>> thank you for your patience and kindnev0úu$e sacrifice that you always made. peace and may god be with you all. thank you. >> we will never forget, we'll never know their pain and we only wish we could have stopped this to reduce the number of the rescue is on in antarctica. we will have a live report on that rescue operation. >> a whistle-blower who should be forgiven or a traitor prosecuted? an editorial from "the new york

times" is calling out the white house this morning. details straight ahead. thanks for waking us with us on "early start." >> i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm ana cabrera. >> blizzard snow emergencies and subzero emergencies to kick off the weather in the northeast. nearly 1,800 flights cancelled already for today and most in chicago. a blizzard warning in effect for long island. at this time tomorrow there could be 10 inches of snow on the ground there with windchills 10 degrees below zero. a snow emergency already declared in boston that area could get socked with two feet of snow drifts starting tonight. our own jennifer gray is live for us and tracking the storm in boston this morning. you already got quite a bit of snow. good morning, jennifer.

>> good morning to you. >> reporter: the snowplow behind me, they are out here and busy over the next 48 hours. you're right. it is already snowing in boston. this is pretty much phase one of the bigger picture. we are going tor tracking the storm for the next 36 to 48 hours. there is also a blizzard warning for the cape as well. so keep that in mind. there is your radar. we are seeing snow still in the midwest. we are seeing snow through chicago but you can see it does extend into the northeast. that little swath from upstate new york and it's heading through boston this morning but this is just the beginning as this storm continues to track to the northeast. we will continue to pick up snow. it will become heaviest late tonight and through tomorrow morning when we get the strong northeast winds so that is what the worry is. the blowing snow, the drifting snow could lead to whiteout conditions in boston and the surrounding areas as we go through tonight and to tomorrow

morning. very dangerous. we could pick up a foot of snow in boston maybe even a little bit more. less is you head to the south. new york city could see 6 to 10 inches of snow and then washington, d.c. could even pick up about an inch or two of snow as well.uz so there are your blizzard warnings. long island, as well as the cape. guys, it is going to be a long couple of days. just stay off the roads and if you are traveling, good luck to you if you're traveling for the next couple of days. >> exactly but kids in boston are happy because they get to play in the snow because school is cancelled so they may be enjoying it than the rest of us. >> looking at the glass half full there. another trouble spot this morning. people in chicago are bracing for the back end of a bitter 1-2 punch. snow has fallen on the suburbs and they are not close to being out of the woods. a separate system is moving into

the windy city and the city could get socked up with 10 more inches of snow. just in chicago alone, hundreds of flights have been cancelled. >> it is not much better in nearby milwaukee. up to 8 inches could fall in the region with six on the ground there and the condition sending cars swerving out of the control. the storm comes on the heels of a bitterly cold month in milwaukee. get this. the average temperature there in december, 21 degrees with six days at zero or. new developments from antarctica this morning. good news. a helicopter rescue is now under way for the 52 passengers on that stranded research ship stuck in the ice. the vessel has been trapped since christmas eve. earlier this morning officials had to scrub the mission because of dangerous conditions but now a break in the ice is almost complete. anna corin is tracking the

developments. the first few rounds of evacuations have already3]÷ happened? >> reporter: absolutely. they have managedzb=átz get 48 people off that stranded ship in antarctica. you say it's stuck in ice since christmas eve. they have another four passengers to get off along with a hundred kilos of equipment and luggage and then the mission is complete which is absolutely fantastic. you mentioned the weather. it's been a problem the last couple of days and that deep ice clear, beautiful skies today f which has allowed the chinese helicopter to make its way to the russian research ship and fly those passengers to the australian ice breaker. from there they will go to a place in antarctic and makewg their way to australia. these people certainly very happy to be off that stranded vessel. >> you got to believe that.

what a process and when a journey for them so far. what can you tell us about how on the passengers are doing now that they know they are safe? >> west look. at the end of the day these passengers have been extremely fortunate with food and water supplies and everyone has been in good health. in fact, if anything, it's been a good news vor. we saw them celebrating on new year's eve and they spoke to our very own anderson cooper during his new year's eve special. they composed a song and inducting interviews. it really has been a good news story from the very bottom of the world but i'm sure those people are very excited to get off that ship and home to their loved ones. >> they certainly had a story to tell, no bout with b. you think they might be disappointed to be getting off that ship with how mucha fun thy were having waiting. an editorial in "the new york times" is generating quite

a buzz this morning. the newspapers editorial board says edward snowden is a whistle-blower and it's time for the united states to offer the former nsa contractor a plea bargain or some form of clemency. the board writes in retrospect, mr. snowden was justified in blowing the whistle to expose it to the public and let him do the work his exteriors would not. it's not clear whether anyone was hurt or died after an earthquake in southern iran. the president of pakistan was supposed to be in court but they say he is sick and in the hospital on7 trial has been adjourned until month. ason.

he faces life in pretty much or the death penalty. in the meantime, violence once again tearing an egyptian city apart. two people killed wednesday in 200 supporters of morsi clashed with police. members of the broorgehotherhoo demanding¡vmreinstatement. they claim security forces opened fire on them. this morning more than a dozen people are hospitalized after a massive new year day explosion happened in minneapolis. the blast triged a hugered a hu in an apartment building near downtown. police believe some of the residents had been thrown from the building from the force of the blast or jumped from the windows to escape. in all, 14 people weregón-÷ hur six critical injured and three people believed to be inside are currently missing. the frigid weather made fighting

the flames much more difficult with the windchill making it feel like 20 degrees below zero. >> did the best we could making entry into the first floor. got in snarscá@z they could unt the conditions were so poor, it became very unsafe that we removed all of the firefighters from the structure. >> the cause of the fire is still under investigation. thousands of mourners turning out to remember claire davis, the denver teenager who was shot and killed by a fellow student inside her high school last month. the girl's father telling mourners he has forgiven 18-year-old karl pierson, the gunman, for killing his daughter, urging everyone else to forgive him too. pierson killed himself after shooting davis. she died eight days later. long lines snaking around the block as7 recreational marijuana becomes legal in the state of colorado. the product, though, does not come cheap. an eighth of an ounce goes for around 60 bucks. one store owner says he can't believe how many people turned

out. big deal but we had no idea that there were going to be so many people out there. >> certainly a first. denver's mayorñl÷ applauded daye saying pot shops and buyers behaved responsibly. more than a thousand people would be space travelers have survived the first cut for a chance to live the rest of their lives on mars. a nonprofit group mars one wants to launch groups of four-on-one-way trips to the red planet by 2023. the goal is create the first permanent settlement on the planet and the finalists for the program are from the united states. xlist? >> no. i'd like to talk to some of the people on that é84 list. >> me too. what a journey. coming up on "early start," secretary of state john contrary kicking off the new year with a middle east mission.

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netanyahu and also he will meet with palestinian president mahmoud abbas. nic robertson is live for us. >> reporter: secretary of state john kerry is coming along here to push along the talks. five months and they began at the end of july last year. due to run to the end of april this year. he is bringing what senior state department officials describe as a framework agreement with him that is designed to bridge the gaps that exist over the past 20 -- more than 20 sort of peace talk meetings held here, of which kerry is president at eight of them. this is his ninth visit here. this is an effort to bridge the gaps and understanding. a framework agreement that will lay out the road work, the map, if you will, to get to a permanent status solution. it is described as senior state department official as taking both leaders to the top of the

hill, if you l so they can look down and see what the permanent state of solution will look like. we are told no specific details but we are told this is designed to be completed by the end of april, that it will address all of the core issues, the borders, whether jerusalem can be a capital for both states, the right of return policy of refugees. all of this will be addressed but i think the state department officials are playing down at the moment of getting an agreement right now. >> certainly, there have been years and yeahhe of turmoil he. what is the likelihood, nic, do you know, of this actually coming to fruition. >> reporter: i think the expectation here certainly on t is they are talking again but but so what?

i don't think anyone is shifting their position that anything is going to change significantly. in the past few days, there has been a release of prisoners and israel holding off on announcing new settlements and there is a contentious issue and i think we will continue to see the same. >> nick robertson,80 thank you. doctors in israel say ariel condition is ó?tworsening. he suffered a stroke and in the last few days his condition has deteriorated due to kidney problems. sharon was a highly decorated and highly controversial military figure before taking office in 2001. in the meantime, former first lady barbara bush is hospitalized this morning with a respiratory illness. the 88-year-old was admitted to a houston hospital on monday after showing early signs of

pneumonia. president obama, who is on vacation in hawaii, relieved a statement wishing mrs. bush a speedy recovery. fans are remembering tv actor james avery today. avery best known for playing uncle phil on the popular '90s sitcom "the fresh prince of bel-air" died at the age of 68. >> you big-eared free-loader! you find jeffrey and you bring him back or they will never find your body and.;ñ i'm a judge. i can make it happen! >> avery's publicist says he died of complications from open heart surgery in glendale, colora california. his co-starred have expressed their sadness. they say avery was like a second father to him. russian police have rounded up dozens suspects in an%mfz anti-terror operation in

volgograd. the bombing killed more than 30 people last week. diana magnar is joining us with more. >> reporter: the terror operation is a whil wind. thousands ofé/m3 officials in city are examining buildings and they have already been to thousands of parking lots to find whatoúmay have been invold with the twin terror attacks. this comes amid criticism of the security forces control of the city of volgograd. the twin attacks over the weekend and another terror attack in volgograd in october so three bombings in the space of two months. it's not far from sochi. the russian president went down there on new year's day to visit victims in the hospital and to have a meeting with local officials and the governor, the

head of the fsb, the intelligence services was there also to try to talk about antiterror measures and how to improve things. he also said in his new year's address, he would annihilate all terrorists, which is a pretty big call ahead of these olympic games. >> absolutely. a very big dahcall. given what putin has threatened to do, how serious are the military threats in the norther÷ caucasus to the olympics in sochi? >> j >> reporter: they are very close. the last two years, they weren't targeting inside out of the north caucasus and that has changed. they have targeted the same city three times seems to prove they are able to attack outside of that region and attacking when there are lots of security officials on the ground. so i think everybody is well

aware, putin himself, they do pose a threat. even if they can't target the +sx elsewhere and overshadow the plolympics, his t project. another high profile online security breach. this time it's snap cat that has been hacked. snap cat allows people to send each other photos. and they disappear. now the names and phone numbers of 4 million users appear to have been compromised. alison kosik is joining us now with the latestdevelopments and yet another hack. >> this hacking group is called snapchatdb.info. they put up a website saying happy new year. we installed the user names of the 4.6 million viewers on snapchat and have their phone numbers and now a database for anyone who wants to download he that information.

they have your phone number. when you register forl%'ú snap you put in your phone number and it can go in anyone's contact file and they will know you're on snapchat. this group says it's doing it to raise awareness a loophole in snapchat and allows hackers to get in there. this hacker group is saying security and privacy shouldn't be a secondary goal. they put out a statement saying the company wasp9r& too reluctat patching the exploit until they knew it was too late and companies we trust with our information should be more careful when dealing with it. interesting. the rumor has been out that this loophole has been available on snapchat. in fact, snapchat had its own statement around8?rvñ christmas the rumors were flying and they said over last year, we have implemented safeguards to prevent this and we continue to make improvements to combat spam

and abuse but it looks like it wasn't enough because the group got in any way. >> hopefully, a warning this time. >> kind of like a red flag. >> like they were making a point and maybe not do anything with this information. >> what it sounds like. >> wasn't skype also hacked this week? that's a much larger established company. >> but none of your information may have gotten out. i think this is all for show ad done by a syrian electronic army claiming they did this and they linked to revelations last year from edward snowden that skype was part of the nsa's monitoring program. so skype, by the way, is owned by microsoft and this hacking group actually wound upxm÷iñ targeting steve balmer and publishing his information and going to skype's facebook and twitter accounts and hacking in there. skype did tweet its own response saying that you may have noticed our social media properties were

targeted today. no user information was compromised. we are sorry for the inconvenience. this is another way the group saying here we are and we are capable of hacking. >> fiber security is a big issue already in 2014. >> happy new year. >> happy new year. coming up, an exciting day for college football fans. a recap of all the big games and we are going to tell you what took everyone by surprise in the fiesta bowl. that and more coming up in our bleacher report. avo: the volkswagen "sign then drive" sales event is back. which means it's never been easier to get a new 2014 jetta. it gets an impressive 34 highway mpg and comes with no charge scheduled maintenance. and right now you can drive one home for practically just your signature. sign. then drive. get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first month's payment on any new 2014 volkswagen. hurry, this offer ends january 2nd. visit vwdealer.com today

michigan state capping off a dream season by winning the grand daddy of them all yesterday beating stanford in the 100th rose bowl. andy scholes is joining us this morning with this morning's bleacher report. sounds like this was a little bit of an upset? >> it was. the spartans surprised a lot of people this year and with this win over fifth ranked stanford they proved they belong among the elite college football programs in the edition. 100th edition of the rose bowl lived up to the hype. game tied in the fourth quarter until connor cook found his man for a touchdown. their top rated defense did the rest on fourth and one for stanford, the spartans come through with atú huge stop! michigan state gets the win 24-20 and check out head coach mark dantonio. he avoided the gatorade bath and got to celebrate with dry

clothes. check out this highlight from the fiesta bowl. baylor quarterback bryce petty running for the touchdown and goes air born and flips in for the score. look how scared his mom is of what he is doing. but he would be fine. however, the bears would get upset by central florida 52-42. in the outback bowl between iowa and lsu, hawkeyes quarterback 7'q'ningsf[-á and he go 71 yards the other way for the touchdown! or does he? take a close look. he got a little too excited and dropped the ball before crossing the goal line. we have seen this before. the blooper wasn't a complete disaster. the tigers took over at the 1 yard line and scored the touchdown. they scored later and get loudermilk off the hook. >> thank goodness for that. thanks so much and happy new

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a huge winter storm ready to wallop the east coast and the midwest, becoming a powerful blizzard in some parts. it could turn into a travel nightmare for a lot of folk. we are live with the latest. rescued from the ice. dozens of people trapped on that ship in antarctica taken to safety by a helicopter. we are live with the latest on this rescue. pushing for peace. secretary of state john kerry is in the middle east today. palestinians to reach an agreement? we take you liver to jerusalem >> john berman is gearing up to host "new day coming up." millions of people bracing for what could be a brutal winter storm. nearly 1,800 flights have already,1!6 been cancelled sinc yesterday and most of those

coming in chicago but a blizzard warning is in effect for long island where there could be 10 inches of snow on the ground with windchills 10 below by this time tomorrow. a snow emergency is in effect in boston where they could get socked in with two feet in some places. because of the snow drifts, of course. meteorologist jennifer gray is smack in the middle of it tracking the storm from boston this morning. good morning, jen. >> reporter: good morning, ana. it is cold in boston with the windchill. it feels like the single digits here. it is snowing. we have about an inch of snow on the ground but this is nothing. this is just the beginning. we are going to see about a foot of snow possible in boston over the next 36 hours or so and x)ju$e overnight hours. there are the current conditions. right now actual temperature at 19, feeling like 8 and the winds will pick up throughout the day as we go into the afternoon. that's what we are looking at sfar snow totals go.

could see a foot of snow in boston and 6 to 8 inches in york city and washington an inch or two there. we are also seeing a rain component to this. the southeast is@4 going to sta arena but the big story will be the temperatures. cold. look at friday morning's windchill. 15 below zero here in boston is what it's going to feel like tomorrow morning. and temperatures waking up over the next couple of days are going to be brutally cold as well and temperatures in the single digits across much of the northeast before we start to finally warm up just a little bit and we are talking warm-up in the 20s by the end of the weekend. not much of a warm-up there. the winds will be a factor with this storm system. guys, we could see winds 30, 35 miles per hour. that is when you have those blizzard warnings. we are worried about a lot of the snow blowing and creating visibility less than quarter of a mile. so, guys, it's going to be a monster the next 36 hours or so and expected to move out late on friday.

of course, we are here covering it from start-to-finish. >> brrrr, brrrr, brrrr! thank you, jennifer gray, for putting up the weather and being in the middle out there this morning. >> with a smile to top it off. they are bracing for the back end after brutal one-two punch in chicago. they are not even close to being out of the woods. a separate lake effect system is moving into the windy city right now. by tonight the area could get socked up to 10 more inches of snow. hundreds of flights in and out of chicago's o'hare airport have already been cancelled. t's not much better in fall there with 6 inches already on the ground. the conditions sent cars swerving and some of them got stuck. the snowstorm comes on the heels  c milwaukee. six days at zero or below. in the meantime, another chilly place, let's take you to

the story out of antarctica this morning. 52 passengers are trapped in ice on a research vessel since christmas eve but guess what? they are finally being rescued. chinese officials have been send ago chopper in and out carrying passengers out in these evacuations. ana koren is tracking the developments for us in hong kong. i was so glad to see two hours ago, they said they got the first 12 off and safely aboard the other vessel and now they have gotten almost all of the passengers, right? >> absolutely. >> reporter: 48 passengers so far. they have another four to go. as well as about a hundred kilos of equipment and luggage. and then theçgj3 rescue mission complete. of course, all of these passengers with being ferried on a chinese helicopter from that chinese ice breaker to an australian ice breaker which is close by. from there, they will be taken post a thousand nautical miles

away and from there they travel to the capital of tasmania, a seven-day voyage. this has been a long week and a half for these people. they have been very fortunate. food, water supplies, they haven't been short of any of those and everyone in good spirits and good health and i'm sure they are looking forward to going home. >> an understatement when you look at how these passengers have been dealing with it. talk about mind over matter, right? >> reporter: absolutely. they have made the most of it and it's quite extraordinary. they have had access to electricity and means they have access to social media andçz3ñ their phones; communication with international media such as cnn and they spoke to anderson cooper during his cnn broadcast the other night. no doubt we will be hearing much

more of their stories in the weeks ahead. >> absolutely. good for them. thanks so much. appreciate it. no comment from the white house after scathing editorial in "the new york times" about nsa leaker edward snowden. the newspaperqn editorial board wvf snowden is a whistle-blowerñ and it's time for the united states to offer the former nsa contractor a plea bargain or some form of clemency. the board writes,g7 mr. snowden was clearly justified in believing that the only way to blow the whistle on this kind of intelligence gathering was to expose it to the public and let the others to do the work his superiors would not do. president of the african nation in sudan declaring a state of emergency. our senior international correspondent arwa damon has been on the ground and covering this without and joins us from sudan this morning. what is the latest, arwa?

>> reporter: good morning. those states of emergency being declared in two areas. unity state, which is where the vast majority of south sudan's oil fields are located and also a state of jungle both areas are mostly under rebel control. the government has been arriving at the ethiopian capital for the talks. the fights is fairly intense. the talks are the issue, they are not going to lead to an immediate cease-fire. if a cease-fire is implement because the violence here has taken on such an ethnic nature does not necessarily mean at this stage that the killing is going to stop. at least a thousand people so f47 have lost their+0v3÷ lives another 180,000 internally displaced and only half of them have been able to seek sanctuary at u.n. compounds.

>> the head of the u.n. mission to south sudan says he wants to see both parties, quote, take a decisive step to cease all hostility. you're on the ground é&there. does that look at all likely in the near term? >> reporter: one can really only hope at this stage, but if we look at the reality on the ground it does not seem to be materializing just yet with

rhea. >> packet's former+néñ presiden hospitalized pervez musharraf lawyer telling cnn he is suffering from heart problems. his trial has been adjourned now untilsçu& monday. musharraf is accused of treason for imposing emergency rule back in 2007. he faces life in prison or the death penalty. a wrongful death suit filed against the kansas city chiefs. the mother of the deceived linebacker jovan belcher said trauma from him. he killed his girlfriend and then himself about a year ago. the suit claims his mental suit was from concussions suffered on the playing field. a?5 former banker wanted i and believed to be dead was captured alive wednesday in

georgia. police say aubrey lee price was pulled over for having tinted windows. officers quickly realized he had a lot more to hide. price was charged in 2012. he vanished shortly thereof leaving behind a suicide note and a judge declared him legally dead a year ago but the fbi never stopped searching. he is due in court this morning. >> what a story. lines formed around the blocks and hundreds of customers were out early as colorado became the first state in the nation to sell marijuana for recreational use legally. this drug is being sold in several different forms including marijuana and chocolate truffles. the product doesn't come cheap. an eighth of an ounce goes for aboutgw"us 60 bucks. >> it has been absolutely amazing. there are more people here than we ever expected and there's s much excited people taking part in this that we knew it was going to be a big deal, but we had no idea that there were going to be so many people out

here. >> denver's mayor was pleased how things wouldn't day one putting out a statement saying everyone behaved spoken. twins can be born on different days but how often are they born in different years? it happened near toronto. gabriella came into the world in 2013 and her sister sophia delivered eight minutes later in 2014. >> it's also exciting to know that especially knowing that one finished the year andñloj one started the year. our new years will never be the same now! >> that's for sure! they have a handful. congrats to them. the parents say they are excited each girl will have her own birthday. >> what a couple of cuties! coming up, secretary of state john kerry pushing for peace overseas. can he get israeli and palestine to broker a deal?

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welcome back. john kerry arriving this u for middl east peace talks. now, it's the tenth visit to the region since he:ñ became secrety of state. he will meet today with the prime minister benefiting anyone netanyahu and will sit down with palestinian president mahmoud abbas. nic robertson is live from jerusalem this morning and track

the latest. >> reporter: a real sense here that kerry is bringing with him the sort of ammunition if you will to ramp up the pressure on both sides to get towards an agreement. the talks began at the end of july last year. nine months is the time given to wrap uppity by the end of april. as7af$áq'ior state department officials as a framework agreement that should lay the path for both sides to be able to see what the permanent status agreement should look like and get to both sides to that point quicker and described as secretary kerry wanting to walk both leaders to the top of the hill so they can look down and see what this final peace agreement might look like. there are no details about what is in this framework agreement and neither side is expected to sign it. there is no indication of what is the deadline for them to actually agree to this but it is inof#r essence a way to bridge of the gaps and we are told this

address is known as core issues, if you will, whether jerusalem is to be a capital for both palestinians and israelis. the right of return of palestinian refugees and israeli would like to be recognized as a jewish state and security on the best west bank. these are the issues cg/ it's expected to address but the bottom line here is expectations are not qvhigh. back to you, ana and poppy. >> nic robertson reporting, thanks for that. let's see what is coming up on "new day." what you got, guys? >> i think what everybody has got. what is going to cover most of the ground across the northeast and the midwest. all of it is going to be covered in snow or ice. good morning to both of you. we are following also the dramatic, they say finally and thanking -- we all are. the people stranded in antarctica since christmas eve. the cavalry has come. helicopter is lifting them out

right now. we will have the latest on that. we will talk about the cold spell at home. many of you waking up to the bitter arctic blast. we will tell you how much snow you could be shoveling tomorrow morning. >> a lot is the bottom line. also the pop rollout in colorado. are you ready for this? the sales are smoking. >> did you write that yourself? >> i love it. that was good, right? we will with take you to denver to see what is happening there. >> a lot to get to today and we are almost to friday! >> we are this close, this close. >> indeed. see you in a few minutes. doctors in israeli say ariel sharon's condition is worsening. the former prime minister is now fighting for his life. sharon has been in a coma since suffering a stroke in 2006 but in the last÷ few days, his condition has significantly deteriorated due to some kidney problems. 85-year-old sharon was a highly decorated and highly

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welcome back to "early start." it is "money time" and alison kosik is here with your business headlines. >> it looks like chrysler is take ago different path. chrysler is the smallest of the big three and no longer an american car company as we know it. tlanel car maker fiat when owns a major chunk of chrysler says ist own of chrysler for 3.6 million. this is coming four years after the obama white house brought fiat in to keep chrysler in as part of a bankruptcy proceeding. the take overof chrysler is expected to be an important step of initial public offering of chrysler. an ipo could happen the nextzfo three months. chrysler has enjoyed the comeback under fiat and began making a profit again in 2011. first day of trading in the new year and i want to take a minute to go over some dow

milestones. look at this. amazing what the dow gained. the fourth quarter the months from october through december, the dow gained 1,047 points or almost 10% and for the month oi december, the dow gained 490 points or 3%. wow. so when you take it all together, you have the dow up 26% last year. the nasdaq up 38% and the s&p 500 up 29%. you know it was the best year overall for stocks? since 1997! big donors feeling generous last charities. 15 individual donations exceeded at least according to the

million and mike bloomberg, now the former new york mayor, gave 350 million to his alma mater johns hopkins and mark zuckerberg donated $990 million. >> we can't give $990 million but good for mark zuckerberg. thank you, alison. appreciate it. coming up, imagine eating every meal every day at starbucks for an entire year. one woman did-0l2 it. seriously! you won't believe what it cost her. we will have her story next. tham that you might not know about. salad dressings, raspberries, strawberries... they all have acid in them, and it's working at your enamel. once the enamel is gone, it's gone. you can't get it back. i would recommend using pronamel as your regular toothpaste. pronamel will help to re-harden the enamel that is softened by the acids in our daily diets. knowing what i know about pronamel, i use that every day twice a day. and i know that i am protected.

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with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. >> happy new year! it's january 2nd, 6:00 a.m. in the east. >> 2014, january 2nd. >> you might still write a check on occasion and you need to put 2014 on the line. chris and kate are off. we're happy to have john berman and ana cabrera. >> i'd gladly sit in your seat, though. >> we all share these chairs. many of you are -- many of us aren't going anywhere for a while. a major storm is moving from the midwest to the northeast. it's going to bring the first significant snowfall of the new year. big cities are expecting pretty big disruptions. the city of boston has already declared a snow emergency. schools have canceled class for tomorrow. massachusetts is one of 18 states with some sort of weather, winner with weather advisory in effect. >> this is a big storm, folks. the impact already being felt with about 2,200 flights canceledce