maybe that's a bow tie. no, that's a woo the. >> reporter: does this look like bow tie to you? one thing they're no not making mcdonald's into is the shape of a snake. >> turn night a bow tie. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> somehow i don't feel much better. "ac 360" starts right now. good evening. we begin tonight with break news about the latest potential threat to the winter olympic games involving explosives in toothpaste tubes. new information namely that the concerns are specifically linked to the start of competition now just a few hours away. the usual qualifiers apply about still evaluating the threat's credibility. but it's clear official washington is not taking this lightly. >> i would just say this is the type of threat, though, that we're very concerned about. americans should take it very seriously. the airlines should take it seriously. obviously the people at the olympics should take it

seriously. >> that was congressman peter king talking to wolf blitzer. nick paton walsh is standing by in sochi. we want to start with evan perez working his sources in washington. evan, sources revealing a potential threat. they believe it's credible. they're taking it seriously. what else do you know? >> reporter: anderson, this is a threat that they think is particularly focused on flights that are coming from european countries and other neighboring countries into russia. we know that that is a specific worry that they have right now among u.s. officials in the intelligence community and homeland security officials. it's very unusual to issue an alert like this like they did today to the airlines. so it tells you they're taking this very seriously. they don't want to take any chances there's something they could have missed. >> despite the threats, though, u.s. officials do they still believe it's safe to travel to the olympics? >> reporter: well, they do. just today i talked to people who had gotten some briefings. they said that they have increased confidence that the russians have done a good job securing the olympic village,

sochi itself. they think that the russians have dedicated enough resources to make sure people who are inside the so-called ring of steel are going to be safe. the question is about people getting to sochi from outside of russia, people who are going to be traveling from turkey, for instance, and from neighboring countries. whether those people can get there safely, that is the big concern, anderson. >> a lot of soft targets outside the sochi area. evan appreciate the update. as if the olympics didn't have enough problems already, as if security weren't already tight, there's this now. nick paton walsh is in show chi so chi sochi. are russians recalculating security plans? >> reporter: it's late at night here. we've seen nothing on state media in reaction to this. but the russians say they've done all they possibly could here, thrown the book at the venue behind me. three surveillance units in the air yesterday three helicopters circling constantly. i think probably their reaction

to this will be to say simply we're doing all we can. these games are safe. picking up on something that evan said, only two flights coming from europe, one from germany, one from turkey that actually land in sochi. everything else goes through moscow where the russians will have their own security measures. limited possibilities there. >> i understand liquids of any kind of any quantity were already banned on flights to sochi. clearly russians were taking precautions in terms of flights before this warning. >> reporter: well, certainly when i flew from moscow it was clear the russian airline told me no liquids at all in your hand luggage. that hasn't been repeated with all of our colleagues. a mixed experience. a lot of unpopularity for the original degree by the russians banning all liquids, mother's milk mothers need to take that on board. back in 2004, two aircraft were blown out of the sky almost simultaneously by two female suicide bombers. that basically sparked fears

that may have brought the explosions on board in face cream tubs. russia then quickly introduced those full body scanners has since tried to put the problem to one side. perhaps they knew about that, perhaps they told the americans or perhaps the americans warned them. seemingly the russians did have concerns about liquids onboard aircraft quite sometime ago, anderson. >> nick stick around. i want to bring in security analysts experts in terrorism and all things al qaeda. peter, what do you make of the latest threat? >> well, anderson, i think the context of some of this is that these kinds of building a bomb on plane has been an idea that people associated with al qaeda or like-mined groups have had this idea for two decades. back in the mid 90s a mastermind of the first trade center attack in manhattan assembled a bomb on a plane and actually killed somebody. he built the bomb in the bathroom. so this is not something that is entirely new. this is a sort of wrinkle on a kind of tactic that we've seen

before. and we've had other alerts. nothing happened. sometimes an alert can disrupt a plot because people say hey we're not going to do this. sometimes the information is simply inaccurate. usually these alerts don't result in us then having some kind of event. >> and bob, given the fact that russia as we were talk about with nick they've already banned any kind of carry on liquid on board flights arriving at the two main moscow airports, is the warning from the u.s. unnecessary? is it just that a precaution? >> no. i think washington is expecting some sort of attack. they're considering all the possibilities. al qaeda uses liquid bombs. as peter said. but you don't need liquids. you can take high explosive like petn and put the in the liner of suitcases. depends how good the russians are. but these things can get very sophisticated and the chechians have access to them. that would be another worry. but again we're looking for specifics.

>> bob, without going into specifics, can somebody actually make a bomb out of -- with just enough material that would fit in a tube of toothpaste, a bomb that would do significant damage? >> a tube of toothpaste is too small. you'd need a couple of them to pierce the skin of the airplane. but there are certain powders that could be used as explosives if you have a suicide bomber in the bathroom. are the chechians aware of this? i expect they are. have they perfected it another question. >> what kind of level of sophistication have there be with bomb making, nick? >> reporter: i remember seeing about eight years ago talking about paint tubs being filled with homemade explosives. very crude. but more recently videos security services having showing suicide belts, very small tightly made. a suggestion they've really gotten a lot more sophisticated here. one person an ethnic russian with significant expertise being

pointed at by the russian security service as behind some of of late devices. this is a very active insurgency. you can imagine in eight years since we saw some of the most crude devices they could have learned significantly. anderson. >> peter, we don't know where these latest threats have reportedly come from. fit is chechian militants, what sort of abilities have we seen from them going back to the takeover of that theater i think back in the early part of the 2000s? what kind of capabilities do they have and are they known for making threats that they don't deliver on? >> they've delivered on quite a number of their threats. and i'll give you an example of something that they've done which is quite usual for a terrorist group. they actually in a moscow park, they demonstrated by leaving some radioactive materials that they could get the makings of a radioactive bomb. and they did that about ten years ago. so i think there is a level of sophistication.

so i think there's a great deal of anger. tolstoy was writing about fighting the chechians in the mid 19th century. this has gone on for a long time. the krechiachechians have follo through on a number of these threats. >> we'll see what happens. thank you to all of you. let me know what you think on @ac 360. the endless winter, another blast of snow, ice and rain hits the northeast and midwest with power outages and thousands of flights canceled. we'll get a live update on the winter that will not quit. also ahead, four arrests in connection with the drugs found in philip seymour hoffman's apartment. latest on the investigation into his death when we continue. then we gave each person a ribbon to show how many years that amount might last. i was trying to, like, pull it a little further. [ woman ] got me to 70 years old. i'm going to have to rethink this thing. it's hard to imagine how much we'll need

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whatever you're stuck in, once again today the midwest and northeast got hammered. snow, ice, freezing rain, the kind of stuff that brings down power lines and covered highways and brings new york subways to a standstill. more than half a million homes without fire tonight. several thousand flights canceled. a road salt shortage in new york. and the hits just keep on coming. literally, there's another storm on the way. more on that in a second. first the present misery. >> it's all hands on deck in the northeast where no one it seems, no matter your age, can escape grabbing a shovel to help out. >> shaw is shoveling. keep shoveling. >> reporter:. >> leaving people to dig out yet again. commuters from kansas to massachusetts were again frustrated dealing with the worst winter in recent memory. >> you can't even get out and enjoy this. it's just miserable.

>> it's been crazy. snow po snow apocalypse. >> it wasn't just the snow. ice added to the misery. as far as struggling to get traction in kansas where the storm is blamed for the state's third weather-related fatality, in illinois near white-out conditions sent car after car skidding off the roadway. even aircraft are struggling to deal with the conditions. in missouri, the southwest airlines flight hit a snow bank as it was taxiing to a gate. in detroit, two delta planes got stuck in snow on the runway in unrelated incidents. nation-wide, airlines canceled more than 2800 flights with significant delays from chicago to north carolina. in new york, heavy snows are taxing salt reserves. the governor declared an emergency for the entire state with people struggling to get to work. >> it's almost like being on a bat beam. a little dangerous out here. >> up and down the northeast, the snow and ice bringing down

power lines. it's not letting up. icy conditions from eastern missouri to new england are predicted with up to 2 inches of snow per hour around boston and as much as a foot of snow in parts of massachusetts. no choice but to deal with snow again tomorrow. >> put your boots on. lace them up. get out there. >> well, lace up your boots, fire up the snomobile. whatever it takes we are right in the middle of it. so is jennifer gray from a safe distance in the weather center. what's the latest on today's storm? who's hardest hit? >> it's that little swath right through new york, we're seeing new hampshire and also massachusetts. those folks got hit the hardest. we had reports more than a foot of snow in those areas. luckily that storm is pushing out and we are seeing improving conditions during the offnight hours. look at some of these numbers. right there, 11 inches, 12 inches in new york. of course we are seeing that snow pushing out albany still getting some of that snow. boston, it has pretty much ended for you. you could get a little bit more

as we go through the overnight but not much expected at all. also a lot of those winter storm warnings have been canceled. still a few left in the boston area, also in northern maine. so the snow accumulation as we go through the rest of the night really not much at all. less than an inch. we are going to see a little bit in northern maine. but that is all. temperatures are going to plummet, though. temperatures have stayed above freezing for the past couple of hours in places like new york city, philly where we had all the ice and power outages. temperatures will fall well below freezing during the overnight hours. so anything that has melted, has become slushy during the overnight hours is going to freeze, anderson. so we are going to see a messy commute through tomorrow morning. >> i'm supposed to work in boston this weekend. they're supposed to get snow. where is it going to hit this weekend? >> looks like we'll see another system this weekend. end of the weekend to the early part of the work week.

it doesn't look like it will be quite as bad. it's actually two separate systems this. one low tracking to the north is going to bring a little bit of snow to new york city, the boston area, the same area that was hit today. and then this low to the south is going to track basically to the east and be a rainmaker for much of the southeast sunday night into monday. >> all right, jennifer gray, appreciate the update. thanks. a lot more happening. susan hendricks has the 360 bulletin. >> anderson, virginia police have charged three people with stealing the truck of a missing police captain. but there is still no sign of captain kevin quick who was last seen on friday night. now, police say the three suspects under arrest are siblings. we also have this. a 360 follow to tell you about. kendrick johnson's family is suing the funeral home that handled his remains. johnson is the georgia teen who died in his tool gym last year under mysterious circumstances. well, the lawsuit alleges the funeral home desecrated his body. the cvs pharmacy chain says it

will stop selling cigarettes at its 7600 retail locations. the company estimates that it will lose about $2 billion in annual revenues because the move one that makes sense for cvs going forward and coincides with what they believe in. and word tonight that justin bieber and his father allegedly were difficult passengers on board a chartered flight to new jersey last friday. here's what we know. a law enforcement source says they ignored the pilot's warning to stop smoking pot, and the pilot allegedly complained that the biebers were verbally abusive to flight crew. anderson. >> so he's smoking pot on the plane? >> yeah. that's what they're saying. the two of them, father and son. the biebers weren't listening. are we shocked? i don't know. >> all right. susan, thanks very much. just ahead, fast-moving developments in the investigation of philip seymour hoffman's death. four people arrested. the question is what is their possible connection to the case. plus opponents of the affordable care act are raising the alarm over a report they claim says

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welcome back. tonight the public farewell to actor sff haphilip seymour hoff have begun. the oscar winner appeared on broadway three times winning tony nominations for every performance. his stage work was as big a part as his career in fichlt the labyrinth theater off broadway where hoffman was a company member and former artistic director is holding a vigil and community prayer right now. although hoffman was found with a syringe in his arm, the cause of his death is officially

undetermined. today a medical examiner says an autopsy was inconclusive pepding toxicology reports. the police investigation has gained ground with four arrests. three men and a woman, all but one shown here, are facing drug-related charges tonight. jason carroll has details. >> reporter: a night-time drug raid on a west village apartment building not far from where philip seymour hoffman lived. a tip that someone here sold drugs to hoffman leads police to search three apartments in the building. according to law enforcement, inside they find 350 bags of heroin and other drugs. the heroin called the black list and red bull not the same labels found on heroin found in hoffman's apartment which were called ace of spades and ace of hearts. four now under arrest all facing various charges including criminal possession of a controlled substance. these pictures showing two men taken into custody late tuesday night. max rosen bloom and robert vineberg. vineberg faces felony drug

charges. a law enforcement source saying they found the largest amount of drugs in his apartment. and cnn has learne vineberg's cell phone had hoffman's phone number stored in it. >> he's honestly one of the nicest people i've ever met. smart, yeah. he goes out of his way to be nice. >> reporter: vineberg is a jazz musician, well-known in the downtown club scene. he uses the stage name robert aaron and has appeared with the rapper wyclef jean. supporters posting comments on his facebook page such as "thinking of you". investigators still trying to determine if vineberg or any of the suspects sold drugs to hoffm hoffman. still unclear what led hoffman who had struggled with addiction to relapse. some insight might come from his journal which police found on a table in his apartment. the cause of death still pending. medical examiner saying at this point the exam was inconclusive.

those who worked alongside him in theater still struggling with the loss. >> phil was a leader in the greatest sense of the word, because he didn't just talk the talk, he walked the walk. we will more than miss phil. we will live in a smaller world without him. we all know that for sure. we can only say tonight that we were lucky to know him. >> jason, i understand there were developments in court as well. >> reporter: absolutely. those four suspects arraigned in court tonight. the attorney for one of them, a 22-year-old woman. he basically says that his client was simply, anderson, in the wrong place at the wrong time. he said she didn't even know hoffman and that she plans on pleading not guilty. in terms of vineberg who was mentioned there in the piece, basically i spoke to one of his friends on the phone a little earlier. and he says he feels as though vineberg is being used as a scapegoat. and he says in no way, shape or form should vineberg be accused in any way of having to do with

any death of philip seymour hoffman. >> all right, jason, appreciate the update. if it turns out hoffman got the heroin that likely killed him can they be charged? that's a question for our senior legal analyst and former federal prosecutor jeffrey toobin who joins me now. can they? >> it's remotely possible but very unlikely. first of all, it's simply not done that heroin or any sort of drug dealers are prosecuted unless you can prove that they knew or really had very good reason to suspect that it was going to cause a death. if they added, for example, phenomete fentanyl or another ingredient. second is proof. how do you prove that that heroin caused the death. here apparently you have different labels. if you had the same label how

could you prove that that drug. >> the dealer doesn't necessarily stamp the label. it's usually from a bigger manufacturing place and these are just middle men. >> and it's not like there are dna tests where you can prove that heroin from this source caused this death. heroin is a pretty generic product. so it would be very difficult unless you had eyewitnesses or something. >> so somebody who is somehow linked to the sale, i'm not saying it's these people who were arrested but whoever it is and if police actually do track it down, would they be charged just for dealing heroin? >> yes. >> but not related to the death of philip seymour hoffman. >> there is almost -- i've never heard, frankly, of a drug dealer being charged directly in the death that's caused. i'm not saying it's never happened but it's certainly very rare. but don't kid yourself. dealing heroin ace very serious crime. and if you're convicted of it you're going to go away for a long time, anyway. >> really? >> oh, yeah. we're not talking about pot

here. heroin is still in every state, including new york where obviously this took place, is something where you can easily get ten years in prison for dealing distribution-size quantities of heroin. we're not talking about pot here. >> all right. jeff toobin, thanks very much. philip seymour hoffman's death obviously has thrown some cold hard facts into sharp relief. heroin use is on the rise. so are deaths from overdoses. simple economics at work. heroin is easy to get. law enforcement officials and addicts agree on that point. compared to prescription painkillers which is how many heroin addicts start off, heroin is cheaper these days and gives the same kind of high. it's easier to get. a lot prescription pills police have been cracking down on those. you can find it in any sized city. >> reporter: it's broad daylight in philadelphia. so it's plain to see this heroin deal in the making. >> if you look at some of the people that just left, they're

all addicts. so they're in a neighborhood here. they're looking to get their fix for the day. n not. >> reporter: not just on this corner. as a dea agent drove us around, we saw dealers and addicts at nearly every intersection. he showed me the tiny bags the heroin is sold in, under street names like bud ice, white house, even dea. and the buyers? anyone from high schoolers to housewives. he says most of the heroin here is coming from mexican cartels. it's a cheap fix. just $10 a bag. and so easy to get. here's how it works. the dealers have guys on the street they call look outs. >> once a buyer walks down the street, you'll have those lookouts direct them, hey, they're on the corner of 6th and marshall. >> reporter: lookouts aren't just for buyers but police, too. some are in cars. honking their horns to alert the dealers. watch what happens when we show up. >> as you can see, people

walking away. this right here are several drug dealers on the corner. >> they're on the move. >> they're moving. you see this guy moving? you see these guys moving down the road here? all right. we got a lookout. this individual here probably is looking to cup bags of heroin. >> those guys just ran basically. >> they're running. they know we're here. >> reporter: the agent says pennsylvania heroin is the purest east of the mississippi. but that still hasn't stopped some dealers from mixing it with drugs like fentanyl, a powerful narcotic often used to treat cancer patients. just last month, 22 people died from heroin overdoses in western pennsylvania. all of it had been laced with fentanyl. >> fentanyl is extremely dangerous. extremely potent. and two to three grains of salt just to put anytime perspective, often tan ill mixed in with heroin could kill a seasoned heroin addict. >> they don't tell you it's in

there. >> they don't tell you it's in there. >> reporter: the agent's team recently seized over 12 kilo grams of heroin worth millions of dollars on the street. these are evidence photos of just some of the heroin and weapons they've picked up. but dealers are going to extremes. like this one, woman police say, who was selling heroin in mcdonald's happy meals. $2 for the toy, 80 bucks for the heroin. those extremes and creativity are only making his job harder. >> sometimes they'll have small amounts on them. and sometimes it will be hidden. it will be hidden in that mailbox. could be hidden underneath the car. it will be hidden in a corner. then they'll go and re up the amount that they have on them. so they never take a chance to lose their product. >> randi joins us live. randi, amazing to see how open it is. why don't they pick these guys up that you saw selling on the streets? why not pick them up?

>> reporter: that's what i asked, too. because they are out there doing it right there in the open. so i said why aren't the police here? why aren't these guys being arrested? and really, anderson, those aren't the guys they want. they want the big guys, the guys who are running this organization. i'm told they can bring in as much as $100,000, anderson, in a single shift of about eight hours. but the guys on the street who are risking arrest out there, they only get a couple hundred dollars, maybe $300 i'm told. it's the big guys who are raking in and cashing in on these whole deal. >> so the ones selling on the street are just low-level middle men. >> reporter: exactly. they're hardly making any money. a couple, $300 for an eight-hour shift. maybe that's good money to them. but the guys who are really bringing it in are the ones pulling in $100,000 every day, every eight hours. >> you weren't able to approach any of these actual dealers, were you? >> no. i mean, in fact our special agent that we were with he had his weapon out. it was a pretty dicey scene. but i did ask him, i want to see

how easy it is. can i go up to one of these guys or groups to try to buy some of this. no mainly he wouldn't let me it's illegal. but also he said it's so risky. if i had gone there on my own to try to buy some heroin like some of these high schoolers, high school wrestlers coming, housewives coming. if i was doing that he said not only would i risk being dragged into aally and being abused but i would also risk having my car stolen, being robbed. he said this is one really bad deal you do not want to mess with these guys. >> randi, appreciate that. the friend of philip seymour hoffman who found him dead inside his apartment will be on new day tomorrow. reporters at the olympics say hotels are in shambles. the water is dangerous. you're not even supposed to flush the toilet. it's quite something. we'll have an update ahead. also is obamacare really a job killer? a report that the affordable care act will lead to 2.5

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keeping them honest tonight, politicians who have the nonpartisan facts in front of them but choose partisan spin even after the facts are well-known and the spin is exposed for what it is. this time it involves a new

report on the affordable care act from the nonpartisan congressional budget office. you'd think this report calls it a massive job killer according to reports from republicans. >> they estimate at up to $2 million -- 2 million fewer jobs will be created as a result of obamacare. >> 2 million fewer jobs as a result of the obama health care law. >> the real point is is that obamacare is going to cost 2 million fewer people to have jobs. >> so keeping them honest, is there anything to the allegations ta that the affordable care act will result in nearly 2.5 million layoffs? in a word, no. in a few words, here's the relevant passage from the report that they are spinning. and i quote "the estimated reduction stemts almost entirely from a net decline in the amount of labor that workers choose to supply rather than from a net drop in business's demand for labor." in other words, the new law enables those who are staying in full-time jobs or putting off retirement so they can maintain their employer-provided health

benefits to retire or cut back to part-time. testifying today before the director of the house budget committee, the congressional budget office restated that conclusion. under questioning from democrat chris van holden said the action could actually make it easier for people to find work. >> so when you boost demand for labor, in this kind of economy, you actually reduce the unemployment rate because those people who were looking for work can find more work, right? >> yes. that's right. >> so now earlier in those hearings a big-name republican committee chairman paul ryan questioned the cbo director. he's not a fan obviously of the affordable care act. as you'll see his questioning highlights some potential problems with the law in the cbo report. notice what he did not do is buy into a spin on layoffs. in fact, listen to the beginning of the question. he actually debunks it. >> so just to understand this, it's not that employers are laying people off, it's that people aren't working in the workforce, aren't supplying

labor to the equivalent of 2.5 million jobs in 2024, and as a result that lower workforce participation rate, that less labor supplied lowers economic growth. >> yes. that's right, mr. chairman. >> so to be clear, at the end there he's highlighting a very different concern about the law. he also points out as economists on both sides of the aisle, by the way, that subsidizing health insurance is a kind of disincentive to working more. but again, that's a very different issue entirely from the debunked job-killing talking point. no matter, though, this is capitol hill where folks never let a fact get in the way of a good press release. hours after the hearing, house speaker john boehner put out a statement titled" dems in full damage control on obama care." contain links to a number of stories including one from the washington examiner on the report showing obamacare would quote eliminate 2.5 million full-time jobs. which is just not true. more now from democratic strategist and cnn political

commentator cornell belcher, and ralph reed founder of the christian coalition and president of century strategies. >> cornell, there's no doubt a lot of people have been spinning what the cbo report says. today the cbo director said it will reduce unemployment, but the report also said it's going to reduce people's incentive to work to the equivalent of 2.5 million workers over ten years. and the report says businesses might be encouraged to reduce employee hours to avoid the mandate. it's not quite as rosy as some democrats hope it is. >> the truth of the matter is, anderson, if you look back when we first put aca into action, we've had 45 of the strongest months of job creation in this country since the 90s. 8.1 million jobs have been create since obamacare's been in effect. we're reducing the deficit. and guess what. something that we've been struggling with for a long time, actual costs of health care in this country, are actually coming under control. so that's the reality of

obamacare. i'm mind boggled by the fact that republicans again think they can take 2012 and run 2012 again in 2014, making up all these false accusations about obamacare. that's somehow going to persuade the majority of voters who voted for barack obama to switch parties and vote for republicans. >> well ralph what about that? a lot of republicans have been saying this report says obamacare will eliminate 2, 2.5 million jobs. that's not really what the report says. there's a difference between reducing the labor force by 2.5 million and losing 2.5 million jobs from the economy. >> if you read the report, which i did today, it really sketches out a very depressing and bleak economic future between now and 2024. you're looking at 400,000 equivalent full-time workers lost per year over the next five years. you're looking at inexorable decline in labor participation which they say is going to continue. it's already its lowest in 37 years.

and then the deficit begins to explode after about 2020 primarily because of health care costs of which aca is going to be a part. so there's no way to take this report and put lipstick on this pig. and when you combine it with the fact that people were told they could keep their health insurance if they liked it, 5 to 6 million have lost it, when you combine that with surveys by keiser and mckenzie and others showing that between 65 and 85% of the people getting insurance on the exchanges are people who lost their insurance, not the uninsured, anderson, but people who got dropped and are now going to the exchanges to get reinsured, this is just a very ugly picture. >> cornell, let me ask you in terms of this upcoming election, how damaging a message do you think this is? clearly we're going to be seeing a lot of commercials from republicans saying obamacare is costing 2.5 million jobs. >> but that's a lie. that's the problem. they are gearing up to make the

centerpiece of their 2014 campaign strategy a lie and deceit. and look. partisan hat off just as a political strategist, how on earth as a party are you going to grow and expand your base by doubling down on a lie that we've already sort of had a campaign about and where republicans in 2014 are going to say to all these millions of americans signing up for health care, you know what we're going to do, we're going to take that freedom away from you. i kind of like democrats' chances there. >> that's not really fair about what we're saying. in fact, if you look at the burr-coburn-hatch bill introduced i believe last week, it doesn't say we're going to take away your access to health care. it says the opposite. we've offered positive, optimistic, forward-looking reform that will replace obama care and is a lot more efficient. >> so now we're ignoring the 40 plus votes on repealing obama care that actually have happened. >> no. we do want to repeal it. we just want to replace it.

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the u.s. is warning airline flights going into sochi of toothpaste tubes being filled with explosives. what are you hearing, barbara? barbara, are you there? i think we just lost her. we'll obviously try to reconnect with barbara coming up. we also want to show you what's going on inside sochi in russia, even before tonight's breaking news. americans are already fearful about the safety of the games. 57% of those surveyed. terror tactics sochi is likely to have terrorist attacks. 57%. hotels are still under construction if you can believe it. reporters who are already there reporting that rooms are unfit and accommodations. one sent a photo of a sign posted in a bathroom. "people have asked me what surprise me in sochi.

an hour later the same reporter tweeted this photo of two yellow water saying water restored sort of. on the bright side i now know what very dangerous face water looks like. that does not look good. lot to talk about tonight with ivan watson. >> of this latest news possibility of a toothpaste bomb, how tight is the security situation? what's it like right now? >> reporter: they're calling ate ring of steel. i think it's pretty accurate. highly fortified. on top of that, even u.s. counterterrorism experts are saying they think the venues themselves are going to be very safe. their concern are soft targets beyond the olympic venues, beyond these walls of

fortifications. and frankly, the biggest country in the world, russia. that would serve to really raise fears, could cast lives and would deeply embarrass the government of russian president vladimir putin. >> one office suspected masterminds behind the volgograd attacks was reportedly killed today. do you know anything about it? >> reporter: this is all coming from russia's state news agency, which is citing russian security services saying that a shoot out broke out in this republic of dagistan and that in the process a man they suspect of being the mastermind of these terrible twin suicide bomb attacks that he was killed along with several others. last week the russians said that they captured two brothers who they believed to have been accomplices in those suicide attacks. sochi is on the border of the

caucus as. because russia and the international committee decided to have the winter olympics in the most difficult, most turbulent, most politically charged and conflict-prone part of russia and certainly of tcauk caucasas. >> all those stories, this thing is starting in matter of days. are they ready? >> reporter: listen. the russian authorities, the international olympic committee insist everything is going to be ready. the fact of the matter is, the scale of this project, everything behind me basically here, all of this was built within the last seven years to a price tag of more than $50 billion. that's making it the most expensive olympics in history. and what we're definitely seeing is that some of the kinks have clearly not been worked out.

now, the ioc, it claims that only 3% of the tens of thousands of rooms here in sochi are not ready. we've definitely seen some glitches here. and it's not just journalistic accommodations, it's a couple of five-star hotels, international chains. and they are not finished yet. so the test will really come probably in the next 48 hours here. >> all right. ivan watson, good luck. thank you, ivan. we've reconnected with barbara starr. barbara, are you getting a sense of how credible u.s. authorities think this threat surrounding the olympics is? >> reporter: anderson, right now that's what they're trying to figure out. going to have to work very closely with the russians on it. both sides are going to be looking, we are told, at communications intercepts, looking at just basic facts like do they know where the bombmakers are these days. who is out there that would know how to do this? whether they are involved in it directly or may have trained chechens or people in the region to carry out this kind of thing.

there's a lot of information on the internet that bombmakers may have looked for. but to stuff a toothpaste tube full of explosives is just the beginning of what you have to do. this would have to be a device that would be fairly ex ne engineered. there would have to be a workable detonator type of device, something that will make it go off and cause damage. and so they're going to look at where is the capability to do that. and in the coming days as they start to piece that together, that's going to give them a sense of the credibility of the threat. but right now, nerves are on such edge about all of this i don't think anybody's taking any chances. >> barbara, appreciate the update. thanks, barbara starr. "the ridiculist" is coming up next. be right back. so what's better, bigger or smaller?

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time now for the ridiculist. tonight we venture to one of my favorite states, texas, where a pin up calendar is pushing boundaries and raising provocative questions. let's check out some of the pictures, shall we? there's 70-year-old j.b. smith rocking the sheriff's badge. he was elected smith county sheriff in 1976 to 2012. mr. february. mr. july is 78-year-old ken threlkeld founder of an insurance company and grandfather of eight. conway homes founder steve conway. he's been married to his high school sweetheart for 46 years and still knows how to rock a

tool belt. you're probably starting to get the picture here. this is a calendar filled with page after page of good sports. dentists, business men, city leaders who strip down for a good cause. it's called the taking it off for the dogs calendar, raising money for the aspcafor the resc and adoption of unwanted animals. all the models say it was pretty much a no-brainer to be involved in the charity project. >> what little we could do to sit in a bathing suit and take a photograph, ways proud to do that. >> there's been nothing negative about it. it's a great cause. the aspca is doing a great job. i don't know how anybody could argue against it. >> exactly. a fun calendar for a good cause. how could anybody argue against it? nobody can except of course someone did. someone has a problem with this particular photo. this is dr. aubrey sharp, keeping it cool in january. he is 69 years old, the dean at

tyler junior college and on the board of multiple charity organizations including meals on wheels. now, a female board member of that organization has quit her position because of the charity calendar. here's part of the written statement she gave a local news station, kltv. >> for the record, my resignation was prompted by the decision of our board president to pose in the nude for the fundraising calendar. >> yeah. also for the record, dr. sharp says he didn't actually pose in the buff. >> well, i didn't pose nude. i was wearing short britches. >> see? short britches. i'll not even sure what they are but i like them. being a charitable man he doesn't hold any grudges against the board member who left because of his photo shoot. >> she's a wonderful person. smart, a great board member. we hate to lose her. it was just a difference of opinion. >> so the people who put together the calendar told us quote we understand that a small minority may be offended and we respect that stance. the kaenl car was done in good faith with much consideration and good taste. our only objective is to raise as much money as possible for a

manage shelter in our city. again go to taking it off for the dogs.com. the calendar is about $20. the priceless photography will last the whole year through. on "the ridiculist." nice job, guys. that does it for us. the thanks for watching, "piers morgan live" starts now. this is "piers morgan live." welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. tonight you can't say that on tv or can you? two debates, first what i thought was a perfectly cordial interview with janet mock. i became the target of very angry tweets. she's back on tonight live to debate what happened. jerry seinfeld about diversity comedy. >> people think it's the census or something? this has got to represent the actual pie chart