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andrea mitchell. >>> still ahead for us tonight, a big name in the air goes under. a victim of changing times in the electronic era. the announcement today that made a lot of people downright sentimental about stories of buying stuff in the past they didn't want or need. >>> also, the reason behind some spectacular images off the coast, what's making the water actually glow in the dark. >>> for over a generation in this country if you forgot to bring something to read on the plane, there in the seat back pocket was always the "sky mall" catalog. and then they had you right where they wanted you, almost forcing you to buy stuff. until today when we learned they had filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy, ending an era really in the sky and on the ground. we get our look back tonight from nbc's kevin tibbles. >> reporter: a treasure trove of trivial stuff for the captive audience at 30,000 feet. who hasn't reached for the latest copy of "sky mall" in the seat back? need a self-cleaning cat litter box? a life-sized king tut coffin cabinet? glow in the dark toilet seat? or the

brian. >> andrea mitchell starting us off in our d.c. newsroom tonight. andrea, thanks. now let's move to the investigation. which stretches from paris to the middle east with the french now saying other suspects are still at large. the woman accomplice they were looking for after the attacks has apparently made her way to syria. we have two reports from paris beginning tonight with nbc's richard engel. richard, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. police here are reportedly still searching for six additional suspects. officials won't comment, but at least one of those suspects has reportedly been linked to that woman who's finally been tracked down. this is the woman, the one in the veil, that all of france has been looking for. it turns out she and a male companion escaped turkey well before the paris attacks. hayat boumeddiene became the most wanted person in france when her husband amedy coulibaly attacked a paris kosher grocery store and professed his allegiance to isis. authorities believe she and coulibaly were partners in terror. today we learned that

that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." tomorrow, more on the new congress with the republican senator and leadership and remembering selma with the legal defense fund. remember to follow us online on facebook and on twitter@mitchell reports. my colleague ronan farrow has what's coming up next on ronan farrow daily. >> good to see you, andrea. we have breaking coverage as the votes come in on the hill. the house voting about the fate of john boehner in that leadership agenda. an interesting update from the floor at ces. a lot of tech gadgets and potentially changes in the way we consume content around the country. quaking in you're boots? see you in a few. ♪ push it. ♪ ♪ p...push it real good! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ow! ♪ ♪ oooh baby baby...baby baby. ♪ if you're salt-n-pepa, you tell people to push it. ♪ push it real good. ♪ it's what you do. ♪ ah. push it. ♪ if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance you switch to geico. it's what you do. ♪ ah. push it. ♪ i'm pushing. i'm pushing it real

>> andrea mitchell in our washington bureau tonight on the cuba front. andrea, thanks. >>> also out of washington today news that could affect millions of american families including new parents who need time off and a lot of americans who get sick but can't afford to stay home from work. 43 million americans do not get paid sick leave, and tonight the president is trying to change that and reduce that number. and in the process he has opened up a big debate. we get more on that from our senior white house correspondent chris jansing. >> reporter: janelle buckman was working at a nonprofit in maryland when she got pregnant four years ago. >> i love my job. >> reporter: but avery came eight weeks early. mother and daughter almost died. her company didn't have any paid leave and she lost her job. >> women want to be both working parents and good workers. and a paid leave would have allowed me to continue a job that i loved. >> reporter: today, president obama signed a memorandum guaranteeing up to six weeks paid leave for federal employees who are new pare

andrea mitchell, nbc news, washington. >>> and we are back in a moment after a break with a disaster at sea. why investigators now say it was done deliberately and for good reason. ♪ >>> the sports world, along with all those of us viewers around the country, still reacting with grief to the news yesterday of the death of stuart scott. in millions of american homes, all the way to the white house, he's being remembered as a great broadcaster with the cadence, the parlance and the sensibility of a great musician. in the business of game highlights he was a game-changer. stuart scott battled cancer bravely and publicly for years. he was 49 years old. and bess myerson has died. she was widely known especially in her hometown of new york as the first and only jewish miss america. that was back in 1945 just after the end of the war. she went on to serve as new york city consumer affairs commissioner, later as a tv personality for years. her personal life was tumultuous including a scandal over alimony that ended her public life long after she was acquitted. bess myerson was 90 years old

brian. >> andrea mitchell from our broadcast location in old havana. thanks. >>> a meeting of two potential heavyweights for the gop nomination for president. jeb bush landed in salt lake city today for a private sitdown with mitt romney. sources tell nbc news this was a previously scheduled and casual meeting planned well before both men expressed interest in entering the race in 2016. >>> last night people in new york city called 911 because they thought the west side of the city was somehow on fire. it turned out to be a colossal five-alarm fire across the hudson river in new jersey. it is still burning. firefighters are still at it tonight. it started yesterday afternoon at 4:30. hundreds of families have lost everything, schools are closed. officials say it started by accident and spread incredibly quickly. nbc's anne thompson has our report. >> reporter: it was a monstrous inferno. flames ripping through the avalon at edgewater apartment complex destroying 240 units forcing a thousand people to flee their homes. 500 have nothing to go back to. th

brian. >> andrea mitchell starting us off in our d.c. newsroom tonight. andrea, thanks. now let's move to the investigation. which stretches from paris to the middle east with the french now saying other suspects are still at large. the woman accomplice they were looking for after the attacks has apparently made her way to syria. we have two reports from paris beginning tonight with nbc's richard engel. richard, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. police here are reportedly still searching for six additional suspects. officials won't comment, but at least one of those suspects has reportedly been linked to that woman who's finally been tracked down. this is the woman, the one in the veil, that all of france has been looking for. it turns out she and a male companion escaped turkey well before the paris attacks. hayat boumeddiene became the most-wanted woman in france when her husband, coulibaly attacked a paris kosher grocery store and professed his allegiance to isis. authorities believe she and coulibaly were partners in terror. today we learned that boumed

brian. >> andrea mitchell starting us off in our d.c. newsroom tonight. andrea thanks. now let's move to the investigation. which stretches from paris to the middle east with the french now saying other suspects are still at large. the woman accomplice they were looking for after the attacks has apparently made her way to syria. we have two reports from paris beginning tonight with nbc's richard engel. richard, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. police here are reportedly still searching for six additional suspects. officials won't comment, but at least one of those suspects has reportedly been link today that woman who's finally been tracked down. this is the woman, the one in the veil that all of france has been looking for. it turns out she and a male companion escaped turkey well before the paris attacks. hayat boumeddiene became the most-wanted woman in france when her husband attacked a paris kosher grocery and professed his allegiance to isis. authorities believe she and coulibaly were partners in terror. today we learned that boumeddiene left france

nbc's andrea mitchell has more. >> reporter: bloody sunday the confrontation that shocked a nation in march of 1965 only 2% of african-americans in selma could register to vote thanks to local laws as shown in the new movie "selma." >> how many county judges? alabama? >> 67. >> name them. >> hundreds of thousands of negro citizens of alabama, particularly here, denied the right to vote. >> john lewis took such a beating that day he almost died. >> i think it will educate people that was too young to know what was going on. >> reporter: critics say this first hollywood film about martin luther king jr., while getting raves, unfairly depicts lyndon johnson as a reluctant civil rights warrior. >> we need your help. >> it will have to wait. >> it cannot wait. >> reporter: lbj ordered his attorney general to draft a voting rights law. >> it shows is them to be at odds with one another. in fact the opposite was true. they were very much support irof each other. >> reporter: working together on voting rights. >> we take the position that every person born in this country when they reach a ce

andrea mitchell here with us for it all day and all night andrea, thanks. >>> now to the story back home that has millions of people talking tonight because it has to do with the most popular sport in our country. this past weekend, for example, 50 million of us watched football. the big story in football is the footballs themselves. they might have been tampered with by the new england patriots in their crushing of the colts. nbc's ron mott is following all of it for us in glendale, as as where the super bowl will be played eleven days from now. ron, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you. eleven days before kickoff and the nfl is dealing with this growing controversy that is overshadowing the game tonight. and folks think this could linger long after a new champion is crowned. espn citing anonymous sources reports that the nfl found 11 of 12 game balls used by the new england patriots were under- inflated, which could make the balls easier to throw and catch especially in the rain as was the case in sunday's victory. the controversy over deflate gate as it's called on social me

. >> right now on quts an"andrea mitchell reports" reports". it's not over yet. historic amounts of snow and hurricane-force winds are slamming new england with parts of six states still under a blizzard warning this hour. while storm surges continue to swamp the coast, here's what it looked like at high tide this morning in plymouth mass. >> reporter: here's the water and here's the snow. one thing that has changed in the past few hours, another surge -- look at the surge of water coming up. >> gotham ghost town after an unprecedent travel ban, new york city escapes the worst storm. they are slowly getting back up and running. >> this is wonderful because we can move around today and have a look and it is nice and quiet. no traffic. >> and still stuck, more than 5,000 flights canceled today, affecting travelers across the country. we'll have live updates from new york's laguardia and boston's logan airport. >> i'm trying to go to houston, go back to houston. i live there. >> reporter: but you spent last night in the airport and maybe another night. >> maybe anot

brian. >> andrea mitchell from our broadcast location in old havana. thanks. >>> a meeting of two potential heavyweights for the gop nomination for president, jeb bush landed in salt lake city today for a private sit-down with mitt romney. sources tell nbc news this was a previously scheduled and casual meeting planned well before both men expressed interest in entering the race in 2016. >>> last night people in new york city called 911 because they thought the west side of the city was somehow on fire. it turned out to be a colossal five-alarm fire across the hudson river in new jersey. it is still burning. firefighters are still at it tonight. it started yesterday afternoon at 4:30. hundreds of families have lost everything, schools are closed. officials say it started by accident and spread incredibly quickly. nbc's anne thompson has our report. >> reporter: it was a monstrous inferno, flames ripping through the avalon at edgewater apartment complex destroying 240 units forcing 1,000 people to flee their homes. 500 have nothing to go back to. this m

our report on that tonight from our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. >> reporter: in havana dramatic change after more than a half-century tomorrow the cold war will be over. a huge opening for u.s. and cuban travel and trade. in havana nelson fernandez says these measures help the country's economy. orlando, a restaurant cook says we think more americans will come. there is still an embargo on general tourists but a lot more americans can go more easily. educational groups cultural groups journalists, medical and religious organizations, family visits. >> i got two daughters in cuba. i have to go. >> reporter: at the miami airport alex rivas has a new baby who has never seen its grandmother. and soon he can fly on a regularly scheduled commercial flight not just the current limited charters. he can use the internet when he gets there as internet companies jump in. use a credit card not just cash. until now no u.s. credit was allowed in cuba. plus credit opens the door for ten times the current grain sales from iowa farmers like bob bowman. >> when we travel to cub

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our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell remain there is and has our report from havana tonight. >> reporter: cuba is a country ready for change. optimism is everywhere. hope and smiles on the faces of american and cuban diplomats today. but on the opposite end of the island the story making waves back home, at the u.s. naval base at guantanamo bay the base commander fired, john nettleton relieved of command after an alleged affair with the woman on the base. he's being investigated by ncis about the death of her husband found floating in the bay. her husband itself an heir to cuban in 19d 98 when the u.s. took control. cuba has long demanded it back. just one more argument in more than a century of disputes. but now the angry billboards and protests outside the u.s. intersection the future american embassy are gone. anti-american slogans like this one replaced by billboards promoting tourism. complicated negotiations on trade, travel banking and internet access and the u.s. diplomat says human rights. >> we do have differences in that subject, profound differences with

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may not see the next attack coming before it hits brian. >> andrea mitchell in our d.c. newsroom. thanks. >>> now to the showdown over taxes that will affect just about every american family. 24 hours from now the president will deliver his second to last state of the union address setting up the two years of his presidency left. we get our report tonight from senior white house correspondent chris jansing. >> reporter: when president obama makes his way into the house chamber tomorrow he'll make the case that the american economic comeback is real. and there is good news compared to when the president took office the unemployment rate has dropped significantly, the stock market has jumped almost 10,000 points and consumer confidence is far stronger than in 2009. but what still has many americans nervous and republicans critical the average household is making about $2,000 less than it was. it poses a tricky balance for the president and his speech writer facing an uphill battle to persuade a skeptical audience with an hour-long speech. >> it's a hail marry in an attempt to make s

may not see the next attack coming before it hits, brian. >> andrea mitchell in our d.c. newsroom. thanks. >>> now to the looming showdown over taxes and money will have affect just about every american family. 24 hours from now the president will deliver his second to last state of the union address setting up the two years of his presidency left. we get our report tonight from senior white house correspondent chris jansing. >> reporter: when president obama makes his way into the house chamber tomorrow, he'll make the case that the american economic comeback is real. and there is good news compared to when the president took office, the unemployment rate has dropped significantly, the stock market has jumped almost 10,000 points and consumer confidence is far stronger than in 2009. but what still has many americans nervous and republicans critical, the average household is making about $2,000 less than it was. it poses a tricky balance for the president and his speech writer facing an uphill battle to persuade a skeptical audience with an hour-long speech. >> it's a hail mary in

our report on that tonight from our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. >> reporter: in havana dramatic change after more than a half-century tomorrow the cold war will be over. a huge opening for u.s. and cuban travel and trade. in havana, nelson fernandez says these measures help the country's economy. orlando, a restaurant cook, says we think more americans will come. there is still an embargo on general tourists, but a lot more americans can go more easily. educational groups, cultural groups, journalists, medical and religious organizations, family visits. >> i got two daughters in cuba. i have to go. >> reporter: at the miami airport alex rivas has a new baby who has never seen its grandmother. >> i have a 4-month kid and don't know his grandma right now. >> reporter: and soon he can fly on a regularly scheduled commercial flight not just the current commercial limited charters. he can use the internet when he gets there as internet companies jump in. use a credit card, not just cash. until now no u.s. credit was allowed in cuba. plus, credit opens the door for

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. ♪ >>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. in france today, 10,000 troops spread out across the country. a security blanket for a nation that stood united against terror threats during sunday's solidarity march a historic gathering of 40 world leaders, notably lacking in any high level representation from the united states. the investigation hit somewhat of a roadblock. officials say hayat boumediene is in syria. ron, what is the latest from the investigation? >> reporter: well, that development that you just cited, andrea that boumediene is in syria and that she left the country apparently before all of this began back on january 2nd. a couple of things that means. a, there was perhaps an even greater level of planning about all of this than has been revealed and officials here investigators here are trying to get to the bottom of all of that. it also means there were obviously other people involved in this whole episode. another thing they are trying to get to the bottom of this. we know the gunmen claimed links to al qaeda

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also he wants to set the debate with republicans as they take control of congress. >> andrea mitchell, to your beat and bailiwick. looming over all of this is a kind of a huge play on foreign affairs. >> he'll be asking for approval of the military action against isil -- isis, and this is relying on 2002 and 2003 approval, which are outdated, but that will be a big fight. also he's fighting against an iran sanctions bill that he says would blow up the nuclear talks. he'll also be talking about the opening to cuba which "the wall street journal" poll has 60% approval. very popular, you'll see guests in first lady's box. alan gross, the freed american aid worker who was freed from the cuban prison, and the republicans have cuban dissidents in their boxes. so there's a play here. and as well he's going to say there's been progress against isis. and that's part of it, progress in iraq and syria. >> a few things here. we're moments away -- that's why we're keeping our eyes peeled on the main aisle and the door. the president is said to be just behind it ready to enter the chamber. our best

also he wants to set the debate with the republicans as they take control of congress. >> andrea mitchell, to your beat and bailiwick, looming over all of this is a kind of a huge play on foreign affairs. >> he's going to be asking for approval for the military action against isis, and this is because they were relying on 2002, 2003 approvals which are outdated, but that's going to be a big fight. also, he's fighting against an iran sanctions bill which he says would blow up the nuclear talks. he'll also be bragging about the opening to cuba which in our new nbc/"wall street journal" poll has 60% approval. very popular. guests in the first lady's box. alan gross, the freed american aid worker freed from the cuban prison and republicans have cuban dissidents in their boxes so there's a play here, and as well he's going to say that there's been progress against isis and that's hard to determine, progress in iraq and syria. you'll find a lot of people of argument. >> we're keeping our eyes peeled on the main aisle and door. the president is said to be just behind it ready to enter the chambe

joining me are david brooks, andrea mitchell helene cooper and rich lowery. welcome to sunday, it's "meet the press." good morning. france's leadership has declared that the country is at war with radical islam. after three days of horrific terror attacks which brought fear and despair to the city of paris. 17 civilians are dead, 12 at charlie hebdo, four shoppers at a shupupermarket and a police officer. an alleged female accomplice is on the run. she wasn't part of the attacks, contrary to some reports out there. overnight a german newspaper, which printed cartoons from charlie hebdo, was targeted in an arson attack. no one was injured. two people have been arrested. this morning, a video has emerged appearing to show amedyhmed coulibaly. there's a massive rally today taking place in the french capital part what have the prime minister has called a "cry of freedom" with up to a million people attending along with dozens of world leaders. nbc's chief global correspondent bill joins me now. tell me about this atmosphere. >> reporter: good morning. from the ve

mitchell covering it all for us. andrea good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. the cuban people clearly want this to work. but for the president's new opening to become reality, both sides have to overcome decades of mistrust. she is the highest ranking u.s. diplomat to go to cuba in 38 years, leaving miami for havana this morning. assistant secretary of state roberta jacobson. set to begin negotiations tomorrow to normalize relations with cuba. her counterpart, a powerful cuban diplomat josefina vidal. >> that meeting took place in a constructive and respectful atmosphere. >> reporter: prompted by the opening president obama celebrated last night made possible in part by the freeing of american aide worker alan gross. revolution, the bay of pigs bizarre cia attempts to assassinate fidel castro. the u.s. economic blockade. the emotional tug-of-war in both countries about who would get custody of a ship wrecked boy, elian gonzalez. a retired banker and his wife have seen it all and hope the talks will produce

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