but the question is, are they talking to each other or past each other. an hour-long phone call, but putin says ukrainians need the help from russia. both sides say this is not about military action. but the mystery men in green continue to move. now, an american warship is headed to the region. >> it will perform exercises in the black sea. we were told these were planned before the crisis. meantime, growing fallout to schedule a referendum to break from ukraine and join russia. the vote is now being embraced by russian officials who add there will be no war. >> there are a lot of moving parts in this story and they take place in different places. let's start with michelle at the

white house. >> there were some positives. the u.s. said that both sides understand that there should be a diplomatic way forward. russia emphasized the importance in u.s.-russia relations. the u.s. has begun sanctions and russia still needs to talk to ukraine. in on hour-long phone call, president obama again urged vladimir putin to pursue a diplomatic solution telling him to have dialogue with ukraine to let in international monitors and pull back his troops to their bases. putin agreed on the need for diplomacy, but they see the situation differently. >> crimea is part of ukraine. crimea is ukraine. >> reporter: russia called it impossible to act in the face of

unilateral semi-hysterical views. the administration saying it has grave concerns the situation could escalate further and wants to be prepared with powerful, flexible tools. >> if this violation continues, the resolve of the united states and our allies and the international community will remain firm. >> reporter: but not for now sanctioning president putin specifically. ukraine again asking for resolution. >> president putin, mr. putin, tear down this wall, the wall of intimidation, the wall of military aggression and let's build up new type of relations between ukraine and russia. we are ready for cooperation,

but we are not ready to surrender. >> reporter: here at home, republicans had some strong reactions to the situation. speaker boehner calling putin a thug. one saying that at least putin has a strategy and that president obama has not. remember, the eu decided not to do the sanctions yesterday, but there's this broad view that bipartisanship in this is necessary. >> thanks for starting us off this morning. the crisis isn't stopping. if you can believe it an american missle destroyer from going right into the conflict. they say it was planned to go before the crisis. let's get to ivan watson with a look at this.

ivan? all right. looks like we're having communications issues with vie van, i think on the boat. we'll get back to him in just a bit. chris? >> all right. so then let's talk about this big issue of a referendum. crimea's parliament is under fire for ed scheduling this popular vote to decide whether they go with russia. elected officials in russia are trying to ease concerns about possible war. the vote is just nine days away. anna? >> reporter: yeah, chris, the countdown is on and the tensions are high. people speaking out against russia are being verbally

attacked. if anything, that situation is only going to get worse as we get closer to the referendum. in the heart of the city, celebrations, russian speakers fly their nation's flag and an older one. confident that in a little over a week from now, crimea will be part of the motherland again. it's people power says this grandmother. we will be voting to return to our roots. >> i think we will be more powerful, we will have more rights. so i think it's plus for -- for crimean people. >> reporter: there are plenty here who disagree, but few are willing to speak up. we don't need the referendum because crimea belongs to ukraine, says this student. these ukrainian feminists take a

more dramatic stand, but are unsar mown justly dealt with. cossack militia guard the new order. ukraine's troops are told to leave. now a short time ago, the ukrainian prime minister said that no one in the civilized world will recognize the result of this referendum. just to prove that the crimean self-elected government is willing to play ball, they just announced that they will invite international observers to watch other this referendum. interestingly enough, though, most of them will be russian. >> and that leads us to more questions. thank you so much. we'll check back in with you. let's get straight back to ivan watson. i think we have the signal

reconnected. go ahead. and technology continues to fail us. we'll continue to try to reconnect with ivan to talk about the important issue of the warship moving into the black sea. russian organizers of the 2014 pair ra olympics now face political backlash over the situation in ukraine. president putin is expected to attend today's opening ceremony. >> reporter: good morning. president putin will be at the opening ceremony, but he will not be joined by western nations because they are staying away because of the events in the ukraine. the athletes are going to p be there, including the athletes

from the ukrainian pair ralympi team. their message is, please do not start a war with this country during the games. they are insisting that russia's actions are compliant with international law, that russia is just acting to help and respond to requests from help from russian-speaking people in the south and east of the country. today in moscow there is a delegation. they are meeting with leading members of russia's parliament. there's been allot of applause as russian politicians praised them for their courage and de termation. and the russians are talking about how joyous they felt when they heard the news the crimea would be holding a referendum. they say they will honor the

results if they do indeed vote to join russia. they say they will do it regardless of international sanctions. >> one of the interesting questions here, phil, is whether or not it really is going to be a democratic vote. a lot of people calling for international monitoring. fueling speculation there. we will continue on ukraine and all the different pieces of that puzzle. but a lot of other news at well. breaking overnight, officials investigating a potential security threat on an american eagle flight. passengers evacuated off the plane in kansas city after crews called in that a suitcase did not match up with a passenger. it was parked away from the terminal as a precaution. all 67 crew and passengers had to leave without their belongings. no other details at this point have been made available. to memphis now where a

terrifying shooting left one man wounded inside a packed shopping mall. police detained four men, but no charges were filed as of late thursday. they say it appears the victim and potential suspects knew each other and that there was a verbal confrontation before the shooting. a major blow thursday for a bipartisan push to change the way the military handles sexual assault cases. instead, give it to independent prosecutors. meanwhile, the u.s. army is investigatiing groping allegations against a military officer. right now, the frantic search for an 11-year-old maryland girl after her mother found dead inside her home. >> police now with an all-out search for this 11-year-old. an amber alert issued.

police searching from maryland to west virginia and they believe she is in serious danger. >> the amber alert remains active. we have not found her yet. >> her mother found dead thursday morning. the girl's father now missing and police suspect he may be behind the disappearance. >> he is a suspect in the abduction of his daughter, and certainly we are interested in finding him and talking to him about what he can tell us about the mother's death. >> police say he had been living with the family recently. >> he is not supposed to have her and we are concerned for her safety. >> his criminal record stretches back decades, including domestic violence charges that earned him a restraining order. >> it's unfortunate that the laws aren't a little bit more strict, you know, to prevent this kind of thing from

happening. >> neighbors now praying for her safe return. >> i just hope that she's found and she's okay and she's certainly not injured or anything. >> very nice, sweet kid. >> her two siblings are safe with family members this morning. we have an update. massachusetts lawmakers moving very quickly to close a loophole that made taking secret upskirt photos of women legal. they made it illegal. this comes a day after massachusetts highest court ruled that a man who took cell phone pictures of a female subway rider did not violate state law because of the way the law was written. so they are voting to change the law. >> you seem uncomfortable with that story. >> i was uncomfortable with your legal opposition to it yesterday. >> that's defamatory.

that's slander that you just heard. >> my faith in broken government has been restored. at least they can get it right sometimes. >> the judge made clear they needed to change the wording of the law. you almost never see a governing body act that quickly. >> the law hadn't caught up the judges were handcuffed because they don't decide law. they could have decided it was wrong anyway. but -- >> women in boston when spring comes around, you can wear skirts. >> and i will sue you, by the way. >> in your defense, you pointed out -- >> no, you said i defended upskirting. >> berman said chris was pro upskirting. >> i said you made clear what the law said and why the judge ruled the way the judge did. >> i don't think that's what you

said. i know you're smarter than i am, but this time we have a record of this. i was talking with science yesterday, indra petersons, basically she said there's no need for a law, i would take care of it with an elbow. >> you may not know that it happens. if it is discreet enough -- >> doesn't apply to indra petersons. she says she knows everything. >> oh my gosh. i'm going to go right past that. let's talk about what is expected to happen through the weekend. notice right now, jet stream farther to the south. by the end of the weekend, look at this. we have finally a nice pattern change where it's actually going to rebound and warm air will overtake by monday. let me fast forward. let's take you to monday where finally we are looking at above normal temperatures on the map. enjoy it knowing each day will get a little bit better than the day before.

notice around the piedmont, a little bit of wintery mix. this is that low that was in the gulf just a few days ago climbing up the coastline. d.c. looking for the wintery mix around commute time, but it is going offshore. temperatures will be allowed to improve. in the southeast, talking about 70s over the weekend. of course, this one cools you off for the first half of the weekend. everyone rebounds there after. by the middle of next week, there is still a chance -- there's a chance we could have another storm by the middle of next week. >> a misuse of our favorite "dumb & dumber" quote. >> i always agree with berman, so i got to go with that. >> he started it. i'm going there. >> now we know what the teams

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it's the largest annual gathering of conservative leaders. it will be tough to top thursday's action, including a fiery speech from ted cruz challenging his own party. and topping it all, governor chris christie had them all on their feet. >> if you're chris christie trying to win over activists, this is what you do. >> we have to stop letting the media define who we are and what we stand for. >> find common ground, like attacking the media and defending the bill anywhere coke brothers. >> stop picking on great persons who are creating great things for our country. >> and try to assuage conservative concerns here about a blue state governor who works with democrats. >> we say we're pro-life.

that doesn't mean that we're pro-life just when that human being is in the womb. >> the reaction here, a rousing response, as much or more so than conservative crowd favorites that also spoke or the senate gop leader who entered holding a rifle and gave it to retiring senator tom coburn. >> he connects with people. he says what needs to be said. and to me, he's the only personality who will be able to stand up to hillary clinton. >> but christie arrived to bad news in a brand new poll. they in ten republicans say they would never vote for him. >> i'm personally not a big fan of him. >> she's angry about christie embracing obama after hurricane sandy before the last election.

and bridgegate is hurting him too. >> i thought it was impressive. he showed himself to be in charge, but i don't think i'd vote for him. >> why not? >> the scandal really bothers me. >> despite that criticism, the crowd responded well to one of christie's more traditional messages, that republicans need to be for their own ideas, not just against democrats. last year, he was snubbed, he wasn't even invited to one of the most important gatherings of conservatives. the los angeles lakers, they've been a franchise for 54 years. didn't start off in los angeles. minnesota, right, the lakers. minneapolis? thank you very much, berman. they have never played as badly as they did last night. that is what happened, joe.

>> yes, and you are correct. they did start in minneapolis. but they moved to los angeles in 1960. during that 54-year span, they have never lost as bad as they lost last night. the clippers beat them by 48 points. it's their worst loss in franchise history. it's the clippers' biggest win in history. blake griffin, chris paul, they didn't even have to play in the fourth quarter and they still won by nearly 50 points. the lakers are one loss away from their fist losing season in ten years. >> lebron james, he only scored 19 points in last night's blowout loss to the spurs. he blamed his poor play on the nba's new sleeved jerseys.

lebron has always said he's not a fan of these things. he says they're too snug and it affects his jump shot. tiger woods only made it through ten holes yesterday, not because of his bad back, because of the bad weather. he looked rusty. he was two other par through ten holes and today he's going to have to play 26 holes to make up those that he didn't play yesterday. that could be tricky for him. to go to his defense, he did not even swing his driver yesterday until he teed off at the cadillac championship because he choose to save his back as long as possible. only chipped and putted before he teed off for the first time yesterday. >> can we go back to basketball? do you believe the lebron james defense? >> he always said the jerseys

because of how they're cut, he doesn't like them, he's been critical of them. the nba likes them because it's a new look. he doesn't have to worry about that anymore because obviously they're not going to wear those jerseys for the rest of the season. >> cuomo says that about pants a lot. sometimes when they're too tight it does restrict their range of movement. >> say it again joe. >> i said where exactly where they tight on chris? >> you see what happens? just to be clear, it's because of berman. see what i'm saying? he makes that face and you're like, he'd never say anything offensive. you don't back me up. you think it's funny. >> i only make fun of the jets. see, that's an honest fight to have.

>> what's happening here today? yelling at me to move on. i'm the one getting beat down. coming up next -- thanks joe. coming up next on "new day," emotional testimony at the oscar pistorius trial. the ex-girlfriend talking about their relationship and how it ended and how often pistorius used his gun. two of the country's biggest super market chains are joining forces. what will the major merger mean for you and your grocery bills. food for thought. captain obvious: i'm in a hotel.

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welcome back to "new day." let's get a look at your top stories. president obama and president putin found legal common ground. now an american warship is headed to the black sea. this is for exercises that the u.s. says were planned already. the crimea is scheduling a referendum. russian officials are inviting the vote. two marines, a captain and master sergeant relieved of duty. this stems from an explosion last year that left four dead. investigators say the explosion was likely caused by a dropped or kicked grenade. so dr. frank jobe, a legend in sports medicine passed away.

tommy john's surgery, everyone has heard of this, the ground-breaking procedure now known by that name. he died in california thursday after an undisclosed illness. he was 88 years old. now to minnesota. an amazing rescue with just seconds to spare. a quick-thinking school bus driver smelled smoke then saw it coming out of a heater. he evacuated four kids with disabilities. moments later, smoke and fire just consumed the bus. you can see. he tried to put it out. he tried with an extinguisher. all the kids were just after the scene and taken to school. >> thank you, john. let's go now to south africa. day five of the oscar pistorius murder trial underway right now.

on the stand is one of the olympian's ex-girlfriends testifying about their breakup and how he always carried his gun. what will it mean. let's check in with robin at the courthouse. robin? >> reporter: it's actually the lunch break now. of course, this is the final day of the first week of this trial. we haven't just heard a lot about that faithful valentine's day shooting, but also we've heard a lot about oscar pistorius. his ex-girlfriend took the stand this morning. >> the fist time our relationship ended was when he cheated on me with -- >> reporter: breaking down after claiming he cheated on her with reeva steenkamp. and testified that when they were together, he screamed at her. >> if he screams and is really anxious he sounds like a woman?

>> that is not true. he sounds like a man. >> reporter: earlier in the trial, more graphic testimony of reeva's death from his neighbor. he was among the first to see the olympian. >> he was trying to open the airway and stop bleeding from her right thigh. >> reporter: the defense arguing that the doctor heard pistorius screaming after accidentally shooting steenkamp. and what sounded like gunshots must have been him breaking down the door with a bat. >> that's what i heard. >> reporter: stipp insists he heard a woman scream. on thursday, the blade runner broke down unable to bear the gruesome detail. >> i remember the first thing he

said when i got there was that he said, i shot her. i thought she was a burglar and i shot her. >> reporter: with his head in his hands, wiping away tears. >> she had no pulse in the neck. >> reporter: the doctor told the court he recalled an emotional pistorius playing for steenkamp to leave. >> he prayed to god, please let her live, she must not die. >> reporter: just to go back to that testimony by samantha taylor, pistorius' ex-girlfriend. the defense said they had e-mails that proved not only was their relationship over when pistorius started dating steenkamp, but that taylor had in fact cheated on pistorius. so lots more i think coming up in the nextfy weeks. back to you kate and chris. >> thank you very much for that. let's take another break. the merger of two super market

giants, albertson's and safe way. plus a suburban family accused of stealing over ten years. how did they pull it off and how did the feds finally catch them.

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>> welcome back to "new day." two of the largest grocery store chains in the country are breaking bread. albertson's and safeway merging in a $9 billion deal. what does this mean for your grocery bill? chief business correspondent christine romans is here. >> they say they're actually going to be able to lower it a

little bit. >> how are they going to pull that off? >> when you have that much size, you have more power to negotiate with your suppliers, right? they're also seeing competition from all sources. so they have to remake these companies and make them -- they say they're going to have a wider range of items, lower prices, better fresh products and they're going to start renovating stores. this will make them just behind kroger. but walmart is really selling a lot of groceries. so this is getting together to be more competitive. >> do they close stores? >> they say they're not going to have to close any stores. this will make them a power house out west. this is the biggest leverage buyout so far of the year, also

shows exciting movement in that space. >> maybe it will set a trend, lower grocery bills for even. >> you can bet that all of us are going to be watching. >> as well we should be. >> do they keep their names? >> the safeway ceo is going to run the whole show. there's others in this family brand. the investment firm that is putting this deal together, they have a lot of other super market properties and brands around it. so they're not new to this space. do you go to costco? it's been a long time since i've been into a regular grocery store. >> interesting. thanks, christine. >> they're growing and those food boutiques are growing also. >> yep.

true. >> it's true. >> another story, though isn't it. this morning a chicago family is behind bars accused of running a decade-long shoplifting ring. they're charged with stealing $7 million worth of merchandise. they said they hid them in a specially made dress. >> who would have thought this husband, wife, and daughter trio could have allegedly gotten away with stealing so much merchandise over such a long time. they apparently lived a pretty good life in this chicago suburb. that's where police arrested them. t they're alleged family business now busted after at least a decade of shoplifting, authorities say stealing millions of dollars in

merchandise then selling it all for half the retail value on ebay through another individual who authorities say acted as a fence. that person now cooperating with authorities. >> we determined that he paid 3 houston, tex 3.4 million to the defendants in this case. >> investigates followed the three on a four-day cross country shoplifting spree starting in oklahoma february 17th, then continuing on two days later to malls in texas rounding out in louisiana before returning home to illinois. over the years, the trio has allegedly hit many other states throughout the country. authorities learned about the family after executives at barns and noble tipped them off. >> they seemed to me to be pretty up beat and thinking this wasn't going to be a big deal. >> officials think the family got away by stuffing items into

a bulky black dress outfitted with various compartments to fit and conceal large items. they stole everything from toys to baby monitors and baby carriers. the family, reportedly from the former yugoslavia, all three currently remain in custody waiting for an interpreter. >> wow. quite an operation. coming up next on "new day," the mystery everyone is talking about. is this the man behind bitcoin? the online currency. the founder's identity has been secret, but now a reporter may have uncovered him. she joins us live. ♪

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nakamoto in front of his home. this man is now joining us live, a senior writer at news week and the reporter that investigated this piece. the face behind bit down. so this was a two-month investigation that you did, right? >> it was two months of almost obsessive sifting through information. >> when you see the video outside of this man's home, it's caused quite a stir. why do you think this is nakamoto? >> obviously, it's not what i wanted to see, people mobbing this man. that was unfortunate, i think. we went through i don't know how many leads, and the process of this research isn't about proving who someone might be. for every person you say, why could it not be him.

we kept finding reasons why it could be him. all the way down to the day i went to his home, all the details fit the time frame, his background, his expertise, the way he wrote and all the descriptions of him and how people found him, his world view. it's really in the detail that it comes live. that being said, you are looking for the reason to not think it's someone. so when i interviewed it was, are you not this man. he made it clear to me -- he acknowledged bitcoin and said i'm no longer involved with it. there are other people in charge of it now, but i don't want to talk about it. >> so all roads led to this door to this conversation that you had with him. since then, after the piece was released, you had these scenes outside his home. both the associated press and l.a. times, they con fronted

him. he said that he was never involved. and he also said that that conversation you had with him was misunderstood. he said, it's not me, i'm not that man. does that change anything for you? >> well, of course, i'm interested in what he had to say to them. i talked to a number of the people on site yesterday. what they told me was he -- the way he represented our conversation was so far different from what happened that that made me think he wasn't trying to be truthful at that point. i guess if he had said something about i misunderstood, although i'm certain he didn't. >> you're certain he did not misundersta misundersta misunderstand? >> he said he thought i meant another company. i thought that that was very not true to the conversation he and

i had. i think he knows that as well. >> how did you -- you did an exhaustive search of databases and records, but how did you find him? >> his address is posted. so once we saw the name he's using now, it's easy enough to find where he is. >> would you say he was hiding in plain sight? >> absolutely. >> how did the model trains come into play in this. that is part of the way you were able to spark a conversation with him. >> his family made clear and other people i have talked to have said that he's not that approachable. his youngest brother said you'll never get him to talk. his e-mail isn't even his name. his e-mail is two words that have nothing to do with a human. so i struck up a conversation with him about one of his

hobbies and his background. and then i went into bitcoin, at which point he stopped speaking to me. >> everyone is fascinated with bitcoin of course. it's obviously very confusing when you try to understand it yourself. it's worth billions. why does it matter knowing who the founder of this is? >> to me, it matters a lot because bitcoin has been so fascinating. it's natural to want to know what formed the creation in the first place. it's so much more human than i even thought it could be. to know a little bit more about why a one-world currency was so important to this man. he had seen the government in the classified world government, to me that says a lot. >> in your writing, you were confident of what you had found. >> yes. >> but even in your writing, you

don't seem entirely certain that all includes led to him, but not everything. what is your lingering doubt? >> i think i am open to more information. as journalists keep talking to him, and they probably will i think at this point, very open to hearing what they say and how what he says now is connective with what we sound and also what he said to me. so i'm always open to new information. you can never close all doors. it's possible he had other people help him. people helped him after the initial design. it's possible he designed bitcoin with others, i think. >> it definitely started a conversation to say the very least. thank you so much for coming in. chris? coming up on "new day," money, assets and business as weapons. how washington is trying to freeze russia out of ukraine. question is, will sanctions

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the most news you can get anywhere. let's go. >> crimea is ukraine. >> today, the world can see that the united states is united with our allies in upholding international law. sexual assault a problem in the military, yes. oscar pistorius' ex-girlfriend took the stand. >> the first time our relationship ended was when he cheated on me -- let's start with the latest on the crisis in ukraine. a russian naval ship is blocking the exit from the ukrainian base. now we're going to have to figure out what happens in crimea. the parliament there is scheduled to have a vote on whether to break from ukraine. vladimir putin will attend today's opening ceremonies for

the paralympics. this comes after putin spoke to president obama yesterday. putin says ukrainians need help from russia. it came hours after president obama levelled sanctions against anybody who have helped escalate the crisis. right now the naval carrier is headed to the black sea. it is going for naval exercises. u.s. military officials say the deployment is routine. there are a lot of different angles to this story. we're covering every one of them. >> reporter: last night was the third phone call between president obama and russian president vladimir putin. russia emphasizes the importance in the u.s.-russia relationship.

that said, there are still these big differences in approach and assessment of what's even going on in that region. president obama telling putin to talk to ukraine, let international monitors into crimea and pull troops back into their bases. the u.s. has now led the world in imposing sanctions on russia. the foreign minister met with secretary kerry yesterday. he is saying that he has not yet found common ground with the west, but that discussions would continue. >> russia is weighing in on crimea's referendum to join russia this morning. let's go to anna in crimea where the vote is just nine days away. what's it looking like on the ground? >> reporter: as you say, crimea has agreed to have international observers come in for the referendum that's going to take place on the 16th of march.

not surprising, most of the observers will be coming from russia. russia says it will form a team. we don't know where the other observers, from what other countries they will be coming from. obviously, the acting ukrainian prime minister has come out and said that no one in the civilized world will recognize the result of this referendum. they believe that what is taking place here is unconstitutional and that it can only be a national referendum, not a regional referendum. 60% of the people here are ethnic russians. the government that's only just come in, they took power a week ago, self-elected. they are really trying to control the information that a leaving -- or coming in, i should say, into crimea. not only were we told to stop broadcasting last night,

threatened to be kicked out, several ukrainian tv stations are also being forced to shut down. their signal no longer being broadcast here in crimea. there's only one message they want to get into this country, that is a very pro russian message. back to you. >> let's get analysis on this situation. let's bring in cnn military analyst, former general of the u.s. army intelligence center and the executive director of the mccain institute. thank you gentlemen for joining us this morning. let me ask you something ambassador, can you make the case that the united states is acting anti-democracy here by not allowing the people to decide their own fate in crimea if that's what they want? >> no i don't think you can make that case incredibly at all. this is a region of ukraine.

they don't have access or control over that anymore. you've seen russia insert its forces into the crimea. on occupy that territory. i agree that there's a major proportion of the population in crimea that is pro russian and would like to be associated with rush, but this is against every international law that you would expect in a democratic process. >> you say it's not as easy as wanting a vote. >> absolutely. >> that's that issue. major general, let me ask you this now. the mystery men in green. one, have you ever heard of a situation like this before where you have these unfiefd mass of troops and they have these equipment and vehicles yet it's denied by that country?

>> historically i'm sure, chris, there are examples. what's significant here is that there's no doubt these are russian troops. it allowed the international community and folks like us to sit here and scratch our chins and figure it out while putin accomplished what he was trying to do, that he continued to maintain control over sevastopol. >> one is that putin is flailing, he's separate. he wants a seat at the table. and the other one is crazy like a fox. every one of these moves, blocking the entrance, having these skirmishes, the mystery men, how do you see it? >> i see this as putin acting in his national interests. russia forever has felt threatened by its neighbors. it's a land-locked country two-thirds of the year. we tend to act in national interests and define those

interior clearly. putin looks at threats and realizes i have to do something about that. this example in ukraine clearly fell into that box for him. he realized, i have to do something. i would not use the word crazy or irrational. these are very rational moves in his case. >> is the u.s. playing its hand the right way here in terms of the timing, the urgency and the tactics? >> not at all, in my view. i think putin is acting very rationally. but for him, it's not a threat, it's an opportunity. he sees the opportunity to advance what he sees as his interesting. i'm not sure we have a clear goal. for the past 25 years, we've been advancing this idea of peace, democracy, freedom.

that seems to be derailed right now. we are not acting fast enough. >> what are we supposed to do? i shouldn't say we. it's tempting because i'm an american. when you look at it subjectively, what should have been done differently? >> when i say we, i'm thinking na nato. we're a community of democracies in the west. and we stand for certain rights. we ought to be supporting and speaking out on behalf of the rights of those people who doesn't have freedom, democracy, security in their societies now. when it's violated, we've got to be prepared to draw sanctions right away, we should be thinking about what the next steps are. how do we make sure we're doing things now that are going to prevent him from thinking about

what's the next territory to grab. >> that's interesting perspective. thank you very much. >> my pleasure. >> thanks, chris. right now an american missle destroyer is heading to the region. officials say it was already heading to the black sea before the crisis began. let's get the very latest from ivan watson on where things are headed. >> reporter: right now, we're sailing through the straight and awaiting the arrival of the u.s. navy guided missle destroyer when is expected to come through here through this natural choke-point, the location of this geo political drama now taking place in the ukraine's crimean peninsula. the navy says that the voyage

here was previously scheduled and it's going to be conducting joint naval exercises with bulgaria and romania. it's clear right now that there is a big conversation, argument taking place between moscow and washington. and that's being done diplomatically, but it's also being done with military signatusignals and messages as well. saying that the u.s. would step up joint air patrols. that's basically to bolster allies like poland who are all concerned about the russian military moves in the ukraine. and also this move, sending this navy ship into the black sea at this point. it's an example of how two powers conduct their negotiations right now when they are clearly in disagreement in what is a geo political argument. >> thank you very much.

also back home, happening now a frantic search for an 11-year-old of maryland. an amber alert issued after her mother was found dead inside her home. investigators say they believe the girl was abducted by her father. they're concerned, of course, for her safety because she isn't supposed to be with him. her two siblings are safe. checking other headlines, a shooting left one man critically wounded inside a busy mall in tennessee. customers were sent duck for cover in the back of stores. they say it appears the victim and the potential suspects knew each other and that there had been a verbal confrontation before the shooting. investigators now say a poorly written contract is partly responsible for a massive 2012 hack of navy data. iran has been blamed but according to the wall street journal, the contractor wasn't

required to maintain certain parts of the network leaving it a much easier target. people in virginia across from the nation's capitol warned to be on guard against a possible serial killer. authorities now say they found links between the bullets used last month to kill a teacher as she answered her door to two other unsolved killings. the fbi has sent in a profiler. breaking this morning, in about 90 minutes, we're going to get the jobs report for february. christine, what's your best guess on what we can expect? >> we should care because it will tell us about the labor market is. about 150,000 jobs were made last month. this follows weak numbers in both december and january. the job market really in a rough patch here and a lot of people are blaming it on the severe

weather. without that it would be something like 193,000 jobs instead of the 150 that economists are predicting. parts of the country throughout february, blizzards, bitter cold. offices closed, flights are canceled, construction and other outdoor work basically stops. job interviews can be canceled. so you might see that in these numbers. last week, the federal reserve chair janet yellen told the committee she blames much of the economic weakness on thewet. some people say, oh, you're using the weather as an excuse for what's really a weak economy. it's going to be hard to know probably until march or april. that's my guess. >> thank you so much. we'll have christine back later in the next hour. now to the very latest in the blade runner oscar pistorius murder trial.

today, his ex-girlfriend, samantha taylor testified, saying their relationship ended when he cheated on her with reeva steenkamp. she also said he always carried his gun with him and that his screams could not be confused with a woman. big news coming out of venezuela. the president there talking exclusively to cnn about the violent protests in his country. nicholas maduro tells us those demanding he leave office are a minority. and he claims the u.s. would crackdown too. he adds, he wants better relations with the u.s. you can see the interview this afternoon at 2:00 eastern on cnn international. a hero's welcome perhaps for chris christie speaking at cpac outside of washington. he took a dig at the media,

praising american job create tors and bashing president obama for a lack of leadership. he was snubbed last year after praising the president about his efforts regarding hurricane sandy. republican congressman darrell issa apologizing to his democratic colleague elijah cummings for cutting off his mic during a statement. it happened wednesday. chairman issa says he should have been more sensitive to the mood in the chamber. cummings accepted the apology. let's take a look at what's happening in the papers this morning. we may be closer to seeing the commercial use of drones over u.s. skies. progress apparently being made on the legal and regulatory fronts. a judge ruled thursday that the faa does not have clear cut authority to ban drone use. it can be appealed to the ntsb and also a federal judge. in the washington post, new

legislation in the house to give airlines more flexibility when advertising ticket prices. regulators changed the rules two years ago, but members of congress say that hasn't worked because they can't show the different and what the personal of the number is actually government taxes. and the two super spellers are back. the 11-year-old and 13-year-old will resume their dramatic spell-off tomorrow morning. these are the whiz kids who went so many rounds in the first time of the bee that organizers ran out of words. the winner will go to the national bee in washington. >> great having them on the show. good kids. we have new fallout to tell you about from the cnn film "black fish." a california lawmaker is set to introduce a bill that would ban shows at sea world and other

parks in the state. it would also prohibit breeding in captivity. the bill's sponsor says orca are are too intelligent to be confined in tanks for their entire lives. the daughter of the reverend martin luther king jr. holding onto her father's nobel peace price and traveling bible after a court ordered her to turn them over. she missed the deadline this week, but she says she will hand them over monday. the atlanta court ordered she give them up to be held in a safety deposit box until a lawsuit is over. take a look at some amazing new shots. this is the end of an asteroid. the hubble telescope captured these images over several months. scientists think it shows the effect of sunlight pulling on

the asteroid. one researcher said they have never seen anything like it. >> i stare at one and it breaks up. >> the heat vision? don't look at me. >> literally the ability to destroy asteroids with a single look. >> scientists astounded by this. not indra. >> she's a signtist and a meteorologi meteorologist. and those are the same thing. >> and i have good news. it's going to be mild out there. for saturda, warming up. even the northeast starting to see above-normal temperatures. in the midwest, a little bit of that cold air creeping in. by saturday, it does make its way to the south east. things are going to be pretty nice out there. let's talk about what happens before we get there. we're looking at that low

producing icing conditions heading towards the d.c. area for commute time, but then it goes offshore. it's not going right up the coastline, so we're not talking about that wintery mix for the northeast anymore. there's the cold burst of air making its way through the midwest, but pretty dry. it's overall getting better by monday. so we've all had those moments we'd like to forget. some of us have had them this morning, chris. i want you to listen to this. >> when we were first told what respect meant to her -- >> i feel for him there. i have to tell you. the president was paying attribute to the song "respect." he flubbed the spelling of the word, obviously. the audience had a big laugh at

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now lieutenant colonel joseph morris is embroiled in a sex scandal of his own. he has been placed under criminal investigation for misconducts. a female lawyer says he groped her in 2011. morris joins the ranks of other high-profile military leaders in trouble for inappropriate sexual conduct. >> there was an e-mail in march of 2011 by a brigadier general after meeting with a congresswoman in which he apologized for e-mailing it late because he had masturbated three times over the past two hours after meeting with the congresswoman. >> another brigadier general, jeffrey sinclair, pleaded guilty thursday to three charges in a sex assault case.

>> i plan on trying to reform the whole system. >> on the same day, sexual misconduct cases in the military took center stage on the hill after there was a hard-fought battle lost. she vois to continue her fight. >> this is one fundamental problem. they don't trust the chain of command. that's one issue that must be addressed. >> pentagon brass who argued an over haul would undermine their ability to lead. our attempt to reach joseph morris were unsuccessful. kate and chris? coming up next on "new day," first sanctions, then a presidential talking to. we're going to talk to fareed zakaria about the ten with us

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welcome back everyone. the latest on the crisis in ukraine. russian officials are saying they do not expect a war with ukraine even as they speak in favor of a referendum that could make crimea break from ukraine.

now for the second straight day, a russian ship is blocking the exit from the ukrainian base. president obama and president putin found little common ground as they spoke for the third time about the conflict. and an american warship is headed to the black sea for preplanned exercises. a huge hack exposing a navy network. a poorly written contract is partly to blame. the contract did not require security for some databases, so the contractor did not regularly maintain them opening up a big hole for hackers. just released stud shows free birth control for women and teenage girls does not increase risky sex. those who took part in the study were less likely to have sex with more than one man. the study did find they had sex

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amazing video. kate? >> let's return to the top story of the morning, the crisis in the ukraine. fareed, we've been tracking the developments day by day. i think today the biggest thing to keep an eye on is this coming referendum vote in crimea. stay with ukraine or become part of russia. what do you think the real impact is of this vote? >> it's huge. facts on the ground, russia has already rested crimea from out of the ukrainian government's control. the flights from crimea to ukraine, to kiev, which used to go through the domestic terminal, of course, now leave through the international terminal. >> is it just a foregone conclusion? >> the fact on the ground is that crimea is already separate from ukraine. once that happens, it becomes

more and more difficult for the ukrainian government to keep protesting and saying they want to change this. it gives russia the bargaining power, the leverage it wants. we have to try to find some halfway house and recognizing that russia does have interests and that the population there doesn't want to be part of ukraine, which is an important point. >> it seems that the solution is going to be an imperfect one. i think you've made that point as well. how does ukraine, united states who supports ukraine, the authorities in kiev's interests and the eu how do they go about minimizing the influence that russia will have, though, in the end? >> the most important point here in the conversation between obama and putin, putin said i don't want to sacrifice this relationship. >> how has it not been -- i mean -- >> it is in bad shape. that suggests to me he is open to some kind of political

solution. he is just trying to create the best negotiating hand he can. we have to try to get the europeans to speak with one voice, to be united in presenting putin with some kind of a negotiated outcome that says the russian parts of ukraine can have some a ton my, but you cannot let stand as a principle that -- you know, russia get next to crimea. president obama said the referendum is unconstitutionally the government of ukraine's constitution. well, so was the coup. >> if you want to look at the literal -- >> what essentially happened, was a street action. >> so don't focus on that part. >> let's focus on -- forget the legal. let's look at the political

reality. let's try to recognize that russia has many more interests there than we do. we can't let stand that a powerful country can gobble up its neighbors. >> one of the moves that we are seeing besides a lot of conversations, are sanctions. so the united states laid the groundwork for sanctions obviously and the eu as well. do you think these taken together -- you need some kind of combination of these small options together to try to isolate russia. that's what the president wants to do, to try to force putin's hand. are these the right sanctions to do that? >> i don't think they will work. i think they will exact some price. i think they're probably worth doing. but here's the problem, this is not some small middle eastern country. this is a large economy that provides 30% of the natural gas for most european countries that has huge cross-border

investments. so for example, if you were to have real sanctions on the russian economy, french banks would collapse because the russians would say, we don't have to pay back the french banks what we owe them. france will not be anxious to do sanctions against russia. for all their high-minded rhetoric, they're very mercenary. this is not -- we intended to sanction smaller countries outside of the global trading system for the most part. russia is a reasonably large player with lots of dealings. so nobody's going to sanction them on oil and gas. nobody's going to sanction them in a way where they retaliate on the banks, so what are you left with. >> lavrov even said it's impossible to act honestly under the threat of ultimatums and sanctions. we also know they would be

considering counter sanctions as well. >> look, the -- what we've got to figure out is how to give russia some sense of dignity and space while not allowing it to do these kind of things. one thing we should be focusing on with the russians is they want to hold a referendum in crimea, fine. there are 25 million ethnic russians outside russia because of the old soviet days. do they really want to scare all their neighbors into making those countries feel that russia might start instigating these movements. let it technically be part of ukraine. >> get us back to some kind of off ramp, face-saving measure.

>> we've got to look for a win-win here, because russia is too close and it cares too much about ukraine for it to lose completely. >> fareed zakaria, great to see you. you can watch him sundays, 10:00 and 1:00 p.m. eastern. a monitoring twitter here. it does seem that many of you are open to the case that the next man you're about to meet is going to make here. he says he blacked out on a bender in las vegas. decided to sue the casino because they overserved him. i will test it and you may judge it. plus -- e to do with car insurance? an apron is hard work. an apron is pride in what you do.

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them ♪ kenny is right. we all know that. here's the scenario. you're in las vegas the e weekend of the super bowl. you wake up the next morning lighter to the tune of $500,000. that's what mark johnston skas happened to him. he says he should not be responsible for the losses because the casino should have cut him off. mr. johnston, this is your opportunity to make the case. you tell me why you should not be responsible for what you did. >> well, mr. cuomo. good morning to you. the case is basically about the casino serving me too many cocktails, when gaming regulations -- it's a direct violation of gaming regulations to serve someone who's

intoxicated. >> and you're saying they knew you were intoxicated and served you anyway? and you're also saying they knew they were doing this because they wanted to coax you to gamble too much? >> yes, sir. >> after leaving the first place, i really don't remember that. but most importantly, one of their own employees, a bartender who sat apparently with me while i was gambling is the one that brought this to my attention because i don't remember anything after the restaurant. he's a witness along with many other witnesses. >> okay. let's ask some questions here. one, on the law, you know that the don't serve the visibly intoxicated as a casino is an extension of other laws. what they're really intended to do is protect third parties,

people who wind up being victims of those who are drunk, as opposed to taking personal responsibility from the drunk people themselves. you're going to have to be making a constructive argument. do you have a problem with whole? >> no i don't. >> but you did that night? >> yes, i did. >> do you usually gamble and drink? >> yes, i do. >> you gamble a lot? >> i gamble a lot. i don't always drink a lot when i'm gambling. i've been going to vegas for three decades. >> is it true that you have gambled a lot, lost a lot, and drank a lot all at the same time? >> no. >> so you have never lost a lot of money and been drinking a lot while you were gambling? >> no. >> and you don't believe that if this wind up did come into

litigation that this casino wouldn't be able to come up and say, i know johnston, he's a whale. i've seen him drinking while he was gambling. you don't think anyone could come forward and say that? >> i can't speculate what they're going to come up with. i'm not a whale, number one. number two, i mean, i have had drinks while gambling. but intoxication to where it goes to a blackout, no. >> you've lost more than $500,000 before, though, right? yes i have. i've also won more than $500,000. >> this is actually a number that while it's higher than most anybody else will ever see in gambling days, this is not an unusual number? >> not for me. but i have my own opinion on

what the casino did after all this came to -- to a head at the end. >> all right. then we get to the main issue which is your responsibility, okay? you're not suggesting that they slipped you a mickey, right? they didn't side l up an attract l person that fed you drinks under some sort of guise, this is just about -- >> that's coffee. it's early here. no. nobody slipped me a mickey. the bottom line is, they served me a lot of cocktails. i don't remember. i was in a blackout. it didn't come from a bartender. it came from cocktail waitresses that kept refilling my drinks at the table. and that's pretty much what took place. >> wasn't it always on you whether or not to make the choices that kept you drunk or not drunk?

and it's a little hard to believe you could gamble these kinds of stakes and gamble at the same time. >> i've never had this happen before honestly. i don't know if you've ever been blacked out before. i guess that's for the experts to analyze. >> i've been blacked out. usually the point is you don't remember anything that happened and you're not able to do too much sophisticated stuff. gambling is not necessarily stumbling up the stairs and into your bathroom. >> i don't know what your point is. >> my point is it's a sophisticated behavior. you've lost this much money before. it's not like this was some record sum. and you were drinking too much and it may look like you're just trying to bail yourself out. fair criticism? >> i am not trying to bail myself out. i -- i -- that's definitely not true. >> well, but you are trying to

bail yourself out. you're trying to say even though i did the drinking and policewoman link, i want -- gambli gambling, i want you, the casino to pay me back. >> i have not paid the money anyways yet. there's more components to the story. you're just talking about the blackout period. and you don't really have the whole story that you're talking about right now. >> let me help your cause to that effect. you say that this wasn't about using normal currency. that this is about markers and there's something about the ka see na has decided to treat the marker that you think is suspicious. >> yes, basically i had a credit line at this casino. i've only been to this one a few time ls. i went there because a friend of mine got a job there. and pretty much begged me to come there. i ended upcoming there.

i don't gamble on credit. at some point during the night, while this employee that works for them who is a bartender, they simply doubled by credit line with him telling them, look, the guy is too much intoxicated. you should let him dgo to bed ad rest. and they didn't do that. >> in terms of when you usually have to pay back the marker, there's a period you get. you say this time they're treating it differently. tell me. >> yes. and that's another component to the story is that the casino, in fact, as you and i sit here today, the markers aren't even due until march 31st at a discounted rate of 20% which means that the debt is actually $400,000. what they did is they went ahead and -- with the behavior --

showing the behavior they had, they went ahead and deposited them trying to steel $100,000 from me. >> you believe they tried to jump the gun here and they tried >> not only that they made a ton of changes since this incident happened at the casino. >> in terms how they deal with intoxicated gamblers. >> they sent out memos. they fired a few people. they also sent out memos to some of their cocktail waitresses, bartenders and so on. >> at least you know you did that much, then, in terms of spreading a message of responsibility here. but i want to bring up those last two points because it adds some suspicion to the situation. i know you filed a lawsuit. keep us in the loop.

we'll be watching the litigation as it goes on. be very interest field goal you win this one. mr. johnson, sorry to meet you in this situation but thank you for coming on "new day". >> thank you, mr. cuomo. >> kate, over to you. >> coming up next on "new day" it could have been a cruel joke but it became a tearful good deed. watch what happens when a prankster dwifs a homeless man a fake lottery ticket. . . spokesperson: the volkswagen passat tdi clean diesel

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i would love it. welcome back. it's being called a great prank. the video getting 8 million hits. it involves a homeless man and a lottery ticket. it might warm your heart. here's cnn's jeanne moos. >> reporter: this is the story of a homeless man who got pranked with a losing lottery ticket. >> today i'll make him think he won the lottery. >> reporter: don't worry he's still a winner, a good deed prank and this is the prankster. normally he does things like dressing up in a car seat costume so he can scare drive through customers as the invisible driver. instead of a laugh, expect a tear when he pranks a homeless man with a good reputation and been hanging around a virginia shopping center. >> i don't have any money to give you, but i do have this winning lottery ticket. >> that's cool, my friend.

>> reporter: they head to a nearby deli to cash in the ticket. the store clerk is in on it. >> you won $1,000. >> you're kidding. >> as the clerk counts out ten 100s the man stares at the cash stuned into silence and then. >> i want to share with it you. >> oh, come on that's all yours. >> i was really thrown off. i didn't expect somebody to do that. >> reporter: when he insists he keep all of the money the camera mounted on his sunglasses catches the eyes of the homeless guy wellington up. >> here. >> reporter: when they were done hugging, it wasn't just the homeless man who had to wipe his eyes. >> come on. let's get out of here. >> to have somebody do what did you. >> reporter: he was not aware that he was recording everything. eric the homeless guy now knows

there's a video but what he doesn't know the lottery ticket wasn't a winner. >> i didn't want to ruin the moment of him winning the lottery ticket, i wanted him to just like, you know, capture that moment, that memory. >> reporter: he said he'll break to it him soon but most think the video was touching, some have qualms. good deeds on camera or exploiting people as props was the headline. >> i'm not just going to give him 1,000 and walk away and say have a great day. >> reporter: he set up a fundraising set for eric and in less than a day it totalled over $6,000 and counting. eric djiic didn't win the bulote hit the jackpot. we'll take a break here. a u.s./russia face off and freeze out. obama and putin talk.

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>> any discussion about the future of ukraine must include the legitimate government of ukraine. happening now a u.s. war ship passing near crimea this morning hours after president obama and vladimir putin talk over the phone. is the u.s. pressure working? we're live across the region. happening this hour, bracing for the latest jobs report. has the cold winter chill slowed the u.s. economy? what it all means for your wallet. breaking this morning, oscar

pistorius's exgirlfriend taking the stand claiming the sprinter had a gun on him at all times, even nearby while sleeping. we're live with the latest. your "new day" continues right now. good morning and welcome once again to "new day". it is friday, march 7th, 8:00 in the east. russia is trying a new tactic with an old ship it appears. for the second straight day russia sank an old vessel to block in ukrainian ships in the black sea. an american destroyer ship is expected to arrive in the region shortly to perform exercises that we're told were planned before the crisis broke out. >> the situation is still premature but members of russia's government are starting to roll out the welcome mat for crimea. they say a planned referendum on whether to split the ukraine is the right move adding they don't

expect a war but there's still growing concern about this upcoming vote including protests in ukraine and growing isolation from the west. now the diplomatic front the talks go on but the answers remain elusive. the latest, president obama and vladimir putin spent an hour on the phone discussing the situation. despite narrow agreement putin said ukrainians do need help from russia. let's begin our coverage this hour at the white house with michele kosinski. >> reporter: three times that president obama and vladimir putin have spoken by phone since the crisis. has that changed anything substantially? no. the administration said both sides do understand that there should be a diplomatic way forward. russia emphasized the importance of the u.s./russian relationship. there's still big differences in assessments and approach. the u.s. has imposed sanctions and russia really has yet to sit down with ukraine. in an hour long phone call

president obama again urged russian president vladimir putin to pursue a diplomatic solution, telling him to have dialogue with ukraine, to let in international monitors that have been blocked from crimea this week and pull back their troops to their basics. putin agreed on the need for diplomacy but they see the situation differently as did secretary of state john kerry and the russian foreign minister after a second day of meetings. >> crimea is part of ukraine. crimea is ukraine. >> reporter: russia called it impossible to act in the face of unilateral, semi-hysterical views. the u.s. pledged a billion dollars in aid to ukraine. the administration saying they have grave concerns the situation can escalate further and want to be flexible. >> if this violation of

international law continues the result is the united states, our allies and international community will remain firm. >> reporter: right now not sanctioning vladimir putin personally. ukraine again asking for resolution. >> president putin, mr. putin, tear down this wall. the wall of intimidation. the wall of military aggression. and let's build up new type of relations between ukraine and russia. we are ready for cooperation. but we are not ready to surrender and to be a subordinate of russia. >> reporter: we heard president obama and congress stress the need for bipartisanship through this. we've seen some of it. some republicans have been critical of the situation. yesterday a former u.n. ambassador said at least putin has a strategy while president obama has none. but others have been complimentary of the fact that

the u.s. has really been leading discussion and sanctions now. yesterday house speaker john boehner called putin a thug. kate. >> michele, thank you so much. also this morning an american missile destroyer is expected to arrive in the black sea. officials say the "uss truxtun" was already heading there for military training before the crisis. let's get the very latest from ivan watson on the ship in the bosphorus strait this morning. >> reporter: istanbul's bosphorus strait is an important passageway for commercial shipping and for tourists. but we're waiting for the arrival of a u.s. guided missile destroyer, the u.s. navy's truxtun which is expected to sail through here on its way to the black sea within a matter of hours. it is joining a number of other weather shapes that have come through in past days, two russian navy war ships and a

ukrainian frigate. they are headed in the direct of the contested crimean peninsula which has been occupied by the russian military. the u.s. navy insists the truxtun is going for previously scheduled naval maneuvers with bulgaria and romania. but clearly any movement by the military is a message between governments that do not see eye to eye on the future of the ukraine. kate, chris? >> ivan, thank you so much. let's talk about all the latest developments. joining us now is former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, steven piper. mr. ambassador thank you for taking the time this morning. >> good morning. >> i want to go back to the latest phone call between president obama and president vladimir putin. they are talking. that's a good thing. do you see any evidence that the pressure that the u.s. is trying to apply to russia is working? >> well, i think the white house working with europe is trying to

come up with a two track strategy. one is to begin ratcheting up the pressure, political, diplomatic and economic sanctions on the russians while trying to move moscow towards some kind of negotiated settlement. the white house said russia should bring their troops in crimea back to their barracks. also to begin a dialogue with kiev directly. so far the russian government said they don't recognize the new government in kiev so it's hard to get that dialogue under way. >> look at the long game here. do you see any resolution to this crisis and conflict can be reached without russia agreeing to sit down and talk to the authorities in kiev? >> ultimately there has to be that conversation between the russians and ukrainians. this can't be solved by the americans or the europeans. there may be some help outsiders can provide but at some point there has to be that direct

dialogue. unfortunately since the new government took office more than a week ago the russians maintain it's an illegitimate government. they at least formally recognize viktor yanukovych, the former president who fled ukraine on february 21 and has been out of sight some written russia. >> let's drill down, you would know better than most. i want to lean on your expertise knowing ukraine. i want to drill down on what is growing on in crimea. we have this referendum vote upcoming. some say it's a foregone conclusion from what they see happening on the ground in crimea. what do you think the real impact will be of this referendum? what happens after? >> i think the decision to go forward with theferendum is unfortunate and make it hartforder hartford -- harder for a resolution. all right the crimean leadership

said they will boycott the referendum. under ukrainian law this referendum is illegal. the crimeans thus far have not been willing to let international monitors in so is there any questioning of the re referendum to see if it's fair. and comments out of the russia legislature they are looking at legislation to allow other territories join russia. this may be more than just a referendum but a russia land grab. >> mr. ambassador, is crimea even before this vote happens is crimea effectively gone from ukraine? >> i think right now the best case that ukraine can hope for, unfortunately, is that crimea stays in a limbo status. i think if russia moves to a next crimea it would be very hard for wroukraine to get it b. if it stays in this limbo status

there's a chance for diplomacy but it will take a long time and require the west in order to help bring crimea back to ukraine will have to have a policy that's patient and persistent and have to be sustained over quite some time. it's not just pressuring the russians but political support and economic and financial assistance to ukraine so that ukraine which is now in somewhat fragile state can get through their election in may and become a more stable government and stand up more in terms of this dialogue with the russians. >> with your knowledge of the region what do you honestly believe is vladimir putin's end goal here? >> i think there are a couple of goals here that are very clear in the last week. first of all, with the new government taking office in kiev, they very much made clear that they wanted to resume the push towards the european union, sign the association agreement. mr. putin does not like that because a ukraine that's moving towards the european union is

going out of russia's geopolitical orbit. there's also i think from mr. putin a domestic political factor. he does not want to be seen in russia as the one who lost ukraine or lost crimea. >> doesn't it hurt him, his standing in the political, in the international political sense in the long term much more than it's going to help him in the short term domestically? >> i think this is very true. this is going to have very negative consequences. you see already the other members of the g-8 have now suspended their preparations for the g-8 summit that mr. putin was going to host in sochi in june. within ukraine one unattended consequence and it will be interesting to see the polling when it's done the ukraine population is more intent on drawing closer to europe and you see, i think, elsewhere within europe people reassessing what does this mean in terms of russian intentions elsewhere. this has some very negative consequences for russia. >> mr. ambassador, thank you

very much for your time this morning. >> thank you. john? >> let's take a look at some of the headlines. overnight officials investigate ad potential security threat on an american eagle flight. passengers were evacuated off the plane in kansas city after crew members said a suitcase did not match up with a passenger. the plane was taken to a remote location and met by emergency officials. all 67 passengers and crew had to leave without their personal belongings and were placed in a holding area. officials eventually gave the all clear but no other details have been made available at this point. the senate has blocked a bill of stripping military commanders over sexual assault case. the measure fell five votes shy. top military brass oppose these changes. bill's co-sponsor new york state gillibrand said reforms passed by congress don't go far enough. the army is investigating an accusation against a top officer whose job include training sex

crimes office. colonel joseph morris has been suspended from his duties following allegations he groped a female colleague. a search is on for an 11-year-old girl from maryland. her mother was found dead inside her home. investigators believe she was abducted by her father. they are concerned for her safety because she is not supposed to be with her father. we got to say not sure what this fan was thinking when he rushed out on the court last night during the game between hawaii and uc santa barbara. he tried to confront the coach and a couple of hawaii players pushed the fan away and looked like he was challenging them to fight. what's going on in that guy's head. the fan is believed to be a santa barbara student. he was ushered off the court. espn report reports he was later arrested.

probably for good reason. >> this is the very bad version of adorable little boy who ran on the soccer field this week. >> nothing adorable about that. >> that was an innocent little kid, this is a dope. that's why he got arrested. is it settled for you. >> now i'll tell you what the weather is. i know what the weather is. no i don't. now that's why we have meteorologist indra petersons. what would you have done? >> i'm not going to lie. i didn't see that. >> science doesn't care. >> i can go with weather. busted. let's talk about temperatures. we're talking about temperatures below normal but by tomorrow, monday temperatures will be above-normal. over the weekend we have a couple of things moving, couple of piece there's. first one is a low in the southeast. the hint of a wintry mix going towards morning commute around d.c. but here is the key.

this guy is going offshore not going up the coastline, not going to bring that wintry mix to northeast any more. that's an upside, a low as we go towards the weekend. midwest not as lucky. cold air will cool you off but not a lot of snow. moisture starved. notice even by this time saturday through sunday we'll see a little bit of that shower chance, snow shower chance in towards the northeast. big story came out yesterday. 50% chance we could see el nino by summer. it's good news for hurricane season. that means we have less potential for hurricanes in the atlantic and also milder conditions in the rockies and good potential for the west. potentially more rain out by california by next winter and you may want to pay attention to this guy, warmer temperatures for the upper midwest by next winter. that could be a good thing. has huge impacts across the world. >> but in the short term for all

my family members living in michigan and indiana they will be take it. >> they will be happy there. yes. coming up on "new day," last year he wasn't even invited. this year welcomed with open arms. a resounding reception for chris christie at the big conservative conference. what did he say? how it is going over? what's the latest? we'll discuss. jobs numbers are due out in just minutes. what impact did the awful winter weather have on hiring? stay with us. we'll bring you those numbers. at night and when it's cloudy, we use more natural gas. this ensures we can produce clean electricity whenever our customers need it. ♪

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welcome back to "new day". the conservative political action conference gets back under way this morning in the nation's capital.

known as cpac. on thursday new jersey governor chris christie stole the show there. he came out swinging. criticized the president. took shots at us in the media as well. christie's speech had the crowd on feet. last year he wasn't invited, wasn't seen as conservative enough. this year he's the man. let's bring in our political commentator and our political reporter. a lot of infighting lately in the republican party. do we see a message coming out from cpac early on about who they are? is it just about how bad democrats are? what are we hearing? >> look, there's continued infighting if you will. a lot of different messages depending on who is talking the. morning speaker yesterday was texas senator ted cruz who said the party needs to embrace its conservative principles, look what happened when we nominated john mccain, mitt romney who we thinks are sort of moderate

squishes, they lost the presidential election. then you moved on later to chris christie who sort of presented, tried to argue for a message of unity saying if we find a common ground, put aside those small things we don't agree on we need to beat democrats. they are worse than anyone within our own republican party. and this, christie really did steal the show. i think you're exactly right. he had the most energy in the room out of anyone who spoke yesterday. he really checked a lot of boxes with the conservative base. no walk outs or boos. he talked about how he was pro life, pivoting away from that blue state message we heard from him last year in new jersey when he was running for re-election. a lot of competing interests. today rand paul speaking and someone else in the republican tent who has a lot of different views about foreign policy. so, that will be interesting to watch as well. >> tack all couple of things for me. one do, we need cpac any more with the rise of the tea party. are they caught in the middle?

do you think the scandal actually could have helped christie with this particular fashion by making it about the media? what's your take? >> two things. cpac -- i'm not sure it needs to be three days long but cpac continues to be an important gathering particularly because it brings a lot of young republicans. most of the attendees are young republicans, people you don't usually see at republican gatherings. it's a yearly cattle call. it will get much more buzz as we get closer to presidential election. it's something that's done year after year and it's a tradition to go speak to the conservative base. the tea party is there. there are representatives of the tea party there as peter just said the first speaker was ted cruz, another speaker yesterday was mike lee the tea party candidate, tea party senator that's one of the most popular guys in the tea party. both of them got much less of a

reception and much less of a crowd, much less energy than chris christie or marco rubio did. on the question of the scandal, you know, chris, chris christie has been consistent in delivering very good speeches throughout this scandal. every time he's been on stage whether it's been his inaugural, the press conference, whether it's the town hall or whether it was yesterday, he has delivered strong speeches. he uses his no nonsense bluntness to his advantage. yeah, he went and talked about being pro life. in fairness to chris christie he's been pro life consistently his entire career and if you're going to tout that cpac is the place to do that. so he gave a good speech. he was very gracious and high liked the other republican governors and what they've done and he delivered the message of, you know what? washington is dysfunctional and i'm not washington and that's a message that also resonates in that room. >> he went after the media.

let's talk about how intelligent that is. peter, i'll make the metaphor for all media and i'll charge you. he's right about you bums and i'll tell you why. because not only do you keep chasing him about this scandal and everything that happens in his life, but look what you did about the gun with mcconnell. mcconnell showed up with a gun to the cpac. that's what you guys were all using as your headline. it was an award for someone, an nra lifetime achievement award. is he right about you guys chasing after the right wrongly? >> god forbid we ask tough questions about what he knew and when he knew it up in new jersey. look, this is a tried and true tactic when speaking to conservative audiences. there are a couple of polls that came out at the height of gw bridge scandal that showed christie's numbers tick up. conservatives rallied to his side saying he's unfairly attack. nobody is asking president obama these questions that they are

asking chris christie. that's just not true. you saw this from speaker after speaker yesterday. the speaker from nra got up and attacked the media saying they don't know what they are doing, they are not journalists any more. this was christie -- we didn't learn anything new about chris christie yesterday to ana's point about him being anti-abortion. he just used existing things about himself and framed himself for this audience in a really, really good way, actually. don't forget chris christie, whatever questions there are about his governance is a really talented political performer. he knew his audience. he talked about the koch brothers and attacked harry reid. he talked about abortion. he talked about the media and he talked about republicans coming together and winning. he found things that conservatives could agree on that he was good at and i think it really worked for him yesterday. >> the gun was a cheap shot but

what polls show through this period his numbers have dropped in terms of overall republicans who want to see him run for president. do you believe the guy who is going to be -- do you think the candidate for president is in that room right now that we'll hear at cpac or still undecided for republicans who the best person is? >> it's completely undecided. on the republican side it's up in the air. this is a very different position for republicans. usually we're the ones that have a successor on the wings. this time it's the democrats who have an heir apparent. we're completely up in the air and it's something that will be decided and clarify itself after the mid-terms. and no, i don't think necessarily that person was in the room. i'll remind you john kasich, jeb bush were not in that room, scott walker were not in that room but they all will be in the straw poll. that straw poll has everybody but the kitchen sink in it. >> thank you both. we got to go. i'll end with a compliment for

you. i love the red stichg around that jacket. strong, strong. >> thank you. coming up next on "new day" the latest jobs numbers are due out in minutes. we'll have the february numbers and tell you what they mean for the economy and, of course, your wallet. plus more emotional testimony in oscar pistorius trial. his ex-girlfriend was the about the olympians habit with guns. indict hurt the blade runner in court? "new day" returns in a moment. [ bubbles ]

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the labor department is calling that little changed for the record. it's up just slightly from 6.6%. when i look at these numbers on the table and i see the revisions you can see there are upward revisions for december and january totalling about 25,000. so a little bit more hiring than we had expected. the labor force participation rate 63%, little changed. that's a number that so many people worried about showing how many people are out of the labor market. we saw a construction adding jobs. we saw manufacturing adding jobs. we saw leisure adding jobs. i'll point out it will be really important to watch the quality of the jobs added, two-thirds of the jobs created in recovery -- >> what do you look for especially in recent jobs report? >> reporter: two-thirds of the jobs created were lower wage jobs. we had retail jobs lost. that's no surprise in the month you had retail jobs lost. who is going out and buying stuff when you're shoveling out your driveway.

again, 175,000 jobs created. that's the trend over the past year. it's a pick up. we call this a pick up in hiring. 175 is just enough to absorb the new entrants in to the labor force. humanities the weather was mentioned, i think 13 times in the reslease. >> janet yellen was worried about the winter weather impact the numbers. >> if you didn't have this bad weather you might have had better number p.m. >> that's a real thing? >> it's a real thing. this year has been crazy. you can't go to a job interview -- you can't go to a job fair if there's this crazy weather. if you're hiring especially one of these industries you're working outside or in housing, i'm interested that manufacturing and construction did have job gains in the month. that's important. retail lost. we'll look for business information services those tend to be higher paying jobs. this is a number the stock

market will like this number. people who think the underlying strength of the economy is slowly gaining momentum. treasure secretary couple of weeks ago told me we're on an upward course in the american economy. you want to see more? this is the right direction. >> we'll take it. christine, thanks so much. be sure to watch christine's show "your money" on saturdays at 2:00 p.m. coming up on "new day" extraordinary testimony in the oscar pistorius trial. his ex-girlfriend crying in court saying he always carried a gun. that's not why she's crying. we'll give you the very latest straight ahead.

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welcome back. we're learning a lot more about blade runner oscar pistorius. more than his defense would probably like happen an ex-girlfriend broke down on the stand when she told the court he cheated on her with the woman he's accused of murdering. she also said more germain to the case that pistorius was never without his gun. so let's get our status check and fight through the points of who is winning this case. we have host of hln now on the case and former prosecutor, mr. vinnie politan. we'll be looking at the points for the prosecution. and mr. danny savilas. gentlemen, thank you very much. let's set aside the fact but remind our viewers a lot of this stuff we're hearing would never make it into a trial in the u.s. but it is in there and shape the character. what is your deal, mr. prosecutor? what are the main points you're trying to make here and why do

you think you're effective? >> let's start with what you just spoke about which was the girlfriend testifying, the ex-girlfriend of oscar pistorius painting a picture of who this guy is. how is it possible oscar pistorius would shoot and kill his girlfriend. and he was hot head with a temper that flared up and always had his gun with him. that's a bad lethal combination and makes it much more plausible inside this courtroom that yes oscar pistorius is capable of doing what the prosecution has accused him of doing which is murdering reeva steenkamp. >> let me toss the ball over to you danny. you have two phones. you cheated on me with reeva steenkamp. you had a gun a lot. what do you do with that as a defense? >> well, in america you don't let that get in. but apparently in south africa you can bring in character evidence to show that the defendant was generally a bad guy. look, we all know, the rules of evidence here in america, this character evidence that he cheated on her or that he was a guy who liked to carry a gun

around not only is it improper character evidence, it's not relevant. again, we know he had a gun. we know he intentionally fired it. the question was his mistake as to who was behind the door. this evidence about what he did in the past even cheating and even having a gun is really unduly prejudicial. it's okay to come in south africa. i don't know why. but the defense has to diffuse that character evidence. hopefully the j-because there's not a jury, the judge has seen this before and will give it the minimal weight it deserves. >> danny, what are you sweating for. you're winning that argument. >> i get nervous around mr. politan. >> when are you going to get to the actual events of that night. you keep talking about who he was every where else except that night. what do you have that shows he planned to kill his girlfriend the night that he pulled that gun out, that you can prove that

it's not his story we should believe and what about the light in the bathroom. how will you prove that? >> the light on in the bathroom is incredible evidence. oscar pistorius's story is based on he's walking around in the dark and because it was so dark inside his bedroom he couldn't see the fact that reeva steenkamp was no longer in the bed and that's his excuse for shooting through the door accidentally. the neighbor who has a clear shot 80 yards, there's nothing between his balcony and oscar pistorius's bathroom, 80 yards, company see the bathroom light was on. so oscar pistorius can't say he was in the dark that night because the witness says the light was on, by the way. >> when was it on? when was the light on? how does the guy know he saw a woman's figure when it's a frosted window. >> the light is on. he looks. he hears screams before he hears the final gun shots and the light is on.

s on -- oscar pistorius is not walking around in the dark. that's the only way you can explain it. >> vinnie just scared me. danny what's going on with your side. you got the light on. you said it was off. these people said they heard screams. you didn't know where your girlfriend was. it's almost difficult to believe you didn't know. don't try to leave like that, danny. don't kill the shot when it's time to answer. >> the light is problematic for the defense because the light ruins the defense's theory that oscar pistorius had no idea what was going on in his own bedroom and that reeva wasn't in the room she was in the bathroom. they have to work on the light. the light is problematic. they have to attack that testimony. that's why they spend so much time on this perception and whether or not he could be wrong about seeing the light and what he saw and heard. they have to break town this doctor's testimony. >> let's end on this point. >> yes, me lady. >> we're still early on in the

trial. but at this point do you believe that even if the prosecution is successful in saying or showing pistorius couldn't have believed what he thought he believed -- the story doesn't make sense this could end up being culpable much more likely than intentional homicide? >> no. i don't think so. maybe it's not premeditated murder, maybe plain old murder but i don't think you'll get all the way down to the accident. the accident says he made a mistake. he's reckless. this is beyond reckless. there's something going on there. the key may be whatever is on those cell phones if they were able to uncover y. why are the cell phones in the bathroom. that needs to be uncovered. hopefully at some point we'll see that during the course of this trial. >> thank you both very much. appreciate you being with us. you're doing great. always the best looking guy on

camera, no offense, vinnie. >> what? >> you called me my lady. >> it's a sign of respect. >> to a female judge. i'm not a female. i don't think. >> make sure people are watching noon to 3:00 on hln. >> noon to 3:00 on hln. thanks for joining us, fellows. tonight watch more on trial. we have cnn spotlight the oscar pistorius trial. watch it at 10:00 eastern right here on cnn. get all cut up. coming up next on "new day," mind reading and at ttelekinesi the stuff of the future. well maybe not.

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>> operator. >> i need a pilot barack obama for a b-212 helicopter. hurry. >> let's go. >> let's do it. >> brain programming may not be confined to movies like the matrix or soon. now break throughs can make

telekinesis a reality. he details it in his new book. michio kaku, great to see you. we got forget pills. we got everything. where do you want to begin? how do we get there? >> first of all, just last year for the first time in history we actually upload ad memory into a mouse. next we'll upload memories in to primates like chimpanzees and create a brain pace maker for people with alzheimer's disease so they can upload a memory of who they are, who their children are and where they live. who knows. maybe upload a vacation you never had. college students can take all the courses they flunked in college, learn that material. we're not there yet. the first step was taken last year. this was huge. >> i understand the application with alzheimer's. that seems like a very good

application of that possibility. but otherwise why would we want to do this? >> this could change of the economy. think of the workers who are laid off because technology races on and they have to go to junior college and community college and relearn these skills. think of college students who can take courses that they didn't passing college. and this could affect entertainment, it could affect the economy, this is huge because our memories are who we are. >> like an iphone update. you plug in and things appear in your mind and the programs work better. >> that's the goal. we're not there yet. for animal studies we can do that. animals learn certain skills. we record the memory and reinsert the memory back into the hippacampus of the brain. >> what are you inserting that's the memory? >> when we learn a task in the center of the brain, electrical activity surges. that's your memory organ.

we record it. just like you videotape something. we record the impulse going in. >> until pulses have a specific pattern. >> that's right. >> that's unique to that particular memory. >> we record it. later after you've forgotten the task we reinsert that very same signal -- >> you shoot electronic signal. >> is it the future version of the mri. where are we today in terms of steps of getting there. >> mri is passive. that allows us to read. >> speaking of dumb -- >> we're talking about uploading memories, experiences. one day we may have a brain net where the internet is replaced by memory, emotions and feelings. >> what's the whole point of us being us then if you can change it and adapt it. what's point to of living your life? >> because you can enhance it. you can enrich it.

can you learn new tasks. you can become better people. >> i'm with you on this regard. but what about this dream sharing concept? i don't think anyone wants to know what i'm dreaming about. >> it's possible now to put the brain in an mri scan and compose thousands of dots of electrical photograph. we can see what's going on inside the living brain. if you go sleep inside this mri machine for the first time in history it will print out pictures of what you are dreaming about. >> how do you balance the enthusiasm you have for the science with notion of with great power comes great responsibility and how it would be used by people. >> we have to be very clear that false memories might also be uploaded. vacations could be uploaded but memories of crimes that never happened. >> the premise of every sci-fi movie i've seen. >> president barack obama and

the european union have pledged over a billion dollars to map the brain. this is huge. the next human genome project will be the connect dome project to give a map of the human brain where we can see how mental illness operates. that's our goal. >> that would be huge. few needs are greater than that one at least in american society to understand behavior. >> it's in biblical times mental illness is mentioned. upward of 15% of american population at some point or another have had mental problems. we don't know why. we're clueless as to the origin of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder. >> maybe it would help with the acceptance level. we dale with stories where there's criminal stories and people claim they are mentally ill. there's a stigma against it. >> one day if we have the connect dome that's on a disk all the pathways of the brain some people have speculated in some sense this will live on even after we die. >> professor, if this is what

you're doing for fun and you should read the book because i already feel smarter what are you doing for work? >> well i'm a physicist. we work on two great things. one is the origin of the universe. that's what i do professionally. that's what i do for a living. we look at the origin of the mind. these are our two greatest mysteries of the mind, outer space and inner space. >> fun to talk about. >> people are interested. the book is already number one on the "new york times" best seller list. high interest category. >> i feel smarter already. >> very nervous about the prospect knowing what you dream about. >> think about the legal liabilities. >> thank you. >> i was a lawyer. >> coming up, nearly one in five public school students dropout before graduation. now one woman is stepping in to make a difference. you'll find out in this edition of cnn heroes.

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. welcome back. time for this week's cnn. in los angeles nearly one in five public school students drops out before graduation. one woman is stepping up to make a difference to help teenage girls specifically. meet karen taylor. >> i blossom with each pen mark. >> i found myself in the words. >> every girl has a story to tell. >> some of our girls are faresing the greatest challenges teenagers could ever face. they need to be inspired about their own voice. >> life in the light can be so bright but it can be so pure. >> writing is self-expression. it can give them a tool for moving forward. >> say something that nobody else has said before because you

have your own way of saying things. >> we match underserved girls with professional women writers for mentoring and group work shops. >> i want to match you, krista with christie. >> the moment you ask a young person tell me about something you're passionate about the writing and the ideas just flow. >> their senses are diluted by the sparkly things that cross their eye. >> we need to help girls see that their voice matters. we got a lot of good stuff here and what i would like to hear more is about you, to give girls tools to be positive and thrive and rise above whatever challenges she's facing. >> beautiful. taking girl power to a whole new level. >> couldn't have said it better. >> one in five every woman. >> hopefully she will change it for the better. if you know someone remarkable we want to hear about them go to

cnnheroes.com. >> time for "newsroom" with jake tapper. have a great weekend, everybody. good morning, thanks for joining me for this special edition at cnn "newsroom". i'm jake tapper in for carol costello. we'll start the hour with breaking news about the health of the u.s. economy. we learned 175,000 jobs were added to payrolls last month. that is better than expected. and the unemployment rate ticked up slightly higher to 6.7%. i'm joined by cnn chief business correspondent christine romans and steven moore chief economist at the heritage foundation and alison kosik of the new york stock exchange. christine, let me start with you. take us through the numbers. what did we learn? >> we learned despite terrible weather hiring picked up in the month, 175,000 jobs created, the one