they were arrested on larceny charges. >> a mass marks the end of the catholic church's year of faith. bones were found during an archaeological dig at the vatican in the 1940s. mystery surround whether they really are authentic. i'm martin savidge. the next hour of "newsroom" starts right now. you are in the newsroom. i'm martin savidge. already a storm is blamed for five deaths. this video of oklahoma shows how quickly thing can go wrong on an icy highway. fortunately this driver was wearing a seatbelt and walked away unhurt. cnn has been tracking this as it approaches dallas.

>> coast to coast, the country is feeling the impacts of earl your than expected winter weather system. in texas, already proving fatal. icy roads causing this major accident along interstate 40 forcing multiple cars to collide. public safety warns it may only get worse. >> it dallas fort worth, we are expecting anything from stleet freezing rain. and if it gets really bad, we will encourage folks to stay home. >> wind in the san francisco bay area downed trees and power lines. >> i heard a big crack and the house started bathing and things started falling. and i thought it was a huge earthquake. >> flooding hit phoenix, arizona with almost two inches of rain. but now the winter threat is on the move. a dangerous system which has the potential to create chaos for millions of travellers. all the way into the heavily-populated northeast. >> crazy. super crazy. i hope it is gone soon. >> right now, snow impacts ever

felt in new mexico, texas and part of the great plains. with many people coping with treacherous ice covered roads and bridges. >> feels like the wind is going to pull you over, you know. just feels like it is going to push you into the next lane. >> winter weather also hit the gridiron. in ohio, snow and freezy temperatures playing out on saturday during the ohio state/indiana game in columbus. officials today scrub the snow off the goal line. now in days ahead, more than 40 million americans are expected to hit the nation's road and millions of others to fly the skies. unfortunately, sleet and snow could follow you. >> nick, do they expect this to be a major weather event? >> reporter: they do. and they are expecting it to be worse, especially after midnight. if you remember before in dallas after the super bowl, that led

to a different event. they led them to take precautions. as you mentioned, big news today is flights cancelled, about 300 flights departing from balandal ft. worth. it would be smart of you to check your carrier if you are still scheduled to fly. >>ening, how prepared are they? i guess it depend on which way the storm tracks. >> reporter: right. there is about a quarter inch of freezing rain, making the monday morning commute disastrous. this storm already proved fatal. earlier, when i talked to texas state officials, they said they have the plows on stand by and they are ready to help any stranded commuters in case they get trapped in the winter weather conditions.

martin? >> this is texas, in texas it could be freezing one diand 86 the next. so yes, it's going to get cold. it's coming. but we're ready for it. >> all right, nick la vensa down there in dallas. the key here of course is a track. tell us what we know? >> it is critical. let's start out with what happens monday, plarty. we will see this system ramp up. primarily a rain producer across the southeast. so poor driving conditions in or out of the atlanta. no, it doesn't look like an icy event, at least for now. low pressure across the north coast. however, on the back side of that, that's what we're looking for the snow and the ice. through the southern app

latchia appalachias. cincinnati is an airline hub. let's go to wednesday. this is when everyone will be rushing around. almost no matter where you are, at least along the eastern half of the country, you are impacted by the weather. primarily wet weather across the southeast. mix of ice and snow and into the interior sections, along the i-95 corridor. that's what we look for snow. could be fairly significant. i want to show you this. as you see the pink-shaded area, that's where we are looking at freezing rain, sleet. possibly starting out as snow fall. heavy snow in the ohio river valley and eastern great lakes. that's going to be quite heavy. >> timing really could not be worse. let's talk about thanksgiving day. what does it look like, especially for the north. >> i'm so glad you asked.

if we give anyone hope, it is thanksgiving day. that is expecting fair skies. this weather system will move out fairly quickly. left behind though will be a lot of people with frustration because of what the travel conditions will do on the highways and in the air. my guess is, expect those delays in philadelphia, baltimore, washington, d.c., new york. not because of snow but because other places are going to be receiving some snow fall. higher terrain. northern section of piedmont. so the level of frustration, marty, is dwigoing to be runnin high. thanksgiving day, we can all take a breath of fresh air. it is a lot quieter then. >> please pack your patience and be very careful. karen maginnis, thank you very much. the brand new nuclear

agreement with iran could be a mistake that makes the entire world more dangerous. depend on whose position you are hearing. negotiators late last night emerged from talks in switzerland with when iran will roll back the nuclear program. for lifting some economic sanctions. i spoke to a senior member of the senate arm services committee who says time will tell if this deal will work. >> we now have a choice. if what the goal is that iran will not have a nuclear weapon, then if that's the stated goal that everybody understands, then there's the choice. and the choice is between this agreement which is a pause or the inevitable march to war. >> skeptical lawmakers from both side of the aisle took to the network talk shows today. and even prominent democrats say that this deal with iran is

poorly timed and unbalanced. >> as for additional sanctions that congress is considering, disportion ality of this agreement, makes it more likely that democrats and republicans will join together and pass additional sanctions when we return in december. i intend to discuss that possibility with my colleagues. >> what we are finally starting to do is impact the elite in iran. business class of iran. finally, we are getting to the place that would really bite and they have to make a determination. what they have just done is stop the second round. >> yeah. big divide. >> the deal with iran is far from perfect. but it is a step forward. that according to foreign affairs expert. is a great resource for us to

have. and cnn's globally watched, and time columnist for cnn magazine and highly regarded author and serves on several boards, including yale university. today he shares his position on this iranian deal and why some of his critics, some of the critics, are wrong. >> if you are trying to decide what to think about the deals struck between the major powers and iran, here is a suggestion. imagine what would have happened had there been no deal. in fact one doesn't have to use much imagination. in 2003 iran approached the united states with an offer to talk about its nuclear program. the bush administration rejected the offer because it believed that iranian regime was weak, battered by sanctions, and would collapse if washington just stayed tough. so there was no deal. what was the result? iran had 164 center fusions operating in 2003.

today it has 19,000. had the geneva talks with iran broken down this week, iran would have is continue expanding its nuclear program. yes, they are now under tough safrpgss, but they were und sanctions then as well. the cost is small for an oil-rich country like iran. netanyahu has been opposed to a deal. but is it in israel's interest that iran's program keep growing in the sides of the scope. that a strategy that assumes either iran is set for collapse or a military collapse will take place that will destroy their entire num lar program and it won't get built. this seems more like wishful think willing than strategy. this essentially freezes iran's assets for six months.

in return iran gets about $7 billion of sanctions relief, a fraction of what is in place against it. the main sanctions against its royal and banking sectors stay fully in place. this is a sensible deal. signed off on by france, britain, germany, rush wsia and china, as well as the united states and iran. but it is just an interim deal. that's why so much of the opposition to it is misplaced. washington has many points of disagreement with teheran. from opposition to israel and support for hezbollah. this is not like nixon's opening to china. it is more like an arms control deal with the soviet union. two wary adversaries finding common ground. many countries in the middle east from israel to saudi, have concerns about iran. they also are used to have aing a permanent enemy.

garnering support. the middle east is undergoing so much change, perhaps this is one more change. perhaps the iran will eventually come in from the gold. for now, though, it is just one step not a seismic shift. but it is a step forward. >> airing every sun diat 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. here on cnn. my next two guests will tackle this deal with iran. while i doubt they will agree with each other, they both want to convince you their position is right. black friday, they are already lining up and camping out. but you can still score an amazing deal. that's coming up.

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we will see on this agreement. foreign policy adviser and former diplomat thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you. >> the first question and let me ask, let me though this out to you first. do you think this is good for u.s. >> i think it is less catastrophic and not as reassuring as the administration believes. the reality is this is about choosing between perfect options. it is designed to test possibility of that a military option, which is where we're headed, assuming iran has a break-out capacity. this is interim first step. comprehensive agreement can be obtained. that the logic of the agreement. i think is a reasonable chance

to take. i just do not see the pot of gold here at the end of the rainbow. both sides just won't do ultimately what needs to be done in order to reach a comprehensive agreement. >> rammin, we know this deal isn't going over well with some allies with. what do you take on this? >> the deal has to be pal atable and sold back it iran. they have the same considerations of long standing feelings towards the outside world long standing feelings on the issue. the dynamic we see played out in washington and london and elsewhere about whether the deal is good or bad represents a good compromise, hope for the future or mistake, that same thing is playing out inside iran. so it is a deal that's a

positive step forward as many folks have said. however, it's way too early to tell what long-term impact of the deal is going to be. >> that begs kwet, where are we six months from now on this? >> i wouldn't bet my mortgage, but i would figure they will end up with either side, and -- perhaps an alley of iran. if the interim deal is essentially more sanctions relief for chipping away for the iranian nuclear, can you see where this is going. at the end of the day, martin, there is no way to do more than put time on the iranian clock and to separate iran from its search for a nuclear weapons

capacity. so highly imperfect. clearly a process worth joining given the al tern piff. >> one of the arguments put forward is it is offering the carrot to iran and that getting sort of a taste of this, that they will want more and thereby agree to more concessions. do you buy into that? >> absolutely. this is a compromise reached between a number of countries with interests who are also cognizant of the interests of their allies. so obviously it is a compromise. it is not going to be viewed as perfect by any party. having anything you want out of compromise is probably not a compromise. so while again, i agree with the fact that it is still early and that it is j are willing sms that raum uz at h-- it really d

reach pretty much the core goals and so again, positive step forward that represents a compromise. not any one side dominating the argument or outcome. >> thank you both. we appreciate it. >> thank you, both. >> thank you. >> tonight, it is a battle between two great quarter backs. if you love football, this is your night. our rachel nichols is there. rachel, going to be cold. >> absolutely. the weather is already affecting this game. we will tell you how and how the stars are still going to come out tonight after the break. people don't have to think about where their electricity comes from. they flip the switch-- and the light comes on. it's our job to make sure that it does. using natural gas this power plant can produce enough energy for about 600,000 homes. generating electricity that's cleaner and reliable, with fewer emissions--

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are meeting. for even people just casual fans, it is still fun to watch. you see a lot of athletic pyrotechnics. but they are both also canny strategists. so it becomes an incredible chess game with them both sending out their minions in all directions and it's fun to see that unfold throughout the night. so far tom brady has 9-4 advantage on peyton manning in these match-ups. and manning is the first one to tell you just how good brady is. take a listen. >> i think it is pretty well documented, my respect for tom, as a quarterback. the way he prepares. just the way he's better kind of each season than he was the year before. >> he is a tough guy. so he played through everything and, you know, big game for both teams. you got to expect the best players and i'm sure all those guys will be ready to go. >> we love the one on burn

personality match-ups in sports. magic johnson versus larry bird. who muhammad ali versus joe frazier. when you do have a rivalry between prominent players over the years, it is something that everybody feels they've got to watch. >> yeah. absolutely. and i hate to state the obvious, but it looks pretty cold. >> yeah. can you tell, from all of this going on right here? it is approaching about 8 degrees wind chill. we've got wind gusts up to 40 miles an hour. it is already effecting what is going on behind the field behind me. they planned a big ceremony with a giant american flag as part after month-long honoring of american servicemen. they unfortunately just cancelled that. they are too worried about the wind. last week a game in buffalo, they were going to similar thing and the flag ripped because of high wind. they don't want to risk that here. then we will see how the wind affects both teams during the game.

peyton manning does not have the best record in cold weather, despite he plays in denver right now. he spent most of his career playing in indianapolis where they have a dome. so this is going to be an interesting test for him when the temperature drops below 32 degrees, and trust me, it is way below 32 degrees right now. his record is to actually 3-7. so it is going to be cold. it is going to test him. his broncos are favorite tonight. but we will see if the weather plays a part. >> which team needs this game the most, by wait? >> you know, it is hard to say at this point in the season. they are both doing well. so this isn't going to make or break them but you get into strategy with play off positioning. both teams would like a first week bye in the playoffs. and this could determine which team gets it. peyton manning joked that it is strange, these big peyton manning tom brady match-ups, most seem to happen here to

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behind the scenes, don't you want it know what's going on? i would love to hear. i'm not saying our reporter has done that, but she is joining us on the phone and she is the next best thing to getting insight to the closed-door meetings. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me, martin. >> so what is said? not publicly bb what is going on in those sessions? what are they talking about? >> obviously we have seen criticism from congress about the deal not being tough enough. but sources familiar with the u.s., the u.s. held a tough line to the end. holding out for some of the stronger language in the agreement that their european counter parts are willing to accept and they feel the agreement does answer those. i'm told the iranians are holding out for more latitude. but on saturday morning, secretary kerry set down with a private meeting and said,

listen, congress is just not going to accept that. they are beating down our neck with new sanctions. so let's get there deal done. so all through saturday, the u.s. and iran went back and forth of the final details and secretary kerry called the president late saturday and the president himself signed off on the final agreement. the u.s. again be really trying to say that the u.s. really addressed all of the concerns that they wanted to. and they they this is a strong agreement. >> all right pb hang on tight for a minute. i want to play candy crowley's interview, moments after the deal was reached. listen. >> one of the points that israelis and others who have been unhappy about these negotiations have made, is that there a difference between halting a march toward nuclear capability and actually dismantling the peckni nmechani

need. here you have halted it but not dismantled it. what do you say to the saudis, to the israelis, who will say that they feel less safe that israel is threatened. >> israel is threatened by what is going on in iran. but i believe that from this day, for the next six months, israel is in fact safer than it was yesterday because we now have a mechanism by which we are going to expand the amount of time in which they can break out rather than narrow it. we are going to have insights to their program that we didn't have before. we are going to have destruction of the 20% enrichment. we are going to have a limitation on the low enrichment of 3.5%. we're going to have a limitation of the building and installation, of center fuses.

you can see iran continue on a daily basis to narrow the break out time to continue to do the things that it's been doing. so i believe that israel in fact will be safer, providing we made sure that these sanctions don't get lifted in a way that reduces the pressure on iran and we don't believe they will be. there's very little sanctions relief here. and the basic architecture in the sanctions, stays in place. so we believe very strongly that because the iranian nuclear program is actually setback wards, and is actually locked into place in critical places, that they is better for israel than if you were just continuing to go down the road and they rush toward a nuclear weapon. >> you can see the secretary of

state talking about why this is a hard deal. that was at midnight eastern time, when that was recorded. it is 6 a.m. in geneva. then the second of stated other interviews. then i believed he moved on and went to london. how does he keep this kind of schedule? >> martin, this is the fifth secretary of state i've covered. everyone has their own travel style, we like to say. some like to go out and get the business done and come home. most recently, secretary of state hillary clinton traveled a lot. packed it in when she was on the road. but secretary kerry, we call him the ever ready bunny. he equates motion with power motion. he is often on the road. he believes in the face-to-face diplomacy. but that has mixed results sometimes. in the case of iran, i think his personal involvement and rolling

up his sleeves helps seal the deal. he has made half a dozen trips to israel doing the old fashion shuttle diplomacy. but one thing for sure is that journalists like it joke, if we are planning for a two-day trip, it can be a week or more. you have to pack extra clothes and we stay up until 2 or 3:00 in the night. >> yeah. you know. pack the no-doz, no doubt about it. you point out that hillary clinton became most famously, the most traveled secretary of state ever. secretary kerry spends a lot of time traveling as well. what about the styles of how they work? >> i think that secretary clinton wanted to did a lot of things. some are issues that she worked on. she did work on iran or middle east peace process in some ways

but she also tried to expand that on women's rights, food security. other types of things that she called 21st century diplomacy, if you will. in terms of some of the new threats that are facing in the world. secretary kerry has a few issues very important to him. obviously the middle east peace process is one of them and then the harder issues. like iran, syria, which wants to be there, having those meetings. getting down in the dirt with these line by line going over the negotiations line by line. and he wants to be where the action is. and he thinks, you know, that his personal diplomacy, it was a lot. he is a senator for 29 years. and i think he still has that mentality in terms of he's the one that, if he is in the room, he's getting the job done. thaents why i think, i think he's been on the road slightly more than he's been back in washington. >> right. clearly he likes to work the deal. about 30 seconds. how is s this job, secretary of

state, different than what it used to be? >> i think you have the 24-hour news cycle. that's not only in terms of journalists working and the social media, but that puts everything into a much bigger spotlight. and you need to show results quicker. you need to know that world is reacteding in an instant. you have the old fashion diplomacy behind closed doors, maybe led itself to more results. now it lends itself nor talking points. >> does indeed. thanks very much for the insight. fascinating to hear it from your point of view. >> this holiday week as your family comes to you and your home or maybe you go to theirs. comedian george wallace may have the best advice on how to survive some of those difficult moments. that's next.

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getting paid to be funny, it has to be one of the hardest ways to earn a living in this world. a lot of comedians turn the day's headlines into their punch lines, like obama care, the weather, you name it. comedian george wallace has a new book and it's called "laugh it off," saying it's important to live your life looking for the humor. earlier, we talked about why he wrote it. >> laughter is the best medicine in the world. >> okay, and now that you brought it up, that medicine is going to be direly needed this week, of course, with the holiday travel mixing with what is looking like a really nasty

weather system. so what do you think of all this? >> well, first of all, i'm in new york city and it's really cold here. you know the kids that walk around with the pants hanging off their butt? they got them up today. they got them up today. it is cold here. they got this thing called butt-monia. you know every thanksgiving there's going to be a snowstorm. go ahead and leave early. you got to be thinking -- say it here, i be thinking. >> plenty of patience and keep a sense of humor as you're standing there in, i don't know, three inches of ice. >> laughter is the greatest medicine in the world. you know what's good about laughter? it's free medicine also. it's free. i'm teaching people how to keep it in the reach of children. you know, exercise your funny bone. if you start laughing and you laugh over four hours, call your doctor. and give your doctor the presipgs so he can laugh, too.

it it is so good to laugh. i'm teaching young people how to travel to other countries while you're young. >> and you're shamelessly also holding that book up. but you brought up medicine. so this is a perfect segue to get into obama care. what's your take on everything that people are talking about? >> well, what we were talking about the affordable care act. you know why i think it's good? who has the best health care in america? congress. congress. now, you work for me. i pay your benefits and you don't want me to have what you have. i think everybody deserves great health care. even prisoners get great health care, free health care. >> what do you think of all the criticism? president obama certainly has taken a ton of heat on what was going to be a showcase for his administration. >> martin, when they first started social security -- you know, you were living back then. it didn't work when that first started. medicare didn't work when that first started.

let's get together. instead of knocking it, i would like all the congressmen to get together and say what can we do to make this work. what can we do for the people? we're not doing anything right now. congress is just in total disarray right now. they're doing nothing. i was talking to president obama, he's a good friend of mine, i love him. he says to me you look a lot younger since the last time i saw you. i wanted to say to him, i wish i could say the same thing about you. >> i don't know if you caught on, but he has a book out, just in case you missed that. george wallace, great to talk with him. moving on. we've all heard the cynical phrase that no good deed goes unpunished. sometimes good deeds do get rewarded. a homeless man right here in atlanta did the right thing. just ahead, you will see what happened next.

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offered tonight to find the killer of a postal worker in landover, maryland. the sheriff's office says 26-year-old tyson jerome barnett was making his rounds last night when he was shot to work. no motive has been given. the postal workers union is calling for more safety precautions as more deliveries are being made at night. then there's this -- a father and son in long island, new york, are accused of trying to cheat a lottery winner out of his million-dollar prize. police say that they own a deli grocery where they gave a customer $1,000 for his winning ticket. that ticket was actually worth $1 million. when the winner became suspicious and returned, they allegedly offered him $10,000 not to go to the police. well, he went to the police. the men were arraigned yesterday on larceny charges. and if you ever find a stranger's wallet, take it from this man. turn it in. joel hartman is homeless. he was hungry and looking for food in a dumpster in atlanta

yesterday when he came across a tourist's wallet. hartman walked to four different hotels before discovering the owner was staying at the omni hotel. that happens to be right here at cnn center. for his good deed, the manager put hartman up at the hotel through the thanksgiving holiday. he was also treated to room service and $500. that is a very nice way to end the news. i'm martin savidge. dr. sanjay gupta's special report "weed" begins right now. ♪ people are lighting up all over the country. they call it the green rush. marijuana moved out of the back alleys and into the open. >> i have a cannibas t,