two days to go until the games. the torch arrives in sochi. they now say there have been specific threats detected. four people arrested in connection with the death of actor philip seymour hoffman. we're live with the latest. your "new day" starts right now. good morning. welcome to "new day." it's wednesday, february 5th, 6:00 in the east. welcome also to the winter that just won't quit. another monster storm is dumping ice and snow on 120 million people in 32 states. it is just not good enough to know about what's going on outside your window. the eastern half of the u.s. is exposed to weather systems that will come in waves and dump a

foot or snow or more in parts of new england. the midwest already reeling. look at the whiteout conditions in southern illinois. conditions so bad in kansas city, this southwest airlines jet wound up stuck in a snow drift after it landed. if you're flying today, pack plenty of patience. nearly 3,000 flights already scrubbed since tuesday. how will your world will affected? that's the big question. chad myers out there in new york central park. how you doing? >> i'm doing okay. it's cold, though. this is not a day you want to be stuck in the snow or stuck with a flat tire and nothing inside to keep you warm. some spots are going to pick up a foot of snow. we have changed over to ice. it's raining and it's 30

degrees. and this is just round two of three. from wisconsin to maine, more than 100 million people waking up to another round of snow and ice this morning. >> horrible. horrible. >> snow beginning to pileup in new england if over a foot of snow is forecast in some parts. many the midwest, other 11 inches of snow blanketed kansas. the state's governor has declared a state of emergency. in illinois, whiteout conditions coupled with sleet and ice sent car after car skidding off the row. heavy snow fell at a rate of an inch per hour creating these massive snow piles in a walmart parking lot. icy roads leading to this fatal crash. >> the temperatures right now

are perfect for icing conditions. >> and in oklahoma a school bus had to turn around because the driver feared getting stuck. we're still six weeks away from spring. >> it's beautiful for a little bit, but too many times, yeah, it makes it a hassle to get around. >> nearly 40 inches of snow have fallen in detroit last month alone. and across the country, it's the coldest winter in 20 years. and these are the cold -- this is as cold as my fingers have felt in 20 years, too. it's 30 and raining. you say how can that happen? why isn't it snowing? because at 3,000 feet it's 35 degrees. down here it's 30. it's rain because it's liquid up there where it's collecting. new york city will be a sheet of ice today. now, it's over by noon.

but it's already very slippery out here. stay home if you can. >> chad, thank you so very much. and parts of new england also getting hammered this morning. drivers are being told to stay off the roads. a thick coat of ice is expected to form on top of 6 to 12 inches of snow. we're live in boston. margaret how is it looking? i can see. >> reporter: snowy and cold, kate. winter storm warning in effect in the 6:00 p.m. tonight. the national weather service expects snow accumulation of 5 to 9 inches of snow. sleet from 2:00 to 3:00 this afternoon. the big concern right now is this morning commute. the department of transportation is standing by with 200,000 tons of salt. visibility could be as low as a quarter of a mile. be slow on the roads out there. if you're flying, check those

flights to make sure they haven't been can kehled. we saw 30% cancellations at logan airport last night. the new mayor has declared a state of emergency here. city hall remains open. >> margaret displaying a high skill broadcasting while getting pelted in the face with freezing snow. well done. >> reporter: thank you. >> thank you for being out there for us. for you, if you're watching us in the airport right now, get comfortable. if you're home and you're supposed to fly, check first. you're likely going nowhere. 3,000 flights have been canceled since tuesday. chaos at airports up and down the east coast. let's bring in renee marsh. what's the situation?

>> reporter: it's a bad situation here, chris. i'll tell you just looking at this morning alone, we're talking about more than 2,000 cancellations and nearly 2,000 delays. that's a lot for this early in the morning. an average day, we see about 200 cancellations. take a look at the board already here at reagan national. the problem airports this morning, newark, new jersey, boston and chicago, the usual suspects. and i want you to take a look at this video. this video coming out of kansas city, you talked about it earlier. it actually hit a snow bank as it was taxiing to the terminal there. no one on board was injured, but again, this is just how the weather is creating such a mess for air travel. sad part about all of this, chris, it is 6:00 a.m. and we're already talking about cancellations and delays in the thousands.

usually early mornings, it's your safest best. not the case at this point today. kate? >> all right. we'll check back in with you. sounds like it's going to go from bad to worse. >> let's quickly get back to chadmy for the latest on this -- chad myers for the latest on this storm. >> there's another one coming on sunday. i'm not as convinced about the sunday storm as i was yesterday. this could be a nova scotia storm, not really new england or new york storm. here is the snow. it's in new england. it's all et way -- all the way back to chicago. if you see reds or oranges over you, that's sleet in the sky. 1 to 2 feet of snow in that purple area. in the darker area, it's 12 irmgs or more -- inches or more. certainly be gusts and drifts over 2 feet. there's the ice.

that's what we're in right now. ice storm all the way into new york city. i suspect we'll lose power in some spots. power lines and trees will be down. it's cold out here. >> you're starting to sound cold, chad, and you're very strong. all right. we'll talk to you in a bit. >> your lips start to not move anymore. >> very true. >> get to the olympic story that we've been watching overnight. a drug raid in new york leading to the ar of four people in connection with the death of philip seymour hoffman. they're believed to be connected to the drugs found in the actor's apartment. >> big developments overnight. the nypd raided an apartment in manhattan last night. they arrested four people. police are now questioning them about the drugs found in philip

seymour hoffman's manhattan apartment. >> overnight, they arrested three men and a women. during the raid, police recovered 350 bags thought to be heroin. this as new details are emerging about his death, the result of an apparent heroin overdose. preliminary results show the heroin found in hoffman's apartment was not laysed with the strong painkiller fentanyl. his former partner was seen here at a local funeral home. o'donnell reportedly told hoffman to move into another apartment in the city, not with her children, when she discovered he was doing drugs. >> he took off his hat and he said, i'm a heroin addict. >> he says hoffman made this confession two weeks before his death during a one-on-one chat.

>> he seemed like he was having one of those coming to god moments where it just struck him as, you know, this is the rev la toir moment. >> the night before he died, cnn also learned that he withdrew $1,200 in this transaction at an atm. he saw hoffman talking to two men wearing messenger bags. the next morning, hoffman was found dead in his bathroom. >> he was a really special human being. he was one of the best actors to ever live, without a doubt. >> hoffman's friends and colleagues mourned his lost tuesday night. >> i have to say he seemed pretty good shape. there's no way to explain it. >> does something ever come out of it? is there somebody watching who goes, wow, that guy was amazing

maybe i should stop doing this or maybe i should try to find help. >> he said he hopes that if anything positive comes out of this, maybe it can be a teaching moment. although, he did say he doesn't know there's any great lessons now that someone so important to him is gone. there will be a private service held in new york. also a memorial service later on this month. >> it does shine a very needed bright light on the heroin problem. >> you guys were talking about that yesterday. if there is anything good about this, it has started that conversation again about how important and deep this problem goes. >> 23 years sober. >> it's always right there, though. >> good morning to everybody. let's take a look at the headlines. the white house is pushing back on an explosive new report about obamacare and jobs. they say it could reduce the

workforce by the equivalent of over 2 million jobs because many people will opt to work less hours so they still qualify for federal health insurance subsidies. syria will miss a chemical weapons deadline. almost all of the chemicals and precursors are supposed to be removed by today. but only 4% of the chemicals will have been destroyed. russia blames logistical problems. the entire arsenal supposed to be destroyed by jooun. >> the navy now investigates whether sailors training on nuclear reactors were cheating on written tests. the number could be as high as 30. this is the third time in just three weeks that branches of the military have addressed problems of cheating on proficiency

exams. take a look at the moment that willie hollis literally runs by the security desk. look at that. they said he ran from a holding area, hopped into awaiting car, and hasn't been seen since. new this morning, clay aiken announced this morning on his website that he will run for congress. he is already shaking up the democratic primary. he reportedly plans to a withdraw from the race today, barns. >> another race to watch. >> very interesting, a kid, now a man. made his name being edgy and different. he's starting to morph into much more of what we're used to see. >> we're going to take a break here.

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welcome back to "new day." moments ago, the olympic tornl arrived in sochi. the question of safety is rightly on everyone's mind. a just released poll says 57% believe it's likely a terrorist

attack of some sort will occur during the winter olympics. surprisingly that's now much higher than how americans felt before the 1996 summer olympics in atlanta. if you think that media reportering on the -- reporting on the threat is driving it. listen to this. so let's take it seriously and go to cnn's barbara star live at the pentagon. what do we understand? >> reporter: good morning chris. just yesterday, president obama had another briefing, perhaps the final one before the games begin about the threats and what the u.s. is prepared to do if this is an attack, if americans are hurt and the russians ask for help. the russians would have have ask for help. as you say, the head of u.s. counterterrorism told congress yesterday, they are monitoring

specific threats across the region. they are working with the russians to potentially drupt those -- disrupt those threats as they see them. there is an op center, security law enforcement personnel from the u.s. have already been there for weeks. here at the pentagon there are also arrangements. by later today, those two u.s. navy warships are expected to be in the black sea. a number of aircraft will be on standby. and defense scare has promised to stay in touch with his russian counter part throughout the games. >> so the security of the games a very serious and important, all beit just one part of making it happen. the question is, is russia ready to handle? cnn's ivan watt ton is live in

sochi. good morning, ivan. >> reporter: that's right. the olympic torch arrived here after traveling all across the biggest country in the world. we're hearing more and more stories of glitches that are leading some to ask is sochi going to be ready in time for the olympics two days from now. >> ladies and gentlemen, let me declare that 126 session of the international olympic committee open. thank you. >> reporter: russia is counting down to the opening of the winter games. and russia's olympic city has been rehearsing its fireworks display. but it seems like there's a lot more work to be done. as hoards of journalists arrive, many discover their accommodations are not yet ready. that includes members of our own cnn sports team who also found

unfish finished construction in sochi's olympic park. they insist everything will be completed in time. >> we're dealing with it. we're on it. so we apologize again for any inconvenience. thank you. >> reporter: mother nature may be harder to deal with. after several days of cold weather, there's a warm front on the way. but a sochi snow specialist says he's got enough snow machines to compensate for warm weather. >> first of all, don't worry about the snow. snow will be gaur teed. >> >> reporter: some of the olympic athletes are impressed. >> this is my first olympics. for me, this is absolutely incredible. >> reporter: as for the lingering question of security, there's a reason why they call it the ring of steel. tens of thousands of russian security forces have been de played to -- deployed to protect

these olympic games. now, these stories of hotels that aren't ready yet, they even apply to these buildings behind me here. we all know that reporters, you know, their second profession is complaining, but people have been having a lot of fun with this on twitter. one reporter has been tweeting that the slogan of the olympics here is warm, cold, yours, only two of those words applied to his shower this morning in his hotel, cold and yours. those are some of the conditions people are facing. you have to wonder what's going to start happening when the families of the athletes and tourists start showing up if they start facing some of these conditions. chris and kate? >> hopefully creature comforts are the biggest of their concerns there. we'll be back to you there. >> let's take a break here now

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lines. an enormous winter storm is hammering the northeast after pelting the midwest. we are going to show you some of the snowfalling around the area. look at all the images on your screen. more than a foot of snow expected in parts of new england. new yorkers could see a half a foot of snow. in terms of air travel, nearly 2,000 flights canceled today. break overnight, four people believed to be connected to drugs found in philip seymour hoffman's apartment were arrested in a drug raid. they also recovered some 350 bags of drugs. some of the suspected heroin have not turned up evidence of fentan fentanyl. eight los angeles police officers are now facing

discipline. the women were shot in their pickup truck very similar to the one owned by dorner. the l.a. police chief says he sympathized with the officers, but the shooting did not meet department standards. new developments in a florida crime lab scandal. an analyst is now freon bond after being accused of selling evidence drugs. they're revealing 16 cases that may be related. he processed 2,600 cases in 35 counties since 2006. imagine this, george zimmer man versus dmx in a boxing match. he was picked from a pool of applicants who apparently all

wanted a piece of zimmer man. the exact time and date will be announced next week. back to our top story now. 120 million people are feeling the effects of that massive winter storm, including right here in new york which has already seen more than 20 inches above the average snowfall. what exactly is behind this unrelenting winter and when is it going to stop? radially horton is a climate scientist. rumor is he actually snow shoed here this morning. good to see you. i think the big question, all of us, what is this and when is it going to end. is this really unusual? >> this is not particularly unusual. if we look at winters in the past, we can get this signed of

setup. while the other side of the country has extreme warm weather, the kind of draught we're -- draught we're hearing about in california. we're seeing a little bit more of this kind of extreme. the average temperatures for the u.s. and globe continue to be near record highs. we have this long-term trend globally towards much more frequent extreme heat waes and cold waves. twice as many heat records in the u.s. that's the big picture. more extreme warming, higher sea levels and more flooding. are we also seeing more of these cold air outbreaks. and the answer is possibly. >> you know what the common reaction is. you go outside, it makes you think that global warming is a hoax. i understand that that's naive,

but why? >> you need to look at big areas and longer periods of time to cancel out some of that weather variability. it has been very cold in the east. in many cases, we've seen the coldest temperatures in, say, 20 years. they were actually not that unusual back in the '80s. >> at the same period of time where are seeing all-time records being broken. temperatures of 62 degrees in parts of california. that hasn't happened in the east during this cold event. >> so the long term trend, do you think, is it safe to suspect that we're going to see more of these extremes? it seems that we haven't seen a mild winter in a while. >> that's exactly right. there is research i've been involved in looking at the

possibility of the loss of sea ice in the arctic may actually influence our weather here. we know that as greenhouse gas concentrations have gone up, the amount of sea ice has dropped by 75% in three decades. the jet stream which keeps the cold air in the north and warm air in the south seems to be getting wavier. the cold air spills out from the north further south than it might have in the past. the warm air is replacing it. >> california and chris cuoalas. that jet stream is dividing the nation. >> we can't say for sure the change in sea ice is responsible. i think it's a more and more compelling case. it does seem that as we lose that sea ice in the arctic one

possible could be more cold air spilling ice. >> we're certainly going to be seeing a lot more of you. thank you so much for joining us. we have the snow shoes right there. >> we are seeing the exaggerated rain. we used to call them hundred-year storms. now it's like we have one every other year. coming up on "new day," we're learning more about target's massive data breach that put millions of you at risk. so, is there any way to stop the hackers? live report ahead. a catholic cardinal instructed to burn notes from pope john paul ii. what's in the letters? we're going to tell you ahead.

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let's go around the world starting with a first in afghanistan. five presidential hopefuls facing off in a televised debate. >> the upcoming presidential election in afghanistan is shining spotlight on its changing landscape. the country just hosted its first ever televised debate with all five leading candidates on tuesday. it aired on an independent channel. one of the key issues was the president's refusal to sign a security agreement with the u.s. the majority of candidates say they would support the deal. the fear is that losing washington support would also

mean losing billions in crucial foreign aid. now to egypt where archaeologists say they found a 4,600-year-old step pyramid. >> reporter: an incredible discovery here in egypt. archaeologists digging up appear mid that is 4600 years old. it was discovered in southern egypt. they say when it was new, it was as tall as a four-story building. now it's 16 feet tall. now one of the oldest buildings ever discovered in the world. so if you think the super bowl was the biggest tv event of the year with 112 million viewers, think again. in china, more than 700 million

watching a very different television special. david has more. >> reporter: the u.s. super bowl's ratings record doesn't come close. that goes to the chinese new year spectacular. over 700 million people tuned in to watch that, six times football's biggest day. despite the many years of breaking success, some say that its outdated and young viewers posted pictures of their participates nodding off during the four-hour commercial free spectacular. >> wow. >> you have to no during that. >> yeah. >> it requires a nap. >> i nap during our three-hour show. >> now everybody knows. so we have new details this morning concerning target's major security breach. more hearings on capitol hill. a top executive apologized for

the breach that opened tens of millions of you to potential credit card fraud. the big issue is whether they have a plan. joe? >> top retail executives are back on capitol hill today forced to answer more questions before congress about their credit card data breaches and the message they've already delivered is not good news for consumers. they say they're getted outsmarted by hackers. this morning we know more than ever before about the scramble and race against time to stop the theft of information that affected nearly a third of u.s. adults. target chief financial officer contrite. >> i want to say how deeply sor sorry we are. >> it began the evening of december 12th when the justice department notified target of

suspicious activity involving payment cards used at target stores. >> had you had any knowledge that that malware was there before the notification was given? >> despite the significant investment and multiple layers of detection, we did not. >> december 14th, target hires an independent team of experts to lead the investigation. one day later, that team confirms criminals had infiltrated the system by installing malware on target registers. on the 19th, a week after the tip, target goes public with the breach. one fact now confirmed but with no date record. an intrue der stole a vendor's credentials. the question now, how to prevent this. solutions that came out of the hearing, a chip, a pep, and a new rule. first a chip on payment cards.

target plans to have chip technology in place next year. >> it's more inkripgs. so the credit card information would stay incrypted longer and make it much more difficult for the hackers. >> also discussed personal identification numbers or opinions to go a -- pins to go along with smart chip cards. and also new rules so you'll know much faster. but none of this is foolproof. the chip technology could cost bi billions and become irrelevant after clever hackers find a new way to beat the system. >> competing concern when these companies don't tell you right away because they're worried about exposure. >> so scary. another story we've been following here. an accused bully back in the

game. they have liftedry chi incould go knee to's -- incognito's suspension. >> next month in march, he's going to become an unrestricted free agent, so he'll be free to find another team. it allows both the miami dolphins and him to move forward. it's looking a little bit better because there's no evidence out there that suggests that incognito and martin communicated like friends often. there are over 1,000 text messages between them that were obtained by why the usa today. i will warn you the exchange is very crude, but it seems to demonstrate a joking relationship. incessant talk about partying, drinking, chasing women among other things.

>> meet at my place at 6:00. >> what's your address? >> go [ bleep ] yourself place. >> i'll be there soon. >> if you. >> i'm going to egg your house. >> i'm going to shoot you and claim self defense. i'm white. you're black. i'll walk. >> sort of a twisted relationship between the two. as far as the investigation into the bullying scandal, we're expecting to hear the independent investigator come back with his entire investigation any day now. could be today, tomorrow or friday. now the olympics they're just about a couple days away. opening ceremonies expected friday night. they've been using social media to show how bad their hotel accommodations are. she tweeted water restored, sort of. and a producer for channel 4 in

london tweeted this, it's dangling from the ceiling in my room. a snowboarder shared the rules that he found in his bathroom. no standing, no throwing up, no squatting, but then it says no fishing. and the last one on the right, i don't even know what that means. we're getting reactions from reporters all over the internet saying a lot of the hotel rooms there are just not ready form t them. they're slowly but surely getting in the rooms. there was a couple days where they just didn't have any rooms. >> and some of the hotels can't process credit cards. the water's not working. i was reading the reports from journalists. stray dogs and construction workers walking into rooms. it ain't the ritz. there's your tag line. >> i'm going with a joke.

the no fishing in the commode. >> okay. >> no time for internet. >> i think it's a joke. i don't think they're real warnings. there's some continue certificatevy. >> let's take a break. pope john paul ii former secretary under fire this morning. what did he do and how is the church reacting just ahead. >> also a minnesota backyard the scene of serious shreddiledding. it's our "new day" must-see moment. r own boss! and my customers are really liking your flat rate shipping. fedex one rate. really makes my life easier. maybe a promotion is in order. good news. i got a new title. and a raise? management couldn't make that happen.

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welcome back to "new day." breaking this morning, a new report from the united nations demanding the vatican take action against choose. the u.n. is understanding the catholic courage to remove all suspected offenders. but also developing this morning, a betrarl of just -- betrayal of trust. the late pontiff reportedly ordered the secretary to burn his personal notes upon his death, but today, that man is publishing some of those notes in a new book. we're in london with much more. good morning. >> for almost 40 years he was pope john paul ii secretary and confidant. now he's going against the late pope's final instructions and is publishing his most personal

notes. as you'd expect, contracting continue row versioncy and moral indignation. >> this book is extremely important. >> his last will and testament calls for his personal notebooks to be burned. so why have his most private writings been published in a book released in poland today. >> there' no doubt that this is a priceless record. >> it's a collection of the late pope's thoughts and meditations. many catholics outraged questioning of the release. pope john paul's closest aide turned over the letters. >> his thought was that these are important theological musings of a pope and that the world could benefit from reading them. >> serving as pope for nearly

three decades, pope john paul ii died in 2005. the confidant and former secretary was given instruction to burn the private papers after the beloved pontiff's death. instead, he disobeyed the pope, because according to the catholic reporter, he felt burning the documents would be a crime. >> so suddenly now to have a group of works that has not been published before is significant. >> translating writings from the polish language book are circulating. he wrote, and does the act of salvation amaze me more than any other everyday act, may it absorb me more and more. john paul ii will be cat toe

niezed as saint. the cardinal says he's only publishing some of the late pope's personal notes. many of the other notes have already been burned. the profits, he says, will be going towards building a complex, a $40 million complex that is being built to honor the late john paul in poland. time now for our must-see moment. the award for dad of the year goes to this man. here's why. a massive 50-yard sledding track he built in his backyard. the paper said it took eight years to build. consider this, i ask you, there's an olympian, tucker

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>> my country invested in me and i want america to now invest in you. let's begin with breaking news. the suspected master mind of december's bombings in volgograd russia has been killed. one man was killed and an accomplice surrendered. let's get right to phil black in moscow. >> the volgograd bombings killed 34 people at the end of last year. these are the attacks that really drove home the threat posed to the sochi olympics. we are hearing that the alleged master mind behind the bombings has been killed. this is the hot bed of the on going insurgency there. they told russian state media there was an operation to surround a property.

there was a shootout and in the process, one man, the suspected master mind was among those killed. this comes just one week after two others were arrested for transporting the bombers to volgograd. and now this breakthrough as well. police say that are continuing to work and investigate to find out precisely all the people involved in the operation. >> we know russia says it has worked hard to ensure that olympic athletes and visitors to sochi will be safe with a ring of steel in place. still, u.s. officials have identified a number of specific threats to the sochi games. the head of the house intelligence comm intelligence -- committee says the real danger is outside the city. >> al qaeda is using syria to recruit new members and launch

worldwide attacks. and james clapper saying he's never seen more global terror threats at any one time. >> the military is investigating more accusations of cheating on exams. the navy is looking into whether sailors were cheating on written at the times. number involved could be between 12 is it 30. this is the third time branchs of the military have addressed charges in the last three weaks. a string of bombs rocked baghdad during rush hour hill lg at least -- killing at least 25 people. all happening near main check points that houses iraqi government buildings. the government says more than 1,000 people lost their lives in january alone. the highest in almost six yeerks. >> right now outside your

window, a horrible sight. the region slammed with flight cancellations, icy roads, power outtajs. 32 states from wisconsin to maine feeling mother nature's wrath. we're going to start with chad myers in new york central park. what's the latest. >> reporter: with this ice storm coming down right now, we may have more flight cancellations today than we've had in a very long time. take a look at the radar. we have snow all the way from new england all the way back to buffalo. south of there is where we have that pink area. that pink is a significant icy vent right along to lancaster and into new york city. it is sleeting, it is raining now, and it is 31 degrees. right because it is 35 degrees above here at the top of the buildings. now it's an ice storm. take a look at these amounts.

a foot of snow or more all the way from new england back into central new york and western new york. that might be the easy part. sure you shovel it out and done. the ice south of there, what we're getting now, could be 1/2 to three-quarters of an inch. >> more trouble ahead. yet again, the weather is wreaking havoc on air travel. more than 3,000 flights canceled since tuesday. one plane in kansas city is literally stuck in its tracks. we are live at reagan national airport right outside washington with more on this angle of the weather story. >> reporter: good morning, kate. you know, chad hit it right. it is going to be bad if you are flying today. we've already surpassed the levels as far as cancellations from yesterday. right now, 7:00 hour, talking

more than 2,000 cancellations and 2,000 delays. things are far from rosy here. take a look at this monitor. the problem airports, new york, new jersey, philadelphia, boston and chicago. those are the ones seeing the most problems. i and i want to show you this video. also planes coming in. this one in kansas city, this southwest airline plane went into a snow bank as it was taxiing to the terminal. problems there. we can tell you that the passengers were able to deplane safely. but it shows you a full picture as to how this weather is creating major problems for air travel. >> call the airline, check online, check twitter if you have to fly or travel. after two years, there's finally a farm bill to guide u.s. food policy. sending it onto the president.

he plans to sign it friday. the bill expands crop insurance for farmers, but cuts direct payments and reduces food stamp spending by $8 billion over the ne next decade. so is obamacare costing jobs. it says it could use the workforce by more than 2 million jobs. it's a complex issue, i'll tell you that. they are set to testify on capitol hill as the obama administration is pushing back very hard on this. we're at the white house with much more. can you explain this, jim? >> reporter: i will do my best. any time you have a government report that comes out that says obamacare and jobs, you can bet there will be fireworks. what the cbo is saying basically is that over the next ten years, you're going to see 2.5 million fewer americans in the labor

market as a result of obamacare. they are saying this is not caused by company's cutting jobs. basically they'll be cutting back on their hours and staying out of their jobs from time to time in order to qualify for subsidies under obamacare. if you add up the cumulative effect of that, it's 2.5 million jobs by the year 2024. they said, here's another example of obamacare hurting jobs. but the white house says, no way, that is not the case. >> is the white house giving you anymore response than no way, that's not case? right now this gives a lot of fire to republican charges that obamacare is a job killer. >> reporter: they did way more than that yesterday at the briefing at the white house. they put out a chair to lay out

the case. he threw out a hypothetical. he said let's say we were to get rid of social security and the white house is not throwing that out, be if you got rid of social security, you would have more 95-year-olds in the marketplace. that would add more jobs, but that might not necessarily be good economic policy. if you offer incentives for people to buy insurance under obamacare, there may be some people who say i'm going to cut back on my hours, i may not stay in this job to have more insurance. all of this is going to play out later this morning. kate and chris? more news this morning out of d.c. the white house is dialing lack drone strikes in pakistan. this follows a request for restraint from the pakistani government.

we're tracking the developments live from the pentagon. what do you believe this means, barbara? >> we have not confirmed independently the details in the post article. but what appears to be going on here has happened before. drone strikes in pakistan have ebbed and flowed over time. behind the scene what's really happening is republicans in congress are objects to president obama's tight ning of the rules on drone strikes. he has set new rules in the last several months. only if the target appears to be a continuing eminent risk to the united states. just yesterday, the chairman of the house intelligence committy, mike rogers, challenged the community directly special said the president's policies have been a failure and that it is putting americans at risk. many in the intelligence community will tell you they've

done so many strikes in pakistan it's getting harder to find those targets. but strikes continue in places like yemen. >> thank you so much, barbara. so also today, top retail executives returning to capitol hill for a second round of hearings over the recent credit card data acts. target said they're sorry for the breaches. >> the rest of the country is facing snowstorms and low temperatures, california in the middle of a brutal draught. researchers say it could be one of the top ten worst droughts to hit california in 500 years. it is also going to hurt your household budget. >> yeah, they're calling it a mega drought. two thirds of california

classified now as an extreme or exceptional drought. look at that map. a yearing a, zero percent of the state was in that category. there are 80,000 farms in california. more crops grown there than anyplace else in the country. some of the things you put in your grocery cart, you can't get anywhere else. 90% of the nation's supply of almon almonds, raisins, pom gran nationals, all grown in california. water is in short supply. it's not just these fruits and nuts. it's wine. it's beef. dairy. they're having a hard time grazing the cattle. how high could prices go? well, a vej a table crop specialist told us this. this draught could raise your

produce prices 10% over the next few months. california very serious drought. you'll feel it at the grocery store. >> it's not just about global warming. in one way, it's about extremes. also new development this is morning in the chemical spill that left 300,000 people without water in west virginia. a criminal gais is now underway. a cnn report was done. the result, trace levels of a dangerous chemical remain in least two homes. new this morning, clay aiken, he announced on his website he is running for congress. already shaking up the academic primary there. houston baerns plans to withdraw from the race. alleged fraud in an army

recruiting program that cost taxpayers nearly a hundred million dars. under the program, national guard soldiers could earn up to $7,500 for a new recruit. more than 1,200 people including civilia civilians, officers, even two generals have been implicated. massachusetts allows some people with rap sheets to be cleared as potential foster parents, even with convictions of armed assault, drug trafficking and incredibly, so assist continuing sex from a minor. they say they have faith state officials will weed out potential threats. and the blame game to take over last week's school lunch in utah. the child nutrition director says procedures were not followed. some parents say the report

doesn't go far enough after kids had their lunches thrown away and replaced with fruit and milk. four people arrested in connection with the death of philip seymour hoffman. police say the suspects are believed to be connected with the drugs found at the actor's apartment. let's bring in a retired law enforcement officer. thank you for being here. one is the drugs that they found in there, they don't believe are of the variety of heroin that is in other states killing a lot of people. by looking at the bags, they very quickly moved and found guys they believe are the dealers. how did they make such a quick arrest? >> one way is through the confidential informers. plus their ability to follow this particular heroin strain which is germane primarily to new york at this point. they connected the dots on this. it really wasn't that difficult.

they had phone records. they had computer communications. they may have found notes that the young man wrote. they're aware of what's going on in the streets. now it's just an issue of finding one substance and tieing it to the substances that they know are more commonly circulated. >> is it less about finding the people who sold the drugs specifically to philip seymour hoffman and more about trying to fight this problem? >> yeah. i think it's more the fact that we have a real problem on our hands similar to that in the '60s and '70s. >> they're combining heroin with synthetic drugs now, maybe a cancer treatment drug to increase the high, but it makes it dangerous. also something important to note.

isn't it true that very often law enforcement is aware that dealers are operating in certain areas and they don't necessarily arrest them all the time and that may account for how they got this done so quickly? >> the approach to with narcotics is kind of like a building block. they're not looking to grab a guy with a key of coke or a bag of heroin. if you put it in the big scheme of things, all we really do is turn people. if we don't have a wire up on you or an open case, you give us an introduction or an under cover, i got a guy moving a hundred, that's the direction you want to go. you continue peer-to-peer mid to -- pyramid. >> big star, special person, celebrity, very garden variety in what he was doing. he was talking to guys with

messenger bags, pretty low level dealing. >> that's a very interesting question. because there are a couple of tangenti tangential investigations going on here. we're trying to determine if the district attorney is now going to charge them with complicity in his death. so they've made an arrest. the next part of the equation is are they now going to make a determination that they should prosecution them not just for drug possession ordealing, but were they complicit in this man's death. >> sad none theless. thank you so much. >> meantime, philip seymour hoffman will be remembered tonight on the great white wave.

hoffman was nominated for a tony award tree times. he most recently appeared two yearsing a in "death of a salesman." let's take a look at what is trending. a tug of war is building in downtown miami over a major prehistoric discovery. a native american village right in downtown. we'll hear a developer's proposal that would carve out parts of it. for months, archaeologists have been digging up a series of large circles that they say may have served as indian homes. >> i'm telling you about a celebration. seattle set to celebrate the super bowl champs. held today, three days after their dominating win over the broncos in the super bowl. it kicks off at 11:00 a.m. local time and finishing at century

link field. the forecast calls for sunny skies. >> that's a rarity in the pacific northwest. a recall has apparently led to a shortage. the company voluntarily recalled kraft strings monthsing a. production was halted as kraft investigated a cause. they expect it to be back next month. listen to this, bill clinton may be the least sorry person to see jay leno go. analyzed 43,000892 leno jokes and discovered that the former president was the comedian's number one tarkt. he got skew we ared 10% of the time. rounding out the top five, george w. bush and hilary clinton.

leno's last show, of course, airs tomorrow night. we know you were in new jersey for super bowl. remember the red hot chili peppers performing there? they have come clean. they admit the group's music was recorded and not performed live because they said the nfl told them it had to be. they only had a few minutes to set up the stage and too many things could go wrong with the sound, but he insists the vocals were performed live. another musician pointed out that there was nothing plugged into his guitar. >> i'll tell you what, i go with them. huge fan. disclaimer. >> it doesn't bother me -- >> the lead singer was singing the whole time. this is the only way the super bowl would allow it. >> exactly. and they do do that. the nfl and the super bowl committee usually say, we don't

want anything to go wrong, we need you to prerecord it. they do that a lot. >> this kind of thing -- there's a lot more we could get outraged about. >> come to our shows if you want to have your mind blown. let's talk about this one. the newest winner of tv's biggest loser is stirring up controversy on social media this morning. look at her extraordinary transformation. she's $250,000 richers and 155 pounds lighter, but that has a lot of her fans concerned about her health. >> when i saw this, i thought, you know, what are people concerned about. she's lost a lot of weight. she got in shape. that's a good thing, right? but then i saw that before and half picture and it's shocking. their faces say it all. big shocker and possibly bigger

controversy on the biggest loser last night. brand new winner astonishing everyone revealing a staggering 155-pound weight loss. frederick son, a former swimming champ, broke a new record for the show by shedding 60% of her total body weight. >> choosing to move forward in this life and know that i can take control and do anything that i want. it's amazing. >> but some people are less amazed and more concerned fearing she has lost too much weight. stunned viewers took to twitter to voice their alarm saying watching the biggest loser finale and i am seriously concerned that the confetti will knock rachel over. and this is the first time i've seen a contestant go too far. also, i think it's kind of sad how young girls and teens are watching this as an example. nbc should probably know better.

so far, no word from nbc or the biggest loser. this isn't the first time the reality series has come under fire. jillian michaels got into trouble for giving her team caffeine supplements. michaels insists the pills are safe. >> it's significantly healthier than unlimited amounts of coffee. my only regret, my team, they are the ones suffering. >> so we showed you some of the twitter messages there. the bloggers were really busy last night. the majority of them saying they thought rachel took the weight loss too far. we were all talking about it during the package there. you like to see people get healthy and get in shape. i can speak personally to this. four yearsing a, i lost some weight myself. i didn't realize i had lost too much until people tell me, you

need a cheese burger. >> 155 pounds in less than six months is aggressive. i don't know if that's sustainable. >> it hurts the show because it is one of the few, we can call it a reality show if you will, that everyone comes out a winner. it really does -- >> sometimes -- >> on that show. i mean, yeah, you're right there. >> the problem we want to get around in this country and we just can't is you will not find a temporary fix that will last long term. the word diet means every day. i don't know what led her to fall out of shape that way. i don't know what her level of dedication will be going forward. but you have that reality and then you have this reality about what are we supposed to look like. and a lot of people will say, that's what i want to look like. some will look at the other

picture and say i don't want to look like that. >> they do do it right on the -- >> they do do it right. >> as far as taking care of the people. >> please tweet us. we're going to take a break here, give you a chance to respond to us. and we're going to talk business when we come back. a strong year for stocks. suddenly the dow is taking a nose dive. what do these recent struggles say about the state of the overall economy. we have a top financial honcho joining us for insight. sm [ female announcer ] right when you feel a cold sore,

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the new year. the largest market selloff since june. not good for your 401(k). the real issue is, how is the overall economy doing. joining us now, chairman senior partner at price water house coopers. great to have you here. >> happy to be here. >> let's unpack that question. look at the stock market but you understand what businesses think and how they're feeling. >> we just complete add ceo survey all around the world. first of all, very optimistic. there's caution in there and fragility in there. if you look at the 200 some odd ceos we surveyed, 88% are confident they're going to be able to raise revenue in the next six months. the question is are they willing to hire. >> right. >> year over year, 60% of those

ceos have said we're going to hire more people compared to low 50s, high 40s over a year ago. >> do you think january has been a rocky start. duke that will change that -- do you think that will change that view? >> i don't think so. i think you have a fundamental disconnect between the ceo confidence and investor confidence. what's the impact of quantitative easing. but the ceo community, there's a long-term perspective here that i'm not going to change in order to react to a short-term volatility in the marketplace. you're going to have that in the next year. >> there's this confidence with ceos but the folks watching at home are saying, i'm not feeling great about the economy. how do we bridge that gap?

>> it's a great question. the ceo's confidence is coming from a resiliency over the last couple years. the question to the average consumer and the average person trying to look for work, there's a disconnect there. it's how businesses come torgt to create the -- together to create the opportunities. 70% of the ceos in the u.s. are worried about now being able to find the right talent. what's the challenge? the challenge is lack of relevant skill sets. we have people there. >> and to this point, so the president has this new push recently, you guys signed onto it, the pledge to do more to hire the long-term unemployed. what does that mean? >> they're looking at all kinds of talent. and what the president asked for is, hey, make sure you don't

have any bias. >> does it change anything for you? >> the reality is, you're searching for the best talent no matter where it may be. nonetheless, how are they going to find that talent. and they may not be trained to the relevant skill sets. what are they going to train the people. >> i think one of the things helpful for the audience, you're not going to change the practices if you don't want to. big companies especially, they have found the sweet spot. they're giving dividends back to the investors and they're not hiring. it's great for business. so the question becomes, small businesses, mid-size businesses, they're hiring. the big ones aren't. can the government change that. >> i don't think the government by hits can change that. >> why would you change. >> you have a ball lantsed

responsibility in terms of how do you bring it to the investment community. the business community is looking at that balance. i'm trying to get productivity up. i may try to hire less people. how many less people at the hotels are there because they're doing self-service check-many. >> you did the survey, by bottom line, you yourself, as the head of a company, are you optimistic? >> yes. very much so. technology companies, health care companies, professional services companies are the top ones in the hiring space. we'll end up hiring thousands of people in the u.s. alone. each company has a different perspective on this. >> he's also in the service sector. >> you don't have the skill base -- >> just got the manufacturing numbers and they were not so good. >> thank you so much for coming

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welcome back to "new day." let's take a look at your headlines at this hour. a massive winter storm is moving east this morning. and it could leave parts of new england under a foot of snow. it has already hit the midwest. 3,500 flights have been canceled since yesterday, most in or out of new york, boston, philadelphia and chicago. >> we're following breaking news, the suspected mastermind of december's bombings in volgograd russia has been killed in a standoff this morning in dagestan. 34 people were killed in the december bombings. it raised serious concerns at the security of the winter olympics. more breaking news here in the states. a bold, bold move from pharmacy chain cvs. greats and tobacco products will no longer be sold in stores

nationwide. this move takes effect in more than 7,600 stores act 1st despite expectations it will lose $2 billion a year in sales. president obama is applauding the move. a tennessee judge refused to allow a couple to name their child messiah has been fired. she ordered the baby's named change to martin in a ruling she said it's a title held only by jesus christ. no official reason was given for her dismissal. time now for the plit gut check of the morning. a new report says obamacare may push folks to work less leading to a reduction in the workforce by more than 2 million pull time jobs by 2024.

cnn's chief national correspondent and host of inside politics john king is here to discuss. the number in what the cbo report said is more complex than just the headline. in politics it's all about the headline and the sound bite when you're working on attack. >> if you read the report, either side, whether you're for obamacare or against it, you can find things in it that make you smile. republicans say this is a giant, we told you so. because of the government subsidies, because of what they call government handouts some people would reach a point where they say it makes no sense for me to work anymore because it means i lose my subsidies. they say 2 million more people are going to walk away from the workforce. tooem obama says wait a minute. someone can go out and start a small business. you have more flexibility because you have the guarantee

of health care. because of the political status of the law right now, which is not good, republicans think this is a benefit to them and just watch. coming soon to a tv ad near you. >> seems like they're right, though. even if you take the democratic explanation at its best, it still doesn't explain 2 million workers leaving the force. and that number's not there. so it does seem like this is a blow. did they not see this impact? >> this piece of it is good ammunition for the republicans. it says there's no evidence that the law itself is impacting hiring so that businesses aren't making decisions based on the health care law. that was the president's counter argument. it will not drag the economy down but people will have the choice, do i work full time or part time, do i go over here where i buy it but i get a

subsidy maybe from the government. there's no question that bullet point -- in areas, remember, we're talking -- we usually look at national polls. when you go state by state to where the key conversation l races -- congressional races are this year, in most of those places, it is unpopular. the white house will say this. it will say the cbo projects at the end of the year 80% of americans will be covered by healthcare. the president will argue that's what i wanted. that was the point. obamacare is in way ways in the eye of the beholder. >> we can see an attack line emerging for republicans. let's talk about the income inequality argument that democrats are championing. new poll out says the majority of americans say now that the government should work to reduce income gap between rich and poor. what does that tell you?

>> clearly democrats did their own polling before they took on this message. >> look, the democrats would say, we've been on your side, we've been fighting for the little guy for a long time. it shows you the republicans do have a problem. you ask people who fights for the middle class, who's side are you on, the democrats certainly have a better image than the republicans. and the republicans acknowledge that's a problem for their brand. that's what the president's going to try to do the. the presidents and the democrats want to make this about, look, we have a recovering economy, who's here to help you get through these tough times. they will argue the republicans won't help you. that's what they want to talk about. part of it is the effort to change the subject from obamacare. that will be the tug of war of 2014. can the republicans keep it about obamacare or can the democrats make it about economic

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welcome back to "new day." renewed child abuse allegations against woody allen from his adopted daughter triggering pushback that the allegations are false. she's saying again that woody allen assaulted her just 7 years old. >> well, you know, these abuse charges have to be looked at through the lens of really a

spectacular custody fight more than 20 years after the relationship between the film maker and his ex-leading lady imploded in a dramatic fashion. woody allen's attorney is firing back against renewed claims. >> the sex abuse clinic that the authorities sent the case to investigate the the matter totally for six months and determined that farrow coached the child. they also concluded it did not happen. >> in a letter to the new york times, she detailed the sexual abuse she says took place in the family's connecticut home of the family. then, he sexually assaulted me. >> everything that could be done to disapprove those charges was done in an objective way. >> we are really doing our best

to try and resolve. >> as he did 20 yearsing a during the couple's bitter custody trial, he claims his ex-planted the idea of abuse in the young daughter's mind. >> her coming from a place that this really happened to her. and then if she hears her father deny it or hollywood look the other way, that is going to feel like a big smack in the face. >> allen's personal life has tarnished the film maker for decades. now, his wife. dillon told her allen had touched her inappropriately. he has maintained his innocence from the very beginning. >> the reason the authorities are dropping this case is purely and simply because they know there is no chance they could

possibly win it. >> dillon's family has rallied around her. a lot of ugliness is going to be aimed at me, but this is not about me, it's about her truth, her mother said. mia farrow had videotaped the child describing what happened that day. there were gaps in the tape. in trial, they couldn't see how mia farrow was coaching or encouraging the child. you heard woody allen's lawyer mention that study that was done. but still, there's a 7-year-old child who continued to tell a story over special over again about what she said happened that day. chris? >>. let's take another break. coming up next on "new day," lost at sea for 13 months. he lived to tell his tale, but

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>> reporter: after 13 months adrift without a water supply the apparent castaway was back on land holding a coke. he spoke through a spanish translator as if he were talking to aliens, gussing gesture after gesture to describe dreaming from food and contemplating suicide because he was so hungry. what were the foods he kraefd most? >> tortillo. eggs. chicken. water. >> reporter: he seemed mentally shaken and exhausted. when the light started to fall he was quick to react. nobody asked if he talked to anything the way tom hanks talked to his volleyball wilson. when the real castaway, jose salvador alvarenga left mexico on a one day fishing trip he was with a teenage fisherman. after their boat was blown off

course alvarenga said his companion refused to continue eating raw food and eventually died. throughout what would be a 5,700 mile journey, alvarenga said he survived on fish, bird and turtles. it wasn't exactly like when a flying fish dropped from the skies in "the life of pi." the turtles did come banging against the boat so all he had to do was grab them. skeptics abound, tweeting out that's one chubby castaway and looks like he's been scof f-ing burgers and chips. he has swelling which appears blood. we don't know what the entire story. the hardest part he said was during long periods without rain when he had to resort to drinking his own bodily fluids.

he finally washed up on a coral island among the marshall islands. he was stark naked when he yelled at two residents. bbc quote witnesses his boat was covered with sea animals. during the interview he kept touching his long hair. it wasn't long until the marshall islands immigration chief treated him to a hair cut and a shave, all that hair like a bad memory castaway. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> quite a story. >> cleaned up nice. cleaner than the story. story has some holes. they will keep investigating it. coming up on "new day" breaking news just coming in. a suspected terrorist behind deadly bombings in russia taken out two days ahead of the olympic games. >> plus the new ceo of general motors is the first woman to run a major automaker. but it seems her salary has

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becoming the first ceo of a major car company. so why is the gm ceo making so much less money than her male predecessor. >> your "new day" continues right now. good morning and welcome to "new day". it's wednesday, february 5th, 8:00 in the east and the winter torture unfortunately is not letting up. another enormous storm is dropping snow and ice on 32 states from wyoming to maine. right now the northeast is getting slammed with parts of new england facing a foot of snow or even more. they are already trying to kig out in the midwest. white out conditions forcing drivers to abandon their cars on i-64 in southern illinois. and kansas city this southwest airlines jet landed safely but never made to it the gate because it wound up stuck in a snow drift. our extreme weather coverage

begins with our meteorologist chad myers. how is it looking, chad? >> it's looking wet. that's bad because it's 31. it's raining now. this is the issue. all this muck is going to freeze again and freezing at 31 we'll lose power, lose power lines, lose tree limbs and all that will get worse. this is the second of four storms. i know there were three. there's another one for next thursday. this is just the second. from wyoming to maine more than 100 million people are waking up to another round of snow and ice this morning. >> horrible. horrible. >> overnight snow beginning to pile up in new england where more than a foot of snow is forecast. >> been crazy. >> in the midwest up to 11 inches of snow blanketed kansas. watch as this truck spins out of control on the highway. icy roads claiming two lives in crawford county. the state's governor has

declared a state of emergency. in illinois white out conditions coupled with sleet and ice sent car after car skidding off the road. snow emergencies were declared across michigan as heavy snow fell an inch per hour. >> we had crews out since early morning. >> down south icy roads lead to this accident. in oklahoma a school bus transporting students had to turn around because the driver feared getting stuck. we're still six weeks away from spring but people are already fed up with winter. >> beautiful for a little bit but too many times. >> this is the seventh winter storm battering the midwest and new england since december. 40 inches of snow have fallen in detroit last month alone and across the country it's the coldest winter in 20 years. chris, this is what it looks

like here at merchant's gate. that's all shine ice. that's what the roadways will look like. the snow is back from boston to buffalo and further west than that where it was snowing most of the overnight hours. we'll see the horrify snow from western new york through binghampton back to saratoga and then to maine. where we are right here this is an ice storm. people walking by saying when is it going back to snow. no, it's not. this is a an ice storm. snow is gone. we'll see an ice storm all day long. power lines will be coming down. i know we talked about the storm yesterday chris about sunday but there's another one for next thursday that i'm even more worried about. the sunday storm has backed off a little bit. these storms are like planes lined up at laguardia just one right after another. maybe the planes aren't lined up at laguardia today because there are so many cancelations. >> that's true. they are lined up and there are

cancelations. this is the second of a third and now may be a fourth. that big demonstration you made ice so much more dangerous than snow especially when it comes to driving. that's why drivers across new england are being told to stay off the roads. this storm is delivering a foot of snow or more and then on top of that up to half an inch of ice. driving and ice arrest pea for trouble. we are every where you shouldn't be. margaret you're up in boston. what's the situation? >>. >> reporter: we're seeing about one to two inches of snow per hour through the afternoon. if you take a look at the scene around me here people are out walking their dogs but the snow is heavy, wet and it's coming down fast. the department of transportation has 200,000 tons of salt ready, 3,000 plows are on the roads already, they have a capacity of 4,000. you can see what they are dealing with. they are advising people to avoid unnecessary travel and

advise people to use public transportation. if you're flying, logan airport has cancelled 45% of their flights this morning. boston's new mayor has declared a snow emergency here. public schools are closed. and as you have been saying it's not over. this is just one storm. in a few days we'll be getting more. >> we're watching the snow accumulate on your poor hat margaret as the morning goes on. thank you so much for that. a familiar scene at east coast airports unfortunately. complete chaos. over 3,000 flights have been cancelled since yesterday and that number is climbing. our storm coverage continues now. we go to reagan national airport right outside of washington. good morning, renee. >> reporter: good morning. early indications, it is going to be in a word bad for people who are looking to get to their destination by a plane today. so why do we say this? yesterday when we were here early morning hours, we were talking about cancelations close

to 600. but this morning early hours, we were already starting out the day with more than 2,000 cancelations. at this hour still more than 2,000 cancelations and we're talking about more than 2,500 delays. take a look at the boards here at reagan. cancelled, cancelled, cancelled. problem areas we're talking about new york. new jersey. as well as philadelphia. boston and chicago. the usual suspect. this weather really creating a nightmare situation for travellers. take at that look at this video. this is right out of kansas city. this happening where a southwest plane goes into a snow drift as it was taxiing to the terminal. just another, another example of how this weather is making things really tough for people trying to get to their destination by air. back to you. thank you very much. breaking news this morning. the man authorities say was behind december's bombings in volgograd russia has been killed. the coordinated attacks at a

train station and on a bus killed more than 30 and heightened security fears around the olympics. now police in dagestan say one man was killed and accomplice surrendered in a standoff just this morning. all this two days before the olympics begin. let's get to phil black. >> reporter: those volgograd bombings are a big red flag about the terror threats. russian security has been work very hard to track down those responsible. a week ago they found two men transporting the bombers. today they surrounded a house. one man gave himself up. everyone else decided to shoot themselves out. they were all killed including one man who they believe was the mastermind behind the volgograd attacks. finding out who is responsible for the volgograd attacks is

important because this group has promised through a video there would be more such attacks to come during the olympics. the other big lesson from these attacks in volgograd was these terrorists do not need to hit sochi itself in order to make their point, score a win and embarrass the russian government during the olympics. the russian government maintains its security crackdown, ring of steel around sochi itself is secure and these games will be safe. back to you. >> so this latest terror news will likely only add really to the fears that people have about security at the games. right now u.s. intelligence officials are said to be monitoring a number of specific threats against the sochi games. let's get straight over to barbara starr live at the pentagon. >> reporter: good morning, kate. u.s. intelligence officials testified before congress saying they are monitoring specific threats against the sochi games, threats of varying credibility

but they are working with the russians now to monitor those threats and disrupt them where they see them. obviously looking at several known terrorist organizations in that region of russia. u.s. intelligence officials also saying at this point they believe the games themselves, the venues heavily secured by the russians but the big worry are other soft targets, train stations, shops, restaurant, outside of sochi. these may be the big threats and they may be impossible to protect. kate? >> barbara starr at the pentagon for us. more breaking news. a surprising move by the pharmacy chain cvs. just announced it will no longer sell cigarettes and tobacco products nationwide. the move takes effect in more than 7600 stores. christine romans has more. >> it's big news. big pharmacy chain. this company says selling

cigarettes and tobacco products not what it does as a health care chain. the ceo says ending the sale of tobacco products is the right thing for this company to do for its customers, to pep hem on to a better path of health. to put smimly the sale of tobacco products is inconsistent with our purpose. that's larry merlo who runs the company. the president of the united states a former smoker coming out and saying good work cvs, good work larry merlo and he hopes more people follow suit. >> also the purpose of his company is to make money. how much of a hit will it? >> they will say no thank you to $2 billion from smokers who buy tobacco products from cvs pharmacies. that's a smaller and smaller customer base every year. in 196542% americans were smokers. today it's 19%. you can see the growth in this

economy, the growth for these markets is for smoking cessation products, for these small clinics where they are giving flu shots, giving health care advice, keeping people healthier. >> so do you see this as cvs getting out in front of what could be a trend. >> they are a vanguard. we called walgreen's. walgreen's are evaluating this product category. i suspect all of the retailers like this, the drugstore retailers are evaluating this product category. walgreen making a very good point they offer smoking cessation, products and devices and that's important for them. i will say the health care advocates are very, very happy about this. they think it's incredibly important leadership from a big company giving up $2 billion. >> $2 billion is nothing to sneeze at. >> there's other growth areas. they are focusing on the health

of their customers. 5 million people die a year from smoking related illness. >> impressive move by cvs. >> breaking overnight in new york police arresting four people believed to be connected to drugs found at philip seymour hoffman's apartment. this morning we're learning new details about that daring raid and about the drugs that were found around hoffman's body. nischelle turner joins us with the latest. >> reporter: big developments. the nypd raided an apartment in manhattan last night executing search warrants and arresting four people. they are questioning them about the drugs found inside philip seymour hoffman's apartment. overnight police arrested three men and a woman in this new york apartment building who they believe are connected to the drugs found in philip seymour hoffman's apartment. during the raid police recovered 350 bags thought to be heroin. this as new details are emerging about his death.

the result of an apparent heroin overdose. preliminary results showed the heroin found in hoffman's apartment was not laced with the strong pain killer. on tuesday hoffman's former partner was seen here at a local funeral home. o'donnell told hoffman to move into another apartment in the city not with their children when she discovered he was aabusing drugs an ongoing battle he shared with a magazine writer. >> he took off his hat and said i'm a heroin addict. >> reporter: hoffman made this confession two weeks before his death. hoffman saying he just got out of rehab. >> he seemed like he was having one of those coming to god moments where it just struck him as, you know, this is the moment. >> reporter: the night before hoffman died cnn learned he with drew $12 mun in six transactions from this atm at the grocery store near his apartment.

a witness telling investigators he saw hoffman talking to two men wearing messenger bags. the next morning hoffman was found dead in his bathroom. a needle still in his arm. >> he was a really special human being and he was one of the best actors to ever live without a doubt. >> reporter: hoffman's friends and colleagues mourned his loss tuesday night. >> had dinner with him a couple of months ago and i have to say he seemed to be in pretty good shape. there's no way to explain it. does something ever come out of it? is there somebody watching who goes wow that guy was amazing. maybe i should stop doing this. maybe i should try to find help. >> reporter: philip seymour hoffman's representatives announced there will be a private funeral service held in new york for the actor's family and close friends. also in the works plans for a memorial service later on in the month. >> thank you for that. let's take a look at your other headlines.

republicans are pouncing on a new report that says obamacare could reduce the u.s. workforce by the equivalent of over 2 million jobs. many of those workers opting to collect higher health care subsidies and work fewer hours. the white house pushing back saying since the law was passed in 2010 the nation has seen the strongest job growth in decades. a watch group says syria will miss a keep chemical weapons deadline. only 4% of chemicals have been destroyed. russia blames logistic cal problems at syria's port but says all chemicals should be out of the country by march 1st. more cheating allegations against members of the armed services. the navy is now investigating whether sailors cheated on tests on nuclear reactors, were cheating on those written tests. 12 sailors are believed to be involved. the number could be as high as

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welcome back to "new day". the new ceo of general motors mary barra is the first woman to run a major automaker. but her salary is sparking heated debate over pay inequality with some claiming she's making less than her predecessor. her announced salary to this point is $4.4 million. dan akerson made $9.1 million. but her long term compensation package will close that gap. let's talk more about this. there's more to this than the headlines. but let me get your take. >> my take is we have a woman who blasted the steel ceiling, running one of the three big automakers. you see in her pay package, first of all, the major women at

the fortune 500 companies across the board make 18% less than their male counterparts. you're looking at that pay inequality. you're looking at a woman that's making a lot more than most women will ever see in their life times so we talk about pay inequality and there's another kind of pay inequality two-thirds of women living on minimum wage. i think that needs to be accounted for. there's an old boys network. if you look at the boards of these auto companies, sorry i'm looking at you, you got to really bring women into all of these positions across the board because, you know, they are still favoring the network. >> is there a little bit -- let's take progress where we find it here. this is a little misleading. all right. we have to find out what the long term aspect of the package is. he held two jobs. she's only make $100,000 less in base salary but only doing one of the two jobs. >> she's someone who spent 33

years in the company. she describes herself as a car gal. he came in, from carlisle, private equity fund and just sort of alighted. i guess the larger problem is these compensation packages. take a hard look at them for men and women. they are out sized. there's a new s.e.c. rule with the dod frank legislation that companies need to account for the disparity, the gap between ceo wages and worker wages and in this country over the last two years it's 400-1. 400-1. >> you'll never get a person to be upset or up in arms as i am because i find this upsetting. another point he had prior ceo experience. she did not, correct? he was ceo twice before, correct in other companies? >> well he came out of again a private equity fund and we can discuss what private equity funds in this country do. some create jobs some don't. we need to look harder why women are paid 77 cents on the dollar,

why paycheck fairness protection act is still hanging around in congress, and isn't it just kind of makes sense for our economy to stimulate our economy that women who hold up half the sky get paid close to -- >> there was a big study at price waterhouse cooper not having diversity in the workplace is one of the biggest things holding back the u.s. economy. we did hear the president in the state of the union outline it and everybody is worried about his legacy concerns within his own administration. i wonder why he doesn't jump up and down about this and mag this a signature cause. >> he did. >> he said it. can he make it happen. >> have you checked out congress recently? not a lot is going through there. the paycheck fairness act has passed twice in the house and gridlocked in the senate. as he said i love his line, this

is not a mad man's -- this company, these automaker companies are sort of like the madmen companies. they are changing. to its credit gm has more women on its -- >> has more women on its board. and she has nine men. >> she's elevated more women. >> one interesting part, barra -- we need to learn more about our conversation. gm put out discussion about inequality between barra and her predecessor is flawed because they haven't given her a full detailing. she's the first ceo to be coming in that's not under federal limits any more. she's actually might be in a better position to see more pay because the ceos in the past had federal limits. >> the u.s. government invested in the bail out process in gm and lost $11 billion. i think the bail out was important. it saved 2.6 billion jobs, it

saved the economy money. why should the ceos of any of these -- ford went into bankruptcy wasn't part of the government bail out but why should any of these companies be raking in as much at the ceo level when you accept a bail out. >> because they give a ton of money to politicians. that's why. they are a special interest group that out wins the voters. >> i do think it's important to use her case as one to argue for women across the board earning the same as men, equal pay, not just 77% on the dollar or 69%. >> i would love to see lawmakers that stand against it. somebody is against it, right? >> i think this case, barra's case is not as black and white on the issue because we don't have all the detailing of her salary and compensation but using it as a discussion point to talk more about pay inequality. >> should have it as an industry standard that women make less.

democrats control the senate, who is keeping it from passing. >> men and women. raise the issue of ceo pay because it does contribute to the inequality that's become a defining issue of our time. >> let's take a break. coming up next the relentless winter weather landing another punch this morning with hundreds of thousands without power already. so how is it affecting you and what has the hit -- what has the hit been to the economy all this winter weather. >> remember the horrible hack attack at target. now the silver lining. the retail industry stepping up to keep your information more safe. we'll take you through the proposals and you can see if it's enough. too little too late? maybe. we'll explain.

. welcome back to "new day". let's give you the five things you need to know. another monster winter storm is dropping ice and snow on 32 states impacting 120 million americans from wyoming to maine. four people arrested overnight believed to be connected to the drugs found at the apartment of late actor philip seymour hoffman. police tell cnn they recovered 350 bags that usually contain heroin. the olympic torch is in sochi this morning amid new concerns about specific terror threats to the winter games. now just two days away. this as russian authorities say they killed the suspected mastermind behind deadly bombing in volgograd this past december. in washington today, hearings on a variety of issues facing the irs including the ongoing investigation into claims the agency unfairly targeted certain tax exempt political action groups.

at number five the 12th man will be out in seattle a parade is being held to honor the seahawks days after their super bowl win over the broncos, rumor is there may even be sunshine in seattle. always updating the five things to know. go to cnn.com for the very latest. >> let's get back to our big story. a massive winter storm pounding 120 million people. more than 32 states. let's check in with ted rollins in illinois. where they are suffering a salt shortage. it's happening at the worst possible time. >> reporter: in oak park, illinois they are running out of road salt. there's two problems getting more. three times it's normal the expense and add that to the overtime that the plow drivers are getting and cities are having financial rules to. there's also a problem with actually getting it because supplies are short. what they are doing here and other places is only using salt

on major intersections and mixing it with sand hoping their supplies can last these last five weeks of winter. >> so there, ted, thanks for that. trying to mix salt with sand. in northeast they are running out of sand having to deal with hurricane sandy. we now have to deal with air travel. 3,000 flights in 24 hours have been cancelled thanks to the storm. let's get to renee monitoring the chaos from reagan national airport in washington. >> reporter: at airports across the nation wicked winter weather is putting a real chill on the airline industry. back-to-back storms has led to tens of thousands of cancellations and lots of delays too. in fact, last month was the worst month for cancelations in years. it's costing airlines millions of dollars. passengers billions of dollars. and we're expecting the cancelations to continue to pile up as more winter weather shows up on the radar. >> that situation gets better not worse. right now many new yorkers are

facing half a foot of snow and half an inch of ice. even more dangerous for travel as well as bitter cold temperatures. not a good time for heating bills to skyrocket and they are going to do just that. here's some more on that from jean casarez. >> reporter: in homes across the country the continuing storms and endless cold temperatures means heating costs continue to rise. people are reporting that their bills this year are two times as high as they were last year. and experts say that's because of the increased usage. now combine that with shortages of propane and natural gas even makes this a more dire situation. bottom line, people can expect a big surprise, millions of americans paying more on their next heating bill and significant costs because of the storms and very cold temperatures. >> thanks to jean. we know it's hitting your household budget. what about the american economy overall. the bitter cold and awful conditions are enough to mess with that as well.

christine romans is at the magic wall. >> reporter: this long commend winter is not only dangerous and annoying, it's hurting the economy. your heating bill will be up even if you don't have propane, some of the nation's utility companies says your natural gas heating bill could increase from 11% to 30% if you live in illinois. cold weather hurts the job market. construction is down because of the cold weather. you can't build houses when it's so cold out. you can't go to a job interview if you're snowed in. auto sales could be hurt. january auto sales fell to 1.1 million vehicles. auto sales down already in january. that's probably going to continue. in fact according to the weather business analysis company, lower customer spending, the lost productivity, higher heating bills, all of these things have contributed to a big hit to the u.s. economy. that hit in the neighborhood of

$5 billion in just the first week of january. that's just the first week. so it's got to go higher. don't forget none of this counts any purchases you need to make if your pipes break or shovel breaks. there's economic activity for anybody who is doing overtime or working overtime for storm related stuff but you're going to be paying more this winter guys. >> hitting everybody every where. christine, thank you so much. coming up next, retailers head to capitol hill to explain how they plan to prevent future hack attacks but what is being done right now to protect you when you shop. >> "people" magazine has stunning new details about molestation allegations against woody allen. his adopted son moses is speaking out. does he support his dad or his sister. we'll have that four here. [ male announcer ] this is the cat that drank the milk... [ meows ]

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welcome back to "new day". new information this morning on how hackers were able to steal financial information from tens of millions of americans through major retailers. with new testimony on capitol hill expected today we could learn what's being done to stop future security breaches from happening. cnn joe johns is in washington with much more. what do we expect today? >> reporter: top retail executives are back on capitol hill forced really to answer more questions before congress about these credit card data breaches and the message they've already delivered is not good news for consumers. they say they are getting outsmarted by hackers. this morning we know more than ever before about the scramble

and race against time to stop the massive theft of information that affected nearly a third of u.s. adults. target chief financial officer john mulligan contrite. >> i want to say how deeply sorry we are for the impact this incident has had on our guests your constituents. >> reporter: it began the evening of december 12th when the justice department notified target of suspicious activity involving payment cards used at target store. >> had you had any knowledge at that moment before the department of justice gave you that notification? >> despite the significant investment and multiple layers of detection we had we did not. >> reporter: december 14th target hires an independent team of experts to lead the internal forensic investigation. one day later that team confirms criminals had infiltrated the system by installing malware on target registers. the malware is removed. on the 19th a week after the tip from justice target goes public

with the breach. one fact now confirmed but with no date reference an intruder stole a vendors credentials to get into the system and install the malware. the question now how to prevents this? solutions that came out of the hearing, a chip, a pin and a new rule. first a smart chip on payment cards that keeps personal information safer than on magnetic strips. target plans to have chip technology in place next year. >> more encryption. the credit card information would say encrypted longer and more difficult for hack towers obtain that information. ropp also discussed personal identification numbers. and new rules, better notification standards so you will know much faster when your card is compromised. none of this is foolproof. the chip technology could cost billions and there's fear any new notification standards imposed by congress could quickly become irrelevant after

clever hackers find a way to beat the system again. >> that's the problem we're all facing. joe, thank you so much. >> apologizing now but they have to make sure they tell people sooner next time. >> i agree. >> let's take a break. woody allen has been dodge by molestation allegations for decades. next there are new details and disclosures that paint more of a picture. exclusive details from allen's adopted son. question does he support his father or stand by his sister. find out why this story got a lot more complicated. welcome back. how is everything?

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. welcome back. stunning new details from "people" magazine this morning about the family dynamics surrounding dylan farrow and woody allen. woody allen is facing new allegations that he sexually abused dylan. but now questions are being raised by her brother who is supporting his brother. the piece is rich with reporting. i want to go through it and unpack these things because a lot of this is exclusive and new. give windows into the situation. let's begin at the beginning. it's 20 plus years ago but we never heard from dylan especially in this kind of detail and that's very unusual for a victim but, again, give us the context how it grew out of a very ugly custody allegation. >> many people who think back to the woody allen/mia farrow

split, everybody remembers woody allen being involved with soon yi previn. involved in that split was custody of dylan and the little boy who mia got sole custody of in part because one of the allegations that was made during this split was that dylan had been sexually molested by woody allen. >> i'm looking through this. all right. so as we phase through this the soon yi thing colored perception about woody. it was testified to at the time, it was part of the decision of the court. it's in your piece that they found, you know, ample cause to separate woody from the child. so that's true even though there was no prosecution. >> there's no debating that mia got sole custody. dylan farrow has grown up -- the

judge saw that there was sufficient behavior to grant sole custody, and that judgment was never changed, never further challenged. it remained in place. >> the prosecutor then came out and said i'm not going forward not because i can't. i have probable cause, low standard but i have probable cause the kid is too traumatized. >> one of the people most upset by that decision was woody allen. he felt in a way he was damned by this prosecutor's statement and yet wasn't going to get his day in court or a chance to defend himself. the prosecutor said i could try him because i have enough stuff on him but i won't. >> let's unpack that. i want my day in court to go against your own daughter? >> to prove that he hadn't done -- >> how do you drove you didn't do it? come on, seriously. >> what he tried to do, he had cooperated with investigators for a period of months.

dylan farrow, you know, went through multiple, multiple, multiple interrogations nine different times. she was questioned on her story. and, you know, woody very much feels that there were inconsistencies, that he had grounds to fight. >> to that point in your own piece, just to take one step back the custody judge termed woody's behavior grossly inappropriate, however a panel of yale new haven investigators concluded dylan had not been abused, confused fantasy with reality and may have been affected by a product of parental alienation. that takes us to the newest. moses. one of the other children, 36 years old, a therapist himself, think about how interesting that is in this dynamic. he says it never happened. he says it's all about the parental alienation. he supports his father. true? >> this is true. huge development. obviously everyone took notice this weekend when dylan farrow

wrote an open letter detailing for the first time in her own words coming straight from her what she says she endured from woody allen. this was a bomb shell in and of itself but to now have the brother that she grew up with coming forward and saying she's not telling the truth, i support my father and actually saying some pretty intense stuff about mia farrow, it's really shocking. >> he's a therapist. let's line the twoup. on dylan's side and again this is so horrible to even suggest. look it's going on, coloring perceptions of these people so the truth of it must be analyzed. dylan on her side v-young. they don't usually lie at this age unless corrupted by parentsal alienation. however she's young. she told the babysitter first. unusual. unusual and gives some corroboration to her account. then many years later in college she meets her future husband and

said i have problems with intimacy stemming from this and then to write this letter in this detail. all of these things indicators of people who analyze these situations she has nothing to gain. >> the interesting thing is that even people very, very close to woody will be the first to say they believe that dylan believes what she is saying. they don't think dylan thinks she's lying. so, it's a very nuance situation. even moses feels like dylan very much believes that these are genuine, authentic memories. they, moses, people on woody allen's side feel these memories have been planted, have been manufactured, have been manipulated so dylan believes them to be real. >> even mia farrow said her truth, this is about her truth. you know it's just word choice but still interesting. again moses a family therapist, grew up in the same setting and came to this opposite set of n

conclusions of influence. he still came out on the side of i support my father. >> he's very close to soon yi and his father. >> when the event allegedly happened moses says i was there. we were all in like common rooms. there was no sneaking in the attic. it goes to his recollection. >> he was young himself. they also have dylan and moses wildly divergent accounts of what their childhoods were like. moses said he grew up in abusive household where mia was abusive and punitive and dylan has no recollection. at worse they were sent to their homes. clearly they are on very opposite sides of the spectrum on this. >> look i got this all out of the piece. another big name in here to take into consideration a no joke journalist also gives a lot of credibility dylan's account out of this and what she thinks writing the letter means and

doesn't mean. important read. great to have you here. it's an interest not because of the celebrity component but the behavior towards these children important to investigate. kate? >> coming up on "new day" a good samaritan pulls over for a terrible car wreck and gets a whole lot more. one very wild ride straight ahead. mine was earned in korea in 1953. afghanistan, in 2009. orbiting the moon in 1971. [ male announcer ] once it's earned, usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection. and because usaa's commitment to serve current and former military members and their families is without equal.

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♪ so miserably cold out there. we'll get warmth by contact. one the good stuff and it's a good one. second of all it comes from hawaii where it's warm so double good. here's the story. a woman in hawaii witnessed an suv plow into a concrete barrier in front of her and immediately pulled over to help. take a listen. >> just take a sharp turn left

and sharp turn right into the median. there was a woman hanging half out of the passenger side and she looked pretty bad. blood all over her. >> jennifer jones pulls the woman out of the fiery wreck to safety but that's when the good stuff turns into bad. why was she hanging out of the window. there were two men in the suv as well and the driver was acting kind of shady. >> he just kind of backed away looking at me but went this way and then my brake lights went on and burned rubber and i skreechd off. >> turns out jennifer didn't just respond to the scene of an accident she helped break up a suspected kidnapping. that's the bad stuff. here's more good stuff. the injured victim expected to pull through. the suspect nabbed. and for jennifer's car, the driver jumped into her car, took off. her phone was left in it. they used an app to find it. abandoned less than a mile away. here's the best part. >> it's not going to hinder me

from helping someone again. i won't let their bad behavior change my good behavior. >> i'm not going to let their bad behavior change their good behavior. line of the morning. bad guys still at large. >> spirit of aloha. >> a lot of news for you this morning so to the "newsroom" with miss carol costello. aloha. >> thanks so much. "newsroom" starts now. happening now in the "newsroom" breaking overnight arrests in the death of philip seymour hoffman. police are now questioning them about the drugs found inside philip seymour hoffman's manhattan apartment. >> new details and developments, a bust in this new york city apartment, police laser focus this morning. >> probably going to look at the cctv to see if there was anybody in the background if those transactions were made by hoffman. ro