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prince phillip. thanks for joining me. don't forget you can follow me on twitter if you can smell smerconish. see you next week. today a big step closer to finding a doomed airasia jet. four large pieces believed to be the plane have been discovered. now a daunting mission going down 100 feet into the angry java sea to retrieve them. >> sole survivor. after a 7-year-old girl walks away from a plane crash and straight to someone's house for help. >> and her arms and legs were scratched up real bad. and she told me that her mom and dad was dead. >> oh and it is striking, faster and stronger than it has
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in years. the flu epidemic sweeping the nation, already claiming the lives of some o of its youngest victims. >> well it is good to see you on this saturday morning. 10:00 right now. hope you are happy and healthy this morning. >> i'm victor blackwell can christy paul. searchers may be zeroing in on missing airasia flight 8501. >> major developments. just a short time ago we learned that teams have recovered four large objects in the java sea. >> the objects are very close together. the largest is nearly 60 feet long. two of the objects are metal. >> all this seems to make it more and more likely that they are from that doomed plane. indonesia's government meanwhile wants to know why airasia flight
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85 01 was even applying last sunday. >> they say the airline did not request and did not have permission to fry to singapore on sundays. but that is precisely the route the plane was taking when it went down six days ago. we want to start with cnn's david malco live from surbaya indonesia this morning. david, do these four pieces of debris i imagine it means the crews are getting closer to locating the large stretch of wreckage and where the rest of these victims likely are. >> reporter: that is certainly the hope here victor. the pieces of debris mentioned we said they are metallic. they detected some using some sort of the metal detection technology on a ship.
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the largest 60 feet in length. the length of a air bus 320, approximately 120 feet. twice as long. the wingspan also 120 feet. as they are pulling out larger pieces we saw the window panel. now these larger metal objects. search teams are definitely hoping they are pointing them in the right direction. victor the weather proving to be a challenge out of the search zone. while they are pulling debris out they haven't found any more human remains in the last 24 hours. waves up to 16 feet in some areas making it much more difficult for search teams. the good news according to search and rescue official t weather is expected to break on sunday and waves far less and that means they may have a better chance at recovering more of those bodies. victor. >> and maybe get some of the divers down there to put eyes on the wreckage here. when you get the news of these large pieces found, how are the families handling all of this?
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>> reporter: i think a priority for the families and if you talk to them. and we have been over the last week here we're just coming up on one week that the flight would have departed. just a few hours from now on sunday morning. their priority is they want to know where their loved ones are. there are some that still believe hope against hope for a miracle that their loved ones could still be alive. they are feeling frustrated victor not by the sense that things aren't happening fast enough but by the sense that search teams just can't give them the answers they need at this point. and that answer is bringing their loved ones home alive or in some cases bringing their remains back. >> yeah i know these families understand that the crews from around the world are working as hard as they can and as quickly as they can. but pain staking work and the weather is not helping. david in surbaya, thank you. >> all right let's get a little deep we are. joining us cnn safety analyst
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and faa safety inspector formally in new york is a author of why planes crash. also allen deeland. allen i want to start with you. and when you hear about these four new pieces of debris found today, what was your first reaction to that. >> well i was very thankful. it looks like this is very much a work in progress this investigation. but it looks like some of the parts of the puzzle are beginning to fall in place. the bodies and the wreckage will probably only tell us what happened. why -- i'm an aviation psychologist. we've got to get inside the cockpit with the recorders and find out, you know why decisions were made. and whether the equipment was the -- the cockpit equipment was functioning. >> david, i know that you have said in the last couple of days you believe there may have been an emergency landing here that
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perhaps there was an attempt to land at sea, so to speak. base odden the information in the last 24 hours do you still believe that could have been possible. >> certainly it's possible. the aircraft appears to me that it went into an staal. we have information that shows it at a rapid rate of decent. i've investigated three similar accidents to this. and nearly always the pilot makes an attempt to gain control of the airplane. sometimes that happens just too late. and i think that is what we have here. the attempt was made the aircraft was approaching or at least had exited had staal ed haded had stall and out of control space station because of how the debris is spread. so i believe that there was an attempt certainly to at least level the aircraft and make the impact as light as possible. >> alallen, i think one of the things perplexing to people this
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morning is indonesia airasia says didn't even have permission to fly that singapore route on sunday. does it surprise you the airline was even in the air? i think a lot of people are wondering how that can even happen. >> well we all know what's happening in that part of the world in ind neezonesiaindonesia. they have expanded rapidly. a lot of new airmslines. and we saw this in 1978 when congress deregulated the u.s. airlines. all of a sudden a lot of new carriers t lot of new pilots and congress did not increase the number of people like david soucie. the faa inspectors who are so important to make sure the new companies are playing by the rule. and i remember an accident i worked on where we discovered the airline was violating all kinds of the federal air regular
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litigation sregular -- regulations. but it will be up to the investigators there to find out. >> tom fuentes actually likened this search to searching for bread crumbs in a jacuzzi referring to the currents in the java sea and the monsoon season. do you think more of this plane can be find without aerial capables? david. >> okay. thank you. yeah i do think they can. but it is going to be long and arduous process. i want to caution too, we said there are these pieces they found right now and they may be metal objects. david gallo is very familiar with these waters and expressed concern that there is a lot of debris on the bottom of this ocean. so i don't want to get anybody's hopes up right now about the fact that they have found the aircraft because that is simply not true. they have just found some metal
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objects of which there are still remnants of war fought down there. ships, planes. there is a lot of debris down there that may not be this aircraft. >> allen, do you agree with that? are we possibly looking at debris from something random? >> well some of the things appear to be from the -- obviously the passengers are. i should also say that i -- one of the other first investigations i did for nsb was a 727 that crashed into the pensacola bay. and that aircraft hit at 11 feet a minute a very high sink rate. but it was largely intact. it looks if these pieces actually came from the aircraft and there are indications at least with the floating debris i think david would probably agree the life rafts and so on are probably from the aircraft. but that boeing did not break up. so this tells me that we may be dealing with several debris fields on the floor of the ocean
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because of the fragmentation. >> i've got some people on twitter and facebook who've been asking this question. and allen, i want to direct it to you. they are wondering since this plane was not authorized to fly at the time is there possible lawsuit for liability? and who is going to be liable? because if a plane is not -- does not have permission to fly, it seems like there are a lot of people who allowed that to go forward. >> well that is kind of a lawyer question. i'm not familiar with indonesian law. but certainly suggests there may have been missteps perhaps on the part of middle management. you know i don't want to say the ceo is the culprit here. but the short answer is yes, it does seem like there will be some liability under international law because of this. >> david do you want to answer that real quickly too? >> yes, there are implications
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there but the insurance is the biggest implication in that if they are not properly certified to fly the insurance could actually deny the claim. >> adam diehl, david soucie thanks so much gentlemen. another plane crash to tell you about this morning. this happened last night in kentucky. four people were killed. but one of the passengers survived. and she just seven years old. listen you have to hear this story about what she was able to do in the middle of the night after the plane she was in came crashing to the ground. her incredible story is next. >> you said it was an accident? >> yes. >> yes. >> she was shot twice accidental. >> yes. >> who shotter? erher? >> me. >> and the dramatic 911 call. you heard it there. a georgia police chief that's what he made after he claims he
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accidentally shot his wife. how did that happen? we're going play it for you. coming up.
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snoop good news this morning. the 7-year-old girl who survived a plane crash has been released from the hospital. she was in a plane crash that crashed in kentucky killing four members of her family. >> i want to bring in nick valencia. because he actually spoke to the man who opened his door and found this 7-year-old at his
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doorstep bloodied. in the middle of the night. this is just remarkable. >> it is. he is calling it a miracle. he says she is so lucky to be alive. this twin engine plane was on its way to florida. when this pilot makes a distress call saying he's having problem withes with his engine about 6:00 p.m. local time in kentucky. the plane crashed there in the wooded area. the man was at home but he didn't hear the crash. his dog started barking and he heard a knock at the door. e walked to the door and this is what he found. >> i went to the door and there was a little girl about seven years old. crying. not bad. lips was quivering pretty good and she was pretty bloody. had a bloody nose and her arms and legs were scratched up real bad. and she told me that her mom and dad was dead.
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>> just incredible for that little seven-year-old girl to have the wherewithal to make it to that home. larry williams told me she must have spotted had light on at his house and he talked to me about what he did when she showed up at his house. >> i got a warm cloth and wiped her face and legs off and her arm. and she was complaining with her left arm. i couldn't understand hardly anything that she said. she was, like i say, seven years old. and she had just walked three quarters of a mile through very very rough territory. he had ice storm here in 2008. and this woods had not been cleaned up. so there was a lot of trees still on the ground. a lot of creeks and ditches and whatever. lot of wild blackberry plants with briars. and she was barefooted she had
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one sock on her foot and that was all. >> that little girl who we're choosing not to identify was wearing clothes for florida weather, not that cold weather in kentucky. another element of this heart-breaking story guys is she actually asked larry wilkins to come to the hospital with her. but because he is not a family member he wasn't allowed to show up at the hospital. but he just cannot say enough about this little girl's bravery. >> yeah. what -- brave. >> yeah. >> and i know that i read she was disoriented a bit. but do we know -- her parents are dead. do we know who is with her. >> larry wilkins, she told him she has an older sister. and we hope she is now back with her family members. and at least she's been released from the hospital. >> what causes the plane crash. >> >> we know they called about the engine. we don't know if specific that
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was the issue. n n faa and ntsb will be on the scene to determine that. >> our thoughts are with that young girl. >> thank you so much. coming up police commissioner bill bratton issues a stern warning to police as officers prepare to day goodbye to one of their own.
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according to a 911 tape the police chief of a community near atlanta says he accidentally shot his wife while he was sleeping with a gun in the bed. william mccullough's wife issed in the hospital. listen to the 911 call. >> i'm the chief of police the bed -- the gun is on the dress. >> okay. you are the chief of police in peach tree city. >> yeah unfortunately yes. >> you said it was an accident yes. >> you she was shot twice
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accidental? >> yes. >> who shot her? >> me. >> were you awe sleep also sir when it happened. >> mccullen has not been charged with a crime. it is important to say that but he is on administrative lean while the shooting is being investigated. >> a heroes' funeral is about grooeing, not airing grievances. that is the mental of the bill bratton. it was during that service that some police officers turned their backs on mayor bill de blasio blasio a silent symbol of anger with recent community tensions with the police. the expectation that we're going to see the same kind of turnout
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at tomorrow's fub ral that we saw for officer ramos. >> we expect the so i'm kind of the turnout from,000s of the police officers over the weekend. today begin services for sin ginlove. about 4:in china town there is going to be a public memorial service vigil. members of the community and public can come and pay respects. tomorrow is the funeral. and at the funeral we do expect again tens of thousands of police officers from across the country to come and pay their respects. we saw that something similar last weekend with his partner raffle ramos's funeral. jet blue has already said they are flying in for free more than 1100 officers from different jurisdictions from across the country to attend the funeral.
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with e also expect to see the fbi director director to attend. the police commissioner william bratton and also the mayor of new york bill de blasio. now bill de blasio and the nypd there have been tensions that have been growing over some of the comments he's made about officers in new york. there has been ongoing tensions rising since his comments after the decision not to indict the police officer involved in the apparent choke hold death of eric garner. last weekend at ramos's funeral several officers actually turned their backs on de blasio as he was speaking at the funeral. people took pictures of that. the pictures were very powerful and they were circulated among media and it became something that dominated the conversation about that funeral. and because of that the police commissioner william bratton has issued a memo asking that
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officers attending the funeral of luh tomorrow not do that again. not turn their backs on the mayor at the funeral. he said this was not about the officers. he said it was not disrespect detected at detective ramos but all officers were painted by it. it stole the have a lorvalor and attention and memory of detective ramos's life and sacrifice. and he went to say that was not the intent but it was the result. he said he wouldn't be disciplining anyone who did this out of a mandate. he ask they do it out of respect. >> heading to the airport? you may have to get comfy cozy. and pack snacks. travel delays and headaches because two dozen states facing winter weather warning and
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29 past the hour and checking the mornings top stories. >> the efforts to recover more victims and debris from flight 8501 have been called you have a until sunday after high waves and currents hinders the search. but piece by pain staking piece searchers have managered to turn you have mb debris that could be from the jet. they located four large objects in the priority search area in the java sea. very close together. the largest is almost 60 feet long. indonesia meanwhile says they did not have permission to fly the route they took on sunday.
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and. and check out the snow falling in lubbock texas this morning. as much as six inches could fall in this part of western texas but the lone star state is not alone today. 24 states expecting winter advisories. a small plane went down in kentucky killing four people. a seven-year-old girl on the flight miraculously survived and walked a mile to a home for help. she's been taking to a hospital with non life threatening injuries and has been released. officials say aing a london nurse being treat forward ebola. she is the first person to be diagnosed with the virus on u.k. soil. activists and friends of leila elkhorn gathered last night as a vigil for the
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youngster. born josh elkhorn left a message online for taking her own life. she wrote quote the only wayly rest in peace is in one day trans gender people aren't treated had way i was. >> a star he was the rhinestone cowboy before glen campbell. jik jimmy dickens died yesterday in nashville. best known for "may the bird of paradise fly up your nose." a real song. and "i'm little but i'm allowed." e died of the cardiac arrest. >> republicans won big in the elections but the task of actually governs has come you have to a rough start let's say. >> the latest on the pair of headache plaguing the party just
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days before it retakes full control of congress. >> these two koefrss arecontroversies are starting the republicans off for a weaker footing. but they are still on target for a major clash when congress comes back in the next couple of days over the key stone excel pipeline. republicans in congress celebrated two months ago with sweeping victories but kicking off the new year weaker than planned after a pair of embarrassments from the two gop house members. >> the number three house republican is managing fallout after news he accepted invitation a decade ago to speak to a white supremacist group. and michael grimm announcing he will resign after pleading guilty to tax evasion.
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>> just to give you some examples it won't surprise you things like approving the keystone pipeline which would put a lot of people to work almost immediately, trying to do everything we can to push back against this overactive bureaucracy of the current administration that's created much job loss. >> but that could set up a confrontation with the president who has vowed in the past to veto such bills. i think there's been this tendency to really hype this thing as some magic formula. and to what ales the u.s. economy and hard to see exactly where they are getting that information from. >> and soon after, funding for the president's programs for the department of homeland security runs out in february. >> that's certainly where we could see a big confrontation. when the president acted
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unilaterally on immigration without work with congress. said he was going to act alone. and the problem with that is we have a republican house now and senate that can send things to the president. >> where possibly can there be common ground? both have signalled they are open to working to together on trade and also tax reform this is a big ticket item republicans are really going to be pushing in the new year kristine. >> all righty. thank you. as aaron explained the house's third ranking republican steve sclees was blasted this week as it was revealed he spoke in front of the white spremist group. he said he did not know the nature of the group but he apologized. still democrats are not letting up. joining me now is cnn political
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analyst ron brownstein. ska scalise was a rising star. do you think it's over. >> on current facts it looks like he will survive this. under information that he did not really know the nature of this group. that you have not seen yet a critical mass really even of democrats from the state, much less republican colleaguings who are demanding that he go. >> do you think this sets up a dangerous precedent if democrats push not to have him removed from leadership not because of something he said but because he spoke to someone that i guess most people would disagree with their views. that could be turned against. so democrats at some point. >> well look politicians, i mean it is fair for politicians to say they do not always know
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the full group of every group they address, particularly when they are lower on kind of the ladder and don't have the staff to vet these organizations as they might have as they ascend to higher positions. but, you know, i think that -- as i say, on the current factings factingsfacts, i think there is not any kind of systematic push. and even some democrats, including johnson who was the candidate against him in 1990 have come out and given representative scalise the benefit of the doubt. so as to the representation that he had greater ties or what they were about. it does not appear to be enough to derail him. >> the last hour on smerconish david duke was on and he's rubbed elbow s withs with democrats
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on both sides of the aisle and he'd name names. >> you said this week that if he's crucified then you are going to name names. what are we talking about. >> i would name names of any democrat -- and i know some of the democrats in the house of rubbles and representatives who tried and in fact urged me to support them. >> in other words you are saying there are members of congress today who have relationships with you -- >> have had relationships. >> but they choose to keep those private and you honor. >> and i respect someone's privacy but i would call them out if they would be hypocritical. >> does david duke have that credibility to put the pressure on people if even if begins names. >> i was down in louisiana where he was the finalist for the david johnston and i was back in the next year. david duke i think, you know, has a tendency to exaggerate his own reach and audience. i mean he has a limited
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constituency. it is a lot less than it was 20 years i think. do you remember 1992 after the two races when he ran for republican presidential nomination? no you don't. no one does. there was a great deal of attention and then it fizzled. the idea of him as a power broker in louisiana politics is something that probably exists mostly in his own mind. >> let's look ahead to 2015. republicans own the hill. president obama finishing the fourth quarter of his presidency. is there anything you see that really can get done? there was so much talks about immigration. we can can work together on immigration immigration. you see how that ended up. >>. i think confrontation well-being the default on most issues. and and president has pushed like executive power on immigration and the epa has structured on carbon emissions and the way he's implemented a number of other policies that i
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think republicans are going to push back again. and all likelihood over the budget as well. but there may be some opportunities. taxes and trade are areas where there is at least the possibility that they could find some common interest. and it is also not inconceivable that after a big budget confrontation which is likely there may be one more effort towards a big budget bargain. i would be dubious that this congress and this president can find common ground on how they envision the role o of the government. it would not surprise me that after a collision that there is at least one more attempt of what they tried in 2011 of a grand barring. >> announcer: hopefully they can get something, something done in the last two years. ron, thank you so much. >> thank you victor. well the u.s. is slamming north korea with sanctions over the sony hat case. we're going to tell you who got sanctioned and how it effects
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you two are going to be in the room alone with kim. and cia would love it if you can take him out. >> the clip from "the interview". the controversial satire about the plot to kill north korea's leader leader. >> and pushback as well. president o boombama is slamming north korea with sanctions. >> cnn's correspondent has the details. >> christi and victor president obama is turning up the heat on north korea in response to the cyber attack. the obama administration maintains north korea was behind the attack and the sanctions announced are just the beginning. the new sanctions ordered by
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president obama are being dubbed by the white house as broad and powerful. and only the initial u.s. response to north korea's alleged cyber attack on sony pictures. senior administrative officials say they are aimed at any and all officials of the north korean government the political hierarchisy and the heart of his organization. specifically blocked from dealings with u.s. financial firms. the rrksz gb comid, its primary arms dealer. in a letter to john boehner the executive order adds to sanctioned already in place and not targeted at the people of north korea but rather aimed at government and its activities that threaten the united states and others. the president vowed to hold pyongyang responsible just before leaving for his annual vacation in hawaii. >> they caused a lot of damage. and we will respond. we will respond proportionally.
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and we'll respond in a place and time and manner that we choose. >> an interview with cnn president obama called this as action of vandalism the u.s. will be dealing with for years to come. >> we're going to be in an environment in this new world where so much is digitalized that state and satetate actors have a impact on our lives. we have to treat it like the incidence of crime in our countries. >> the white house appeared to suggest that the u.s. was not behind that vast internet outage in north korea that in the days behind north korea's comments. a senior administration official went further saying that the u.s. is not ruling out the possibility that north korea may
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have done the power outage after the zipt to themselves. >> senior administration officials say the u.s. is not certainly whether the ten people targeted in the sanctions even have assets in the u.s. but the white house making it very clear they are just getting warmed up. >> all right jim. thank you very much. so flu season is here and with a vengeance. the centers for disease control have already declared the season an epidemic. elevated across the nation and at a high level in 22 states. >> so if you have not gotten a few state you might want to reconsider. strains are spreading fast and in some cases deadly for children in a matter of hours. >> reporter: one of the most recent flu-related death is a three-year-old girl from iowa. her parents say she went from perfect health with no
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preexisting conditions to becoming severely dehydrated and in pain. then rushed to a hospital in des moines where she later died just a few days after showing the initial signs of the flu. another tragic case in minnesota. 7-year-old rubby hansen died christmas eve. her mother believed she might have survived had she not had a preexisting medical syndrome. >> she had not hat jer vai syndrome. she has a seizure, yes the seizure was caused by the flu. >> these latest showing the flu has reached epidemic level. one of the strains this season has mutated causing this year's vaccination to be less than optimal for protection. >> the most common virus we're seeing cause it right now is h 3
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n 2. when we've seen it in previous seasons we've lean relatively severe seasons so it's possible again this year. >> it's wide spread in at least 36 states with current levels approaching peak levels we saw two years ago. doctors are seeing more patients. >> i was on a shift the other day. i saw about 35 patients. i saw ten positive flu swabs. and there was a couple i didn't even swab. i just treated them because it is so prevalent. so we're definitely seeing a lot. >> the cdc is set to release the latest figures this coming monday. in the meantime officials still recommend getting a the flu shot even though it may completely prevent against it i may lessen the severity if you get sick. george howell cnn chicago. now in some other news a big day in football.
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well the road to the super bowl starts today. >> the nfl playoffs begin with wild card weekend. simply put it is win or go home. >> it's all about pro football this week with two big games today and two more tomorrow. the baltimore ravens go to pittsburgh tonight but the steel rers without their star running back le'veon bell. he hooibyperextended his knee last week. kickoff is in prime time 8:00 eastern. today's double header begins at 4:35 with the cardinals and panthers.
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it's been a bad couple of days for the florida state seminoles. they were blown out oi oregon 54-20 on thursday. and eliminated from the college football playoffs. . and when they returned total tallahassee yesterday. he reported people actually keyed our cars. so far no one has been arrested if for vandalism. >> and too pennsylvania where general mcclain high school takes on mercy. she hit the rim and watched it completely fall off. very glad nobody aggressively tried to get the rebound. that could be a different story. the game was delayed 45 minutes before they ran away with the win 59-32. >> that is dangerous. the rim just falls off in the the middle of the game. >> >> yeah.
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just fell off. >> good thing no one was hurt. graffiti and street art has evolved into much more than a spray can and a wall. a look at how one artist is using explosives to carve out o iz murals.
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unusual set of tools. >> i was always interested in this idea of being something that destroys the city that defaces the city that takes value out of the urban space where you live. i started to realize that i
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didn't want to paint over and to be one more layer on all these layers building up on the city every day. on a wall sometimes you just need a tiny spark that ignites the explosion that brings all these layers from 50 years ago back to the present. >> he works a licensed pyrotechnician attaching calculated measures of dynamite to a drawing on the wall. today he is working with an electric drill to carve out the face of a man he encountered in lisbon a few weeks ago. >> that make the invisible visible in a way. >> his recent contemptorary solo show was a sellout and his following on social media is rapidly rising. >> i think social media place a big role because it makes a link between you and your work and what you want to communicate
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about it to the people who follow it. as an artist who works in the public space and mostly seen as outcast or someone as defacing or taking value of the place you live. makes you be an outsider and this makes you look to different things that people usually don't. for me it was the catalyst to make me realize things in a different way. >> fascinating. right? if you want to watch the full episode, go to cnn.com/ones to watch. >> all righty we're going to hand it off here today but we are hoping you can make great memories. >> stay here though because there is much more ahead in the next hour of cnn news room. here's fredericka whitfield. >> happy new year. >> happy new year. >> first time seeing each other. >> we both did the hand thing. i don't know what that's about. >> because that is the love we're passing to one another. in this 2015. give and take. good to see you. have a great one.
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>> you too. >> hello everyone. the noon -- no the 11:00 eastern hour. news room begins right now. hello again. happening right now in the news room four large pieces of debris found believed to be from the airasia plane. and now questions about why flight 8501 was flying an unauthorized route. and also new york police commissioner bratton tells his finest show respect at funeral of the fallen officer wenjian liu and don't turn your backs to the mayor. plus: >> it is just really a miracle. >> i went to the door and a little girl about seven years old, crying. not bad. lip was quivering pretty good. >> a seven-year-old girl is the