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. frozen nation. >> i was headed into work and

got stuck twice. from missouri to maine, 120 million in the path of this massive snowstorm. this is not a day opportunity stuck in the snow or stuck with a flat tire and nothing inside to keep you warm. plane stuck in snow bank. interstates becoming ice rink. plus -- >> we are now less than two days away from the opening ceremony. >> sochi stalled. the most expensive olympics ever and this is what we're seeing? camp like bedrooms, bathrooms that don't work, dirty water. >> as far as the hotels yeah, the construction is obviously still going on. >> this from the russian olympic committee. >> we're dealing with it, we're on it. >> and leap of faith. the red hot chili peppers unplugged and giving it away. the band admitting to mi mm i b

minimuming -- m iming during the super bowl. good morning i'm cost. thank you for joining me. for 120 million americans it's deja vu all over again. snow and ice are smothering much of the country stretching from wyoming to maine. since thanksgiving it's the seventh storm to plow across the northeast and new england. turning roads treacherous and sometimes deadly. at least one person died on the pennsylvania turnpike when a tractor-trailer plunged through a barrier into oncoming traffic. 2,000 flights already cancelled today. southwest plane hit a snow bank and bogged down as it was trying to taxi at kansas city international airport. some areas of the state got more than a foot of snow. and today parts of the northeast could also see 12 inches. the boston area as you can see is now getting buried under wet

heavy snow. that snow could pile up at a rate of an inch or two an hour. chad myers is in new york central park. margaret conley is in boston. chad i'll start with you. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol. what's coming down now is exactly the consistency of a snow cone and i mean exactly. sleet pellets coming out of the sky. you would think it just came out of a snow cone machine. earlier today it was raining and it was 31 and this is what was happening all over the city. all of these little ice crystals, all of this coming down here, freezing up on every single surface. this is only the second storm this week. two more are coming next week. from wyoming to maine more than 100 million people are waking up to another round ever snow and ice this morning. >> horrible. horrible. >> reporter: overnight snow beginning to pile up in new england where more than a foot of snow is forecast in some parts. >> it's been crazy.

>> reporter: in the midwest up to 11 inches of snow blanketed parts of kansas. 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 southern michigan as heavy notice fell at the rate of an inch an hour. down south icy roads abound leading to this fatal crash. the temperatures right now are perfect for icy continues. in oklahoma a school bus transporting students had to turn around because the driver feared getting stuck. this is the seventh winter storm battering the midwest and new england since december. 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, carol, people are sick of it. i'm not even saying a little bit sick of it. they are a lot sick of it. they are mad at punxsutawney

phil because he says more is coming and so do i. there's no change in the pattern. here's a look at the radar. we see snow across new york, vermont, new hampshire, some spots in vermont are indicating three inches of snow per hour at times. even out towards the berkshires. we're seeing the frozen. 300,000 people without power in philadelphia. 80,000 around baltimore. there's the snow that's going to come down over a foot in the purple. what we have south of that is the ice event. ice event bringing down power lines, bringing down all of those branches and we'll see power outages here in new york city as well i believe throughout the day as this continues. this is a few more hours of this to go and there's a lot of ice already on the ground. >> it's snowing like mad in boston. i'll take our viewers there. margaret conley is in boston. >> reporter: we're expecting to see one to two inches of snow per hour throughout the day today. if you take a look it's coming down heavy. it's wet.

and it's coming down fast. nationwide it's impacting travel, over 2,000 flights have been cancelled. if you're flying out of boston 45% of flights have been cancelled out of logan. now on the roads the department of transportation they have 200,000 tons of salt ready to tack thl. they have 3,000 snowplows out on the ground already. capacity is 4,000. that gives you some perspective about what they are coping there. they are prepared to deal with the salt. we talked to a lot of people out here walking their dogs. people in boston, some of them are taking it in stride. >> you should be prepared for a lot of snow, a lot of wind. some ice if it drops a little colder. but definitely bundle up. this is wet and heavy. this will stick. this will stick to the roads. all of boston is closed. you got the plows out. put your boots on. lace them up. get out there. >> reporter: now if you do get

out there remember to be very careful. boston's new mayor has declared this a snow emergency. public schools are closed. and after we get through this, carol, we have this storm but just in a few days there will be another one. carol? >> i'm just looking at the dogs playing behind you. they are having a great time. >> reporter: they are loving it out here. they have been out here since 6:00 this morning. >> awesome. thanks so much. a bomb shell from the business world this morning. starting in october you'll no longer be able to buy cigarettes at cvs. the nation's largest pharmacy announced it will stop selling not only cigarettes but all tobacco products. the move is the first-ever by a drugstore chain. the company's ceo explained the decision this morning on cbs. >> we had a lot of discussions among our management team and i think everybody came to, you know, the right decision that, you know, it's a real contradiction to talk about all the things we're doing to help people on their path to better health and at the same time sell

tobacco products. >> christine romans live in new york to talk more about this story. will other chains follow suit? >> reporter: that's a big question because cvs is the first to do it. it's a bold move and something health care officials are hailing this morning. they love this. the white house coming out with a statement specifically naming that ceo and this company saying this is the right thing to do. this morning we bought a pack of smokes at cvs. you can't do that by october 1st. they say it's inconsistent with the goal of this company. they are a company that has nurse practitioners, they have mini minute clinics where they help people get healthy and they don't think they could be selling these products at the same time. the ceo saying put simply the sale of tobacco products is inconsistent with our purpose. they are going to be giving up $2 billion, money out of the pocket for smokers who go there every year to buy cigarettes. the growth of this company is in

health care. it is moving itself away from a traditional retail drugstore own more towards health care and cigarettes not part of that package. >> christine romans reporting live for us from new york. four people now in police custody believed to be connected to the drugs found in philip seymour hoffman's apartment. also today investigators say they found the actor's private journal and they are combing through that journal for clues. this comes as police are releasing more information on the type of heroin that killed hoffman. where he was just hours before he died. nischelle turner is following that angle of the story. good morning. >> reporter: we continue to get more and 0 more information as this story develops. big developments overnight. the nypd raided an apartment in manhattan last night. they executed search warrants and arrested four individuals. police are now questioning them about the drugs found inside philip seymour hoffman's manhattan 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. a law enforcement source says preliminary results show the heroin found in hoffman's apartment was not laced with a strong pain killer. on tuesday'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 recently shared. designee took off his hat and said i'm a heroin addict. >> reporter: he says hoffman made this confession two weeks before his death. during a one on one chat at the sundance film festival. hoffman saying he just got out of rehab. >> he seemed like he was having a one of those coming to god

moments where it struck him as, you know, this is the moment. >> reporter: the night before hoffman died cnn learned he with drew $1,200 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. i mean 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. >> reporter: of course matt

damon starring with him and george clooney starring with him. george clooney echoed what matt damon was saying there. he said he hopes if anything positive, if there is anything that comes out of this positive maybe this can be a teaching moment although george clooney says he doesn't know if there are any great lessons to be learned now that someone so important to him is gone. philip seymour hoffman's representatives have announced, carol, there will be a private funeral service held in new york for the actor's family and close friends and plans for a people ram service will happen later in the month. >> nischelle turner, many thanks. still to come, just days before the winter olympics get under way the suspected mastermind behind those twin bombings in russia is killed by police. phil black live in moscow this morning. hi, phil. >> reporter: yes. security forces in this country say they have killed the leader of a terror group which promised to lodge more devastating

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checking our top stories at 16 minutes past the hour. new report from the united nations is demanding the vatican take action against child abuse. the u.n. is urging the catholic church to remove all suspected aabusers and amend church law so violation of children will be considered a crime. the obama administration the honoring a request from pakistan to cutback on drone strikes as it continues peace talks with the taliban. an official said it agreed to the request but will continue attacks against any senior al qaeda officials and will move to stop any direct threats to the

united states. two-time olympic medalist shawn white is withdrawing from the slopestyle competition. he says he wants to focus on the halfpipe. earlier this week white voiced concerns over the difficulty of the slopestyle course during training runs. white won the gold medal in the halfpipe competition in the 2006 and 2010 games. just days before the start of the winter olympics the suspected mastermind of those deadly bomb attacks in volgograd, russia has been killed in a shoot out with police. the december bombings killed 34 people and left 100 others injured. russian state media says the shoot out happened in northern dagestan during a police raid on a house. phil black is in moscow to tell us more. >> reporter: yes. police here are saying through russian state media they surrounded a house in dagestan. one person surrendered. everyone inside was eventually

killed. including this man who authorities believe was the mastermind of the volgograd attacks. now they say that they are determined to catch all the people involved in this attack. last week they arrested two people who they say were accomplices who transported the suicide bombers from dagestan to volgograd and determined to track down the rest because these people have shown, this particular group it's capable of staging large scale devastating attacks, more than that it has declared its intention to stage mover them. in a video claiming responsibility they said there will be more attacks with lots of people taking part especially during the sochi games. while authorities here insist sochi is secure that all security has got the city in lock down no one can get in without authorities being aware, what this group has shown is they do not need to strike sochi directly in order to score a win, make their point and embarrass the russian government during the games.

while there may be a ring of steel around sochi it's not possible to maintain that same level of security across this vast country so there are many other potentially vulnerable targets. russian authorities say they are still going after these people who are behind these bombings in volgograd a few weeks ago. >> phil black reporting live from moscow this morning. coming up in the "newsroom," security is not the only concern in sochi. what about the hotel rooms. some guests have arrived and are shocked by what they found. we'll talk about that. also a new report on obamacare and it's impact on jobs. has critics of the law pouncing. does the spin get in the way of the facts? the story from washington after the break. ck against a renewed n

obamacare as critics say a new nonpartisan report proves the law will indeed kill jobs. but when you cut through the spin this sal about worker's choice not job cuts. our senior white house correspondent has the story. >> reporter: while president obama was out trying to sell his agenda -- >> we still have more work to do to reach more kids and reach them faster. >> reporter: -- the white house found itself playing defense. >> creating that kind of choice for people is a good thing. >> reporter: a new report by the nonpartisan congressional budget office estimating obamacare will cause americans to leave the workforce, emboldening republican claims that the law is a job killer. >> the cbo report is certainly

not pretty if you're interested in creating jobs in america. >> reporter: the report says americans may choose to work fewer hours or not at all to maintain their eligibility for medicaid or federal subsidies or because they can purchase insurance on the individual market rather than relying on an employer. report says that will cause a reduction in the employer force 2.5 million by 2024. white house officials are calling the cbo's calculations incomplete saying they ignore job growth the health care law will create. >> is there an admission there's winners and losers when you talk about people who want to participate in the workforce. >> by giving you the option of affordable and quality health insurance we're not giving you -- that's not a negative thing. >> reporter: the report finds 1 million fewer people than expected will sign up for obamacare by the end of march.

6 million instead of 7 million initially projected. the white house is touting the cbo's finding the deficit will fall to $514 billion this year. reassuring news to economists. the president's top economist was asked if this projected reduction in the workforce is a net drag on the economy. he wouldn't commit to an answer. he and other white house officials are emphasizing what they feel are positives that the report doesn't include, there would be more productivity, more job mobility and they think more people will strike out on their own as entrepreneurs. let's bring in our senior white house correspondent jim acosta. to be clear the cbo did not say jobs would actually be lost it said workers can choose to work fewer hours to meet obamacare requirements for coverage. you know, i just think many people have already made up their mind about obamacare,

either they like it or they don't like it. >> reporter: that's right. >> so will the president at some point come out and talk about this latest twist? >> reporter: well, i think we're going to have to wait and see. he'll be over at national's park the baseball stadium here in washington with bill clinton later today to address senate democrats at their retreat and this will be all about 2014 mid-term politics, getting the party's agenda on table for the upcoming mid-term election. i imagine obamacare will come up. remember last week at the state of the union speech one of the big lines of applause among democrats up on capitol hill when the president was delivering those remarks was a stout defense of obamacare. democrats really rallied around the president, rallied around the white house yesterday when the cbo report came out to basically make sure people understood what the cbo was saying that people as a result of these subsidies may decide to work less over the next ten years and that cumulative effect adds up to 2.5 million jobs.

no doubt about it. any time you have the word obamacare and jobs out in a government report and that gets injected into the political blood stream you'll get a lot of people up on capitol hill talking about this. in a half hour now the budget guru at the chronical budget office will be pressed on these details and that thing that breanna was men shopping about the head of the council of economic advice jobs the fact he couldn't answer the question as to what happens when you pull the equivalent of 2.5 million people out of the workforce over the next ten years that can't be a good net effect on the economy. he did not answer that question and i think douglas that will be one of the key questions to him. >> jim acosta live from the white house this morning. thank you. still to come in the "newsroom" a second day of apologies and answers on capitol hill, executives from target and neiman marcus looking at day two of tough questions from

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good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. we're looking at a flat pop on wall street today after a bitterly cold january put a slight freeze on hiring last month. a new report from payroll processor adp shows 175,000 private sector jobs were added last month. that's fewer than most economists had estimated. but the one to watch really is the report from the labor department and we'll get a read on that on friday. two u.s. retailers are moment away from a second day of scrutiny on capitol hill over massive cyber hack attacks that hit their shoppers at the height of the holiday spending season. john mulligan and michael kingston are set to take more questions about how the hack started and offer solutions to keep such hacks from happening again. joe johns has been following that story for us. tell us more, joe. >> reporter: well, these two people were on capitol hill just

yesterday. they will be back on capitol hill today. more questions. there's a lot of talk about legislation on the hill to try to reduce fraud. so, we'll see what comes of it. also expecting to hear from the illinois attorney general lisa madigan who is a number of attorneys general from around the country who is doing an investigation into the very same thing that the secret service is looking into specifically those reports of fraud using payment cards, carol. >> the most, one of the most interesting things that came out of the hearings yesterday was this idea that target would put chips into its credit cards. tell us more about that and why, if other retailers might follow. >> reporter: right. chip and pin technology is a technology that has been around a long time. the idea is to try to keep personal information private or to at least make it a little bit harder for individuals to break

in. so, this has been going on in the uk for a number of years. it's just a little bit surprising that the united states is still using magnetic stripe information. the problem, of course, is that it's so expensive. target has vowed to try to put this technology in place by sometime next year and it's just going to cost them about $100 million, estimates range around $5.5 billion for the banks and the retailers to do it here in the united states. and their powerful lobbying interest is sort of fighting each other over who is more culpable and at the end of the day who will bear the cost if they go ahead and do it. >> joe johns we'll check back. still to come the olympic torch arrives the games begin tomorrow but is sochi really ready ivan watson? >> reporter: well, the

journalists have started arriving and many of them are saying the water doesn't work, the toilets don't work, the rooms aren't ready. our own cnn sports team tried to move in and their rooms weren't furrished. it doesn't look too good. i'll have more after the break. it says here that a woman's sex drive

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well, if all the venues are ready. the olympic torch got to sochi today. many journalists had already arrived and their accommodations are less than ideal. take a look. stacy sinclair tweeted water restored sort of. on the bright side i now know what very dangerous face water looks like. the hotel front desk had warned her the water was too dangerous to wash her face. greg tweeted, people asked me what surprised me the most here

in sochi. it's this without question. the sign reads please do not flush toilet paper down the toilet. put it in the bin provided. steven shows us one room where members of the canadian hockey team are staying. talk about tight quarters. and danger outside, joann says watch your step. ice on sidewalk and steps, not all man holes are always covered. cnn ivan watson joins us from sochi. tell us your experience. >> reporter: well, we definitely seen the scale of the construction here is so big the russians so proud and excited to show their stuff off but there are definitely some growing pains and they are certainly not entirely ready at these hotels for the journalists. let's hope they are more ready for the athletes and tourists spending big bucks to get here. >> ladies and gentlemen, let me

make it clear that 126th session of the international olympic committee opened. thank you. [ applause ] >> 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 to cover the games many discover their accommodations are not yet ready. that includes members of our own cnn sports team. who also found unfinished construction in sochi's olympic park. russia's organizing committee insists 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 as sochi snow specialist says he has enough snow machines to compensate for warm weather. >> first of all, don't worry about the snow. snow will be guaranteed. >> reporter: some of the olympic athletes are impressed. >> this is my first olympics so for me this is absolutely incredible, went above and beyond my expectations of what an olympic village would be. >> reporter: as for the lingering question of security there's a reason why they call it ring of steel. tens of thousands of russian security forces have been deployed to protect these olympic games. and, carol, you know, it's not just a bunch of complaining, whining reporters whose rooms aren't quite up to speed, even the residents of this black sea resort city none of them know how to get around. all the highways, all the trains, all the infrastructure is so new it's been blocked off until the last couple of days, last couple of weeks that even

people born and raised here are having to learn their city all over again. >> with so much controversy coming out of sochi. one terrible story we heard about is the way russians are doing away with stray dogs in the city. >> reporter: yeah. this is pretty uncomfortable. i started getting messages from basically animal rights activists, animal lovers sounding the alarm over the course of the last week and i've spoken now probably to a dozen people, russians here in sochi who are accusing their government and a company that was contracted by the city government of basically trying to exterminate the large population of street dogs living on the streets of sochi and the suburbs and in the olympic parks here. and what's worse is they are saying it's the way that the dogs are also being killed with poison and we've seen very disturbing video and

photographic evidence that in some cases the dogs, when they eat this poison that's put in food, for example, it forces them into seizures, pain, they are in shock and it goes on for hours. now the animal rights activists say this has been a practice in sochi and other cities around russia for years but they allege that this has picked up in the final weeks before the opening of the olympics. this has really put the city officials, the olympic organizing committee in hot water. they had to put out a statement this week saying we're sending out professional veterinarians to check the dogs, make sure they are healthy, make sure they can't hurt visitors or themselves and we're releasing them this week. the city government said they opened up a new shelter. russian citizens are taking matters into their own hands. some have made their own shelter. they built it themselves, a kennel. feeding the dogs, sterilizing them themselves.

another man we spoke with actually drove more than 1,000 miles from moscow, picked up a vanful of dogs and evacuated them and that is kind of yet another controversy to an olympics ladened with lots of public relations problems. carol? >> ivan watson reporting live from sochi, russia this morning. thanks so much. still to come in the "newsroom" closing the wage gap. american want the government to do something about frontal boundary of rising income inequality. but what's the solution? we'll have a conversation about that just ahead. that's why newk has a new plan -- dozens of tax free zones all across the state. move here, expand here, or start a new business here and pay no taxes for ten years... we're new york. if there's something that creates more jobs, and grows more businesses...

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call 1-888-xarelto or visit goxarelto.com. dangerous and a threat to the middle class that's how president obama describes income inequality an issue he has vowed to tackle in his second term. at a new cnn/orc poll a majority of americans think it's time for washington to step up. 66% says the government should work to reduce the gap between the rich and poor. for younger americans the challenge is big with sky-high college costs and paychecks that don't go as far as they had for previous generations. in an op-ed i wrote about that for cnn.com. quote, an article in the "new york times" on september 18, 1987, reported the average wage for an auto maker was $13.50 an hour. in today's dollars that's $28.47. more than two decades later

thanks to the 2008 recession and the erosion of union power, entry-level unionized auto workers were paid between $14 and $17 an hour while veteran workers earned between $28 and $38 an hour, the same as they earned back in 1987. welcome to both of you. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> it kind of irritates me when successful wealthy americans say they worked hard to get where they are and don't acknowledge they grew up in a much healthier economy. it's intimating if you can't make it up the ladder you got to be lazy. >> i did read your excellent piece on cnn.com own i'll say this i agree with some of it but not all it. one of the points you made there's a lot of luck involved in being successful and that's true. i wanted to be a professional basketball player. but i'm only 5'11" and that's

not fair. there's a lot of luck in life. but there's an old saying that luck is where preparation meets hard work and i think had you the american dream is alive and well. people who do work hard and do the right things and wait to have kids until they are married, stay in school, don't do drugs, you have a high probability of not being in poverty if you do those things and may be really successful and the next bill gates. >> i grew up in the times in the '80s when college costs were nowhere near as expensive as they are now. my father was able to get a job? the steel mill and make a decent wage. i was lucky enough to grow up in that time and lucky enough to make it. that's what i was trying to say, mark. >> that's exactly right. that kind of luck, you can't play. you have a better chance of

making the nba than being the next bill gates. even if you work hard every day, the months still last longer than your money. it has to do with the labor market that doesn't afford hard work for everyday people. if you are at the top, your hard work is rewarded. your hard work is expanded. if you are at the bottom of the social ladder, it is not wechlt ha . we have to reimagine tax policy. so people will be rewarded the way wealthy people are. >> a new cnn poll shows that most americans think that republican parties favor the wage. republicans are against the minimum wage going up. democrats are for it. what's going to happen in light of the way that most people feel whether they are democrat or

republican? >> look, i consider myself a republican most of the time. i don't feel like the policies that i espouse are to benefit the rich. what i want and i think most americans want are policies that try to make everyone richer. i think that the problem with many of the democrats that i deal with in washington is that they think the goal is to make the rich poorer, not to make the poor richer. on this issue of minimum wage, we are going to have a big debate in the months ahead. i am very strongly against raising the minimum wage for this reason, carol. my first job and i'll bet your first job was working for the minimum wage. i'll let you know how old i was. i was earning $2.15 an hour. that was one of the most important jobs i ever had. you learn work skills and to show up for work on time, how to run a cash register. my worry is that if you raise the minimum wage and you eliminate some of those starter jobs, then you don't get the second job and third job and fourth job.

one other quick tip. you want to raise the incomes of people, get rid of obama care, the ceo just showed yesterday. we are creating a part-time nation. >> here is the problem. we tend to infan talize poor people. i was 14 years old and i worked as hard as i could for a crap job. there are people who are 28 and 35 in this labor market who are still taking the first jobs. this isn't some 16-year-old kid in the suburb. this is a grown person trying to make ends meet. they can't. we have these same policies and wages. we need to raise the minimum and living wages so that people can pay their bills. if we raise it too much, we make it hard to keep small businesses open. we make it hard to support the economy. there is a sweet spot where we can raise minimum wages so they can pay bills and reinvest in the economy because they will be spending more without compromising or crippling the

big cup companies. i don't think we need to keep poor people's wages low so they can learn about hard work. >> the manufacturing jobs don't exist or pay as well. if you have a high school education, you are kind of stuck. >> i disagree with you, carol. i wrote a piece in the "wall street journal" this weekend about what's happening in michigan outside of detroit where there is a real economic revival going on. it is being led by manufacturing. we have a manufacturing renaissance going on in this country. what's interesting is that it is less and less unionized. i disagreed with your statement that unions are what created these industries. i would make the case in the steel and auto industry and other industries, unions destroyed those industries. they are coming back nonunionized in states like tennessee and texas and florida. >> i don't agree with everything the unions did. some of the things they did were harmful. i am saying that unions

certainly made wages go up. i will pose this question to you. if you are working at a low wage job at a nonunion shop, who is going to fight for you to raise wages? at the present time, nobody, right? >> that's right. you become more expendable, disposable. your labor is getting deskilled. they don't have to pay you as much. when you fight or push back, they get rid of you. big box retailers take over the mom and pop shops. when we see auto industries coming back and teaching forces coming back deunionized, we see workers working for longer hours for less money with less safe conditions and less insin testify to state and more to stay quiet and be exploited. unions aren't perfect. no one is perfect but one thing that is supremely imperfect is unregulated, deregulated capitalism. when that happens at this moment, we all are compromised.

>> steven moore, mark lamont hill, thanks so much for being here. >> if you want to read more about this topic, check out my op ed on cnn.com. it's entitled. success takes hard work plus luck. we're back in a minute.

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happening now, in the "newsroom," a major mess from missouri all the way to the atlantic ocean. as much as a foot of heavy snow expected in some places. monday, before his first olympic event begins, shaun white says no to slope style. the american snowboarder changing his olympic plans. heroin in america, are we fighting the wrong war on drugs. they want to move away from pot and focus on heroin.

why does it take a famous actor's death to bring heroin to the forefront anyway? >> big tobacco has a new problem. one of the biggest pharmacies in america says cigarettes will no longer be sold at their stores. cvs is kicking the habit for good. "newsroom" starts now. good morning. i'm carol costello. thanks so much for joining me. for 120 million americans, it is deja vu all over again. since thanksgiving, this is the seventh storm to plow across the northeast and new england. boston, facing up to a foot of cold, wet snow. look at what it can loos like there now. the dogs are having fun. the schools are closed and the roads are treacherous. at least one person died on the pennsylvania turnpike when a tractor-trailer plunged through hebertier and into oncoming traffic. some 420,000 homes and businesses are without power. 2100 flights are already

canceled today. that number is sure to grow as the snow continues to pile up. we learned that the snow has left two delta commuter planes stuck on the taxi way at detroit's metro airport. one left the runway. the other clipped a snowbank with its wing, similar to what happened here. the engine of this southwest plane hit a snowbank and bogged down as the plane was trying to taxi at kansas city international airport. let's get the latest on this developing story. chad myers is in new york central park where they are going to get walloped again. it is getting better here. it is still very cold. i had one ironic little thing happen about ten minutes ago. nypd came up, knocked on our truck and said, can we borrow your shovel. i went, really? we have to dig out one of our cars. that is heavy stuff. i mean, literally, one scoop, that's at least 15 pounds of slop right there. that's the problem.

we had snow overnight that changed to sleet and then it changed to rain. now, it is 32 degrees and raining. so everything is getting heavier and heavier and heavier. it is not going to get a lot better tonight because it is going to go back down below 32 and all of this is going to freeze to one big ice chunk. here is what the radar looks like right now. it is snowing all the way from new england all the way back to buffalo. it is snowing farther west than that. all the way back into detroit. obviously, those two plains. back into windsor seeing some snow and then the pink. the pink is the frozen, either sleet, rain, freezing rain or something all mixed together. sleet is like a hail pellet. hail goes up and freezes into the sky. sleet falls and freezes on the way down. that's the difference between highly and sleet. although they are both very slippery if you get enough. down to the south of there, all rain. to the north, up toward boston, that's where the snow is still heavy, the berkshires, still heavy. from connecticut and off into the cape, still heavy snow

coming down right now. in some spots, a total accumulation map will pick up 1 foot of snow. the next map is farther to the south. it is the ice issue. at least .75 of an inch of ice in some spots. last i heard, almost 1/2 million people without power from maryland to new york and new jersey, because of the power lines being weighed down by the ice. the ice has been falling all night long. it is getting heavy. the trees are getting heavy. it wants to bring the power lines down. it is going to take some time to get the power lines back up, carol. >> chad meyers, many thanks. we were hoping to go to ted rowlands but as a sign of how nasty the weather is, he is bogged down in a nightmare morning commute. here is ted's report on the brutal winter.

>> reporter: out of business because of a broken water pipe. >> the water just all over the place. >> reporter: it is hard to imagine anyone more upset than this winter than the owner of rosal's italian cocina in chicago's little italy. >> he was literally crying when i spoke to him on the phone. the harsh unrelenting snow and freezing temperatures have forced cities across the country to shell out thousands in overtime pay to plow streets. now, many areas are running low on road salt forcing crews to cut back or pay three times the regular price for the other white stuff now in short supply. >> prices have skyrocketed because of the lack of supply. >> several industries are feeling the effect of this winter. airlines have lost an estimated quarter of a billion dollars according to analysts, poor auto

sales along with retail sales are being blamed. even restaurants without broken water pipes are getting hit. at giromena in chicago's greek town, says his business goes way down during heavy snow or freezing cold. >> i might say about a 40 pir% decrease in my carry-out sales and we deliver so an increase overall of 25%. >> reporter: consumers are also feeling the effects. >> you hit the pothole and the wheat bottoms out and you get a nice dent in the wheel like that. >> reporter: business at ashland tire and auto has never been better. >> good for you guys but we feel bad for some of the customers. >> absolutely, customers are humans too. >> they are expected to be closed for at least another month because of water damage.

meanwhile, we all have still at least another month of winter. >> and we'll check in with ted in chicago when he gets to our truck, because he is still stuck in traffic. cvs isic can kicking the h. they have announced they are ditching tobacco sales. starting in october, customers will no longer be able to buy cigarettes, chewing tobacco or any product that contains tobacco. the company's ceo explained his decision on cvs. >> we had a lot of discussions among our management team and everybody came to the right decision that it is a real contradiction to talk about all the things that we are doing to help people on their path to better health and at the same time sell tobacco products. >> christine romans, live in new york with more on this story. the question is, will other stores follow low suit? >> he is saying this product is inconsistent with what they are trying to do, to sell health

care products to their customers? >> this is worth $2 billion. they are walking away from $2 billion every year. they could do lucrative deals with hospitals and other health care companies as they team up to have these miniclinics in their cvs pharmacies to do blood pressure and blood sugar monitoring and weight monitoring and wellness is a big market. this is cvs that is going full bore on the wellness part and stepping away from the tobacco part of it. it is getting the attention of health care experts an the first lady of the united states, she just tweeted thanks at cvs extra. now, we can all breath a little easier and our families a little healthier. a statement from the white house, way to go, cvs. that from the president of the united states, a former smoker. >> giving up the $2 billion a

year in sales, how smart is that? well, wellness is where things are going. look, carol, in 1965, 42% of americans smoked. it was really common. today, it is 19% and it is pretty static there at 19%. 1 in 5 americans smoke. the growth for companies like cvs is not in tobacco, carol. >> christine romans, reporting live from new york, thanks so much. >> you're welcome. still to come, the battle over obama care rages on. this time, critics say they have proof the law kills jobs. cnn looked at the report and found otherwise. the details straight ahead. sorr. did you run into traffic? no, just had to stop by the house to grab a few things. you stopped by the house? uh-huh. yea. alright, whenever you get your stuff, run upstairs, get cleaned up for dinner. you leave the house in good shape? yea. yea, of course. ♪ [ sportscaster talking on tv ] last-second field go-- yea, sure ya did. [ male announcer ] introducing at&t digital life. personalized home security and automation. get professionally monitored security

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checking our top stories at 11 ments past the hour. the navy is investigating whether sailors cheated on tests in using nuclear reactors in 2010. this is the third time in three weeks the military has addressed charges of cheating on exams. >> bill nye, the science guy went head to head with creationist, ken ham, in a public debate on evolution. that was at the creation museum in kentucky. ham believes in the literal interpretation of the bible, including stories about noah's arc and nye took him on. >> it is important to take the bible as a whole, interpreting scripture for scripture. if it really is the word of god, there is not going to be any contradiction, which there is not. >> it sounds to me that there are certain parts of this document, the bible, that you embrace literally and other parts you consider poetry. >> well, it is online if you

want to see more. a recent survey shows one-third of americans don't believe in evolution. 60% do believe in science. george zimmerman is busy preparing for a celebrity boxing match. his opponent will be rapper, dmx. he said he received e-mails from people ask to face the ring with zimmerman. in washington, a new cbo report on the impact of obama care is a hot political topic. republicans pounced on it as part of their pushback on the new law. obama care will actually give more people the freedom to change jobs or reduce the hours they work without losing their health coverage. republicans say it is going to cost america 2 million jobs. joining me now is cnn political director, mark preston. pars this out for us, mark. >> it is very confusing. in many ways, that is good for

both political parties. the republicans are trying to seize upon this and say, this is exactly why they didn't want to see obama care put into place. this is going to create massive job losses. we are seeing the white house and democrats push back as well. that is a misinterpretation of what they are saying. they might be able to reduce their hours. people might not have to work. they might have to retire to have health care. this is a very confusing issue. it is something we will be talking about throughout the day and trying to explain it to our viewers. bottom line, a political hot topic. we know the republican party has said this will be their number one issue heading into november. another stage in the political fight. >> another big 2014 issue, income inequality. a new poll shows 66% of

americans say the government should work to reduce the income gap between the rich and the poor. when asked about how democrat and republican policies affect the rich and poor. a majority say republican policies favor the rich, compared to 30% who say the same for democrats. on the surface, this appears to be bad news for the gop but, as with everything, it is not that simple, is it? >> it is not that simple, specially when we talk about the mid-term elections. when we talk on a national level, it is good for the democratic party. we don't talk about winning elections on a national level. we talk about it by congressional district or by state. if you are to look at the map heading into 2014, it is not very favorable for democrats. they are on the verge of losing the u.s. senate right now. republicans need a pickup of six seats. in the south, democrats don't do very well as well as throughout the midwest. in the house of representatives, pretty much a lost cause for the democrats to take back.

they would need to win 18 seats. when you talk about this issue and you look at the seats they would need to win, it is not something that is going to play very well. that's why we are seeing bill clinton and barack obama meeting with senate democrats today talking election strategy and trying to figure out, how do they hold on to the senate and try to take back the house? >> thanks for your insight. we appreciate it. still to come, olympic champion, shaun white, pulls out of an event at the sochi games. why the move, joe cartter? >> well, he has pulled out of the slope style event because he says it is too intimidating. he has made millions of dollars in extreme sports but thinks this olympic course is just too dangerous. we are going to talk about it after the break. i'm nathan and i quit smoking with chantix. when my son was born, i remember, you know, picking him up and holding him against me. it wasn't just about me anymore. i had to quit. [ male announcer ] along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke.

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just days before the start of the winter olympics, the suspected mastermind of the bombings in russia has been killed. they say the shootout happened in northern dagestan during a police raid on a house. the u.s. counter terrorism chief says officials are tracking specific threats linked to sochi. they have varying degrees of credibility. c-17 aircraft with medical personnel on board will be ready to fly in if needed to evacuate americans. the olympic flame arrived in sochi a short time ago. opening ceremony set for friday. events get underway tomorrow in

figure skating, freestyle skiing and snowboarding. shaun white is one of the most popular american athletes at the sochi games. fans have been concerned about reports of a wrist injury. he put those fears to rest in a news conference today. >> i'm feeling healthy i think it was blown out of proportion a little bit about my wrist the other day. i definitely jammed it but in snowboarding you get bumps and bruises. it was the ankle, the shoulder. they kind of come and go, which is nice. it wasn't something serious. >> he is going to pull out of one event. >> he is pulling out of the slope style event. >> he is only competing in half-pipe and slope style. this is a brand new event, a very big event in "x" games. an event that shaun white in the early 2000s owned. you get points based on big tricks, big airs. the course is filled with rails, quarter pipes and intimidating

jumps. the reason he jammed his wrist is because he crashed during a practice run on tuesday. this particular course is not just white. we had a snowboarder from norway broke his collarbone. another from finland was taken off on a stretcher. a top rider from canada called the jumps on this course obnoxiously tall. officials say they are currently modifying the course to make it much safer. shaun white, the potential risk for injury was too much for him. his decision to withdraw from the event, clearly difficult. he knows how much effort was put into putting together this first time event. with this comes some backlash. some of his competitors hammering shaun white for pulling out one day before the event is supposed to start tomorrow. sebastian toutant is going to compete. he said, it is easy to pull out when you think you can't win.

max parrot said, shaean knows h won't be able to compete. he is going to try to be the first american male to win a gold medal. this does not have an alternate rider. the americans will only have three riders instead of four. officials concerned about the crashes and injuries. some have said that they have overcompensated for the temperatures. they have added too much snow, because they thought the temperatures would be warmer and the snow is not melts as fast as they were expecting is. >>. joe carter, thanks, many thanks to you. four people in police custody believe to have been connected with the drugs found in philip seymour hoffmann's apartment. we'll have a report next. what super poligrip does for me is it keeps the food out.

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good morning. i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. new york's governor has declared a state of emergency as another gigantic winter storm pounds the state with snow and ice. in philadelphia, nearly a third of the city's population is without power due to this latest winter storm. officials expect that number to grows athe storm continues.

snow and ice on much of the country stretching from wyoming to maine. it is the seventh storm to push through the northeast. today, parts of the northeast could see 12 inches of snow. the boston area is getting buried under a pile of wet, heavy snow. it could stack up at the rate of an inch or two an hour. in philadelphia, as i said, nearly 500,000 people are without power due to the storm. officials expect that number to grows at grow as the storm continues to push through the country. a new report from the united nations is demanding the vatican take action against child abuse. they are urging the catholic church to remove all suspected abuseers and amend church law so the violation of children will be considered a crime. the number of u.s. drone strikes in pakistan is dropping. "the washington post" is out with a controversial reason why. they claim the pakistani government asked the u.s. to stop the strikes while officials

pursued peace talks with the taliban. today, white house officials tell cnn that is absolutely not true. jim acosta is live at the white house with the story. >> reporter: good morning, carol. there is no question there has been a reduction in drone strikes used in pakistan since last december and that washington post article that you mentioned, carol, suggests that one of the reasons might be or that is, is because the pakistani government has gone to the white house and said, we would like to see that use of drone strikes reduced as the pakistani government starts to meet with the taliban for peace talks. the white house is saying, that is just not the case. a senior administration official told me earlier this morning, it is not because of these ongoing peace talks that are going on between the pakistani government and the pakistani taliban. a senior administration official said to me earlier this morning, the issue of whether to negotiate with the pakistani taliban is entirely an internal

matter. we are continuing to aggressively disrupt threats in the theater in line with our legal and policy standards. this remains our policy. reports that we have agreed to a different approach in support of pakistani pie pakistani peace talks are wrong they are going to continue. these drone strikes have also garnered some criticism even inside of pakistan. the pakistani government has said that this may result in an uptick in terrorism. it may result in more militantism in pakistan. even malala usasi who came to meet with the president and first lady. she met with the president and said these drone strikes may be created more terrorists than killing. this tips to be an issue you for the white house, but not because

of these peace talks, carol. . >> four people now in police custody believed to be connected to the drugs found in philip seymour hoffman's apartment. today, they say they found the actor's private journal and are combing through that journal for clues. this comes as police are releasing more information on the type of heroin that killed hoffmann and on where he was just hours before he died. cnn's anischelle turner has mor from new york. >> there are a lot of developments that are happening overnight. like you said, police arrested three men and a woman in i anew york apartment building who they believe are connected to the drugs found in philip seymour hoffman's apartment. during this raid, mr. is say they recovered 350 glass and bags. these bags were thought to have heroin in them. we do have some new details emerging about philip seymour hoffman's death. apparently, it was because of a heroin overdose. a law enforcement source tells

cnn that preliminary results show the heroin found in his apartment was not laced with the painkiller, fen continueily. his former partner, mimi o'donnell, told hoffmann he was going to have to move out of her apartment into another apartment with the city not with the children when she discovered he was abusing drugs. she said this was an ongoing battle he had been having. again, carol, you talk about this journal. police will be looking for if there were any entries made connected to the purchase of drugs or what he was doing or even just personal accounts of people he had come in contact with, because there was this surveillance video of him at the atm taking money out. a witness told police they saw him there talking to two men with messenger bags. they want to find out who these

people are and if they have any connection to the drugs or to being with him at the time or any information connected to his death. >> cnn's nischelle turner. what's behind the rise of heroin use in america? we'll talk about that next.

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we just told you about this morning's arrest in the investigation into the death of philip seymour hoffman. four people now in police custody, believed to be linked to the drugs found in hoffmann's apartment. a good thing. if you step back and take a look at the bigger picture, we are losing the war on drugs, because some say we are fighting the wrong fight. at a house hearing in washington on marijuana, congressman, steve cohen, a democrat from tennessee, says it is time to stop fighting marijuana use and start fighting where it really

matters. >> it is ludicrous, absurd, crazy, to have marijuana in the same level as heroin. ask the late philip seymour hoffman if you could. nobody dies from marijuana. people die in heroin. every second that we spend in this country trying to enforce ha marijuana laws is a second we are not enforcing heroin laws. heroin and meth are the two drugs that are ravaging our country. every death, including mr. hoffmanns, is partly the responsibility of the federal government's drug priorities. >> joining me now to talk about this, eric snyder, a professor of history at the university of pennsylvania and author of the book "smack, heroin and the america city."

also with us, kathleen rice, the district attorney for nassau county, new york. welcome to both of you. >> kathleen, i want to start with you. is congressman cohen right? >> addiction is addiction. what i've seen in the eight years that i have been the district attorney of this county is an enormous increase in heroin addiction but you have to remember that people don't just start with heroin. they start with alcohol, with marijuana, with prescription drugs. what we have to do is put more resources toward the treatment of this disease. people want to look at someone who is a heroin addict versus someone who is an alcoholic and say, i can judge that heroin addict. i would never do heroin. but we have to change the conversation and say this can happen in any family. it is happening in families across this country in communities across this country. we need to put more resources toward the treatment of this disease. be willing to call it what it

is, which is a disease, whether you are talking about an addiction to marijuana or heroin. >> eric, cnn's poppy harlow is working on a story with heroin abuse on long island. she talked to a number of parents who have lost children to heroin. they are awningry it took phili seymour hoffman's death who lie lig highlight the problem we are having in this country with heroin. >> the fact is that historically, since world war ii, the majority of the population that has used heroin has shifted from black to white. ironically, it is only when white people are affected by the drug that people seem to get excited about it. it is true that hoffmann's death has really highlighted the increase in heroin use. although it is important to

context you'llize that and realize one of the reasons people are using heroin is because they have come habit tu waited to pharmaceutical drugs and have discovered that street heroin is cheaper than trying to box oxycontin. >> that's certainly the case on long island where a hit of heroin costs, what, $10? >> there is no question that heroin is easier to get, much cheaper and these days much more potent. we are seeing an increase, as a country, the number one public health crisis and public safety issue is prescription drug abuse. there is no question about it. more americans are on prescription drugs than ever before in our country's history. new york just passed a law last year called i-stop, that's going to, in real time, be able to monitor the prescriptions written for oxycodone and other opiate drugs that are so

powerfully addictive and the pharmacists that give them out. we are seeing a decrease in pharmaceutical overdose and an increase in heroin overdose. what the death of philip seymour hoffman shows in my opinion, is that this addiction crosses all socioeconomic, gender, race-based characteristics. there is no question about it that more people across the board are getting addicted to drugs like heroin. what we see is that now that it is going to be harder for people to get prescription drugs. they are turning to heroin. they are both opiate-based drugs that perform the same high, that offer the same high. they are easier to get and it is cheaper. >> eric, let me pose this question. kathleen is talking a lot about the treatment of addicts, which is very important, obviously. police have made four arrests in the case surrounding philip seymour hoffman. will it matter, these arrests?

>> i don't really think so. this is really not an enforcement issue. it is a public health issue. i would disagree with those who argue that marijuana, for example, is a gateway drug. we certainly have to pay attention to drug users and i believe in harm reduction, so that those who are addicted to the drug should be able to use it in a safe manner, with clean needles. that's something we have done a pretty good job with in the united states. but we haven't gone far enough. >> kathleen, would you agree with that? >> new york city has a clean needle program, one way of trying to address the issue. to me, what we are ignoring here is that addiction is addiction.

we see kids trying drugs, whether it is alcohol, marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, in increasing numbers at younger ages. everyone knows the power of the addiction of heroin. what we need to do is really bring these kind of addictions out from the shadows and stop talking about these addictions happening in other communities and in other families and recognize the fact that people who are addicted have a disease. now, there is no question that offices like mine, we do strict enforcement. we try to arrest as many dealers as possible. there is a deterrent effect there that is powerful. it is not a panacea for this problem. it is one aspect of addressing this epidemic. we have to be willing to say, hey, look. these addictions exist in families in every single community across this country. when are we going to put our

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the musicians not even plugged in. the band admitting they were miamiing. brian stelter is in new york. thanks for coming in to do it with me. >> scandal? >> i guess it is not really a

scandal these days. people expect every group that's playing music to be faking it, which is a sad statement. >> it is true not just for the super bowl and people think that when snl has musicians on as well. i give a lot of credit for coming out and explaining. they wrote this great long post where they decided to perform and the nfl wouldn't let them perform live. you have to give them props for explaining themselves. >> they did. i am going to read the blog from the group's baseist. when we were asked to play our song "given it away," it was made clear to us that the vocals would be live but the base, drums and guitar would be rerecorded. the nfl does not want to risk their show being botched by bad sound period. it takes so long to set things up, the nfl didn't have the time. they only have so much time for

a half time show. >> they basically compared it to a music video. at least he was sing live and bruno mars was isinging live. bruno mars also had a prerecorded backtrack. bruce springsteen five yearsing a, the east street band was prerecorded. i'm glad they didn't try to fake it by plugging in the guitars and pretending to do it. there was photo evidence that showed us they weren't plugged in. the chili peppers have taken a strong stance against miamiing and even mocking it during rehearsals for a british tv show during the 1980s. they went on stage and used shoes as guitars to show people they were really miamiing. it was kind of sad to see. there it is. you soo he that. they kind of said to people, we know we are faking it and we want you to know it for sure. >> they did at least end their blog post by saying, hey, we are going to continue to play live for people that come and pay for

our performances. they promised, if you come to see us live, we will be playing live. >> brian, thanks for the conversation. thanks for joining me. i'm carol costello. league "legal view" with ashleigh banfield starts now. it's the four-letter word when you are flying from central kansas to central park, snow, snow, and more snow. it is everywhere. hundreds of thousands of people right now are without power. here is the worst part. it is going to get worse before it gets better with another foot or more piling up from new york to maine. also, this hour, the nation's biggest drugstore chain says, no more smokes for sale. cvs is stripping all cigarette and tobacco products off of its store shelves. the hunt for the dealer who sold philip seymour hoffman the