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out of late '80s and early '90s. i'll talk to them about their career and justin bieber and how they dealt with being young stars. here they are. we begin with breaking news. a brain dead pregnant woman taken off a ventilator after an emotional legal battle. that's after a texas hospital said it would not fight the ruling to turn off marlise munoz' machines. live in ft. worth, texas, outside the hospital. nick, what next for the family? >> what next for the family is finding a place to bury marlise munoz. we have not heard directly, erick must not oss hasn't spoken, neither have their parents. we did get a statement from the attorney. it says, our client erick munoz authorized us to give today at 11:30 a.m. central time marlise

munoz body was disconnected from life support and released to mr. munoz. they will proceed with the somber task of laying her body to rest and grieving over the loss suffered. went on to say, may marlise munoz rest in peace and the family find the strength to complete what has been a long and arduous journey. it's been eight and a half weeks since she was legally pronounced brain dead. an hour before we got this statement from the attorney, munoz family, we heard from the hospital. jps, john peter smith hospital behind me, this is what they sent to cnn. from the on set jps has said its role was not to make nor contest law but to follow it. on friday a state district judge ordered the removal of life sustain treatment from marlise munoz. the hospital will follow the court order. they have maintained they were following state law and did nothing wrong. that state law requiring a

pregnant woman receive life sustaining treatment. all along they said she wasn't alive, there was no patient to give treatment to. that was a big contentious battle lasting eight and a half weeks. fred. >> nick, given this case and the outcome, is there any indication this law will be challenge now? >> that is a very interesting question. i did go back to the hospital and ask them. although they decided to abide by the judge's ruling on friday which required them to remove marl marlise from a ventilator, are you appealing? they simply said to me, fred, nick, we will follow the court's mandate. >> nick, thanks so much, in ft. worth, texas. new details in that deadly mall shooting that happened in merrill yesterday. police have identified the gunman, 19-year-old darion marcus aguilar. police give chilling details about what happened. erin mcpike live in columbia,

maryland. erin, what more have we learned about what happened leading up to the shooting? fred, investigators have pieced together how the shooter got to the mall and what he did when he got here but they still haven't figured out why. the gunman now identified in saturday's terrible shooting at the mall in maryland. >> darion marcus aguilar is the shooter. >> police still aren't talking about a possible motive, although they say the 19-year-old aguilar lived in the same college park, maryland neighborhood as one of the victims, 21-year-old benlolo. >> we haven't been able to verify a relationship at this point between him and either of our victims. we can't establish there is one, we can't establish there is not one. that is an open question. >> reporter: surveillance videos, police say, revealed aguilar arrived by taxi at this upper level mall entrance 10:15

saturday morning walking by a children's carousel and carrying a backpack with two homemade explosive devices. over the next hour, they say, he went downstairs and back up into skateboard shop zoomese. the gunfire injured a woman in the foot below. >> somebody is there and has a gun. i heard eight to ten gunshots. >> as witnesses ran away in the cha chaos, authorities say he then killed himself with the gun. police searching the mall but it remains closed. the mall could open tuesday. it may be earlier than that. when it does reopen, they say

there will be an increased security presence. fred. >> erin mcpike. thanks so much in columbia, maryland. people scrambled, as you can imagine, for their lives. they took shelter inside the mall crawling on their hands and kne knees. once they were able to get out they described what they heard and saw in those moments of terror. >> i was in the back of my store working with my other co-worker. all of a sudden three people just run to the back of our back room saying somebody is in the mall shooting. some people were going towards the one exit. a lot of other people who didn't know where the heck they were were going the other way hiding out in rooms. >> we were in the back of the store in the fitting room area. where do you go? you're in a sitting room area. somebody comes in, you're still >> everyone was cared. it was pretty chaotic at the time, people running by the store, people ducking down on the floor in the candy store. but we just kind of took control and said, come on, guys and got everybody in the back room.

>> it was crazy, one of those things you see on tv but you never expect you'll go through it. >> and this story, a 19-year-old russian man in pennsylvania has been arrested and charged with possession of a weapons of mass destruction. police in altoona say they found homemade bomb and bomb materials while investigating an alleged marijuana growing operation. they say this man told them he wanted to blow things up. but later said he planned to detonate devices in a field and was not planning on blowing up anything. he's being held on half million dollars bail. investigators are trying to find out what's making hundreds of people sick on a royal caribbean cruise ship. a crew from center for disease control is boarding explorer of the seas in st. thomas to investigate gastrointestinal illnesses. someone caught up with a passenger and sent cnn this video. >> people want to know what's it like being on the ship with the virus. >> terrible.

i'll never come back again, not on this cruise line. we were with them two years ago. same thing. the ship was overrun with this sickness. you know, it's the most disorganized trip i've ever been on in my life. i'm almost 80 years old. it's sad. >> thank you. >> the ship left new jersey tuesday. it skipped a stop in haiti and went to san juan, puerto rico, to be sanitized yesterday. this is the second royal caribbean ship to get hit with sickness this month. dozens of people suffered similar symptoms on the majesty of the seas. coming up, how you can protect yourself from getting sick if you are going on a cruise. this week you'll find very few cities that aren't shivering in frigid temperatures. it's so bad that chicago public schools will actually be closed

tomorrow. here is cnn's karen maginnis on why things could get worse for just about every part of the country. >> reporter: fred, this isn't just cold weather. this is dangerously cold. blizzard conditions in the midwest. winds gusting around 60 miles an hour. in minnesota and dakotas. that clipper system is going to sweep across the midwest, central mississippi river valley. here is what's interesting. we'll see that cold air make its way much further to the south, also penetrate the interior west. it encompasses a broader area across the united states. just to give you an idea what this clipper system is going to do, all you have to do is look at new york monday, readings in the 30s, a little bit below average but only in the teens and around 20 coming up for tuesday and wednesday. washington, d.c., the same thing. highs in the teens and the 20s.

chicago and detroit, look at this. chicago coming up, as we go into monday we're looking at the high at minus 4. 50s for atlanta until we go into tuesday. then we're only looking at 34 degrees. that doesn't sound so devastating but that cold air definitely is making its way all the way down into northern florida. we'll start to see interesting events take place. not so much going into monday but tuesday developing storm system along the gulf coast from mobile to charleston, south carolina, we might see a rain snow mix, maybe icy conditions, maybe some snow. keep you updated on that. fred. >> big brrr. thanks so much, karen maginnis. it's been 50 years since beatles invade america and changed the pop scene forever. two two members will be honored with lifetime achievement award

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a very difficult battle over life and death. marlise munoz, pregnant and brain dead was taken off a ventilator and respirator in texas. it take after a hospital in texas said it would not appeal a judge's ruling the machines should be turned off. the root of the battle was in state law saying life sustaining

treatment should not be withdrawn from a pregnant patient. munoz family argued she was brain dead and not a patient. here to help us break down this case, host of the show and defense attorney, good to see both of you. this was tough for the situation. tough for the hospital, tough for the family. but in the end the judge says, wait a minute, she's brain dead. it turns out the fetus is not viable, remove her. the family did today. i wonder if this means there will ab real challenge for the state law? >> i think so. this case not only this case but a couple weeks ago, the case which was the opposite, the parents fighting to keep her alive. i think they will have to address this issue in texas and other states as well. nationally, what's going to happen in the case of people who

are brain dead. >> i wonder, was it an issue of the law was not applied properly? does it go back to the whole definition of what does brain dead mean? all these to be re-evaluated or doesn't even matter at this juncture. >> the issue was the hospital was worried about the child and was worried about whether this mom was pregnant. the issue was she was no longer living. it didn't see it was disputed whether she was alive or not. she was brain dead and therefore dead for legal purposes. the hospital was hanging onto this hope of protecting the child, which was misguided, because the child wasn't viable at this point. >> could they have known that earlier? it appears as though they only made the determination last week. >> doesn't appear they could have known earlier. there were significant problems earlier. you can imagine. is the child getting nourishment if the mom isn't living. the issue, slight be an family

decision. >> it turned into an abortion debate, that had a lot to do with the way decisions were made and the people surrounding the decision felt about abortion. >> lets shift gear to another case involving federal corruption trial for former new orleans mayor ray nagin. that begins with jury selection. he's facing 20 years in prison if convicted of accepting money and lavish gifts in form of vacations in exchange for a city contract. nagin denied all these charges. mo, you first. talk about a fall from grace. a potentially difficult legal road ahead. >> i'm sad about that. i was living in new orleans and don't know that many new orleans but we believed in him, thought he would change things around, came across well in 2005. i do believe he'll be convicted. all the people around him pled guilty. they are going to be used as

witnesses. there seems to be a lot of evidence saying he was taking, exchanging money for city contracts. >> unfortunately, ashleigh for the higher ranking person involved in a case, whenever you have plea deals of his or her inner circle, that never bodes well. >> no, that is hard. that is very difficult. that's typical. you want the people on the bottom to plea up. they are more likely to get a better deal. they can be offered probation, where they walk. the motivation to testify higher up in the scheme, so to say, is much more likely. corruption is still very hard to prove because it's a very fine line whether or not he was operating as a business would and it's still a business. >> a great reliance on a paper trail or documentation in the form of text or voicemails. >> there will be rules of bidding. they will rely on the rules of new orleans for bidding. >> what is his best defense.

>> his best defense, this is the normal course of business. listen, we were having a conversation most times you do business with people you know. it doesn't automatically mvp you're corrupt. he could make an argument i've done business with these people before, we went through the process of it doesn't mean i showed favorite. >> can you argue successfully this is the way it's done here. >> yes, definitely. that is how it's done in most businesses. you're going to give the business to who you know, you trust, took a family vacation w the issue will be the testimony of those people, whether or not they expected to get something back in return for taking the family on vacation or giving them the business. it's what they expected. if nagin made any statements to them, yes, if you take my family to mexico or jamaica or wherever they are going, then i'll give you this bid. if that promise was made, then he's done. >> all right. ashleigh merchant, mo, thank you very much. president obama said he's

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president used more executive privilege and relied less on aggressively approval. lets bring in candy crowley, anchor of state of the union and chief political correspondent. candy, this isn't likely to be part of the president's address. is this the only way he might be able to accomplish his goal? >> certainly the white house has come to that conclusion. i think you will hear the president do it perhaps not in those terms like bypassing congress. he has already said i've got a pen and i've got a phone. i've got some executive powers i can use here if i can't get congress to go along, which he's not been able to much in the first five years of his presidency. so the question is what will that do, if anything, to congress. i can tell you already it will be controversial. i spoke with senator rand paul, a republican, this morning. it sounds vaguely like a threat.

it has a certain amount of arrogance, one of the fundamental principles of the country, checks and balances, it wasn't supposed to be easy to pass legislation. you have to debate and convince people. he says, it's hard to get congress to do anything. yeah, welcome to the real world, it's hard to convince people to get legislation. it takes consensus. that's what he needs to be doing taking consensus, not taking his pen and creating law. >> now it's election year for house and senate. wasn't 2013 supposed to be new gop, new tone, going after women, minority voters? is it working? >> i guess we'll see when we see how women voters react. mike huckabee, talk show host, said something about women, said democrats are dependent on uncle sugar because they are unable to

control their libidos. this is not the most artful phrase. he was saying democrats think that not saying he thought that. the problem for republicans is they are playing to a pre-existing condition. that is the perception women and machi minorities think they are men. democrats have played that with great success at the level. they are going to seize on anything that catches your ear. the republicans are aware of that. they have been told to watch how they say things and watch their tone. obviously you're always going to have somebody that feeds into that and it's going to make big news one way or the other. >> that ammunition coming from reince priebus saying watch your

words. >> liberal media's fall, they take us out of context. it's also the sound bite era where it can go absolute ly wil on the internet. wait a second. what i said was democrats think this. you just have to be -- when you're a politician, you've go the to weigh every word regardless of whether you think it's clear. you have to weigh the word. >> candy crowley, thanks very much. a big week ahead. >> thanks, fred. >> as a reminder, you can catch state of the union, that address by the president tuesday night. best political team in the business is ready to go. our coverage begins 7:00 eastern right here on cnn tuesday night. all right. tonight's grammy awards, some of music's biggest stars are among the biggest snubs. tell you who won't be thanking the academy.

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water firefighters used to battle the blaze. officials are looking into a cigarette. >> aggravated rape in the death of his teacher last month. 15-year-old philip chism killed colleen with a box cutter in the bathroom in october. chism pleaded not guilty to murder, aggravated rape and robbery. he's held without bail and set to appear in court on thursday. a dramatic end to the australian open. in a tour set stunner, wawrinka beat nadal to win his grand slam title. nadal with severe back pain apologized to fans after being defeated. we're just a few hours away from music's bigges night at the grammy awards. one of the night's highlights

will be the beatles. paul mccartney and ringo starr receiving a lifetime achievement award. they are hoping for watercooler moment with gay couples on air. queen latifah will officiate during macklemore. maid of other than, who else, madonna. one of music's brightest stars. not just an entertainer, also a businessman. chief business correspondent christi christine romans looking for the business of bruno mars. >> bruno mars four grammy awards, record of the year, song of the year, has he a super bowl halftime performance right around the corner. it's time to take a look at the business of being one of pop's biggest stars.

bruno mars is going from superstar to the super bowl. born peter hernandez to a musical family in hawaii, he started out as the world's youngest elvis impersonator. ♪ take my hand >> he struggled as a performer, was dropped from motown records and changed his business plan and began writing and producing songs for other artists. ♪ nothing on you >> his big break came in 2010 doing vocals for two songs he helped write "nothing on you" and "billionaire." his debut album, a success ♪ girl you're amazing just the way you are ♪ >> and landed mars two number one hits. ♪ catch a grenade for you >> album number two reached number one.

and the accompanying tour brought in more than $46 million so far. all together mars who sold 115 million singles worldwide and landed five number one singles faster than any male singer since elvis. >> a beautiful audience. >> the 28-year-old was billboard's artist of the year last year. >> expect to have some fun with us. >> he has 14 past grammy nominations but only one trophy so far. he could soon add to his collection with four more nominations. outside he invested chromatic, a startup that makes sheet music and something he uses to kick the habit. up next, the biggest stage in music. mars will play super bowl halftime show for 1 million

viewers. he joins legendary peers, the first under 30 to headline in a decade. the business of being bruno mars is far from over. >> i feel like i haven't even started yet. >> fredricka, has he two albums, both sold 2 million. some thanks to steep temporary discounts. not a bad business move. >> not bad at all. hard not to be a fan of his. grammys the best in the music world. some of the most popular artists aren't among the nominees. robin meade explains why. >> reporter: for some people it's a mystery as to who gets on these ballots. the very songs you could not get away from on radio do not always guarantee that somebody is going to get a big nomination. >> it's pretty surprising justin timberlake wasn't nominated grammy of the year. he's usually a darling.

>> justin flake shut out of the top four category. >> when it comes to kanye west, he got snubbed. he should have been nominated for album of the year. >> it doesn't surprise me kanye did not get more no, ma'am nations, because the grammys like people who are humble and kanye is anything but. >> he's such a lunatic when it comes to interviews. kanye, you've got to stop telling us how great you are, how creative you are, how you're walt disney. >> he's cocky and grammy voters don't like that and they don't appreciate it. >> also the critics, english singer songwriter james blake nominated for best artist. other nominees kendrick lamar, musgraves, macklemore. they all hit top five on the billboard chart but blake peaked at 42. >> what's up with this snub of

florida georgia line for best new artist category? with four top five country singles and a number one album their smash summer hit "cruise" was just named the bess selling of all time. the country pop duo didn't get any grammy nomination. same goes for mega stars lady gaga ga, justin bieber, one direction, miley cyrus. they were all shut out of this year's awards. >> we will be live from the grammys red carpet in our next hour to give you close-up view of the festivities. next despite new assurances from the russians, u.s. athletes are being toll to be on high alert for the sochi games. why security gains are mounting less than two weeks from the start of the winter games. farmer: hello, i'm an idaho potato farmer. and our giant idaho potato truck is still missing. so my dog and i we're going to go find it.

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a new report by a privacy watchdog highly critical of nsa's phone surveillance program. it calls it illegal and unconstitutional. here is brian todd. >> khalid, a hijacker on the plane that slammed into the plane on september 11th. he had been inside the u.s. before 9/11, had been in contact with an al qaeda safe house in yemen. the nsa didn't know he was calling that location from san

diego. the nsa's chief said if they had their current program of collecting bulk phone call records in place then. >> we would have known about the plot. >> a privacy watchdog report appointed by the government now rejects that. >> the information was available. they just weren't sharing it. >> the controversial nsa program revealed by leaker edward snowden should not exist. >> it's unlawful in the majority of the board's view and should be shut down after a short transition period. >> reporter: the board says the patriot act doesn't give legal authority for phone records in lucas the white house argues and says it's a huge invasion of america's privacy. the report is a harsh rebuke on president obama's stance on intelligence gathering. in the wake of this report, the white house defending the phone gathering records program as legal and effective. we simply disagree with the board's analysis on the legality of the program. >> president obama has announced plans to take the phone data collection program away from the nsa and give it stricter oversight but not to end it.

in an online chat in response to the report, snowden said, quote, there is no justification for continuing an unconstitutional policy with a zero percent success rate. the obama team says the phone surveillance program did help disrupt one plot, the effort by a zazi. >> after he had given up his plot, returned to colorado. >> peter king from the homeland security committee disagrees. >> not just the actual threat you stopped. it's part of a mosaic, fills in blanks. >> reporter: king says the board is outside, does not know what qualifies these five people to decide what's legal and constitutional when all judges rulings have said the phone surveillance program is legal.

the chair said they were nominated by the president, confirmed by the senate and they are all lawyers including a former federal judge. brian todd, cnn, washington. the wshz ambassador to the u.s. said he's absolutely certain the sochi olympic games will be safe from terrorist attacks. this follows a warning for u.s. olympic athletes. u.s. state department said wearing red, white, blue could put team usa in danger. it's urging athletes to avoid wearing uniforms when outside venues for fear it will make them easy targets. a look at the mounting security threat at the games. >> reporter: less than two weeks to go and the threats keep coming. a jihadist forum friday quoted bin laden implying someone might fly planes into a city on edge. in this video first reported by cnn, prominent in the media, added to the daily drip of worry. it compares putin to hitler and

says locals could only breathe on moscow's orders. fear felt here in all places in ralph lauren's striking new look for team usa in sochi's winter games. american athletes warned by the state department they would be safer not wearing uniforms when they venture out of the ring of steel set up to protect them. >> the u.s. olympic committee had discussed with its athletes as part of how to stay safe and things to look out for as part of the games this issue about being careful where you wear u.s. logos or things like this. this isn't unique to russia. >> remarkable that athletes should hide being american. especially a state's tourist warning for sochi said americans unspecifically targets. the worry mountains the countdown doesn't stop even if the heavy snow up in the hills makes you feel like it might. hurried workers and a lot left

to do here. the plaza, one of the many buildings being readied in a hurry, they hope for tourists arriving here in the thousands shortly. you see the scale of the job still ahead for people trying to work here. this building far from ready. just asking when it will be ready. >> everything he says will be gone and this will be ready by tomorrow lunchtime. >> now under two weeks to go and still a feeling of anxiety rather than anticipation. >> the kremlin doing all it can to lighten the atmosphere. it emerged friday a man left jail early. he's a business partner of a key putin critic who has been here, also released early, part of a spate of amnesties the kremlin trying to push through to look

soft against political opponents. security is the main issue. a ring of steel here. the real question, can all of southern russia, volatile for over a decade now, go through the next two weeks without some kind of instance? nick paton walsh, cnn, sochi. in this country, how does super bowl monday sound to you? if the weather looks anything like this in new jersey next week, we might be calling it just that. hey guys! sorry we're late. did you run into traffic? no, just had to stop by the house to grab a few things. you stopped by the house? uh-huh. yea. alright, whenever you get your stuff, run upstairs, get cleaned up for dinner. you leave the house in good shape? yea. yea, of course. ♪ [ sportscaster talking on tv ] last-second field go-- yea, sure ya did. [ male announcer ] introducing at&t digital life. personalized home security and automation. get professionally monitored security for just $29.99 a month. with limited availability in select markets. ♪

how does super bowl monday sound to you? what about super bowl friday? this year we could see a schedule change for the big game if the weather plays too rough. the crews were busy removing snow from the stadium last week. cnn's pamela brown takes a look at the contingency plans for the big game. >> some people questioned the decision to have the super bowl in the cold northeast. with all the snow and freezing temperatures we've been experiencing just in the past

few weeks, the nfl says it's preparing contingency plans just in case. broncos and seahawks are ready to go head to head. but a series of arctic blasts in the northeast have some asking what happens if mother nature rears her head on super bowl sunday. >> a delay for weather. >> premature. >> premature to change the game but nfl does have a plan in place that could move it up to friday or slide it back to monday if it makes super bowl sunday unplayable. >> the basis we move it forward would be a massive storm with a massive cleanup. >> crews had practice, cleaning up after a on tuesday it took more than a 1,000 workers in four hours. >> we are running ourselves through a rigorous dress rehearsal. >> all predictions are no.

which is music to the ears of the officials to stand by. >> we came here knowing that it was going to be cold. >> others take a diffrent view. >> in the end zone the pass -- >> it is not just about the game, a superbowl friday or monday would affect everyone from the businesses preparing for the game to local residents who have leased out their homes to ticket holders. >> the industry of the game is based on a sunday broadcast. unless a tornado comes down and rips the stadium open it is based on sunday. >> in the event of a major storm or sold snap, they are consult to officials and law enforcement to see if the game should go on

as planned. they are confident the superbowl will be on sunday. >> pamela brown, cnn new york. >> it is not only the game that may be affected by this cold weather. chicago public schools will be closed tomorrow. karen mcguinness is in the weather scenter. >> friday, the anticipation for this particular superbowl game, it is in a cold climate, by looking at different computer models this one being the global forecast model and this one having a jet stream towards the north. thei ioio europeon model keeps

here. model normal temperatures, cold, maybe light rainfall or light winds. temperatures below normal but dry with light winds. so what are we anticipating? cool temperatures cooler than normal and perhaps a light rain, snow mix is possible maybe at the beginning of the game. but we have a stretch of time before we can nail down what we anticipate is going to take place there. typically what we could expect are temperaturing hovering in the low or mid 30s. but we'll see how that is going to play out. >> back to you. >> appreciate that. >> all right they were a few years older thannious continue bieber was when they made it big. they will be talking to us about life as young stars and a key

aspect of just continue's life that might be missing in their view.

♪ >> that song was popular not that long ago. and the pop duo kid and play are familiar with what it means to be at the grammies. they became popular in the early 80 80's and 90s. they expanded their reach with the "house party" series. ♪ ♪ why you want to mess around with so many guys ♪ >> oh and they still have the moves. i can attest to that, they have evolved since their early days in hip-hop. kid tours and wrote the theme

song to hbo's realtime with big marr. and play produces bra brandnews.comand teaches at florida a & m university. >> good to see you. great to see you. >> i forgot i did those things. isn't it fun looking back? >> especially when you are proud of it. and you guys look the same except for the six inch hair and high top. >> and in my family, we say even the half black don't crack. >> goodness. let's talk about the grammies tonight. >> and you are familiar with what it means to be on the red carpet. you made a little history with

the fwrgramys way back when. >> it wasn't being televised and we were with wil smith and jazzy jeff and salt and peppa and we took a stand. we thought it should be recognized. it was like they were trying to get away with something. it was like they were honoring the category but not sellvising the awar. it seems as though it dominates every show and it is. and to their credit, i guess they were behind the curve and embraced hip-hop. some of the biggest stars, the record of the year and al bum of the year. they got with it. it has permeated everything. >> you all did a great job surviving what it was to hit it

big at an early age. you look at today's young people justin bieber being a young teen-ager. being able to manage fame and being a young person and associating yourself with young people. what happens that you have been able to survive it? >> first and foremost there before the grace of god go i. i attribute it to upbringing. and his mother seems to be a beautiful person but it is a seductive industry and community and it is not as easy as people think. when you come from a place where you haven't had a lot. you get drunk off of it. >> me, personally, i live in los angeles i worry about getting run over by justin bieber.

it is about your team. it is about who you got. it is about where you came from and we always say you got to have people around who can check you. when they hit you up, they are like hey, fall back. >> good to see you guys. always great perb iappreciate i. >> if you are wondering, kid's hat is paying homage to the birthday of hip-hop. here are the stop stories that we are following at this hour. a family fighting a hospital. the machines are off for a brain dead pregnant woman. what decisions came today that