he destroyed his family, and everybody, everything he touched. >> in a way, it's fair. >> it's fair? >> indeed, a good movie, sure. >> coppola, he didn't [ muted ] it up? >> no. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com breaking news. wanted for mass murder, an arrest warrant just issued for the president of ukraine. as of now, he is on the run. a nation in chaos. we're live with the latest developments this morning. winter weather returns. millions across the country set to be smacked with bitter-cold temperatures and with the arctic air comes more snow. indra petersons tracking just how cold it's going to get. all right, breaking news and breaking barriers. history made on the court. jason collins, the nba's first

openly gay player, he gets in the game. good morning, everyone. great to see you this morning. welcome to "early start." i'm john berman. >> and i'm christine romans. it's monday, i'm sorry, february 24th. it's 5:00 a.m. in the east, and a lot to get to this morning. we'll begin with breaking news from ukraine, where an arrest warrant has been issued for the country's ousted prime minister, viktor yanukovych. ukraine's acting interior minister says he's wanted for the mass murder of peaceful citizens. this morning, his whereabouts are not known. it follows a weekend of political upheaval that saw yanukovych tossed out. a former rival freed from prison, and parliament appointing an acting president. there's growing concern about possible intervention by russia. cnn's nick paton walsh is live in kiev. bring us up to speed, nick. >> reporter: well, christine, the mass murder you're referring to is, of course, the shooting

dead of dozens of protesters here, mostly by police down a few days ago just from where i'm standing here. now, they believe that yanukovych specifically ordered that, hence the arrest warrant. we're talking remarkably about a president that just as little as 72 hours ago was clinging on to power but is now a wanted man on the run in his own country. he tried to flee a few days ago, turned around at an airport. now we understand he may have spent the night in a residence in the south. he is now thought to perhaps be somewhere neighboring russia, but it is not totally friendly turf because the mayor of the key town just announced he's joining the opposition. so as yanukovych continues to move around ukraine, the ground is increasingly shrinking beneath him. many people here and in his lavish presidential residence where we were yesterday want to see him behind bars, but ukraine now facing more urgent task of getting itself back together again. its new minister of finance just

said we need $35 billion now to keep the country afloat, asking america and poland to help out with that. plus, as you mentioned, we're still waiting to hear from moscow, the big kind of force in the background here. ukraine's very powerful neighbor, whose economic pressure started some of this dispute in the first place. no major noise from them at all. key warnings from american and european diplomats and officials that it would be a bad mistake to get involved in this crisis. no sign they will at the moment, but things moving so fast inside ukraine, it's rapidly getting out of their influence and that's going to make vladimir putin very uncomfortable. still, the focus today, people are still mourning behind me the deaths of those individuals and this call, a final arrest warrant now for viktor yanukovych. he's far away from being the president here. he's now frankly a criminal in the eyes of authorities here on the run. back to you. >> no question, this political issue has caused a lot of economic damage, and it's a country that already last year needed a $15 billion loan from the international monetary fund. it wasn't able to keep up its end of the bargain and keep that money.

now they say $35 billion. clearly, that's something people will feel and a lot of work to be done here. nick paton walsh, thank you. happening today, president obama speaks to the nation's governors as they wrap up their annual winter meeting in washington, d.c. the president hosted them at a white house dinner sunday night. that gathering included several 2016 white house hopefuls. the president appealed to state leaders to work with him on the economy, education and health care in what he hopes will be a year of action. meantime, the president's defense secretary, chuck hagel, will preview the new pentagon budget today, and it includes painful cuts that, among other things, will shrink the army to its lowest, smallest fighting force since before world war ii. >> that's a big headline. >> it really is. pentagon officials say the budget cuts will result in a military that's too small for any protracted foreign occupations. the hagel plan also calls for slashing military benefits, limiting pay raises, increasing health care premiums and reducing housing allowances. he is also recommending a

one-year pay freeze for top military brass. the obama administration is still weighing its options for a continued military presence in afghanistan beyond this year. one of four options reportedly being considered by president obama will leave 3,000 troops behind based in kabul and the american installation of bagram. they have recommended 10,000 troops remain in afghanistan. defense secretary hagel expected to brief his nato counterparts in brussels this week on what the u.s. is currently thinking. in hot water for spying on german chancellor angela merkel, the u.s. has reportedly turned its attention to other senior german officials. that's according to the german newspaper which cites a high-ranking nsa employee. president obama ordered a halt to surveillance of merkel's cell phone after revelations caused an uproar last year. among the alleged new targets, the german interior minister, a top merkel confidante. the u.s. and south korea beginning joint military exercises today. this comes as families separated for decades on the korean peninsula are reuniting.

the drills are taking place despite north korea's threat to cancel the cross-border reunions if the drills were not scrapped, but pyongyang ultimately agreed to go ahead with the reunions. now the war games between the u.s. and south korea are said to involve some 10,000 south korean troops, about 5,000 american forces. all right, we are less than a month from spring. >> ha! >> ha, but it is still winter and much of the country getting yet another bitter-cold taste. look at that arctic air in the midwest, another deep freeze. the eastern half of the country's now starting to feel it. >> indra petersons is tracking all this for us. indra, it's supposed to be spring almost! it was warm yesterday. what happened some. >> i heard birds. >> you know, happy monday, right? once again, cool air making its way in, that arctic plunge again diving down to the south, and that's what we're going to be dealing with, these temperatures backing off each day. first, let's talk about the difference here. let's talk about the temperatures we saw yesterday. this is what you guys are talking about, right? it was gorgeous. d.c. was 64 degrees. look at the south, almost near

70 yesterday. and now, here are the highs we are expecting today. ouch! this does not look good. we're talking about 30s and 40s out there. another way to look at this. let's talk about the temperatures whose highs will be just at the freezing mark. monday, today, detroit, pittsburgh, we're talking about just freezing highs. and then watch this cold air spread. by tomorrow, looking at spreading towards indianapolis. even new york city, your high will be just 32 degrees. then by wednesday, we're really feeling the cold air making its way down even to the south. 31 degrees. oh, yeah, it has been a tough season. do want to point out, there is a chance for snow by the middle of the week on the east coast. you'll see a low making its way off the coastline as well as another wave crossing the lakes. with that, we're looking for snow. d.c. by wednesday, 3 inches. new york city could see another 2 inches, so i hope you guys enjoyed it. >> we heard the birds. it was nice. i wore the tank top. it was all good. >> i was wearing a sweatshirt and shoveling icy snow off my

trees and landscaping. it was horrible. >> you have to get it off before we get another few inches. indra, thank you. breaking overnight, a stretch of the mississippi river closed to water traffic as crews work to clean up an oil spill. coast guard officials say a barge ran into a tow boat between baton rouge and new orleans over the weekend. public drinking water intakes on the river were closed as a precaution. officials do not know how much oil was spilled. no one was hurt. all the barges have been secured. the world's richest economies are getting together to pump trillions of dollars into the global economy, $2 trillion, to be exact, over the next five years. that's the pledge this morning out of sydney, where representatives from the 19 richest nations and the eu are meeting. it's the g-20 conference. the $2 trillion boost a big change from just a few years ago when it was austerity, remember, big spending cuts that were the theme of some of these big economies. analysts say the plan is ambitious. some are skeptical about exactly how it will work, but it comes as the u.s. and other economies are growing but not quickly enough.

still, the s&p 500, look at this. the s&p is in spitting distance of a record high, just 12 points shy. stock futures up slightly at this moment. overseas markets are mixed right now. all right, honest to goodness history made overnight. mark your calendars. jason collins became the first openly gay player to appear in an nba game, and in any game for the four major professional sports, men's sports. collins signed a ten-day contract with the brooklyn nets, and hours later took the court against the los angeles lakers. >> it was weird in that, you know, i'm usually like the background, one of the background players, and it's weird, obviously, this. but at the same time, it is what it is, and it's part of life. most important thing is that the team got the win. that's all that i've ever cared about. i don't care about scoring, i don't care about -- i care about my team winning and helping my teammates get open and making their job easier.

>> good for him, good for the lakers, good for the nba. collins finished the game with two rebounds and a steal in the nets' 108-102 win over the lakers. all right, a six-hour rain delay couldn't stop dale earnhardt jr. from capturing his second daytona 500 championship. he led the final 18 laps, crossing the finish line under caution in prime time, nearly 11 hours after that race began. the victory snapped a 57-race winless streak for earnhardt, who called winning the great american race the greatest feeling you can have in the sport. >> and this ended so late. a lot of people watching the daytona 500 are still up right now. i was getting tweets from them, seriously, talking about junior's win. so, hello to all of you. welcome to "early start." >> 57 winless races. >> it's big. >> it's a big one. >> he's a favorite. by the way, you may notice we're on a new set here. what you don't know is it's because christine romans trashed the old set, like keith moon from the who, just wrecked the

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welcome back to "early start," everyone. the sochi olympics are now in the history books. the winter games ending much the same way they began, with a spectacular closing ceremony. just look at that. as for the medal count, russia won the most, also the most gold. and you know what? perhaps best of all, it is important to note that this was an olympics without any kind of security incident. we were so worried going in, and thankfully, nothing happened. cnn's ivan watson live in sochi. it's time for the cleanup, ivan.

>> reporter: that's right. the games are, you know, some might say finally over. it was a big fireworks display last night, a dramatic closing ceremony. there were some russians at the end, their eyes were tearing up, there was some sadness there. at the end of this more than two-week festival of sport here. and the russians took a moment even to poke some fun at themselves. they arranged at the beginning of the closing ceremony 4 1/2 rings on the stadium floor, poking fun at the big olympic ring fail during the opening ceremony, a long 2 1/2 weeks ago. and of course, they got the final hoorah, as you mentioned, the largest number of gold medals, the biggest overall medal count as well. that's a big win for the russians, for the host country. and they even got the final ceremony getting to have first, second and third-place sweep in

the 50-kilometer mass start cross-country race with their male athletes on the podium at the end. so, it was a sweet closing for the russian host city that was really celebrated here in sochi. and of course, now the long task of cleaning up begins. john? >> and of course, it will be very interesting to see what happens to this magical city, almost built from scratch for the olympics. ivan watson in sochi. the $51 billion location now of the olympic games, which are done. thanks, ivan. all right, american prosecutors will try to have an alleged mexican drug lord extradited to the united states. a spokesman for the u.s. attorney's office in new york says authorities want to try joaquin "el chapo" guzman, head of the drug cartel. the notorious boss, known as shorty, was arrested saturday morning a raid on his beachside condo. guzman is believed to be the head of a cocaine empire worth billions. he has avoided police for years using bribes, safe houses and

homes connected with underground tunnels. a very big arrest. the u.s. wants him extradited. >> and a lot of shock that it went down as easily, no shoot-out or dramatic event. this morning the supreme court will hear arguments on a greenhouse gas regulation case. the environmental protection agency is seeking to tighten emission standards for so-called stationary greenhouse gases like those emitted by power plants. the white house says they will stem the effects of climate change. the case is a consolidation of six separate appeals on the regulations, seen as a major test of executive authority. this morning gas lines are slowly returning to service at a long island mall where a carbon monoxide leak killed one person and wounded 27 others. this happened at a popular seafood restaurant. a store manager, 55-year-old steven nelson, found dead in the restaurant's basement. first responders say they quickly became light-headed when they walked in the restaurant. immediately, they evacuated the

restaurant and two others. >> they just told us to get out of the building and that there were people who were passing t out. >> we were eating dinner. the place was jammed. and then just very calmly, the wait staff came and told us that we have to evacuate the building. >> now, the town code does not require carbon monoxide detectors, but authorities are blaming a faulty water heater flue and the store has been cited for having defective equipment. as of sunday night, another employee was still hospitalized in stable condition. opening statements today in the trial of kerry kennedy, the daughter of robert kennedy, charged with driving under the influence after a 2012 collision with a tractor-trailer in new york. prosecutors claim kennedy knew her judgment was impaired by a sleeping pill. the defense says she must have taken the pill accidentally. the charge carries up to a year in jail, but without a prior record, kennedy will likely not see any jail time if convicted. federal officials are investigating a possible

norovirus outbreak after passengers and crew members fell ill on "the holland american" ship. it just ended a voyage on saturday when officials say over 100 passengers and crew members suffered from vomiting and diarrhea. this came months after two cruise ships had passengers fall ill with the norovirus. california officials are investigating a mysterious polio-like illness that's affected children, causing paralysis in limbs. officials have been tracking the illness since the first known case in 2012, when a doctor requested polio testing for a child with severe paralysis. that raised concern because polio has been eradicated in the u.s. and the child had not traveled overseas. it seems there is a shortage of beliebers in the buck head neighborhood of atlanta. pop star justin bieber is eyeing a home in the affluent community, but neighbors there are saying, please stay out, biebs. they have organized a protest and even started a facebook page over concerns that the singer

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you know, history was made overnight on the basketball court. jason collins became the first openly gay athlete to play in the nba, or actually, any one of the main four u.s. men sports. andy scholes joins us now with the "bleacher report." >> good morning, guys. after jason collins made the announcement he was gay this past offseason, he said he hoped he would land another job in the nba this season and the brooklyn nets made that happen yesterday, signing collins to a ten-day contract. now, the nets played the lakers in l.a. last night and collins entered the game at the beginning of the second quarter, received a very nice ovation.

he played a solid 11 minutes, grabbing two rebounds, and collins said after the game that there t was a lot of fun to get back out on the court, set screens and make some hard fouls. this year's big race, the nascar race, first one's in the books, but there's a bit of confusion on the internet who actually won the daytona 500. now, the race was delayed more than six hours due to rain, so to fill time, the broadcast switched to last year's race. well, jimmie johnson won the 2013 race, and when many news outlets, like fox news, saw the replay, they reported that jimmie actually won this year's race. oops! well, once they finally restarted the actual race, dale earnhardt jr. took the checkered flag for his second win at daytona. all right, we now know what country is the best at hockey, team canada wrapped up the winter olympics in style yesterday, winning their second straight gold medal. the women's team won the gold as well to make it a clean sweep for our northern neighbors.

host country russia won the overall medal count with the u.s. coming in second. all right, a big topic on social media and bleacherreport.com right now is the possibility of the nfl penalizing a player 15 yards for using discriminatory language on the field, most notably, the "n" word. according to reports, the nfl's competition committee is discussing putting this in place for next season. the new petition rule receiving mixed reviews at the combine. some players say it would interfere with their freedom of speech, while others worried about how it would be enforced. i think that's a big deal, how it would be enforced, because as soon as this penalty ends up deciding a game, i think that would be a big disaster, because you know, how do you say what actually happened on the field? >> it's true, although the ref, you know, based on what he hears, he could make the decision then. and i wouldn't imagine they'd be careful while using that kind of language in the last minute of the game if they know they're going to get penalized. new rules are always a source of confusion. >> oh, yeah. thanks, andy.

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breaking news overnight. ukraine's president wanted and on the run, accused now of mass murder. right now, the country in chaos and on the brink of financial collapse. we are live. winter's new attack. temperatures taking a big plunge across the country, up to 30 degrees below normal. and you know what?

there's even more bad news beyond that! indra petersons tracking the very latest. >> welcome back to "early start." i'm christine romans. what an introduction for indra! so mean! >> but it's true! it's the news. i'm john berman. great to see you, about 30 minutes past the hour. we have breaking news from ukraine. no longer the president, viktor yanukovych is now an alleged criminal. an arrest warrant issued overnight for yanukovych whose whereabouts are unknown. he's on the run, wanted for mass murder of ukrainian citizens. political uncertainty reigns in ukraine after a weekend of turmoil that forced yanukovych to flee the capital. cnn's nick paton walsh is live in kiev this morning. nick, what's the latest? >> reporter: john, quite remarkable last four days. i mean, literally, on thursday morning we heard the gunfire down in the streets near from me and that seemed to have sparked the end of yanukovych's administration here. since then, it's been a very

swift spiral down. those mass murder charges against him, clearly, prosecutors think he personally ordered those shootings back on thursday. but really, this is a man who as recently as wednesday was talking about a truce, perhaps, with the opposition, and is now running around the south of the country. we heard he was in a private house in banaclavay and is now thought to be somewhere else near premier. he's told his personal bodyguard he has no need for them and should be go back for working for the government. he seems to be shedding everything as he goes. and the mayor effectively said i'm leaving your ruling party, yanukovych, just denounced him as well, and says i have no desire for this part of the country to secede from the rest of ukraine. that's a different worry in the rest of the country. so, yanukovych very much on the run here. frankly, we're all focused on this new government here. we need a prime minister almost

to get ukraine back on its feet. the pressing issue is the money. $35 billion, that's what the government here has just asked the ministry of finance has just asked america but also poland and anyone else who will step in, presumably the european union to come up with, an urgent problem here. that started this crisis in the first place because russian economic pressure meant that the government here was less willing to sign a cooperation deal with the european union. but really, the people behind me still mourning the dead will soon wake up to the fact that, unfortunately, there's a lot of nasty, difficult work ahead for this country. its economy is in tatters. it now needs a government to pull it together, keep the country together and afloat and clean up the mess of the past few days. >> very difficult situation in that country that's been teetering politically, still very much teetering economically and in need of some solutions. nick paton walsh in kiev for us this morning. thanks so much. happening today, the nation's governors getting more face time with the president. president obama addresses the governors' annual winter meeting in washington, d.c. the president hosted the gathering at a white house

dinner sunday night, which included a number of governors who hope to have his job in 2016. he appealed to the state leaders to work with him on key issues like the economy, education, health care in what he hopes will be "a year of action." big news from the pentagon and u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel, putting out a new budget, which would shrink the army to its lowest troop level since before world war ii. pentagon officials say the budget cuts will result in a military that's too small for any protracted foreign occupations. the hagel plan also calls for slashes in military benefits, limiting pay raises and increasing health care premiums, but also reduces housing allowances. he is also recommending a one-year pay freeze for top military brass. what will the u.s. presence in afghanistan be after this year? one of four options reportedly being considered by president obama would leave 3,000 troops behind. based in kabul and the american installation at bagram. military commanders have recommended that 10,000 troops

remain in afghanistan. defense secretary hagel expected to brief his nato counterparts in brussels this week on what the u.s. is thinking. a german newspaper says the nsa no longer is spying on chancellor angela merkel and has turned its attention to other senior german officials. the paper cites a high-ranking nsa employee as a source. they halted a tap on merkel's cell phone after a uproar last year. the german interior minister is a top merkel confidante. joint military exercises between the u.s. and south korea going forward as scheduled today. they come as families separated for decades on the korean peninsula are reuniting. these drills taking place despite north korea's threat to cancel those cross-border reunions if the drills are not scrapped, but pyongyang ultimately agreed to go ahead with those emotional reunions. the war games are said to involve some 10,000 south korean troops and 5,000 american forces. a touch of spring enjoyed by

millions over the weekend, including yours truly. now the start of the workweek brings a new wave of arctic cold for much of the country. >> yeah, did you like that weather over the weekend? well, it's over! indra petersons is here with the cold, hard facts here. hey, indra. >> yeah, your week's going to be horrible. cue me, right? i feel like it's a trend this winter. once again, we are talking about this cold, arctic air really starting to dive down each day, making its way farther down to the southeast. yes, we know the drill by now. let's talk about the temperatures we saw yesterday. it looked good, right? 64 in new york, 54. notice in the south almost 70-degree temperatures. now let me flip you into what we are looking for today. not so pretty. not as bad yet, but either way, you'll notice that big difference, especially 30s in towards new york city, but look here in the midwest. that's where that cold air is starting to dive down today. temperatures there already below normal. the trend, average for chicago 38. by thursday looking for just 10 degrees. a lot of single digits will be

out there, especially by wednesday, making their way to the southeast. the other side of this, the system moving out, cold air moving in. so windy, not only is it cold, but cold and windy. that is the worst when you're trying to walk outside. and yes, if it's not bad enough, by tuesday and wednesday, we're going to throw in a little bit of snow up near d.c., also new york city and boston. you're welcome! >> 1.8 inches is nothing. nothing. >> no, not for 129 fethe 12 fee received in the last few weeks. just going back to school today. haven't gone to school since september, it feels like. an oil spill shutting down a 65-mile stretch of the mississippi river. coast guard officials say the spill happened after a barge ran into a tow boat between baton rouge and new orleans over the weekend. public drinking water intakes on the river were closed as a precaution. officials do not know how much oil was spilled. luckily, no one was hurt. at this point, all the barges have been secured. the s&p 500 pushing for a new record high, almost there. just 12 points short. and stock futures are higher this morning.

a little bit higher. the s&p 500 hit dozens of records last year but has yet to close at a high in 2014. there have been concerns about slow economic growth and turmoil overseas, but those fears, at least for now, have subsided. the major average is up 3% to 4% this month. what happened to that correction in january? forget about that! even more support to stocks today is news that the world's richest countries are pledging to add $2 trillion to the global economy over the next five years, maybe in terms of, like, big infrastructure projects, structural reforms. the goal is to boost economic growth, this coming from that g-20 meeting in australia. remember, for years, we've been talking about austerity. now they're focused on growth. and the mobile world congress in barcelona. samsung expected to unveil a new galaxy smartphone. rumor is it will have a fingerprint sensor, something the iphone already has. >> you're looking at their watch they're very proud of right there, which i can't figure out for the life of me how i would use, but they know more than i would. >> well, you're such a 20th-century guy. breaking news overnight.

history was made on the basketball court. you're looking at jason collins right there, the newest center for the brooklyn nets and the first gay player, openly gay player to appear in an nba game or any game for any of the four major professional men's sports. collins signed a ten-day contract with the nets sunday afternoon and just a few hours later, he was on the court playing in a game against the los angeles lakers. >> it was weird in that, you know, i'm usually, like the background, one of the background players, and it's weird, obviously, this. but at the same time, it is what it is, and it's part of life. the most important thing is that the team got the win. that's all that i've ever cared about. i don't care about this morning, i don't care about -- i care about my team winning and, you know, helping my teammates get open, making their job easier. >> collins finished the game with two rebounds and a steal in the nets' 108-102 win over the

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apparently by underground tunnels. this morning gas lines are slowly returning to service at a long island mall where a carbon monoxide leak killed one and wounded 27 others. this happened at a popular seafood restaurant. a store manager, 55-year-old steven nelson, found dead in the basement of the restaurant. first responders say they quickly became light-headed and they immediately evacuated the restaurant and two others. >> they just told us to get out of the building, that there were people who were passing out at legal sea foods. >> we were eating dinner, place was jammed, an hour wait. and very calmly, the wait staff came and told us that we have to evacuate the building. >> so, the town does not require carbon monoxide detectors, but authorities are blaming a faulty water heater flue. the store has been cited for having defective equipment. as of sunday night, another employee was still hospitalized in stable condition. the trial of robert kennedy's daughter, kerry kennedy, begins today in new york. she is charged with driving under the influence after a 2012

collision with a tractor-trailer. prosecutors say kennedy knew her judgment was impaired by a sleeping pill. the defense says she must have taken the pill accidentally. the charge carries up to a year in jail, but with no prior record, kennedy is very doubtful to see jail time if convicted. this morning officials in colorado are searching for a convicted child rapist who fled a group in a home where he was serving parole. 51-year-old eric hartwell apparently cut off his ankle monitor and disappeared from independence house in denver friday evening. hartwell had been ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised parole. cut the monitor and is gone. nevada police trying to track down a driver who ran over an elderly man at a suburban las vegas gas station. surveillance video captured an awful scene. look at that. terrible. witnesses say the victim argued with the driver before the car just took off. >> i heard someone screaming. and when i turned around, the only thing that i could see, it's california plates, a silver

car running away. i saw a man on the floor there by pump 5, and then the only thing that i could see, just 911 so they can help him. >> police say they are treating the attack as attempted murder. the victim suffered serious leg injuries. he's still hospitalized. all right, let's take a look at what's coming up on "new day." chris cuomo joins us now. happy monday! >> happy monday to you, my friends. today the title of the show could be ramifications and repercussions. that's what we'll be talking about this morning. we'll start with the ukraine. situation matters, echoes of syria. is this really about what's going on just inside the borders or is there a bigger game afoot between russia and the u.s.? why? well, you're looking at the president right now. he's on the run. the tide is turning with the opposition versus the administration there. there is a warrant out for his arrest. the question is, will russia support him? the u.s. is telling them not to. what happens if they do? we'll break down different scenarios there, what it could mean for u.s. involvement.

we have christiane amanpour on to talk about what is going on and what this means for the rest of the region. and obviously, vladimir putin will be at the center of that discussion as well. and then, under the title of ramifications and repercussions, we're going to be talking about alec baldwin, no stranger to controversy, kind of an exile out of new york. he said he was doing a movie in honolulu, hawaii. but while there, he wound up kind of getting it all off his chest. a really long narrated column that he told it to somebody else. we're going to talk about it this morning and find out why he says he's quitting public life. that's it. it gets me choked up when i talk about alec baldwin. >> leaves you speechless, so much to talk about. >> it's emotional, j.b. >> ramifications and repercussions, it doesn't fit on the banner. too long. >> you know where i got that from? eddie murphy said it in the movie "life." anybody eats my corn bread, there are going to be ramifications and repercussions! >> the last and first time the film "life" has ever been quoted

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new reports this morning of another possible norovirus us outbreak on a cruise ship after several passengers and crew members fell will over the weekend. the holland america ship just ended a week-long caribbean voyage when officials say over 100 crew members and passengers suffered from vomiting and diarrhea. this comes a month after hundreds on board two cruise ships in the caribbean were sickened by norovirus. the "l.a. times" reporting that public health officials in california are investigating a

mysterious polio-like illness inflicting children there, causing severe weakness or rapid paralysis in one or more limbs. officials have been tracking the illness since the first known case in 2012 when a doctor requested polio testing for a child with severe paralysis. that raised concern, because you know, polio has been eradicated in the u.s., and that child had not traveled overseas. they're trying to figure out what this is. all right, paula deen says she's back. the fallen food network star continues to try to rehabilitate her image. so, before making chicken and dumplings at a food and wine festival on sunday, deen wanted to make one thing perfectly clear. she says she is sorry for the racial comments that nearly ruined her career. >> i have heard on more than one occasion, so that's why it's important to me to say this to y'all, that i never apologized. so, if anybody did not hear me

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welcome back to "early start." it's "money time." and john berman has been tweeting under my handle, so -- >> it's your fault, you leave your phone sitting there. >> i disavow anything john berman has been tweeting because i'm all about the market today. s&p 500 within spitting distance of a record high this morning, just 12 points shy. problem is, the bull market is nearly 5 years old and investors are wondering how long this thing can last. maybe fed chief janet yellen can nudge it with her testimony on capitol hill. two weeks ago she said she would end the stimulus program only gradually. this is a big story for netflix users. streaming movies will get

faster, at least for comcast customers. but it could go further and set a precedent for negotiations between netflix and the other big broadband providers. for now, netflix will pay comcast for direct access to its network. usually it goes through a middle man. the change means faster streaming. netflix and broadband providers have been fighting over this direct access. netflix wanted it for free, but comcast wanted to be paid, because look, streaming netflix eats up a big chunk of the network and slows it down. okay, all of you college grads out there, be careful what you buy, because your alma mater may be tracking you. colleges across the country from brown university to colorado state are using advanced data mining to estimate how much their alumni can donate. the higher the number, the more calls you'll get asking for money. schools rely on third-party companies to provide data on your income, your bonus, stock purchases, information on whether you own a big-ticket item like a yacht or a jet, john

berman. >> or both. >> check out cnn money for more, but this i find terrifying. not only do you pay them on the front end, they want your money, the more successful you are. if you're employed and you're buying stuff, they know about it and want you to give more money. >> it really is crazy. and they'll call you and they send you notes and have students call you and send you notes. >> i know. she doesn't live here anymore. click. >> they know everything. all right, have a great rest of the day. "new day" starts right now. >> i know how to play basketball. i'm ready. let's do it. >> breaking overnight, history on the hardwood. jason collins becomes the first openly gay athlete to play in a major american professional sport. we're going to hear from him after the game. also breaking, an international manhunt for ukraine's disposed president. the u.s. warning russia not to intervene as our reporter goes inside the lavish presidential home. a zoo, a boat and a bentley.

games over. the olympics come to an end in sochi. russia's final bow, filled with music, fireworks, a crying bear and even a little humor. so, were the games a >> good morning. welcome to "new day." it is monday so we begin again. february 24th is today. 6:00 in the east. he played just 12 minutes but moment will last a lifetime. i'm talking about jason collins. he made history last night. this was real life. just by simply stepping on to the floor of the staples center. he didn't score a point in his first nba game since saying he's openly gay but he made one heck of a point. stephanie joins us live from los angeles. >> you're talking about a man who