cnn "newsroom" continues right now with deborah fayrick who is in for randi kaye. it's 1:00. let's get straight to the news. the only approximately shat hopeful who never surged in the polls is out. jon huntsman pulled off a third place in new hampshire but voting five days from now in south carolina, huntsman is polling dead last at 1% and he's calling it a day. >> today i am suspending my campaign for the presidency. i believe it is now time for our party to unite around the candidate best equipped to defeat barack obama. despite our differences and the space between us on some of the issues. i believe that candidate is

governor mitt romney. >> only yesterday south carolina's biggest newspaper, the state, endorsed huntsman. we'll talk more about this in fair game coming up later in this hour. well, the owner of the kreutz ship that ran aground and partially sank off italy says hope is the last thing to die. an estimated 16 people are still unaccounted for in friday's disaster. for a while the search teams had to pull back because the ship was rocking. the ship was carrying more than 4,000 people. he's been arrested and could face charges including manslaughter and abandoning ship. the accident killed at least six people. a sea-faring triumph in nome, alaska.

this will keep the town bright and warm through spring. it arrived late saturday literally in a coast guard ice cutter after an unprecedented 300-mile trek through the bering sea. anti-government protesters in syria chanting, we don't want your amnesty, we will give you one. reportedly offered to excuse all crimes committed by opposition forces since they first rose up against him in march. there's a catch. so-called fugitives have to turn themselves in by the end of this month and few seem willing to trust that they will not be harmed. more bloodshed and arrests are reported today. a korea burglar serving a potential life sentence in new york is recanting his sexual

abuse allegation against former coach bernie fine. he was taken in by fine as a teenager after his parents died. last month he was the fourth to accuse bernie fine of molesting him. the district attorney never believed him and even provided documents to federal prosecutors that could clear fine. in a jailhouse interview, he said he merely went along with claims that were suggested by police. fine denies molesting anybody and he has not been charged. a small town high school teacher who disappeared from her morning jog nine days ago still has not been found. investigators believe she was kidnapped and may well be dead. the 5,000 residents of sidney, montana, hold out hope that sherry arnold is alive. the fbi, meantime, asks people to search their property for

disturbed soil or anything else that seems amiss. and if you bought shoes from zappos, you better reset your password. hackers have hacked the names and partial credit card numbers and e-mail addresses and phone numbers of customers. they only got the last four digits of customer's credit cards that would no more show up on a printed receipt. president obama says there's no better way to honor martin luther king jr. than to help somebody else. for the third straight year, he and the first lady celebrated at the ground education campus in washington. he said that he planned to do a bunch of stuff to make the facilities even better than they already are. he called on all of us to roll-up our sleeves, too. >> there's nobody who can't help

somebody else and whether you're 7 or 6 or whether you're 76, you can find the opportunities to make an enormous difference in your community. >> dr. king was first honored with the federal holiday in 1986. six years later in 1994, congress dubbed it a national day of service. and with south carolina's primary just five days away, the attack ads there getting pretty vicious. so vicious that some are wondering whether the republican candidates are even helping president obama. up next, i'm going to talk to the communication director to see how democrats are gearing up for november. but, first, we want to take a moment to remember reverend martin luther king jr. his legacy is undeniable. just look around. to say that he changed history is an understatement. it's taken far too long,

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the south carolina primary is coming up this weekend. are democrats still keeping a close eye on the palm meadow state this week? joining me is the democratic national committee and south carolina, brad, let's get to this. south carolina like the other primaries is really a blueprint for the democrats. how are you using what you are learning on the ground to taylor the democratic strategy? >> a couple things. thanks for having me. we were very excited that we had the most organized campaign the president is running in the primaries very opposed and we have committed volunteers and offices and that's a blueprint for the rest of this primary and organization is really going to matter and the president had the best organized campaign in 2008. he'll have it again in 2012 and i think as we've seen in new hampshire and iowa and south

carolina they like to rely on nasty negative attacks and we're going to organize on the ground. >> let's talk about that. and we use the super pacs that they are using against one another and it seems as though they are firing torpedos. will they be worse when it comes to going after president obama? >> look, we totally expect for this to be a very tough campaign and in some respects it's a negative campaign. we were upset, disappointed at the citizens united decision a couple years ago and a president tried to pass legislation to help reinn those in. the republicans stood in the way because they are taking money

away from corporations and wall street to run these things. they have probably helped us and the president some in the short term but certainly it's going to be a tough campaign and the super pacs are going to play an outsized role. >> are you signaturing, then, that president obama or the democrats are above using super pacs and money to use similar ads? >> i think everybody that has followed this process knows that we don't have anywhere near the super pacs or the amount of funding on our side. we're not in the position to encourage or discourage anybody from doing anything. anyone that's followed the money knows that the rogue group american crossroads, the romney group all the have multimillions of dollars, and we would like to

see these things pacs. >> democrats are also going to the polls because so much attention has been focused on the republicans. in new hampshire, president obama got 82% of the vote. that was considered a low turnout, though. could this potentially be a problem or do you think democrats right now not motivated and don't need to be motivated? >> not at all. we have used iowa or new hampshire in 1996, bill clinton was running unopposed and campaigned in new hampshire and we're looking to get voters to be part of this for the long hall. we're very excited and we think

the enthusiasm is going to be, there showing up in the small dollar donations, in the number of volunteers that we've signed up in 50 states. our folks are ready and raring to go. >> one final question, washington times story just out says congress had the least productive year ever does it suggest president obama has polarized and if not is that the kind of attack that you're preparing for? >> not at all. i think the tea party take over of the speaker's office in washington, the tea party takeover is what polarized congress. the president tried very hard to reach with agreements on the debt ceiling deal. he tried to reach a longer term agreement on the payroll tax

which we still have to address and every time the tea party told john boehner to walk away, we're going to talk about that going into the election. there's a lot of work that needs to get americans back. we hope congress will work with the congress. be sure to keep it right here on saturday as results come in from the south carolina primary. joan wolf blitzer, erin burnett, and john king beginning at 7:00 p.m. eastern. six people are dead and 16 people still missing after the luxury cruise ship capsized. now the question why? did alcohol play a role in the catastrophe. new information on the captain and that's coming up. stay with us on the other side.

well, in today's crime and consequence, there are so many questions about who is to blame for the cruise ship disaster in italy. the chairman and chief executive of the cruise line has not given hope of finding people still alive. the cruise ship hit rocks that rolled over on tos side near the port of giglio off the tuscan coast. at least six people died and 16 peax are still unaccounted for. the captain is accused of deviating from the route and taking the ship way too close to shore. he could be arrested and abandoning ship when passengers

were still on board. prosecutors say he could face up to 15 years in prison. sca he is shattered for loss of lives. matthew chance joins us from london. what is happening with the captain of the ship? he's getting ready to go to the court? >> reporter: well, the captain has to stay on board until all of the passengers have been off the ship and he did not do that. his next step is to tomorrow where he'll be able to explain why it was that he brought this huge passenger liner so close to

the italian island whereas it should have been four miles out. >> obviously he's the focus of a massive criminal investigation at this point. have prosecutors ruled out technical errors or is that something that they will begin to formerly question him? >> it appears to be on the idea that human error, the idea of captain and the others was the signature contributor to this maritime disaster. it seems that the captain ordered that a very close skimming route was taken by the ship near to this island where they should have been much, much further away. but it's not the only focus of the investigation. there may have been technical issues to blame here. the captain says he consulted the charts. they didn't show any rocks in the vicinity.

clearly the charts we looked at show many hazards. something is at fault here and that will be determined by the investigation obviously. >> is there any indication that perhaps alcohol played a role in this? there was a report that someone had said that they had seen him at the bar. is that possibly he a consideration? >> i think it's a consideration but the head of the company which runs the oceanliner has said categorically within the last few hours that he does not believe, according to their preliminary investigations, that alcohol played a significant part in this. it's true that the captain appears not to have been on the bridge at the time it ran aground. but that's quite normal in a cruiseliner environment, entertaining is part of the captain's responsibilities and he thinks he did very well in bringing the ocean liner around

into a maneuver into shallow waters and to lay it on its side. that act, he says, saved many, many lives. >> matthew, to play devil's advocate, you have to wonder how that exactly happened. he ran right into a reef that tore that huge gash. how do you correct that kind of an error? i guess they are going to be looking at that. do you think anybody else can share the blame in people that were navigating while perhaps the captain was not there? >> i think it's possible. we'll know more when the details of this investigation are made public because obviously the captain was on the bridge when the encounter happened. other people were in charge. perhaps they should carry part of the responsibility as well. what is important for the cruise company is that they have four other identical ships to the con koerd yeah and they want to be

absolutely certain that it was human error and not some kind of technical problem that encountered in the other vessels as well. >> absolutely. especially since the first report was that it was an electrical warning or problem. matthew chance, thank you so much. well, still to come, smokers need not apply. the growing number of companies refusing to hire folks who light up. is it a trend that is here to stay? coming up next. ♪[music plays] when you're responsible for this much of the team... you need a car you can count on. ♪[music plays] i took some steep risks in my teens. i'd never ride without one now. and since my doctor prescribed lipitor,

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including testing for nicotine. it's today's story. more and more employers are adding no nicotine as a job requirement. most of those employers are hospitals. while it's still a rare hiring practice, according to a number of reports, texas, ohio, idaho, pennsylvania are already enforcing nicotine-free hiring. that means if your urine tests positive for nicotine, you can forget about getting hiring. no smoking, no chewing tobacco, no nicotine patches to kick the habit. it's a hiring model that the cleveland clinic started several years ago and that's where we find dr. michael rosen. first of all, what kind of an impact is this nicotine-free hiring policy having where you work? >> well, i think there are four impacts. one is that it has let our

workers know, our employees know that we care about their health, that we care that there is no tobacco on campus and so it has helped change the focus to one of wellness. it's decreased the smoking rate and made our costs go down and allows us to use those for medical services. third, it has decreased and helped decrease smoking rates throughout our county, our major county, cuyahoga county has decreased its smoking rates to one of the highest to one of the lowest in ohio. fourth, it has increased job competitiveness for all of the firms in cuyahoga county, or all of the people that use us, because we helped drive their

medical costs down. >> just to be fair, by saying no nicotine ever, what you're doing is also telling people, by the way, even on your free time, why don't you do that for alcohol? you're sort of pushing the envelope when it comes to your workers and their rights? >> well, if they want to smoke on their own time and have been hired beforehand, they can do that. but let's be clear, there is no redeeming social value for smoking. it only increases costs and decreases america's job competitiveness. if tobacco companies paid their fair share, they would be paying about 150 times what they are paying in taxes for medical costs or if you had a two-person family that wanted to pay more, it would be $4600 a year more in insurance costs. we can't charge that.

we charge a little bit more as many companies do. but the main thing we've got to do as a society is come to grips with the fact, does america want to be competitive for jobs and, if so, what are we going to do with the chronic diseases that toxins and the biggest one is tobacco cost. >> sure. and just to play devil's advocate here, of course there's no redeeming value perhaps to smoking but at the same time it's an addiction for many, especially those who have started smoking at very young ages before tobacco in many places and smoking was banned in many instances. >> we don't do that. in fact, anyone who applies for -- in fact, we thought a lot of people were applying to get

free smoking cessation. when a person applies, if they test positive, they are given free smoking cessation. in fact, for everyone in our county for a six-month period, if they weren't covered by insurance, we offer free folk smoking cessation to them to try to decrease the smoking rate and we did decrease the smoking rate, something over 8,000 people in our county got off smoking because of this process that we had without insurance. so in fact what we're doing is we say we live where we're saying. we live and say, this is so big an issue for our job competitiveness, we want cuyahoga county to be competitive. if you really cared about this, if you were the state governor or if you were the president, the thing would you say most is the thing that we can do most to improve job competitiveness, to

lower the budget deficit, is to ban smoking among state workers. that single thing would do the most to make america more competitive for jobs. >> well, it will definitely be interesting, dr. michael roizen, to see how that plays out. hopefully caffeine will not be the next thing that is targeted. >> well, caffeine is actually healthy. >> well, people thought smoking was healthy when it was first introduced. doctor, thank you very much for your time. thanks. the tea party has a big say in carolina politics but they also have a big beef with the republican front-runner. could the movements disruption of romney derail the chance in the state? that's coming up next in fair game. first, who finished second behind barack obama in last week's new hampshire democratic primary? remember, i said democratic primary. if you know the answer, tweet

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i. before the break, i asked who finished in second place behind barack obama in last week's democratic primary. the answer, ron paul. he got more than 2300 write-in votes so ron paul congratulations to cody from north carolina who tweeted me the right answer. >> now, the part of the show when we go to the heart of the political debate and where everything in all sides are fair game. jon huntsman has had enough. earlier he announced that he was suspending his presidential campaign. >> i believe it is now time for our party to unite around the candidate best equipped to defeat barack obama. i believe that candidate is governor mitt romney. >> well, joining me now is democratic political ed

espinoza. huntsman is now endorsing mitt romney. governor huntsman had a problem really engaging and drawing support from republican voters but what this does for mitt romney and also signifies to other candidates that perhaps mitt romney sooner rather than later to get out and do the same thing. >> to follow up on that, rick santorum, newt gingrich, ron paul, they are going to be speaking at south carolina's tea party convention. mitt romney was not even invited. so it's not as if he is getting momentum. how critical is tea party support. let me go to ed for this one.

the problem is, he has to consolidate the conservative base. any candidate has to do that. a democratic has to consolidate a conservative base. the huntsman endorsement will help him but may not necessarily help him in a meaningful way. he's got a lot of those supporters already. he needs to figure out how to handle the base of supporters in the right wing. >> i want to show you a new political ad running in south carolina this week. take a look. >> as head of bain capital, he bought companies, carved them up, and got rid of what he couldn't use. if mitt romney really believes -- >> corporations are people, my friend. >> -- then mitt romney is a

serial killer. he's mitt the ripper. >> now, this one was put out by a super pac originally started by comedian stephen colbert. it's stephen colbert's ad. with an ad like this, what does it say about the process? we have seen it get nasty, nasty, nasty. doug? >> if there's anything right for satire, it's certainly our political process and ed and i deal with it every day. we make jokes amongst each other. ultimately i don't think it will affect mitt romney at all. i wish they would get a morrow bust debate. that's where these decisions really get made. >> ed, do you feel that this is maybe not an endorsement of mitt

romney but a, he's the guy any wa kind of nod to him? he didn't go after newt gingrich or ron paul. he went after mitt romney. how do you see it? >> you know, we've seen these ads on "saturday night live" for years and they have always satired the political process. it's the first time we've seen one try to be a part of the political process. but this is -- i actually think this speaks beyond candidates and has more to do with the ridiculousness of super pacs. that's saying a lot because that's hard to do. here we have it and we're dealing with it every day and until we get laws that are favor vored more towards large amounts of he money, we'll see people do this. the sad thing s. we can see a funny ad from colbert like this but it can also be -- it could

very well be a real ad under this law. >> that's really unfortunate. it's gotten so nasty what is a spoof and in fact true in some cases. let me ask you, gentlemen, tonight we're going to hear from the candidates between newt gingrich, rick santorum, ron paul, who has to not get out of the park out of those three? >> i think all of them do and that's the real critical thing for this debate f mitt romney is not only the front-runner but the inevitable candidate, it's incumbent to make that final distinction on fox news tonight otherwise they run the risk of being left behind. >> ed espinoza -- and doug -- you agree, ed? >> i do. thank you so much that is "fair game." >> thank you. well, he told investigators syracuse's former basketball coach abused him for decades starting when he was just 13 years old. now one of bernie fine's

accusers tells reporters it was a lie. up next, could the man be charged? hear why he the whole story.

more questions surfacing about the sexual abuse allegations against former syracuse coach bernie fine. according to the post standard, a newspaper in syracuse, one of fine's accusers is now admitting he lied.

he says they are all made up. he's known as accuser number four. he told investigators and the media that fine allegedly sexually molested him for decades starting when he was just 14 or 15 until just last summer. he's in prison for a burglary conviction. that apparently is the reason for his big lie. they are continuing the investigation but it raises a lot of questions. we're going to bring in criminal defense attorney eric who is joining us by skype. in van hooser's confession, he says, i told a lot of lies about bernie fine. none of what i said was true. i made it all about, the story about bernie, because i was mad at him for not getting me a lawyer. i would have gotten less time. first of all, how damaging is it to an investigation when one of four accusers simply lies and says, i'm sorry.

i made it up? how damaging is it? >> well, it's certainly damaging insofar as if they want to make vanhooser an alleged victim. they can knock him out of the box. if they don't charge anything with vanhooser you still have davis and lang and the third accuser. nuls they had access to vanhooser's claim, their credibility is going to rise and fall. >> the story that he told was in many respects was consistent, in terms of the age, how it happened, that he was in the house. but remember the phone call with fine's wife lori? she made it when she was talking to one of the other alleged victims, bobby davis. take a listen to this. >> you never had any oral sex with him? >> no. >> no. >> he, he -- i think he would

want to, but -- >> oh, of course he would. why wouldn't he? i know everything that went on. i know everything that went on with him. bernie has issues, maybe that he's not aware of, but he has issues and you trusted somebody you shouldn't have trusted. >> it's almost as if she's confirming that he had some sort of predisposition to it. how damaging is that and what role does that play in sneevide? >> she says she has issues and doesn't identify them. is she a witness to any specific acts of sexual misconduct? if they are consenting adults he might have issues in her mind but that doesn't mean he has criminal exposure. so i think the real issue there is going to be what she specifically recalls seeing and

whether or not they are able to compel her testimony because she is his spouse and there's a marital privilege there. >> so she doesn't have to testify against him is what you're saying. i tried to reach out to bernie fine's lawyers. they did get back to me. it is a holiday. but earlier they had also discredited another alleged victim accuser number three. it was accuser number three who basically launched this investigation because his statute of limitations had not run out as it did with bobby davis and his brother michael lang. how does that impact if you've got now one victim who is saying, i didn't do it, a second victim who's credibility is at stake? can you go on the testimony of two brothers? >> well, you can't. if they brought up charges that only named davis and lang as alleged victims, it would beg the question as to whether the false allegations from others would even be admissible in the

courtroom because it has no relevance unless you can demonstrate that somehow it tainted davis and lang. if it prompted them to come forward, in the manner in which these activities occurred, then it would otherwise be relevant. but otherwise they could just charge davis and lang, those people as the victims and v vanhooser would be the third victim whether they are telling the truth or not. >> thank you so much. it will be interesting to see if the university has to hire coach fine back if it was a rush to judgment. still to come, what a way to heal, swimming with dolphins. what it means to our wounded warriors. first, if you were one of the 30 million americans who watched the broncos battle, you saw less than stellar

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well, now it's time for a look at stories making news across the country at street level. from new orleans, one more reason not to shoot a bath salt. a flesh-eating disease in a 40-year-old woman who injected herself with salt to get high. these are not the products you buy to put in your bath. it's a synthetic street drug that has a cocaine-like effect that have been band from the organization. a woman underwent a radical mastectomy by using.

four people from kentucky were on board the cruise ship in italy that capsized. the four friends described their experience as, quote, scary and chaotic. they said they were among the lucky ones that were able to take a lifeboat to a nearby island. now to anaheim, california where police arrest aid man in connection with a series of deadly attacks. 23-year-old isacol campo is accused of targeting and shooting homeless people. he is now facing charges in the murders of those four men. in marietta, georgia, three-year-old mazy griswold is happy to be home.

she was making gravy when she leaned too close to the burner. she screamed and her father put the fire out. she suffered second-degree burns but he saved her life. the biggest, costliest lego kregsz in birmingham, alabama. they showed up to show off hundreds of thousands of pieces. bmw is now recalling 89,000 mini coopers in the united stat states. those are those really small cars. a computer problem can lead to a fire in the engine compartment. it's the same problem that led to earlier recalls of bmw and luxury cars. they're trying to figure out if the problem is related or just coincidental. florida keys is the site of a wounded warrior cycling event.

dolphins made a huge splash with vets who are struggling with combat injuries and sometimes find it hard to deal with people. providing exercise, therapy and, of course, lots of fun, they raised money for wounded troops and their families. well, there's one place down south where mitt romney has a huge backing, but it's not in the u.s. coming up, cnn treks to northern mexico where nearly 40 members of romney's extended family call home.

sorp so. so have you heard in mitt romney has family in chihuahua, mexico. it's right along the border. we traveled there to find out what they think about their presidential relative. >> in the northern hills of northern mexico, about 185 miles south of the mexican border, mitt romney established his roots. >> we have peach orchards, farms, ranches, and that's basically what we do today. >> miles romney is a descendant who settled in this area more than 125 miles ago. >> we come from a hard-working family, we come from honest people. >> reporter: his great-grandfather led a group of

mormons to chihuahua, which is where presidential candidate mitt romney traces his heritage. in fact, mitt romney's father, george, who also ran for president in the united states, was born in this area himself. miles romney is mitt's second cousin. miles is so proud of mitt's political career, he managed to get a bumper sticker sent to mexico and he displays it in his window. >> i think he's just understanding on their part. i know people try to use that against mitt, but they just can't find anything on him to dig up about him. >> reporter: the first romneys arrived in this part of mexico around 1885. they came from uinta, where as mormons, they faced religious persecution and were not allowed to practice polygamy. there is still about 40 members of mitt's family here who trace

their roots back to the first settlers. while that percentage included his great grandfather, kelly romney, another of mitt's second cousins, says the community hasn't practiced polygamy since the church banded in the late 1800s. he invited us to tour his peach orchards, a family business since the romneys settled here in a crucial force of employment in northern mexico. they built a school in 1974. mitt himself has never been here, but kelly said he saw him wanderri wandering the states. >> my wife saw him and kept trying to get me to go meet him, but i guess i was a little intimidated. we got off the plane and he went on to boston. >> reporter: kelly says he disagrees with his position on

immigration. >> there should be programs for knees people who are practically starving to death to go over there and do work that american people will not do. >> the romney family defines itself by the teachings of its church and feels its roots in mexico and the united states. >> if there was a war between mexico and the united states, which country do you root for? >> i think i root for mexico in a soccer match. we are loyal to this country, we were born here. you're watching cnn newsroom that now continues with brooke baldwin. hey, brooke. >> nice to see you. thanks very much. let's get caught up with everything making news this morning, beginning with arrests made in the serial killer case in southern california. police in anaheim think this man is the killer of four homeless man. he is 23-year-old isacof campo.

they chased him down after he literally stabbed a homeless man to death in a parking lot. the town has been in unrest since the first one happened. people actually noticed changes in him when he came back from fighting in iraq for the u.s. military. zappos says one of its on-line servers was hacked and the personal information of 2400 customers was compromised. so if you are one of them, you will get an e-mail today explaining that your password needs to be reset. don't try calling zappos. the company actually turned off its phone. they said they will handle things by e-mail with the people actually affected by this. murdoch is back. he called google a piracy

leader. he says it, quote, fights pirates and counterfeiters every day, quote. murdoch responded to the white house expressing concern about the piracy act, also called sopa, aimed at copy right infringement on the internet. john huntsman is now officially out of the gop presidential race. >> today i call on each campaign to cease attacking each other, and instead talk directly to the american people about how our conservative ideas will create jobs, reduce our nation's debt, stabilize energy prices and provide a brighter future for our children and our grandchildren. >> so today after that announcement, huntsman endorsed mitt romney for a republican nomination, and in the next hour when romney speaks live from south carolina, we will bring you some of that live. stick around for that. also president obama

volunteered at a school in honor of martin luther king, jr. today. he helped put together a bookshelf at the brown campus in washington, d.c. tonight he and the first lady will attend a let freedom ring ceremony at the could you enter. we are hearing from people on board when the ship crashed. listen to this. >> we felt the ship hit something and then it leaned probably at a 70-degree angle where everything was falling. dishes were falling, trash cans were falling, everything was falling, and the lights went out. everything was blacked out and the lights went back on. and it was like the boat was turning like a really, really, really wide turn, but it was still on its side. >> when the ship crashed in that

moment, more than 4,000 people were aboard. so far six people are dead and more than a dozen still unaccounted for. a florida mother has been arrested for allegedly biting her teenage son. volutia county police arrested her after she bit her son because he wouldn't give her his cell phone. he suffered several cuts and bruised his right eye. a man in fairfax virginia is now in custody in peru. in each attack, the victim was distracted before being cut on her backside. the fbi is asking people in montana for help on a teacher who went missing sunday morning after she went out for a jog. they asked people to check their

property for disturbed soil. the small town of sydney, montana is struggling now just to cope with her disappearance. >> the process right now is grieving. we've got to get through that process, wii got to get through the closure. we've got to make family whole as much as we can. but we're missing a daughter, we're missing a mother, we're missing -- you know, we're missing a sister. >> two men now are being held on charges of aggravated kidnapping in this case. actor sean penn is now officially the ambassador at large for haiti. he was honored at a fundraiser over the weekend. it's been two years now since that devastating earthquake hit haiti. and it is not over yet, folks. look at this. it makes me cold just looking at it. there is much more winter weather on the way for a lot of you in the country. snow, sleet, freezing rain continues across the northeast and a top section of the midwest. seattle, and those of you in the pacific northwest, brace

yourself as more snow is heading your way middle of the week. we have more snow news in the n few hours. watch this. a homeless man is stabbed to death, only this time an eyewitness chases down the alleged killer. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. now reports that the suspect in southern california served his country and came back more a troubled man. days ago they were fierce competitors. >> governor romney enjoys firing people. i enjoy creating jobs. >> today john huntsman is out of the race and on the mitt romney train. and romney faces a tough crowd in south carolina this hour. then the search for a beloved teacher missing for days. >> she was one of the most caring people.

>> investigators say she's dead but they need help finding the body. we're on the case. plus a breathtaking moment caught on camera when a transplant team dropped their precious cargo. and it's music monday. go backstage for my soundtrack

getting some new video here at cnn. take a look at these aerial pictures. this is from new york state. this is a gas explosion at a townhome in west haverstraw,

just outside new york city, if you know this area. we do know two firefighters are injured. from my count here, i can see one, two fire trucks. there they go, pulling out. we don't know anything yet as to whether there were people inside the home or not. we're going to stay on it for you here on cnn. in the meantime, in california four homeless men are dead killed by what police believe is a serial killer. this is anaheim, california. police there have arrested 23-year-old isakof campo. they believe he is the man responsible for killing four homeless men across orange county in the last month. campo allegedly stabbed a homeless man in a fast food parking lot just on friday. witnesses chased this man down and police later arrested him in connection with the killings. but who is he? who is this suspected killer? i'm joined on the phone by brian, and brian, we're just going to use your first name here, but from what i understand, you went to high

school together, you lived two doors down from him. i want to ask you, before he left for iraq, what was he like personalitywise? >> he was fun loving -- >> i'm sorry, can you -- >> he had problems, but we all had problems. he was really looking forward to the service, and i didn't think it was possible for this. >> you said he was fun loving. nice guy? >> when you're around him, yeah, he was fun. >> he goes to iraq. he came home in 2010. did you notice a difference in his behavior? can you be specific? >> would you repeat that? >> when he came back from iraq, did you notice a change in his personality, his behavior? >> he was different.

he was a little bit more serious. it seemed like there was something, like, on his mind, he seemed really depressed and down, and things in his life weren't looking that well. i got together with him a few times and kind of helped him get insight on his experience. he asked me a few weeks later. i asked him to come in and he said he was picking up his brother, and that was the last time i talked to him. >> this is a self-help book you lent him, i understand, and the last time you saw him was last summer. was he expressing anything about his last time in iraq? was he exhibiting signs of wanting to act out in any way?

>> i knew he wanted to see action, and i knew he enjoyed it. and then something happened, and i just don't know what. then we, in talking about it, i was dancing around the situation. >> he was delicate around what situation? can you be specific? >> caller: well, when he would start talking about his experiences, i would never encourage him to talk about other than what he would want to talk about. and i would just try to talk about different things like girls, movies, drinking. >> brian, did he have a home? was he employed? >> well, like i said, i hadn't talked to him for eight months. the only thing i know is from what i seen in articles. so i can't verify that for

myself. >> and again, just to be clear, this is a young man who police believe -- believe -- he has not been officially charged, but just from hearing your old friend's name connected to possibly these four murders, does that come to you as a shock? >> yes. i would have never guessed. i would have never guessed it. >> okay, brian. thank you. i want to bring in nicole santa cruz, staff writer for the l.a. times. the times has really been all over this story. i want to ask you, so much reporting that your paper has done. this young man's own father, from what i read in the latest article in the paper, is homeless as well. i know someone from your paper talked to refugo campo, the father, just sunday. what did he say? >> well, his father is living in a big rig truck in a fullerton

parking lot, and his father said his son had come to him recently, you know, and showed him a picture that i believe was in the newspaper and said that he was worried about him, and his father told ocampo, don't worry about me, i'll be okay. >> his own son said he was worried about his homeless father. you talked, nicole, to the uncle. quote, when he came back from iraq, he was sick. did anyone in his family try to get this guy help? >> i believe -- i'm not clear on the details, but i believe that someone had made appointments for ocampo to get some psychological help, but it turns out that all those appointments were canceled for one reason or another. >> and to be clear, he has not been charged. do we know when charges could be filed? >> ocampo is expected in court tomorrow morning. >> and ultimately he was caught.

what can you tell me about the fact that he was chased down by an eyewitness just a couple days ago? >> yeah, so this happened on friday night at the carl's jr., and it looks like, you know, several people witnessed this stabbing, and about two bystanders ended up chasing ocampo on foot into a nearby mobile home park. several witnesses said that these bystanders yelled, they screamed, it's the serial killer. and it turns out that those bystanders ended up losing ocampo but were able to point police in the right direction in order to actually arrest ocampo. >> okay. nicole santa cruz, thank you so much, the l.a. times. and brian, thanks to you. everyone there obviously very much on edge. now this. he sathis race is generated

personal onslaughts of attacks not worthy of this time in u.s. history. >> john huntsman withdrew from the republican race. who he is endorsing and what he thinks is wrong with the republican party. be right back.

serious timing this one. today john huntsman up and quit the race for president. after his third place finish in new hampshire, huntsman pushed on and off to south carolina he went.

but now five days before, he dropped out. joe, take me through this, please. >> reporter: pretty simple, really. john huntsman came out of new hampshire thinking he had wind beneath his wings, and he didn't. the bottom line was, at least talking to people at the campaign, they said, hey, we wanted to see much more of a bump coming out of new hampshire into south carolina. we didn't see it in the polls and therefore he got out. listen to the sound bite. >> i believe it is now time for our party to unite around the candidate best equipped to defeat barack obama. despite our differences and the space between us on some of the issues, i believe that candidate is governor mitt romney. >> reporter: so, brooke, the bottom line for john huntsman is he was at the bottom of the polls compared to all the other candidates and there was only one way to go in this campaign,

examine that was o and that was out of it. >> you just showed us huntsman saying mitt romney was the best candidate. funny because here's what he said four days ago. roll it. >> when you have a candidate who talks about enjoyment of firing people, who talks about pink slips, who makes comments that seem to be so detached from the problems americans are facing today, that makes you pretty much unelectable. >> so, john, even by the standards we've come to expect, that's a pretty quick turnaround. >> reporter: you might say that. bottom line, hey, i talked to somebody at the campaign today who said, look, that's politics. people say nasty things all the time, they go after each other. they're all competing for the same office, but at the end of the day when one guy gets out, he throws the board to somebody else. that's how politics happens, and that's how it's happened in stk -- south carolina for a long time. >> how much do you think it hurt

john huntsman that he had served under barack obama as ambassador of china? what do you think? >> no doubt that was an issue, and people in the campaign think it was a big issue, because when you look at his record, john huntsman is a pretty conservative guy on a lot of different areas, from the way he's concerned about second amendment rights to abortion to taxes. he's got a lot of conservative ideas, but people looked at him under the ambassador to barack obama. he went into this campaign fully aware that people were going to look at him and say he might have a moderate problem. at least, that's what conservatives might say, and he was ready to do that because in his view, service to the american government was more important than that, but yes, it might have very much hurt him in his attempt to get the nomination. >> all right, jojan, we'll see you next hour with some sand

creations you've found there at the beach. see you next hour. meantime, each and every morning, our weather team sends us this e-mail, right? it's got highlights of the day. when we saw this map, it kind of blew us away because the whole top half of the u.s. is expected to get snow in the next week, the entire top half. crazy. coming up in a few minutes, alexander has details of the track of the last storm. be right back. brad, where we going? just a second. just, just one second. ♪ what are you looking at? don't look up there. why are you looking up? ♪ get outta the car. get outta the car. ♪ are you ok? the... get in the car. get in the car! [ male announcer ] the epa estimated 42 mpg highway chevy cruze eco. from spending time together, to spending your lives together, chevy runs deep.

it was a rare, snowy weekend for seattle and the pacific northwest, but it's not over yet. more winter storms are on the way for you, and northeast,

snow, sleet, freezing rain continues. alexandra steele joins me. >> a pattern of rain and snow. we certainly have seen it's been exceptionally dry, so this specific jet stream coming in, it's actual that will same jet stream that brought the incredibly cold temperatures to alaska. so this jet has made a 5,000-mile trek, making its way to the pacific northwest. i want to first show you, this is the radar, the seattle-portland radar, the white denoting where the snow is. temperatures are about 33 and 37 degrees respectively with no snow coming down. but they had some. yesterday alone, 2.4 inches in seattle, but i want to give you a perspective what they see annually. each year seattle picks up 5.9. portland, 2.4.

yesterday they had 4.6. this is the first snow coming in through wednesday. this is seattle. look at all this snow. really coming down now. around seattle it's hilly, so they see the snow, higher elevations, mountains, of course. this is the specific jet i was showing you that's going to deliver all that amazing snow, so here's what it looks like. pacific northwest going to get banged with this in the next two days, really from friday on through the weekend. look at these numbers. this is what brooke was oohing and aahing over. the cascades, the bitter roots, the northern rockies. if you've seen pictures of these ski resorts, just brown. they desperately need this snow, so it's great news. however, california and colorado are still in a drought and has been. california, 50% of the snow is in a drought. colorado, zero snow pack.

the worst snow pack this season in 30 years. in spokane, 3 to 5. the action in the northeast is keeping meteorologists busy. freeze i rain. all this rain is coming up, cold air settling in place, so we'll watch this move through. winter weather advisories. syracuse may be picking up an inch. farther north a few inches. but the problem will be, brooke, freezing rain, especially north and west of the big city. so freezing rain really likely tomorrow. tonight it's the northeast, so that will be the biggest problem. >> i've only done mt. hood in portland in the summer. i bet it's gorgeous right now. >> if you're out there, take some pictures. we'd love to see them. now this. unless you were under a rock this weekend, you've probably seen these terrifying pictures of this cruise ship totally on its side. now we're starting to piece together what exactly happened.

>> there wasn't anybody to help you. i mean, really the passengers were loading the lifeboats. >> we had to go about four or five gates down before we found a lifeboat we could get into, and then the people were very angry that we got on that lifeboat because it was very crowded. >> in case you missed all our coverage this weekend, stay tuned, because up next, we're going to give you a moment by moment account of the accident as told by the people on board the ship and witnesses to the crash. stay right here. it's a bit like asking if they want a big hat... ...'scuse me... ...or a big steak... ...or big hair... i think we have our answer. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.

all right. let me bring you up to date on this cruise ship story. take a look with me. the costa concordia laying on its side on the rocks right up against this island, italy's island. we're going to tell you about the moment, the frantic and dangerous effort to find the passengers not yet accounted for. first we're going to show you the chaos early saturday morning just after it went aground. watch with me.

>> one of the voices keeps saying, please remain calm. it's tough to remain calm. people don't know what's happening. you can see the cruise ship there in the background. the captain of the ship is now facing possible charges, including leaving the vessel before everyone got off. listen to several people on the ship. these are their recollections.

>> there were passengers trying to help, there was chaos. i think they were trying hard, but to us it appeared as if they weren't trained well. >> we were like, is it sinking or is it not? it was just so slowly, slowly going down. >> we were, like, running out when the ship started taking on water and i saw the river water gushing in. i started to panic then, and we were slipping on the boat. >> six people died, 16 are still missing, including at least two americans, gerald and barbara ann hyle. dan is there at the scene. dan? >> reporter: this picture says it all about how precarious, dangerous and difficult this search and rescue operation is proving to be. earlier on fir, rescue workers

to be taken off as the ship started shifting in the sea. the crew has started defending the crew, but said the captain's actions probably contributed to this wreck. >> we want to show the ship and the nearby island, so he decided to change the course of the ship, to go closer to the island and pass through in front of the person that sit in the island. >> the other unknown is whether the tons of fuel on board can be prevented from spinning out in these pristine waters. they said very urgent action is

needed to avoid an environmental catastrophe here. cnn, italy. >> dan, thank you. so big investigation in italy. now, the ship's captain is saying the rock the ship hit wasn't on his nap. the owners said the captain diverted too close to shore. that's going to shake out in due time. i want to show you what happens on a cruise ship bridge when something like this happens. cnn's brian todd just filed this story from a cruise ship similarity. this is from florida. take a look, it's some good stuff. >> we're here at the american maritime officers union training center in dania beach, florida. this is simulating a cruise ship. we're seconds away from a potential accident here on the coastline. you can see the ship moving slowly. >> run aground, stop engines.

>> we definitely stopped. they're going through some checklists right now. this is the procedure of what to do when you run aground. captain, tell us what we have to do immediately when we hit rocks or run aground. >> the first thing you have to do is stop the engine so you don't go harder aground. then you have to have somebody on the team run through an operational checklist on grounding, signals to alert people you have an emergency. we're going to make an emergency call on the radio, where we are, what the situation is. >> okay. >> then we're going to go from there. assess the damages and decide what we're going to do. >> and in some cases, you'll actually try and reverse -- >> we may try to get it off. right now we don't want to do that yet because we don't know what the damage is. so maybe we're safer right here than to try to get her off into deeper water. >> under any circumstances, does the captain leave the bridge in a situation like that? >> absolutely not. the captain is in operational

command to make sure all the procedures for the emergencies are followed. >> and he's got a full team here handling communications and all that. >> yep. >> and to try to get the passengers off the ship. >> getting the passengers in a safe point, or if we have to abandon ship, they're ready to go. >> captain, thank you very much. this is part of what they go through here. this is a very rigorous program, training captains around the world. thousands of captains have been through here. this is just one of the drills and it's a pretty good simulation of what to do in case of an accident on a major cruise ship. cnn, brian todd, florida. >> brian, thank you. did you watch the golden globes last night? many of you did, and even though ricky gerv,ais tried to bring emotion to the evening, there was one that was my favorite. i'll explain next.

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we were watching octavia spencer accept her reward for best actress in a drama. she played in "the help." >> i think dr. king said it best, all labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and

importance, and i thank you for recognizing that with our film. >> not a lot of drive after she was talking about that. we're so happy for her. it is so apropos that she hon tore dr. king as we honor his memory. i talked about that with spencer and her co-star davis here just a couple months ago. >> was there a time when either of you said, i don't know if i want to put on a maid uniform in this movie. >> not in that way. i was glad the movie was told in this perspective. the african-american way in the '60s. prior to this moment, all of literature and the majority of films where we are represented during that time period is pretty much facilitators of information, not much depth, and

we definitely didn't have a voice. so this was a different type of film. >> i had read there were still homes in greenwood, mississippi where they would still have h p help, women in maid uniforms from head to toe. did you see that at all? >> everybody is help. i'm help. >> the new help is defined by mexicans and guatemalans. we see it all the time. we see it in new york city. it's just the way it is. >> thanks, ladies. that was a special interview. next stop, the oscars, february 26. i'm going to read you a couple quotes here. i didn't know exactly how to handle it. i backed away. i didn't feel adequate. that is from former penn state head coach joe paterno in his

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legendary football coach joe paterno is speaking out for the first time since the legendary

sex abuse scandal came out. he told the "washington post" he felt inadequate to deal with abuse allegations. >> i called my superiors and i said, hey, we got a problem, i think. would you guys look into it? because i didn't know, you know -- i had never had to deal with something like that. and i didn't feel adequate. >> joe paterno's own words there. soledad o'brien spoke with the former coach. >> i found him feeble. he had had chemotherapy the day before we met. we met on two straight days, thursday and friday of last week. thursday he was pretty good. by friday he was weaker and couldn't get out of bed. the last half of the interview was really at his bedside and then he was taken to the hospital. he's having some side effects from chemotherapy. he's 85 years old, so the chemo is very harsh on him. >> was it your sense this was his effort to clear his name and set the record straight? >> yes.

very much so. i think it was his attempt to explain to people what he knew and what he did about it, what he didn't do and why he didn't do more and how he felt about it. i think that he had been waiting for, i think, some of the boil to come out of the water in the state college environment where things have been at a pretty high emotional pitch, and he felt that things had quieted down enough that he could be heard. you have to make a decision on who you think joe paterno was. he presents himself as someone who was a very old world gentleman who was out of his depth with the issue of child molestation. then there's the version of joe paterno that is the one that you described where he was in command of every detail of the program. i will say this. he was 75 when mike mcquery came to him. i think it's possible, and maybe even plausible, that joe paterno by 2002 when mike mcquery came to him was a much older man, was not maybe as powerful in state college as he once had been.

viewers have to make up their mind who they think joe paterno was in all of this. >> one of the things he said to you was, quote, in hindsight, i wish i had done more. did he give you examples of what more? >> yes. in 2002, he went to his superiors, gary schultz, the vice president of the university who was head of campus police and tim curry, and he said, i have this report. someone saw jerry sandusky in the showers with a young boy. after that paterno never followed up with his superiors. after that he said, i wish i would have said, where are we with this boy? where are we with this coach? he didn't do that. he did go back to mike mcquery a few times and said, where are we with this, but he didn't go to his superiors and he didn't push up the chain of command. >> now, in the interview, paterno did not comment on former penn state coordinator

jerry sandusky. sandusky has pled not guilty. he said he is greatly dismayed by paterno's dismissal by the university. this man is standing by to talk about the highlights, and i'm going to ask you, piers morg morgan, the question you normally ask your interviewees. a ban jo, a simple drum set and a sweet voice. not me, her. coming up next, my interview with singer/songwriter kelly mcfarlane in this week's music monday. think again. and take aleve. it's the one doctors recommend most for arthritis pain... two pills can last all day. ♪

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well, well. guess who has been at cnn for a year now? piers morgan celebrating a special anniversary this week. he joins me live. hel hello. how are you, friend? >> brooke baldwin, how are you? >> i'm lovely. can't complain. i know you're doing a special for your anniversary hoopla week for your show, so i might say you're pretty brave allowing chelsea handler, who is a sassy, brassy gal to interview you. are you nervous? >> it didn't go as badly as i thought it might, so i'd like to thank my production star for having this brilliant idea. as you know, chelsea doesn't

like to be handled in any sense in an interview. she's out of control enough when i'm doing the interview. with her doing the interview, total chaos reigns. >> give us a tease. what did she get you to talk about that you've never talked about before? >> she asked all the questions that i like to ask other people which is of a very embarrassing nature. it was all about my sex life, my love life, this, that and the other, and i'm just like any traditional british gentleman, squirming when asked about anything. >> good, i look forward to tuning in and seeing you squirm. you always ask everybody, so here's my question to you, piers morgan, how many times have you properly been in love? >> i'm glad you recognize it's an iconic question. secondly, i never knew i had been properly in love until i was in atlanta last week and this vision of unparalleled beauty, what we call the mother ship, the cnn headquarters

there, and i thought, wow, now i'm properly in love, and it turned out to be brooke baldwin. >> am i turning bright pink? seriously, answer the question. >> you're turning the same color as your jacket. >> but i'm going to keep asking the question, how many times have you been properly in love? what is properly in love, by the way? >> properly in love is when your heart gets broken either by your own volition or somebody else's. it can't be puppy love or that kind of thing. it has to be absolutely agonizing, gut wrenching, aching type thing. on tuesday night, tomorrow night, we have rosie o'donnell who mocks me for this question on twitter almost every day. so i asked it of her and she came up with a riveting answer. in depth, passionate, emotional, thought provoking. if you watch tomorrow, you'll see why i love this question because it always gets a great answer. >> you're great at eliciting emotion. let's throw this picture up

because we can and it's my show and we're going to have a little fun. i was in new york last weekend filling in on a new york show. can you see me, my feet up on your desk? >> get your feet off my desk. outrageous! what are you doing at my desk? how dare you? >> you weren't around. anyway, piers morgan, we look forward to seeing your big specials all this week. congratulations once again. pleasure meeting you, pleasure knowing you. >> a pleasure, brooke. i get this e-mail from one of my writer/producers. i click on the link and it's kelly mcfarling. my first thought was, is it monday? born in atlanta, she now lives in san francisco. let me tell you, folks, the woman can sing. we caught up with kelly in a funky little listening room right here in atlanta. i hope you enjoy today's sound

check. ♪ >> i love to point out your van broke down on the side of the road, and you made it to the interview, kelly. i appreciate it. >> is it tough being a touring, traveling vision? >> it is. it's tough but it's really wonderful. ♪

>> you love to sing. >> i love to sing. i do love to sing. ♪ >> i have your album.

tell me about atlanta. >> i just moved to san francisco, and it was a totally new place. i was falling in love with san francisco but also trying to figure it all out. ♪ >> it kind of is a very nostalgic song. it paints a picture of some images that i think about when i think about growing up here. >> when did you pick the banjo up? why the banjo? >> it was in a pawn shop that i rode my bike by every morning going to work. i just kept seeing it all the time and i just thought, i should just get it. >> so the banjo you play on is a banjo from a pawn shop? >> no, the one i play on now.