police say two men and a woman stole a luxury sailboat and packed its with pizza and beer before beaching the craft about 20 miles south. they refused to surrender for hours before they were finally pulled off the yacht. scientists off the coast of jacksonville successfully tagged a great white shark. lydia, as they now call her, is 14 1/2 feet, weighs about 2,000 pounds. >> she's a beauty. >> caught, tag and released her near the mouth of the st. john's river. there's word from hollywood that harrison ford is joining will farrell and the cast of "the anchorman" sequel. ford will play a veteran news anchor along the lines of tom

brokaw. so probably safe to say he won't be doing this. >> you're on. >> i love scotch. that is good. >> you're on! >> you look awfully nice tonight. maybe don't wear a bra next time. >> you're on the air right now. >> oh. >> any chance we get. >> this is morning television. "anch "anchorm "anchorman: the legend" comes out in september. "starting point" with soledad o'brien starts right now. welcome, everybody. our starting point this morning, a late winter storm. right now snow is falling in the midwest and make its way toward chicago and the nation's capital. we'll track that storm this morning with our live team coverage. then the venezuelan president hugo chavez is in a delicate condition this morning. his health taking a turn for the worst. we'll bring you live with an

upda update. the dow is closer and closer to an all-time high. could we see history made today on wall street? martha stewart in hot water this morning. why a deal with jcpenney has her in court with macy's. and a teacher under investigation accused of writing this threat on the chalkboard. the guns are loaded, care to try me? talking about a sick joke here or serious danger? >> teacher, serious danger. packed show. going to be talking with actress darrell hannah as she joins our panel. and high school basketball star khalil edney is here to talk to us about his shot live. "starting point" begins right now. welcome, everybody. millions of folks in the midwest right now who are already bracing for or dealing with several inches of snow, it's all thanks to a powerful winter

system that's make its way east towards the nation's capital. it's dumped inches of ice and snow on major metropolitan areas from the dakotas to indiana. minneapolis, where it's still snowing right now, got 3.9 inches overnight. milwaukee can expect two to five inches. indianapolis looking at three to five inches today. chicago bracing for four to eight inches. some people are saying even more there. this morning we're talking with jennifer delgado, she's live in chicago which is expecting to see the biggest snowfall of the season. shannon travis is in virginia where preps are under way for that storm. karen maginnis is monitoring the storm from the cnn weather center. jennifer, let's begin with you. how's it looking? >> reporter: we're not seeing any snow. i've seen maybe a flurry of two. as we go through the morning, we'll start to see that snow picking up and it's going to be heavy at times. we're talking six to eight inches. some locations potentially ten inch

inches. right now we're on the magnificent mile. they're already getting things prepared. cars are moving along nice and smoothly because nothing is on the ground just yet. but as i said, as we get to mid morning, we'll start to see that picking up and it's going to get heavier in the evening. we're expecting wind gusts up to about 30 miles per hour, so at times that is going to cause some blowing snow that's going to reduce the visibility. and soledad, it's plenty cold here right now. it feels like 20 degrees. and i've been in atlanta too long because this just feels positively brutal. we do have a winter storm warning in place until midnight tonight. i've been talking to you about snowstorms way too long. i used to get jealous because everybody's out there. >> yeah, you'll never say that again. it's nice in atlanta right now. >> reporter: it's nice in atlanta, but i also want to point out to you a lot of cancellations out of o'hare and midway and that's going to have a ripple effect, with travelers

going to the mid-atlantic because tomorrow we're talking about wind as well. i think we're going to shannon next. >> a big mess. one it's through, the storm is going to move east ward to washington, d.c. as early as tonight. the nation's capital and the surrounding areas too could see up to nine inches of snow by some predictions. the d.c. suburb of alexandria, virginia, getting ready for it. they will be deploying 4,000 trucks and snowplows. shannon travis is there with us. that's a lot of trucks and snowplows. >> reporter: it is. we see some of them here right now. there's a real concern about the potential for this wet and heavy back breaking snow that could weigh down on tree limbs and potentially down some power lines. obviously another concern is stranded motorists on roadways, so we came here to the super sized salt facility right here. i want to show you one of the domes containing some of the salt. you can see it almost extends to the very top of this dome. they tell me about 6,000 tons of

salt here alone. i've been playing with it a little bit. basically what you expect to see on your sidewalks or streets. this particular facility is actually on 495 on the capital beltway. you can see it in the distance there. where the precipitation for this storm is actually starting to form is just to the south of that. just a little quick on the process for how these dump trucks will be getting the salt. it's basically a front loader that will be coming in this way in this direction. they'll come over here, scoop up some of the salt and put them in a truck like this. these trucks they tell me can hold about 11 tons of salt actually, so that process will play out throughout day. v-dot, the virginia department of transportation tells me that they'll be ready and will put trucks in place to salt some of these roads. >> thanks, shannon. be careful out there. let's get right to colorado's interstate 70. they were able to reopen after

severe weather made a huge mess. blizzard like conditions near vail have caused a massive pile-up. hey, karen. >> this is actually two pieces of energy coming together. they will form off the mid-atlantic coast. but in the meantime, that broad swath of snowfall from minneapolis to chicago to indianapolis to washington, d.c. that much is fairly certain. it's beyond that point in time that we're wondering what will the storm system do? well, as we go into late this afternoon, chicago, yes, we can expect some delays there. chicago and midway. then for washington, d.c., coming up for tomorrow, school closures, probably a given, between four and eight inches, certainly possible. but it's after that time that we're really not sure what's going to happen with this storm system. to the west of washington, d.c., could see up to a foot of snowfall. already about a foot at devil's lake in north dakota. so you think that's north

dakota. but across the mid-atlantic as the storm system gathers some more strength, is it going to pull out into the atlantic or move up towards the northeast and new england coast? well, right now, it looks like there may be at least a glancing blow for places like new york city. you could see snow, a rain-snow mix and heavy coastal flooding. we'll watch that, another aspect to this storm. >> karen maginnis watching it all for us this morning. thank you, karen. some new developments in venezuela where the health of the president hugo chavez has taken a turn for the worst. shasta darlington is live in venezuela for us. shasta, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, soledad. that's right. we had a remarkably blunt announcement from the information minister telling venezuelans that their president is suffering a new severe infection and that his health is very delicate. remarkably blunt and bleak language. for some venezuelans it doesn't come as a surprise.

that's because hugo chavez hasn't been seen or heard in public for almost three months now. i remember back in december, he went to cuba to undergo cancer surgery. there were some proof of life photos that came from his hospital bed, but ever since he's been back in venezuela, two weeks now, they haven't heard from him or seen him. in some ways, this seems like the preparation on the part of the government to let venezuelans know they shouldn't be necessarily expecting the best. maybe they should be preparing for a death or the possibility that chavez won't be able to assume his responsibilities. that would mean new elections. but don't expect a big change in relations with the u.s. the man set to step in and win those elections is his vice president. >> it is interesting, the framing of this sounds so dire, which is so unusual that it sounds like chair basically warning everybody that they are expecting that he is going to die. shasta darlington for us this morning. thank you, shasta.

let's get right to john. he's got an update on other stories making news. >> this just in. the sistine chapel just about seven minutes ago closed to the public to prepare for the conclave to elect a new pope. the cardinals are meeting again this morning and we may learn as early as today when that conclave will begin. before that happens, an american cardinal who was in rome to help choose an expo is addressing the child sex abuse scandal directly. cardinal francis george, the archbishop of chicago, said the next monotiff must commit to "zero tolerance." a dominican woman who claims she was paid to have sex with senator robert menendez of new jersey now insists she made the whole story up. according to court documents, the 23-year-old woman says she never even met the democratic senator. but the daily caller, which first broke this story of the scandal, says reports on the story now are getting their escorts mixed up. "the daily caller" claims the dominican woman is not one of the two prostitutes they originally interviewed for their expose last fall.

we'll try to sort this out in a live report in our next hour on "starting point." good luck to us on that. the charges getting even more severe. 12 former florida a&m university students now face manslaughter charges for the 2011 hazing death of drum major robert champion jr. ten of them had been previously charged with felony hazing resulting in death. they were notified yesterday that their charges were upgraded to manslaughter. they face a maximum 15-year sentence if convicted. there has been a drone sighting over brooklyn. this happened yesterday afternoon. listen to the control tower in new york's jfk airport to report of seeing an unmanned aircraft during his approach to the runway. listen. >> we've got a drone. >> what altitude did you see that aircraft? >> about 1,000. >> caution, report of a drone on

about a five-mile final by the track that you're following. >> the faa confirmed it is now investigating that drone sighting. so a new vantage point of that giant deadly sinkhole near tampa. demolition crews exposing what's left of the room after the hole opened up under jeff bush's hole. his brother says he still wants crews to find him. >> the ground was still stable right there. why couldn't he -- you've got that long arm. how is somebody hanging from that arm, trying to dig my brother out or something? >> a second sinkhole just three moils aw miles away has that neighborhood on edge. a fence dividing two homes was damaged. a family who lives there now wants to move. >> no joke about that, right? wow. 38 points. if the dow can gain more than that, today we'll have a new record high closing high. christine romans has our indications this morning that it

could happen. >> this is what you call spitting distance to record highs. the s&p and the dow both almost there. futures are higher this morning. so if history is a guide, looks like you could see a record very, very soon here. what's driving things overall is the idea that growth is going to accelerate in the first quarter. also companies are sitting on an awful lot of cash. and the fed is still propping up the market overall. the housing market is recovering, even as we're look at forced spending cuts, it could take a little bit of a bite out of the economy. the s&p 500 is up 38% from the october 2011 low. sam stovall says be a little careful, because once you get record highs, you often see a pullback after that. so it's a good reminder here to make sure you've rebalanced from this big run and that you are not too exposed to stocks if you're really, really close to retirement. >> christine romans reporting for us. coming up next, the u.n. security council could soon

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this morning, a possible deal at the united nations to punish north korea for its third nuclear test. both the u.s. and china have apparently signed off on the proposal. it follows that really bizarre trip to north korea over the weekend where the former basketball star dennis rodman became basically bffs with the dictator, kim jong-un, and said that kim just wanted president obama to pick up the phone and prevent moore. jay carney says north korea shouldn't be expecting that call any time soon. >> the united states has direct channels of communications with

the dprk, and instead of spending money on celebrity sporting events to entertain the elites of that country, the north korean regime should focus on the well-being of its own people who have been starved, imprisoned and denied their human rights. >> congressman ed royce is the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. he's a republican from california. it's nice to have you with us, sir. let's not start with dennis rodman. let's hold off on that craziness for just a moment, if we can. i want to ask you about the u.n. sanctions and the draft resolution that's going to be examined at this closed door security council meeting. what exactly are the details do you think of that, that should be in that? >> well, because the sanctions have the input of china, they are not quite as strong as we'd like to see. one of the approaches we would like to see on the committee is a duplication of what was done in 2005 when we caught north korea counterfeiting $100 u.s. bank notes. what we did at that time was to sanction the bank that did it. and that was the bank that had been used for the hard currency

for the regime. we found that by doing that, we cut off the ability of north korea to move forward on their -- on paying the generals, on their weapons program, on obtaining some of the things they needed for their icbm program. so i think that would be the type of approach we should use now that they've done their third nuclear test, their miniaturizing their bomb, and they have a three-stage icbm that can get the united states. so given the comments about their intent, i think it's time that at least we curtail the ability of those financial institutions that would do business with the united states, we tell them we're freezing the assets in north korea. you're not going to be a part of building up that weapons program. because that's what the foreign exchange is used for. that's what the hard currency is used for, to build up that weapons program. >> so at the same time that's happening, what do you make of this dennis rodman trip to north

korea and really the wining and dining that's going on at the highest levels? >> well, it's not out of character for the kim family. if you look at the idioseiah at idiosyncrasies of his family, that dynasty is given to preoccupation -- for his father captured a movie actor and actress because he wanted to be a director. the son here, he is interested in basketball, so he pays out i guess a certain amount of money in order to try to pursue that interest. but what's unusual is in the meantime, so many people are in these concentration camps, and for a society with a population it has to have as many people hilled and doing forced labor for the regime, to have as many people starving -- i talked to the senior propaganda minister who defected, who told me 1.9 million people were starved in

the rural areas because they considered them the no-go areas, the areas where there wasn't support for the regime. that's a real cruel way to run a country. and that's the past history. >> so then let me ask you a question. there are some people who were -- i think it's fair to say mocking dennis rodman's entire trip. the are some who said listen, mock all you want, but here you have an american who's gotten into north korea who's sitting down with a north korean leader. that's one take on it. and then other people have said listen, ultimately, is there some good that could potentially come out of his trip there? and i'll tell you honestly, i was kind of a naysayer in that, but i'd like to put that question to you. >> well, i'm just thinking about kim jong-un and comparing him to his own father, kim jong il. the father had this preoccupation with movies. you might say that watching all those western movies might change his behavior and his attitude toward the rest of the world, the outside world. instead, as i indicated, he goes out and kidnaps an actress and

kidnaps an actor. and it is the most bizarre story you'd ever want to read about. he directs the movie, but at the end of the day, did it change his behavior? no, unfortunately, it did not change his behavior just because he was preoccupied with western film. and so i'm not sure that this in any way is going to change the grandson of the man who launched the korean war, cost the lives of 50,000 americans, and over a million koreans by launching that war. this dynasty is composed of individuals who are pretty hard-edged. they might have their hobbies, but at the end of the day, they also have their objective of getting that nuclear weapon, and that's something that we should try to deter through these sanctions. >> congressman ed royce, republican from california. nice to see you, sir. thank you for your time. appreciate it. ahead this morning, here is a guy who has been teaching for 30 years. no major problems or anything on his record. so what was he thinking about

when he wrote this apparently on the classroom chalkboard to his students? "the guns are loaded, care to try me." we'll explain next.

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welcome back, everybody. our team this morning, daryl hannah is with us. we're going to talk about her new movie which is called "greedy lying bastards." i'm in. we'll talk about that later this morning. christopher john farley is the senior editor of degeneres tall features. roland martin is going to be will with us. here's a crazy story. a teacher in indiana has been suspended from his job while authorities investigate what appear to be threats against his own students that were written

on a chalkboard. the school superintendent confirms that the teacher wrote this. a, you are idiots, exclamation point. b, the guns are loaded, exclamation point. c, care to try me? i guess he was given them a multiple choice option there. the teacher who has worked at the school for almost 30 years and now is on paid leave during an investigation. >> it's a tough job. i don't know what happened here. but it's sad to see that kind of thing written in the classroom. there's so much talk about guns and school safety. obviously people are going to be extra sensitive to things like this. >> we talk a lot about students and these zero tolerance policies. the same has to apply to a teacher. who knows what was going on there. it's not the kind of thing you can write on a board. >> they said that they took it seriously and immediately ordered the business teacher off the property. i have a sixth grader and i was sort of thinking, what would my

reaction be if that happened at her school? >> horrified. >> yeah, that person would have to be out. that's just bizarre. >> first of all, you don't encourage students by calling them idiots. >> yeah, starting there. before we get to the guns. let's talk about the idiot part. >> it just doesn't help their self-esteem. it doesn't help them grow and prosper. but then it's absolutely unacceptable to threaten kids in any way, shape, or form. and that is an obvious threat. >> they basically kicked him out. he won't be in school today or tomorrow. no big shocker there and he is under investigation. interesting to see where that ends up. still ahead this morning, tragedy in a small town to tell you about. a 12-year-old boy dies more than a month after he was attacked by bullies at school. we'll update you on what's happening there with pennsylvania senator bob casey who will be our guest. he's got a new proposal he wants to talk about. then senator menendez

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welcome back, everybody. you're watching "starting point." in just about two hours, martha stewart will be in a new york city courtroom. she's expected to testify at a civil trial that pits macy's against jcpenney, all over this partnership that she had with her company martha stewart living. christine romans is live outside the courthouse for us this morning. walk us through the nuts and bolts of this case, christine. >> you know, it's interesting, because yesterday a judge in this courtroom said look, you all should have resolved this without coming to the court. they didn't, and now martha stewart will actually testify here today. this is a case of martha stewart doing a deal with macy's after she came out of prison eight years ago, a deal that helped rebuild her brand and then she turned around, despite an exclusive contract with macy's and wanted to sell her stuff in

a store within a store in jcpenney. macy's not happy. it's been eight years since martha stewart left prison, serving five months for lying about a stock sale. goodbye wrap sheet, hello cotton sheets. a deal with macy's helped her company rebuild. >> macy's was really important in giving her a leg up, and, you know, giving her a helping hand. >> macy's obviously recognized the brand and the value of the brand, the quality of the merchandise. >> now stewart is back in court. macy's is suing her company over a deal with jcpenney. her defense, a contract loophole. "the macy's contract is written to allow martha stewart living to sell a broad range of products in jcpenney, with no restrictions whatsoever in a store inside jcpenney. but brand experts say the suit is trouble. >> she was married to macy's. but she went off and had an affair and got in bed with a direct competitor with jcpenney,

and i think it just shows really bad form. >> stewart's company struggling, losing $56 million in 2012, it shuttered magazines and laid off workers. the shares are beaten down. last year the hallmark channel cancelled the martha stewart show. these aren't exactly salad days, but neither was the insider trading case. >> i want to focus on my salad. >> now she wants to focus on retail. 29% of her company's revenues came from merchandise last year. you can find her wares at home depot, petsmart, even staples. if she prevails, jcpenney. >> i suspect that the court is going to allow jcpenney a certain number of products that are going to go into their stores, whether they're branded by martha stewart or not branded by martha stewart. >> but at what cost? >> talk to the customers. >> i don't think anybody, any other business is beginning to want to get involved with her in the future. i think she's really hurt her brand and hurt herself. >> very messy business dealings

for woman who pedals perfection. and these are three household names. normally between companies you don't hear about their contract law disputes, but this is martha stewart. this is jcpenney and this is macy's. the macy's ceo when he testified last week, he said he considered martha stewart his friend and longtime business partner. when she called him in 2011 and said hey, i'm doing a deal with jcpenney, he said he was sick to his stomach, he hung up the phone and has not spoken to her since. >> it's so interesting. you hear terry lundgren talk about that. one of christine's interviews was describing how it's almost like cheating on someone. that's really how the ceo seemed to describe it, that he feels personally betrayed. >> that's a whole lot into her brain. and look, department stores are competitive. jcpenney, the dallas-based company, they lost a ton of money. they've been losing money like crazy. so they want this kind of deal.

macy's guys saying, look -- >> it's all about the contract. what do the specifics of the contract stipulate. and a store inside a store. it's like what's the definition of store is. it's like what's the definition of store is is going to hint upon. john berman is going to look at other stories. >> in not martha stewart news this morning, another winter storm beating down on the nation's midsection. significant snowfall making travel pretty awful this morning. this was the scene in minneapolis as this late season storm dumped a nice coat on the twin cities. severe weather warnings are still in effect for much of that area. chicago, meanwhile, bracing for biggest snow of the season for them right now, up to ten inches could cover the metro area today, making delays at o'hare and midway airports, unfortunately, very likely. secretary of state john kerry arriving in qatar overnight. this is kerry's first official trip in his new cabinet position. he began the day in abu dhawbu

before flowing to doha. we are expecting a live report on that at the top of the hour. a dominican woman who claims she had sex for money with new jersey senator robert menendez now says her story is totally false. that she was paid to make up the accusations and that she never even met menendez. that is according to court documents. however, "the daily caller" which first broke the scandal says these new reports are getting the escorts all confused. they claim the dominican woman is not one of the two prostitutes they originally interviewed for their investigative report last fall. this is kind of a messy tangled weapon. adrianna howser is live with the latest to clear this up. >> the daily caller claims "the washington post" is one of those newspapers that got it wrong. "the washington post" seems to base its article on affidavits similar to the ones we have, and we obtained those through a dominican attorney during a press conference.

she is an acquaintance of menend menendez. in those documents, they're k w notarized, a woman identified as nexis delos santos santana says she was the girl in the video, but she was paid to read out loud that she slept with menendez. santana adds that she never knew she was being recorded. castillo assures that santana is the girl who appears in one of the videos wearing a yellow dress. he also presented another notarized confession. an attorney who pins the blame on another attorney, a third attorney. this attorney asked him for help with a divorce case by finding him witnesses who would make prostitution claims. cnn has tried to contact both attorneys but we have gotten no response yet. the documents show also, john, that santana and galvan asked a judge for legal protection

because they claim they were tricked, and that court hearing will take place later today. so we'll be paying attention to that hearing today, john. >> as you said, a tangled web that still needs some unraveling. our thanks to you from miami this morning. a manhunt is under way here in new york city as police search for the suspect in a hit-and-run crash that claimed the lives of two parents and their newborn baby. police are looking for 44-year-old julio acevedo, who was arrested last month on a drunk driving charge. the expectant parents, both 21, were killed while en route to the hospital early sunday morning. their baby boy was delivered after his mother's death, but he died yesterday of his injuries. officials at ohio's oberlin college are figuring out how to deal with a rash of racial incidents on campus. classes were suspended monday after a student reported a person wearing what appeared to be a kkk hood and robe near the african heritage house.

students were asked to gather in small groups to discuss racism at oberlin. 15 racial incidents have been reported on campus in the last month alone. oberlin not the type of college you would necessarily expect to see this. >> such a crazy story. if you think about that, 15 cases of racial incidents at oberlin in over a month? >> i'm thinking about the shock i'd feel if i was a freshman walking around and you see a guy walking around in a kkk robe and you're paying tens of thousands of dollars to go there? >> if you're the parent of that, you'd be like that has to stop pronto. >> saying look, we've got to come together as a university. >> i think you're exactly right about that. police investigating what happened in a case of bullying. this story is so sad. it appears to have led to the death of a 12-year-old sixth grader named bay le ed bailey . he began having seizures that forced doctors to put him into a medically induced coma after a

bullying incident. police haven't said if they're going to file charges. his family completely heartbroken. >> i don't have nobody to call me dad anymore. no more phone calls. just no one to say daddy, you know? it's the worst feeling. >> oh, my god, what a terrible, terrible story. senator bob casey is a democrat from pennsylvania. he's the chairman of the joint economic committee. he wrote an op-ed on cnn.com about bullying legislation he has proposed. we'll talk butt thabout that in moment. good morning and welcome to you. i want to start with the story of this little kid bailey. apparently he was punched in the face in the schoolyard, taken to the hospital. he was treated for a concussion and broken nose. those serious seizures actually began a little bit later. what has been your reaction to this case that eventually ended a little more than a month of those seizures, he ended up

dying? >> well, soledad, it's a horrific story, of course. but i don't know any more than what you've reported. so i think it's a case still under investigation. but i know this for sure, when you speak to the larger question of bullying, this is an epidemic. unless we deal with it, we're going to have all kinds of problems down the road for these young people who can't function, can't study, can't do the work -- >> do you think it's worse than it was? do you think that bullying today is worse than it was, say, when i was in elementary school and high school, or do you think we are more sensitized to it and reporting on it more? >> no, i think it is worse today. the technology makes it worse. in the old days when i was growing up, if you were bullied at school and you left the school, pretty much that was it until maybe the next day, as difficult as that was in those days. today it follows you home. you're not only harassed online sometimes over and over again,

hour after hour, but you have an audience of people that are witnessing it. and sometimes participating in it. so i think it's worse, and until we deal with it, i think the legislation that i have with senator kirk is one way to deal with it. is to say to school districts and states, you've got to have policies to prohibit it. you've got to have prevention programs and you've got to keep records and make sure that students and parents know their rights. >> give me specification. i think there are a number of schools that have had incidents and they say we are a zero tolerance school, we do not want to see our children bullied. we completely support fixing that. what can we do that you could possibly legislate? >> well, the first thing i should say is there are a lot of schools that are engaged in these activities already, but not enough. it should be across the board. having specific policies on bullying is important. secondly, making sure they're putting in place a program so people talk buabout and understd

it. you have a lot of schools that have undertaken this, even in the absence of a federal statute. i think we have to make it a much bigger issue. i think what cnn did the other night and has done for a number of months now by highlighting elements of the movie bullying i think has heightened the awareness. >> we talked a lot about that when that was coming out. that was absolutely brutal. i want to turn to my panel. who was bullied on this panel? really, you were? >> yeah. >> hang on, not you. darryl hannah was bullied? >> every day after school i was punched in the stomach until the air went out of my system and left on the ground to try to catch my breath. >> by whom? >> i don't want to name names on tv -- >> now's your chance. revenge. >> my neighbor. he would leave my laying on the sidewalk every single day. >> did you tell people? >> too scared. >> the point she just made, this

is part of the problem when you talk about bullying and fighting. the senator is right. all the policy comes from the school, what happens when they leave the school grounds? what happens when you're fighting and no longer on the school bus? unfortunately we have kids all across america who are fighting other kids and it's difficult for a school district to control that when they may be walking home in a park. >> he's right about the social media part. how many times have we seen kids take their iphones and they shoot it and it doesn't just stay in the school or after the school day and on the school bus. it continues on. the senator has legislation which is called safe schools improvement act. we thank you for talking with us, sir, about that this morning. this kid's story is so, so sad. we appreciate your time, senator. >> the chicago story, the kid who was beaten after school died as well. >> just breaks my heart. still ahead, a new movie about exactly what happened immediately after world war ii

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welcome back, everybody. for six seasons matthew fox played dr. jack shepherd on the hugely successful tv drama "lost." his latest film is a historical drama "emperor." as the japanese suhr runder at the end of world war ii his character is tasked with whether japan's emperor will be hanged as a war criminal. >> what the hell is this? >> conclusion of my investigation, sir. >> what investigation? this is just your opinion. i don't see any evidence. >> i have no concrete evidence, sir. but it is what we must do. >> based on what?

your vote of confidence? >> based on the fact that we're here to rebuild japan. and we will -- >> i am about to make the biggest decision of the occupation. which will determine the future of japan and all i have is conjecture. >> we will never know the extent of the emperor's involvement, sir. >> the movie opens on friday. nice to have you. >> thank you for having me. >> tommy lee jones is macarthur. he's basically saying he's got to make the biggest decision of the post-war. it's the biggest decision for japan. really the implications were huge. set up for us the conundrum in declaring the emperor of japan as a war criminal and hanging him? >> the one thing that fellers, fellers is mcacarthur's right hand man. he's a japanese expert. in our story he had fallen in love with a japanese woman in 1930, and their love was torn apart by the war breaking out. so macarthur tasks him with the

responsibility of in this ten days making this determination and the film focuses on that 1945 investigation. fellers really understands that even though in the end he can't find any evidence one way or the other that removing the emperor as the emperor of japan is going to lead to chaos in japan. and he understands more than most west earners the implications of that and that the japanese people look to the emperor in the way a westerner really couldn't understand. and to remove that position would -- would be terrible. >> a cultural understanding really is what made him make the right decision, certainly, from a historical context as we look back. do you like historical movies? are they harder to do because you have to kind of get into the -- research the role? >> that was part of the attraction to it for me. i really knew very little, almost nothing about this moment of our history. >> it kind of always ends with nagasaki and hiroshima. we never really think post those

events. >> that's right. i think the movie does a great job of reminding us there are always going to be conflicts. it's the way we exit those conflicts that oftentimes determine how we'll look back at that over history. for me i think that the u.s. foreign policy decisions made at that time were really a shining moment for u.s. foreign policy. and the recommendations that macarthur made to washington after fellers' recommendations to him i think were very -- he was looking down the field and looking at the big picture. there was a lot of pressure to remove the emperor and to put him on trial. because of pearl harbor and because of, you know, the japanese aggression. >> i talked to david of "homeland." he said he began to study everything about the cia. for you, did you begin to look at other examples when america had to make a decision? saddam hussein in iraq? now you are making a decision

about the future of the country? >> you know, i didn't. i really just focused on this specific moment we were dealing with. i did a lot of research on fellers. i read all the reports. the film had done an amazing amount of research up to that point. i felt like it was represented in the script. i had the luxury of nobody really knows bonner fellers. so, you know, as an actor you sort of walk this line of how much you're going to use the research and how much the research just might get in the way of filming you're trying to create. >> matthew fox, the movie is called "emperor." it opens on friday. looks great. thanks for talking with us. got o take a short break. still ahead, you're looking live at minnesota. look at that. late winter storm coating the midwest heading towards the nation's capital. we'll take you there live with the forecast. new details about the relationship between president bush 41 and president bush 43. really interesting letters that they shared that we'll share with you, straight ahead. ve goti on t-mobile monthly4g for only $299 with no annual contract.

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welcome, everybody. starting point this morning, bracing for a big snow. a late winter storm barreling down on the midwest. making its way to washington, d.c. those color bars were not the storm. team coverage on the ground as we track the storm for you. secretary of state john kerry in qatar right now. cnn there with him. we'll tell you what he's saying about dennis rodman's bizarre trip to north korea. the country making new threats this morning. why they say they'll nullify the agreement that brought peace after the korean war. >> new this morning venezuelan president hugo chavez's health tarks a turn for the worst. and martha stewart in court today. why a deal with jc penney has her in problem with macy's. at the bottom of the hour, khalil edny. a high school basketball player who had a 60-foot buzzer beater shot winning the sectional championship. it's tuesday, march 5th. starting point begins right now.

welcome, everybody. our team this morning, christopher john farley in the middle, senior editor of digital features at "the wall street journal." darre daryl hannah joins us. new movie. intriguing title. "reading, lying bastards." >> stop talking about washington like that. >> roland martin. cnn contributor. happening right now, another winter storm smacking the midwest, dumping snow and ice from north dakota to ohio. several inches plan keted minneapolis overnight. still coming down this morning. chicago is now bracing for what could be their biggest snowfall of the season. some people are saying 11 inches predicted there by tonight in the metro area. one to two inches an hour. just think about that. two inches an hour by chicago o'hare and midway airports. preparing for serious delays and flight cancellations. let's start there with jennifer

delgado. she's live there. karen mcginniss is monitoring the storm at the cnn weather center. jennifer, i want to start with you. o'hare and snow is a really ugly combination. >> reporter: absolutely. because, you know, when you get those delays at o'hare or midway, of course they can end up being hours, if not days at times. we're finally getting the snow out here. last hour we weren't seeing the snow. and right now it's light. but it is going to be picking up as we go later into the morning and, of course, later into the evening. when you combine that snow with some of these wind gusts that are going to be up to 30 miles per hour, that's going to lead to travel problems, visibility issues. right now on the roadways you can see people are getting along just fine. of course, the roadways are starting to get wet. but crews have been out. they put the salt down. they've done their job. they're preparing for the storm that potentially could bring between six to eight inches of snowfall. some areas locally could see ten inches of snowfall. now, you're right. this is going to be their biggest snowstorm of the season.

they actually need the precipitation because parts of chicago and northern parts of illinois are dealing with a drought. so, again, winter storm warning in place. that is going to last until midnight tonight. but if you are going to be trying to fly out later on today or driving home in that evening rush, you really need to be cautious on the roadway with conditions deteriorating. soledad, what can i say? it's cold. it's snowing. happy to be here. but. >> she lies. >> happy to be here. here i am. it's snowing and i'm cold. but i'm happy to be here. >> the positive. the negative. freezing. >> try to go shopping on michigan avenue. >> we're supporting you but you look cold and a little snowy. the nation's capital could see by some accounts nine inches of snow. the d.c. suburbs of alexandria, virginia, not taking any chances.

they're deploying 4,000 trucks and snowplows. karen? >> soledad, yes. for jennifer, she was waiting for that snow. but chicago, 335 days they saw no snow. no measurable snowfall. that was until the end of january. so it took a while for this winter season to really kick up. but look at this. for chicago, four to eight inches this afternoon. that afternoon drive time, it is going to be horrendous. also the airports, looks like we could see a number of cancellations as we roll through the afternoon. then for washington, d.c., we play it forward just a little bit. that storm system kind of comes together, moves across the central appalachians for the mid-atlantic, and i day say for washington, d.c., you will probably see winter storm warnings issued probably in the short term, in the next couple of hours, it wouldn't surprise me. you could see a number of school closures there as well. as we've already seen in chicago. a couple weather systems come together, move across the ohio

river valley. then towards the mid-atlantic, pretty sure, very confident this area of low pressure is going to develop here across the mid-atlant mid-atlantic. after that the computer models are all over the place. soledad, it's going to be windy. could see some wet snow. could see the potential for some coastal flooding in new england. >> looks like a big ole mess. karen mcginniss. john berman has a look at other stories. >> hugo chavez appears to be losing his battle with cancer. the ailing venezuelan president has a new infection. shasta darlington is live in venezuela with the latest. good morning, shasta. >> reporter: good morn wk john. that's right. it's that sort of dire language the minister used when he made this announcement on live television talking about the very delicate situation. this new severe infection that's rattled more than a few venezuelans. of course, we haven't actually seen hugo chavez in public for almost three months now.

for many people it doesn't come as a surprise. he went to cuba to undergo cancer surgery in december. we haven't seen any photos of him since he's been back in venezuela now for two weeks. just those hospital bedside proof of life photos that came out of cuba. so for a lot of people, it doesn't come as a surprise. but it's sort of this moment they've been dreading or waiting for. may actually be coming. and what will happen, of course, if the government announces that chavez has either died or he is no longer in a position to assume the responsibilities, the full responsibilities of the presidency, they'll have to call new elections. but don't expect any big changes in relations with the u.s. and that's because the man who is set to win those elections is the current vice president, nicolas maguro. pretty much a fire brand there, john. >> thanks to you, shasta darlington. the government appear to be preparing the people for, perhaps, the death of hugo

chavez. six minutes after the hour. as of about an hour ago the sistine chapel has been closed to the public in preparation for the conclave to elect a new pope. when the conclave will happen still a mystery now. the vatican says they sense no desire to rush to set a date. we now know it is not necessary for all cardinal electors to be present to set a conclave date. about 110 of the 115 cardinal electors are there now. before the conclave does happen one of the cardinals has addressed the sex abuse scandal directly. he said the next pontiff must commit to what he calls zero tolerance. this just into cnn. north korea is now threatening to scrap the armistice that ended hostilities during the korean war in the 1950s if the south and the united states continue their annual military drills. that is according to the south korea's news agency. this all happening at the u.s. security council gets ready to meet the morning to begin punishing north korea for its

third nuclear test last month. according to reuters china is on board with possible sanctions this time. a hazing scandal at a prestigious high school at new york city. three members of the track team at the bronx high school of science arrested. police say they physically and sexually abused a freshman member of the team over a three-month period. the students all aged 16 and 17 are charged as adults. the school suspending all track events until the investigation is completed. a new aerial view of that deadly sinkhole near tampa. demolition crews exposing what is left of the room after the sinkhole opened up under 37-year-old jeff bush's bed. he is presumed dead after that hole just swallowed him up. a second sinkhole just three miles away has that neighborhood on edge. this one opened up in a backyard yesterday. there was no structural damage to homes though a fence dividing two homes was damaged. the family who lives there now, now says they want to move. >> can you imagine trying to sleep at night when there's a

sinkhole in your backyard after your neighbor a couple miles away was sucked under? terrifying. i can understand that. this just into cnn this morning. secretary of state john kerry is talking to cnn's jill dougherty during his first official trip to the middle east on the situation in syria. secretary kerry says he hopes nonmilitary and the opposition will be helping. jill dougherty is on the phone for us from doha in qatar. >> reporter: good morning, soledad. in this interview i think what came out, the most interesting part to me, something that really has emerged on this very long trip, 11 days, 9 nations. that is we've been talking about would the united states arm the opposition. it looks as if the united states is leaving it to others to arm the opposition. it's obvious that other countries, qatar where we are right now, saudi arabia, are providing weapons. and that seems to be okay with

the united states. but the u.s. so far is not going to do it. let's listen to what secretary kerry said when i asked him about that. >> in the next weeks and months, our hope is that this ratcheting up can avoid the level of killing and provide a window of opportunity for president assad and the russians and iranians and others to get a negotiation that actually saves lives and provides a transitional government. >> reporter: and also we got into iran. secretary kerry's role in the administration. after all, he is the new secretary of state. and then one other thing, i asked him about dennis rodman in north korea meeting kim jong-un. and secretary kerry, as a diplomat he himself, said that, well, he's a great basketball

player. and that's about how he handled that one. basically he thinks it ought to be government to government when you deal with north korea. soledad? >> he's on my turf and he should stick to basketball. jill dougherty for us this morning by phone. thank you, jill. up next this morning, a father feels some serious pain for his son who's being torn apart in public. we're not talking about any father/son relationship. really intimate details from a new book written by president bush 41 about his relationship with president bush 43. it's all about the letters that they exchange. then this. one of the best buzzer beaters ever in the history of forever as my kids would say. it wasn't in the nba. high school basketball player, 60-foot throw wins the team's sectional championship. we're going to chat with him about that experience. that's coming up. [ female announcer ] born from the sweet monk fruit, something this delicious could only come from nature. new nectresse. the 100% natural no-calorie sweetener made from the goodness of fruit. new nectresse.

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the days after hurricane katrina as george w. bush faced a lot of public outrage over his response to the disaster, his father wrote this to a friend. my heart went out to him. here's a guy who cares deeply, who wants every possible resource of the federal government brought in to bear to help people. yet he's been roundly accused of not giving a damn. the critics do not know what's in 43's heart, how deeply he feels about the hurt, the anguish, the losses affecting so many people, most of them poor. the reflections are reveemed in an updated collection of the president's personal correspondence called "all the be best, george bush." it's being released today. a special assistant to george h.w. bush and adviser to his son, nice to have you with us. >> thanks, soledad. >> let's start with hurricane katrina. that's a story i know really, really well. i spent a lot of time in new orleans and i remember covering that story and getting the sense that it was a disaster on the

ground. but also a big disaster for president bush. so to read a little bit of that letter where 41 believes that somehow his son has been sort of mis -- inappropriately blamed for the mess, i found that a little bit strange. i guess a lot of the take is more about a father than a president. >> yes. you know, barry sitz writes about this and speaks about this and says that what we say about a person's children is far more impactful than what we say about them. so the president's being very human here, the former president, in expressing how hurt he is. and he's touched a raw nerve. this was a serious political problem for his son. >> he goes on to write, 61 years ago to this very day, this is the same letter, i was shot down by the japanese over chi chi jima. now i see some of his most nasty critics trying to shoot down my

beloved son. i was a scared kid back then. now i'm just an angry old man hurting for my son. again, that was an interesting connecting between my son as the victim when his son is the president of the united states, really responsible for how that disaster was, you know, being rolled out. >> well, he's showing the vulnerability of the moment. and, you know, i think this is one of the greatest books ever written by a former president because it's not scream tream o consciousness. it's stream of heart. it's how he feels. and public figures will give you dates and times and quotes but they guard how they feel. here the former president is letting it all out. he's hurting very deeply. it's revealing to me that the illustration he uses is when he was vulnerable. it wasn't that he was hurt so badly. shot down over the pacific. as much as he was very vulnerable, dependent on others. and i think they felt that political vulnerability at that time. >> doug, it's roland martin here. as a historian are you somewhat

saddened by the fact that few people today actually write letters? when you look at the audiotapes of previous presidents that we're not going to have the same sort of look into a president's mind or former president's mind because they're not communicating the way they used to for us to be able to analyze what they say and what they thought? >> that's a very good point, roland. and he was a great -- and is still a great writer. you know, there's one point, though, he was a tweeter before twitter. because his little notes, they were short. they were not long essays. >> in the margins. yep. >> yet they revealed a lot. >> let me read another bit. this is a letter from the day that the u.s. tanks rolled into baghdad. saddam hussein's regime fell. he wrote this to his son. i guess it's an e-mail to his son. bar, as in barbara, and i are at your side. i hope you can feel it.

we will stay out of the way but i am there beside you, my heart overflowing with happiness on this day of vindication. no doubt tough times lie ahead but henceforth here and abroad there will never be any doubts about our commander in chief. about his leadership. about our boy, george. >> you know, that phrase our boy, george, actually got him into a lot of trouble in the 2000 political campaign. george h.w. bush did a political event for his son w. during the 2000 primaries. his introduced his son. he goes, my son, my boy, george w. bush. he was ridiculed for that right now. it sort of demeaned his son running for president. john mccain went on to win that primary. >> there's interesting words in that. the vindication part of that. we're talking about the rolling in to iraq and the fall of saddam hussein. some of this letter, as much as it's george h.w. bush writing to his son it's a lot about george h.w. bush, really. >> it is. it is. the word "vindication," you know, we have to remember that

saddam hussein ordered the assassination of george herbert walker bush. before the iraq war began, the son of issaddam hussein publicl announced let not he who attacks us think that his mother and children will be safe. so this was a vindication. that word is very revealing. i think historians are going to have a field day going over these notes. this is a great book. >> he says never any doubts about his leadership. about our boy, george. i think historians will also be really obviously looking into that as well. nice to have you with us this morning. i want to rename the name of the book. "all the best." sorry. hard to read from here. "all the best, george h.w. bush." thank you, doug, for talking with us this morning. ahead this morning, holy captured suspect, batman. a caped kro ed crusader comes t

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>> i love it. i think it's great. >> the suspect is going, dude, seriously. you in a batman outfit. >> then he dropped him off at a police station. >> right. seriously? >> this one, already one of the most anticipated movies of the year. will ferrell is reprising his role as ron burgundy. harrison ford is going to play a veteran news anchor. >> again? >> again. what movie was that? >> "morning glory." >> he was good in that. i liked that movie. i thought diane keaton's outfits were very good anchor outfits. that's what i judged on. safe to say he will not be saying this. >> mmm, i love scotch. mmm, mmm, mmm, that is good. >> you're on. >> you look awfully nice today. maybe don't wear a bra next time. >> we're on the air right now. >> this movie was so funny.

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ice and snow on major metropolitan areas from the dakotas to indiana. in minneapolis wre it is still snowing right now, they've gotten 3.9 inches overnight. milwaukee looking at two to five. indianapolis, three to five inches. right now, chicago bracing for four to eight inches. some people are saying actually it's going to be more expected by tonight. that would make it the most of the season. john berman is looking at that and other stories for us this morning. in just a few hours when her murder trial resumes jodi arias will be back on the witness stand for a 15th day. this will be another day of redirect examination for the defense. the extra day, a day filled with testimony, again, about her sex life with victim travis alexander. arias faces a possible death sentence if convicted of murdering alexander. he was shot twice, stabbed 27 times and had his throat slashed. arias, of course, says it was self-defense. police in bakersfield, california, are now investigating the circumstances surrounding that 87-year-old woman's death at an independent living facility after a staffer refused to give the dying woman

cpr. the resident services director for glenwood gardens told the 911 operator she was not permitted to administer medical care to residents. they say the city would not have faced any liability issues if the staffer had simply followed operator's instructions. >> it's not uncommon for them to try and give instructions over the phone. it's refused or the person may be a little squeamish. they do it through a card system. those dispatchers are trained through that card system where emergency medical services will accept that liability at that time. >> a facility spokesman tells cnn the home is by law not licensed to provide medical care to any of its residents. chris christie thinks he knows how to get democrats and republicans to cut a compromise deal on those controversial forced spending cuts that kicked in last friday. he says just get both sides in one room and don't let them out until there's an agreement. the new jersey governor blasting the president for a lack of leadership and calling out congress for doing nothing to stop the so-called sequester.

>> if the federal government can't cut one cent out of a dollar, and not bring the economy and the country to its knees, then the government is in awful shape to begin with. unfortunately, the president has overplayed this in a major way. and i think you see them starting to back it back now a little bit. planes aren't going to be falling out of the sky. >> christie says the worst thing about the cuts is that right now nobody is discussing spending on entitlements like social security and medicare. martha stewart expected to arrive at the courthouse in lower manhattan at any moment. stewart is expected to testify in a civil trial that's pitting macy's against retail rival jc penney over a partnership with her company martha stewart living omny media. an unusual standoff off the coast of california. police say two men and a woman stole an 82-foot luxury sailboat from a marina near san francisco and packed it with pizza and beer. the boat ran aground about 20 miles south in pacifica.

the suspects, two men and a woman, refused to surrender to police for hours. they were finally pulled off the yacht. presumably when they were full of the pizza and beers. by sheriff's deputies. they were placed under arrest. >> it's a party, dude. >> did not end well for them, of course. cash for good grades? thanks to a $7 million grant frrt university of notre dame several high schools in indiana will be able to pay for students for high scores. it's set up as an incentive to get more students to enroll in advanced classes. it works like this. when a student scores a 3 out of 5 or better on an advanced placement test, they'll get a check for 100 bucks. get this. their teacher does also. study. sound like a good deal. >> how do you feel about that? paying people to achieve in school? or shouldn't we do it the old-fashioned way? like you should get a good grade on your a.p. test because there's a payoff down the road? >> aren't their bonuses on jobs? >> yeah. but they're students. >> if folks get paid, get bonuses on their jobs -- >> should we give money to teachers and put that money into

afterschool programs. >> it's private funding here, obviously. >> i'm not taking a position. i'm just throwing it out to the panel. >> any way you can get it done, obviously maybe there are better ways to get it done. if you can motivate your kid in some way to do better on a test, why not take that route? we'll see whether this actually pays dividends for the kids. >> if it actually works. >> it's also rewarding teachers for performance. >> listen, i'm a parent. i believe in bribery and blackmail. that's really what my entire parent strategy is. >> i don't think testing actually leads to learning. >> right. so the question is, what does lead to learning, i guess is the question. okay. let's talk to this kid. the best buzzer beater ever in the history of forever. didn't happen at the nba. happened at a new york high school. sectional champion, a senior who was khalil edney let the 55-foot shot rip with .1 second remaining on the clock. the insane basket propelled ninth seeded new rochelle high school to a 61-60 victory over

third seeded m. vernon. khalil joins us from the gym this morning. he's also got his coach with him, young. we've got the regional state finals this afternoon. khalil, nice to have you. so walk me through how it went down. give us the play by play while we show everybody the video. because we love this shot. >> it was a designed play. you know, we run it every day in practice. they were double teaming clark. i had to get the ball and fire before the five-second call. the ball got intercepted by mt. vernon. i guess he wanted to celebrate by throwing the ball in the air. he didn't throw the ball high enough in the air. so i jumped for it and i caught it. just heaved it in the air. >> the rest is history. there was only .1 second on the clock. at first people didn't think you'd made it in time. what did you think? you make the basket, they're like, yeah, no basket, sorry. >> when it went in, i didn't

hear the ref saying it was no good. because my team was celebrating and i was underneath the pile at that time. so me hearing that no good call was -- i didn't hear it. >> when did you know it was good? in the air, did you think this was going in? >> the minute it left your fingers? >> i knew it was good once it hit the ground and it went in and the crowd went crazy. that's how i knew it was good. >> coach, i got to ask you. let's just be honest. you had to be ticked off. your guy turned the ball over. you looked up. i know you were going, how did this guy turn the ball over? come on, coach. be honest. >> you know, it's a tough pass to make, you know, full length of the court. mt. vernon is such an athletic team. you know, he was going to pass to joe clark. he's been our go-to guy all year. they double team him and they stole the ball.

we lucked up. >> y'all are playing now. i take it you're telling your players if we have the game won, you cradle that ball like a baby. >> absolutely. hold the ball. let them foul you. you know, secure the ball. secure the ball. >> khalil, as you guys are preparing for the state finals, the regional state finals, right? that's what you're practicing for now. how are you feeling going into that? >> i'm just ready to play, you know. i had a bad first half against mt. vernon. and this game here, i'm feeling 100% now. i'm just ready to go. >> you made up for that bad first half at the end of the second half there. are you working on more plays for the 60-foot shots? is that what's going on in practice here now? >> no. actually, i'm not. i'm just practicing with my team. taking normal shots now. so it's -- just ready for today's game. >> coach, can i ask you a question? i heard that khalil is also a

standout football player, too. >> yes. yes. yes, he is. he's a better football player than he is basketball. he won a state championship in football, starting quarterback. that speaks volumes. >> that khalil guy is all right, i guess. now, he's a senior. so what happens when this double threat, highly valued player for both teams graduates? >> you know, khalil have options. we have to wait and see exactly what he want to do. i want him to go to school for football. like i say, he's a much better football player than he is basketball. i think his future would be nice with football. go to school and most of all get the education. >> sorry, folks, but the nba has guaranteed contracts. nfl doesn't. i would say go the nba route. >> i vote for the education. don't listen to either of them. education, education. khalil, can i put you on the spot? >> education. that's right. school, school, school. >> exactly. see? yes. you can also play basketball and

football. but education. get your mba. you make a lot of money that way, too. listen. grab a basketball. make that shot for me again. can you do it? >> i can try. >> right there. >> they're like, give him the basketball. >> right there. >> let's go. >> all right. no pressure. no pressure. >> see what you got? >> oh! khalil, congratulations. >> you're not playing baseball. >> congratulations on the game the other day and to your coach, too. and congratulations on all your success. >> thank you. >> and the education. we're rooting for you. appreciate you being with us this morning. got to take a break. still ahead on "starting point" -- i love that guy. i love that kid. love that kid. superstorm sandy, we're going to talk about that. the nor'easter that hit the east coast. are all these things a sign of

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returned to his passion. >> reporter: i first met bruce filer three years ago when he was trying to rebound from a cancer diagnosis. grappling with the possibility of dying, before his twin daughte daughters, eden and tybie grew up. facing his own mortality -- >> i could just feel my body sort of slipping away. >> reporter: he makes an extraordinary request. >> will you help be their dad? >> reporter: thankfully bruce and his family got through that. and today bruce has no evidence of cancer in his body. with all that behind him, he has resumed doing what he does best. writing. his new book is called "the secrets of happy families." what inspired you to write this book? >> we were always on the defense. that's what it's like, you know, to be a parent these days. >> reporter: are there ground rules? are there things that cannot be

said, for example? >> no. you are allowed to criticize the parents. >> just the other week they were saying, you know, dad, you were yelling too much. in fact, we have this ipad and we recorded you yelling. linda loved this, she was giving them a high-five. they said, yeah, mom, but we got you cursing, too. it turns out there's only ten minutes of productive time in any meal. research shows you can take that ten minutes and put it any time of the day and still have the benefits. can't have family dinner? have family breakfast. meet for a bedtime snack. >> should we play the game? >> frog. >> suddenly i'm a ballerina. >> here's my favorite thing from "the secrets of happy families." researchers at emory gave kids a simple do you know test. do you know where your grandparents were born? do you know where your parents went to high school? if children understand that they're part of a larger narrative, then they're more capable of coping. so you should spend time telling and retelling the story of your

family's positive moments and the negative moments and how you overcame them. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >> coming up next, daryl hannah's new documentary. "greedy, lying bastards." takes a look inside the enormous power of those fighting to deny climate change. we'll take a look at that coming up. hey! did you know that honey nut cheerios has oats that can help lower cholesterol? and it tastes good? sure does! ♪ wow. [ buzz ] delicious, right? yeah. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... ♪ well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? bee happy. bee healthy. with clusters of flakes and o's. oh, ho ho... it's the honey sweetness. i...i mean, you...love.

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daryl hannah has been with us all morning.

she's also executive producer of a new movie called "greedy, lying bastards" causing major buzz not just for the name. the film takes a look at campaigning that deny climate change. let's play a little clip. >> we actually have had no significant warming. >> the breakup of the ice at the north pole is not unusual. >> right. there is no scientific basis for alarm. >> are you guys funded in part by exxon? >> why did you imagine exxon give you fuel? >> fossil fuel industries have an enormous amount of clout. >> the koch brothers gave millions and millions to not do anything to fight climate change. >> they basically are in the business of selling doubt. >> that's one of the most powerful lines. they're in the business of selling doubt. it's that doubt that keeps this conversation, i think, about global warming going. >> it's true. because there is actually a consensus that it is happening. and that it is also human caused. however -- and even -- what's really interesting, is even rex

tillerson from exxon now has finally acknowledged that climate change is actually happening. even the koch brothers. they will publicly come out and acknowledge it. yet then they will still funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to make sure climate legislation isn't passed. that there's false information put out about the climate crisis. and also about clean energy and the possibilities. so while they want to, you know, not sound like idiots and say, well, nothing's happening when you can -- obviously it's so clear now. we've got epic droughts. unprecedented droughts in the midwest, in our bread basket of our country. wildfires and superstorms and floods. i mean, arctic ice sheets melting in unprecedented fashions, et cetera. it's impossible to deny those facts, simple facts. like you put the ph strip in the ocean, it's 30% more acid than it ever has been. >> what was your personal interest in this? why climate change and environmental issues overall for you? you've gotten arrested because of your passion for some of

these topics. >> many times. >> a handful of times. >> first of all, i don't think that that's something that's really so bad. i mean, martin luther king was arrested 30 times before he was the age of 39 to right incredible wrongs. and we're at a time of extreme crises. i mean, we are facing a possible threat to our very life support systems. i mean, a week and a half ago, the world bank, the world bank, who financed most of these large fossil fuel projects, you know, mega dams, et cetera, put out their own report on the climate crisis. and it was, like, the worst horror film i've ever seen in my life. it was the scariest scenario. they said that if we raise the temperature of the earth four degrees celsius, specially it's total systems collapse. mass starvation, mass extinctions. the picture that they portray in their report was so horrifying that they had no choice but to make urgent recommendations to

make radical changes, to stop fossil fuels immediately. >> do you think you're getting -- >> that's from the world bank. >> what's the take away? what do you want people who watch your film to do when they leave the theater? >> well, to -- to hold these fossil fuel companies accountable. because, see, i believe that they're -- first of all, i believe citizens united needs to be eradicated. this ruling that gave corporations the right of a person. because now politicians are doing the bidding of corporations and not doing -- representing us, we the people. they're representing the corporations. because now corporations can give them money to their campaigns. they can, you know, basically send hundreds of lobbyists to make sure that they keep the pressure on so that the politicians are doing their will. when that's all the messaging that they get, they're going to do it. you know, what did upton sinclair say? a guy's not going to do

something when his salary depends upon his doing it. >> in this country any time you try to present any change, folks say it's going to cost us billions. it's going to wreck the economy. we're going to lose jobs. >> are you picking the environment over human beings? >> people go, oh, my god. we can't lose jobs. >> here's the deal. what we're talking about is protecting our ability to survive and our -- and our vital life support systems. now, there's a way to do that. and still create jobs that are domestic jobs with safe, clean energy. and that's where we should be putting all of our resources. not just allowing these companies who are essentially raping and pillaging our ecosystems because they are making record profits. even in this economy. the oil -- the fossil fuel industry is the wealthiest industry in the history of money. in the history of money. and yet we're still paying, you know, through the roof just for our gallons of gas to go to, you know, to take our kids to

school. it is unethical, it's wrong. now we're going to extreme forms of extraction just to get that fuel because we've run out of the easy to get stuff. we have to blow up entire mountain tops. we're just decimating our oldest mountain range in the appalachians. >> keystone. >> the keystone, this is something i think we would all be united on. because it's not a polarizing issue. it's a foreign company coming into our country, taking our farmers and ranchers' lands from eminent domain, which is supposed to be only used for national security. in this case this pipeline which is dpoing to be carrying coroesive tar sand sludge, pushed through it 150 degrees with toxic chemicals, is only going down to the gulf of mexico so they can export it. they say that in their own documents. this is not for energy security for america. this is not going to affect our gasoline prices except for possibly to raise them because the price per barrel that they can get down in the gulf of mexico to export is $20 higher a barrel. >> the issue is a tough one. >> they try to confuse you.

that's what it is. >> why are you passionate about it? >> it's infuriating. it's outray jou routray jous. it should be illegal. >> "greedy, lying bastards." opens nationwide in theaters on friday. we've got to take a break. "end point" is up next. stay with us. to current and former military members and their families. life brings obstacles. usaa brings retirement advice. you know you could just use bengay zero degrees. medicated pain relief you store in the freezer. brrr...see ya boys. [ male announcer ] bengay zero degrees. freeze and move on.

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