>> we'll be talking to them. congratulations to. >> great combination of head and heart with those two. good luck to them. lot of news this morning. let's get to it. >> have a great weekend. thanks so much. "newsroom" starts right now. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> good morning i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. we begin this hour with two big breaking news stories on america's economy and our recovery. first just minutes ago we learned that u.s. employers added 74,000 new jobs last month. 74,000. that is the weakest monthly gain in two years and far less than expected. yet it pushes down the overall unemployment rate. the unemployment rate falls from 7% to 6.7%. what does it mean? christine romans is our chief business correspondent. i'm also joined by david wessell

and director of the hutchins center on capital and monetary policy at the brookings institution and our cnn global economist and "time" magazine assistant managing editor. i'm out of breath. christine, let's start with you. break down the numbers for us. >> really a big shocker because so many economists have been sharpening their pencils the numbers look good, strong way to end out 2013. we think it could be the strongest job growth since 2005. that didn't happen. when you look, carol, you can see it was a tiny bit of job creation at the end of the year. really bucking the trend. weakest month to end the year since 2011. here's what happened. labor department says weather played a factor kept some people home. when you look at the household survey another part of this number, you can see that a lot of people dropped out. they stopped looking for work. that's a big part of the story of why the jobless rate fell to

6.7%. that's when we say the jobless rate falls for the wrong reason. people gave up. that's why you're seeing these two different messages from the 74,000 jobs created and a drop in the unemployment rate. ate really messy report because of the weather, because of the end of the year. something that economists are telling me right now, christine go back to november. look at november, 241,000 jobs created in november. we know things were strong heading into the holiday season and now it looks murky about how we finish the year. >> i was going to ask david the question how worried should we be. >> it's really disappointing. there's a great deal of hope we had finally turned the corner and a big number of job creation in december would have reinforced that. now we're back to this frustrating situation where the economy does seem to be picking up momentum but not leading to job creation. it's a warning sign. usual caveats one month doesn't make a trend but definitely not

good news. >> so, what do lawmakers and the president need to do? >> well, it's really interesting. i had an interview this week in "time" magazine, the first interview with the federal chief janet yellen and she's going to be looking carefully at that workforce participation number that christine was talking about. it's as low as it has been since the 1980s before women really entered the workforce en masse. as long as it remains this low you'll see the fed which has been doing a big money dump into the economy continue to pare that back slowly. you'll hear a lot of talk about getting wages up. the president has made inequality a big topic. i think you'll see all policymakers really thinking about how can we get that unemployment number lower so wages can get up and consumers can start spending which is what generates job growth in this economy. >> david wessell, thank you very

much. christine you're following another story. retail giant target revealed it vastly under estimated the number of shoppers caught up in that security breach over the holidays. we're now learning 70 million people have had their information stolen in that recent data breach. that's almost double the number previously reported. christine, how did target get the numbers so wrong? >> because they are in the middle of a forensic accounting investigation. they knew they had a breach of some 40 million people, right. that we already reported to you. as they are unwinding that, as their experts, their cyber experts, accounting experts are going through now they found more. they have found 70 million customers had information like their name, their name, address, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses were in this breach. that is on top of the payments, the card payment information we told you about. pin numbers that we're told were encrypted but pin numbers,

credit card numbers, ccv number that's on the back of your card. carol, this is a massive, massive breach of your information. much bigger than we thought. now much bigger breadth. target is saying they are very sorry for this. target said you won't be held responsible for anybody fraudulently charging on your card. they will give free credit monitoring to anyone who wants it. you have to apply in the next three months. information is forthcoming how you get that credit monitoring. they don't have that set up yet. >> people, whoever stole this information has information, kou ste -- you could steal my identity. are they any closer to know who did this? >> the investigation is still fromway. l -- under way. they are adjusting financial guidance to wall street based on what the cost will be to them,

the cost to the reputation and their business. no question there. as for a conclusion they are not there yet. carol, this very difficult here. we know cyber crime is huge. we know that there are server farms all over the world where organized crime and frankly governments that are not necessarily all that friendly to us are looking for information to try to, you know, you don't even know whether it's organized crime, it's all very, very murky and dangerous when so much of your information is just so readily available from something that's a household name like target. >> christine romans, many thanks to you. in other news an environmental disaster at west virginia. 200,000 people are scrambling to find water to drink after a massive chemical spill. a leak at a chemical storage facility owned by a company called freedom industries. that chemical a form of methanol

drained into the elk river. the governor of west virginia urging people not to drink their tap water. >> do not use any of the water with the exception of using it to flush the commodes or fire protection. don't cook in it, drink it, wash clothes in it, take baath in it. >> if you drink this contaminated water you might experience severe burning in your throat, severe eye irritation, nonstop vomiting, severe skin irritation like blistering or you might have difficulting breathing. emergency rooms are packed and stores are running out of bottled water. this morning west virginia state university is cancelling classes due to a state of emergency. other schools and hotels are closing as well. the water company says it is conducting water tests every hour to figure out the contamination level. joining me on the phone right now is league leah, the director of the boone county west

virginia emergency management agency. good morning. you have your hands full. bring us up to date. what's the latest? >> well, as far as i know, they will start testing water this morning out in different areas of each community and different counties, testing to see if the product is still in the water. we have already set up plans for water distribution over the next day or so to handle the drinking water for the public. >> and the difficulty in getting rid of this chemical you can't stuck it out of the water because the chemical sort of floats on top and don't you have to wait until it dissipates in some way? >> i would imagine there will be some purging of the lines and

things like that. on the outset, it was thought to be a bigger spill than what it actually was. it's my understanding that worst case scenario is there was just 5,000 gallons released. so in the grand scheme of things that's not a big spill. >> well, but still 200,000 people are -- can't drink their tap water this morning and looking for bottled water. the stores have run out. >> yeah. most of the retail places are out of water. like i said, the state has already made arrangements to ship water in, we're expecting a shipment this morning. then we will distribute it out through our local volunteer fire departments throughout the county and, of course, the

hospital and nursing homes will get, they will get the first shipment. >> thank you so much for joining us this morning, greg lay. there was one point chris christie wants to drive home during yesterday's big press conference is that members of his inner circle went rogue when they target ad political rival and he had absolutely no knowledge of their plan. >> i had no knowledge or involvement in this issue. there's no way that anybody would think that i know about everything that's going on -- i don't know what else to say except to tell them that i had no knowledge of this. all i know is i don't know. i am humiliated by the fact that i did not know this. the answer is right now i don't know. >> this morning we could learn even more about how the situation unfolded as the new jersey state assembly is set to release online more than 900 pages of documents related to bridge gate. our chief national correspondent

john king is in washington this morning. so, john, these documents will released sometime later today. what do we expect to find? >> carol, i talked to the chairman of the new jersey legislative committee that's releasing these documents i talked to him last night. same it will give people a better sense of the details. i'm not expecting at least from that conversation to have any earth shattering new headlines. but they should give us a better picture he told me of how top christi aide at the state house was coordinating with the campaign manner and david wildstein who took the fifth amendment who refused to testify and he was key official at the port authority and person who pulled the levers if you will to cause the infamous traffic jams in ft. lee and done as a vendetta, some form of retribution against mayor. the challenge for chris christie as these documents come out today, as the legislature calls more witnesses in the weeks and months ahead as the u.s. state's

attorney office looks at this does anything come out in the public eye that calls into question. the governor said i did not know, i didn't authorize this. politically for chris christie what has to happen for him, what happened yesterday to stand up is nothing new. no new information no smoking gun or testimony pointing to him. >> what i might be worried about he fired his deputy chief of staff. he said she's a liar. she was at fault. she hasn't spoken out as of yet. perhaps i would worry about hearing her side of the story. have we heard anything from her at all? >> nothing. a couple of friends who have been quoted in a couple of media accounts feel she's being scapegoated. we have not heard from her directly. that's one of the challenges. these people will be called before investigations, whether the oversight of the legislature, whether it's prosecutors trying to figure out whether there is criminal activity here, the thing they are looking at is whether government people, government resources, government money were used to conduct a political

vendetta. that potentially covey late the law. again you raise the question will these people turn on the governor? well if there's nothing to prove he was involved then he's okay even though it's embarrassing and i want can get messy when you have this kind of testimony. look, think of it this way. a couple of weeks ago every conversation about chris christie was a guy coming fresh out of a landslide election victory. he was on offense. he thought he had a mandate for a second term in new jersey. he was on the national stage as a potential presidential candidate. this morning it's clear he's on defense. that's a very different place to be. >> all right chief national correspondent john king. many thanks to you. still to come in the "newsroom" deluge in the sunshine state, south florida hit with a foot of rain. i have the flu,

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yesterday and effectively expelled from the united states. she has not made any wrong. she's innocent. the case is fraud. in that light who cares. >> the diplomat leaves behind a legal mess but her children. they will stay with her husband who is an american. the state department says she risks arrest if she returns to the united states. nine flu deaths now confirmed for the san francisco bay area. hospitals have set up triage tents. h1n1 is the main flu strain. get your flu shot. the saints take on the seahawks. last time new orleans visit seattle the field was rocking not just noisy but loud enough to register earthquakes. equipment is in place to see if

it happens again. the pacific northwest seismic network installed two portable size knick monitors one in the maintenance room and one in the stands. they are being called hawk one and hawk two. it was a gays grabbed national headlines. this mother and daughter claim they were run out of town after they accused another student -- >> anything your client wants to say. >> mary was kweet as the 19-year-old matthew barnett threat courthouse as a free man. reaction on social media was loud and swift about his plea deal. #justice for daisy. barnett faces no jail time. and two years probation for pleading guilty to misdeamnor child endangerment.

he admits he left daisy coleman drunk, freezing and not wearing a jacket outside of her mother's house in january. >> misdeamnor charge with mr. barnett pled guilty accurately reflects the conduct for which he should be held accountable. >> what barnett did not face. charges of raping the young victim. daisy coleman alleged she and a 13-year-old friend page parkhurst were raped by barnett and another high school boy after a night of drinking. case of the other boy was handled in juvenile court. charges against barnett who was 17 were dismissed. daisy's family claimed the real reason was barnett's political ties. his grandfather was a popular four term state representative. daisy and her family were run out of maryville, a stark example they say of victim blaming. a national outcry followed and special prosecutor jean baker was appointed to re-examine the case who says the justice system

worked. >> my job is to analyze evidence. in this case there was insufficient evidence to go forward on a sexual assault. >> daisy's mother tells cnn she expected this outcome from the prosecutor saying considering all the evidence that had been lost, destroyed, tampered with or returned there wasn't a lot she could do. baker read a statement from daisy coleman. >> today i am grateful that the defendant took responsibility by pleading guilty to the charges. i am ready to move forward. >> it has been difficult for daisy coleman to move on. over the weekend this last weekend her mother says that her daughter tried to take her own life ever being bullied on facebook. her mother says that instead of coming to the courthouse she chose to say by her daughter's bedside. daisy's mother said she felt the prosecutor did the best she could but maintains political power was at play here in the original investigation.

the mother of the 2-year-old seen swearing and making obscene gestures in a viral video is speaking out. she said she's a good mother. they are son and three other kids were put in child protective custody after this video went viral. >> you [bleep] >> that's a [ bleep ] right now. [ laughter ] >> you [ bleep ] >> authorities say the child is in protective custody because the toddler's relatives allowed known gang members into the home. the child's mother is 16. she done live with her son. actually a 19-year-old woman was caring for the boy at the time. but the boy's mother says she was in another room when someone else shot this video. we're concealing her identity because she's 16. they were worried about the video because he had a clean diaper. the house is clean. kids cuss. every kid does it.

he's a smart little boy. all the cussing he did, he doesn't do that. the person that saw him do that, my son doesn't cuss like that. i don't allow it. for people to think i'm a bad mother i'm not. i'm a good mother to my son. he's very smart. >> the video was posted online by a an omaha police. the aclu filed a lawsuit against the police for excessive force. still to come this hour, he's apologized and he's fired trusted aides. but do the voters really believe chris christie's mea culpa? ♪

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you've heard a lot about how allies of chris christie deliberately caused huge traffic jams on the george washington bridge in an act of political retaliation. some say yeah what went down is wrong but come on it's not that bad. it was a traffic jam. well is it that bad? let's talk to one person who experienced it like the owner of

doggone it doggie daycare which is right next to george washington bridge in ft. lee, new jersey. the epic jam caused huge problems for her business. she joins us live now. good morning. >> good morning. how are you? >> thank you so much for standing out in the cold for us. we really appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> so tell us how are you experience -- there were those huge traffic jams in september how did it affect your business? >> well, to say the least my employee had to walk, you know, across the bridge because he felt that taking a bus which the traffic was stagnant. i've been here in the area for over 17 years and i've never seen anything like it. so my business, doggone on it it

looks out on the bridge. i see the tolls, the traffic going to and from and it was just at a standstill. there were cars every where. i had never seen anything like it. i felt the traffic controller because people were calling me, customers along with, you know, people i know who work in the city to ask me what is the traffic looking like and i had to tell them it was at a standstill, nothing is moving. so a lot of my customers -- >> did you lose money? >> absolutely. i was going say a lot of my customers usually drive up, drop the dogs off and then they head across the bridge. but because of the, all the traffic and they decided to take the bus instead of dropping off because they just couldn't get, you know, past it. and that lasted for days with people not being able to drive into work as they normally do and then sitting on the bus and

then too they had to leave like three hours, two, three hours ahead of time depending on where they worked in the city. and it did affect my business a lot. we only had a few customers. >> six people have filed a class action lawsuit against chris christie and his aides for lost wages because they were late to work. are you considering suing too? >> well, i heard that and, you know, i don't know if it was chris christie. he seems sincere in his apology and that he didn't know. a lot of times people, you know, abuse their power in which it seems as if miss bridget, the young lady who was fired did as such. in guess it's a good idea because a lot of times people abuse their powers and mean girls grow up to be mean women and they don't really understand, you know, the

ratification or the impact they made on someone until they are caught and she's probably not sorry she did it, she's probably sorry she actually got caught, you know, doing it. >> so some people say that the whole thing that went down in new jersey was not a big deal. how would you characterize it? >> it absolutely was a big deal. i've been here over 17 years and i've never seen anything like it. i've looked out at the bridge and everything was just at a standstill. it was madness. it was chaos. people were freting how to get to work. i have several clients who are doctors, executives. you know because of someone's master plan, a game to cause, you know, the mayor trouble, no one blamed it on the mayor. no one said oh, look at this traffic, i'm mad at the mayor. no. no one thought about the mayor. i don't know how she came up with that bright idea but, you know, it impacted people p.m. it

impacted businesses. my business being a drop-off service, again, my customers couldn't drop-off as they normally do because they all had to take the bus into the city and then when they took the bus they just sat there. so, you know -- >> i'll let you get out of the weather and thank you so much for talking with us this morning. we appreciate it. thanks so much. >> enjoy your day. good morning i'm carol costello. thanks so much for joining me. stories we're watching right now in the "newsroom" at 31 minutes fast hour. wall street about to begin trading on disappointing numbers out of washington. 74,000 jobs added to the payroll last month. well below most estimates. alison kosik is live in new york watching the numbers. no? they are on the plus side. that's good. >> we're on the plus side as far as stocks go. no bones about it this jobs report was a huge miss, carol.

you know some are saying look don't partnership attention to this number because the 74,000 jobs added really doesn't jibe with other economic reports we're getting. this report is so out of whack with momentum that there could be seasonal factors involved or because of the holidays or the weather. but critics say the real picture is in the unemployment number. if you look there you'll see the real deal, the real picture of what's going on. the unemployment rate went to 6.7%. fell from 7%. that seems good with the headline but the problem is you look deeper at the reason behind why the unemployment rate fell to 6.7% is because the amount of people are disappearing from the workforce. that number is stunning. you look at a third of the decline in that unemployment number attributed to people finding work but two-thirds of the people, 347,000 people just walked away, stopped looking for work. that's not reason to you want to see the unemployment rate fall.

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this morning new you documents could shed more light on that new jersey bridge jam, that traffic jam, bridge gate if you will as the state assembly will release hundreds of documents related to the incident. they will focus on david wildstein the christi ally who refused to testify before the assembly yesterday after he was sbd. he fleeded the fifth. emails shows wildstein and a christi aide decided to close part of the george washington bridge in an act of political revenge. it comes from an epic press conference from chris christie where the governor denied he didn't know what happened but talks about the personal impact of the controversy. >> i come out here today to apologize to the people of new

jersey. i am embarrassed and humiliated. i am heartbroken. i was blind sided yesterday morning. so stupid, so deceitful, i'm stunned. i'm heartbroken about it. i'm incredibly disappointed. i'm just stunned my government fell short and i take responsibility for that and that's why i'm apologizing. >> let's bring in the director of center of politics at the university of virginia and the cnn political analyst and executive editor for the daily beast. welcome to you both. >> thank you, carol. >> good morning. larry, i want to start with you. was christi's news conference too much about christi and not enough about the people of new jersey? >> is the pope argentinian? politicians it's all about me, myself and i. look what he said was fine assuming he was telling the truth. i want amazed me though, carol, there wasn't more focus on the

outrage that his aides felt that it was okay to inflict pain and damage on tens of thousands of innocent people just so they could stick to it a politician who had caused them a problem. and, really, underlying all of this is a question about the political system we've created. i don't believe this is an isolated incident, not just in new jersey. that we've created a whole industry of political people who do this, who will walk over both grand mothers to win an election or to stick to it an opponent. >> yeah. doesn't anyone much "house of cards." isn't that what that's about that show. that's what i thought about as i watched this unfold. john we talked to a woman who owned a business near the george washington bridge opinion she said she lost business and money because of the traffic jams on the bridge but she doesn't blame chris christie. she says his aide who dreamed up this whole thing and put it into the works, she said it was pretty stupid.

a dumb plan. and chris christie couldn't possibly get caught up with a dumb plan because the people on the bridge didn't blame the mayor of ft. lee anyway. >> well, it was a stupid plan, chris christie agrees to that. and anyone with perspective agrees. was stupid and petty. we're a forgiving people. chris christie got off to a good start in his 90-minute press conference trying to both take action, fire the aides in question, say the buck stops with me, i'm ultimately responsible and he didn't know this was occurring. we got this document dumped today and we'll find out more. it's not good when your top aide at the port authority takes a fifth including whether he works at the port authority. still a chance he can override this crisis, this self-inflicted scandal. >> if he didn't know anything about it, he's still the person who -- >> yeah. >> who is in charge, right?

at the very least isn't he a bad manager for allowing such an environment to exist? >> yeah. i think that's the point. this isn't just an american system this, is a human problem. tone comes from the top. to that extent there's absolute responsibility you set for your top aides. in the concept of a landslide election. there's culpability for that environment that culture inside the administration. however, this is a lot bigger than american politics is this a human nature problem because we've seen things like this. this is a story where we've heard variations before in our history. >> right. course if you didn't laugh about it you have to cry and that's why we'll play david letterman's top ten from last night so stay with me here. roll the tape. >> number ten, shocking revelation of corruption in new jersey, number nine blame the whole thing on getting drunk with dennis rodman.

number eight, more profanity than the wolf of wall street. number seven, claimed his heart was broken but acknowledged it might be obesity related. let's see. said he wasn't a bully then he put chris matthews in a head lock. number five christi's claim he had no idea bridge connected new jersey and new york. number four, an appearance by the fake sign language guy. remember that guy? >> that was my favorite. he almost got away with it. this. a little of that. over here. yeah. >> number three, boldly took responsibility by blaming everyone but himself. number two announced plans to skupt his uncle.

wait a minute. and the number one highlight of chris christie's press conference interrupted press conference to smoke crack. >> actually i thought number three was the most true, he boldly took responsibility by blaming everyone else, right? larry, when it boils down to that, right? >> well, that's definitely part of it. you know you're in trouble when one of your excuses is dennis rodman. but, no. look there's a lot more to come in terms of comedy too. some politicians can be laughed off the stage. we've seen it before. that's a side controversy by comparison to what actually happened. and, you know, he started off by saying corruption in new jersey. again, while we're to discussion on the new jersey incident, i

really think we ought to broaden it out and talk about what has happened to our political system and the people in it. it has gotten vicious beyond measure. >> i don't think anyone would -- go ahead. john, you worked for rudy giuliani. you know what it's like. politics can be vicious. >> yes it can. politics is. chris christie has a burden because there's a stereotype about new jersey nationally. so when you get hit with the bully stick that can leave a lasting mark. i just say, i heard david letterman's top ten list compared to kim jong-un and rob ford he wasn't that bad. >> i have to agree. still to come fighting the flu. triage tents now set up at san francisco hospitals. we're covering that story. good morning, casey. >> reporter: good morning. when you think about tents being set up outside a hospital in the san francisco bay area you may

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triage tents have been set up to treat patients. >> reporter: good morning, carol. it's a really concerning situation as you can imagine, nine deaths so far this year from the flu just in the san francisco bay area and the peak flu season hasn't even gotten under way yet. it usually goes from late january through march. these hospitals have set up these tents to in some cases deal with the overflow of patients that they are getting with these severe flu symptoms. here's what's really concerning public health officials. the main strain of the flu this year that they are seeing is that h1n1. so-called swine flu that cause ad global pandemic back in 2009 killing tens of thousands of people it's estimated. this particular strain of the flu affects people that are younger towards more middle age

adults not necessarily older adults who are usually the ones who are more victimized by the flu. they are urging everyone who has not had a flu shot yet should get out there and get one as soon as possible because it is not too late as we said that peak flu season hasn't begun yet. lots of people in california and potentially around the country at risk, carol. all right, many thanks to you. here's what's new on the next hour. he spent a year behind bars overseas and for much of that time he was never told why. now a minnesota man is back home and speaking out about his time in the united arab emirates. that's all new in the next hour of "newsroom".

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despite claims on the internet that niagara falls i frozen solid, you can see water is flowing. it is partially frozen due to the extreme cold from the polar vortex. experts point out parts of the falls freeze every winter. look at all the ice in the ni niagara. the ice jam could force ice over the banks and lead to flooding. for the first time in the nation's history, more than 50% of u.s. lawmakers are millionaires. between the house of represents and the senate, 250 had an average net worth of $1 million in 2012. the rich es is california congressman, darrell issa, worth about $464 million. the least wealthy is congressman david valadao. a california republican, actually $12 million in debt.

the days of the anonymous view may be over. a virginia court has ordered yelp to reveal the identity of seven users that wrote negative reviews after a company claimed the reviewers were not clients and all their comments were lies. alison kosik is in new york with the story. a virginia company called hadid carpet cleaning took yelp to court. it said a number of reviews on the site were negative and defamatory. they weren't customers. one review said, do not use this company! they overcharged me for a service they did not perform and wouldn't give me a refund. the court agreed with the company. the court ordered yelp to disclose the user's information, carol. >> i have such mixed feelings

about this. if you are going to write a nasty review, you should post your name. why not? why be anonymous. >> people are in fear of retribution. that's why they don't put their identity on there. this is just one case in one state. the judge says generally, reviewers are entitled to the first amendment rights of free speech. here it is believed they weren't actual customers. it is considered defamatory. if you go on yelp, you will notice it has lots of visitors. if you use the site reviewing restaurants, stores or services, you have nothing to worry about. here is a warning to people that are posting malicious reviews, specially if you didn't use the company. you have to have gone to the company or know what's going on to go ahead and put one of those reviews on. this is also good news for businesses. bad reviews on these sites can create a big financial hardship. i have to say this, as much as i hate how on twitter or on these

review sites, people hide behind their handle, the haters say what they want. there is something to be said for free speech. >> absolutely. alison kosik reporting live from new york. andrew luck leads the comeback colts into foxborough. his reputation is really growing. >> andrew luck's boss is comparing him to one of the greatest athletes of all time. we'll tell you who next in your bleacher report. [ female announcer ] right when you feel a cold sore, abreva can heal a cold sore

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eight teams are still alive in the nfl playoffs. all of them super bowl dreams. >> the wild card round was awesome. new orleans was blown out earlier in seattle. this time, sean payton is wuling out all the stops and has painted the seahawks logo on the saints practice fields in new orleans. he has blown out two giant speakers while trying to simulate the noise they are going to face. saints and seahawks kickoff at 4:30 tomorrow. the colts at patriots following that. they are still riding high. this week, rachel nichols caught

up with the star quarterback, drew luck. your general manager compared you to michael jordan the other day. he said you have your ability to raise your game in the fourth quarter to meet the moment. why do you think you are a guy that plays up when the stakes go up instead of shirking from them? >> i know i'm not michael jordan by any means. i'm not even a ten tth of what has done. >> he needs to shave that thing off. >> you can catch that whole interview at 10:30 right here on cnn two years ago, the celtics jeff green, had to have open-heart surgery after an aneurysm. he is using that to help a ten yeerd names spencer. being told something is wrong with your heart, it's a blow. >> it was scary, because i've already been here a lot and it wasn't fun to come back.

>> these two have become instant friends who share similar stories and similar scars. spencer has had six open-heart surgeries on the list to have a heart transplant. through all these adversities, he says, he has never lost his positive spirit. >> he is like a little man. it's amazing. >> turning on bleacher.com, the hu houston rockets strolled into practice and noticed this jipt, inflatable bear. they didn't think anything of it but as they leave, watch. the bear comes to life. chandler parsons is just terrified. he even gets dwight howard. his cell phone goes flying. he kicked him right in the stomach. >> is there anyone inside? >> yeah, clutch the bear. i was a houston rockets ball boy for five years. me and clutch the bear are good friends. very funny, great guy. >> i don't even know how to respond to that. thank you, andy shoals.

>> have a good one. >> next hour, "newsroom," starts now. good morning. thank you so much for joining me. i'm carol costello. this just in to cnn. the white house now responding to those dismal numbers from the labor department. only 74,000 jobs added to our economy this month. the unemployment rate did drop three notches because so many people have stopped looking for work. it is down to 6.7%. jim acosta live at the white house with reaction from the white house. good morning, jim. >> reporter: that's right, carol. this should have been a moment for the white house to tout the recovery touting that it dropped below 7.4. it hant been there since president obama was elected president obama in 2008. because of that dismal number, 74,000 jobs created in deecembe,

not a lot to chair about. let me show the reaction from the white house, though december's job growth was less than expected. we continue to focus on the longer term trend. today's numbers are a reminder of the work that remains specially on one of our nation's most immediate an pressing challenges. congress allowed extended unemployed insurance to lapse at the end of 2013. so you're seeing there while the white house is saying, we like the long-term trend here, the economy is continuing to create jobs, there was the mention, there, carol, of a very big political debate that has been going on all week long. that is just how to extend emergency unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless out there who have been waiting for those checks to get going again. they got cut off at the end of last year. democrats and republicans, as you know, carol, in the senate, squabbling over how to way for that.

there was talk of a compromise. that fell through. the senate left and they are going to have to start up next week. they are taking this as an opportunity to make the pitch to extend the benefits. >> jim acosta, live at the white house. i want to turn your attention to our global economic analyst rana farooha. you are also the assistant managing editor for "time" magazine. put these numbers in perspective. why the big discrepancy? >> for starters, they are much lower than expected. the amount of people who are in the workforce that have jobs, the lowest since 1978. the reason it is solo is partly

due to weather. you are seeing job creation only in areas like retail, lower paying jobs. your not seeing that middle market healthy job growth that we really want to see in order to believe that the recovery is stable and that we're going to have 3% economic growth this year. >> just last question. jim acosta mentioned this. everybody is fighting over unemployment benefits, to pick up again for the long-term unemployed. at some point, that has to be cut off. that's not going to create jobs either. >> no. it's very worrysome because there are more long-term unemployed than there have been historically. the social impact along with the economic impact is very important. research tells us when people don't have a job for a long time, their families can be torn apart, there are higher levels of depression. forget about the amount of consumer spending, which is already low, you start to have real social problems as a result

of this. this is going to continue to be very contentious and important. new documents could shed lights on the new jersey bridge controversy. cnn will bring you the details. they are related to a subpoena for david wildstein, the chris christie ally. he pleaded the fifth at a new jersey assembly hearing yesterday. he refused to say what he knew about the incident. for his part, chris christie stepped before the cameras and in a nearly two-hour news conference repeated his claims that he had no prior knowledge of this plan. >> i had no knowledge or involvement in this issue. >> there is no way that anybody would think that i know about everything that's going on. i don't know what else to say except to tell them that i had no knowledge of this. all i know is, i don't know. i am humiliated by the fact that i did not know this. the answer as of right now, is,

i don't know. >> let's bring in our chief national correspondent, john king. john, what do we expect to learn from these documents today? >> potentially, new developments and new details. i talked to the chairman of that legislative committee last nigh. he doesn't think there are any earth shattering health lines but hope it gives people a better understand twoobetween christie's staff. it was orchestrated by his chief of staff and his campaign manager. you see bridget anne kelly. the committee chairman and the staff are meeting as we speak to consider a subpoena for her.

you saw mr. wildstein. he was subpoenaed. he invoked his fifth amendment right. he was the person at the port authority that put this in place. he was in contact with that plan. the governor says he knows nothing about it. there was some questioning, is there any evidence to refute that? >> bridget anne kelly would be a key witness. i am told that new jersey legislative committee, stathe sf and chairman meeting to continue issuing a subpoena for her. >> legal concerns are mounting for governor christie. six people have now filed a lawsuit against chris christie and other new jersey officials claiming they lost wages due to being late for work. now, some new jersey democrats

think there should be a criminal investment gags. ashleigh banfield joining me, host of cnn's "legal view." >> let's start with a lawsuit from the six people from bergan county. >> there is something called southern immunity. you can't go and sue the government when things don't go your way unless the government operates outside the boundaries of its authority or does something really abhorrent. if it can be proven that what these e-mails show effectively did shut down the roadways and it was all done in dirty tricks and there was a cause and effect, mink the people angered by this and can file a lawsuit, can prove that their action did cause their trouble and economic hardship. you know how things go. oftentimes, settlements can arise from that as well. they could prevail legally and they could also prevail if it gets settled. this is political. these headlines are awful. >> that's what could happen

civilly but there could also be some civ some criminal charges. what might those be? >> you are betting your bottom dollar a lot of different agencies are taking a peekaboo at what might be out there. new jersey has said, they are looking at this. how extensively, we don't know yet. what they are going to get, what kind of facts, what kind of subpoenas as you heard john king allude to, could be issued as well so they have to swear under oe oath this time and tell what they know. that all remains to be seen. you could imagine that some people on the state level in new jersey and new york, they could also be taking a look as well. why new york when this was really a new jersey issue? sure, the bridge ends up in new york but the actual place where the directives to shut down that bridge traffic, that place, that building, it is in new york.

you could see the manhattan district attorney, a very political position as well, might want a piece of this also. >> interesting. ashleigh banfield, many thanks to you. >> sure. in other news, an environmental disaster in west virginia, 200,000 people are scrambling to find water to drink after a massive chemical spill. it happened in charleston, west virginia, west virginia's capital, after a leak in a chemical storage facility owned by a company called freedom industries. so far, no one has been able to get in touch with that company. the chemicals that leaked from the company, a form of methanol, drained into the elk river, which then made its way into the water treatment facility. the governor is urging people not to drink the water. >> do not use any of the water with the exception of using it to flush the commodes or for fire protection? do not drink it. do not cook with it. do not wash clothes in it. do not take a bath in it. >> if you do drink the tainted water, the west virginia health

department says you might experience severe burning in your throat, blisters on your skin or nonstop vomiting. emergency rooms are packed with concern people. stores are running out of bottled water. west virginia university is canceling classes and the state virginia court of appeals is also closed. other businesses are closed. we expect an update from the situation from the water company as well as emergency management officials. >> some news that's sure to rattle the nerves of many of you. >> target vastly underestimated the number of shoppers caught up in that security breach over the holidays. 70 million people have had their information stolen in the recent data breach. that's almost double the number previously reported. >> christine romans is our chief business correspondent. you have been following this. how did target get the numbers so long wrong? >> they just didn't know.

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we've got it together now. christine romans microphone is working. the number of people affected by the data breach for target is 70 million. >> it is mind-boggling. as they go through what happened, who got what and how much. first, we told you about the 40 million, the credit card or card payment information, the card number was taken, the cve and encrypted numbers, names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers for 70 million people. here is what the company says. they say they are sorry that this happened, that their customers have to endure this, that guests have to endure this. it is frustrating that this information was taken. we are truly sorry. they are going to give free credit monitoring to every customer that shopped at target

during the period after black friday. they are not saying when you are going to be able to sign up for that. let me give you a really important piece of advice. consumer expert, susan graham, the director of consumer protection, says be careful of people taking your information and now pretending to be target, trying to figure out whether or not you have been breached. if anybody calls you or e-mails you asking for personal information, do not give it to them. >> that's just unbelievable. >> are they any closer to finding out who did this? >> we don't know who did it. we know the company is taking a h hit. >> their sales are falling. they are not going to make as much money. they are going to have to provide credit monitoring to millions of people. mostly, what people are asking me, who cares when target figures out who did it.

it is already been done. what should you do? a lot of people now are calling their banks and switching their cards saying i want the same account but a new number. you need to look frequently at your online activity. you will not be held responsibility for fraudulent activity. target is saying, you are not going to be held responsible but i think that every consumer should take it into their own hands. target lost all this information. the only one that can keep an eye on it is you. you should only trust yourself when it comes to things financial. >> chris christie may have apologized but the investigation is just beginning into the new jersey bridge jam that led to the oust of some of the most trusted aides, waiting for documents related to the incident to be released by the new jersey state assembly. joining us now, assemblyman, gordon johnson. >> good morning. thanks for having me this morning. >> thanks for being on. we appreciate it. we are expecting hundreds and

hundreds of pages of documents. have you seen any of them? >> it is more like thousands of pages. yesterday, we had the pages that related to mr. wildstein, which is about 900 pages of documents just for him. we decided, the committee decided to make this public, all the documents public. that's why we have this being released by the office of legislative services. >> can you give us a hint? >> i don't think you will find anything much more than what's already out there. there are a lot of redactions in these documents that the committee has requested from or through the attorney, wild stein's attorney to send us unredacted documents, which we went through later this year. at least he said he would provide it. i don't know if there is much out there. i really don't know. i don't think there would be

much more than what we have already. >> mr. wildstein is the guy that worked at the port authority and ordered the lane yoeclosures. and chris christie's staff ordered it to be involved. >> miss kelly works in the shadow of chris christie. i had a desk two or three down from the main office. i can't see how this young lady could create this act on her own without someone else in the governor's office knowing about it. i can't believe that. that's why we need to bring miss kelly in under subpoena once the committee gets the authority to subpoena more people. >> you think that governor christie was truthful when he said he had no knowledge of this scheme? >> i find that very hard to

believe. let me give you a quick timeline here. november 13th, loretta weinberg, assembly member wisniewski and i attend a board of commissioner's meeting at the port authority seeking answers for the traffic tie-up. we got no answers. december 4th, loretta weinberg and i attend another meeting of the board of commissioners for the port authority, no answers, december 6th, two days later, wildstein resigns. on that, six of these commissioners represent new jersey. they are chosen by governors from new jersey. i don't see how one of these individuals didn't call the governor's office and say, i see we have problems going on here and you need to look into that. december 9th, mr. foy, the executive directory of the port authority says there was no traffic study. he had no knowledge of a traffic study. it didn't exist. no one looked into it. he had to see this. it was a public meeting at the

transportation. no one told the governor this was going on i just don't understand that. >> well, another curious thing is mr. wild stein steppstein st. he made a lot of money. he made like $290,000 a year. why would he step down? what led to that? do you know the reason? >> i guess because of his involvement in this scene here. not only did he step down but he retained an attorney. >> and then took the fifth amendment yesterday of course. >> he took the fifth amendment and he is not talking. i suspect the deputy chief of staff will do the same. >> i suspect that's a very good possibility. i don't know wechlt definitely need to call her in under subpoena once we get the authority to do it later. >> who do you suspect gave her the order to put this plan into action, if anyone? >> i would not speculate on that. i am trying to figure out why they even did this. there is a lot of speculation as to why this happened.

you are not going to punish the mayor of fort lee by tying up bri bridge traffic. you are punishing the working class people. you are punishing the residents of fort lee when the first responders couldn't respond because of the traffic chaos. you are not hurting the mayor of fort lee directly by doing that. the governor came up and apologized to the mayor. the mayor accepted his apology and assured him that it wouldn't happen again. this political retribution wouldn't happen again. i don't know what they were trying to gain by doing this or who was behind it. >> governor christie insists he had no knowledge of this. in your mind, should he stay in office? should he step down? what should happen? >> i think mr. chris christie or governor chris christie should tell the people exactly what he knew and when he knew it. >> he supposedly did that for almost two hours yesterday afternoon. >> i find that hard to believe, though. that's why we have to get information from other people,

testimony from others, who were involved in the scheme. i find it very hard to believe that in this very small office, in the governor's inner circle that this could go on without him knowing about it or without someone underneath him knowing about it. >> new jersey state assemblyman, gordon johnson, thanks for your insight this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> still to come in the "newsroom," locked up overseas. an american returns home after months in prison and the united arab emirates for posting a parity video. >> hi, carol. >> hi, ted. >> he has a lot to say about his nim in cap hit. you will hear from this 29-year-old coming up right after the break. stay with us. when it comes to good nutrition...i'm no expert.

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. >> an american man living in the united arab emirates is safe at home after spending months locked up in prison for making a parity video mocking teenagers in the uae. >> this is a dangerous weapon.

it is called a hagon. this is from our very traditional. we wear before. this is good weapon. i will teach you now how to do this. >> that's a bit of the parody video. he compared his trial to a court and says he and his friends did absolutely nothing wrong ted rowlands is following the story from minneapolis, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol. he arrived back here in minneapolis and has a lot to say about the last nine months. as you can imagine, he is happy to be home. back home walking through the minneapolis airport, 29-year-old shazon kasem was finally free to say what he felt about spending nine months in a dubai prison. he had been working in dubai as a business consultant when he and four friends were arrested last april for making this video, an obvious parody about a

ficticious fighting forgs. >> i did nothing wrong. there was nothing illegal. i was tried in a text book kangaroo court. >> reporter: he says that the judge that ordered him to prison hadn't even watched the video. >> they were very indifferent and callus in the way they approached our trial. >> reporter: he does say he was treated well by prison guards. >> physically, yes, no abuse. in terms of the prison facilities, there was nothing. we were pretty much in a cage for nine months. last month, they were sentenced to a year in prison for damaging the uae's image under newly enacted cybercrime laws. he was freed early for good behavior. >> they wanted to send a message

saying this is what we will do to people that do a silly youtube video. imagine if you do something that is actually critical of the government. it's a warning message. we're scapegoats. >> while he was in prison, the efforts to free him included support from around the country including comedians like will ferrell and lawmakers in washington. >> reporter: were you aware that everybody was pulling for you? >> i was aware but i didn't know how far that went. i didn't have any access to information. >> reporter: and grateful, i assume? >> very grateful, very grateful. >> reporter: he spent the night with his parents last night. he says he has a lot more to say about the last nine months and he will come out and say that over the next few days. one thing he did say, he doesn't plan on going back. >> i can't say that i blame him.

ted rowlands, many thanks senate negotiations over long-term benefits have hit a snag. majority leader harry reid's decision to block any changes to the revamp bill is angering some of the gop, all of this while we learned that 347,000 americans stopped looking for work all together last year. our chief congressional correspondent, dana bash, live in washington with more for you. good morning, dana. >> good morning, carol. there was a brief moment of hope on both sides of the aisle that there was a bipartisan deal that could have gotten through the accept nat to extend the long-term unemployment benefits through november along with paying for it, which is what republicans want but then it really deinvolved quickly into some pretty acrimonious discussion on the senate floor over a lot of what you talked

about. these six republicans that helped democrats start debate on this issue felt shut out of the process. i ran into several of them in the hallway, dan coats of indiana, susan collins of maine saying, what do you think about this deal? they said, we don't know anything about it. they were not happy that harry reid just dealt with one republican, his counterpart from nevada, dean heller, and nobody else. it wasn't so much about the process. it was also about the substance. many of them felt that what they were discussing wasn't going to fly with them for various reasons. i just got an e-mail from an aide saying, any update? the response was, still a mess. they are all hoping they can use the weekend to try to calm things down and work on some kind of package that would extend those long-term emergency unemployment benefits, which is what most democrats want to do. even some republicans. also, help find a way somewhere in the budget to pay for it. depending on how long they extend it for, it could be up to

maybe $18 billion they are going to have to find in the budget. i want to show you one quick important statistic, carol up on the screen if we have it. 37.7%. this is the number, the percentage of people who are the long-term unemployed. this is part of the new unemployment report that we got this morning. 37.7%. that is a very telling number. that's a pretty big number that the people were talking about here who need and want these long-term unemployment benefits. >> i was just going to say that. the long-term unemployed sit around and wait for congress to come to some conclusion. you can't help but wonder about the people that came out that said that more than half of our lawmakers are millionaires. maybe they just don't get pain. >> it is such a good point. that study we saw this week is pretty stunning, that, as you said, more than half of people who serve in congress are

millionaires. however, i think that knowing the breakdown of who those people are, it seems to be a lot who are about their political philosophy than what they have in the bank account. you certainly have a lot of rich republicans but you have some rich democrats do. nancy pelosi and dianne feinstein have a lot of money and they favor extending the long-term unemployment benefits. it is more about political philosophy than the millions that they have to spend. >> dana bash, thanks so much. so the long-term unemployed sit and wait without benefits waiting for lawmakers to get their act together. not helping, the jobs report, only 74,000 jobs added to the economy. unemployment rate heads down to 6.7%, because more than 300,000 people have stopped looking for work. that likely won't help people. let's bring in our guest right now. his name is jason furman, the chairman of the president's

council of economic advisers. thanks so much for joining me. i really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> let's talk about that statistic that dana bash just showed us, 37.7% of the unemployed have been out of work for 27 plus weeks. that's just awful. i am sure that people are sitting out there in the audience shaking their heads and they are not surprised and they are wondering why no one is doing anything about it. >> there is no question that the biggest short-term economic challenge we face in our country is the long-term unemployed. we are making progress. that long-term unemployment rate is coming down but it's still higher than any point it was ever recorded prior to the great recession. that's exactly why the president is fighting so hard to extend those unemployment insurance benefits. >> i understand why he wants to extend unemployment benefits. at some point, you got to stop providing that. it is not creating jobs.

>> i actually disagree with you. i think the purchasing power that those families get actually does help the economy. we estimate 240,000 jobs are created by those unemployment insurance benefits. the congressional budget office, which is nonpartisan, has a similar estimate. you are absolutely right that we do need to do a whole bunch of things to create jobs, whether it is investments in our infrastructure, immigration reform, business tax reform. there is a whole jobs agenda. we need to continue creating jobs for people. we are going to need to extend the unemployment insurance benefits. >> you just mentioned three things we know won't go anywhere soon. nobody is talking about it. >> the president is out there doing everything he can to push those forwards. let's take investments in

america's infrastructure in our roads and bridges, the program that does that expires at the end of september. that is a bipartisan program. it has had strong support from democrats and republicans in the past. i certainly hope that both sides would use the next eight months to, eight, nine months to come together on an agreement to invest more in our roads and bridges. >> you use the word hope but it is up to the president of the united states to inspire confidence in our economy and that will get people out there spending more money but that's not happening. what is the president not doing? only 24% of people feel the economy is getting any better. in his last press conference, he talked about how we were ending the year in a stronger place than we began. you see that in a range of statistics, whether it is gdp,

manufacturing, consumer confidence which is recovering from where it was in october. you do have an economy that is healing and continuing to strengthen. the president is being optimistic but at 6.7%, the unemployment rate is still well above where it should be. it is particularly above where it should be for the long-term unemployed. we have made progress but we have a lot more work to do. it sounds trite but that doesn't make it any less true. >> the other reason people are feeling bad about the economy is because they are not making much money. wages for the middle class have stagnated. they are not going to go up now. should we just get used to this? >> absolutely not. one thing we could do to turn around the number on wages is raise the minimum wage. that hasn't gone up in inflation-adjusted terms for 64

years. it hasn't increased to adjust for inflation. we need to raise the minimum wage. >> isn't the other part of that is employers have to pay workers more. thanks to the 2008 recession, employees will do more work for less. the companies are still going to make oodles of money. what can the administration do to fix that? that's what's going on right now. the companies are making money. they are just not hiring anybody. there is some good news in terms of the wage front which is what an economist would tell you is the first thing you are going to see as the economy recovers is that you will create jobs. as the labor market gets tighter, that will start to show up in the form of more pressure for wages and more of those benefits translating back. in the last year, wages have increased by 0.9 of a percent above where inflation has been.

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environmental emergency in west virginia. nearly 200,000 people across nine counties are affected. trying to find clean water after a leak at a chemical storage facility into the elk river. the governor has warned people not to drink or use tap water in any form. investing the chemical could lead to difficulty breathing, severe vomiting or sores on your skin. schools around courts are shut down as officials work to figure out how much of the water supply has been affected. moments ago, officials updated us on the progress of the investigation. >> it was a release of material from a tank farm. we know it casually as a foaming agent. you have to ask the equipment or the chemical manufacturer of that, the detailed particulars of the information and it doesn't have what we could

consider a high lethality. we were informed yesterday but the event started before that time. >> the chemical he is talking about is a form of methanol used to clean coal. it seeped into the elk river and made its way to the water treatment facility. we have mr. tatum joining us to talk more about it. how are you? >> i'm much better than you. i no he that. how is your community affected? >> it is a little crazy as you can imagine but our county here in carell county is one of the fewer that is affected by what is going on. we have 10 or 12 that are affected by this. we are setting up water stations across that end of the county to make sure our citizens are taken care of. >> am i right you cannot only

drink the water or bathe in the water to use your clothes either? >> it is a strict do not use situation. they have adviced us and our systems not to use the water in any form or fashion. we have been passing that along and keeping our citizens informed as we can. we have emergency services, sheriff's department and 911 all fully staffed and ready to take calls and answer questions and get people to the right places to get water. we are in a smaller area that is not as affected as some of the larger counties. we have mobilized supplies to get things to people. they have asked neighbors to fill bottles with water and bring them into communities affected. >> there is a large community

effort to do that. a lot of our local grocery stores and outlets were without water last night. because we are in such close proximity in the way the water supply runs, people on one end of the county are able to help out the other end of the county. we have asked for that neighborly assistance. if you can do that and then, of course, we're a tightknit community anyway. we have all kinds of people out trying to make sure they get people where they need and get it where they can. thank you so much for being with me. mine was earned orbiting the moon in 1971.

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the mother of the 2-year-old seen swearing and making obscene gestures in a viral video is speaking out. she says she is a good mother. her son and three other kids were put in child protective custody after this video went viral. >> you a ho, pitch. >> what's up then? >> i'm throwing a fit right now. >> authorities say the child is in protective custody because the toddler's relatives allowed known gang members into the home. the child's mother is just 16 years old. she doesn't live with her son. a 19-year-old woman was actually

caring for him at the time. the 16-year-old mom says she was in another room when this took place. someone else shot the video. we are concealing the mom's identity because of her age. >> they weren't worried about the video, because he had a clean diaper, the house is clean. like they said, kids cuss. every kid does it. he is a smart little boy. all the cussing he did, my son doesn't cuss like that. i am a good mother to my son. i teach him a lot. he is very smart. >> now, remember, the video of the toddler swearing was posted online by an omaha police union to highlight what they call the thug cycle. several groups objected to the union posting the video saying it needlessly antagonizes minority communities and they have filed a lawsuit for excessive force. with me isla mon lamont hill any wallace.

welcome to both of you. kelly, i'll start with you. you are a mom. do all kids swear? this might have been a one-time thing and there was just these three idiots in there getting that kid to say bad words and he had no idea what he was saying. >> we are going to talk about what i think the inappropriateness of the police offic officer's union posting this in the first place. kids do what we do. they role model us. if you are swearing and cursing and encouraging the child to do that and laughing about it, of course, the child is going to think that's okay. this happens in lots of cultures. i was on the subway not too long ago and a grandmother and a mother were sitting there with a 6-year-old. they were talking to this guy. the guy is cursing and talking about all his sexual exploits and the grandmother and the mother are cracking up. all i could think of is, what message is that six or 7-year-old girl getting, not a good one. >> was it a good call to remove the child from the home for this

incident? >> in my estimation, it was. i think we all agree this was a bad circumstance. the child wasn't removed because of the video. i think we would have to see more than just that video. no laws were broken in that video even though we all find it deplorable. the child was removed because of a lot of the other things going on. there were way too many people living in the house. a multitude of factors that led to the child being removed. this individual kid was in a bad circumstance and saying what the police union did was inappropriate. they exploited the child. they put his face out there. what they did was bad and it also sends a message to the broader community about who and what young black boys can be, even about have they enter first grade. in this case, there is enough blame to go around for everybody. >> are you saying they wouldn't have posted a white child? >> i am saying they didn't post a white child in a town where there is a 4% population of

african-american people. i can't get into their heads and say whether they would or would not do this with a while child. they said the cycle of thugary. if they are saying this baby is part of the cycle of thugary, they are saying this 3-year-old is going to be a thug. in a world where people fail to see the humanity of young black bodies, it worries me that if the police department sees him as a thug in the diaper, it worries me. >> i would think the officers would say, we are just trying to help this kid. we want to save him from a possible life of crime. he is, has all these bad people around him. we want to remove him from the home, show people what's going on. >> right, but the way to help the child is to contact child protective services and have them look at the environment the child is in, not to post the video on the union's facebook panel. i think, if my understanding is

correct, the child's face was not obscured when that video went up. so the child, in essence, can be viewed as a poster child for the thug culture. the larger issue is, we have issues about teen parenting. we don't want kids raising kids. we just don't want that. what can we do to stop that? we want to educate people that everything they do can impact their children. there are issues with poverty, issues of different cultures. there is so much here in the soup but i just don't think that what the union did in this incident was really the right way to go to help this child. >> kelly wallace, mark lamont hill, thanks for the interesting conversation this morning. i appreciate it. >> pleasure. >> we'll be right back. hey guys! sorry we're late.

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the governor says he is sorry about the traffic jam but now he is being sued. a class action by people claiming gridlock led to lost wages and beyond the incriminating e-mails, what is in t