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>> unacceptable behavior. >> it is unacceptable. that's it for us. "starting point with soledad o'brien" starts right now. welcome, everybody. our starting point this morning, a major winter storm is slamming the east coast, dumped record snow in the midwest. now here's a live look at flakes that are starting to fall in the nation's capital. we'll take a look this morning at the damage that's already been caused and tell you who can expect to get hit next. plus the cdc sounding the alarm about a superbug that's nearly untreatable and it's spreading. are you at risk? we'll have a live report this morning with what you need to know. stock futures are climbing this morning after the dow finally reached an all-time high. will we see another record at today's closing bell? and you can't wear your shoes going through security, but you can now bring a small knife onto planes. the new tsa rules that have a lot of people scratching their heads this morning. and this, did the dutchess of cambridge let it slip if

she's having a boy or a girl? the royal family might want to start buying pink. >> oh, it could be a girl. it's wednesday, march 6th. "starting point" begins right now. welcome, everybody. happening right now, a vicious winter storm is bearing down on the nation's capital. the heart of d.c. is expected to see 4 to 8 inches of snow of the surrounding areas could get 20 inches of snow. a severe weather warning is in effect for the region. d.c. area schools are closed. federal offices also closed. right now nearly 30,000 customers are already without power across eight states and d.c. five major airlines have cancelled more than 1,000 flights today because of the storm. that's expected to dump more snow in d.c. that they have seen in years. got the storm covered from all sides. joe johns is live for us in winchester, virginia. karen maginnis is in the severe weather center and shannon travis is live at washington

dulles international. joe, let's begin with you. obviously a travel nightmare for folks. how is it looking besides nice and beautiful and snowy behind you? >> reporter: well, it certainly is beautiful. i mean just amazing here, quite frankly. we are right on the edge of the shenandoah valley, and for authorities, as you said, a travel nightmare. there are thousands of sand and salt trucks out at this hour working overtime to try to deal with the situation. authorities are telling motorists if you can stay home. if you can't, be very careful on the roads. this is a very thick, wet snow that melts as it touches your clothes. people have been dealing with this all over the country since yesterday. it's already breaking records and it's not over yet. the massive deadly storm started its march in the upper plains. parts of north dakota had over a foot of snow.

ditto in minnesota, where wrecks littered the highways. when traffic did move, it moved slowly. then on to wisconsin and more treacherous roads. a semi fell into the red cedar river, killing the driver and closing part of the interstate for hours. in chicago, the afternoon commute was an icy, snowy mess. >> it doesn't make for good driving but at the same time it's beautiful out, the snow, the quiet. >> reporter: the 10 inches of snow at o'hare airport set a record for most snowfall on that date. more than 1,000 flights in and out of chicago were cancelled. overnight the snow started piling up in indiana. >> it was scary. it just felt like i was on ice and it was just really slippery. >> reporter: and ohio. but amid the misery, there is a

bright side. >> it's pretty sweet. >> it feels like being on a mattress or a cloud. >> reporter: now, that big monstrous cloud is bearing down on virginia, has washington in its sights, and it's still far from being over. >> you have to get on the road, use extreme caution. drive slower than you normally would. >> reporter: so the good news, of course, as i said about the snow is the ability to make a snowman. our producer, larry shaughnessy, who right now is holding a snowball and about to hit me with it has made this snow man -- well, as you can see, it's not very good. >> yeah, but it's early yet. you have time. tell him to keep working on it. it's a nice little mini snowman. i'm sure in just a few hours you'll be able to make a big massive snowman. airports around the country, no shocker here, feeling the pain with more than 1,000 flights cancelled due to the storm. 650 of those flights were from united airlines. u.s. airways had to ground 350

flights, 20 american airlines flights were nixed due to the storm. let's get right to shannon travis. he's live at washington dulles airport. how's it looking where you are today? >> reporter: it's a bit of a ghost town here, soledad, although we want to tell our viewers the airport is open. we've heard a few jets take off here and there for a lot of the morning. mostly the sound that we're hearing are these big snow plows coming in salting the roads and moving the snow out of the way. in terms of those flight cancellations that you just mentioned, again, over a thousand. you mentioned united and u.s. air, i'll just rattle off a few more. american airlines for today cancelled 20. 360 cancelled yesterday. delta we're still waiting on word from them for flight cancellations for today. and southwest no major ones. one person that's hoping that he can find some rest here at the airport, because his flight was cancelled, was a man that we spoke with earlier on his way to a much sunnier place. take a listen.

>> what are you going to do? >> i'm going to go get a hot breakfast and i'm going to eat some burritos. >> in honor of mexico. >> that's right. and sit in a sun lamp, i guess. >> reporter: in honor of mexico, soledad, because that's where he was on his way to before he got stranded. >> shannon travis for us, thanks, shannon. let's get right to karen maginnis who's tracking the system for us this morning. where's it going to hang out and where's it going to move on to? >> you've said the key word, soledad. it is going to be a slow mover even though it will push out an. that's why new york city, you're expecting that heavy, wet snow. coastal flood warnings have been issued. but even up towards boston, 4 to 8 inches possible. now, the confidence of some of these forecasts is fairly low. that's because we don't know exactly what's going to happen with this low. now, to the west of interstate

95, right around the metropolitan d.c. area, this is where we're looking at significant snowfall. feel fairly confident 15 to 20 inches expected. joe johns, the elevation where he is, winchester, their elevation is close to 1,000 feet, so 15 to 20 inches possible there with that rain/snow mix making its way up the eastern seaboard. this is an event that's going to take place all the way through friday. here's a view of the capitol. the snow really has picked up in the past hour or so. winds are gusty. we'll see some of those wind gusts up around 50 miles an hour. here you can see one report with gusts around 32, but that's only going to increase as the afternoon carries on. soledad. >> all right, karen, thanks for the update. ahead this morning, who can get congress to move? mother nature might be the only person who can get congress to move because the snowstorm moving into the nation's capital. the house has decided to vote today on a plan that would continue funding the federal government through the ending of the fiscal year. the vote was scheduled for tomorrow but they're worried

weather will knock that out. all eyes on wall street looking to see if the market can make it two records in a row. the dow closing yesterday just below 14,253, which is a new record high. breaks the old record from back in october of 2007. those glory days before everything went into the tank. lets get right to our resident financial geniuses, ali velshi and christine romans. >> if we were geniuses, we would not be here in this hour of the morning. we'd be having our people call you from our yacht. >> it's almost as if we erased all those bad days. no, it's a record but it's 30 stocks. the dow is 30 stocks. the s&p 500 probably more representative of what's in your 401. >> not a record, but your gain has been bigger. if you invested on march 9th, 2009, which turned out to be the bottom. christine and i have opinion screaming we're going to find the bottom. it did happen to be then. >> thanks for the heads up. >> but the dow was 6500. the gain on the s&p 500, which is bigger, 500 stocks, is actually greater and the gain of

all stocks is actually bigger. so it's not limited. but i tell you the difference back then, everybody was celebrating. people were excited, it was a cool thing, the economy was feeling hot and the stock market reflected it. all i've heard for the last 24 hours is that's just the fat cats. this isn't for everybody. >> and that's what you were saying about where you feel it in your 401(k). >> 53% of americans are spoetsd to the stock market which means a lot of other people will be saying a record high in stocks, who cares, i need a job, i need a raise, my net income is down, i don't feel confident. the missing ingredient is that companies haven't been turning -- the stock market is a reflection of how companies are doing. companies haven't been turning all of this progress into new projects. they have been putting it in the bank. so we haven't seen corporate -- it's called corporate engagement. we haven't seen the corporate engagement yet. >> a little exception. you said 53% of americans are exposed to the stock market. but lots of us are exposed to the stock market because we work for companies that are doing that well. so that 30 however months of job

growth we've seen, that's some benefit. >> but it's been slower than you would normally see coming out of a recession. >> so you see the stock market doing this. >> you're like a married couple arguing about the stock market. >> jobs have been increasing but the stock market is increasing more. this is a chart, by the way. we're a little low tech. >> i thought it was yoga. >> there you go, that's better. that's actually a chart. that space at the end is what people are worried about. jobs are not going up as much as the stock market is going up. >> why would that be a worry? >> because it used to be that when you had companies doing well, that was good for america. >> so companies and people are not doing well together. >> and will that number come back together? we'll have more stock market charades in the next mauer. john berman has a look at other stories this morning. new this morning, the lead dancer of russia's famed bolshoi ballet now in police custody for an alleged acid attack on the company's artistic director. police say he ordered the

attack. he and two others confessed on camera. the victim suffered severe burns to his face and neck. authorities say hostile relations between the two bolshoi figures may have led to the attack but the exact motive as of this moment is not known. a group representing survivors of sexual abuse by priests has made a lis t of cardinals it says would be the worst papal candidates based on their handling of child sex abuse claims. this as the cardinals continue to consider who would be the next church leader. after two meetings on monday and another yesterday, the cardinals took time for private talks and research. two-thirds of electors either didn't live in rome or come from far away and they need more time to get to know one another and potential contenders. the timing of the conclave still not set. the tsa is making big changes for air travelers. for the first time since the 9/11 attacks passengers can saer small pocket knives and sporting

equipment. also those small souvenir baseball bats. knives with blades that are 2.36 inches or shorter and less than a half inch wide will be permitted on flights as long as the blade is not fixed or does not lock into place. razor blades and box cutters are still banned. this news catching everyone's attention. is the royal secret out? the british newspapers buzzing this morning with speculation that prince william's pregnant wife, catherine, is expecting a girl. so according to the "telegraph" the dutchess almost let the sex of her unborn fan slip when she was chatting with fans. one fan handed her a teddy bear and she replied thank you, i will keep that for my d -- we're only left to speculate. >> did you ever call in utero your baby, your son? >> i called him my cost centers actually. >> i never referred to children in utero as my daughter.

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welcome back, everybody. thousands of venezuelans are expected to line the streets this morning to see and pay tribute to the late leader, hugo chavez. his body will be taken from the hospital where he died to a military academy in caracas. the country has declared seven days of mourning, closed schools for the rest of the week, deployed the armed forces to keep the peace. shasta darlington is following everything from caracas. give us a sense of how venezuelans are dealing with all of this. >> reporter: well, hugo chavez has left a divided nation and you can really feel that today. as you mentioned, thousands of venezuelans already taking to the street, preparing to see his body as it passes. others just coming to terms with the fact that this president, who's been around for 14 years, will no longer be here. a tempestuous era in venezuela's history. to his supporters, a golden era and they took to the streets of

caracas to proclaim the revolution will continue, many in tears. his mantle has passed to vice president nicolas maduro, who told the venezuelan people we civilians and military assume his legacy, his challenges, his project. maduro, a former foreign minister and union leader and a speaker of the parliament will try to carry the torch of the revolution. but neither has chavez' wit and populist charm. a presidential election has to be held within 30 days, and most analysts expect maduro to ride a wave of sympathy to victory. the revolution is embedded in the military, the courts, the bureaucracy. chavez had 14 years to see to that. the main opposition candidate is likely to be enrique caprillas who cut chavez' margin of victory to 11 points in the last election. whoever becomes the next leader

of venezuela has a host of problems to deal with. an economy battered by inefficient management and mercurial socialism. a huge public payroll, rampant inflation, astronomical levels of violent crime. and then the question of how to continue leading a leftist front across latin america. through generous shipments of subsidized oil to allies like cuba, bolivia and nicaragua. for now the anti-u.s. rhetoric as fluid as ever. our enemies have damaged our commander's health. with maduro even accusing others of causing chavez' cancer. in a statement the white house set the benchmark for warmer ties. as venezuela begins a new chapter in its history, the united states remains committed to policies that promote democratic principles, the rule of law, and respect for human rights, it said. any fresh start won't be helped by the expulsion of two u.s. diplomats in the hours before chavez died. accused of plotting against the

government, a charge immediately rejected by the united states. now, president barack obama did not rise to that provocation. instead he said he'd like to build a new relationship with venezuela, soledad. >> shasta darlington for us this morning. thank you, shasta. one of the most contentious issues on capitol hill is illegal immigration. up next, we'll tell you how jeb bush angered both sides of the aisle talking about the pathway to citizenship. that story is up next. we're back in a moment. [ female announcer ] born from the sweet monk fruit, something this delicious could only come from nature.

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for the white house. that's not exactly a shocker. people have been talking about jeb bush and he's become in the spotlight over the national immigration debate. the former florida governor has just written a new book about overhauling the nation's immigration system. seems to be backing legal status for undocumented immigrants, but not a path to citizenship. which means in essence he's pissing off people on both sides of the aisle by doing that. so when bush began back tracking on his position, cnn's chief washington correspondent, jake tapper, jumped into that conversation. here's how that went. >> i have supported both, both a path to legalization or a path to citizenship with the underlying principle being that there should be no incentive for people to come illegally at the expense of coming legally. today basically the only path to come to this country other than family reunification is to come illegally. >> so, i'm not sure that that's true. i think that the people who talked about overhauling our

immigration system is sort of two-pronged. on one hand you have to deal with a number of people who are in the country illegally, but also there's the number of visas that have been challenging for those who have good work opportunities that are stuck all the way. >> it's like groundhog day. i can't believe we're doing another bush. >> so early. 2016. >> and what he's saying is fascinating. jeb bush's book went to press in december before you had this bipartisan group of senators that came out with a plan that included marco rubio from florida and included a path to citizenship. so he was outflanked in a way by the policy on this and finds himself defending a position that is not in the forefront of the immigration debate, where jeb bush is used to being. >> there's two interesting things. number one, the idea that we are talking about right now what is positioning for 2016. all of this is years out. and then also the changing position of the gop on immigration is what makes this a very prickly situation. >> a rapid change. we're talking like over weeks in

this case. >> submit your proposal and by the time they printed it -- >> but it's a crazy position for 2016 because obviously the republicans lost because they lost the hispanic vote. how is he going to win that back with this type of policy. >> i think it's more complicated than that. i think there are plenty of republicans who have come on our show who would say it's a very nuanced issue. lots of republicans believe that latinos are, what's the phrase, they are republicans. they just don't know it yet. and i've had someone tell me that many, many times. >> i actually lost a bet on that saying that by about now the hispanics would be thought of as solidly republican. i totally lost that bet. >> what's interesting is i think that the idea of looking at the issues for latinos is only immigration which people often do is a mistake. to look at any population whichin parentally is so diverse anyway and then say our immigration position, plus you have the whole negativity in the conversation, i think, influenced voters as well. >> that's what i think he stepped in, because we're kind of in a trend of more tolerance

toward gay marriage. we're kind of in a nicer period than -- this is speaking to the hate caucus of the gop. >> the question is, was it inadvertent or purposeful. did he think he was leading on this issue? >> it's fascinating that we'll be talking about this again from now until 2016. >> i'm glad you think it's fascinating. >> i do. i'll leave you with one thing. my mom is cuban and she's a naturalized citizen. immigration is not an issue for her at all. and yet when she would get the negative rhetoric with immigration -- >> it pushes her buttons. >> the woman has no dog in the fight in that and it would absolutely send her over the edge. i think that had some reaction outside of just my mom and cubans certainly. still ahead, could the president ever order a drone attack against an american on u.s. soil? we'll tell you why the attorney general, eric holder, is not ruling it out. and a rare and dangerous superbug is popping up at an alarming rate in hospitals across the country. some doctors say it's a major threat. we'll take a look at that straight ahead.

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welcome back, everybody. take a look. right now there is snow falling on the nation's capital. schools and federal offices are closed. winter weather alerts are in effect for much of the central and eastern part of the country and we're getting an update from utilities, more than 93,000 customers are without power this morning and most of them are in the state of virginia. this is all from that monster storm that's already blanketed several cities, grounded flights from the dakotas to ohio. coastal flood warnings and advisories are in effect for portions of the mid-atlantic from maryland to connecticut. some people in new jersey towns are voluntarily evacuating after they went through all that trouble and disaster during superstorm sandy. karen ma begin igs gin superstorm sandy. karen ma begin igs ginis is tra system for us.

what does it look like and when does it move on? >> well, it's going to take some time, soledad, because as the storm system sweeps to the east it's going to slow down. you mentioned the power outages in virginia. why? because the bull's-eye as far as the snowfall totals are concerned, 20 or more inches across northern sections of virginia, where our correspondent joe johns is. they could see 15 to 20 inches of snowfall there. not to be left out, besides washington, d.c., pretty much shutting down, 4 to 8 inches of snow expected there, new york city 2 to 4. 4 to 8 for boston with the potential for coastal flooding. right now as we take a look at that capitol building, the snowfall is not heavy, but it's persistent and will continue for the afternoon, making travel difficult on the roadways. expect a number of power outages for this afternoon with, soledad, possibly 50-mile-an-hour wind gusts. >> what a mess. thanks for the update. appreciate that. big story we're following this morning as well, there's a warning from the cdc about a hard-to-stop superbug.

it's a deadly nightmare bacteria that's on the rise in u.s. hospitals. our senior medical correspondent is elizabeth cohen. tell us a little bit about this superbug. >> this superbug lives in hospitals, soledad, and is spread by the hands of the people who work at hospitals. doctors, nurses and others. and here's the problem. most antibiotics do not work against it. and the ones that do can either -- don't work very well or can be toxic, both to the kidney and to the neurological system. so let's look at what the numbers say according to this new cdc report. they said last year it showed that 200 hospitals had at least one case of this in their hospital or in their nursing home. so that's one case in at least 200 hospitals and nursing homes. and again, antibiotics, they have tested it and most of them just don't work. >> so then what do they do? if you know immune owe-compromised patients and people whose job it is to go from patient to patient to patient, it sounds like potentially a disaster.

>> first of all, those people need to do a better job of washing their hands. it's getting better by some accounts but they need to just wash their hands better. another question is what can you do, since you aren't in control of what hospitals do. so you have to ask those doctors and nurses to wash their hands when they come in. does it matter if they're wearing gloves or not. if you don't see them wash their hands or sterilize them, ask them to do it. also wash your own hands frequently. and if you've got a catheter in you, get it out as quickly as you can. every day say can it come out today because those can harbor bacteria. >> i had one of those bugs a couple of years ago. >> a superbug? >> yeah, i went in for an abscess surgery under my skin and was getting ready to go. suddenly i looked up and everybody in the room looked like they were in a moon suit. i had to stay an extra three days and i was two weeks at hope on antibiotics. it was a nightmare. scary as hell. >> you went in relatively healthy, but if you're someone who's not healthy and to have

another flood of treatment is really, really difficult. >> you're not supposed to get sicker in the hospital. >> that's where all the sick people are. clearly it makes it easier to get much sicker. other stories making news. attorney general eric holder refusing to rule out the possibility of using drone strikes against americans on u.s. soil. senator rand paul had been threatening to hold up the confirmation of john brennan for cia director until his questions about the administration's domestic drone policy were addressed. this morning he has his answer and paul calls it an affront to the constitution. chris lawrence joins us now live from the pentagon this morning. so chris, lay out this white house policy, this new seemingly policy of domestic drone strikes. >> reporter: john, basically eric holder is psibility that down the road there could be a circumstance in which it would. that may be very shocking to some americans who don't believe the u.s. government would ever have the power to assert that kind of authority. but in this letter, attorney general holder basically says

this is a hypothetical situation. it's not something the government is considering. and he hopes that no president would ever have to confront this. but it is possible, i suppose, to imagine an extraordinary circumstance in which it would be necessary and appropriate under the constitution and applicable laws of the united states for the president to authorize the military to use lethal force within the territory of the united states. he goes on to provide some examples of those so-called extraordinary circumstances, such as preventing perhaps the attack on pearl harbor or more recently the attacks on september 11th, 2001. but this opens up a whole can of worms. i mean when you look at the government's targeting of u.s. citizens abroad in yemen, the killing of anwar al awlaki, some of those families of u.s. citizens filed a lawsuit against the federal government.

having that happen on u.s. soil would open up all kinds of possibilities, because while the obama administration rightfully is saying they were asked this hypothetical question, it is hypothetical, what is hypothetical today may not be so in five, ten, 15, 20 years. >> very good point, chris. a hypothetical discussion that i think will be the source of great debate in washington very, very soon. chris lawrence at the pentagon, our thanks to you. meanwhile, a stunning confession in an attack that nearly blinded the director of russia's famous bolshoi ballet. police say the company's lead dancer has admitted to planning an acid attack on the ballet company's artistic director. cnn's phil black is following developments for us live from moscow this morning. phil, this is just a bizarre story. >> reporter: it is indeed, john. police here have released this video of the man, the leading dancer with the bolshoi ballet. he is heard speaking in russian confessing to this acid attack. he says i was responsible for organizing this attack but not to the extent that it happened.

so it's somewhat a qualified confession there. what did happen? well, this was back in january when the artistic director of the bolshoi ballet was outside his apartment building. someone approached him, called his name, he turned. that someone threw a jar of sulfuric acid in his face. the police here now say they have also caught the person who threw the acid and a third person who acted as the driver that night. as for the motive, well, it's always centered on the possibility here of rivalries and jealousies within the bolshoi ballet. police have confirmed they believe it was because of hostile relations between these two men at work but no further details just yet. >> phil black in moscow, our thanks to you. a significant new development in the trayvon martin alleged murder case. shooter george zimmerman's defense team deciding not to seek immunity under florida's stand your ground law. zimmerman's lawyers cancelling a hearing scheduled for next month that could have freed their client if it went their way. instead they will try to convince a jury that zimmerman shot and killed the unarmed

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welcome back, everybody. a heart-warming story from the nfl. the denver broncos von miller, one of the best -- what's that? shout out to texas. a linebacker in the nfl so inspired by his 6-year-old cousin's recovery from a coma, he's guaranteed a super bowl win next season.

how about that for going out on a limb. joe carter has more on that in the bleacher report. >> good morning, soledad. yeah, that is a pretty bold, big, strong prediction, whatever you want to call it. but this prediction does come from a very good place. it's in support for a very young boy who just dodged death. on monday miller tweeted out this. he said you can post it anywhere denver broncos will win the super bowl in the 20 13 season. he added hash tag #4u jeremiah. now, when jeremiah, the 6-year-old, came out of the coma he told everyone in the room so proudly that his cousin is a denver bronco. in a recent radio interview von miller said that statement is what motivated the super bowl guarantee. >> my younger cousin, he got in a wreck about a week ago, and he just got out of a coma. he remembered that his cousin plays for the denver broncos and his name is von miller. it's a little bit extra for me and i'm extremely motivated.

>> all right, i like it. if he can beat a coma, we can win the super bowl. well, it's considered the most unique celebration in sports and it could be changing very soon. for years you've seen the winning nascar driver at that race in texas celebrate by firing two six-shooters into the air from victory lane. well, the track president there says he's willing to change the celebration and alter it for the upcoming april 13th race if any of the race's sponsors are opposed to it. a fan at the lakers/thunder game, this guy nailed a half-court shot and for it he wins $20,000. if anybody could use this money, it's this guy. see his wife right there? she's a high school teacher and she's also fighting cancer. not only does this couple have mounting hospital bills, they have to clothe and feed seven children. congratulations to them. the miami heat last week put out their version of the harlem shake. lebron james and company in my opinion did the best sports version out there. but, like a lot of us out there, we've got harlem shake fatigue,

especially the minnesota timberwolves. ♪ that's how you put an end to a viral video. good-bye. ain't nobody got time for that. the t-wolves mascot not feeling it anymore. good-bye, harlem shake. the chicago blackhawks extended their record-setting point streak to 23 straight games last night by beating the minnesota wild. our friends at bleacher report are making a bold prediction. they're saying this team will not win the stanley cup. bold predictions this morning, soledad. >> you're all about the bold predictions. can we go back to the guy who made the basket, won $20,000, wife has cancer, has seven kids. remind us who are they? if people want to reach out and help them, $20,000 is great but nowhere near enough for seven kids and cancer treatment. so remind us about this young lady in case someone wants to reach out and help them out. >> well, the information that we

got is that she is a high school teacher. obviously she doesn't make a terrible -- very large living. and that this family has a lot of bills and they could use the help -- any help that they could get. they're oklahoma city fans. the guy says he's a laker fan. his name -- their last name is jamal. we still don't have a whole lot of information on them. >> you know what we should do -- >> contact the oklahoma city thunder and contact media relations and get the information. >> we'll reach out and tweet that out. what a great story. $20,000 which is a ton of money, nowhere near enough for those kids. >> thank you for that update. bold, bold predictions today. up next, gun control debate is not only about the second amendment right to bear arms, a lot of people just like owning guns. we have a panelist with a new book that explores the nation's love affair with guns. that's ahead. ♪

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welcome back to "starting point," everyone. former secretary of state henry kissinger is out of the hospital this morning after taking a fall at his new york city home. the 89-year-old kissinger, who served under presidents nixon and ford was admitted yesterday to new york presbyterian hospital. no details about his injuries have been released. so starting this weekend, all white house tours are cancelled. casualties of the government's forced spending cuts. the tours will not be rescheduled and the white house visitors center says the freeze will be in place until further notice. the republicans on capitol hill do note that tours of the capitol will continue to go on. >> so what's that about? is that just a pr stunt? >> to get tickets for these white house tours you have to go through your tours you have to through members of congress to get them. some people speculate the white house is putting members on the spot because they have to say no to their constituents to the

white house tours. >> it's difficult to travel if it's that much snow looking out for people's safety? >> good try. two points for the try. >> i'm saying, we're going to have six inches of snow in d.c. >> it's all political. >> i got pretty pictures for you. >> okay. >> this is the san francisco oakland "ballot bowl," what happened was a speshcial $8 million installation using more than 250,000 lights. it is the biggest illuminated sculpture. the "ballot bowl" is sometimes like the ugly stepchild it's getting the respect it deserves. >> every night or a week or so. >> art installation, it's not forever but "ballot bowl" is not the pretty bridge. >> but right now it is. it gets to be the prom queen for a little while. >> thank you for the pictures, john berman, so appreciated.

let's talk about gun control, the issue continues to dominate the political landscape. often it's fair to say the most extreme voices on either side of an issue get the most attention before the tragic shooting in newtown, connecticut, dan baum was a self-professed gun guy, took an 18-month-long trip bypassing the nra and extreme anti-gun activists and speaking directly with people who own guns, it's called "gun guys: a road trip." you're a gun guy yourself. >> i'm a lifelong liberal democrat from awe jewish suburb of new york who has also been a lifelong gun guy because i was a fat guy at summer camp because i could lie on my belly and shoot a rifle. i was a bifurcated individual. there was one point i thought i don't have to go very far to learn about our nation's

conflicted relationship with guns. i can tour the inside of my own skull. >> do you think a lot of people are in the same position? >> i'm hearing from them now. since the booing is out and since i've been doing media and writing some articles i'm hearing from liberal democrats who like guns and who have always felt like i do. when you hang out around democrats in my world, people say the most god awful things about gun owners and you kind vf to ju of have to shut up and pretend you're a closeted gay man and chuckle along. the in, ra makes a lot of misconceptions about gun owners and that's why i did the book. >> 18-month trip. to talk to actual gun owners. >> stopping at every gun store. >> what do you like about guns? >> first of all they are the most beautiful consumer devices you can buy. you can't buy anything else for $400 that will still be working 100 years from now. >> golf clubs? just kidding.

>> probably not. your golf clubs are probably obsolete in five or six years. they're mechanically beautiful and that's where it starts. it goes really deep. i'll tell you the surprises. i knew how much fun they were to shoot. what i didn't realize is gun owners get a tremendous amount of pride from being able to manage these dangerous things with nobody getting hurt, used effectively, take them from the safe, put them in the car, take them to the range, teach people to shoot and there's a little, we get a little contact high from the grim reaper to tell you the truth. there's a death thing the way for skydivers and race car divers. we're walking up to the line of death and saying we are kind of managing the line between life and death. >> i think that analogy -- >> i'm not asking you to like all these people. i'm asking to you listen to these people. >> which i complete a agree

with. >> dan, i don't think it's a question of even i don't like them or i like them. i'm born and raised in texas, i get the whole deal but i think where it begins to evolve into a different conversation, and i appreciate the love of guns, but when you begin to look at the reality of what happens the aftereffect, a guy jumping out of a plane that's just affecting him. when a bullet is fired, you have no idea where that bullet is going so when you begin to talk about guns in this country and the gun culture that's when the conversation begins to shift. >> go ahead. >> i was going to ask, you were right about carrying a concealed weapon. >> i did that for a year and a half to get in the gun guy head and also to identify myself to other gun -- >> here is my question. i grew one a rifle, i'm a really good shot. and i have small children so i always worry about weapons around kids. >> sure i don't blame you. >> i cover a zillion stories of kids shot by guns accidentally

but why do you need a gun when you're going to the whole foods? what's the point? >> you probably don't need a gun when going to the whole foods. >> why do you need a gun? >> i never needed a gun. lot of americans this just in, you'd be amazed how many americans don't live in manhattan. don't live on the upper west side. there are a lot of americans who live in places where they feel they need a gun. >> they're worried for their lives they may be attacked and might need to shoot someone, is that your answer? >> there are 7 million americans who have gotten legal handgun permits. frankly i think most americans get them because they want to carry a gun. the desire to carry the gun precedes the fear of the crime but once you've got the gun you are really lit up with attention and paying attention and it changes. >> we're going to continue this conversation. i have to take a commercial break or we won't need to worry

about this again because they'll take me off. we'll talk more about this, i find your book fascinating the mind-set of the why, we could talk about all morning. >> you don't have to like them but you do need to understand them. snow falling at the capitol building, some folks are predicting 20 inches of snow in the areas surrounding washington, d.c., we'll tell you what to expect from the monster storm, live team coverage straight ahead. and the crane collapse caught on camera, look at that. yeah. that's a bad day, whoever is in charge of that thing. and a smelly dog cage. and parked it at a mall. in texas. for two days. then put a febreze car vent clip on the dash and let in real people. it smells good. like laundry fresh out of like the dryer. yeah. a man fresh out of the shower. nailed it. oh yeah. proof. febreze car vent clips keep your car fresh. another way febreze helps you breathe happy.

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welcome back, everybody our starting point, a winter storm could close our nation's capital today. live on the ground where the storm is headed straight ahead. a dangerous superbug the potentially deadly pack tieria doctors sacannot be stopped by most antibiotics. stock futures are climbing, what's behind the record climb and what you do now. watch out, a construction crane collapses with a splash and it is all caught on camera which you can tell because we just showed you. >> we'll tell you what's behind that. also brad garoreski, "it's brad, brad show." it's wednesday, march 6th and "starting point" begins right now.

cameron russell and roland martin and dan baum, author of "gun guys." fierce winter storm, they're predicting the heart of washington, d.c., could see four to eight inches of snow but the surrounding areas up to 20 inches of snow. severe winter weather warning is in effect, d.c. schools are closed, central offices are closed, more than 93,000 customers are without power at this hour, most are in virginia, five major airlines canceled more than 1,000 flights. the storm covered for you, joe johns is live in winchester, virginia. shannon travis is live at washington dulles international airport. joe, what a big mess and looking worse than when i last saw you. how is it doing? >> reporter: that's for sure,

soledad. right now the wind is picking up a little bit more in the she no shann shenandoah valley. it is sticking and it bring tree answer power lines down. people have been dealing with this since yesterday. it's already breaking records and it's not over yet. the massive deadly storm started its march in the upper plains. parts of north dakota had over a foot of snow. ditto in minnesota where wrecks littered the highways. traffic moved slowly. on to wisconsin and more treacherous roads. semifell into the red cedar

river, killing the driver and closing part of the interstate for hours. in chicago the afternoon commute was an icy, snowy mess. >> doesn't make for good driving but at the same time it's beautiful out, the snow, the quiet. >> the ten inches of snow at o'hare airport set a record for most snowfall on that date. overnight the snow started piling up in indiana. >> it was scary, felt like i was on ice, really slippery. >> reporter: and ohio, but at mid the misery there is a bright side. >> it's pretty sweet. >> feels like being on a mattress or a cloud. >> reporter: now the big monstrous cloud is bearing down on virginia, has washington in its sights and it's still far from being over. >> you have get on the road use extreme caution, drive slower

than you normally wood. >> reporter: underscoring that it has been snowing for hours here in winchester, virginia, and some of the parking lots have been shoveled and scraped a little bit but in all hikely hood, everybody likelihood everybody will be doing that after some time this evening. >> joe johns, thank you. travel nightmare, airports feeling the domino effect from storm related flight disruptions. already 1,000 flights canceled. 650 of them were united flights, u.s. airways 350 flights, 20 flights from american. is it chaos or are they sort of prepared for this? >> reporter: it's actually not chaos, it's pretty much a ghost town as you mentioned a lot of flights canceled here at dulles. i want to give you a sense of other disruptions in the region. we're hearing about cancellations on the hill. one senate hearing on homeland

security management canceled due to the storm, a house hearing on gun violence canceled, we learned about that one yesterday, the hearing is for today and jeb bush, the former florida governor, he was supposed to attend a meeting at the kato institute on immigration reform, that's been canceled. his flight can't get out of new york. back here at dulles you mentioned the flight cancellations. one person is coming from abroad, didn't even know about the storm, flew right into it and now he's essentially sleeping on the inside of the airport. take a listen. >> it's been changed to tomorrow. >> reporter: changed until tomorrow? >> um-hum. >> reporter: what are you about to do? >> go sleep over there, waste my time until i can get on my flight. >> reporter: why sleep in the airport, why not go back to wherever you might have come from? >> i came from kenya. there's no way and they're out of hotel reservations so i'll just sleep here. >> reporter: came from kenya,

headed to san francisco, he's going to waste time and hopes his internet holds up. >> oh, we've all been there. that is just the worst. shannon travis, probably a little jetlag coming from kenya, appreciate it. karen ma ginniginnismaginnis, w storm ed headed? >> the system will impact the atlantic and the northeast for the next 48 hours. it is described as impactful and very destructive. we could see downed trees and power lines. area of low pressure is going to make its way to the atlantic coast and continue out to the atlantic. on the back side it is going to produce heavy snow or rain/snow mix even into new york city, two to four inches possible. for boston four to eight. the confidence is very high as to the snowfall totals to the west of interstate 95, up to 20 inches of snow.

joe johns is in that winchester area and it's going to be steady all day. as we go in towards thursday and friday, we're looking at portions of philadelphia and new york extending up to boston, not just that but high winds as well, wind gusts as high as 50 miles an hour. for washington, d.c., this winter storm is roaring in with a vengeance, could be in the top five snowfall totals of all-time. soledad? >> which is a terrible list to make. thank you, karen, appreciate it. this morning, all eyes on wall street looking to see if the market can make it two record days in a row, the dow closing just below 14,253, breaks the old high from october 2007 which was before the economy crashed. ali velshi and christine romans walk us through this. what is this exactly mean? is it great news for consumers? >> it depends if you're invested or not. christine will point out momentarily a lot of people

aren't. >> he knows what i'm going to say it. i love it. >> you're like a married couple. >> we've had this conversation. if you want to make money in america there are five with a is you can do it, you can rob a bank, marry somebody rich or have your investments go up, the value of your house go up, or the value of your wage go up, and for the last five years -- >> you recommend the last three of those, by the way. >> forget the first two. your housing is working because of low interest rates but that's hard, you have to have money and credit and takes a while. the value of your wage is not going up until we get lower unemployment and higher job growth but that's happening. it's been happening for over two years. for most people there is no other option except to have your money in the stock market and that's why money has been forced out of bank accounts where you get no interest, out of bond funds into the stock market. the stock market, a stock price is a multiple of how much that company is going to earn over the next year. >> it's a reflection of how the company is doing, not how its

employees are doing. >> and companies are doing well. >> there was a day when how the company was doing and the employees were doing was linked. >> right. >> a lot of people are discussing is there this new world where companies do better and make more money and have more money in cash and the bank and not necessarily deploying it into their business. they're giving money back to shareholders and dividends. is there some confidence? just last weekend warren buffett chided ceos saying you're too nervous, do something. america is an optimistic place to be. >> are the companies nervous or have they looked at the last four years we whacked all these people, making more money, productivity is going up. we don't need to hire more folks. >> a lot of their revenues are coming from overseas so these are not "american companies"

these are multinationals. >> interesting to see if they hit the number again today. >> there's no pending news to suggest a big turnaround. john berman has a look at other stories making news. >> venezuelans are mourning the death of hugo chavez. thousands are expected to line the streets to see his body as it is taken from the hospital where he died to a military academy in caracas. venezuela's national baseball was in florida against the marlins, here is the team's fans reaction. >> i'm happy he finally died. >> now we're going to get freedom again. >> we let go of an era that was killing us, holding us back, venezuela has so much potential. >> chavez will lie in-state until friday. the country declared seven days of mourning, closed schools for

the rest of the would ek and deployed armed forces to keep the peace. we have this bizarre story develop overseas. star russian ballet dancer has confessed to masterminding an attack on his boss, the head of the bolshoi ballet company. pafl and two others are in custody. all three confessed on camera. the victim was nearly blinded in the january attack. hostile relations may have led to the attack but an exact motive is not known. there are two cardinal lectors are not in rome yet. group representing survivors of abuse by priests have released a

list. president owe what is inviting a group of republicans for dinner tonight, so far unnamed senator. the sequestration and government shutdown could be on the menu. a floating crane collapses in oregon and it was all caught on camera. utility workers were lifting up a new support structure for the high voltage power lines. the pressure caused the crane to give way. luckily the power lines were not live at the time, no one was hurt. we have sad news for actress valerie harper. according to "people" magazine she's been diagnosed with permanent brain cancer. she may have as little as three months left to live. >> that's so sad. i didn't know about that. sad news. i loved her. still ahead on "starting point," we're going to talk

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believe it or not human sex traffics is taking place on social media, becoming a growing concern for law enforcement and more and more women are accepting friends on sites on facebook only to find that friend is a pimp. here's cnn's lori segal with our report. >> reporter: it started with a friend request on facebook. >> my mentality was he's cute, let me accept him and i accept him, they would message me. >> reporter: they quickly developed a relationship. >> he sold me the biggest dream in the world. you know i thought he really did like me and we were going to live this fairytale life together. >> reporter: what she got was a nightmare. >> he pretty much was like i'm going to put you outside and

you're going to walk and catch dates. i was okay with it because i liked him. he wanted to spend the rest of his life with me, wanted to have kids. he really made it believable. >> reporter: in a mouse click nina became a part of the growing number of victims recruited into sex trafficking. the other end? >> i've been personally beaten with a pistol, i've been duct taped and put in a closet for 24 hours. >> the money part, i wanted money, that's why i did it. >> reporter: lisa who asked us to hide her idea was trafficked for much of her life. she's free now but still receives more than 20 messages a day from pimps. >> whassup wit u boo? >> reporter: they do everything from connect to brag about money. >> almost all of our girls who we're working with now aged 11

all the way up to 22, they are being recruited online, facebook, it's tagged, which a lot of people don't know i call it the creepy facebook and twitter actually, instagram to a smaller degree. >> minors will friend people whether they know them or not just to appear to be popular and somebody who is a pimp can use that information to start looking at what makes a person tick. >> reporter: pimps were doing that. in fairfax county, virginia, revealed in a major 2012 case gang members were using social networking sites like facebook to solicit women. one of the defendants sent over 800 solicitations on facebook, many to women still in high school. but those same pages used to recruit are also used to rescue. >> i can see who all "liked" this and that can lead me to girls looking for health.

>> reporter: facebook reacts swiftly when notified. facebook takes human trafficking seriously and has built complex technical systems to flag and block such material. tag.com has numerous tech and educational tools to empower and protect users and has a dedicated team to respond to unauthorized conduct on the site. nina and lisa, whose names were changed to protect their identities are both still on the social networks where they were recruited. nina is no longer looking for a boyfriend on facebook. lori segal, cnn money, new york. >> wiredsafety.org, perry has received lots of awards for fighting online trafficking. we're baffled, like really? i find it hard to think of that young woman nina, college bound, middle class girl. >> a lot more people than you realize. people are lonely, looking for

love, looking for affection, there are ten different categories of sexual predation ploys that are used and social media you can play with the different ways to find out what will lure that young woman. >> so the pimps literally look at the profile and send questions to figure out where the holes, the gaps are. >> when she shows up in person, why doesn't she turn around and get out of there? >> they're needy. they spot somebody who is needy, looking for love, maybe overweight, not popular, had a bad breakup so they are at risk and in the same way sharks look for floundering -- >> vulnerable. >> these guys do the same thing and they're easier to spot online than you realize. >> these pimps are masters at using language to get people to do things. >> and they know how to use the ploys, the lures, and it's easy

to spot. these young women are often threatened, lured through love, they might be enticed with money. about 11 years ago we brought a young woman home who had been abducted by gangs and lured off to l.a. >> seems there's a profile of a woman who has conservative or strict parents and they're the ones who sort of are looking for a way to have risque behavior online. >> they don't he understand the risk. if something goes wrong they're more vulnerable to blackmail. >> i have six nieces and i will grab the phone and say let's see who you're following. what do you tell parents to say this is the control you should be exerting to understand what your daughter or son is doing on social media. >> they're often getting 16, 17-year-olds and the parents aren't looking what they're doing online and they won't see it. the kids can have different accounts. unless you're smart about using social media you're far more

protected. facebook is doing great stuff, they talked about the technology, i'm one of five members of their international safety board where we're unpaid to yell at them and they watch unusual behavior and work closely with law enforcement. tagged doesn't do that. >> it's about being more involved. >> and special language they use. even if you're looking, pimps have language to talk to each other and certain things they do with their victims. >> i understand. i will snatch her phone. >> parry, always nice to have you. >> always a pleasure. taylor swift is still mad at tina fey and amy poehler's comments at the awards, she feels unsupported by women's voices who could have said something nice about her. they respond.

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welcome back, everybody. trending online, golden globe's cohosts responding to criticism from taylor swift, she didn't appreciate the joke fey and poehler made warning her to stay away from michael fox's son. she says, "there's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women" she was quoting katie couric who told her she told that. poehler told "the hollywood reporter" i do agree i'm going to hell but for other reasons, mostly boring tax stuff. tina said if anyone was going to get mad at us i thought it would be james cameron. >> they're comedians. taylor swift, i think this is her drama publicity. if you keep this going your name is out there.

is there a new album coming out soon? >> i think she's genuinely unhappy and she feels attacks. >> a lot more people should be offended than taylor swift. >> two big breakups. >> it's also a joke. it's a joke. >> she writes a lot of songs about those people. probably has a little bit of a hand in how they become so public. >> you go with the bit and you let it slide and move on. >> move on and no one talks about it. a rare and dangerous superbug popping up in hospitals across the country. doctors say it's a major threat. and a teenager given a job by a guy who owns a restaurant who was impressed by the young man's willingness to walk 20 miles in a winter storm for a job interview. both men, it's a win/win and they're paying it forward. what they're doing, coming up. ♪ all around the world ♪ everybody singin' along ♪ singin' along ♪ never lookin' back

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welcome back. snow falling in the nation's capital now. more than 900,000 public school students in washington, d.c., as well as some of those in parts of virginia and maryland, ohio l all be out of school today because of this oncoming snowstorm. winter weather alerts are in effect for much of the central and eastern part of the country, storm grounded flights from the dakotas to ohio. more than 93,000 customers are without power, most in virginia and thanks to a thick coat of heavy, wet snow which is wrecking the power lines. karen maginnis, good morning. >> good morning, soledad. as we can see at the live picture of the capitol behind

me. the wind is picking up and the snow rate has picked up. the estimates have been all over the place as to how much snowfall they would receive. it is expected between five and ten. now to the west of interstate 95, there could be as much as 20 inches of snowfall. our correspondent joe johns is in the winchester area, 20 plus inches of snow so a bill wallop across north central virginia, less so towards the east. the storm system as it is ramping up it's not dying down, we are looking at the northeast and new england over the next 24 to 48 hours, two to fur in the metro new york area and boston four to eight. >> when you say that could be one for the record books, really hate when you say that. >> snow boots, no big deal. >> now congress won't be able to get anything done, oh, wait a

minute, oh. >> thank you, karen. john berman? the cdc warning about a health nightmare with people infected at the hospital. they are calling it nightmare bacteria, that has resisted even to the strongest antibiotics, the cdc says cases known as cre are on the rise and they kill up to half of the people who get bloodstream infections from them. the attorney general eric holder refuses to rule out the possibility of using drone strikes against u.s. citizens on american soil. he says they could be targeted in extraordinary cases. holder expresses that view in a letter to rand paul. tesla's latest legal challenge against a bbc show is out of gas. that's a good one. tesla accused "top gear" of

defamation after they said the two-seat roadster fell short of its advertised range on a single charge. an appeals judge said viewers could tell the "top gear's" high speed track was testing different compared to a normal driving style and threw out tesla's claim that the claims hurt sales in the uk. "media interviews 2016" jeb bush back in the national spotlight injecting himself into america's immigration debate. he wrote a new book about overhauling our immigration system, he seems to be supporting legal status for illegal immigrants but not a path to citizenship, and this is angering some immigrant rights groups. when bush began backtracking, muddying it up, cnn's jake tapper tried to pin him down. >> i have supported both, both the path to legalization or a path to citizenship with the underlying principle being there should be no incentive for

people to come illegally at the expense of coming legally. today basically the only path to come to this country other than family reunification is to come legally. >> one of the time tested things you do running for president is writing a book. is jeb in for 2016? he told jake tapper he doesn't plan to begin to think about it for another year. >> because 014 is a good year to market your book if you're running for the. the presidency. >> jeb is running. >> he says he's not going to think about it. >> we'll think about it for him and we think he's running. good deeds can pay dividends for everything. jaquil reagan dropped out of high school to take care of his siblings after his mom died. late last month after the storm shut down transportation this kid walks ten miles for an

interview for his minimum wage job. as he gets lost he runs into an restaurant owner, he was so impressed eventually he offered him a job. art posted his experience on facebook, that post has been "liked" 27,000 times, shared 7,000 times. good story but then they decided to pay it forward, make the story even better. let's chat with jaquil and art who are both with me. welcome, guys. jaquil, why were you walking the ten miles to this interview? >> well, i didn't have money for the bus, and i didn't have my own means of transportation so my only reliable source was my own two legs. >> so you took off because you had to walk and art, you ended up running into jaquil. what did you think when you realized he was walking ten miles just to get to the interview for this job?

>> i thought that even with my own business to run, i had thought maybe not in this snow and ice so here is a kid going for an interview, i was pretty impressed that he would do what it took to get there for the hopes of a job. i thought he'd show up for a shift if he has a job. >> you offered him a job. could you have sent him on his way or given him a lift but you ended up giving him a job, why? >> i didn't know he was going for an interview when i gave him a lift. i knew he had a destination far away and it was a long walk and a road with no sidewalks, covered with ice and it was on the drive we talked to him and found out it was an interview my gears started clicking, i talked with my wife later and decided he's probably a kid that will show up every time he's scheduled, let's give him a shot. >> a good investment. >> i thought so. >> roland martin here. i talk to young folks, how do i get ahead.

fee people talk about work ethic and commitment. is that what stood out, someone with that determination, that speaks about their character and how they will operate? >> well it speaks about more than that. we've got a team full of kids that just go at it all day long and if i throw them somebody that doesn't have the stamina or the work ethic, they'll reject them, so i just kind of needed a fast forward interview process of this kid will plug in, this kid will go and it worked out. we've done it more since then because i say we're busy, show up to work, we'll tap you out if it's not working out and we'll not tap you out and give you an application by the end of the day. >> jhaquiel, i know you were also homeless, walking to the interview. lots has changed for you. >> yes, a lot has changed for me, and i got myself an apartment now, staying with my

fiance and her son and i mean, it couldn't be better. >> lots of people know about your story, and art, i guess one of the things i like best about the story is that your good deed really has paid off for you. your restaurant is busy. you've had to hire for more people? >> obviously that was not the intent. i put on facebook i had met a guy and that should have stayed with my customers that read my facebook. going viral like it did, redefining viral like it did is amazing and awesome, unexpected, and we're now looking to put that to good use and there's a non-profit foundation that will come of it to help others. >> tell me about that non-profit foundation. ultimate lily this is like the cherry on top of the cake and

jhaquiel you've thought about others. >> he's asked me to be interim director and spokesperson so i'm happy so. >> good choice, well done. >> jhaquiel delegating. >> he'll be running your company soon, art, careful. >> i know. there were the blessings and outpouring of support that has gone global we've even heard from beijing, china, and from got the story back in languages i didn't know existed and there's been so much support that jhaquiel's immediate needs are more than met and we've been discussing in a mentorship role keeping that after his needs are met would be greed, it would be viewed as greed but it would actually be greed so he's decided to take after his needs are met about 50% of the total donations will be seeded, will be used to seed this foundation,

the jhaquiel reagan foundation, doing good while treating people well and the foundation will be used to help others in similar situations, if they have transportation needs or clothing needs, resume skills, anything they need, if the foundation can take care of their needs, it should. >> that's great. congratulations, guys. art and jhaquiel, good for you. in two months -- >> can we give information? >> i'm going to give the information, it's the jhaquiel reagan foundation, 973 north shadeland box 323 in indianapolis. we'll swetweet this out, anybod who follows me will be able to find that. >> a bunch of guys will be going to art's for a drive to work. still ahead we'll talk to the star of bravo's show "it's a brad, brad world" season two debuts tonight, the celebrity

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point." just in to cnn a private sector jobs gauge that was pretty strong showed adp showed 198,000 private sector jobs added in february, adp noting that was the lowest level since october but stock futures popped on the news, dow futures now up 126 points, so yesterday's record high optimism continuing this morning by the looks of that job report. we get the official jobs report on friday. today a record high in stocks, this morning another record high hitting you in the wrong way. last year was a record jump in the cost to go a public university. the average tu tigs jumped more than 8% in a year, state funding down 9% on average. states are strapped. higher education funding gets cut. here are the four states with the most dramatic increases, this is for full time students over five years, in georgia,

students at public universities paying 77% more than in 2007, inment number 54%, minnesota and virginia more than 40% increa increases. families do not have the means to be saving 40% more than they were just five years ago. >> a lot of the cost is shunted to students. my husband and i run this foundation, send girls off to college and a number of the girls come in with so much debt like $40,000, $50,000, $60,000, if they get a job they cannot manage the debt. >> the university presidents and administrators like corporate ceo lz, is, the idea they have compete. >> it's also why you see the explosion of folks going to community colleges and two-year institutions saying look, i'm going out of state or i'm going across the state, you go there, get your two-year degree, then you can move on to a four-year. >> it is crazy financially. up next, second season of the reality show "it's a brad, brat world" kicks off tonight,

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welcome back. we first met brad goreski when he was rachel zoe's assistant. now he documents stylist to the stars. season two of "it's a brad, brad world" debuts tonight. >> i'm shooting editorials, flying all over the world. the stakes are very high. what more could you ask for? >> he's making the stars red carpet ready. >> stacey keibler. best dressed list. you understand we're about to make fashion history. >> next level.

>> next level. so great to have with you us this morning. >> thank you. >> when you work with rachel zoe it was stressful. >> i was a little stressful, too. >> when you went in to do your own show is it equally stressful? >> it's a different stress. the stress of being an assistant is different than the stress of being a boss because i make the decisions and when you're an assistant you're executing the wishes of your boss. >> and you can get fired. >> and you can get fired. i do z not get fired which is great but i try with my assistants to be aware of the amount of work i'm giving them and to just kind of check in with them. >> you're a good boss? >> i try. >> that will wear off. >> season three and that's it. >> he's going yeah, right. >> constantly trying to gauge what's going on with them. >> because they're going to go their own spin-off show in a couple years. >> i hope so. >> what is the craziness in season two? >> this season you get to see me

working with my clients, the nitty gritty of the styling work, you see me with minka kelly on tonight's show, rusheta jones and i work with kate spade new york as their brand style i, with j. brand, we go all over the place, and of course more with me and my boyfriend gary ginetti, you've been with for 12 years. >> he's funny. >> he's great, really good. >> when you watch the oscars do you sit there and judge, judge, judge? >> yes and no. i am friendly with the majority of the stylists that are in los angeles and we see each other all week long so we definitely, you know, go like -- >> people hated that dress anne hathaway. she can wear a paper bag and look fantastic. >> anne hathaway won the oscar for best supporting actress and the fact her dress is

overshadowing the fact she gave a great performance is upsetting. my wish is everybody just release anne hathaway and let her enjoy. >> what is it? >> get over it. as opposed to feeding into it and -- guess what? get over it. >> twitter jail is a tough thing to break out of. >> did you work as a stylist as a model do people judge you every time you show up? >> models are allowed to show up in bad clothing and the stylists take over from there. >> models have great street style. >> pretty simple. >> usually a leather jacket, a baggy t. >> because they have legs up to their necks. i'd wear a jacket and jeans, too, if i were eight feet tall. >> they handle their own business. >> diane kruger deals directly with the designers and she's one of my red carpet favorites. most people have it, though,

because i think what people forget is that we provide a service and the service is that these actresses are really busy promoting their films, they're doing all press, filming and have families, i come in with a rack of beautiful clothes, you should wear x, y and z. >> what if someone picks x and you're like ooh, hating x. i'm very honest. you'll see that on the show because i want my clients to feel great when they walk out the door and that's my job to push them out of of their comfort zone, you should try wearing more color or try wearing more strapless. >> who will wear the craziest thing? >> i would say of my clients, r suh cheta jones and jessica alba. christina ricci, too. >> what's on with the socks and the shoes. i saw your shoes. i got my texas boot, baby so you got the red socks. >> mine are straight from west

hollywood, yours are from texas. >> the red sox with the red sole. >> that means very, very expensive, red sole. this thing here say lis a lot o money. >> this here are don't mess with hee. i will kick your butt. >> so do these. >> then i'll pray for you. >> it's great to have you on. congratulations on the second season. i'm such a big fan of your show >> thank you for having me on. >> second season of "it's a brad, brad world" will premiere tonight 10:00 p.m. eastern on bravo. get your feet off my table, please. thank you. "end point" is up next. we're back in a moment. i tried weight loss plans... but their shakes aren't always made for people with diabetes. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. and they have six grams of sugars. with fifteen grams of protein to help manage hunger... look who's getting smart about her weight.

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