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crashing in aspen. how could anyone survive this? the man behind the sideline rant speaks out. the first television interview with richard sherman. what he now says about the backlash. >> your "new day" starts right now. >> good morning. welcome to "new day." it is a wintery wednesday, january 22nd. 6:00 in the east. i'm chris cuomo outside in a very cold and snowy new york. >> and i'm kate bolduan from a much warmer studio. and a new call from within the republican party for chris christie to step down for a key post. >> i am freezing. why?
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subsea row win chills and a foot of snow or more, shutting down roads and freeways in several states. absolutely pounded. in new york, especially the long island area, they're digging out this morning from well over 10 inches of snow. this is the nation's capitol. roads choked with ice and snow. they're being told to stay home today even though the government is officially open for business. so if you don't dig out right away, you might have cement encasing your home and car. windchills well below zero right now from the midwest to the mid atlantic. down on cnn for the most comprehensive storm coverage on television. let's begin with indra petersons in bitter cold boston this
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morning. >> reporter: take a look at my gear. you may want to try it, chris. let's talk about how crazy it's been the last 24 hours. about 13 inches in philly, record breaking amounts of snow. in jersey, 15 inches of snow. in new york city, 11 inches. and all of this came in just the last 24 hours. throughout the night, blinding snow and bitter cold temps impacting millions. >> all of a sdudden, boom, snow ever where. >> reporter: making it challenging for plows to keep up. at the storm's peek, the white stuff falling at a rate of 2 inches an hour. >> if you have any option not to go out, stay home. the safe aes think to do to want is stay home.
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>> reporter: icy roads sent this car spinning out of control around d.c. around 6 inches covered our nation's capitol. it put federal offices under a two-hour delay and causing the president to scale back his schedule. 12 inches of snow in eastern massachusetts. governors in several states declaring an emergency. school districts closing their doors, while new york city opting to remain open. some kids using their snow day to turn the philadelphia art museum into a e shredding -- sledding freezing. >> windchill factors will be dragging temperatures into the negative teens. >> these are extremely dangerous conditions. >> reporter: in chicago, officials are using tugboats to break up the ice covering 60% of
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the great lakes. and the frigid cold isn't going away any time soon. at least five states are forecast to stay below freezing through the end of the month. for many places we're talking about that snow already having stopped falling. not really the case in massachusetts. regardless, the low lifting offshore is strengthening. all the snow that's on the ground, expect that to still blow around and really impact your day. a good 20 below average for moth of you out there, really for the entire eastern half of the country. look for all that snow that you see on the ground to stay there for a while. >> gusting winds are making it nice also. it's a good touch on this situation. let's go from boston to new york to where i am, to new jersey. some areas have seen nearly 16 inches of snow. these gusty winds created
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blizzard-like conditions there. we have cnn's maggie lake lye. what's the situation? >> reporter: yeah, chris. and this is one of those hard-hit areas that indra was talking about. this is a commuter parking lot, usually hundreds of people. this is what they have to deal with. it's not easy. we have snow that is drifting well over foot. if they're able to dig out their cars, the next thing they face is the roads despite the fact the plows have been out all night, we are looking at packed ice on all the side roads. that's a bit better over there, but all of this is packed ice. the roads very slippery, very hard to get around. once they get here, they're not exactly sure how they're going to get into the city. trains operating on a weekend schedule. buses are doing their best. but i just talked to the local dispatcher and he just kind of
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slugged. so there's not a lot of information. people showing up and hoping they're going to be able to get in. people are heeding advise of visuals and stay lg -- oh officials and staying inside rmts. >> more than 4,400 flights canceled since yesterday. renee marsh is at reagan national airport. what do we know? >> reporter: well, chris. good morning. we could tell you -- we'll set the scene here at reagan. people snuggled up on the heat rs. they spent the night here because they're simply going nowhere fast. more cancellations and more delays already this morning. more than a thousand cancellations. >> cancel. canceled all across the board probably three times now so far.
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>> reporter: a frustrating reality for thousands of air travelers as a massive winter storm wreaks havoc up and down the east coast. >> my flight was scheduled to go out this afternoon and i got a call it was canceled. >> i'm in new york for the night. i have a 2:00 flight out tomorrow. >> reporter: the powerful snowstorm is hampering flights from north carolina to maine forcing travelers to change plans. >> i'm going to be missing works and my wife's birthday. i definitely wanted to make it home, but unfortunately, didn't happen. >> reporter: more than 3,000 flights were canceled on tuesday. for some, it will be days before they get to their destination. >> got to figure something out. i can't get out until thursday. >> reporter: airports are
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monitoring every aspect of this storm from operation centers like this one. >> you're looking at the snow, you're looking at the temperature, it's like a dance. >> reporter: this is the second major snarl to air travel this month caused by weather. three weeks ago, jetblue shut down operations. some customers being stranded for almost a week. a nightmare airlines hope not to repeat. well, at this hour, new york city, boston, as well as philadelphia and right here in d.c., those are the airports getting hit the hardest with the cancellations. the big question is, when do things get back to normal. well, once this storm finally fully gets out of here, it takes about another day or two for airlines to truly catch up to themselves. >> at least you got that smooth jazz to keep you company there. here in new york city, it's
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starting to snow again here. some of the snow is pretty big. indra mentioned earlier that that's a sign of what the temperature is here. plenty cold here in new york ci city. >> thanks so much, kris. >> we're also following another big story this morning. with the sochi olympics now just 16 days away, security is a growing dploeb l concern. they are certainlying for many soe called black widow terrorists. we're live in volgograd, russia this morning for us. >> reporter: good morning. and a sign of just how broad the security challenge is for russian authorities. we know they have now detected two separate terror plots. one of them targeting the olympic torch and the expect window for that attack is open right now. an intensifying security
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crackdown. as the threat of terrorism grows and the leader to the sochi olympic games. russian state news reports, the police killed a suspected militant leader in this shootout on tuesday. reports that the leader of the em rat terrorist cell has been killed in dagestan. >> from their point of view, they don't have to succeed with an operation, it's just enough to try. where as the russian security services, they have to have a 9% failure rate. >> reporter: president obama offered full assistant to vladimir putin on tuesday. they discussed the idea of providing russia with high-tech aid. still, there is concern. >> the ring of steel doesn't help you deal with a single individual or small teams of
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individuals who are already in place and already ready to move. >> reporter: possibly already on the move, three women terrorists known as black widows. distributing fliers warning people to be on the lookout. police one of the women may have been killed in a gun battle over the weekend. while at, 22-year-old ruzanna br ibragimova is believed to already be in sochi. >> that's a big change and poses a substantial risk. >> reporter: a challenge being met with growing force. as for that offer from assistant from president obama, we don't know what the russian leader's response was. these games are seen as very much a reflection of the president's press teenl. don't expect russia to easily admit or ask for help. >> and they are just 16 days
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away, phil. so we have more trouble ahead it appears for chris christie. the scandal-plagued governor is now facing a new call to step down as a chairman of the republican governors association. a position that is considered a steppingstone to a presidential run. >> reporter: while christie was kicking off his inauguration day in prayer and song, the new jersey legislature special committees investigating the access lane closures joined forces tuesday morning. >> on the hoboken front, we have an allegation by the mayor. we have a strong rebuttal by the lieutenant governor. >> reporter: wise knew ski said the probe would be quiet until early february. >> a lot of resources were used to try to make it look like some
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governmental research project when it was nothing more than an attempt to cover up the lane closure. >> reporter: originally intended to catapult him from republican star status to white house contender. referring to his state struggles, he said -- >> now each one of these challenges have been met by a new unified force in public life, new jersey setting the tone for an entire nation. >> reporter: gop represents says he's handled himself well. but a brand new poll shows him losing ground to clinton in a hypothetical presidential matchup. he was ahead of clinton a month ago, now trails by 8. now she's ahead by one. in november, 49% say he'd make a good president.
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now, just 35%. tuesday evening, the first prominent republican called for him to leave his post as chairman of the republican governors association. >> it makes sense for him to step aside in that role. >> reporter: the severe winter weather forced them to cancel the festivities on ellis island. and instead, christie declared a state of emergency in new jersey. cnn, trenton, new jersey. >> all right. thank you for that. now coming up in the 8:00 hour, former new york mayor rudy giuliani will be joining us live to talk about the scandals as well as christie's presidential prospec prospects. strong words from secretary of state john kerry this morning. he says syrian leader bashar al assad won't be part of any transitional government.
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syria's foreign minister responded saying only the people have the right to make that decision. a candle lightvyville overnight on the campus of indiana's purdue university. police say 22-year-old cody cousins is now being held on suspicion of homicide. both reportedly students in the electrical engineering department. cousins is being held without bond. purdue has canceled classes today. former virginia bob mcdonnell and his wife now facing corruption charges. a federal indictment accuses the couple of accepting thousands of dollars in gifts and loans from the head of a diet supplement company. mcdonnell claims the businessman was just a friend. he says prosecutors are guilty of what he calls unjust
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overreach. mayor rob ford admits that he has fallen off the wagon after damming video surfaces on you tube. he was criticizing the city's police chief. take a look for yourself. >> [ bleep ] money, money, money. >> it's kind of hard to make anything out, but he says that it's highly offensive to women. ford's defense, he says he was with friends and what he does with his own time is his business. they are back on dry ground for the first time in nearly a month. the 52 passengers arrived in australia, three weeks after the ice breaker they were on became
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trapped in sea ice on christmas eve. you recall they were air lifted to safety on another ice breaker which maid that -- made that week will have long journey to austral ya. >> definitely some good blog posts. >> regretting the lack of ear muches now. >> no. violation man law. >> a man law at 6:17 in the morning? >> still a man. all right. coming up next on "new day," incredible new surveillance video of a deadly plane crash in colorado. no official cause yet, but can these images help investigators figure out what went wrong? and we are facing a an energy merge in several states. the question is obvious, why are the supplies shrinking and we're
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. welcome back to "new day." stunning new video this morning out of the fatal plane crash in aspen, colorado. these images are disturbing and not suitable for all viewers this morningment they were taken by five infrared surveillance cameras. it happened earlier this month. now the different angles could offer new includes into what caused it. >> good morning, kate. why the plane crashed is still under investigation.
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but this new surveillance video does give us a detailed look into what happened and provides perhaps a better understanding of how this tragedy unfolded. chilling new video shows the terrifying moment this private jet crashes into the runway of the aspen, colorado, airport earlier this month, bursting into flames. surveillance cameras positioned around the runway capture each harrowing moment of the plane's failed landing. it first approaches the runway, then aborts the landing because of difficult conditions. >> 33 knots of tail wind. >> minutes later, the pilot appears to attempt to abort the second landing as well. but tragically he's too late. the plane nose dives. >> these pilots were attempting to land at a high altitude
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mountain nous terrain airport, which is very, very challenging. >> they watch in horror as the plane bursts into flames in the distance. three people were on board. one injured co-pilot was just released from the hospital last week while one remains hospitalized. the third man was killed at the scene of this horrific crash. it's going to be a while before we know the exact cause or the official cause of this crash. but a preliminary ntsb report does confirm that it was dealing with tail winds up to 25 knots. an official report is due out in 12 to 18 months. all right. let's take a break here on "new day." when we come back, 25 states facing an energy emergency. propane gas, the prices are
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the numbers really tell the story. the state of pennsylvania has already blown through half of its snow removal budget, if you can believe it. take a look at the driving conditions in boston. >> in new york, the situation is not good. many here are braving the snow and the shivers and reports of six-hour commutes are their reward. swror arteries are -- major arteries are crawling because of all the ice and snow obviously. there is a state of emergency and a level one driving in effect in jersey. let's start with meteorologist indra petersons live from bone-chilling boston, massachusetts. i was forced to come inside by other news, otherwise i would still be outside.
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>> reporter: can't hack it with me. >> no. >> good 10 below right now. that's what it feels like in boston. winds gusting 15 to even 30 miles her pour. that low starting to make its way offshore. with that, we're not going to see as much snowfalling, but the winds are going to intense fie. just south of me, they have 18-inch snow drifts out there. so really, a lot of snow that we're continuing to deal with this morning. the next story is going to be these cold arctic trns. you're talking about temperatures below zero. 20 below in the midwest, and 10 to 15 below in the northeast. temperatures expected only to be in the single digits and the teens. keep in mind all the snow that's on the ground is not expected to melt. it's expected to stay there as the koltd air is going -- cold
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air is going to stay with us as well. >> can be very pretty, but definitely will be very cold. indra, thank you for that. it is going to get worse. another cold front is moving into the northwest today. this, while much of the country is is in the grip of a heating crisis. propane gas now in short supply. and up to 256 states -- 25 states have declared energy emergencies. we're in chicago where it's not expected to rise above freezing for the rest of the month, george. that is the last thing residents need to hear. >> reporter: absolutely. and that is putting a much greater demand on propane needs. people want it, the supply is short. as prices continue to shoot through the roof, we're finding propane dealers, large and small, are worried. >> i've been doing this -- it's a family business.
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they've trusted us to take care of them. and sure i'm getting them gas, but how they going to afford to pay for this. >> reporter: concern about supplying his customers the propane they need to stay warm, he's caught in the middle. his company struggling to get enough supply to meet daily demands. as the price continues to go up, he knows many of the people who count on him can't afford him. >> and i have to pay the bill too. so, yeah, it's emotional. it's not easy telling somebody to -- it's expensive. >> reporter: weather is only part of the reason for the shortage. last year's corn crop is partially to blame. the robust fall meant producers needed more propane to fuel heaters to dry the crop. then there's the issue of
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greater exports. as a result, prices have all but doubled. more than two dozen states have issued emergency declarations to ease restrictions on propane drivers to get more of it on the roads to those who need it. >> we have reached out to the pipeline association here in washington to bring to their attention the severity of the situation to try to expedite the shipment. we've also reached out to the railroad association to urge them to expedite rail delivers. >> reporter: but with winter in full effect, this propane retailer knows the dynamics of supply and demand don't make that much of a difference when the people he knows are just trying to keep their homes warm. >> we're going our best to get them product. i mean, and -- i mean we're doing our best.
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>> reporter: so with so much demand, we got some tips from industry leaders about what you can do at home to help. one is to take shorter showers if you're a household that relies on propane. another is to dial the thermostat back just 5 degrees. these are extra things you can do to preserve until more supply can get online. >> you put a sweater on and economize a little bit. please put a hat on. much more ahead on that storm that is affecting much of the nation. but let's get you up to date right now. russian authorities are desperately hunting down so-called black widow terror suspects who they accuse of planning attacks on the sochi olympic games. one is thought to be in the area already near sochi. president obama called russian president putin to discuss security concerns for the olympics and offer full u.s. assistance. back here at home, a
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friendly fire death in california. bay area rapid transit officer accidentally fired on a college during a probation certainly tuesday -- search tuesday. that officer was transferred to a hospital where he died. this is the first in the department's 42-year history. and a heart breaking and tragic end to the search for a missing new york city teen amger. remains found in the east river are those of avonn take oh kin doe. lawyer for the boy's mother says she was hopeful to the very end but blames the boy's school for errors that led to his death. roughed up in china. our own david mcken si and his crew accosted as they try to report on a prominent human rights attorney. police first try to block his progress. then people in plain clothes
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came in physically subduing david and blocking our cameras. >> this is a public place. this is a public space. this is a public space. excuse me. don't push me. do not push me. this is a public space. public -- they are physically man handling us. they are physically man handling me. this is a public space. i'm allowed to report. >> at the end of the video, he and his camera men were thrown into a van. they were driven away but released shortly after. and we should report that both our camera man and david are okay. all right. here's some shocking footage that we're seeing for the first time of a van barrelling through the window of a fast food restaurant in florida. a woman and a child run from the
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window as the van comes crashing in. five people were injured in that crash. the driver is facing numerous charges. >> wow. >> so frightening. >> two frightening scenes. >> it was really shocking to watch that scene play out with david. >> if i remember correctly, that's not the first time that david has been in that situation. >> i don't believe it is. >> it's not his fault. >> you probably never find yourself in that situation. i have. for david to keep his composure that way when you don't know what's going to be done to you is not easy. sign of a true pro. all of your instincts that kick in are the ones going to get you in worst trouble. he's the real deal. take a break. coming up next on "new day," the two sides of seattle seahawks starry characterized sherman. apologizing for his angry
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welcome back to you. there is still a week and a half of super bowl hype before the horses and the hawks face off. so far, the spotlight has been squarely on richard sherman. everyone still talking about his epic rant when he was calling out 49er receiver michael crap tree. in an ex-clue si interview sherman talks more about what
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happened. >> it was the moment on the field when you maid the play. there's the choke sign. there's the interview on the field post game. then there's the press conference interview. what do you regret about all of that? >> well, there isn't much about it i regret. mostly i reget the -- i guess the storm afterwards, the -- you know, the way it was covered, the way it was perceived and the attention that it took away from the fantastic performances of my teammates. that would be the only part of it i redpret, the way it's covered. what i said is what i said. i probably shouldn't have attacked another person. i don't mean to attack him. that was immature. i probably shouldn't have done that and i regret going that. i just felt like my teammates deserved better and i have to apologize to them and i have.
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>> you said michael crabtree was rude to you at a past charity event and that you said at the time, i'm going to show him on the field. is that the background of all of this? >> that's the -- >> that's the clean version. >> we going to keep it clean. >> does it get nastier than that? >> we're going to keep it clean. i said, i will show you on the field. man, these guys pushing you in the face. i'm not going to fight anybody, embarrass my family and my organization like that. there's no need for that. but on the field, we're playing a very barbaric sport, you can do as you please. and that's when i take all my frustrations out on the field with football. it takes a different kind of person to be able to turn that switch on and off and be able to step on the field and be the
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intense, incredible focused and kind of -- kind of, you know, i guess angry human being that you have to be to be successful in those atmospheres. >> how do you do it? >> you just have to have that switch. that's why sometimes it -- it crashes and doesn't go all so well because if you catch me in in a moment on the field when i'm still in that zone, as competitive as i can be, in a place where i have to be on the football field and help my team win, then it's not going to come out as articulate, as smart, as charzmatic. on the field, i'm not all those thing sdpls we've seen dan sanders and bart scott, you can go much further mac, michael
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jordan. we've seen guys get excited in the moment. what interested me so much about what happened to you was the reaction afterward, the way it mushroomed and the fact that race so quickly became involved. >> it was really mind-boggling. it was kind of sad the way the world reacted. i can't say the world. i don't want to generalize people like that. for the people who did react that way and throw the racial slurs and things like that out there, it was really sad. especially that close to martin luther king day. i'm not out there beating people and doing crimes. i'm playing a football game at lie level and got excited. what i did was within the lines of a football field. they showed their true character. those were true comments. not in a moment. they had time to think about it.
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they were sitting at a computer and they expressed themselves in a true way and i thought society had moved passed that. >> we like to think as a country things have changed and, of course, to a degree they have. >> well, i've learned we haven't come as far as, you know, i thought we had come. and if that's all it took to bring that out of people, then it might have already been on the surface. you know, i didn't -- i didn't go out there and scream at anybody, anybody's family or attack anybody but michael crabtree, which was wrong. which was wrong. i understand that. but these people are acting like i attacked them in some way. i did my job effectively. afterwards, they interviewed me and i had an interview. regardless of how that interview goes, doesn't give you the right to say the things they were saying. and that's the part that's sad. >> boy, what an intelligent
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explanation of what went on and the difference between being a player on the field and being a human being off the field. >> great interview. >> you can catch his full story on this friday's unguarded with ray shell nichols, 10:30 p.m. eastern only on cnn. coming up next on "new day," do you want to win a billion dollars? a little play on the song. all you have to do is pick every game correctly in this year's march madness bracket. wait until you hear what the odds are of taking home the big prize.
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>> it is money time, folks. christine romance is in -- romans is in the money center. >> they are. many of the smallest cars sold in america did very poorly in a crash test. cars hit a barrier at 40 miles an hour. the impact occurs just in front of the driver's seat. six of the cars earned the lowest rating, poor. all did poorly. watching shares of ibm this morning. down about 3.5%. and then its chief financial officer says that ibm is going
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to take a $1 billion charge to, quote, rebalance its workforce. analysts say that could mean job cuts this year. and she wants international privacy guidelines. she said the revelations about government snooping have hurt her company and that she wants to rebuild trust with her users. >> all right. thanks. >> you're welcome. >> one thing they can do is be completely transparent on how they use the information. $1 billion. that's how much warren buffett is offering to anyone who can do this. guess the perfect march madness bracket. if you thought winning mega millions is tough. let's bring in jeffrey, he's a professor of mathematics.
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you know it's tough when we need a math professor to figure it out. thank you for joining us this morning. break it down for us. we know we start with 64 teams. what are all the calculations. >> well, if someone is just guessing, you've got to pick 63 games correctly. that's basically like sitting down with a coin and flipping heads 63 times in a row. the chances of that is 1 in 9 quinn till january. >> professor, that's a made up number. so let's try to keep it serious here. my son maid up that -- made up that number a couple years ago. please continue. >> well, your son's quite bright. to put in perspective, you would be more likely to win both mega millions and power ball in the same week buying just one ticket. >> i get it.
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>> for mr. buffett's competition, my understanding is that he's limiting it to 10 million entries. if all 10 million people guessing, even with 10 million entries, there's only a 1 in 100 billion chance of anyone getting a perfect bracket. >> let's go to where i think you're going. there isn't guessing exclusively in this. people take a lot of time. number crunching. there's a lot of calculation and analysis that goes into this. >> if people know what they're doing, this is a ball park figure, i would say their chances is 1 in 128 billion. now if you then took that over 10 million entries. i would say the chance is at least one out of the 10 million entries of getting a perfect brask is still a 99.99% chance
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that no one will get a perfect bracket. i don't think we need to worry too much about mr. buffett. >> one of the fun things about this whole thing is that you have made a you tube video explaining these odds. it went viral yesterday. you've been, i'm sure, getting hit up by everybody. so do you have any mathematical tips to increase our chances? >> well, actually, it's kind of a tangential tip. i would say have fun with it. the odds are so slim, have fun with it. if you're in a bracket, you just want to beat everybody else. you don't need to get a perfect bracket to win. this is becoming so big. next to the super bowl, it's the biggest thing we've got. enjoy it and have fun with mr. buffett's challenge. >> what is the chance that if somebody wins and he has to give
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them a billion dollars something extreme happens to warren buffett? >> i think he'll be fine. >> he'll be fine. >> i know you're going to be filling out a bracket, though. >> professor, thank you for making math fun. >> i think it is. i hope i can make it sound that way. >> just quit making up words. people can use it now. it may affect our government. >> i'll have to talk to your son about it. >> talk about long odds. take care professor, thank you. >> shall we check out our must-see moment of the day involving our first lady showing up hoop skills. didn't know she had them. video with lebron james in a slam dunk check it out. >> eating the right foods can help make you a better athlete. >> oh. >> in your face. in a dress. james is joined by mellow miami
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heat stars and the coach to help promote the first lady's anty obesity campaign. you can see them in the background drinking water, eating apples. >> and king james stays in character. he's like a real performer. >> rising and surprising. the first lady gets credit. and perfect mimicking of what happens after that kind of play. >> i love it. >> very nice. coming up on "new day," the family of kenneth bae, you know him, the american held in north korea. they're speaking out in an exclusive interview. what more can be done to bring him home? they want your help. please listen. no matter how busy your morning you can always do something better for yourself.
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within five minutes, it became so icy. i actually got off early because of the roads. >> breaking news. snow shutdown. more than a foot of snow in areas. schools closed across the northeast. and the snow may turn to cement as chunks of the country won't get above freezing this month. >> a deadly shootout in russia as security forces there try to take out a militant leader. and what the u.s. is doing to help stop terrorists. growing pressure.
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chris christie taking fire from inside his own party. which prominent republican is now telling cnn the governor should step down from party leadership. >> your "new day" starts right now. good morning. welcome back to "new day," it's wednesday, january 22nd, 7:00 in the east. we are digging out from heavy snow and preparing for days of frigid temperatures. take a look at these snowfall numbers please. almost a foot in new york city. some parts of new jersey, 16 inches. >> and look at what the driving conditions were like in the washington d.c. area. you can see the car there spinning out and skidding across lanes of traffic. some bitter cold is surrounding us. windchills below zero from the midwest all the way to the northeast. and they are going to stay there until, sorry to say, february.
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we have the story covered from all angles. let's start with indra petersons in boston this morning. >> reporter: i keep thinking to myself, it's not that bad once the wind kind of dies down. and then i smile and my teeth literally sting. i change my mind pretty quickly. then you get a strong gust of wind, i turn around and i'm completely miserable. we're talking about these temperatures well below. south of me, talking about snow drifts as high as 18 inches. lot of heavy snow fell across the northeast last night. throughout the night, blinding snow and bitter cold temps impacting millions from the carolinas to new england. more than a foot of snow piling up along parts of the heavily populated i-95 corridor making it challenging for plows to keep
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up. the white stuff fall the at a rate of up to 2 inches an hour. >> if you have any option not to go out, stay home. the safest thing to do tonight is stay home. >> reporter: in massachusetts, blizzard-like conditions blanketing eastern massachusetts with up to 12 inches of snow. this morning school districts in philadelphia, washington d.c., and boston closing their doors, while new york city opting to remain open. some kids using their snow day to turn it into a sledding frenzy. >> i got double layers on today. >> reporter: much of the east coast 25 degrees below normal much of this weekend. >> windchill factors will be dragging temperatures into the negative teens. >> reporter: in chicago, officials are using tugboats to break up the ice covering 60% of
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the great lakes. and it isn't going away any time soon. at least five states are forecast to stay below freezing through the end of the month. so we're still talking about snow here in boston. we just saw a ferry pull up behind me. boston strong once again because definitely this chill is here. so massachusetts, still looking for snow. blizzard warnings right just south of us still until about 1:00 p.m. or so. then it's going to be about the winds picking up. it's still expected to blow around and stay on the ground thanks to the cool arctic air that's not going anywhere. another clipper will reenforce the cold air that's here. >> we can watch it gusting behind you. thank you for being out there, indra. giving us the science part of it. now we're going to see the ripple effect of all of this
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snow. delayed or canceled flights. a total of about 5,700 flights delayed or scrapped today. renee? >> reporter: all right. well, you know what, let's get this out of the way. we apologize for the people if you are sitting stuck and watching this, we're sorry. this continues today. we're going to see more cancellations because airlines have thinned out their operations last night and into this morning. take a look at the scene right here reagan national. good morning, people are waking up in the airport here. i'm sure it looks a lot like that at other hard-hit northeast airports. this is what it looks like right now this morning. la guardia, newark and right here in the washington d.c. area. so the big question is when do these airlines finally catch up to each other?
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after the storm moves off, on average about two days. at least we still don't have that high holiday volume to deal with. you get your rebooking done a lot wick quicker this time. >> we see people trying to get on those planes. thank you very much. . let's take you to another part of the country. absolute nightmare for commuters this morning. drivers in new york spending hours virtually stranded, barely moving at a crawl. people in long island are being advised to stay home and off the roads. we're live in long island with this side of the story. >> reporter: yeah, i think nightmare really is the best way to sum it up. we left new york city at around 6:00 p.m. last night and didn't get here to long island until 11:00 p.m. so that really tells you just how miserable it was last night. the snow started falling early tuesday morning and peaked in
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the afternoon creating a recipe for disaster for the evening commute. it's just after 7:00 p.m. we've been trying to get out of the city for an hour and a half now and it has been a nightmare. traffic is moving incredibly snow. we're taking the midtown tunnel bauds all the bridges are gridlocked. new york city is no stranger to snowstorms, two back to back storms are unusual. commutes that normally take 30 minutes taking hours and backups for miles as far as the eye can see. an unexpected surnl of car travel -- surge of car travel delays cleanup. . we finally maid it to the midtown tunnel. you can see it is a bottle neck. many of these drivers presumably trying to get home from work.
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this is one of several arteries in the city experiencing delays. but there was no light at the end of the tunnel. main thoroughfares turned into parking lots. here we are long island express way. more like the long island park way. there have been fender benders, spinouts and it's surprising it's still open. the last major snowstorm we had here a few weeks ago, it was closed. the wind conditions delivering a heavy price for some drivers. we have finally maid it to -- made it to our destination. it took us five times longer than normal. and back live here. so, as you can see, the storm has pretty much come and gone. up to 15 inches here in long island. roads looking a lot better.
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pretty much smooth sailing. the cold really is the issue and the drifting snow as well. only 9 degrees here. feels more like negative 15. the concern is that we're going to see the drifting snow on frozen roadways. drivers still urged to exercise caution as they hit the roads today. back to you. >> all right. pam, it's not spelled the same way, but ice landia is the right name for where you are. >> we have some shocking new video for you of a fatal plane crash in aspen, colorado. warning, it's not appropriate for all viewers. the fiery accident happened earlier this month killing a co-pilot, seriously injurying two others. why so much attention to detail if it's so hard to watch, because they're trying to figure
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out what went so tear ribly wrong. >> good morning to you, chris. why the plane crash is still under investigation, but this new surveillance video does give us a detailed look into what happened and provides a better understanding of how this tragedy unfolded. chilling new video shows the terrifying moment this private jet crashes into the runway of the aspen, colorado, airport earlier this month sending a plume of smoke rising into the air. surveillance cameras around the runway capture each harrowing moment. the small plane first approaches the runway then aborts the landing because of difficult conditions. >> 33 knots of tail wind. >> minutes later, in the black and white video, the pilot appears to attempt to abort the second landing as well.
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but tragically, he's too late. the plane nose dives, flipping upside down on impact and skids down the runway. >> these pilots were attempting to land at a high altitude mountainy terrain airport, which is very, very challenging. >> the plane burns in the distance. one person kicks a box, perhaps in frustration. three people were on board. one injured co-pilot was just released from the hospital last week while one remains hospitalized. the thirm man was killed at the scene of this horrific crash. it's still going to be a while before we have an exact official cause of this crash. but a preliminary ntsb report does confirm that the plane was dealing with tail wednesday gusting -- winds gusting up to 25 knots. >> all right. thank you for that. let's take a look another
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some of your other head lines. john kerry said al assad will have no place in the discussions. but a syrian counter part shot back saying only the syrian people can decide that. dozens of world leaders are at the conference looking for ways to end the fighting in syria. the syrian regime and opposition will come to the negotiating table for the first time friday. >> new this morning, 10,000 troops or none at all. that's what the pentagon is proposing to president obama in regards to the u.s. presence in afghanistan. afghan president has so far refused to sign a security agreement that would allow an american force in the country until 2024. >> former virginia governor bob mcdonnell and his wife have
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officially been indicted on corruption charges. they are accused of accepting gifts and loans from a dietary supplement company. mcdonnell said he did nothing illegal and says that he will be vindicated at trial. >> rob ford once again under fire. this latest incident all caught on camera. talking incoherently and speaking in what sounds at an attempt at a jay ma can ak -- jamaican accent. >> [ bleep ] money, money, money. i said, you know what -- i swear to god -- >> ford admitted that he had been drinking even after promises that he was now sober. ford is running for reelection in october. >> an 11-year-old boy recovering
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this morning after he was rescued from a well in south carolina. the two boys were jumping on boards covering a well when one of them fell through. he dropped more than 150 feet and was up to his shoulders in water. he was taken to an area hospital. told he's recovering from a broken arm and hype therm ya. >> new developments this morning in the massive effort to secure the sochi olympics. president obama offering the full assistance of the united states in a phone call with vladimir putin tuesday. th this, as a search for black widow terrorists intense fies. joining us is boston globe reporter. he's the globe's former moscow bureau chief and will also be covering the olympics in sochi. thanks so much for coming in. >> thanks for having me. >> of course. i want to speak with you because you have particular insight into the region where these threats
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are emanating from. we've been talking a lot about dag stan and that region. you took a lot of time looking into the suspects. what did you find when you were there and why this area is of such concern? >> well, i was looking for any connection between sewer nigh, the older other who traveled there and the islamic terror groups that are located in dagestan. the thing i found is how separate these groups are, how individualized. you have small groups operating in for rested areas in the mountains and it's really hard to keep track of which one is which. it's also really hard to infiltrate them which is one of the reasons why the security is
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so high. they can do little quiet things like sending somebody off with a suicide belt, and it's really hard to track that. >> i think you're getting right to the point of it. this region, dagestan specifically, is just about a 12-hour drive from sochi. the unrest in this region is not knew. why is it so difficult for russia to lock this down in time for the games? >> well, you know, they did lockdown chechnya where is where the islamic insurgency started. it took them 15 years to do it. we're talking about really remote places. it's hard to get up there. the insurgents are living in the woods. it's really hard to get up there and to crack down on this. you have to consider that this is russia. it's a massive space. a lot of these areas are rural. a lot of the communications are very primitive. it's not like you can just go in
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there and impose an iron curtain. it's not like you -- >> you're going over there to cover the games. you've been there before. you spent a lot of time there. what is your greatest fear heading over to the games now? >> any time you're at a mass sporting event -- i was at the boston marathon finish line. any time you're at an event there's a notoriety, you're concerned about somebody dropping something that could blow up. and that, of course, is for the security in sochi, the biggest concern. these remember l groups are -- rebel groups are not large enough to mount huge raids. but what's possible and what we're seeing now is that an individual with ex-explosives could have been there in sochi four years ago waiting for this
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moment or could sneak in there. the thing i'm always going to be looking for is does that package belong to somebody or is it just left there. you're going to have to always have your eyes open. the area where you're concerned is not inside the heavily guarded, you know, track. the place you're worried about is hotels, train stations, soft targets outside the olympic perimeter. >> with all of the contacts and all that you know, what level of confidence do you have that the games will go off with out any kind of attack, within that ring of steel or outside of it? >> yeah, and you know, the thing is with terror is that we're already thinking about it. terrorists in that sense have already achieved their goal. they're saying we exist, you have to think about dagestan. what they're trying to do is to make us ask that question, could something go off. and the answer is unfortunately
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also a question. could we have imagined, you know, when people got on aa 11 in 2001, could we have imagined at the boston finish line, london atlanta. these are all places where we've had security concerns. the question is is somebody going to try to blow something up in russia proper. i think that will definitely happen. whether they get to the actual olympics is -- is -- you know, it's a possibility. it's not a hundred percent likely. will somebody try something in the region, lefty. >> good luck heading over there to cover the games. >> thanks a lot. >> thank you. coming up on "new day," a "new day" exclusive. kenneth bae. you all know he apologized to north korea. still no word on if he'll ever come home. what can our government do?
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has it done enough? we're going to speak with his mother and sister in just a minute. and from little white lies to federal charges, politicians can't seem to stop straying from the truth. what does the future hold for these politicians in trouble? our political gut check is coming up. you may be surprised. truck is still missing. so my dog and i we're going to go find it. it's out there somewhere spreading the good word about idaho potatoes and raising money for meals on wheels. but we'd really like our truck back, so if you see it, let us know, would you? thanks. what?
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press conference. we do know that it was done by the regime and he apologized for committing what he calls a serious crime against north korea. his family then apologized on his behalf as well. what else does north korea want and what can be done to secure his release. here now is terri chung and his mother. thank you to both of you. i'm sorry once again to see you with the situation being static. let me ask you, your immediate reaction to your brother's admissions, what you think it means, why do you think we're hearing from him now? >> we're hoping that we're getting closer to the end. i'm dplad that he -- glad that he had a flat form to speak, but it flooded back with a lot of mixed emotions watching him in that prison uniform. there he is. he's imprisoned and not free to
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come home to us after 15 months. >> do you recognize your son? does he sound like himself? >> this is the second time i saw him in a prison uniform. yeah, he's -- he's not my usual son. kind of different. my -- my heart aches when i saw him. >> i see you looking at him now. what do you want the people holding him to know? >> i -- >> it's hard to say. >> yes. >> because also, let's be honest, you're frightened with what to say. right, terry?
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you're caught in a tough spot. you want the government to be active and yet you don't want to offend and insult. >> yes. my brother is a prisoner in north korea and has been and the longest detained american in recent history. of course, we are scared for him. and we want to do everything possible to bring him home. and we're trying to figure out how to make that happen and appealing to anybody who would listen to us to make that happen. >> obviously, you followed the whole rodman situation. you know what cnn has done here, our intention wasn't to inflame the situation. any assurances at all of progress from the american government here? >> we understand that they are doing what they can. and we appreciate their ongoing efforts. >> what does that mean, doing what they can? do you know? >> often, we don't. partly because they're not able
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to share until something is solid. they were extending the envoy in august. we didn't find out until two days before, which is pretty much when everybody found out. i think there are things in the works. it is heart breaking to have him still imprisoned after well over a year. every day is just too long. >> and you feel he's given them what he should want? he's making admissions of crime, he's asking for no insult of the regime there. he's asking not to have things ennamed at all -- ennamed at all. >> we believe that kenneth is being treated well, as he said. and we hope that north korean authorities will have mercy and allow kenneth to come home. >> you look at the picture of your son. he is a grown man. but he's still your baby boy. >> yes. >> what is your greatest fear
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for your son when you look at him? >> he looks very distressed and i hope for his -- he has a strong, strong mind, but he's -- i don't know after 15 months, he has to maintain the same stable mind all the time. i'm kind of worry about that. and then the other worry was he mentioned in the press and in the conference they might send back to the labor camp. so i'm kind of really worried about that too. >> because of his health and just how hard it is. >> yes. >> and of course,er day that your son is imprisoned, your heart is imprisoned as well. >> yes. yes. yeah, he needs to come home. >> i know you're living this as
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well. i'm sorry for your pain. i wish we could do more. we cover this story because we're hoping it helps, certainly not to upset the government there. terri is there anything else you want us to know in terms of an update at this time? >> no, not at this time. we ask for continued advocacy and proactive measures by our united states government. i think that was what kenneth was asking for. this is the third plea he has maid public -- made publicly to our government. i plead for mercy. >> as long as the exposure seems to generate the proper outcome, cnn will stay on the story. >> thank you for that. >> thank you very much for being here. i look very forward to a day when we're having a different discussion about your son and he
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upwards of a foot of snow in some areas. the storm makes for dangerous driving, obviously. major arteries like i-65 in indiana where cars and trucks went sliding. >> passengers sleeping in empty terminals with nothing on the board except canceled flights. and after the big storm, leaves the big chill. let's get straight back to indra petersons in boston with much more on the forecast. indra? >> reporter: i think the word of the day is will power. how much will power do you have. i have to say people here in boston, they always amaze me every time i return. i've already seen the ferry come by. they're already plowing the streets. people walking their dogs even though we're talking about
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temperatures below zero. a good 10 degrees below right now. here in boston it's still snowing. just south of me here, they actually have snow drifts adds high as -- as high as 18 inches. a lot of snow fell overnight. new york city, d.c. a little bit less, about 5, 6 inches. the story now is where is that low and what are we expecting. well, it is making its way offshore. it will taper off in the late morning hours except for one stop. that's the cape. that lake effect snow, the different ever difference will be the air temperature and the water. we still create snow. that's what we're going to talking about today. the wind is going to be strengthening, it's going to pick the snow up off the ground. and begin that with that cold
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arctic air that is not going anywhere. going to be talking about these cold temperatures through the end of the week. >> hopefully the beeping behind you means they're cleaning up. good morning to all of you. hungarian athletes and nationals are now being warned of a terror threat in the sochi olympics. they are looking into the credibility of that letter. in the meantime, president obama is offering russian president putin high-tech bomb detecting assistance. with 16 days remaining until the opening ceremonieceremonies, th searching for female black widow bombers. the former florida a&m opportunity was shot to death by police last year. ferrell at the time was reportedly trying to get help after a car crash. on tuesday, they declined to
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indict the officer for involuntary manslaughter. state attorneys say they'll resubmit the case. developing this morning, anti-government demonstrations in ukraine turning deadly. three protestors died during clashes with police on the streets of kiev. dozens of protestors have been detained. more than a hundred police officers were injured. thousands are expected to brave the brutal cold and snow today to take part in the march for live at the national mall in d.c. it marks the decision on row v. weighed which legalized abortion. all right. kids. you need a dose of '90s no, sir stal gentleman? >> don't you think it's time we
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all get our own places? >> nah. >> there you go. uncle jessie and uncle joe. they're reuniting for a super bowl ad. >> i had no idea. finally learning. >> a teaser was just released online. the full ad on february 2nd. you can get all the full house you need. they look good. >> they haven't aged a bit. >> kind of annoying. >> first of all, they're like my age, by the way. not like they're 79 years old. stamos doesn't age at all. >> it's the yogurt. >> it's the yogurt. >> you're too young. remember the dannon commercials when they had people outside siberia? >> i remember that. >> she's an old soul. >> but i do know politics. the theme today, politicians in trouble.
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new jersey governor chris christie under investigation. texas state senator wendy davis, her resume in question. former virginia governor bob mcdonnell indicted and another rambling video of toronto mayor rob ford. who will survive the scandals and who won't? the arbiter of justice is here with that. >> i decline. >> you're pleading the 5th. i love it. so let's run through some of these. so we are all familiar with the investigations that chris christie is facing. an interesting twist, though, last night on cross fire. the former virginia attorney general, also ran for governor, saying on cross fire that christie should step down as chair of the republican governors association. do you think there's going to be a real movement towards that? >> there are some republicans that have been talking about that privately. some that don't just like chris
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christie. some do who do like him that thinks perhaps he should just go back to new jersey for six months or so, hopefully in their view, be exonerated. at the moment, team christie says no way. a little bit of inside politics if you will about ken cuccinelli. he ran for governor last year. he was upset. he doesn't think the rga gave enough support. he thinks there was money going to chris christie that should have been spent to virginia trust. he's what happens. when you're volume neshl like this -- vulnerable like this, he'll get whacked sometimes from republicans who don't like him. >> more of a traditional beatdown that's going on right now is wendy davis down in texas. is this just a brazen attack of going at the person instead of the policy or does she have a problem with her natural
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narrative. >> she has a problem. she's been telling a highly personal story about being a single mom, pulling herself by her boot straps. they did a long piece on this in which they said she's embellished some key details. and wayne slater says he never spoke to the republican campaign involved here. she had a huge fund raising quarter last time. look, she became a heroin. a lot of national money has felony in. texas will eventually turn blue, can they win the governor's race in texas this year. in a close competitive election year like 2014 is, if people start to get nervous, the national money will dry up some. remember elizabeth warren? people said she had embellished or exaggerated her native
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american hair tanl. she had to deal with it constantly throughout the campaign. she had to deal with it. she nav dated it -- navigated it. >> i had forgotten about elizabeth warren. let's talk about a different and maybe a much more serious problem facing the former virginia governor bob mcdonnell and his wife. there's been an investigation into people around him for a while. now he and his wife are -- have been indicted. he was seen as a potential 2016 option for republicans. does this mean that there's no chance that this is going to happen at this point? >> no, his national political future as far as we can see is nonexist tent. he was once on a big list for mitt romney's running mate. he was without a doubt a rising star both in virginia and national politics. virginia only allows the
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governor to serve one term. or not someone who maybe might lead a future republican m, at least one who maybe might run for the united states senate. right now, his worry is staying out of a federal conviction. this is not something they send you to jail for. >> right. >> he says essentially, we did this, we took these gifts, but they don't violate virginia or federal law. when you go through the list, most of the gifts to his wife, the allegation is that the businessman gave these things to the governor and his wife in exchange for their personal endorsement of his business. the governor says i did nothing wrong, but yes, i took all these gifts. look at the list. it's like huh? really? . if i ever write a book, it will be why do smart people do stupid
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things. >> interesting contrast between mcconnell's situation and chris christie. politics is about the smear game. however, when you get into the legal severe, you've got -- sphere, you've got a different problem. that's the problem for christie coming around. now, if you look at it full circle, we'll wind up with rob ford. i have been saying from the beginning, i don't see it as a political story. this latest video from him is another cry from help. at what point do you think that politics must go past the common sense. and it doesn't get treated as a political issue, but someone who has a medical issue. >> politicians are people too. and this is a tragedy. this is -- it's a political tragedy for the people of tron to who need -- toronto who need leadership in their mayor.
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you know, and some people make fun of this obviously. they see these, and they think it's funny. it's not funny when you get to the point that this is a gentleman and he's a human being who happens to be in political office that needs help. he's been resisting calls from his family and others. the council will come back to this, they've been stripping powers. some people make light of it, but remember, that's a human being. could be your brother, your cousin, your friend, your neighborhood. >> and the voters will decide because he is running for reelection. john kind of claimed switzerland on that. he did not say who's up and who's going to fall. >> i think it's because who knows. john's too smart to get out that far. >> thanks, john. >> the capricious winds of politics. coming up on "new day," he went missing in iran seven years
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new developments now on the longest held american in captivity. his name is bob levinson. he disappeared almost seven years ago in iran. now his family is lashing out at u.s. officials. here's the twist. they say despite public denials levinson was working as a contract spy for the cia. and they say coming clean for it could be the key to bringing him
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home. >> for years the levinsons kept the cia's advice to keep the mission under wraps to help protect him. now the family wants to use levinson as a bargaining chip. they say nothing else has worked to bring him home. >> this has been going on for two administrations and nothing has gotten him home and we don't know why. >> the wife of missing american bob levinson is speaking out for the first time after it was publicly revealed the retired fbi agent was doing undercover work for the cia when he disappeared in iran almost seven years ago. the family is demanding the u.s. government do more to find him. >> if the proper step have been taken in the first critical weeks after my dad went missing i think he would have been home by now. >> unfortunately he was abandoned? >> he was a man left behind. >> levinson's family knew all along he worked for the cia but
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kept silent. >> why didn't you say what you knew at the very start. >> we were told by the u.s. government by revealing what he was doing over there would have been harmful to his safety. >> to this day the white house denies he was a government employee. >> he always did what he always did which was working for the u.s. government. the u.s. government hasn't taken ownership of it yet. >> the family showed cnn these documents they received from a source in iran that appeared to prove iran's role in levinson's arrest. neither the family nor cnn can verify whether they are authentic and his name is only partially right. according to a translation given the family by the fbi it reads a member of the u.s. federal investigation or cia robert anderson is here as an undercover tourist taking pictures and gathering information. since his spying activities have been established, arrest him
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immediately. >> knowledgeable people say the documents look real and that the people named in them are real and do hold those positions the. >> the family is outraged the cia lied for eight months, denying levinson was working under cover, losing crucial time. cia won't comment publicly but fired three people and paid the family a $2.5 million settlement. >> why do you cling to the hope that he is still there and is being held by them? >> i think that he's valuable. he wants to come home to us. i know he's just waiting for us to bring him home. >> sources say no one seems to know exactly where levinson is or how so. iran has consistently said they have no information on him. the family would like to go back to iran as they did in 2007 to push for his release. chris >> difficult situation. thank you. coming up next on "new day"
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. cancelled. cancelled all across the board. probably three times now so far. >> happening now. white out. more than a foot of snow dumped overnight in part of the northeast, schools closed, thousands of flights cancelled and another arctic blast send temperatures plunging snow becomes cement as propane runs short. terror hunt. russia cracking down on militant groups in this deadly shootout caught on tape. we talk live to the u.s. congressman on the ground there trying to assess if americans can be kept safe. cnn exclusive, does richard sherman regret his rant opinion
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i got double layers on today. >> much of the east coast 25 degrees below normal through this weekend. >> wind chill factors will be dragging temperatures into the negative teens. these are extremely dangerous conditions. >> in chicago officials are using tugboats to break up the ice covering 60% of the great lakes. the frigid gold isn't going away any time soon. five states are forecast to stay below freezing through the end of the month. >> all right. so the bulk of the storm is over. the danger from the storm is far from over. think about it. we still have dangerous cold air in place. another clipper is expected to make its way through reinforcing the cold air. this record breaking snow that's on the ground is expected to stay here. meanwhile the low that's making its way offshore, the actual low that produced this snow is strengthening as it makes its way offshore.
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massachusetts still blizzard warnings right there on the cape until 1:00 p.m. strong winds will take all the snow on the ground and blow it around. really the conditions we're experiencing right now are only going to be staying with us for the next several days. picture temperatures just 20 if not 30 degrees below average from pretty much the midwest to northeast stretching down the southeast to the middle of the weekend guys. >> prepare for it. thank you so much. from a snowy boston to snowy every where let's turn to new jersey. we told you about those 16 inches of snow packing in the state but on top of that wind chills are well below zero. residents are being warned to stay off the roads because of it. let's go possible maggie lake for that angle on this massive storm. >> reporter: we have snow drifting well over a foot. this part of new jersey was really hard hit. some people didn't make it home.
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if they managed to come in or essential workers to make their way to work this is what the problem is. packed ice. tiny bit of black top. plows have been at it all morning long. travel on the side roads is extremely treacherous. if you made it here and try to get on one of the buses that had been pulling up because the main roads are okay. there's speed restrictions on the parkway. main roads are fine. people getting here, people slipping on the ice. i talked to the dispatcher. nobody is getting hurt. schools in the area are closed. a lot of people based on the fact this lot would be absolutely full a lot of people heeding advice of officials and if able to stay home or work from home are choosing to do so. chris? >> if you look behind maggie u-see the real suvs made it. the ones snowed in not quite as capable vehicles. thanks for being out there for us. appreciate it. we'll have all these attendant
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issues that come with the snow, winter and cold bad weather hitting several major cities means thousands of flights around the country will be grounded. at last count 4400 flights have been grounded since yesterday. let's check in on that angle. we go to reagan national airport. what's the situation? >> reporter: the situation is, chris, you spoke about grounded flights. passengers just, they've been trying to get out of here, haven't been able to do that since yesterday. many spent the night here at the airport. i saw at many of the airports in the bull's eye. here's what it looked like. people cozied up under their blankets and heaters as they waited for their flights hoping they would be able to get to their destination. at this point we can tell you the hard hit areas we're talking about, laguardia, newark, philadelphia, boston and jfk. the big question that many of
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these people who are probably watching us right now is how long will it take before these airlines can catch up to themselves. well we know that after the storm finally moves out there was, on average about two days. so the moral of the story is we're going to see more cancelations today. and more delays. chris, kate? >> thank you very much for that. let's turn to another big story that we are following and continue to follow. the opening ceremony for the sochi olympics 16 days away. russian officials are dealing with serious security concerns as the search for two or more black widow terrorists continue some officials worry terrorists may have already positioned themselves within the security perimeter. joining us now from moscow to discuss the chairman of the house homeland security committee congressman michael mccall from texas. he's been in texas meeting with officials. congressman, thank you so much for your time.
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>> thank you. >> you just returned from being on the ground in sochi, assessing the security situation there. from what you have seen, how would you characterize at this point the level of cooperation between u.s. and russian security teams, because that's been a bit of a question. >> i think it's better. i think our diplomatic security service who takes a lead tells me cooperation has been very good. we have fbi agents now coming into sochi to work in the counterterrorism effort with the russians. the fsb, if you will. the area that needs to be improved, quite frankly, is the intelligence sharing component that the russians have not been quite as candid with us. i think we could help them a great deal if they would open up information sharing more to us. the other area i think the president called putin on this issue that i know the joint
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chiefs of staff both from the united states and russians talked about the ied technology that we have to detect ieds. this is obviously the weapon of choice. we need the technology in there to detect and stop these devices from going off. as you mentioned i do believe this ring of steel is effectively in place. the problem is how many of these black widows, if you will came into the area before the ring of steel came up an we also know one of these black widows actually was able to penetrate the ring and enter the sochi area. >> congressman, that is a real concern. coming from sochi, now that you've just come from there. how confident can you say you are that the ring of steel is going to be safe, that the olympics are going to be safe? >> listen, russia has deployed about 100,000 security
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officials, special forces, the military is down there. i've seen them. they have these rings that stretch out into the mountains to stop them from coming into this area. so it's quite fortified and very impressive but it only takes one suicide bomber to get in to cause a real problem. i think what we're going to see are more explosions like we saw at the train station and the bus. there are softer targets outside of the perimeter that are close to the olympic village where they can make the same statement. they know the eyes of the world now are on these olympics and what better way to make a statement than at these olympics and that's my concern. they have been in a struggle with russia for really 150 years and i think, you know, you see the leader of this extremist group, the bin laden of the caucuses if you will calling for attacks on the olympics. that's the great concern that we have. >> chairman, i want to ask you
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about these new reports we're hearing about letters, emails being sent to more than one olympic team warning of terror threats, warning these olympic teams they are basically in danger. also some reporting they are not seeing as completely credible. what have you heard of this? >> well, i know that, you know, in addition to our security measures over there that the olympic teams themselves are also hiring private security contract officers, and so you have the combination of u.s. forces through our diplomatic security service in addition to this private security to protect our teams. i think first and foremost my concern is the 10 to 15,000 americans who will be at these games and our olympic team itself being protected from these potential suicide bombers we're hearing about. it's very eerie when you go into sochi and see the mountains and think about these black which dose as they call them who have
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had their spouses killed by the fsb now retaliating through suicide bombing. it's eerie to think of them coming out of these mountains into the olympic village. i think the village itself is very well fortified and very well protect. i saw impressive showing of force by the russian fsb and military down there and i think they are going to have to balance that military might with also having sort of a more invisible presence so that the games can go forward in a friendly and less hostile environment. >> chairman, are you aware of any direct threats coming to the u.s. olympic team? >> not to the u.s. olympic team. >> to americans? >> there are threats. i can't go into specifically into these but not the american team. i think historically the battle between the radical islamic extremists in this caucus region
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which sochi is in it's more of a beef against the russians and the historical precedent over the last 100 years of them fighting and cracking down on them in the caucus region. it's a retaliation against russia and the russian military more so than the americans. >> mr. chairman, with all of this context you're offering and what you've seen on the ground and the concerns that you are concerned with, 15,000 americans are expected to head over for the games. you've said that there are some kinds of threats, though i understand you can't go into detail. what would you say to your constituents who might be wanting to go over or planning to go over. would you recommend they attend? what should they do? >> i would say this, i think there is -- this security operation is the most impressive and well fortified that we've ever seen in olympic history. i would give them that, you know, assurance. nothing is ever safe. but i would say these are
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historic games that we should all enjoy and i think if we let the terrorists detract us from attending and enjoying these games we're letting the terrorists win. >> i hear that, mr. chairman, but it's one thing to say it's the most impressive security situation that you've seen but this is facing more of a credible threat than we've seen in recent memory in terms of olympic games. i mean would you go over there with your family from what you've seen? >> well, i just came back there. i'll tell you that, yes, this olympic is different from the other ones. the proximity to the terrorists in the northern caucus region concerns me. the suicide bombers. we were dloun. we saw the wanted posters for the black widow who penetrated the ring of steel. it greatly concerns me. i'm doing everything i can. i'm glad president obama talked to president of russia, putin about greater cooperation on
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intel standpoint, but also counter ied measure. i had assurance that the stadium was built, and vetted. but we've seen stadiums built in this area with explosive devices in them. that's one of the concerns, you know, we have as well. i've been told they have been swept, radiological detection devices. we have great technology in afghanistan and iraq that we can help the russians with and i hope the president of russia would allow us to come in and assist them with that effort. i've been pushing them to do so. >> are they open to that? >> there's a sense of nationalistic pride in russia, just as we would have in the united states. and so while they have been very productive, cooperating with us on some issues, when it comes to the military, it gets sensitive. that's why i was very pleased to hear that we have the chairman of the joint chiefs talk to the
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russian counter part just today to talk about these technologies that can counter their weapon of choice which is the ied not unlike what we saw in boston. this is the area that brought the boston bombers. let's not forget that. so that's always in the back of my head. my job as chairman of homeland security is to make sure we're protecting american lives whether it's in the homeland or overseas at the olympic games and we're only about three weeks away. we still have a lot of work to do. >> 16 days away from opening ceremonies. it's important to have officials like yourself on the ground pushing for the safety of americans, some 15,000 americans are preparing to head over there for the games. mr. chairman, thank you very much for your time. safe travels back. >> thanks for having me. thank you for that. let's take a look at your headlines. secretary of state john kerry defiant at the opening of the geneva ii conference on syria
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saying bashir al assad will have no place in a transitional government. state department slamming inflammatory rhetoric. the syrian regime and opposition will come face to face on friday. 10,000 troops or none at all what the pentagon is proposing to president obama concerning the u.s. presence in afghanistan. once the combat mission ends after 2014. some 37,000 u.s. troops are currently there in afghanistan. afghan president hard mid car decide has refused to sign a security agreement that would allow an american force in the country until 2024. class is cancelled at indiana's purr due universi purdue university after a shooting. the alleged shooter was a 23-year-old.
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both reportedly were students in electrical engineering at the school. cousins turned himself in and that the shooting does not seem random. cousins is being held without bail. before the denver broncos and seattle seahawks kick off super bowl xlviii they will be so remaded with renee fleming. she's been chosen to perform the national anthem. not the first time for her. she did it at the 2003 world series at yankee stadium. had some issues with the lyrics and had to ad lib. as i always say as someone who failed but attempted many times to sing the national anthem when i was incorporate college it's hard, very hard. not just remembering the lyric, very difficult moment hitting that range is not easy. that's why i stuck with this job. >> good idea. >> all right. here's the headline for you.
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roughed up in china. our david mckenzie and cnn crew are in beijing. they get accosted as they report on a trial of a prominent civil rights attorney. authorities in plain-clothes grab david and his troupe and throw him into a waiting van. take a look. >> this is a public space. don't push me. do not push me. this is a public space. >> they are physically man handling us. they are physically medicine handling me. this is a public space. i'm allowed to report. i'm allowed to report. >> obviously very upsetting to watch. but you have to have the contrast how they are behaving how david and the crew behaved.
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true pro there's. we're happy they report there is david mckenzie looking no worse for wear joining us for a debrief. david glad to be able to speak to you. tell us what happened when they threw you in the van, my friend? >> well, chris, it was like a mafia movie. put us in a van, transferred to another vehicle, drove us three, four miles outside of the court and then dumped us on the side of the street and went on their merry way. very strange and very violent episode from the chinese authorities. >> one step sideways, were you right? were you in a public space? were you supposed to be in china allowed to report and what do you think their agenda was? >> well, look, here in china on paper foreign reporters like ourselves have free reign throughout the country.
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this is a public street. we were some distance way from that court and almost immediately as you see they started man handling charlie and i and shoved our heads against the side of the van and threw a few punches here and there. a very aggressive response. the government responded and said they would investigate this case, but they did sort of put the issue on us saying we should be careful in cases like this unless chaos happens in china. not sure what they mean by that. chris? >> david, most impressive to me, you and i have covered stories in lots of parts of the world. you have been respected as a true pro and as a journalist. you don't know how you would react in situations like that. how did you stay calm? >> charlie is a very cool customer himself so the two of us certainly feed off that reaction. i think the worse thing you can do as a journalist is react
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badly and certainly react physically to any provocation because once you react physically it all becomes about you crossing that line. so effectively you need to take a beating. one thing to point out, of course, here in china, chinese journalists and activists to get the word out are treated far worse and often detained sometimes for several months up to years because they are trying to expose truth in this country. while we get it bad certain others don't get nearly that level of respect even what they did to us is not respectful. >> david, the issues that play there are very important. they need to come out. you have to balance that with your own safety. thank you for showing the right way to do it. i'm glad it turned out in your favor this time. good luck going forward. >> thanks, chris. we're going to take a break. coming up next on "new day," rudy giuliani is becoming one of governor chris christie's biggest defenders.
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welcome back. hope your morning is going well. new this morning another tough challenge for new jersey governor chris christie. new poll numbers have been released and they say as christie was sworn in for a second term his favorability ratings have dropped along with a chance at the 2016 presidential election. this as he faces new calls to step down as president of the governor's association. rudy giuliani is one of christie's biggest supporters. he joins us now. you're comfortably situated in fort myers, florida, is that
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correct, mr. mayor? >> that's correct, chris. my sympathies. >> good time to be out of the city. you made your stones as a city boy. you can be wherever you want. let's deal with the governor's allegations. you have three separate situations that go to different areas of leadership. bridgegate means one thing about who he picked to be close around him. mayor of hoboken goes to the tactics that may be used by his government. then you have this other simmering scandal about his former attorney general taking an inindictmentmed inindictment prosecutors. you dismiss them. why so confident? >> i don't dismiss them. what i see aside from the original allegation which i think needs to be investigated, you know, and his people acted improperly, i see the others as political pile on, it's the usual democrats go after republicans, republicans go after democrats. the mayor of hoboken knew about
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this for months, never said anything about it. she gave prior contradictory statements to the statement she has given now. she praised in this interim period governor christie. i see in the pile on effect the usual political thing that happens when you have a guy that's a front-runner. after all this was the only republican that was leading hillary clinton in any poll, every other republican has lost to her. he didn't lead her in all of the polls but in some polls. the man running the inquiry for the state assembly and senate has announced that chris christie is lying. a week and a half ago or a week ago he said he didn't believe the governor and he's the person in charge of the investigation. so i'm really casting doubt on is this really a legitimate investigation or is this an attempt to take out a very promising candidate, you know, on the other side. >> as you know, mr. mayor, the usa is looking into this as well. the governor, a former member of
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that office. you as well. so you have them looking into it. of course you got msnbc, fox using this as a political football. that's the game they play. when you look at even this one situation with this ag taking this indictment away from local prosecutors and there's no reason for it it's working its way through the state courts that's a troubling allegation that far exceeds political footballs, don't you think? >> i don't know the facts of the allegations. everybody jumps to conclusions. i can't tell you how many disputes i was involved in with district attorneys. there are a lot of good reasons for it. sometimes infight among prosecutors and sometimes political intrigue. when something like this happens, immediately everyone jumps to the conclusions before there's even been an investigation. which is what's wrong with the assemblyman who is running this investigation. he jumped to a conclusion
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before. the u.s. attorney's investigation i'm sure it's completely legitimate one. so far let's remind people. chris christie has denied any of these allegations. he's denied them flatly. he's used very unambiguous language. he held an hour and a half press conference. far different than the president or hillary clinton dealing with benghazi where they haven't answered any questions. >> why make the analogy. here at cnn we take on benghazi. we did an hour special on it. it's not about us. but why should there be any comparison in the two? benghazi is what it is. hillary clinton has got to deal with it. she's already faced a senate hearing on it but that issue will continue. this is christie's mess, no reason to conflate the two. >> excuse me if i don't think christie has become the subject of so much scrutiny. attention by democrats he's the only candidate that was leading hillary clinton. so you can't ask me to ignore
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the political motivation that exists here or to compare the way things are treated. for example the irs scandal in which president obama has yet to answer any questions about it, hasn't held anyone accountable. chris christie has answered questions. he's held everyone accountable. so far there's no proof he knew about it. yet we cover this day after day after day and then new allegations emerge, many of which have been contradicted in the past. >> you know, we've seen you be comfortable, i don't know everything that went on here. that's one of the problems is we don't know what happened. this aren't g scandal i'm talking to you about no one is covering because it's complicated. and the concern becomes if something comes out that says yes that ag improperly took the inindictmentment what's going on there is really wrong and she was a political appointment of his or something with the mayor or something with bridgegate
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what do you think is the correct course for chris christie? >> i think chris has made it simple. he's denied any involvement, any knowledge. if in fact that's untrue he's in deep trouble. if on the other hand if it's not true he's handled it in a way a leader should handle it. things go around you all the time that you can't control until you find out about it. when you find out about it you have told people accountable. if he's telling the truth he survives this and becomes stronger. if not, whole other story and i think you know what the consequences of that would be. >> mr. mayor, let me hit you real quick on the sochi olympics. now as we're learning everything that's going on. you're involved with the former planning of 2016 olympics in rio. do you think with everything that we've learned, mr. mayor,
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that sighting these in sochi was a mistake? >> it's now too late. it's one of the worst situations in the world in terms of terrorism, exportation of terrorism. happens to be in a country that has tremendous security. we know sometimes what the price of that is but it does have tremendous security. they devoted more resources to security than frankly i've ever seen. i'm also familiar with the winter olympics right after september 11 in utah that mitt romney ran which were almost cancelled. that hand h an-- had an enormou amount of security. the threat is there. on the other hand the amount of security is overwhelming. so, in retrospect, could you
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have picked a place that's safe? i guess kou. but the point i make to all of these olympic committees and i've dealt with a few of them, the minute you hold the olympics in a place where it's salt lake city or it's rio de janeiro, or london you brought all the world problems to you. so, yes, sochi is dangerous because it's close to the caucuses, hauowever the minute u have the olympics it gets attracted to you and you need security. >> mr. mayor, you look great. thanks for your first appearance on "new day". god bless. >> great job on the north korean story. wonderful what you're doing. >> thank you. high praise. a cnn exclusive does richard sherman regret his now famous rant. his first sit down interview with our rachel nichols. hear what he says is really behind his feud with san francisco wide receiver michael crabtree. farmer: hello, i'm an idaho potato farmer.
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welcome back to "new day". let's get right to the breaking news. the storm blanketing the northeast with snow and ice. people in the region are now starting to dig out and hopefully get going but they are not going to have a really easy time getting around. take a look what it's like in new jersey. you can't see the sidewalks or curbs. some parts of the state saw 16 inches. the dig out will be tough. >> some air travellers are stranded this morning.
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these people decided to camp out in new york's laguardia airport. let's get to indra petersons who is in boston with how much fell and where do things go from here? >> it's interesting, here in boston we only have about five, six inches of snow. south to us, they are talking about snow drifts that are a good 18 inches, a good foot of snow plus that wind enhancing the snowfall. i have to show you the snow anyway. take a look. still that very cold air out here. the snow is really dry. you try to compact it and make a snowball. you slow it. nothing comes it. there's another side. if you're throwing it and see it blow apart that's what we're dealing with through the next several days. next several days what we're concerned with is all the snow on the ground and winds picking up. temperatures are cold. winds kick up. you're going to talk about snow blowing around for the next few
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days. this chill, let's talk about this chill. not going anywhere. not only do we have the low still out there, producing blizzard conditions down at the cape until 1:00 p.m. or so but then you have another arctic clipper making its way through. another alberta clipper will bring the temperatures down. highs just maybe in the single digits in the upper midwest, in the teens into the northeast. so, yes, we're going to be roughing it here the next couple of days. >> i won't talk about the criticism of tlour. time now for the five things you need to know for you "new day". it is going to be cold. very, very cold in the northeast today. that huge winter storm forcing 4,000 cancelations since yesterday. president obama offering hi-tech security help to the russians with 16 days left before the start of the winter olympics in sochi as russians search for possible black widow
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terrorists. geneva convention is underway to find a way to slow violence in syria. john kerry saying bashir al assad shouldn't be a part of any transitional government. mexico, the nation of mexico urging the state of texas not to execute convicted cop killer tonight. he was convicted of killing a houston police officer. mexico is arguing the execution would violate international law. at number five, toronto's embattled mayor rob ford admitted he fell off the wagon. he said he was drinking a little when he was caught on this video babbling in a fake jamaican accent. next richard sherman sitting down exclusively with our rachel nichols to sit the record straight about that
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♪ welcome back. does richard sherman regret the famous rant that made him a household name. he talked exclusively r rachel nichols about his comments. rachel nichols is the host of "unguarded." great interview to get. >> thanks so much, chris. here's what's fascinating about richard sherman. he's one of the most brash, most
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outspoken guys in the nfl. he graduated from stanford and worked on i had masters while still playing football. what happened the other night was emotional when he sat down to talk to me he was extremely reasonable and thoughtful. there was the moment on the field when you made the play. the choke sign. the interview post-game. press conference interview. what do you regret about all that? what you do not regret about all of that? >> there isn't much about it i regret. mostly i regret the, i guess, the storm afterwards. the way it was covered, the way it was perceived and the attention it took away from the fantastic performance of my teammates. and that be the only part of it i regret the way it's covered. it is what is it. what i said is what i said. i don't say -- i probably shouldn't have attacked another
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person. i don't mean attack him and that was immature and i probably shouldn't have done that. i regret doing that. i just felt like my teammates deserved better and i have to apologize to them and i have. >> your brother has said that michael crabtree was rude to you at an event this past summer, a charity event, he shunned you, he wouldn't talk to you and you said at the time all right i'll show him on field. is that the background of all this? >> that's -- >> that the clean version >> we'll keep it clean. >> does it get nastier than that >> we'll keep it clean. i said i would keep it on the field. i will show you on the field. that's always been my thing. everybody is like my guys push ug in your face, doing this, doing that. i'm not is going to fight anybody and embarrass myself, embarrass my family, embarrass my organize. no need for that. no need to be that kind of barbaric human being. on the field we're playing a
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barbaric sport and you can do as you please. that's when i take my frustrations on the field with the discipline of football. it takes a different kind of person to be able to turn that switch on and off and be able to step in the ring or step on the field and be the intense, incredible focus and kind of you know, angry human being that you have to be to be successful in those atmospheres. >> how do you do it? >> you have to have that switch. you take you want off. that's why sometimes it crashes and doesn't go all so well because you catch me in the moment on the field while i'm still in that zone, when i'm still as competitive as i can be and i'm in the place where i have to be to do everything i can to be successful on the football team and help my team win then it's not going to come
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out as articulate, as smart, as charismatic because i'm not all those things. >> as you said, rachel. very thoughtful and victim oppressive. rachel will stick with us and in a moment we'll find out how richard sherman responded to criticism following this famous rant. rachel will bring us that next. [ car alarm chirps ] ♪ [ male announcer ] we don't just certify our pre-owned vehicles. we inspect, analyze, and recondition each one, until it's nothing short of a genuine certified pre-owned mercedes-benz for the next new owner. [ car alarm chirps ] hurry in to your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for 1.99% financing during our certified pre-owned sales event through february 28th. pre-owned sales event thmortgage didn't start here. it began on her vacation in europe
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welcome back. we're talking with rachel nichols about her exclusive interview with richard sherman and his now famous rant. rachel is joining us once again from los angeles. hey there. >> richard sherman told me he was 7 or 8 years old when he stumbled on film on mohamed ali. he was transfixed. he was also so clever and entertaining at the same time. sherman patterned some of his approach after that but like ali there's been some backlash and some of it has gotten very nasty. we've seen this. we've seen dion sanders, terrell owens and michael jordan, mohamed ali, guys get excited in the moment and make pronouncements. what happened to you is the reaction afterwards. the way it mushroomed. the fact that race so quickly became involved. >> yeah. you know, it was really
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mind-boggling. it was kind of sad at the way the world reacted. you know, i don't want to generalize people because there's a lot of great people who didn't react that way. for those who did and threw the racial slurs, it's sad especially that close to martin luther king, jr. day. you're not judging a guy. i'm not out there beating on people or committing crimes or getting arrested. i'm playing a football game at a high level and i got excited. what i did was within the lines of a football field. what they did was in actual reality they showed their true character. those were real comments not in a moment, not in a, you know, they had time to think about it. they were sitting at a computer and expressed themselves in a true way. i thought society had moved past that. >> guys, sherman tells me that he in tends to just be himself when he gets to new york for super bowl week but that meansing the whole person that he is. not just the character that some
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are trying to create from what happened in those few minutes on the field that he'll be brash but also confident, smart and thoughtful as you can see in that interview. >> absolutely. you know, a lot of this we talk about -- a lot about is the brand. his character on the field, his character off the field. what do you think? does he think it will affect his brand, his marketability? >> so far it is helping his brand. this guy is a fifth round pick and a defensive player not the kind of player that get marketing ads. his agent sans this happened on sunday he's only got more interest from advertisers, people know who richard sherman is and for all the people who didn't like what happened sunday night a lot of people really liked it. it was reggie miller and spike lee at the garden all over again. >> the guy got stereotyped by some people initially and it
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contributes to a lot of the ugliness. i'm blown away about his intelligence. i think the thoughtfulness that goes the artifice who he is on the field as opposed to off is unique. >> he's one of the smartest players in the nfl. everything that he does is for a reason. it's not an accident. and it's a pleasure to see someone who can talk about the social issues involved here as well as what happens on the field and hey he's also a great football player. let's not forget that he need play that put the seattle seahawks in the super bowl. without him that would have been a touchdown and instead we would be talking about the 49ers. >> absolutely right. great interview. thank you for bringing that to us. of course there's a lot nor richard sherman as we're seeing right here. you can catch his full story on this friday's "unguarded" with rachel nichols. that's it for us here on
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