, these lifers, committed their crimes as teenagers. and with each passing decade, have slowly adjusted to the strict rules and rigorous demands of prison life. still, there are those inmates like alex bennett, at the kentucky state penitentiary, who don't always agree with, or abide by, the rules. >> i'm a person that's been in the joint all of my life. i've been told i'm pretty hard core. and i need a certain type of environment. >> now, you got something you want to say to me now? we can get it on national tv here. >> everything about alex's mannerisms, his appearance, and the words that he spoke, said -- convict. alex just embodied that. >> bennett was 54 years old when we met him and had spent 33 of those years behind bars for armed robbery, kidnapping, and murder. >> the system today isn't like the system

whose commercial was that comcast? comcast owns us. what this comes down to i think again is competition an the fact that this isn't over. we expect the internet to get faster. and the problem, i think, is that people just don't trust the cable company and that's an earned reputation for a lot of cable companies. the customer service is horrible at a lot of cable companies. people feel like -- >> huge priority for those trying to fix it. >> maybe. i don't know. i haven't seen it. from my own consumer experience. but i think it's come down to people feeling cable companies will slow down those who don't pay, that they believe that's going to happen versus give as faster lane to companies that can afford to pay. normally if you say, hey, i'm going to give you something for free because the company is going to pay for it people love that. that's the idea behind google. the reason google is free is because advertisers are paying. on the internet they don't trust the cable providers to do that. >> how about this netflix tweet yesterday and

switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. >>> one year from a this sunday we'll be through iowa and new hampshire. we thought it would be a good time to see where the race starts. we have brand-new nbc news marist polls from those early primary presidential battleground states. here is the biggest takeaway. a wide open republican field. let me go through the leaders. in iowa, huckabee, bush walker. only guys in double digits. new hampshire bush walker hall and christie. south carolina, lindsey graham, bush, walker, huckabee and carson. in all, there were seven different republican candidates who got double digits from the reports we saw there. interestingly enough if you sort of give their standings and do a points system, here is the four leaders in total. jeb bush and scott walker got double digit support in all three states. huckabee and paul. you could argue that might end up being the final four. in the democratic side hillary clinton leads the pack and she leads big. 68 69 65%. she's going away the d

comcast business. built for business. >> it turns out this is a crime. this time last year, look, duke energy dumped millions of gallons of toxic coal ash sludge. it is what is left after you burn coal for electricity. and duke energy dumped it in giant lagoons along sensitive water ways. when one of them burst, it emptied tens of millions of gallons into the dan river last year. it coated 70 miles in this toxic goop full of mercury, arsenic, and other heavy metals. that river, and a few others, don't stop at the state line. they run on both sides of the border between say north carolina and south carolina. and in north, duke was sued. but when the same folks tried to sue in north carolina, they stepped in and blocked it. the governor for 29 years before becoming governor was an executive at duke energy. in north carolina, with a governor from that company, they were not able to pursue that same strategy. they were not able to sue. now duke energy is getting nailing for this anyway. for this disaster a

switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. >>> there's late breaking news tonight from the white house. the story has just been deching now. it concerns the hostage kayla mueller who was killed while being held in syria by isis. the white house just released some new information about her time as a hostage. andrea mitchell is going to join us live in just a moment for a live report on this breaking news story. we're getting andrea right now. we'll have her report right after this. please stay with us. >>> we have breaking news from the white house. this is just happening within the last hour. it concerned the family of kayla mueller, the hostage whose death in syria was confirmed this week. there is new reporting about the efforts that kayla mueller's family made as they tried to win her freedom from isis. but also about her family's continuing effort tonight to try to set the record straight, now with new help from the white house about what their daughter actually experienced personally. during her time a

switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. >>> my boy friend alex jones is the swiss cheese mind behind info wars. a conspiracy factory of paranoia unveiling the operations that are happening right under your nose, people. ebola, all a conspiracy to take your guns, or whatever. this week a conservative website dredged up footage of rand paul, telling that crazy show the most amazing thing about the government's plan to take over your lives. starting with vaccines. this thing rand paul said is a wonder. and it is straight ahead. >>> the front page of the lexington herald leader newspaper today. biggest newspapers in kentucky. look, right on the front page, above the fold, on the right side there, rand paul plagues himself over vaccines. in damage control. another day, another day of horrifically bad press for senator and would be presidential candidate rand paul. he gave an interview to cnbc when he suggested parents should maybe not vaccinate their children because, quote, i've heard of many tragic cases of

switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. >>> okay. jae just ahead, our exclusive interview with ruth bader ginsburg the 81-year-old justice on her health her legacy on women's rights on abortion rights, on president obama and her relationship with him and ruth bader ginsburg on tattoos. turns out she has strong opinions on tattoos. our interview with justice ginsburg is next, not to bybe missed. >>> april 2009 president obama had been in office for a little more than three months. he was just starting to get his feet wet as a brand new president when all of a sudden it became red alert time inside the white house. news leaked to npr reporter nina totemberg that security justice david constitutore or suitor was about to retire. he was only 69 years old. but npr got this scoop that he was leaving the court and barack obama, just three months into being president barack obama, he's faced with one of those "this is not a drill" moments. think about that for a second. you're president, you've only been preside

switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. >>> from fighting inmates to gang activity and homemade alcohol, the deputies of the santa rita jail face daily challenges. but there's another side to the jail. an educational program to give inmates a chance to make it on the outside rather than doing more time on the inside. >> we have the adult basic education. people can take classes to get their ged. we have barbering, food service, cosmetology, computer skills. >> byron poe tries to enroll in as many classes as he can. >> d.a.d.s. deuce, ged deuce, computer technology. >> there's a lot of programs over here for us to better yourself. i'm going to be this great -- you know, this comeback story. >> poe is serving a three-year sentence for petty theft. he also has prior convictions for vehicle theft, receiving stolen property, and burglary. but department store tvs were his specialty. >> we would actually go in walmart's, take a 40-inch tv, pick it up, open it, take it all out, take another one out, put it in t

switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. >>> until we get there, we'll never really live in the light. we'll always live in the darkness. >> take your time! >> few events in life can motivate somebody to find religion like a life sentence. >> you know you hear a lot of people who come to prison and oh, i found god. well, i did. >> robert fry's religious conversion came only after he found himself on death row at the penitentiary of new mexico. >> i'm in for four counts of murder. and i'm currently serving three life sentences. >> i thought maybe we might do -- >> today, fry is a regular at a prison bible study. the inmates, all death row and maximum security, are confined to their cells. >> i apologize for all the filming going on here. this isn't about me. this is about this fellowship. showing what prison fellowship in christ is doing for us. >> reporter: fry's crimes were both numerous and gruesome. >> i was very angry, very confused. >> fry received a death sentence for bludgeoning and stabbing to dea

we give comcast a hard time for being at the bottom of the customer rankings. it's fascinating to hear your story. take you for coming on the show because we really appreciate your time. >> thank you, thank you. gerri: still a lot more to come including a sneak preview of some of sunday's big super bowl commercials and they look about what is different about the ads this year. and will "deflategate" put a damper on sunday's big game? we will have someone in your town. at your school. or where you work is suffering from crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis. living with crohn's or colitis means managing excruciating pain a lifetime of medication and days when t hey can't even get out of bed. everyday can be emotionally and physically exhausting. in fact, more than 1.4 million americans are struggling with these chronic diseases. this year alone 70,000 more will be diagnosed. chances are someone you know has crohn's or colitis. someone like me. >> i'm amy brenneman and i support the crohn's and colitis foundation of america. ccfa was created to help& ...millions

comcast trying to buy time warner cable. pretty soon after the net neutrality debate finishes up, the fcc and the justice apartment will have to make a decision on that departure. a lot of people think that could have a big impact on the price for broadband, how much competition there is for broadband in the market. maybe it is not getting the sort of attention from the general outlook, but i think it is a big debate and a lot of industry analysts said this would go through. the networks do not overlap, so they say, ok, we will not reduce choices are the initial view was that the merger would go room and in the number of months since then, a lot of industry analyst are saying, we are not so sure. maybe regulators will not actually give the go-ahead. that is another issue giving attention but it is also a big these of how people access the internet. >> next up is illinois. caller: hello. my comment is capitalism versus socialism. we know this is part of the progressive era of the new deal. let these companies make whatever mo

comcast business. built for business. >>> like many large urban jails, cleveland's cuyahoga county correction center usually houses more inmates than it was built to accommodate. that's due in large part to inmates whose drug use has led to other crimes and the revolving door relationship they have with the jail. some like lorraine are more memorable than others. >> lorraine green has been coming here since before i started and seen her come back many times since i've been here. >> heroin has kept green in cuyahoga for times. she's now awaiting sentencing on two counts of -- she worked as a nurse's aid for 15 years but funds her addictions for prostitution. >> still a prostitute? >> until the day i die. >> until i'm crippled and my -- my ass and hurts my neck. >> green says she made up to $800 a day as a prostitute. >> i may be old but i have a lot of regulars. i make a lot of money. i use condoms for everything. i don't like spit, other people's spit. don't let them kiss me. grosses me out even thinki

this will affect comcast and other internet providers. comcast is the parent company of nbc 10. now comcast executive vice president and chief diversity officer david cohen issued a statement on the fcc ruling saying, in part we fully embrace the open internet principle that is have been laid out by president obama and chairman wheeler and that now have been adopted by the fcc. he goes on to say, we just don't believe statutory provisions designed for the telephone industry and adopted when franklin d. roosevelt was president should be stretched to govern the 21st century internet. >>> happening today in the pocanos, the camelback resort is holding a jobs fair for the newest attraction. that event start this is afternoon at 5:00 at the chÂteau resort at the base of camelback mountain. camel's camel camelback's lodge is looking to fill 600 full and part-time jobs. >>> and leaders around the region gathered in washington, d.c. for the opportunity nation summit. the philadelphia mayor michael nutter and new jersey senator cory booker all took part. >> here we had about a little ov

switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. >>> welcome back. the british philosopher john stewart mill and supreme court justice oliver wendell holmes gave the example of shouting fire in a crowded theater as a moment when personal freedom should be restricted for the greater good. and that fundamental argument about what role the government should play in our lives was resurrected this week. when two presidential candidates, rand paul and chris christie raised questions over the wisdom of government mandating vaccines for children. ail this coming against the backdrop of an outbreak of measles right here in the united states. ♪ buckle up for safety ♪ >> from the debate over seat belt laws. >> for years it's been proven how safety belts save lives but nobody is listening. >> to the effort to ban smoking in public places. >> the whole thing about secondary smoke. how is that going to -- smoke's going right up in the air. >> the question of how far government can limit personal freedom to protect public h

comcast is a parent company of nbc universal. rich, good to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> you say the merger will not happen? >> well, look, i think today was a big win for netflix. there's no doubt that there was a real populous uprising. if you listen to the actual comments that the fcc commissioners made today, including the chairman, it was all focused on what the people said, no matter whether these were actually robots auto dialing, it doesn't really matter. to them, the reality is what you actually heard was the fact that they took the fact that this was what the public wanted. the public didn't want us to have no rules of the internet. they wanted there to be a far greater regulation of the internet. those same groups and organizations that really drove this are the same organizations that are campaigning very aggressively, including netflix, to stop the comcast-time warner deal. i think it's very hard to separate the two when you look at what's going to happen to this over the course of the next few weeks. the spr

comcast business. built for business. >>> in every prison profile of the lockup, our producers have found subtle differences in how inmates enforce the convict code or the unwritten rules by which they live. but one aspect rarely changes. the position of sex offenders on the inmate hierarchy. >> murderers, robbers, they're up here. child molesters, rapers, they're down here. them guys on the bottom deck, most of them are sex offenders, you know. i don't like them. i just tolerate them. i used to beat them. i used to prey on them. >> they normally mark the sexual predators by cutting them across the face with a razor blade or a knife. and the other inmates know hey this guy is no good. they call him trash. >> we even met a pair of brothers who wouldn't hesitate to extend the convict code to their own father. >> my father was in here for -- i don't know the exact charge. but he was in here for messing with kids. and you know, i ain't cool with that. >> brad and michael love are serving time for murder at

the latest potential hurdle for the now 1-year-old comcast/timewarner merger. they announced this thing a year ago. hasn't gone through. could the suspension of brian williams. williams has been suspended without pay for six months which has anchored since 2004. you heard that news all day long. the stalled merger faces so much scrutiny because of the thousands of complaints of what they say is the inability to compete with the cable's buying power may weigh in as well. will nbc's damaged -- does the star's disgraced departure smell trouble. we bring in media host. media buzz show. howard kurtz. fcc commissioner robert mcdowell for the latest on this. you have differing views. let's begin with the emotional part of it. that's something you watched very closely, howard. but we're putting a spin the on this. business oriented. will this situation with brian williams change or affect an already questionable merger between timewarner and comcast? >> at the very least, it doesn't help. brian williams credibility crisis now the suspension has become the nbc universal

comcast would make the bid. now making a big leap in saying that the merger won't happen. what is news to many, why? >> we were dead wrong that the government would embrace tight 28. we thought there was no way we would get the heavyhanded regulation, 1934 telecom based legislation. we thought that would never be applied to broadband in this country. you read "the wall street journal" article that happened overnight, some of the guests earlier in the show today, this was unphantomble a few months ago until the president asserted himself and it becomes clear that, you know, groups like etsy and tum bler are driving broadband policy in this country and i think that quick change you've seen in the government's view of broadband regulation, makes it very hard to believe when you've got the same groups very anti-comcast, very anti-comcast/time warner merger the political groundswell that's happened that the populist ground swel that's occurred really is at odds with this transaction and i think it's hard to have any

comcast knows the rules. this gives them the certainty that we have not had for every ten years. and frankly, even longer than that. it has been about 15 years people have been advocating for this. to put this thing to bed finally after 15 years i think, the companies will find that actually more solitary than they are acting. >> host: when you funded public knowledge in 2001 was net neutrality one of your key goals? >> guest: i think that was -- remember in 2001 the fcc had not classified cable modem as an information service. in 2001 and the late-90s everyone was worried about aol and they wanted them to open up thethet net network to other voices. it wasn't until the classification and the reclassification of dsl in 2005 did people start saying why did we do this. the supreme court looked at the fcc's cable modem decision; the decision to classify as an information service. it said this isn't a great decision, but it isn't arbitrary and cuprecious. all of the supreme court did was say the fcc has a discretion to read the communication act and even though it accept the best one

comcast business. built for business. >>> later on we'll politicize anything. food fights, what your big game snack says about what kind of nfl team you're for. we'll hit the nerd screen on hey what are you doing? i was thinking about taking this speed test from comcast business. oh yeah? if they can't give us faster internet or save us money, they'll give us 150 bucks. sounds like a win win. guys! faster internet? i have never been on the internet and i am doing pretty well. does he even work here? don't listen to the naysayer. take the comcast business speed test. get faster speeds or more savings, or we'll give you $150. comcast business. built for business. >>> welcome back. president obama has condemned the murder by isis after another release of the video by the terror group appearing to show the beheading. this comes a week after another hostage. jordan has announced that it's still willing to hand over a militant in exchange for a pilot who is also being held by isis. to discuss the strategy i

comcast is just under 22 million broadband users. its closest competitor has approximately 16 million. supporters say they're avoiding an internet with fast lanes on the super highway for those willing to pay. >> why would you possibly give corporations money to be able to speed it up for the rich and slow it down for the poor? >> reporter: a key ruling but unlikely the final word on net neutrality. >> lawsuits are expected to be filed over the new rules. it could be years before anything actually happens. and a reminder for this story, comcast is the parent company of nbc 10. harry hairston nbc 10 news. >>> right now at 6:00 nbc 10 uncovers new information about an alleged isis supporter arrested by the feds and his connection to our area. federal investigators say the 30-year-old man financed a plot to fly two other terror suspects to syria to join the islamic state group. >> the man lived in a dover delaware apartment and operated a kiosk inside the dover mall. nbc 10's christine maddela is live from the operations center. >> i kn

switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. >>> welcome back to "hardball." reince priebus must have noticed the contendest spent last week jabbing at each other. today in order to get the focus back on the opposition, he launched a new campaign called hillary's hiding. it downlines place since she's done an interview or visited early caucus states, in those early states as well. with a similar theme, hiding hillary. there's a saying in politics, only talk when it improves the silence. well, ryan priebus's new campaign worked to flush her out. former rn chair. this is going to be fun. why are they trying to get her out there. >> isn't she in a perfect position? >> she's winning. there's not a chance she's. >> she can do this for a long time. >> it's perfect. they can crail all this noise and buzz around her. but attacking the fact she's not talking? how do you do that? >> you think he's a brilliant guy? >> tactically it's just smart to engage an opponent. so i mean, this playing -- >> how many roads will she

i just want to give you comcast's reaction. comcast will work for this glorious institution. they have a big role to play. they have a big role to play in this space, of course. comcast coming out and saying we fully embrace the open internet principles that have been laid out. we just don't believe statutory provisions designed for the telephone industry and adopted when franklin d. roosevelt was president should be stretched to govern the 21st century internet. i can see comcast executives are not so happy about this result and you know the bit that they don't like it's technical but effectively it means isps the internet service providers can be more heavily regulated like telecom companies. sting in the tail for our parent company. hope it doesn't affect our bottom line. >> thank you. >>> still ahead on "way too early" more on the big headlines from cpac. rick perry seizing the moment to go after the republican front runners. scott walk her a great day. had a line or two he would like to take back. let's bring in kasie hunt after the break. get ready for life with frank u

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switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. >>> welcome back to "hardball" last night a federal judge in texas temporarily blocked part of president obama's executive actions on immigration, today the administration announced it will delay carrying out the orders. the department of justice will appeal that temporary injudge. in the meantime we recognize we must comply with it. late today president obama spoke about the judge's action. >> i disagree with the texas judge's ruling and the justice department will appeal. this is not the first time where a lower court judge has blocked something or attempted to block smig that ultimately was shown to be lawful. >> this levels up to 5 million undocumented immigrants temporarily in limbo. joining mess is justice correspondent pete williams. great question -- what does this do to his whole push to help people get relief from deportation. >> it puts it on ice for now. we'll have to see how fast the administration can get to the fifth circuit court of appeals. undoubt

comcast business. built for business. >>> it's probably the most common of all emotions inside prison. and fear comes in many forms. as a group of inmates at kentucky state penitentiary explain to us. >> i fear none of these guys out here. >> more than one i fear the worse is my clique. it's not a clique, my friends i hang with, these 10, 15 people. i probably fear them the most. i know who they are. the rest of these guys, i don't fear none of them. i hope they watch this, so they all know, the ones that don't can all know. they probably do anyway. >> the only thing i fear is them. >> just because i don't fear them doesn't mean they can't take me out of them, though, you don't have to fear a man to get killed or hurt by them. >> in here, especially, he'll sneak up on you with a knife, a rock, a choke. whatever they want to do, they will get you because they fear you. >> to me a coward will hurt you. he's more dangerous than a stone-cold killer is because he's scared. he put hisself in a situation wher

switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. >>> new players striking back today in the fight against isis. egypt conducting air strikes against islamic militants in libya. that's important, revenge for a horrifying new isis video showing 21 egyptian christians beheaded. egyptian government has called on the u.s. led coalition fighting in iraq and syria to broaden that separation to include libya. even the italian government is weighing in issuing a call for nato to intervene. joining me now, bob casey of pennsylvania, member of the national security working group. senator casey, you supported military intervention in libya in 2011 the one that led to the overthrow of gadhafi and chaos that has followed there since. does that mean the united states has a responsibility to protect the peace in libya today? >> well ronan, i certainly think that if isis continues to do what it has been doing, which is new york times outlines spreading influence beyond iraq and syria, of course that has to be part of the effort a

switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. >>> we're back with more live coverage of the situation in jordan tonight. we're joined now by shane harris of the daily beast joined by phone. shane, what do we know about the jordanian pilot who we now now today was executed some weeks ago? >> well we're hearing tonight that he probably was killed possibly as early as january 3rd. maybe around the 8th of this month, as well. there have been reports coming out both from intelligence and national security sources that we have as well as people who were on the ground and that were tweeting around january 8th that isis was bragging about having killed a jordanian pilot and, in fact, having burned him alive. we're finding out that he may, in fact, have been dead for quite some time before this video was put on the internet today. >> and the methodology, as we've been talking about today new for the islamic state, burning to death, what is the most reasonable interpretation of why they changed this notology? >> one int

switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. >>> we're returning now to live breaking news coverage of the train crash in valhalla, new york. about one hour north of new york city on the metro north commuter rail line, the second busiest rail line in the united states. six passengers on that train tonight are now dead. the train crashed into a jeep cherokee which seems to be stuck on the tracks at a crossing. we are joined now from that site by wnbc reporter gus rosendale. gus, there's some confusion after the governor said that there were six passengers that were dead and then he also said the driver's also dead. is it clear to us whether this is now a total of six or a total of seven? >> reporter: lawrence, it has fluctuated throughout the evening. the latest from the governor is that the total number is seven. that was from a briefing from just the last half hour or so. we have a truck coming through. excuse me. the governor pressed upon us that this was still very early on in the investigation here but th

and a bit of a mixed quarter for comcast. comcast is raising its annual dividend by 11%. and increasing buyback share by $10 billion. >>> nearly 70% of the northeast oil and gas supplies float up the hudson river and with subdegrees freezing temps, and lots of ice that is an issue. dylan dreyer is aboard the coast guard cutter willow that cuts so the barges can keep sailing. >> we are here on the coast guard cutter willow. that sound you hear is us literally cutting through ice. if we were to keep going north we'd end up in albany. south we'd end up in west point. we are right in the middle of kingston, new york. this is where the river tends to freeze. it is crucial to break up all of this ice which at time can be 13 inches thick because there are barges that use this waterway to transport about 70% of the home heating oil for the northeast. obviously with the winter we're having, that is very very important. i was told by the coast guard crew that if the barges can't get up and down this waterway the folks in the northeast will last about three days with the heating oil

switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. >>> international terrorism, accusations of a vast government cover-up and conspiracy, an arrest warrant for a world leader, president, and then the death of the man apparently about to reveal it all. the actual craziest story in the world right now is happening in argentina. it all began 20 years ago. >> horror of a different kind in argentina today. crowds gathered quickly around the rubble. all that was left after a powerful blast leveled the seven-story building. there was no warning for the people inside. it was the worst terrorist attack in argentina's recent history. 85 people killed, hundreds more injured, when a car bomb blew up outside a jewish community center in buenos aires. attention quickly centered on hezbollah and iran as the culprit. >> after the explosion, argentina sealed its borders and detained an iranian citizen as he was about to board a flight out of the country. >> but the initial investigation into the bombing was so badly botched, no one

did comcast and time warner cable restrict entertainment companies? the s.e.c. is investigating as it considers whether to approve the comcast/time warner cable merger. the s.e.c. has asked eight media companies including disney viacom, and fox to describe limits to online distribution in their agreements with comcast. uber says an unauthorized third-party access to its database last year and may have taken data on about 50,000 drivers. bloomberg says it has notified the impacted drivers. there have been no reports of missing [indiscernible] jawbone is said to be in contact with blackrock. the size and terms might change. the fitness company raised $500 million from investors including sequoia capital. competition is heating up with bit bit -- fitbit. and there is an apple watch in the works. the public and presidential hopefuls are making their case for conservative activists. speech is going on all day at csppac. a common theme, getting rid of obamacare. senator paul: obamacare, at its very core, takes away a patient's right to choose. i promise you this. as a

comcast business. built for business. >>> welcome back. this morning a new terror threat that is targeting malls in the u.s. canada and great britain. in a moment i'll ask jeh johnson how serious u.s. officials are taking this threat from an al qaeda offshoot from somalia. first this week's brutal mass beheadings of egyptian coptic christians shows the threat has expanded beyond syria and iraq. richard engel has been looking at how this has become such a menace to the world. >> reporter: the hostages weren't famous, just egyptian christians who had been looking for migrant work in libya. they're famous now, butchered as part of the isis plan to enslave, convert or exterminate opposing faiths. >> and today we're on the south of rome on the land of islam libya, sending another message. >> reporter: and something else was murdered 21 times on that terrible day on the beach. the hopes and dreams of the arab spring and with them, the u.s. administration's middle east policy. some experts are now calling lib

comcast is the parent company of nbc 10 and telemundo 52. the executive vice president of the comcast center says we are creating an experience at the wells fargo center where our guests will be able to stay edge engaged with social media, upload their photos download starts instantly post a selfie on the center hung scoreboard and act just like they would at home. >>> and tracking some wet weather in delaware but it has ended finally in the pocano mountains. this is a cold scene this morning. that's a live view from camelback. cold around the area. 28 degrees here at nbc 10 at 4:27. jillian mele is here in the first alert traffic center. good morning jillian. >>> good morning, bill. we are monitoring activity on the new jersey turnpike southbound near route 33. plus i'll have more from bucks county coming up in just a few minutes. >>> nbc 10 is giving you a first alert before you walk out the door this morning because step driveways, cars and roads are ice covered creating a dangerous threat for you commute. >>> and ice could be to blame fo

switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. >>> day-to-day operations of the kent county jail in grand rapids are managed by sheriff's deputies. john hess used to be one of them. now as under sheriff, he's the county administrator who oversees the jail and its staff. >> we have some mean, nasty, ugly people in jail. some real hard-core criminals. but the majority are people from our community. they're people that are going back. so i think we try really, really hard here to have our staff understand that these are just people. >> deputy justin flynn has worked at the jail for seven years and says he's bought in to that philosophy. >> nobody wants to be in jail. i'm ready to go home after eight hours. so i'm just trying to make their day better. these guys know that i'll talk to them all. we joke around, but if they cross a line, they're going to get time in. deputy flynn says breaking up the monotony of jail life is important and there are certain ways to do so. >> the game is bean bag toss. >> the more you

switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. >>> you know, i regret what happened back during the past. but, i mean, everything happen for a reason. you know, it brought me here at a young age. it taught me a lot, opened my eyes a little bit more. so get out there and try to do what's right for my little son and everything. >> by the early 1990s stateville was one of the wildest and most violent prisons in the country. it was a tough place to be for both correctional officers and inmates. all of chicago's most powerful gangs flourished here, continuing the same business they'd been busted for on the outside. the strong preyed on the weak. >> you fought for territorial rights and for what was yours and didn't let nobody take nothing away from you. >> it was almost like a question mark of whether you really wanted to come sometimes. you know, it was a little wilder, a little less restrictive, the movement and everything. >> then in 1995, the entire world got a firsthand look at just how wild stateville was. a v

switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. tfrnlts . >>> welcome back. as you may remember eric shinseki was forced to resign after it was revealed that some veterans had died while waiting for care at va facilities in arizona and elsewhere. in a moment, i'll be joined by the new veterans affairs secretary robert mcdonald. first tom brokaw has been investigating the polite of homeless homeless veterans. >> an spoerm of volunteer ss to count the homeless. and one in ten is a veteran. >> they gave sacrifices that none of the rest of us will ever understand. >> los angeles has the largest population of homeless veterans in the country. many get a cool reception. it wasn't all that way. in 1888, land was given to be maintained for soldiers. it was leased to outsiders who had nothing to do with the veterans. and neighborhoods such as brentwood westwood closed in. james carr saw a raw deal. >> they don't care about any of this. they want to turn it into what they want. >> a class action lawsuit was fired force th