digging out from a brutal storm and ice storm. the former cop accused of gunning down a man for texting at the movies shedding tears as his bond hearing as his alleged victim's widow breaks down. your "new day" starts right now. good morning. welcome to "new day." it's thursday, february 6th, 6:00 in the east. i got all that right so far. and ready or not, let the games begin. a threat is tied to the opening of the olympic games which is just a few hours away. homeland security tells airlines beware of toothpaste bombs. it's believed terrorists may attempt to pack them with explosives. we are covering all the angles. let's begin with nick paton

walsh. >> reporter: obviously the background chatter now continues to be about security, particularly with this new threat. very specific about flights coming from europe into russia. we found actually to fly from moscow down to sochi with liquids in your carry on, they're trying to prohibit that. >> any type of explosive can be extremely damaging. it could be enough to bring a plane down. >> reporter: airlines with direct flights to russia on alert this morning. the department of homeland security issuing another terror bulletin warning about the possibility that explosive materials could be concealed in toothpaste or cosmetic tubes on flights headed to the olympic games in sochi. the possible devices intended either to be detonated on the flights themselves or smuggled

into the olympic village. mitt romney discussed this threat with cnn's wolf blitzer. >> a real grave concern. and you basically want to know more. are we going to put in place immediately restrictions on any kind of tubes or any kind of cosmetics going in flights towards russia? but as individuals, as airlines people are concerned given the specificity of the nature of the threat and there's almost nothing they can do to prevent something of this nature from perhaps being put on an aircraft. >> reporter: the obama administration has not advised americans to avoid the games. before the toothpaste alert was issued -- >> i believe that anybody who wants to go to the olympics should go. we feel that everything has been done that can be done to try to

guarantee people safety and security. >> reporter: this latest threat coming as athletes continue to arrive in sochi. >> i'm real surprised because we just touched down and just saw all the soldiers next to the runway. that was -- wow. >> reporter: athletes now head into the ring of steel behind dogs, cameras on balloons, warships and anty aircraft batteries. it may be the most dangerous olympic games in history. there is reason to have some confidence in russian security services. they first experienced liquids on airplanes back in 2004. the long history of putting measures in to try and stop that, as we said, they banned liquids in the carryon baggage. hopefully the lack of

cooperation between the u.s. and russia maybe ebbs. and they try to stop anything from happening in the 24 hours ahead and then for the two weeks in which they last. >> yeah, within the ring of steel and beyond. that's where the big threat is. let's talk more about that terror threat. let's bring in pentagon correspondent barbara star for more. what more are we learning about this threat? >> the key question now, of course, is just that and how credible is this threat. sources we're talking to say that now the u.s. intelligence community and the russians are going to have to do a number of things. they are going to be looking at phone intercepts, chat rooms, who's talking to who, where is the chatter, how credible is it. this is going to be a key issue. they're also going to be looking at the locations and capabilities of known bombmakers. who is out there that would have

the capability to do this. if this is strictly a chechen threat, chechen fighters have been fighting with al qaeda for years. has there been some transfer of technology, are there chechens that know how to pull this off? that goes to the very question of what is a toothpaste bomb. who can actually make a bomb with little or no metal content and an ininitial yairt de dive that would work and be a true threat. that is going to be a big part of this look right now. >> all right. thank you for the reports. let's go now to terrible weather. a million customers across the northeast lost power after the latest winter storm, many of them still in the dark. hundreds of thousands of people dealing with this are in pennsylvania. that's where power lines came crashing down. utility companies restoration

could take days. let's get to margaret connolly. what's the situation? >> reporter: chris, this town is dark. of the 22,000 households here, 19,000 of them have lost power. it's one of the hardest hit areas in pennsylvania. over 100 million people continue to dig out of wednesday's massive snowstorm leaving close to a million people without power. >> we haven't had a winter like this in almost three years. >> reporter: nearly a foot of snow fell in the boston area. roads blocked by downed trees, power lines and mounds of snow made driving nearly impossible from kansas to new york. the pennsylvania turnpike shut down for hours after this fatal crash near the state's capitol. >> this has had a direct impact all across the state of

pennsylvania. >> reporter: residents from ohio to maryland remain in the dark this morning. they face more power outages from this winter storm than from superstorm sandy. this family has stocked up on flashlights and extra layers of clothes. >> we're charging our phones in our car. brought the generator out. >> reporter: heavy snow and ice accumulation on trees caused branches to fall. >> repairs have been hampered so much by the road conditions. >> reporter: officials warn power may not be restored for days. >> essentially the entire county is out of power. i can never remember a time that we had that many power outages. >> reporter: the one good thing is that people have more time to spend with their friends and families as there is no

electricity in their homes. they are working around the clock to try to resolve this. one of the big power companies, they're also flying in 200 people from chicago to help. >> without power can quickly go from inconvenience to dangerous. thank you very much for that. so 1 million people without power. they're also going to be dealing with very cold temperatures. let's get straight to chad myers with the latest on the forecast. >> you think you can deal with it. oh, it's going to be 25, i can deal without power for one night. then you get carbon monoxide in the house. please just go to a shelter. here are the morning low temperatures for the next three days. baltimore, power out to your west especially. philadelphia, 23. not going to be warming up at all during the morning hours. we're going to stay well below

freezing. even new york city doesn't get above freezing for the next three days. all the ice that's there is going to be there. there's a lot of black ice across the country. if it looks like it's shiny, it's ice. be careful. the snow showers that we talked about, the big snow for sunday, looks like a nova scotia storm. they're sending us salt. we're sending them snow. that's where that foot or more of snow is coming down. it won't be a snowstorm on sunday into monday. inches not neat. >> we'll talk more a little later. >> break overnight, the federal aviation administration will inspect lightning protection systems at more than 400 air

traffic control towers nationwi nationwide. this comes after a lightning strike injured an air traffic controller in baltimore in september. the faa began issues standards for lightning protection systems back in 1978. senate democrats moving ahead without the republicans in their attempt to extend long term unemployment benefits. an important procedural vote is set for today. it's unclear if they have the required 60 votes. new developments for you in the search for a missing police captain and father in virginia. two women, and a man, all siblings have been arrested in connection with kevin quick's disappearance. their arrest is linked to the theft of the police captain's truck. they've connected the truck with an armed robbery sunday night. quick has been missing since friday. president obama will speak

at this morning's national prayer breakfast set to begin in less than two hours' time. first lady michelle obama and joe biden are also expected to attend. the castaway who says he survived 13 months lost at sea in the pacific back at the hospital after his improving health suddenly took a turn for the worst. doctors say he is suffering from dehydration and malnutrition. they're having a hard time keeping him hydrated. he washed ashore some eight days ago. officials say they have no reason to doubt his story so far. and the fact that he's been rehospitalized kates that you know -- >> he was out in it. >> -- that he was out in it. >> right. >> it's really a head skrasher. also new developments this

morning in the suspected overdose of actor philip seymour hoffman. four arrested. one reportedly had the actor's number stored in his cell phone. they now say finding a cause of death could take weeks. >> good morning, chris. all three of those suspects have pled not on those -- not guilty on those drug possession charges. juliana luchkiw says she has no tie to hoffman. wednesday night in a manhattan courtroom, three people believed to be connected to the heroin found in philip seymour hoffman's apartment was indicted on drug possession charges. juliana luchkiw and max rosen blum were charged. all three pled not guilty.

>> my client by all accounts i know of has nothing to do with philip seymour hoffman. my client is not responsible for philip seymour hoffman's death. >> this arrest and these charges have absolutely nothing to do with mr. hoffman's unfortunate national death. >> a total of four suspects were arrested tuesday night during this nypd drug raid. these photos show three of the arrests. the fourth person, thomas curveman will not be prosecuted. investigates found 350 small bags of what's believed to be heroin labeled red bull and blacklist. different brands found in hoffman's apartment call ace of spades and ace of hearts. one of the suspects, robert vineberg is a well-known jazz

musician in a new york club scene. he had hoffman's number saved in his cell phone. vineberg's neighbors say they're surprised. >> one of the nicest people i've ever met. smart, goes out of his way to be nice. great guy. >> still unknown is what led hoffman to relapse after 23 years of being sober. some insight may come from his journal that investigators found in his living room. new york's broad way community still reeling from his death celebrating his life in a vigil last night. and while this investigation still continues, the medical examiners office says it could still take a couple weeks to determine the exact cause and manner of hoffman's death. they are still awaiting the toxicology reports.

>> thank you so much. let's take a break. coming up next, the after -- affluenza defense. we'll examine the judge's ruling and we'll speak exclusively to the young man's lawyer ahead. >> remember the man shot and killed over a texting dispute at the movies? both sides breaking down in tears in court. we have the details for you. [ john sarrouf ] it's our mission at the family dinner project to support families in getting back to the table. one day we get this incredible call from cheerios saying "what about breakfast?" together we've created the family breakfast project to help families begin their day together over breakfast.

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welcome back. a texas teen who killed four people in a drunk driving crash last year will face no jail time. instead, a judge ordered 16-year-old ethan couch to attend rehab rejecting requests from prosecution to put him behind bars. a defense expert had said he suffered from affluenza. >> reporter: the juvenile court judge sentenced ethan couch to ten years probation. fist he'll go to a texas rehabilitation facility, but there's a catch. interest is no minimum time the 16-year-old will have to spend in the treatment center. couch was convicted in december for a horrific drunk driving crash that killed four people. >> no matter what game he or his family think they've beaten, the

world is not ever going to take their eyes off of him. they're going to be waiting for him to mess up again. >> reporter: the saga made national headlines because of a bizarre defense strategy. they said he's a product of something he called affluenza. couch's attorney blasted news media coverage of the case for focusing on the affluenza testimony. >> i think that word might have got said once by a witness in passing and all of a sudden, that became a story. it is ridiculous to think we walked into court and said, oh, this is a rich white kid and she decided to probate him. >> it's his expert that brought that before the courtroom. >> reporter: prosecutors say there's no question the affluenza theme affected couch's punishment. >> it was a stupid thing to say.

it will follow that expert where ever he testifies. he was a dumb idea. >> reporter: in court, couch's family refused to comment. but the victim's family say couch and his family show no remorse. >> how hard is this for you? [ inaudible ] >> reporter: ethan couch will be on probation until he's 26 years old. his lawyer hopes intense therapy will turn his life around. >> all right. and thank you. later on "new day," we're going to talk exclusively with couch's attorney. let's turn back to the super bowl. it's still happening one way or another. an estimated 700,000 screaming fans packed the streets of seattle. the city's first victory since

1978. let's bring in andy scholes with this morning's "bleacher report." i think that this team should be called the super sonics because of how fast that defense flies around the field. >> the super sonic seahawks. the population of seattle is about 635,000. there were more people at this parade than lived in the entire city. an estimated 25% of kids skipped school to go to the parade. if they were lucky they might have caught candy from marshawn lynch who was throwing out skit ls to the crowd. lynch nearly falls off the float trying to get a bottle of whiskey. turni turning on bleacherreport.com,

more problems for the jamaican bobsled team. the team missed its first practice session because its gear did not arrive on time. all right. here's something you rarely see. in the nba last night, robert sacre fouled out, but he got to stay in the game because the lakers ran out of players. per nba rules, you have to have five players on the court at all times, so sacre got to stay in. and somehow, the short-handed lakers ended up winning this game beating the cavs. >> i have never -- i think it more likely you would have to forfeit the rest of the game. >> they did get a technical foul. >> there's just one free throw, but hey, you got to stay in the

game. >> and then is ever additional foul another technical, though? >> it is. >> and the guy's a hacker. no, i'm just getting. >> and they won. >> they still won. all these guys starving for a chance to get into the league. >> got to go back even though i fouled out. all right. andy, thank you. sounds crazy. coming up next, remember that very deadly shooting at the movie theater in florida. that was apparently all over texting of course. it's now gone to court and both sides breaking down inside the courtroom. >> and a family feud uncolding over martin luther king jr.'s nobel peace prize.

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welcome back to "new day." he's a look at your headlines. a credible security threat just hours from the official start of the sochi olympics. homeland security officials sending a bulletin to airlines flying to russia warning of possible toothpaste and cosmetic tube bombs. some preliminary competition begins today. a million customers across the northeast lost power after the latest winter storm. pennsylvania getting the worst of it. hundreds of thousands of homes still in the dark this morning. heavy snow collapsed and sent trees and power lines collapsing. residents are being forced to use generators, flashlights and

candles. utility companies say restoration could still take days. all of this with another winter storm approaching for the weekend. new developments for you in a story that cnn has been watching closely. the parents of kendrick johnson, they have filed a civil suit against the funeral home that handled his body. they say the owners and workers wrongfully disposed of their son's organs. a private pathologist made the stunning discovery. chris christie leds to the loan star -- heads to the loan star state, but two of the state's top republicans are staying away. perhaps another sign the party's worried about the new jersey bridgegate scandal. also the job once held by david wildstein has been eliminated by the port of authority in new jersey. he's the official that said, got

it, in the e-mail chain that said time for traffic problems in ft.lee. a prosthetic hand with realtime sense of touch. they surgically integrated the device into the existing nerves in the remains of his upper arms. not only could he grasp things, but we could feel it. he said it was the most extraordinary thing. >> fascinating. >> he get to keep it? >> yeah, i don't think it was there you go, bye. >> yoi don't understand how the do it. >> that's why they are doing what they do and we are doing what we do. >> that's something i never thought would have been possible. >> me neither. >> science changing the way we live for the better.

that was a good one. also this morning, we're learning more about the retired police captain charged with shooting and killing a man inside a florida movie theater over texting. curtis reeves broke down during an emotional bond hearing wednesday. >> good morning, chris. this was kind of a technical hearing to discuss possible evidence that could be introduced at a bond hearing. normally that stuff is very dry. that was not the case yesterday. retired tampa police captain curtis reeves shet tears in -- shed tears in court wednesday. >> he has high blood pressure. >> his family and friends came to the 71-year-old's defense. more than eight hours of emotional testimony. reeves pleaded not guilty to second degree murder and aggravated battery charges stemming from a shooting inside the central florida movie theater january 14th. he's accused of shooting and

killing chad oulson who had been texting with his babysitter during the movie's previews. >> he took another step and a half and collapsed on my son. >> reeves said he acted in seventy defense after being -- self defense. but witnesses inside the florida movie theater say the only thing thrown was popcorn. and then reeves fired a shot killing oulson and wounding his wife. >> i checked his pupils. >> oulson's widow went in the front row. reeves' daughter asked that her elderly father be released. >> i know he has arthritis in his hands. he kept all of his tools because he just knew that -- that his hands would get better and he'd be able to do it again. but it hasn't happened. >> an off duty deputy said he heard reeves talking to his wife

about the shooting after the gunshot. >> she said that was no cause to shoot anyone. and then he liened back around -- leaned back around, stuck his finger out as to scold her and said, you shut your [ bleep ] mouth and don't say another word. >> the judge allowing them to play infrared surveillance video of the shooting in an open court when the hearing continues friday morning. and that was the real question at this particular point, could that video be used because the defense in this case is asking for bond. curtis reeves currently doesn't have bond. the judge says he'll take up that issue tomorrow. chris and kate? >> just an unbelievably sad story, especially to see the pain it has caused two families and even beyond in that courtroom. thank you very much. >> sizes up as a case that's going to come down to sentencing. >> i guess so. coming up next on "new day,"

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welcome back to "new day." let's go around the world now. shock and outrage in japan as a renowned deaf musician admits two decades of music wasn't really his work. >> reporter: music shops like this one are yanking copies of

ever cd, the deaf composer is now admitting that he is a fraud and that for nearly 18 years he's been paying someone else to write the music that made him famous. even japanese olympic figure skater has been caught up in the scandal. he was planning to skate to a piece by this man. >> all right. thank you so much. and celebrations in poland where rare healthy white lion triplets were born in a zoo. >> reporter: they say good things come in threes. that's certainly the case in poland where the arrival of three white lions has delighted the owners. the first offspring, white lions often have defects and are rejected by the mother. the triplets are indeed rare.

they're doing well under the care of their mother. you can go to the zoo's website where a special camera will soon be providing live feed. >> like the panda cam. >> the lion's are mistaken for ordinary kittens. they're so cute. >> they are for like a month. >> then they eat your face. >> then they eat your face. >> it's one of the built-indefects we know they're going to have. new developments in a family feud. with this family, it's worth talking about. why? it surrounds the great martin luther king jr. that's why. king's sons are suing their sister for the items, but bernice king says she's just trying to save them from being sold. we're live in atlanta, victor? >> reporter: good morning.

dr. king preached at this church. his daughter will return to this church to throw the latest punch in a legal fight with her brothers to stop a sale that she says would be spiritually violent. the king children are fighting each other again. this time brothers dexter and martin luther king the 3 are suing their younger sister bernice demanding she hand over martin luther king nobel peace prize and his bible. the same bible used during president obama's 2013 inauguration. they allege she is hiding their father's bible and medal. in a statement, bernice fought back admitting she has them and refuses to hand them over to the state, she says because her

brothers want to sell them. bernice calls that spiritually violent and outright morally reprehensible. she writes, our father must be turning in his grave. this is not the first time the king children have thrown legal punches at one another. in 2008, they sued dexter alleging he was diverting funds from the king center for personal use. >> we love each other. we always love each other and we're going to move forward and do what's best for the legacy overall. >> reporter: in 2006 it was martin iii and bernice suing. a change in leadership at the king center ended that dispute. >> bernice and i understand to differ with those who would sell our father's legacy and barter our mother's vision, whether it is for 30 pieces of silver or

$30 million. >> reporter: representatives have not returned calls for comment. this is the latest battle among siblings fighting over money and their father's legacy of peace. there is no specific mention of selling the medal and the bible in the lawsuit filed. if that allegation is true, that when king won the nobel prize, he donated the money. so not even dr. king himself profited financially from winning that award. >> i think we can all agree, you can sure hope that work this out. >> no family is immune from these types of emotional battles. obviously we're going to pay attention to this one because the legacy is so important. coming up next on "new day," we're going to talk about hotel horror stories from sochi. wait until you see what reporters and visitors are finding as they arrive. plus, this very well may be

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would you drink your coke out of a k-cup? >> we've been discussing it. i think they're probably going to have an earner on their hands there. people love this soda. >> i wonder if it's going to be more green. thank about not having to transport all the bottles all around the world. >> i'm wondering about taste. does it stay true to the original taste of the soda. >> they lost you with new coke? remember new coke? >> no. >> you don't remember new coke? everybody was like, i don't like new coke. i want the old coke. >> did i fall asleep for like a couple decades or something? >> it hits me here every time. >> no coke -- even mickey agrees with me.

it's happened three times. >> we're going to go on an outing. first, let'ses get back to the news. newly arriving visitors to sochi describe appalling conditions. stray dogs wandering in and out of rooms and hotels under construction. the astonishing reports are flooding social media. we're live in sochi with much more. how's it looking from your vantage point? >> reporter: well, from standing here on this balcony, it looks pretty spectacular. organizers couldn't have wished for better conditions for the first day of competition. it's officially day minus one here in sochi. about 40 kilometers inland and up in the mountains the

snowboard qualification is underway. but more and more people continue to arrive here ahead of the opening ceremony which takes place on friday evening. and as you said, there are still some problems with the hotels. welcome to sochi, the first olympic event sharing hotel horror stories. >> there's definitely quirks. we didn't have lightbulbs in the lamp. you use it and -- isn't really there. it will probably fall apart. >> reporter: and that's not the only thing falling apart. >> my he toll room -- hotel room, the window fell out on my head and i couldn't get it back in and had to sleep the first night with the window sort of half open. >> reporter: it seems like there's major last-minute construction going on at a lot

of hotels. journalists and athletes are taking to twitter to complain, including our own cnn sports team. this is the one hotel room they have given us so far. shambles. guests are being greeted by small beds in tight quarters, open doors and barren spaces. one tweeter wrote that his hotel has no floor. okay, so my hotel doesn't have a lobby yet, but for those of you asking, when there's no lobby in your hotel, you go to the owner's bedroom to check in. then there's this, a sign in the bathroom imploring people, please do not flush toilet paper down the toilet. and this woman quickly learned to avoid water in her hotel. she tweets my hotel has no

water, if restores, the front desk says do not use on your face because it contains something very dangerous. well, i put it to the head of the 24 team organizing committee, he said these are just minor problems when you consider the massive scale of everything they've built here in the seven years since the games were awarded. they are working 24 hours aday, i can tell you, to right the wrongs. it actually makes it quite exciting. yesterday, i got back into my hotel, the big question is what is going to be there to greet me when i go back today. >> i like the fact that you're making lemonade out of lemons. you're there for an adventure and there for a job. thanks so much for that. very interesting to see. some of them are having to deal with interesting conditions. >> i could love to show you this. the two people redefining the

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that. >> mc hammer back in the 1980s, i had his pants. >> they made my legs go crazy. >> i wore hammer pans for halloween once. i think i was in third grade. >> okay. pops, we're going to take a break. >> don't align against me. >> you're a whole six months older than me. >> exactly and you always will be. the powerful snowstorm leaves hundreds of thousands of people around philadelphia and pittsburgh in the dark and they may not get relief any time soon. plus big changes for the world's largest sandwich chain. why is subway removing an inagreed cent in their -- ingredient in their spread and what is it? [ ambient street noise ]

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to help maintain healthy cholesterol levels without a prescription. cardioviva. good morning. welcome back to "new day." it is thursday, february 6th, 7:00 in the east. we're going to start out with our news blast. the most news you can get anywhere. we all know there have been some threats of late. explosives can be put in toothpaste containers. on going power outages are occurring. >> how are you going to copy three days without power? >> three people were indicted on drug possession charges. >> my client is not responsible. the only thing thrown was popcorn. >> that was no cause to shoot anyone. the smell of weed so overwhelmi overwhelming. >> everything he does is a textbook how to kill your

career. all right. we begin with the competition in sochi because it has just begun. snowboarding to be exact. the u.s. warning airlines flying to russia for the games that terrorists could try to smuggle explosives on board concealed in tubes of toothpaste or other cosmetics containers. the opening ceremonies, remember, justaway. and breaking over night, the faa will inspect lightning protection systems at control towers. this comes after a lightning strike injured an air traffic controller in september. the faa says that incident was the first of its kind. so is there a deal with iran or not? they say the u.s. is unlikely to get what it wants in the nuclear program. u.s. and the european union

lifted some sanctions after an interim deal was reached in november. happening today, senate democrats set for a test vote later in the morning to extend the long term unemployment benefits for more than a million americans. har harry reid moving forward with the bill. 1 million customers across the northeast lost power after the latest winter storm. it could be days before hundreds of thousands of people in pennsylvania get the lights back on. the latest winter storm pulled down trees and knocking out electricity to three-kwaurs of a million people. now another powerful storm could be headed their way. let's go to margaret connolly. what's the status? >> reporter: nearly a million people are without power across the country.

in pennsylvania hundreds of thousands of people have no power. this is -- this town a completely dark. and you can see why by just looking up at the trees here. there's heavy ice and snow layering the branches. some of those branches have fallen knocking down power lines. we can hear crackling as the snow is melting and some of that ice is coming down. it's also creating dangerous situations for people on the ground. emergency workers are working around the clock. now, we also know that the big power company here, they're bringing in 200 people from chicago to try to resolve this. kate, we are also hearing that power outages could lost for some -- last for some people here into the weekend. >> thank you so much. so by all the time the lights come back on, more extreme

winter weather could be moving in. let's bring in chad myers for the latest. how's it looking now? >> especially some wind we could get on sunday. i think the 2 to 3 feet of snow has moved on up toward nova scotia. we know it's going to be somewhere, but it's not going to be in the u.s. 23 in boston right now. 23 in new york city. and it's not going to warm up today. we're going to be below freezing everywhere. there's black ice ever where you walk, everywhere you drive across the northeast. philadelphia, 20, 23, somewhere in that ballpark for the next couple days. 31 on saturday in new york city. when the sun comes out, some of those branches may melt. when that ice falls out of the branchs, the branches go back up and knock power lines down from the other way. this is sunday. this is an inch or couple of inches storm.

the feet go to nova scotia. sorry about that canada. president obama keeping a tradition of his presscy alive. he will speak at this morning's national prayer breakfast. he has spoken at the event every year of his presidency. he'll be joined by the first lady and vice president joe biden. returning now to the top story. officials say president obama has been briefed on the latest intel suggests explosives could be concealed in toothpaste tubes on planes heading for the games. we're live at the white house. >> reporter: good morning, chris. this morning, a senior official says the president has been made aware of the threat and that he is meeting regularly about olympic security. this is about terrorists using toothpaste tubes to smuggle

explosives into russia is deemed to be credible and serious according to u.s. officials. the threat assessment has really been on the rise, something they've been looking at for weeks. they've been seeing an uptake in threat reporting. a senior administration official says they do not see anything at this point that would warrant a travel advisory to americans traveling to the games. they have not done that at this point yet. secretary kerry said if merps do want to go to the games, they they should go. >> let's talk more about this. let's bring in fran town send and a former president bush homeland security advisor. we've talked about this all along. we know from u.s. officials that there have been a number of specific threats that the u.s. was tracking. now what do you make of it that

they've gone this far to really alert the public of potential toothpaste bombs? >> we heard the testimony yesterday of the national counterterrorism center. now we understand this had to have been one of them. we know that different al qaeda and extreme is groups have used liquid explosives. we know they share bomb making training and information across the extremeist spectrum. the worry there is a plastic explosive. >> so they're coordinated on their side. are we coordinated on our side? what's the latest understanding as to how russia and the u.s. are working together? >> just yesterday, they said they are sharing information. and it appears as though this

information may have come from u.s. officials and passed to the russians. so that's a good sign. but look, you've got to be concerned. the closer we get, this is a dangerous region. clearly officials are hearing more threat information and it's concerning. >> do you see any indication -- there's the one bomb -- maker that a lot of people link these creative bombs to. is there any link to him on this? >> we haven't heard any of that. but as i say, often times, even if there's not a direct link, that sort of expertise gets shared throughout the jihadi community. >> is it fair for me to look at what's going on with the hotels and those types of preparations and see it as a correlation to the level of preparedness in general in. >> probably not. i can remember in the runup to

the at thens olympics, we were worried about getting things done. and somehow these things come together. this sa good -- is a good deal worse. the honest answer, they've spent so much time and attention to the security issue, the inf infrastructure didn't get the attention they needed. >> back to the toothpaste at hand, what do they do about it? flights are coming in. people are arriving. do they -- do they take the tithe paste out of everybody's bag? >> it's interesting. the concern is flights from europe into russia. of course, the problem that the russians are facing, the domestic problem is the one that we're so concerned about, right? these are accept ratists and extreme iss inside of russia. you got to wonder what scrutiny they're giving to internal flights first. it's happening in the european cities before you enter russia. you can expect that those -- any

flights now from europe and around the world going into rush russia are getting additional screening and security measures. >> all right, fran, thank you. >> toothpaste prices are going to skyrocket over there. meanwhile secretary of state john kerry will send off a group of olympic athletes before the jets game. they will join kerry in a ceremony puck drop. kerry is a major hockey fan. immigration reform could be off the table until 2015 with some conservative house republicans ruling out a vote this year. they're insisting they wait until next year. last june, the senate passed a bipartisan immigration reform bill, but it has been stalled in the house ever since. new developments in the disappearance of a police

captain in virginia. arrests are linked to the theft of quick's truck. investigators say the truck is connected to an armed robbery that happened sunday night. quick has been missing since friday. three drug suspects pleading not guilty last night in connection in the investigation of pill ipse mower hoffman's death. they say one of the suspects, 57-year-old jazz musician was found with large amounts of heroin and had hoffman's number saved in his phone. autopsy results have been deemed inconclusive. let's take a gander at what's in the papers. the former head of the snrg regulatory committee is calling the attack the most significant event of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever

occurred. he says it might have been a rehearsal for a large scale attack. that happened last april, by the fbi maintains there's no indication of terrorism. in the new york times, experts say egypt is once again an open front for gee had. militants returning to the country to fight egypt's military-backed government. they had been largely isolated until latter summer -- last summer. and in the washington post, get ready for a far more powerful generation of surveillance cameras, they can actually track ever person and vehicle across on area the size of a small city, in realtime, for several hours at a time. they can use it to identify people and track their movement. there are limitations of course. these cameras can't read license plates or see faces.

crews in north carolina are working to plug a hole in a pipe spewing tons of ash into a river. more than 80,000 tons of ash have escaped. the leak was discovered sunday by a guard at duke energy. still no timetable though for when the leak will be fully contained. also new this morning, curt shilling is battling cancer. he didn't say what type of cancer he has. espn says it will welcome shilling back whenever he's ready. the stock market seems to be settling down a bit. christine romans is here once again. so is the rocky road behind us? >> investors seem to have hit the pause button. i'm not going to say we're going to reverse. that's only about half of that 10% correction so many fear.

what happens next, probably depends on what the government tells us tomorrow about the jobs market. that's 24 hours from now. for now, stocks are steady. unless you're twitter. twitter warning that sales are expected to slow. its user growth slowing. twitter gets talked about a lot, but it is a small, little enterprise and it still has a lot to prove. sales, if you look at them, really tiny compared to all their competitors. most of those sales are in twitter's bright spot mobile. a lot of what happens in the stock market is going to depend on what happens with the jobs report tomorrow. let's take a look at what is trending. subfreezing temperatures could not stop 700,000 seahawks fans. that's more than quadruple the

usual amount. there he is. that's marshawn lynch. there he is showered by fans with his favorite candy skittles. he was actually seen speaking to them as well. ny shell, you're not the only lucky one anymore. poor health landed a former castaway back in the hospital. he claims he survived for 13 months in the pass tick ocean is suffering from dehydration and malnutrition. officials say they have no reason to doubt his story so far. nischelle, check this guy out. looks like he's sleepwalking in the slow. it's a sculpture. the exhibit caused a whole lot of buzz on the school's museum's facebook page. others have start add petition to have it removed. the president of the school says it's supposed to provoke talk

and new ideas. creepy or thought provoking? >> i'd be thinking, i'd be talking and it would fool me. now, jay leno is hosting his final edition of the tonight show tonight. we said this before, remember, back in 2009? >> you were the only choice. you were the perfect choice. you have been an absolute gentleman in private, in the press. good luck next week my friend. >> yeah, we all remember the conan debacle a few yearsing a. his guest tonight includes billy crystal. leno will be replaced by jimmy fallon starting february 17th. it is the end of an era this evening. >> the beginning of a new one. >> i never got to see a show live while i was in l.a. >> never? >> no. >> there's been so much talk.

he's been up and down. he is going out number one. >> yep. well done. >> and i just read a book about johnny carson written by his former lawyer. it was really interesting how he really created the genera. now they're all just walking in his footsteps. >> jay leno has said jimmy fallon is the person closest to johnny carson. a bizarre incident involving justin bieber and his father. both smoking pot on a plane. so much pot was being smoked, pilots felt forced to put on oxygen masks to avoid a contact high. >> reporter: justin bieber in the headlines once again for all the wrong reasons. this time for allegedly refusing a pilot's warning to stop smoking pot on board a pilot

fright from toronto to the super bowl last friday. it permeated the cockpit. the pilots claim they put on oxygen masks to keep their lungs clear apparently afraid they might otherwise fail a possible drug test. they allegedly warned bieber and his entourage repeatedly to put the pot away. the pilots claim that troubled teenage pop sensation and his father were verbally abusive to a flight attendant. once the plane landed, sources said the penetrating odor was so pungent it was obvious it was more than the plane that had been flying high. the charter company declined comment and so did bieber's representative. >> the traditional person gets in an airplane and they have to worry about being on time and going through the tsa.

this kid has a private jet and yelling at his pilots and trying to get them high. >> reporter: as for the presuper bowl incident, no drugs were found, no charges filed. cnn new york. >> i mean -- >> listen. we say a lot about just within. but when you're father's on the plane with you -- >> i blame the father. >> me too. >> he needs to do an interview and talk about what he's doing here. justin's just a kid. he needs to get in the chair and account for what's going on. >> he's facing multiple charges in more than one state. >> kids need parents. >> what a situation to find yourself in and be professional. >> and to be the only woman on that plane and being verbally abused to the point that you have to take refuge with the pilot, it's beyond to me. it's beyond. >> all right. i'm with you on that one,

though, chris, as parent. that i'm not. >> coming up next, a murder trial some people are comparing now to the george zimmer man tray van martin case. office man justified when he shot at a group of black teens after asking them to turn down their music. there was a movie called, so i married an action merder. is there a chemical being put in your bread to help the dough stretch. and it could be really dangerous. and a choice. take up to 6 tylenol in a day or just 2 aleve for all day relief. all aboard. ♪

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begin today in florida and it's drawing parallels to the trayvon martin case. michael dun is facing murder charges after opening fire on a careful of brak teenagers why? he claims they pulled a gun. as we report, that didn't happen. >> reporter: november 2012, authorities say began with a fight over loud music at a jacksonville, florida gas station and ended with jordan davis shot and killed. >> it's been the most difficult, challenging year of my life. >> reporter: flash forward to february 2014. the trial now underway for michael dunn charged with first degree murder and three counts of attempted murder, dunn pleaded not guilty. during the police interrogation

dunn told them he asked them to turn down their music. then he says he heard threats from the teens and saw a gun in their car. >> the guy that was in the back was getting really agitated. and my window's up, i can't hear anything he's saying. but it was [ bleep ] like that [ bleep ] and [ bleep ]. and then the music comes back on. >> reporter: saying he feared for his safety, he retrieved his gun then fired four shots into the suv davis was in. as it sped away, dunn fired four more roupds. >> when you began to shoot, can you honestly tell thaws you ever saw a gun inside the vehicle? >> i saw a barrel come up in the window, like a single shot skbun. i saw that part of the barrel. it was either a barrel or a

stick. but, sir, there -- there -- they're like we're going to kill you. >> reporter: davis sitting in the backseat was killed. his three friends survived. investigators say they found no guns inside their suv and that dunn left the scene, never calling police. cnn, jacksonville, florida. >> let's break down the case with cnn legal analyst and former prosecutor. paul, great to have you as always. people may not like the outcome in the zimmer man case, but compared to this case, zimmerman was a no-brainer. the cases really don't line up in any way. you play the prosecution. i'll play the defense. the main allegation of course is just what we just unpacked there for you in the story. my main defense is i had to make a decision to save my life. it was an immediate situation. i saw something, i did what i had to do to protect myself.

that's the end of the story. >> i think it's a very, very weak defense here for a couple reasons. if we can go political for one second. what's trying this case, angela corey. she's the prosecutor of this area. she sent some of her assistants to try the zimmerman case. this looks to be a slam dunk for the prosecution. because in order to use deadly physical force, you have to be in reasonable fear that that force is going to be used against you. and on this fact pattern, you know, he fired four shots as the car was driving away. he was firing four more shots into a fleeing vehicle. it doesn't sound like he's defending himself. >> once i started firing i'm going to explain that by the repetitive stress event. you can't judge by actions anymore. i saw a gun coming at me. >> you're not going to win with that. when you saw that video, first he says, i thought it was the barrel of a shotgun. later he says it could have been

a stick. and of course we really have some other evidence in the case that may come out. jailhouse letters that are kind of shocking in their expression of his racist attitude toward african-americans. >> it becomes very relevant because it goes to what his motivations were in the moment. let's take a look. i'm not really prejudiced against race, but i have no use for certain cultures. this gangster rap ghetto-talking culture is intolerable. >> let's translate it into how it works in a courtroom. you have to show you, yourself, were in reasonable fear that i i don't were going to get shot, but you also have to show that a reasonable person would feel this way. this letter seems to suggest that he bears this animus toward african-american culture. so that's not reasonable in america today to say that because you don't like the way

african-americans dress and act you have the right to shoot them because you have this fear. >> as in the zimmerman trial, if you provoke a situation, it raises the bar of analysis in terms of what you are allowed to do to defend yourself. that's what the fact pattern suggests. this one may be more damning. if more people would arm themselves and kill these idiot when is they threaten you, eventually they may take the hit and change their blav i don't remember. >> extremely damaging. no gun was found in the car these kids were in. after he fires eight shots into the vehicle, does he go to the local plaigs police station and say, hey, i was attacked. no he goes and orders pizza. does that sound like a guy who was in reasonable fear of his life and acted in a terrible situation and then goes to the poli

police? no. everything he did seems to mitigate against self defense. >> as you like to say, from the begins he has trouble because he's in a car. he has immediate choice of egress, he could have immediately driven away and saved himself. what's the chance this case goes his way? >> it's a prosecutor's case, but you never know in a courtroom. i'll tell you there are a couple of things that i think the defense could exploit in this case. one, his girlfriend was inside the convenience store at the gas station. he's going to say, i couldn't drive away. i had to stay and protect her. he's also going to say these kids drove around in a circle and came back, they dichd the shotgun. even if a couple of the jurors believe there was a gun in the suv, he wins on self defense. it's never over until the jury speaks in a criminal trial. >> why didn't i think of that?

>> because you're a tv anchor as opposed to a criminal defense lawyer like me, chris. what can i tell you? >> it stings. you copied my pocket square today. he copied. take a look. he was a straight line across guy, now he's a flare guy. i'm going to win just on that. >> coming up next on "new day," police caught in a wild gun battle with a man out to kill as many cops as possible. we're going to show you dramatic video that shows the officers as they came under fire and how they responded. also this, more than a thousand american athletes headed to sochi, but thousands of containers of american yogurt may be held back. great story. we'll sprain. -- explain. [ coughs, sneezes ]

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half past 7:00 in the east. let's take a look at your headlines. a new terror threat hanging over sochi as preliminary competition begins at the winter olympics this morning. warning airlines that terrorists could conceal bomb making materials in toothpaste tubes on planes headed to russia. more than a million people in the northeast, most in pennsylvania, without power this morning. heavy snow and ice taking out tree limbs and electric lines. it could take days to get everybody back online. another winter storm is bearing down on the region. and that is k379ed to hit -- expected to hit late sunday. >> a retired police captain

accused on f a deadly shooting in a movie theater is back in court this friday. curtis reeves made an emotional peerns wednesday breaking down in tears. prosecutors described a cold-blooded killing that began with a dispute over text messages. witnesses say the victim simply threw popcorn at him. a spanish cargo ship slammed into a sea wall and then snapped in half out of the south western coast of france. all 12 crew members were rescued by helicopters. we're told one person reportedly suffered some sort of nose injury. a pollution report has been issued in the area because of a fuel leak. it snapped in half. crazy. and then we have a bit of a crime. a burglary that has very

interesting occurrence. this is big mouth billy bash, you guys know it, the singing fish. i parentally it was near the door of a fishing bait store. the owner thinks the noise scared off a would be burglar. so now add to big mouth billy bass, crime fighter. >> so annoying, a burglar would rather leave. >> an annoyance factor. >> my wife has thrown out like three of those. >> why? >> this one's hi layer just. where is it? >> christina's going to love it. >> she doesn't. big changes for the world's largest sandwich change this morning. subway announced it's removing a controversial chemical from its bread. an additive found in shoe souls and yoga mats to add elasticity.

senior medical correspondent is here with much more on this. what is this chemical? >> the chemical is used to make the bread stronger to strengthen the bread. subway says, hey, it's safe. subway says they are removing it as part of their bread improvement process, quote, end quote. >> end quote. is this a very unusual case that this chemical is found in this bread? >> you probably haven't heard of it pause you don't -- because you don't sit and read the whole ingredients. it's found in all sorts of breads. it's very hard to say is it bad for you, isn't it bad for you. they took a look and said, in mice, it appears to be a carcinogen. in humans the increased risk is

slight, so they don't seem terribly worried about this. but they do say, let's get it out of bread, you don't need it, even if the increased chance of cancer is negative jibl. >> i would prefer it not in the bread. i'll just have my bread additive free. >> what the hell? it's in a yoga mat to make it stretch chi? krizcy. >> i think what the fda would say is, look, there's no proof it does anything bad. i'm sure they do. >> i know. >> thank you, elizabeth. >> it makes it stretch and it's in yoga mats. the risk is slight. >> half the stuff we eat, we

don't even know what's in it. that's our problem. >> if you can catch it and improv it in the bread improvement process. holy cow. as if the russians didn't have enough to worry about, you have terrorists, venues, dangerous ski slopes. they now decided to go after the chobani. >> this is right. the food fight is on. right now, russia is getting a gold medal in medaling. russia's version of the fda says the u.s. olympic committee can't import thousands of cartons of chobani yogurt into the olympics. russia says the official reason is safety. right now, 5,000 -- 5,000 single seven cups of this yogurt, some big tubs as well, are sitting in a refraj rated -- refrigerated

storage. it's normal, by the way, for teams to import their own food. in china, they imported chicken and cereal. chicken because of safety concerns of the stuff that was in china. now meanwhile, the cold war playing out in washingon. sanitary standards have been met to ensure that this yogurt will be safe for con kupgs. the obama administration seeking a special one-time approval for our olympic yogurt that is, by the way, greek. for his own part, you have got chobani's marketing officer said you'd like to think his yogurt could get diplomatic immunity. @tleets standard -- athletes are encouraged to sarp l local food -- sample local food after they actually compete, not before. >> the yogurt can't get in.

>> there's nothing more olympic than greek yogurt. >> right. >> nothing says the olympics like greek yogurt. >> i will follow this every minute of the day until we get a conclusion. >> you must. accountability demands. let's take another break. coming up next on "new day," is this slope -- is this slope too slippery in sochi. the slope tile event -- style event already under fire after several athletes were hurt. we're going to be asking the olympics. >> i'm staying on the food news. some includes into a great food mystery. where does the chicken mcnugget come from. here's a hint. the first word is more important than the second. >> do you want the answer? people don't have to think about

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and welcome back to "new day." the olympics ceremony is tomorrow. some events started today, including the snowboard slopestyle. look at this amazing video. this event has drawn controversy with many calling those jumps too dangerous. shaun white in fact dropped out of the event after he jammed his wrist on it. two other athletes were also seriously hurt during practice runs. one man, bobby brown, i'm sure there's a prerogative joke in there somewhere. he joins us live from sochi via skype. i'm sure you want to say hello to denver.

>> hey. how you doing? >> good to talk to you. you've been hearing a lot of buzz. a lot of people a lot about the danger of this slopestyle course. you had a chance to be on it. how are you feeling about it. >> it's definitely hard to get used to. we had our third day of practice yesterday, it was one of the best practices i ever had. i think my fellow competitors were excited about it too. you have to work out the kinks and get the dialed and then it starts to feel pretty comfortable. for us skiers, we still have three more days of practice. >> we understand they made modifications to the course after there was concern from skiers and snowboarders about the course itself. even after that, a couple people were injured. why is it? is it the course itself or the conditions that are more dangerous?

>> definitely think it's the conditions. there hasn't been the most snow here, so they've had to use a lot of manmade snow. the consistency of the snow is a lot different than what we're used to. the snow is harder, it's a little icier. it's harder to fwroom and maintain -- groom and maintain. it looked like it was slushy out there today. as far as the course, i think the builders actually did a really good job. they met with the riders and made the tweaks that were necessary. >> you make too and you take the ooh-ah factor out of it. what you guys do is incredibly dangerous. >> sure. everything is a progression. you're climbing a ladder moving step by step and getting everything dialed. yeah, i mean, they've been doing a good job keeping the course

running smoothly. i'm stoked for a few more days of practice. >> it's also your first olympic games. tell us how the experience has been for you so far. >> yeah, it's been unreal. we've been out here since january 31st. it's been nothing but fun. the olympic village is pretty cool. they've got the dining hall, so you run into everyone there. the snow's been great. it's just been really fun for sure. >> are you hearing much about security over there? is there a concern among the athletes? >> no, not at all. they've done a really good job of just teaching us and telling us what we should be doing and looking out for. in the athlete village there's a lot of security and they're taking a lot of security measures to make sure we're safe up here. i went down to the village yesterday and looked around and i felt very comfortable down there. to this point so far, i think

it's been awesome and really safe. >> does that kind of stuff get in your head or are you able to compartmentalize it, if you will? >> you have to just let that go and leave the professionals up to it. you just have to really focus on what you're doing and focus on why we're here. it's for the olympics and to compete at the highest level you possibly can. you kind of got to block that out and let everyone that knows what they're doing deal with that. >> we hope that you have the best time. you're first olympics. we hope it's one of many. a lot of folks cheering for you back home. >> awesome. >> that's bobby brown, free slope skier. it's going to be amazing to watch. can't wait to see it. >> always great to hear just how much simple, pure fun it is for

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♪ welcome back to "new day," everyone. the answer now to the age-old mystery. what's in a chicken mcnugget? here you go.

mcdonald's is pulling back the curtain on the nugget-making process. and jeanne moos has more on that. so much more. >> reporter: how do we get from this to this? irresistible little asteroids of battered chicken. mysterious in their origin. >> do they just throw a whole chicken in a blender and make a mcnugget? >> even more disturbing, the pink elephant in the room. >> what are legitimately in mcnuggets. is there pink goo. this photograph that's snaked around the internet with the caption, can you guess what mcdonald's food item this is? it's said to be the entire chicken, eyes, guts, bones, ground up into something called mechanically separated poultry. not us, says mcdonald's. photo hoax. but pink goo won't go away. for years, mcdonald's has been trying to kill this photo. and now mcdonald's of canada has taken the goo by the horns,

directly addressing the question of the super bowl commercial seen only in canada. >> what's actually in nuggets? >> is there any pink goop? >> nope, nada, none. mcdonald's wants you to see what's in their mcnuggets so they've released a video tour starting with whole chickens, the breast meat is set aside to make mcnuggets. >> dumping it into the grinder and adding the ground chicken breast meat to the blender with some seasonings and chicken skin. >> that's pretty much it. ground up breast meat. >> there's the pink goo image. here's what we actually have. so it's very different. >> yeah, beige goo. just kidding. two independent food science experts told cnn that mcdonald's seems to be giving the straight scoop. of course, there's nothing healthy about all the fat and salt in mcnuggets. there is one other secret revealed on the tour. >> the four nuggets shapes, the

ball, the boot, the bell, the bow tie. >> maybe that's a bow tie. >> no, that's a boot. >> does this look like a bow tie to you? one thing they are not making mcnuggets into is the shape of a snake. >> turn it into a bow tie. >> jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> now we can all feel better. >> i didn't know about the shapes. >> did not know about the shapes at all. >> what does it mean when you are like okay that you only have to worry about incredible amounts of salt for food. >> that's a whole other thing. >> what does that say when like, oh, great it's just all the salt and fat to worry about. at least it's actual chicken. >> one thing off the list. >> exactly. >> they're tasty. they're tasty. i'm not going to lie. >> the question is -- put an addictive chemical in a

chicken that makes you crave them. let's take a break on "new day." breaking news out of sochi for you. the threat may come in toothpaste tubes. a startling warning going out to the airlines. can the games be kept safe is a nagging question. you have the story covered from so muchy to the pentagon. the afluenza team dodges jailtime again after killing four people in a drunk driving crash. his attorney will be joining us live exclusively in the next hour. [ laughter ]

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event. >> game on. the first competitions of the winter olympics have finally begun. so has the race to prevent attacks. the u.s. gives a new warning that terrorists may be using toothpaste tubes as bombs there. we're live with the latest. dark and cold. 1 million americans waking up without electricity this morning after that ice and snowstorm took out power lines. will power be restored before the next storm comes through? getting off easy? he made national headlines as a case of affluenza. now he's gotten his official sentence. no jail time despite taking the lives of four people. his lawyer joins us live speaking out for the first time. >> your new day continues right now. this is "new day" with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. >> 8:00 in the east. u.s. officials are warning of a brand new threat tied to the olympic games. just as preliminary competitions

have begun. and the opening ceremony is set for tomorrow. homeland security officials are firing off a bulletin to every airline with direct flights to russia to be on the lookout for toothpaste bombs. terrorists may be packing explosives in the tubes or in other cosmetic tubes. our coverage begins with nick payton walsh live from sochi, russia. what do we know? >> we do know the russians may have had an inkling of this beforehand. it's hard to get carry-on liquids on to flights from moscow to sochi. but a universal ban was very unpopular but still, they were absolutely clear, not even 100 milliliter size bottles could be taken on board. clearly issues here the russians may have been aware of. deep concerns in the u.s. is really adding to the background chatter of anxiety ahead of tomorrow's opening ceremony. >> any type of concealed explosive can be extremely damaging. it could be enough to bring a

plane down. >> airlines with direct flights to russia on alert this morning. the department of homeland security issuing another terror bulletin warning about the possibility that explosive materials could be concealed in toothpaste or cosmetic tubes on flights headed to the olympic games in sochi. the possible devices intended either to be detonated on the flights themselves or smuggled into the olympic village. former presidential candidate mitt romney who organized the 2002 winter olympics discussed this threat with cnn's wolf blitzer. >> a real grave concern to hear a report of this nature and you basically want to know more. are we going to put in place immediately restrictions on any kind of tubes or cosmetics going in flights toward russia? but as individuals, as airlines, people are concerned given the specificity of the nature of this threat and the fact there's

almost nothing they can do to prevent something of this nature from perhaps being put on to an aircraft. >> despite security concerns, the obama administration has not advised americans to avoid the games. secretary of state john kerry telling jake tapper before the toothpaste alert was issued -- >> i believe that anyone who wants to go to the olympics, which are just a great event, should go. we feel that everything has been done that can be done to try to guarantee people safety and security. >> this latest threat coming as athletes continue to arrive in sochi. one german snowboarder at his first olympics had just landed. >> i'm real surprised because we just touched down and just saw the soldiers next to the runway. that was -- wow. >> athletes now head into the ring of steel behind dogs, cameras on balloons, warships and anti-aircraft batteries. the precautions taken to protect participants. experts say may be the most dangerous olympic games in

history. >> the russians have sent a senior official out to say, look. the fact they are talking about this threat means our system is working and the ceo of the u.s. olympic committee scott blackman said we've done a lot of exercises before this. everything is being done to protect u.s. athletes and exude a sense of confidence. that that mirrored by about 80 u.s. olympic athletes. they are pretty calm, pretty relaxed. a lot of smiles. maybe a hope that the talk of anxiety, of security fears might possibly ebb and the games can begin. still, each time this happens, we see another threat emerge. >> nick, thank you very much. two obvious questions, how real is the threat. how ready are they for it? let's get to barbara starr at the pentagon. >> good morning, chris. how real is the threat is now the key question. u.s. intelligence agencies are going to be looking at everything. telephone intercepts, online

chatter, jihadist forums, postings that known jihadists may be making. any chatter throughout about all of this. the key question is, who is out there in the bomb-making jihad world that would have the ca capability to do this. not just fill a toothpaste tube with explosives but make a device that would be undete undetectable to airport security or difficult to detect. low or no metal content. who can do it? who has that capability? that's the key question now. >> barbara, thank you so much. let's get back to the weather. the other big story we're watching this morning. more than a million customers lost power across the northeast. and hundreds of thousands in pennsylvania are still without electricity this morning. heavy snow brought down trees and power lines sending people running for flashlights and whatever they could find before the sun went down. utility companies say restoration could take days. making matters worse, another blast of winter weather is headed our way.

let's start first with barbara conley in pennsylvania with more on this. margaret? >> reporter: hi. this town of abington township has no power. a lot of people are happy the sun has come up. we went into people's homes down this street last night. inside they were just surviving by candlelight. there are about 22,000 households in this area. 19,000 of them now are without power. this is one of the hardest hit areas in pennsylvania. over 100 million people continue to dig out of wednesday's massive snowstorm leaving close to a million people without power. >> we haven't had a winter like this in almost three years. >> reporter: nearly a foot of snow fell in parts of the boston area forcing schools and government offices to be closed again. roads blocked by downed trees, power lines and mounds of snow made driving nearly impassable from kansas to new york. the pennsylvania turnpike shut down for hours after this fatal

crash near the state's capital. >> this winter storm has had a direct impact all across the state of pennsylvania. >> reporter: residents from ohio to maryland remain in the dark this morning. hundreds of thousands of homes in pennsylvania face more power outages from this powerful winter storm than from superstorm sandy. >> still don't have any power. >> reporter: in this home in abington township, bob and debbie burns stocked up on candles, flashlights and extra layers of clothes. >> no television. no radio. we're charging our phones in our car. brought the generator out. >> reporter: heavy snow and ice accumulation caused branchs to fall knocking down power lines. >> repairs have been hampered somewhat by the road conditions. especially the back roads. and there's so many trees down. >> reporter: officials warn power may not be restored for days. >> essentially, the entire county is without power. as long as i've been here at the county, i can never remember a time we had that many power

outages. >> reporter: emergency workers there working around the -- emergency workers there working around the clock to resolve this issue. there are warming centers that opened up across the county. but officials are saying that some areas may not have power through the weekend. chris? >> margaret, thank you for being out there monitoring it for us. to be clear, there has been no motherly love from mother nature this winter. the question is, will we finally catch a break? chad myers is here with what's developing this weekend. what do we see? >> it's still cold. i don't see it warming up above freezing for the next five days in a lot of these places that saw so much ice. this is the area through here where all those power outages are. a million people aren't going to get above freezing today and they have no power. you can't warm the house. morning low temperatures in the teens. current temperature 12. that's what it feels like outside and inside the temperature if the wind is blowing through without the heater on. baltimore, you don't get above freezing. philadelphia, 28. new york city, still very cold. new york city, even on saturday, the warmest day of the week, you

only get to 31. all that ice on the roadway, on the sidewalk right now is going to stay there. this will be an icy black ice couple of days. make sure you take good steps as you walk to work today. snow showers here. we talked about this storm on sunday. i don't think we'll get the cold air and the moisture together at the same time until it gets to nova scotia. sorry, nova scotia. you'll get two, three feet of snow up there. thank you for the salt you sent to wisconsin. we have to give you the snow because we just don't need any more down here. look at the windchills in the midwest. good morning, midwest. sioux falls, feels like 26 degrees below zero. >> all i can say is brr. my goodness. let's take a look at more headlines. breaking overnight, the federal aviation administration will inspect lightning protection systems at more than 400 air traffic control towers nationwide. this follows a lightning strike that injured an air traffic

controller at baltimore's main airport back in september. the faa says that incident was the first of its kind. democrats in the state moving forward with plans to extend long-term unemployment benefits for more than a million americans. a key procedural vote is scheduled for today. harry reid refusing to wait for republicans who are trying to amend the measure. not clear if he has the 60 votes needed to move that bill afford. now to developments in a story cnn has been following. the parents of kendrick johnson, the teen found dead inside a rolled up gym mat inside his school, are suing the funeral home that handled his body. they accuse the owner and workers of wrongfully disposing of their son's organs, replacing them instead with lots of newspaper. a private pathologist hired by johnson's parents made that disturbing discovery. chris christie headlines two gop fund-raisers in texas today and the state's top republican governor rick perry won't thereby to greet him. democrats say it's a sign the

party is nervous about the bridgegate scandal. the position once held by david wildstein has been eliminated from the books by the port authority of new york and new jersey. wildstein stepped down in december. he's the official who said got it in that notorious e-mail chain that read, quote, time for some traffic problems in ft. lee. a new york woman is facing criminal charges because her 2-year-old daughter repeatedly dialed 911. some 15 times last month. she told officials she'd been trying to keep the phone away from her toddler but she kept gherth hands on it. the woman's boyfriend now also being charged since the little one used her phone as well. they both have been charged with obstructing governmental administration. all cute until they get their hands on it and figure out thou -- >> there's got to be a way to keep the child from dialing 911. >> what a waste of police procedure time in charging them with this. >> oh, interesting. >> charging them. taking up all that time to be prosecuting other -- >> you need to send a message.

>> they have plenty of things to prosecute. also i'm a little biased. i'm completely overrun by the tiny terrors in my house. coming up on "new day," dramatic video of a deadly police chase and shootout in albuquerque. we'll show you. wait until you hear how the chaos was reported by a police officer who found himself right in the middle of the mayhem. affluenza. it's a word and a defense that caused outrage as a wealthy texas teen avoided jail after killing four people in a drunk driving accident. his lawyer says this is actually the right result, and he will telluous exclusively straight ahead. we asked people, "if you could get paid to do something you really love, what would you do?" ♪ [ woman ] i'd be a writer. [ man ] i'd be a baker. [ woman ] i wanna be a pie maker. [ man ] i wanna be a pilot. [ woman ] i'd be an architect. what if i told you someone could pay you and what if that person were you? ♪ when you think about it, isn't that what retirement should be, paying ourselves to do what we love?

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a police officer in the heat of the moment? we have new video of a wild police chase and shoot out in albuquerque that gives a real close-up look of a situation that left four officers wounded last fall. [ gunshots ] >> chaotic images recorded by a police officer's lapel camera that captured every terrifying moment. alexander field is here with the story. >> reporter: chris, he reportedly had the words cop killer tattooed on his body. 35-year-old christopher chase stole an albuquerque police car and led officers on a violent ride back in october. the frightening video of the chase has just now been released. newly released video showing a massive and deadly police chase. 35-year-old christopher chase leading officers for 16 miles through the streets of southeast albuquerque in a stolen police car. >> shots fired. >> reporter: chase reportedly wearing body armor and a tattoo

of the word cop killer seems hellbent on carrying out that mission. he shoots at the officers with a semiautomatic weapon injuring three of them. >> we've got an officer shot. let's go. >> reporter: watch as one officer checks on his wounded colleague. >> we need help. >> reporter: police shoot back at chase from their cars. chasing him into a gas station. chase slams the stolen cruiser into a gas pump. cops leap from their vehicles and an all-out gun battle breaks out. chase is hit eight times and dies at the scene. >> i hope everybody else is okay. >> reporter: all of the officers injured in the shooting survived. according to reports from cnn affiliate koat, chase also fake booby trapped his apartment. officers found his windows boarded up with fishing line visible and fake artillery shells. he had a long criminal history, including charges for embezzlement, fraud and traffic violations.

kate? >> alexandra, thank you so much. it's officially show time in sochi. the olympic opening ceremonies are less than 24 hours away. and several events have already begun. amid the building excitement, big questions remain, though, about whether sochi is prepared, still, to host the games. joining us now from vancouver, someone who understands the conditions in sochi better than almost anyone. roger mccarthy. he helped plan the layout of the olympic resort from scratch. roger, thank you so much for coming in this morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. so there is -- we talk a lot about the concern surrounding the games in terms of terror threats and security. now as people are arriving on the ground, there's a lot of concern that the olympic village, the town, is even going to be ready to accept visitors. there's lots of reports that suggest they are kind of in disarray. you were there back in 2007 in the very early planning stages. did you have concerns back then? >> well, i think almost all of

the facilities, including the hotels up in the mountain site, all of that is brand new. there was nothing there. all the lifts are -- went in really in 2008, 2007. and then the buildings have been since then. so there's been a massive amount of building, reclaiming of the riverbank and building a whole village down both sides of the river. and you don't just sort of pull those things out of the box and pump them up and here you go. so i think there will be some challenges because much of that stuff is -- the paint is drying. they are checking in, type of thing. and then the whole issue of training and delivery of service and all those other things that people are accustomed to in major destination resorts around the world. >> but, you know, there definitely was built from scratch. that's for sure. but when you are looking at it from the outside in, this is going to be like the most

expensive olympics ever. they've thrown so much money at this. vladimir putin's reputation kind of rests on this going off without a hitch. does this surprise you that they seem to be still painting and constructing while people are arriving to begin the games? >> no, it doesn't surprise me at all because in reality, there was nothing there. you know, really nothing at all. so when i started, there was no trails cut. you know, we were still trying to figure out, locate the tops and bottoms of lifts and those types of things. when you start to think about hotels and all of the infrastructure that goes with it, roads, sewer, water, electricity, and electricity is a significant issue in russia anyway. >> roger, from your perspective, then, since you saw it really from the beginning, really before the beginning, do you think sochi was a good choice for the winter olympics because the conditions there, the weather conditions there are something to consider as well.

>> well, i think that's another issue. and that may be -- we can never figure out exactly what the weather will do, but sochi is on the coast of the black sea. so it's a lot warmer than, say, the pacific. and if you thought about it being a sort of mid-oregon, it's quite a ways south. so i think the two potential weather influences there, one is a very warm weather. could be wet and rain at high levels. or you could get the siberian arctic high that comes in and really puts the deep freeze on the place. or you can get something in between. so it will be really interesting to see what happens there. >> guess so. roger mccarthy. great to meet you. thanks for coming in. >> thank you. chris? >> all right, kate. we'll take a break here on "new day." when we come back, a well-off teenager who killed four people in a drunk driving accident will not do a single day in jail.

affluenza. you know the word. a defense that outraged the nation. now his lawyer is here talking exclusively to "new day" about why this is the proper sentence.

all right. welcome back. time for the five things you need to know. homeland security officials warning airlines flying to russia that terrorists may be carrying explosives in tubes of toothpaste or cosmetics. preliminary olympic competition has already begun and the opening ceremony set for tomorrow. winter weather sparking more chaos. look at this snow plow dangling off a retaining wall on an ohio interstate this morning tafr crashed up an embankment.

meantime, hundreds of thousands of customers in pennsylvania still without electricity after this latest snowstorm. three people arrested in the investigation into philip seymour hoffman's apparent overdose pleading not guilty to various drug charges. the autopsy results have come back inconclusive. the democrat-controlled senate takes up unemployment benefits. they are holding a procedural vote today after rejecting republican requests for proposed amendments to the bill. and new jersey governor chris christie headlines two gop fund-raisers in texas today. the state's top republican governor rick perry will not be greeting him. we always update those five things to know so go to cnn.newday.com. a texas teen who killed four people in a drunk driving crash last year will face no jail time. instead a judge ordered ethan couch to attend rehab denying

pleas from victims' family members. they say he suffered from so-called affluenza. joining susmr. regan ngyuen, one of ethan couch's attorneys. sir, thank you for joining us. appreciate it. >> morning. >> now the idea that this situation is about affluenza you find to be a strict violation of what actually happened here, and i want to get to that. first, just tell us, what is the sentence and what do you believe are the challenges ahead for your client? >> judge boyd has ordered that ethan will be on probation for ten years. he will be likely transferred to the adult probation system at the age of 19. as a condition of his probation, she has ordered that he go to and complete the program at a lockdown drug treatment facility here in the state of texas. there were several conditions placed on him as the condition is probation, including he not

drive any vehicle at any time under any circumstances. his driver's license is suspended until further order of the court. he has been ordered not to be anywhere where alcohol is kept. can't have any alcohol in his house. obviously commit no law violations. not be around any persons who commit crimes. it's a pretty intensive probation. i think the big challenges ahead for him are going to be dealing with the severe psychological ptsd and substance abuse issues that he suffers from. >> all right. and so if he gets caught in a bar or something, even over the age of majority, and legal age of drinking it could trigger the sentence. and that's something he's going to have to deal with and certainly people will be watching him. the bigger concern is the criticism that he only got this sentence because he's a rich white kid. that you find that offensive. you thing word affluenza is overplayed and this is the right sentence. tell me why.

>> let me handle that in a couple of parts. first off with regard to affluenza. judge boyd heard three days of testimony. we had two extremely well qualified experts who testified. one of whom is on the stand for about two hours and uttered the word affluenza one time. that term was not used by either lawyer that represented mr. couch, and it was not our defense, simply put. our defense, and what judge boyd heard evidence of, was that this 16-year-old child was the product of a profoundly dysfunctional family. that he suffered from very real and serious psychological issues which had manifested themselves in a very real and serious substance abuse problem. and i think she considered all of that in determining what the appropriate sentence was. >> so you don't think him being a rich white kid had anything to do with it? >> i think it is ridiculous for

anyone who knows anything about the criminal justice system or the juvenile justice system to think that we walked into court and said, hey, judge, this is a rich white kid and she went, oh, okay, probation. i think the real issue was that she recognized the serious psychological issues that ethan suffers. >> there's an easy way to test it. have you ever heard of a poor kid or someone other than this kid getting this kind of sentence with this type of damage? >> yes. >> yes. >> really? >> yes. >> probation with having killed four people? >> i don't know of a case specifically like this, but i can tell you that the juvenile justice system is geared towards rehabilitation of the juvenile offender. the adult system is clearly more about vengeance. in the juvenile system, kids who do bad things are often sent for rehabilitation. and i would point out that the

crimes ethan was accused of, the charging instrument itself said that he committed these acts by accident or mistake. and i would submit to you that kids who do things by accident or mistake probably shouldn't be locked up with a key thrown away but, instead, we ought to be worried about kids we're scared of. kids who do things on purpose. i've handled a lot of intoxication manslaughter cases. and i think almost universally, the clients i've represented, none of them intended anything bad to happen. i just don't think 16-year-old kids who didn't intend to do anything harmful should be locked up. >> i understand that, but you have what the ideals of the system are versus what the practicalities of the system are. even though you've handled a lot of this you can't point me to a single other system where a kid in the juvie system killed four people and wound up getting off with probation. what does that tell you? >> this was such a bizarre set of facts and unthinkable tragedy, really, that there probably isn't a good case to compare it to.

>> what do you say to the families who feel like there is no justice in this because the lives that were taken were not treated with any kind of consequence for this kid in any real way. >> what i would say is that there is no winner in this case. ethan is going to live with what he did for the rest of his life. and i can tell you that he certainly feels remorse. the doctors say he's suffering from ptsd following the accident. >> that was missing also, though. we didn't hear ethan couch say how sorry he is, apologize to the families, show that remorse. why not? >> if you heard the testimony, you would have heard that ethan, right now, is so basically shell-shocked by this whole process, he has a very flat affect. he's able to express remorse but, quite frankly, i don't think there's anything he was going to say to anyone that was going to make them feel any

better. especially not coming from him. >> so you are saying the fact we didn't hear from him isn't because he doesn't care. it's just he's not capable of istime because of the trauma? that's what you are saying? >> exactly. and not to mention, ethan, the testimony was that he is emotionally and socially arrested to where he is effectively like a 12-year-old. i don't think he is capable of expressing his true feelings in a way that would be satisfactory to anyone. >> yet you can understand if it were your kid, your loved one who were taken in this accident how you'd feel if you heard about this sentence, right? >> absolutely, i can understand. but what i would ask people to think about is how they'd feel if it was their child who had been involved in it. i don't think very many people would just say, okay, go ahead and lock my 16-year-old son up and throw away the key. >> reagan wynn, thank you very much. this has driven a lot of debate. important to hear your side of

it. thank you for coming on "new day." coming up next, imagine a child pulled out of school lunch line, their food thrown away, their hands stamped all because their parents owe money. this happened and has sparked outrage and a debate. we'll figure out what's behind this and took a principal who lost her job standing up to such a policy. welcome back. how is everything? there's nothing like being your own boss! and my customers are really liking your flat rate shipping. fedex one rate. really makes my life easier. maybe a promotion is in order.

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welcome back. i know you're busy. we have a problem, and i need you to listen to this. it's not going to get better on its own. cafeteria workers in schools taking lunches away from kids who don't have enough money on

their prepaid accounts. they then throw the food away right in front of the child. in one stance, even stamp the hands of the kids to mark them out from all the other kids so everyone can know you didn't have the money to pay for your lunch today. our guest this morning stood up to this policy. noelle is a former principal from colorado who was fired in november after she demanded cafeteria workers stop stamping hands. she joins us now from denver. thank you for joining us. it's not just a colorado issue. texas to colorado. utah to new jersey. similar problems. tell us, what was the policy in your school? >> the policy was, if students didn't have enough money in their accounts or they were low, they'd get their hand stamped. i knew that happened a fehr years ago and i had already talked to the head of the lunch program and put a stop to it. then she moved on to envelopes. they got spread all over the lunch room and all over the playground. and then when i discovered hands were being stamped again this year, i went directly to her and said this needs to stop.

this is not how we communicate with parents through branding children and humiliating them and marking them. we don't even know if the message is getting to the parents by the time the children get home. what happened throughout the day having their hand stamped could affect them. from what i'm hearing from people that have gotten a hold of me, for the rest of their lives. this is a nationwide problem. >> it's definitely nationwide. i want to be clear about this. in your experience, how would it affect the kids who got the stamps, who had the envelope given to them who were singled out in line for this particular reason they couldn't pay for lunch. what did that do to the kids? >> it was humiliating. i have students who did not want to go into the lunch room. i was in the lunch room every day fortunately. i had one of the parents come to me and say my child does not want to go in the lunch room. he's afraid his hand is going to get stamped and i'm concerned he's not going to eat lunch. this is how he got lunch every day. >> you then make a stink about it and say, i don't want to treat my kids this way.

we don't do it with anything else. why the heck do it with this when it's not the kid's fault. you get fired and you think it was because of that? >> definitely. i went in and spoke -- i spoke with the lunch room superizor directly. she went and told my boss, because we were k-12, normally i'd be in charge of all programs at the school, if i was a -- just an elementary principal. but the structure at my school didn't work that way. i was called in to my boss' office and the director of operators who is in charge of her was there. and i told them, expecting them to be outraged and they weren't. about a week later, i told two board members, and the policy continued, despite this. it finally stopped after a parent came to me and i found out it was still going on and i went in and i said this has to stop. the director of operations said, all right, we won't stamp the hands of kids who are on free and reduced lunch because you are breaking a federal lunch law. and i said you can't know who is on and who is not. this is not how we need to

communicate. we can call families. we have a system that can tell us if school is going to be late. we can program it in, e-mail and text them. this is the age of technology. if you have relationships, which i did with these kids, i have no problem calling home. i think the problem is the mind-set. if you have the mind-set these are freeloaders and they are not paying versus the mind-set, hey, something is going on. let's find out what it is. let's solve this problem together, which is the way i operate because you have to think of these kids as our kids. >> it's also like, you guys are acting, the school, like you were the irs. you aren't a school where the kids are what you are supposed to put the premium on inspect and i know you have a lot of support in the community who say you should be brought back and this should be taken off your record, at a minimum. to be clear, was there anything else they had against you as a reason to fire you other than this incident? >> well, this is the only thing that they had in my personnel file. the lunch room person quit and my boss wanted me to take responsibility for her quitting. and i said i am sure that me

bringing this up to her and the long lunch lines, which was another problem, i had big concerns about kids not eating. and we have to work together and get kids, you know, to eat in order to learn. and so, like i said, i'm very hands-on principal. i was in the lunch room every day. i saw what was going on. i had great relationships with the kids and families and so i directly spoke with families and kids about this. and i want to be fair to the workers in the lunch room. they didn't want to be treating kids this way. so it wasn't, you know, they were -- wanted to feed kids and it was just a really bad policy that should have been put to an end. >> who can we get over on this. nobody wants to talk to us. supervisors don't want to talk to us. new jersey, they are throwing out lunches in front of kids who don't have the money to pay. they are throwing out the lunch. with all the problems we have with food. they are throwing out the lunch instead of letting the kid eat.

they won't talk saying there's pending litigation. that's as often an excuse as an explanation. where is the level of accountability? >> you know, i would like to say, instead of going after someone as a community, really just putting a voice to it and saying hour, can we solve this problem? there's a program i just found out called community eligibility that's going to start next school year where if a school is 40% free or reduced, all the kids can get free breakfast and lunch. that's a start. and then people need to get creative. i started a discretionary count at my school. and so i wanted all kids to be able to eat no matter what. and then i think you say, hey, your child took advantage of this fund. can you please refund it or maybe add a little extra. or you do something at the auctions. you set some money aside. i think people want to help. it's a matter of communication. and when they find out this happened, no matter what side of the spectrum they are on politically, they are outraged. and that's the stance schools

should take. i know it's difficult. we're trying to make budgets. meet budget deadlines and all of that. but we've got to get creative about, how are we going to feed our kids and help them learn. >> you think about all the money spent in education and all the things that get written off through waste and need. i can't believe this should be at the top of the list of things to crack down. poor kids who can't pay for their own kids. noelle roni, i'm sorry you got caught up in this. hopefully your situation finds a favorable resolution for you. thank you for speaking out on this issue. >> thank you so much for having me on because i really think we need to talk about this as a nation. >> we'll keep it going until we make it stop. thank you very much, noelle. kate? coming up next on "new day," jay leno is set to bid farewell to the "tonight show." what's in store for his final show and what's in store for leno himself? that's next. ♪ turn around

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then a little time to kick back. earn double hilton honors points with the 2x points package and be one step closer to a weekend break. doubletree by hilton. where the little things mean everything. end of an era is right. tonight, jay leno bids farewell. "the tonight show" host has been at the helm for 22 years. now he's passing the torch to successor jimmy fallon. even though it's his last show, tonight is far from leno's last laugh. cnn's nischelle turner is here with more. >> we know he's going to do some stand-up. but so many people have been asking, what is jay leno going to do next?

will he do another late night show? how about a show about his first love, which is cars. or will he just kind of chill and hang out for a while? jay is not saying much about that. but before we get to all that, time for the reigning king of late night to take his final bow. >> here's a man who needs no introduction. >> jay leno. >> endorsed by johnny and confirmed by hollywood. >> he continues to be number one all of these years. >> but in though end, it was jay leno himself who killed as host of "the tonight show." 4,610 times in all. >> the country has turned to him for all these 22 years to keep it going. >> known for his fierce loyalty, it's no surprise leno's final guest will be the same as his first. good friend billy crystal. >> the build-up for this has been tremendous, and i just want to say, i'm going to miss you. >> he called and asked me. i said, of course, i'll do it. his whole incredibly successful run to a full circle. >> leno's swan song also

includes garth brooks. >> i can't say we're working on a song but we're going to do a few special things to help him out the door. >> out the door and on to his next adventure along with his popular web series jay leno's garage. >> we've got to take it up on the freeway. >> first up for jay will be stand-up. >> if there's anything jay is, he's a stand-up. and, you know, he -- i am sure everything i've heard from him he plans on doing more of that. >> a lot more in fact. leno has dates booked for miami, detroit, las vegas and, of course, his regular post at mike lacey's comedy and magic club in hermosa beach, california. where the 63-year-old legend has been performing sunday nights for 35 years. >> if it wasn't for jay, i'm sure the club would have closed years ago, through all the rough times, he's always consistently there for his friends. ♪ >> the latest friend to feel

leno's love? >> thank you, jay leno. >> his successor. >> i'll do my best to make you proud every single night. thank you. "the tonight show" starring jimmy fallon kicks off february 17th. >> going to be interesting night tonight. jay has been reserved about all of this. he's been even a little awkward when his guests bring up the fact he's leaving. i'm anxious to see what's going to happen tonight. guys, it hasn't been all smooth sailing for jay and the late night gang. >> there have been some rocky roads. >> started in '92 when he was named the host. there was controversy. people thought david letterman would be the successor because he was on after johnny carson. in 2009 when conan replaced him and he ultimately replaced conan, he had to fight to get back. >> the late night wars. so funny that's been such a place of like contention all these years. supposed to make us laugh. supposed to be a nice -- >> i think for me, you think about what kind of changed the tide. for a lot of people that hugh grant interview in '95 that led jay on the road to number one.

>> it's a softness to him, though. that's important. certainly that's the legacy of johnny carson. >> funny, but not offensive. jimmy fallon has that also. >> you think it's a good time? >> absolutely. >> you think it feels right? >> he's a very different comedian. does different things. >> i hate to see leno go, but -- >> he's not going to be gone. >> you're right. exactly. we love you, jay. also jimmy. coming up -- we'll have the good stuff coming up next.

welcome back. right now, you are looking at the national prayer breakfast in washington, d.c. we're waiting for president obama to take the podium.

while we wait, instead of watching these guys, how about a little bit of "the good stuff." my favorite part of the show. we've been happy to tell you about a lot of big tips in restaurants around the country. recently this one may take the cake. three young waitresses working the saturday breakfast shift in snowy caladonia, illinois, where folding napkins, organizing silverware and just talking about what they call life stuff. take a listen. >> we were talking about school and braces and loans and everything that we can't afford. >> things we all talk about, right? need. little did they know, a customer was listening. when she was done with her omelet, she asked the waitresses their names. she then took those names and put them on three checks for, get this, $5,000 each. that's right. $15,000 for three young women just trying to get to the next stop. the waitresses, of course, were stunned. >> i work two jobs. i have a little boy at home, so

need to spend more time with him and do more things with him and get ahead of myself. and i hope that one day i have the amount to do the same thing for somebody else. >> are you kidding me? >> that's the dream. being able to get just a little bit ahead. a little bit of help. >> that really can make a difference. >> surely did for them. the donor remains anonymous. she didn't want her name to be known. she even tried to pay for her $9 omelet on the way out which, of course, the ladies refused. >> the message to them was, she's anonymous. the donor is anonymous. the waitresses say they hope that some day they're successful enough to help somebody out. it's really contagious. it's a big reason we do "the good stuff" -- >> sure hope it's contagious. >> the bad stuff sure is. >> one step out of the ordinary can often be the extraordinary for people and we certainly see that here. of course, very few have 15 grand to drop on a situation like that. doesn't have to be the 15 grand. it's just taking that

opportunity to help somebody in a way they weren't expecting. it can really be contagious. >> that was a really good one. >> good, good stuff. a lot of news this morning as well. so we give you to the "newsroom" and ms. carol costello. and ms. carol costello. >> "newsroom" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning. i'm carol costello. thanks for joining me this morning. topping the hour, security scares in sochi. the last of the olympic athletes are arriving amid new terror concerns. the department of homeland security now says a terror plot could begin in a u.s. airport inside of an innocent looking tube of toothpaste. washington this morning, terrorists could hide explosive materials there. we heard from america's top olympic official in sochi. >> the safety and security of our athletes and our whole

delegation is always our primary concern as the team behind the team here on the ground. we, as we always do, work very closely with our state department, our state department is in very close contact with the local authorities, and, you know, we react to situations as they arise. but we also have a lot of planning exercises in advance and know these games are no different than any other games in that respect. >> cnn's nick paton walsh is in sochi with more for you. >> any type of explosive, concealed explosive can be extremely damaging. it could be enough to bring a plane down. >> reporter: airlines with direct flights to russia on alert this morning. the department of homeland security issuing another terror bulletin warning about the possibility that explosive materials could be concealed in toothpaste or cosmetic tubes on flights headed to the olympic games in sochi.

the possible devices intended either to be detonated on the flight themselves or smuggled into the olympic village. former presidential candidate mitt romney who organized the 2002 winter olympics discussed this threat with cnn's wolf blitzer. >> a real grave concern to hear a report of this nature. and you basically want to know more. are we going to put in place immediately restrictions on any kind of tubes knorr kind of cosmetics ghg flights toward russia? but as individuals, as airlines, people are concerned given the specificity of the nature of this threat. and the fact that there's almost nothing they can do to prevent something of this nature from perhaps being put on to an aircraft. >> despite security concerns, the obama administration has not advised americans to avoid the games. secretary of state john kerry telling cnn's jake tapper before the toothpaste alert was issued -- >> well, i believe anyone that wants to go to the olympics which are just a