state of the union address. that will be tonight starting at 7:00 eastern. and that is it for me. thank you so much for watching. "newsroom" continues right now with don lemon. hello, everyone. don lemon here. crazy day. i'm in for brooke baldwin. so stand by. fasten your seat belts when it comes to the weather. the midwest, northeast might be used to it, but much of the deep south is about to get slammed with a winter cold snap it hasn't seen in decades. we're talking a big swath of freezing rain, sleet, and snow. i've been talking to my friends in atlanta and they're freaking out right now. louisiana, mississippi, alabama, all under states of emergency. birmingham, atlanta, and yes, new orleans. right in the storm's path. first we're going to go to meteorologist jennifer grey. she is live in downtown, atlanta, where it's already snowing. it's so weird when it snows in atlanta. everything comes to a halt. i hear there's a huge traffic mess brewing right now,

jennifer. is that true? >> you have no idea. they are telling people to stay home. nobody is staying home. just look behind me, the entire city is gridlocked right now. we have cars coming. everyone's on the roads. and yes, the snow is coming down. we've gotten reports that a lot of people are running out of gas. and the department of transportation says that's not a priority right now. they're just trying to clear up the accidents. and so people really need to get home. they need to get where it's safe. and they need to stay inside. we've gotten about aban inch of snow right now. the very powdery snow. you can see the roads are definitely on the slushy side, so overnight tonight, a lot of that will freeze. the bridges and overpasses going to be a slow go as we go through the overnight hours. i want to get to the forecast, because we have winter weather warnings. we have weather advisories in effect all across the deep south. anywhere from houston all the way through south louisiana, including new orleans, and this is a look at the radar. you can see birmingham, atlanta,

jackson, all in the snow. we have a wintery mix, including montgomery, mobile, even outside of new orleans we've had reports of freezing rain, and then rain, of course, to the south. so let's time-out this system and show you exactly what's going to be happening as we go through the next couple of hours. there's a look at your watches and warnings across the south and the southeast. by rush hour tonight, it looks like we're going to see quite a bit of snow. anywhere from atlanta, including raleigh, could see a wintery mix around wilmington, as we go through 9:00 p.m., should be clearing out in the atlanta area. and then as we get through rush hour tomorrow morning, most of this is going to be cleared out, which is the good news. of course, it is going to be a slow go, don, as on the roadways, especially if it stays slushy like this and it starts to freeze overnight. but it is a pretty sight. it's just folks need to get off the roads in atlanta because the entire city, i'm telling you, is in gridlock. >> and when it rains there, people have issues. was that a live driving cam

picture that we had? live in atlanta. thank you, jennifer. the last big snowstorm there was two years ago. and i remember i lived ten minutes away. it took me about two hours to get home. that's how bad it gets in atlanta when it starts to snow. our meteorologist chad myers in new orleans. people there are being told now, chad, to get a game plan. new orleans, much the same as atlanta. they're not used to dealing with snow. what's the city's plan? >> basically be off the roads by 2:00 local time, because that's when this rain and sleet will change over to all frozen. and, don, this is a streetcar rail. these are rail tracks. this is a bus. why is a bus driving on the streetcar? because the streetcars aren't running today. because the power is going to go out and the streetcars will get stuck because that's all they run on is electricity. so the buses are running on the streetcar rails, trying to get people out and about and home, if you can, because we will see the bridges freeze up very

quickly. we already know that a lot of i-10, 55 miles of i-10 is already closed because you know what it's like. i-10 is a bridge, literally, it goes over a bayou or it goes over a lake. so those bridges are completely frozen up. it's only about ten miles north of here, that cold air is working its way here in the next hour or two. everything that you see that's wet will be completely black ice, and this place will look a lot like atlanta, gridlocked traffic, because people aren't taking this seriously enough. oh, it's 32 and rain. it will be fine. no, it won't, because it's going down to 28 and it will freeze. >> oh, my goodness. they're not used to these conditions. any weather forecast like that when i grew up there, schools were closed, businesses closed, everything was a mess, chad. so they're in for it. >> everyone says hi, by the way. >> tell them i said hello. thank you, chad myers. thank you, jennifer grey in atlanta as well. speaking of winter weather, what's in store for football fans on super bowl sunday? currently, there is a chance of rain and snow on saturday, but

all of that is supposed to move out just in time for super bowl sunday. the current forecast is for temperatures in the mid 30s. partly cloudy skies. keep your fingers crossed. the biggest sports game in the country, which makes the super bowl a big target for terrorists. it's not happening until sunday. but tomorrow, some people who live around metlife stadium in new jersey will feel the effects of securing the big game. random baggage checks will begin and there is so much more. there will be more than 700 state troopers, 3,000 private security guards and hundreds of federal workers assisting them. and these details are coming in from cnn to our justice correspondent evan perez. he has been looking into the super bowl. i guess you can call it the security bowl as well because they are ready. do authorities know of any threats to the game? is this why they're doing this? ror we >> there's no known threats to

the game itself. this is what they try to do before every super bowl. and this super bowl in particular, because it's in the new york region. it's in northern new jersey. a very congested area. an airport right next door. you've got commuter train lines that go right next to the stadium. it's very focused on transit, so that creates some special worries for federal officials and for local officials. so one of the things they're doing is that the tsa is deploying some behavioral specialists and what usually are federal air marshals to look at different aspects of the transit situation and the transit hubs in grand central, in penn state, at secaucus junction. they're going to be doing random checks on super bowl sunday. they're going to be doing 100% baggage checks at secaucus junction, 15,000 fans that are expected to go from secaucus junction, to metlife stadium, which as you know the train station is a few yards away from the entrance. >> so, evan, they're saying no

big bags. no big purses. no backpacks or anything like that. so if you're even going to try it, you're either going to have to get rid of it, or just don't try it. but listen, we do this every time there's a super bowl. it's always very shocking to hear. there are concerns about sex trafficking, as we lead up to the super bowl weekend. >> right. >> tell us why they're doing that. >> well, this happens at every big sporting event. any big event, frankly. even the political conventions that happen every four years, they notice that there is more prostitution, more call girls, more operations that are focused on the cities that are hosting these big events. so what we're hearing from law enforcement is that the fbi and the nypd have been doing these operations. already, the nypd apparently has already rounded up nearly 200 people, arrests made for everything from sex trafficking, prostitution, and the related crimes. and this is a big problem. every few years, with these

events. especially in new york, which is a big metropolitan area. they see a lot of this and they're expecting it. so they're acting ahead of time to try to stop some of this. the young women and the young men are really the victims in this. so they're trying to make sure that this doesn't get out of hand. >> and many times, we're talking about child sex trafficking when it comes to these big events. evan perez in washington, d.c. thank you very much. new developments to tell you about in the cnn investigation of student athletes at the university of north carolina. listen closely. an admission by top school officials that a failure of academic oversight at unc lasted for years, as cnn has reported, phony classes were set up so athletes could maintain their eligibility. and some unc athletes, cnn found, had reading skills far below college level. the school's vice chancellor told bloomberg news over the weekend, "we made mistakes. horrible things happened that i'm ashamed of. student athletes and other

students too were hurt. the integrity of our university was badly damaged." to talk about this story and the broader issue of college athletics with terrence moore, the sports contributor at cnn.com and a columnist for mlb.com. terrence, i would imagine that you are stuck in this traffic down in atlanta and north carolina acknowledging this problem. but this is a billion-dollar industry. how widespread are practices like phony classes and athletes who read at a grade school level? >> i'll tell you what, don, it is very prevalent. let's start with something recent. florida state just won the national championship in college football. and at florida state, they've had a class in hip-hop. and needless to say, many of the athletes were a part of that class. and not just because they like to dance, okay? so you're got situations like that. you've got situations such as -- i can't tell you how many times i've been in a press box, particularly at an s.e.c. game,

and look at the media guide and what they're majoring in, it makes you want to cringe. the other thing that people can relate to out there, if you just listen to some of these athletes talk in interviews, your first response is what college did they go to? so this has been going on for a long period of time. not just at the university of north carolina, but this is particularly bad. >> so this doesn't shock you? >> no, not at all. listen, right here in atlanta, back in the early 1980s, the university of georgia had this huge scandal, it was called the jan kemp scandal. she was an english teacher and she exposed georgia for having a slew of football players who could not read or write. in other words, illiterate. so that was back in the early 1980s. here we go, fast forward to around 2000 to 2004. same university of georgia. another scandal.

this one involved jim harrah jr. running classes, basketball classes with such questions as tough as how many points do you get for a three-point shot. so the point here is, don, it goes back to they just want to win, period. >> terrence moore. losing you there because of the weather. but again, following up on this unc story. we'll have more coming up on cnn. thank you, terrence moore. coming up, an interview you'll never forget. a state senator describes being stabbed by his own child just before his son took his own life. you'll hear his riveting account of what is happening and what he is begging america to do about mental illness. >> i need there to be discussion. i got ready when he got ready,

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slashed and stabbed repeatedly. his face bearing the scars inflected by his own son. telling cnn what it was like to be attacked by his 24-year-old son, who had been struggling with mental illness. it all began after he took his son to the emergency room and

was told there were no beds available for your son. and what happened in the hours afterwards at his home in the rural part of virginia is unthinkable. >> when we got home, i sat at one end of the dining room table, he sat at the other end. i ate my sandwich. he was writing furiously in his journal. after i ate my sandwich, i said night, gus. night, bud. he said good night. and he was still writing away. so the next morning, i got up. as i said, i was a little nervous because i knew that the job of taking him to lexington was going to be tough and i knew there would be, you know, some confrontation. i didn't think there would be any balance. i knew there would be discussion. i got ready when he got ready. i went out to the barn to take care of feeding the equine. and i was feeding them. i had some of them in the barn.

i had another big feed tray in my hand for this thoroughbred that belongs to my oldest girl. and he was coming across the yard. i said hey, bud. how did you sleep? i waved my hand because i had feed in my hands. and he said fine. i turned my back, and i took it twice in the back. >> he stabbed you twice in the back? >> yeah. >> did you know instantly what was happening? >> no, i had no idea. when i turned around, i could see he had something in his hand that was coming at me. i had no idea. it was in his left hand. i couldn't tell -- you know, i thought it was a screwdriver. i had no idea what it was. and he just kept coming at me with stuff. i said what's going on? i said gus, i love you so much, don't make this any worse than it is. he just kept stabbing. and i think he either knew that i was disabled enough that i couldn't interfere with whatever

else he wanted to do, he decided at some point maybe after i said that i loved him, he decided that i don't need to die after all. or he thought from the amount of blood that he had already done some damage. the first blow to my back was pretty close to a spot where he could have drawn a lot of blood. gus was just slashing away. and i -- you know -- and suddenly he just turned around. and i think he thought that i was bleeding enough. i don't know. and so i staggered through the barn along a ridge, climbed a gate. i didn't have much -- and i still don't have much strength in my right side. but my arm was pretty much disabled. i didn't open the gate. i climbed it. and i staggered out to this

road. my cousin was taking some hunters back to the national forest. and he saw me coming through the field bloody. and he got his hunters out of the truck, put me in, took me back up to his house. his wife was a nurse at the university of va hospital. they got a rescue squad and a helicopter. with instructions for me to go to the uva hospital. either in the rescue squad or the helicopter, i heard a scanner report that there was a second victim with a gunshot wound to the head. well, at that point, i was worried about gus. when my cousin took me up to his house, there was a trooper up there. and he was going down to the house. because i told him i thought that's where gus had gone back to. i said please don't hurt him. because honestly, i didn't know even at that time that gus was

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we are back now with the story of virginia state senator creigh deeds. his son attacked him last november, stabbing him repeatedly. day before the attack, deeds had tried to get his adult son gus committed to a hospital, but was told there were no psychiatric beds available in the area. by law, gus was released after six hours. now deeds is trying to change that time limit to 24 hours. and he told our anderson cooper that the system failed his son. >> whatever took my son, the bipolar disorder, the schizophrenia, whatever mental illness it was that took my son, he was on medication. wasn't keeping appointments. there was very little aptitude to turn that around. i had done everything i could the day before.

i had taken him to the -- you know, it's not like -- you know, he's my son, so i could automatically enroll him in a hospital somewhere. he's an adult. and everything i had done the day before, you know, we tried and had been rejected. my son was allowed to suffer. >> and suffering for a long time. >> he was suffering for a long, long time. at least he's at peace now. but it's a price to pay. >> so i always feel like if somebody has cancer, suffering from cancer, suffering from leukemia -- >> that's it. >> people get help. >> there's a real disparity in this country between mental illness and what we consider as physical illness. and physical illness, we treat. mental illness we hide behind. we sweep it under the rug.

>> there's still such a stigma about it. people don't want talk it. >> they don't talk about it. they're embarrassed about it. people that are mentally ill, they don't want to be considered ill people. they have mental illness in their family oftentimes. want to look the other way and pretend it will go away. a lot of people in my own situation would say well, gus will grow out of it. it will work out just fine. gus will be all right. because he had so much ability. but, you know, the problem is, he needed medication. >> few people know the pain felt by deeds better than our next guest. cnn has been following her story for months. her 14-year-old son daniel suffers from bipolar disorder and psychosis. he hears voices and demons haunt him as well. his mom stephanie joins me now. stephanie, thank you for joining us. your son has been hospitalized

20 times. >> yes. >> before we go into that, that was very tough for you to hear, wasn't it? >> yes, very. yeah. only because i've been in his shoes. when he was 10, at least, we were always -- told because he didn't have a plan, to hurt himself or hurt himself, there was nothing they could do to help us. a lot of times we were home and i'd watch him go through an episode for hours until he'd fall asleep. and it was just really hard. >> is this something that you talk about much? do you not let it out? the emotion? >> it's really hard for me to let the emotion out because i've taught myself not to.

only because of when he goes into his episodes, i am always on the fence. i'm always making sure he's okay. i make sure that, you know, everyone else is okay. and i don't let myself feel the emotion until sometimes days later, sometimes weeks later. and so it's really hard for me just to show that emotional side of it. and reading senator deeds' story, it was really hard for me to read it. when i heard it, it was even harder. it was hard for me not to cry, because it's a really sad story. i could have been in that situation with my son september of 2012 when he attempted suicide, overdosing on his pills. it was really -- that was really hard to deal with. and every day after that, i couldn't get it out of my mind that today could have been that day. every day i felt that way. what was more upsetting is that

he was hospitalized for a few days in the medical hospital for the overdose, and then when he was transferred to the psychiatric hospital, he was there for about two days and they discharged him. and you could tell he was not ready. he was still very depressed. he would attempt to commit suicide. i tried my hardest to convince them to keep him there. it was really hard because they said his insurance won't continue to pay for this anymore. it was really hard. >> do you feel -- because a lot of people are rooting for you, a lot of people want change when it comes to mental illness, mental health in this country and to get people to really take a serious look at it and make some change. do you feel alone in this battle, or in this situation with your son, or do you feel that you have a proper support

system? >> when it all began, i felt alone. i felt really alone. yinlt have the proper support system. now it's a lot different. i have more support. he has really great doctors that take care of him. i have more people i can reach out to. i didn't have those people before. and so now it's a lot different. of course he's getting older and that's what's worrisome for me, because once he gets older, once he's able to make his own desessions, it's going to be really difficult for me to help him. because he's made statements, when he turns a certain age, he's not going to want to take his medication. so that's really scary for me. because when he becomes an adult, i don't know what i -- there's nothing i can do. >> yeah, he'll be on his own. i read something on cnn.com, it says please, please help me,

your son whimpers. he hears imaginary sons bark at him. he tells them go away, go away. when your son is having an episode, have you ever felt afraid for your own life? you talked about him taking his life. but for your own life. and how tough is it if you are fearful for your own son? >> i've only felt that one time. and it was an episode where he said he was not himself, he was someone else. it was something that we had not experienced. because every episode is always different. it's never the same thing. this time he was someone else named michael. that scared me. he was threatening to hurt me. he had never verbalized and told me he was going to hurt me like he did that day. i had to call the sheriff's department to help me. they transported him to a psychiatric hospital and that was the only time i ever felt

threatened. >> i have one last question for you. the president is giving his state of the union tonight. he's going to talk about a lot of things. the economy. i'm sure health care. income inequality. all those things. would you like to hear something from people in power about mental health and really tackling that issue and getting rid of the stigma? what would you like to hear, not only from the president, but from leaders and from people around the country when it comes to this issue? >> i think they need to focus on -- i would like to hear them say they're going to make more beds available. i know that the funding was made available, but i think that that wasn't enough. i think there needs to be more funding so that there's more beds available for other -- i mean, there's millions of people that suffer with illnesses and there's not enough beds. and we need to focus on helping them, because that could be my

son that could be the next person. that's my child. that's my heart. for them not to be any beds available to help him, i mean -- i mean, it just -- it's really hard and i would -- i mean, i think like any other mom going through the same thing i'm going through or any other dad, they want the same exact thing. they want more beds available. they want more funding. they want more resources available to them. and i think that's the only way that people will start focusing on that. we need to educate a lot of people in reference to what mental illness is. >> you need more help. >> we need more help. yes, thank you. >> thank you, stephanie. appreciate it. really do. best of luck to you. >> you're welcome. >> we'll be right back. s... a body at rest tends to stay at rest... while a body in motion tends to stay in motion.

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so, let's bring in now two of our analysts. margaret hoover, a republican consultant. donna brazile is a democratic strategist. thank you for joining me on this very, very cold day. i hope you're warm. donna, speaker john boehner said this morning that the president will run into a "brick wall" if he tries to bypass congress with executive orders. has the president given up on working with republicans? >> absolutely not. to the extent that the do nothing congress would like to try to do something in 2014, this president i'm sure is willing to reach out and continue to work with the republicans. but as you well know, don, today they have taken up an abortion bill. one of the other issues that they'd like to take up, of course, trying to defund, derail obama care. but this president i think is doing what is right by the american people. he's trying to help them. raising the minimum wage for federal employees, federal workers, federal contractcontra that's a step in the right direction. hopefully we can get the minimum

wage raised for all americans. >> but the question is what kind of a message is he sending by doing it on the day of his state of the union before the state of the union without etven saying hey listen, we're going to do it. just saying i'm doing it. do you think that sends a positive or negative message to republicans? or just we're going to get it done with or without you. >> that's exactly what he's saying. don is right. he is doing the minimum wage. pursuing all of his agenda items. but to do that on a day where you go to congress and basically say i'm not going to work with you anymore. i'm just going to do it my way or the highway. when look, a rising tide lifts all votes. his numbers are in the dumps in addition to congress's. they could work together. this is really the last six months that they could do something together before he could be a lame duck president. so i would hope that the president could find some common ground with republicans on some of the free trade agreements that are coming down the pike in the senate. you've got also a debt crisis

debate around the corner. we could fix social security like he wanted to do back before he even became president. he said in a "washington post" editorial board meeting this is an easy one, we can fix it together. so i would think the tone would be different on the day you go to congress. >> i want to bring this up, though. you're talking about going it alone. let's consider executive orders here. that's what he means, right? for obama has issued 167. george w. bush issued 197 in his first five years. bill clinton issued 238 in his first five years. so the president is actually behind the pace set by his recent predecessors. his approval rating is 43% in our latest poll of polls. so can a president with an approval rating so low expect to push anything through congress? first, donna, and then margaret. >> he's the chief executive of the united states of america. i am grateful that the president is going to make this a year of action. in fact, i think it's important that we all try to act more to

do as much as we can to help those who are still struggling through this great recession. the notion that this do nothing congress is complaining, is whining about the president of the united states trying to jump start the economy, help those who are still struggling, i think we should applaud that. and you know what? he's leading by example. he's not waiting for john boehner or harry reid or anybody else to act. the president said i'm going to use my pen and i'm determined to get things done to help the american people, who sent him to washington to get things done. >> margaret, that's a good point, though. because if he doesn't get anything done, then his opposition will say oh look, that president got nothing done. but then if he tries to get it done by using executive order, then he's accused -- >> both sides decry when executive order is issued. the republicans always say oh, executive order. he's going around the congress, it's unconstitutional. the democrats said that about

george w. bush. we both know it's a tool the presidents have, they use executive orders to their power. i'm not decrying that. what we haven't seen from president obama is a successful strategy to work with congress at all. you know, his own press secretary called last year the lost year. this is a year he came out the high water mark of his influence, re-elected president, doubled down wanting to go for guns and couldn't get gun control, which has gun checks, background checks, 90% approval rating, couldn't get it through a democratic senate. so this is a president who just has trouble working with congress from the get-go. >> that's why we we're going to have four republican responses tonight. >> we have got to wrap it up right here. >> don, i've got to tell you, the snowballs in new orleans are freezing today. >> yeah, that's because they're everywhere.

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they're moving toward mass adaptation? >> that's the idea. >> are people going to use them? are they going for it? >> i always say it like this. when the iphone came out, it was almost like a shell of how cool it could be. we hadn't had all these ad developers build up these cases. that's where we are with google glass. there was a firefighter recently using google glass to map out buildings and find fire hydrants. that's where it gets cool. i sat next to a silicon valley investor and he was telling me they're investing in a company where doctors are essentially going to be using google glass while they're doing surgery so they can be hands-free. that's where the applications are really cool. and, you know, you've got to wait for the design to catch up. it looks like they are catching up. >> that's a little scary. looks like we're going towards x-ray vision and i don't want that. >> i'll keep an eye out. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen, the beatles!

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black and white tv sets. i remember those, dating myself. and the girls in the audience screamed is loud, the folks at home could hardly hear. we'll be looking at the beatles on thursday night, a fabulous documentary called "the '60s: the british invasion." and with us now from atlanta -- i would say hotlanta, but it's not so hot there today, the author of the book "beatles vs. stones", as in the rolling stones. there is mr. john mcmillan. what was so huge about this british rock band touring america? >> well, they caught a lot of people unawares. there was a great deal of publicity, of course, by the time the beatles arrived and they were successful in the united states. i don't think anyone quite anticipated the kind of hysterical frenzy that they evoked among very young girls. and of course, beatle mania struck in england first. but certainly americans were caught off guard by how big a

sensation as the beatles were as soon as they arrived at jfk airport. >> what was it about them? were they that different? there was elvis or a number of other people around. what was it about these guys? they weren't that particularly handsome, were they? >> you don't think the beatles are handsome? i think they're a handsome bunch of guys. certainly talented and charming. but they had a lot going for them timing-wise. we think about the 1950s as an era that was starchy and conformist. and yet by the time the beatles came to america, the baby boom generation was first beginning to reach its teenage years, and i think they were ready. they were galvanizing maybe a change in the broader culture's sensibility. so i think that was a big part of their appeal. people used to ask -- there's a big topic of conversation 50 years ago. newspaper editors and psychologists were weighing in, trying to understand, you know, what was the source of this reaction the beatles were provoking and to one ever came

up with a completely satisfactory answer. but i think their timing and their talent had a lot to do with it. >> yeah, timing says a lot, it's everything. you talk about the beatles versus the stones. sort of yin and the yang of the british invasion. let's listen to both, first the stones. ♪ >> so, john, the beatles came across as more polished. probably a lot safer than the stones. is that why the beatles were so much more popular here in america in 1964, do you think? >> well, sort of. a lot of journalists were actually perplexed by the beatles. we look today, looking backwards and we see them as polished and

everything else. but initially, journalists were really a bit taken aback by their hairdo's and response they brought about. it was a sexual charisma that was tamed and domesticated, i would say, for the young female fans. the stones, of course, went in a much more radical direction in the sense that they were the group that would appeal to a more disaffected young people. and certainly there's a big bifurcation there. >> well, i like both of them. i think they're both great. john mcmillan, i appreciate that. stay warm in atlanta. 50 years ago the beatles arrived in the states for their first american tour. see it all unfold as it happened with rare footage and interviews from the band that led the british invasion. "the british invasion" premieres thursday night at 9:00 eastern right here on cnn. make sure you tune in to that. more on our breaking news, shots fired at a high school in honolulu. two injured. more right after this break. nbc universal's coverage of the 2012 london games

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those injuries, we are told, as of now, nonlife threatening. we'll continue to follow that story. also a big developing story, of course, is the weather. gulf coast states rarely get snowing but that's all changing this winter season. a huge storm moving through the deep south, bringing with it freezing rain, arctic temperatures, and snow. these are live pictures that you're looking at from our affiliate wdma. this is birmingham, alabama. this is the interstate there. every city that i've ever lived in, we're showing footage of. birmingham, atlanta, new orleans. and this is the interstate. look, traffic is backed up. it's really at a standstill. they're not used to dealing with snow down south. no snow chains on the tires. very few salt trucks and spreaders. so it's going to be a problem. big problem preparing for the ice that's going to follow all of this. let's go to our meteorologists now. chad myers and jennifer grey in new orleans and atlanta.

going to start with jennifer in atlanta. georgia is not under a state of emergency, but there are multiple winter storm warnings across the state and it has been snowing in atlanta for much of the afternoon. how's it going, jennifer? >> reporter: that's right, don. it's been snowing since 11:30 this morning. it has not let up. we're getting a little bit of accumulation on the ground, maybe an inch, inch and a half in some spots. this powdery snow. just as you mentioned a few moments ago, the south is not used to this. i have been out here for a couple of hours, haven't seen one salt truck in downtown atlanta. the streets have been completely gridlocked. and that's what the entire city looks like. they're urging people to stay home. no one is staying home. it is actually heard that a lot of people are now running out of gas on the interstate. and the department of transportation says those people aren't our priorities. we're trying to get to the people that have had accidents. and so we've seen a couple of people completely ditch their cars and just start walking. so it is a huge mess here in atlanta.

very slushy roadways. overnight, that is definitely going to freeze. it's going to be a mess as we go into the wee hours of the morning. i want to get to the forecast, because we do have a lot to talk about. there's a lot going on, and man, it is all in the south. anywhere from houston, including south louisiana, new orleans, all the way up the southeast coast, we are seeing anything from snow in birmingham, atlanta, montgomery. a little bit of an icy mix. freezing rain reported in new orleans all the way to mobile. timing this out during the rush hour. still seeing snow in atlanta, but pushing out by 9:00. as we get into the rush hour tomorrow morning, most of this should be pushed out of the way except for maybe a little bit of a mess left on the east coast in north carolina. but it is going to continue for the next couple of hours. it's been about three years since atlanta has seen a significant snowfall. so it is definitely causing some problems down here, don. >> forget it. nothing's going to get done today or tomorrow. just go home and stay hunkered down. thank you, jennifer.

we'll check back with you. chad myers down in new orleans. last major snowfall ten years ago in new orleans. and you said in the last hour that people were warned to clear the roads by 2:00 local time because the streets will be frozen by then. so what do you see, are they doing it? >> reporter: absolutely. it is now changing over to all white and all sleet. and the causeway now is shut down. so no way to get on the other side of lake pontchartrain unless you go all the way around. that's equally as hard because there are bridges in the way. 55 miles of i-10 shut down because there are just so many bridges. don, you lived here. the place is a bayou or it's a lake. that long, long bridge all the way down i-10, there is just no way to keep that much salted all at the same time. it has progressed from alexandria southward to us, and now we are finally seeing frozen stuff. i am waiting for this sign to freeze. watching it all day. now i know we're down to 31. but this still is liquid. that liquid isn't going to last wrong.

that's going to freeze. the liquid on the ground is going to freeze and it's going to freeze on those beautiful palm trees up there and we're probably going to get an awful lot of power outages before this thing finally stops. it's a cold vent. people are still driving around. they are not heeding that 2:00 advisory. i think people are going to get caught out, because by three or 4:00, this whole town will freeze all at once and we're going to see everybody slip sliding away, don. >> yeah, we're having a lot of fun with it, but that is really serious. where are you, on canal street? the people over your shoulder are like, why is this guy out here if he doesn't have to be here? they're staring at you. >> check this out, these people right here are waiting for a bus. they would be waiting for a trolley. this is the trolley. this is the track. this is where the streetcars should go, up and down here. they have shut them off because they know the power will go out at some point along the tracks and then those trolley cars will be stuck with nowhere to go and every other trolley will be stuck, too. they turned the trolleys off, moved them out of the way and

put buses on the trolley tracks today. >> and so it begins. chad myers, stay warm. appreciate it. >> what about the weather for the super bowl? super bowl sunday, huh? 30 degrees, sunny skies. currently there is a chance of rain and snow on saturday, but all of that is supposed to move out just in time for the big bowl on sunday. the current forecast is for temperatures in the mid 30s with partly cloudy skies. we shall see. law enforcement and security are huge priorities, of course, at the super bowl. we have just learned that new york authorities have made 200 arrests for sex trafficking and related crimes in recent days. the nypd and the fbi say they have ramped up efforts to combat sex crimes ahead of the big game. and starting tomorrow, random baggage checks will begin for some public transit, some hubs, metlife stadium, at the meadowlands and new jersey, and there is so much more. the stadium complex alone, there will be more than 700 state troopers. 3,000 private security guards. and hundreds and hundreds of

federal workers assisting them. joining me now, security expert lou palumbo. people won't be driving. they're going to be using mass transit. how does that impact security? does that help or hurt? a different type of security. >> you have to secure any of the arteries that lead into the actual venue. but the reduction in vehicular traffic is always an asset, on many levels, especially when it comes to moving emergency services. god forbid there is an incident, the less vehicles on the road, the less accessible the venue will be. >> sex crimes, they've made 200 arrests. i imagine they will make more. this draws out that sort of crime, doesn't it? >> yes, absolutely. we want to entertain our visitors. >> you're usually not a man of a few words, but on that one you are. what about the fears of terrorism and how does that affect security measures? it's always a place -- an event

this big, a potential target for terrorists. >> it's a very good target. it has a good target value. but there are more than sufficient security plans in place to offset any threat. starting, of course, with our intelligence community. >> so you feel comfortable? everything's fine when it comes to the super bowl? >> i don't think there's anybody or anyone better on the planet at protecting our people than the united states, between the intelligence community and the technology, both what we've seen demonstrated through the nsa and our ability to surveil people, whether we should be or not, as well as local technology, such as the camera systems and the city's ability to detect chemical or biological emissions, radioactive emissi emissions. we're really high-tech. >> especially here in new york city. >> absolutely. we have a very proactive police commissioner bill bradley. the most talented law enforcement administrator in the business and i'm sure he's on top of this. he spent his whole lifetime

doing this. >> always a pleasure. haven't seen you since the new year. happy new year. >> my pleasure. up next, a smash and grab robbery, but this was done a with a car. the $40,000 heist caught on camera. now police are hoping something the suspects left behind could lead to their airrrests. plus, justin bieber deported from the u.s.? a canadian arrested in miami and also facing an investigation in los angeles. so what crimes l s lead to deportation with the pop star's status have influence on this case? that's next, the biebs. then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. i'm going to have to rethink this thing. it's hard to imagine how much we'll need for a retirement that could last 30 years or more. so maybe we need to approach things differently, if we want to be ready for a longer retirement. ♪

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first up, these are the kind of images we never get tired of seeing. take a look at these pictures, the northern lights over alaska. we were told that the brilliant green lights, the northern lights over the last few months were the best in the last ten years. check out this video. an atlanta area gun store targeted in an overnight robbery. surveillance video shows that robbers using their car to slam into the store and load it with weapons. police say they got away with about two dozen guns valued at about $40,000. >> they may go through some of the states now that have bans in that type of guns because it would sell for a lot more than their retail value. >> technicians are analyzing the crime scene for fingerprints and dna that the suspects may have left behind. a gold relic with the blood of the late pope john-paul ii was stolen from a small church east of rome. the peep would go to the area to

hike and ski. church officials say the relic contains a blood-soaked piece of cloth from when the pope was shot in 1981. dozens of police are in remote snow blanketed areas searching for clues to this crime. ♪ >> oh, the biebs. that's when he was a little innocent kid. well, he may be making his hits in the u.s., but could the canadian citizen's trouble with the law see him forced to make hits from canada instead? the embattled teen pop star last seen strolling the beaches in panama with his entourage. a stark contrast from last week when the 19-year-old was arrested on charges of driving under the influence with an expired license and resisting arrest in miami beach. you know the story. we have told you. but that may not be the worst of his troubles. possible felony charges could be filed against bieber over an egging. that's right, detectives trying

to get enough evidence together to determine whether bieber is responsible for an egg-throwing attack that caused $20,000 in damage to his neighbor's house. joining me now, jane velez-mitchell, host of new hampshire's "jane velez-mitchell." who would have thunk that an egging would lead to so much. you know you egged as a kid. >> i actually did not. i was living in the city -- >> oh, please. >> we didn't participate. >> i did it. but i was 12, 13 years old. i wasn't 19 years old when i was doing it. can he be deported because of this? >> the general consensus is he is not going to get deported. etch if he were convicted of everything everybody is accusing him of, these are not the classic crimes that result in deportation. these are not the rape and murder of the aggravated felonies. >> it's still a felony. >> yes, if he were convicted of a felony. i will say this. the american civil liberties union has been posting american twists on this, suggesting on their website that if he were a poor immigrant, he might be in a

holding cell somewhere right now and facing possible deportation. and they say essentially the laws can be twisted. that this idea of an aggravated felony has become very flexible in its definition and it is sometimes twisted to deport people for far lesser crimes. which to me says that yes, there is a two-tiered system of justice in this country. one for justin bieber and the other for everybody else. >> so justin bieber had better hope that law enforcement officials aren't listening to twitter because #deportbieber trended on twitter just last week. could he actually go back to canada and escape these charges? >> well, he's in panama, supposedly, frolicking on the beach with the girl that was supposedly riding shotgun with him when he was drag racing in his yellow lam borussar -- lamborghini. i don't think he's going to go into retreat any time soon, but i think this is a wonderful opportunity to look at our highly dysfunctional criminal justice system. i mean, this guy can't really get in trouble, right?

and he's done things that -- a neighbor said he spat in his face. that he allegedly -- purportedly, they're investigating, egged a neighbor's house to the tune of $20,000. somebody says he's drag racing. pulled over for dui. he curses at the cops. he's resisting arrest. and yet, what happens? no, police raid his house, right? they find what they believe are drugs. who gets arrested? a young african-american man who happens to be staying at his house. >> even though it's bieber's house. >> exactly. >> so jane and i are on cnn together and we also do the wendy williams show together. every time i'm on with you're welcome i want to talk like this and i start -- it's so much energy! where does that come from, jane? >> i'm a vegan. because i'm a vegan. >> you even make fun of yourself. >> i do. >> once you said, why am i screaming? >> i have high energy. that's what happens when you eat fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains. >> i love you.

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i think this is a very important segment that all parents should look at. i'm not sure that children should, so you may want to clear your children from the room. okay? so, i'm going to give you a moment to do that. we're going to talk about child pornography and the rare message from someone suspected of using it. his name is jesse ryan loskarn, a rising star in the gop. he was an aide to senator lamar alexander from tennessee. loskarn killed himself. he was found dead on thursday after investigators charged him with possessing child pornography. and according to politico, his mother posted a final message from loskarn on his blog. i'm going to read from it right now, in part. he said, "i found myself drawn to videos that matched my own childhood abuse. it's painful and humiliating to admit to myself, let alone the

whole world, but i pictured myself as a child in the image or video. the more an image mirrored some element of my memories and took me back, the more i felt a connection. i have asked god. i've asked myself. i've talked with clergy and counselors and psychiatrists. i spent five days on suicide watch in the psychiatric ward at the d.c. jail, fixated on the "why" and "how" questions. why did i do this? and how can i kill myself? i've shared the most private details of my life with others in the effort to find an answer. there seem to be many answers and none at all. to those who choose to sever all ties with me, i don't blame you. no one wants to think or talk about this subject matter. all i can say is: i understand and i'm sorry. and last, to the children in the images, i should have known better. i perpetuated your abuse and

that will be a burden on my soul for the rest of my life." tough words. and, you know, even though he did something very wrong, you can still have empathy for him. that must have been very hard to deal with, especially being abused and then making someone else a victim. jeff is a psychologist. his torment was quite clear in that. he had been living in constant terror that people would find out, right? >> that's right. that's right. find out that he was abused as a boy at around 5 years old. and he states, as you read, that he became attracted to pornography because there was something about him that in some ways brought up the trauma of being abused. of being sexually abused. and so being attracted to that perhaps may have been a way for him to deal in some ways with that abuse.

but the mistake that he made, obviously he didn't get the help of a psychologist or a social worker. was not able to process through it, and so took that, no pun intended, unadulterated memories of being abused and connected it to the pornography that he was watching, and therefore that attraction perhaps came to be. that's what he claims happened. >> this is really difficult for me to read. the child pornography part, i'm not talking about that. but the abuse part, having been abused as a child and having worried about people finding out. because that's the worst violation that you can do to a child. someone stole your innocence and you don't know what's going to come from that. i isolate myself. i don't go out. i'm not a big partier. it's tough for me in a relationship. you never know how these things are going to play out when you're abused as a child, what's

going to happen as an adult. it can come out in pornography. it can come out in relationship issues. in a myriad of ways that we don't really know about. i think by him talking about it, may bring light to a very difficult subject, even in death. >> i wish we could go back before he started watching pornography, and was able to talk about it and was able to have a forum about it as you eventually did that ended up heppihep i -- helping so many other people. he talks about, don, that his whole life, not only did he not want people to know, not only was he ashamed, but he controlled himself and his emotions so that people couldn't tell something had happened and that's why he was so great on capitol hill because it was all about cocompartmentalizing. >> but you know what the worst part about that is, because people think that when you do that, people think that you are -- in many ways, you are not caring, you don't have feelings,

or nothing can penetrate that. >> which is what they thought about him. >> but then when you open up to people about those issues, instead of wanting to help you -- >> they pull back. they don't want to deal with you. i need you to leave me alone. i don't understand what's wrong with you. so that's another stigma. we were just talking about mental illness. it's another stigma that goes along with abuse. >> absolutely. because people really don't understand it. people may be repelled by it because something like that may have happened to someone they know or they hope it doesn't happen to someone that they know. but i think the bottom line here and what we need to learn is that if a person is abused, they do need to get help. they do need to talk about it eventually. i'm not saying that's why he got into child pornography. that's what he says got him there. the fact is, if you don't have that catharsis, it's a trauma to the body, but especially to the

mind. >> no excuse for child pornography, but you don't know how it's going to manifest as an adult. is this going to help or hurt his family by releasing this? >> i think it's going to help the family, because at least they're able to put a human face as to what happened to him. he was inundated by the media, but at least now in their minds, they feel that his story has gotten out, even though they're not excusing what he did and what he did should not be excused, but this was a person who was a tortured soul, too. but he apologizes. let's just hope we can stop this cycle where people are being abused and where people -- and again, i'm not connecting it. but that people are getting into this child pornography because it helps -- it hurts the children who are in these pornographic movies. it is an abuse to them, even further. >> absolutely. >> agreed. thank you, jeff. appreciate that. some prince fans are

interacting with the music star, but probably not the way they wanted. prince has filed a lawsuit against almost two dozen people, including a couple of people who run a fan website. next, why he's suing. plus, a division i college football team announces plans to join a labor union. this would be a first for college athletics. so what does it mean for the players and other teams? we'll tell you. indulge in the pleasures of parmesan with olive garden's best 2 for $25 yet choose two melt-in-your mouth entrees like new parmesan crusted chicken or tortellini topped with velvety alfredo 3 full courses of our best 2 for $25 yet, at olive garden! and his new boss told him two things -- cook what you love, and save your money. joe doesn't know it yet, but he'll work his way up from busser to waiter to chef before opening a restaurant specializing in fish and game from the great northwest. he'll start investing early, he'll find some good people to help guide him, and he'll set money aside from his first day of work

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prince. he is suing 22 people for copy right infringement and bootlegging. some of the people being sued are fans who simply share ed lis online. is it a good move or a bad move? is he shooting himself in the foot? >> i want you to sing, because you were just singing at the break. ♪ don't have to be beautiful >> you're good. >> i hope we don't have to pay for that. [ laughter ] whoops. so, what do you think? is he smart by doing this? as an organization, cnn protects its images. all of our images can't go out and just be streamed everywhere. >> it's never a good look when you're suing your own fans, but i think in this case, it makes a lot of sense, because all of this really is protected by copyright law. we're talking about the lyrics, the musical composition. the copyright of the performance. and so he does have a right to protect his brand. >> but it's hard to do, right?

because he's tried before and failed. >> he has failed and it is hard to do. but i think he's on pretty firm legal footing. let's face it, if you take your little video and use it for your own personal use and sing to yourself in the shower, that's fine. but if you're downloading it and sharing it with friends, i think that's different. i think his fans will understand that he really needs to get paid and compensated for his work, and it needs to be protected. he's not going to get $22 million from his fans. >> people think they own everything just because they have this thing that they can shoot video and pictures and they don't. it's probably better. >> i think he's sending a message. listen, pay for my music. don't steal from me. >> another potential legal can of worms here taking place at northwestern. football players there are trying to unionize. the national college players association has filed a petition on behalf of the athletes with the national labor relations board. so, why would student athletes feel that they need to join a union? is this about making money? do they have a cause here to do this? >> i'm fascinated by this.

i went to notre dame, so i know about organized sports up front. and this has been a problem for a long time. when you talk about division i schools, football, basketball, they're multi-billion-dollar industries. and what most people don't realize is that while an athlete may get a scholarship, it's not even a four-year academic scholarship. it's a one-year renewable scholarship. what if that athlete gets kicked off the team? he doesn't get to finish his college degree. what if that athlete gets hurt and injured. >> sounds like you're in favor of this. >> i really am. i think that whenever you have collective action and a collective voice, to sort of solidify your rights, i think that's a good thing. i think it's very brave of these young players to get to and do this. the ncaa is saying listen, they're getting a free education, which is not necessarily true. they're not employees of the university. but these universities are making billions of dollars on the backs of these players. shouldn't they collectively figure out what their rights are, and then perhaps get paid a

little bit for all the work that they're doing. i think it's going to be interesting to follow up on it and i'm very, very interested, especially in the injuries that they receive. i think a majority of them done even go on to play for the nfl, yet they've made their schools billions. >> everybody's going to be watching this, especially other schools. >> i know. >> you better believe it. >> thank you. >> i didn't know you could sing like that. >> i can't. it's just few little thing. >> quite impres isive. >> karaoke together one day. >> next, cnn is giving you a unique way to watch president obama's speech. we have live reaction. we're going to tell you how to see that next. plus, it is super bowl media day. so just how much attention did this guy get? we're going to tell you if richard sherman stole the spotlight, and about some crazy -- and about some of the crazy stunts to get the players

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as the president gets ready for tonight's state of the union address, we are getting early signals he's going to highlight his plans to fight income inequality and his right to act with or without the permission of congress to put his policies in place. the president has just signed an executive order to raise the minimum wage for a new government contractors to $10.10 per hour. our coverage of the state of the union will start at seven p.m. eastern. we'll be trying something new at cnn.com. realtime running commentary. first time ever. might go something like this. >> closer and closer to the most humiliating moment of his life. >> what if she says no? >> she will. >> oh, hello.

>> that's sort of like mystery science theatre. but that's beavis and butthead. >> did you watch television as a child? >> when i was a child, the black and white thing. peter hamby is there on the left. >> that weird-looking thing on the right. we are trying something different tonight. look, usually, there's plenty of options for viewers to watch the state of the union unfilter. we're going to be delivering live running commentary about the speech. hopefully it will be a little more irreverent, but still informed. i'm here with two of the sharpest guys that i know in washington, tommy vitor, and tim

miller. now both working in politics. guys, what are you looking for tonight? >> this is actually my first state of the union not working for president obama. so what i think i'm looking for is not necessarily a policy proposal or someone screaming at him, but an inspiring moment that will be memorable, that will make this state of the union be one we talk about in five years and not one we forget. >> the problem is we forget about all of them. i'm going to be looking at the minutia. if you look at the presidents' state of the youn-unions, all ye is a straight line. it doesn't affect his approval rating at all. >> all of us are on twitter pretty frequently. we'll be analyzing tweets and texts from around the country and from our friends here in washington. the goal here, again, just to kind of give viewers a feel of what it's like to watch one of these things with people who are really in the trenches of people working inside campaigns and inside the administration on

capitol hill. >> twitter. what is that? i've never been on that. this is the first time i've been -- i watched the state of the union. you look like you're in college. i'm sitting here with rachel nichols. but you look like you're kids, like you're 20-somethings. >> how old are you, don? >> you don't want to know. i could probably be your father. here's the thing. i want to ask you this. tonight, one of the "duck dynasty" stars willy robertson is going to attend the state of the union as a guest of representative vance mcallister. is this kind of like the grammys of washington when you're watching the state of the union tonight? i know it's some serious stuff. but you're going to be unscripted and talking about the names who are there. >> yeah. i look forward to making fun of people who make decisions, like bringing a "duck dynasty" star to the state of the union.

>> come on, i like having a "duck dynasty" guy. this isn't a king. it's a president. we can bring real people into the state of the union. there will be a lot of ridiculous pairs tonight. we'll have some fun thoughts on that. >> so are you taking questions, peter? are you going to be taking questions from social media? it's just completely unscripted, so i'm not sure that i get what's going to be happening here. >> neither are we. it is completely unscripted. we're trying this for the first time. but yeah, we're going to be looking at twitter. just people will be able to tweet at us. it's #cnn, so we'll provide our twitter handles later this evening. so we'll be taking lots of questions. and hopefully reading some of the funniest tweets. >> and the speech is going to get boring. so if you're looking for some commentary on what's going on instead of flipping it over to hoops, this is going to be a good option. >> who's going to be the first person.

i always like to watch people sitting behind. watch the vice president. one year he had the black eye, or something with his eye. >> blinking. >> and then nancy pelosi's faces. rachel nichols is looking at me like i'm nuts. that's what people are looking about. that was trending on twitter the last couple of times the president gave the state of the union. am i wrong about that? >> you're right. maybe boehner cries. we don't know. >> there's the one where he blinked 300 times, nancy pelosi blipg blinked three times. >> we'll keep an eye on it. thanks, i'll be watching. i'm going to tweet at you. make sure you watch the trio tonight during the state of the union speech and just go to our home page at cnn.com. it is super bowl media day. the players talked to reporters. it sounds normal, right, rachel nichols? this is anything but. next some of the crazy that surrounds this super bowl event.

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you heard her snarky giggles and laughs. >> me? never. that would never happen. >> rachel nichols. >> i would never make fun of don lemon on national television. >> you were there. what was it like? >> the atmosphere was fun. it wasn't as crazy as it is in past years. >> really? with richard sherman? >> in past years we've had payers proposed so. there's been crazy stuff. that didn't happen this year. one of the most popular players was actually a broncos' defensive player. he's 330 pounds, which is a whole lot of person, and his nickname is pot roast. first of all, on sunday you may hear pot roast and that's who it is. he was explaining on media day how he got his nickname, which was when he was a rookie, they were offering dinner and they offered the choices. he picked pot roast. what he said today to the crowd was, thank god i didn't pick the

other entre, otherwise they would be saying that my name is shrimp alfredo. >> and lots of cheerleaders. what the heck is that? >> these are some of the more colorful characters. number 12, the seattle fans were out in force. >> what about richard sherman? what kind of attention did he get? did he say, i'm the best. you're mediocre? >> he didn't because he was not here. it was great to see richard sherman. he was great, eloquent, funny, very perceptive about the media situation there. he was really all of the things that he was on our air last week when he was explaining what was behind his outburst and what was so interesting was that reporters kept trying to get him into one of those moments and he said, i know what i'm doing here.

i'm no one's puppet. >> boom. >> which is what i think is great about richard sherman. he was very aware of the circumstances. >> when he comes out on the other side, though, he'll be able to laugh at it. maybe host "saturday night live" or -- >> he was very much in his element. he was having fun. >> nice work on friday night with richard sherman. >> thank you. "unguarded" on friday and saturday nights. >> you were amazing. the interview was amazing. she just read the promo. why did you do that? 10:30 p.m. on fridays. "unguarded" with rachel nichols. >> join us some time. we'd love it. >> are we done? yes. we're done. bye, rachel. see you on friday. if you've ever played dr. feel good on air guitar, listen up, i'm going to say it once. it's true, motley crue is calling it quits.

♪ ♪ so the crew has been singing about strip clubs, smoking in the boys room and shouting at the devil for more than 30 years, selling 130 million albums along the way but now they are breaking up right after a final tour. can you brief it? alice cooper is the opening act and some of the tickets will be as cheap as 15 to $20. 15 to $20. all right. what were you saying in my ear, producers? what were you saying is live? okay. up next, apple sold a record number of phones in the last quarter. investors did not agree. the stocks tanked so why did that happen? we'll explain that, next.

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wall street doesn't think apple is selling enough iphones despite record sales in the last quarter. right now apple stock is down more than 8%. investors were disappointed by last earnings -- last night's earnings' report. they started dumping apple shares. christine romans takes us behind the numbers. >> reporter: don, imagine you just sold 51 million of your world's changing product, even more than ever before, a record number of sales. it's a phenomenal performance for any company, unless you're apple. we're talking about 59 million iphones. it wasn't enough for investors. it's a huge number but apple's slice of the smartphone pie is getting smaller. for the first time ever, global smartphone shipments topped 1 billion last year but android is gobbling up more shares every

month. in china, sales soared 29%, an morn market for apple, and that was before apple's new deal with china mobile. chinese consumers want bigger screens and cheaper devices. so will the iphone win them over? a big question going forward. apple's last game-changer was the ipad in 2010. investors are now hungry for something new from apple's ceo tim cook. might that be wearables? an apple tv? maybe mobile payments. we just don't know. don? >> thank you, christine. before we go, folks seem to remember pete segeger. he became unhinged when his friend bob dylan dove into rock and roll. apparently he threatened to cut the speaker cables.

that was way back in 1965. pete seeger died last night. listen to the great folk musician and social activist. ♪ if i had a hamburger, i'd have a hamburger in the morning ♪ >> musician and activist pete seeger. his grandson says he died of natural causes last night in new york. he was 94. ♪ now, even if you've never heard the song before you can repeat after me ♪ ♪ you've got the walk, you've got the walk ♪ ♪ down lonesome valley ♪ you can walk the walk ♪ may you always be courageous ♪ stand upright and be strong

>> 94 years old. and 50 years ago the beatles arrived in the state for their first american tour. see it all unfold as it happened with rare footage and rare interviews that led to the british invasion. it premiers thursday night at 00 p.m. eastern. "the lead with jake tapper" starts right now. okay. so i would advise taking the word strong and jobs and minimum wage out of your state of the uni union drinking game or you will be drunk halfway through. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." this may be the president's last chance to put the agenda back on track. expect a more assertive president obama. the politics lead, i'll show you democratic