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what happens then? happening now, washington loses two critical allies as power shifts in the middle east. in saudi arabia the death of 90-year-old king abdullah hailed by some as a partner in the u.s. fight against both al qaeda and isis. noted by others as a leader of an oppressive regime. his more conservative brother has already ascended to the throne. neighboring yemen is in chaos after its pro-u.s. president and prime minister resigned. shiite houthi rebels are in charge of the capital and the u.s. embassy is withdrawing staff because of safety concerns. the deadline passed with no word on the fate of two japanese men held by isis on a $200 million ransom demand. a spokesman tells the japanese broadcaster that isis will soon

release a statement about the hostages. we're looking closely at all of these major developments today. i want to bring in our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. saudi arabia is a close ally of the united states. a complicated alley but a close one. how concerned is the united states now about this transition of power, the death of the king there? >> they're not hugely concerned because, one, the health of the late king abdullah had been in question for some time. saudis had a succession plan in place for some time. and you see in that succession plan consistency. ideologically consistent and next in line another son of the founder of saudi arabia. so you see -- you will likely see a continuation of the policies we saw under king

abdullah who is a close ally of the united states but also a relative reformer as you know this is still a country that beheads people and flogged a blogger for starting a debate about extremism online. it has a long way to go but by saudi standards he moved in the right direction and u.s. officials expect that to continue. >> a key friend of the united states when it comes to security and key influence when it comes to the economy. obviously saudi arabia with great control over world oil prices. jim sciutto, thank you for being with us. disturbing new developments in neighboring yemen. u.s. backed government in yemen collapsed. now the united states is pulling more embassy staff out of that country. our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh has just left the capital of yemen, sanaa. nick give us a sense of the latest. let me know what it was like there in your final moments. did you get the sense that country was slipping into just pure chaos?

>> reporter: interesting to see how houthies took control. they have had control for months. it was interesting once they wanted out that they would head into much more of a spiral toward the unknown. the streets were pretty calm. we heard sounds of gunfire occasionally fireworks too. and on the drive out through the airport came across four or five polite and reasonably calm checkpoints. a lot of them were young and that's half of the strength many say, of the houthi movement is harnessing frustrations to a degree. the airport itself was reasonably calm. they did look for former regime members. the issue now is what next? it was a bit of a high stakes gamble by the president once his cabinet and prime minister left their jobs to also quit and in the word of one of the ministers earlier naming and shaming a deal that was being done with

houthies which was dissolving and weakening of his powers and giving houthies what they want. we're in for a confusing days ahead. parliament may meet the speaker under the constitution is technically next in line for acting president. what do houthies wish to honor of that is the street dictating yemen's politics at the moment. there are talks of the city in the east or south refusing to recognize the houthi government. it's a very chaotic situation. one of course that will have u.s. diplomatic community on edge and of course one which will be deeply troubling neighbors saudi arabia. they see the hand in iran there. when you see how fast houthies got their act together in the last few months there has to be someone helping them become effective. >> nick do you have a sense of what the current status of u.s.

influence is inside yemen and how well will the united states pursue its battle against al qaeda in the arabian peninsula in that country now that there's been a shift in power? >> reporter: i think if you look at how the u.s. functions in states where there is half compliance compliance it tries to gather information without necessarily being reliant on the host country. they will probably carry on much of the counterterrorist surveillance and human intelligence gathering as best as they can giving swirling chaos but the reduction in embassy staff is going to take a toll as a degree on restrictions on movements they'll have to undertake if this situation becomes increasingly unstable and then of course there's the broader issues of what houthies make of this. they are not overly anti-american when you speak to them and talk to them.

one slogan is death to america. it will be a complicated relationship for the u.s. to fathom if they decide they have to deal with the houthies because houthies decide they want to run yemen rather than just being the main dominant influence on the streets. i think that period of confusion, many as i left were telling me will give a window for al qaeda to attack and grow and of course a pause in counterterrorism operation itself giving a hand. >> nick paton walsh just left yemen. thank you so much. "@ this hour," the lives of two men hang in the balance. more than 11 hours passed since the deadline passed to kill two japanese citizens. isis asked japan to pay $2 million in ransom. what is the status at this point of negotiations? are there negotiations? >> we don't know if there are negotiations. as far as we know the japanese government said that they have

tried to make contact with isis through jordan but so far they have not had any success. having said that the national broadcaster nhk was able to speak to a spokesperson or someone representing isis saying that a message would be broadcast soon. now, it's been many hours since that message from isis was received but we haven't seen any video or anything else come out yet. as you can imagine, it's an agonizing wait for the families of both men and at the moment the japanese government says they are doing everything they can but they have had no confirmed contact with isis so far. >> one of these men has a newborn child at home? >> that's right. kenji goto is a well known japanese journalist covering the middle east and he left to cover syria when his baby was just a few weeks old. that's something that his mother said publicly yesterday in a very tearful plea to have him

released. his other companion in this was haruna yukawa acting as a security guard for him during this trip. both men have been held hostage for a number of months by isis and as you can imagine it's an agonizing wait for the family as they wait to see whether or not isis will spare their lives. >> all right. we again are awaiting word on the fate of these two men. word we hope of their safety. thank you so much. other stories making headlines, a colorado teenager will face sentencing after pleading guilty to trying to join isis. shannon connelly said that her name is now servant of allah. the 19-year-old nursing aide was arrested after trying to board a flight to turkey to marry a fighter she met online. her parents say they worry about other impressionable young

people. seven cuban dissidents were welcomed to the chief of missions residence but diplomats slammed the u.s. over human rights. activists have said cuba is one of the worst offenders in the world when it comes to human rights. the number of people trying to take loaded guns on u.s. flights is rising. tsa reports that officers discovered a record 2,200 firearms in travelers' carry-on bags last year. more than 80% of those guns were loaded. the passengers who were caught face thousands of dollars in fines. you can bring unloaded firearms onto planes but only onto checked bags that go in the belly of a plane. in just a few minutes, the

team co-captains of the new england patriots will face the media and they no doubt will have to take questions about deflate-gate. what can they tell us about the situation right now? the air reportedly missing from footballs in the afc championship game against the colts. tom brady and bill belichick didn't have answers and the nfl is saying that it is still investigating. and tom brady said they hadn't spoken to him as of yesterday. we'll talk to one former teammate of brady to find out what they think should happen and who is to blame. coming up a key u.s. ally crumbles. how turmoil in yemen goes far beyond its borders and mitt romney his key aides are meeting today to talk about what exactly? is the campaign three-peat on? stay with us. i know... this third shift is rough... it's just a few more weeks

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political chaos in yemen could have serious consequences for the united states. the u.s. is already reduceing its personnel in that country after the fall of the yemeni government. the embassy open technically but officials will re-evaluate as things on the ground change and they are changing rapidly. paul cruickshank, let me start with you. the government in yemen has crumbled. gone away. the president is gone. prime minister gone. entire cabinet has resigned. united states depends or has depended on yemen for years as the united states has battled al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. considered the most dangerous arm currently of al qaeda. so how will this change the u.s.

ability to fight al qaeda in that country? >> the administration's strategy is in tatters because they depended on president hadi to a significant degree and counterterrorism operations in yemen he was supportive of the drone strikes and there was intelligence sharing between the two governments. now there's a big power vacuum and perhaps houthies will take over. there will be a shia government perhaps and that would be a recruitment windfall for al qaeda in yemen because they hate shia and they could be recruited by aqap in a big way in the future. >> what about drone strikes? do you hit pause on drone strikes while you with a it's toait to see what happens there? >> will they carry on the drone strikes given political uncertainty at the moment. if they have key targets, the chief bombmaker i'm sure they

will pull the trigger. there may be some sort of thinking about whether they should pull the trigger on other targets. >> what if you are an american right now? what if you are a member of the u.s. embassy staff? what if you are one of the military members there now guarding the people in that staff? how nervous are you as you watch this government crumble around you? >> right now they're at a minute by minute decision making cycle with the ambassador regional security officer and senior military adviser on the ground. i will also tell you if i'm someone there on the ground pulling security helping the embassy, can the carrier group out there and assets we have prepared to go in i feel okay. and i'm not looking at it as desperate as it is right now that a lot of people are talking about. >> and, colonel, along those same lines, saudi arabia has long been a nation where there's been a great deal of partnership. there has been a transition of power in that country. frankly, a very big one when you

think about it. king abdullah has run that country for 20 years and now his brother, king salman is in charge. how does this complicate the relationship these countries have? >> it's seamless. saudis do this very well. they've been doing it a long time with the succession plan and it's seamless. all of the princes throughout the family have great relationships with the government and military and the united states. it's a seamless transition the way i see it. >> paul around the world because you talked to people all over the islamic world, how is the united states' relationship with saudi arabia viewed? what you have here is a monarchy. some people say a repressive monarchy. so is this relationship the u.s. has with saudis looked upon fondly by other muslims in other countries? >> i mean, for example, there's been a lot of criticism from these extremists of this

relationship particularly of the saudi royal family. isis made propaganda out of this. they sort of say that saudis are in league with the infidel americans. saudi arabia is one of the big targets. a lot of saudis joined this group in syria and iraq. saudis are worried about these people coming back. we've seen terrorist plots and attacks in the kingdom in recent months. that's one of the big security challenges as we move forward. >> we're awaiting word on the fate of these two japanese hostages believed to be held by isis. isis asking for $200 million ransom. what do you think is going on right now? >> we don't know. we don't know if the japanese are trying to reach out through intermediaries to try to get some contact with the isis leadership. it's been reported so far there's no contact yet been established. the prospects are terrible for these hostages. time and time again isis

beheaded executed killed hostages and your heart goes out to the families in this situation. >> indeed. you talk about relative levels of barbarism and it almost seems senseless. murder is murder no matter how you look at it and this group is guilty of large number of murders and killing a large number of hostages here. you would think that their image around the world, even people who would be somewhat sympathetic to them would be severely hurt by these types of actions they are threatening right now. >> you would think that but this propaganda wheel that isis has has a strange appeal to the younger generation and i'm just not sure why it's doing that at times. here's the other thing i tell you. right now isis has financial problems. with the dropping of oil, they were selling oil for $50 a barrel when it was at 75. now that's dropped for them almost in half and even more so the black market is not even moving as fast. this might be an opportunity that japanese do continue

because isis might need the money. >> you think it's a financial play? you think that isis is doing this to make a few bucks? >> there's no question. they've done this every time. there's already been precedent set by other countries that paid money to get people out of isis hands. it's a financial gain for them to do this. they have to fund their army. >> as you have noted, a dangerous precedent many in the security community think as well. paul cruickshank, colonel reese, thank you for being with us. there is deflate-gate deflecting going on. bill belichick says he has no explanation. tom brady says he didn't alter the footballs so who did? did anyone? and what if no one ever proves anything? that's next. you wouldn't do half of your daily routine. so why treat your mouth any differently? complete the job with listerine®. kill up to 99 percent of germs. and prevent plaque, early gum disease and bad breath. sfx: ahhh

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what is the nfl going to do about deflate-gate and when will it do it? we now heard from coach bill belichick and from quarterback tom brady. right now the other team co-can'tinessco- co-captains are answering questions about the shadow that it's cast over the super bowl. nfl officials are saying they are investigating but as of yet tom brady said no one from the league had even contacted him. >> i have no knowledge of anything. no knowledge of any wrongdoing. i'm very comfortable saying that nobody did it as far as i know. i don't know everything. i also understand i was in the locker room preparing for a game

and i don't know what happened over the course of the process with the footballs. >> a couple men with us who played the game. tim green was an offensive end with the atlanta falcons and now a bestselling author of many books. we also have former patriot tight end jermaine wiggins, now an nfl analyst and radio host. tim, i want to start with you. you are also a lawyer among other many things. you have said that the nfl does need to punish the patriots. my question to you is what if they don't ever find any proof as to who took the air out of the footballs if someone did? what if they can't find that smoking gun? is underinflated the same thing as deflated? >> i think they'll have to hand out some kind of punishment because the league wants to be consistent. they want to be measured. they're going to have to do something. i think if you look at the

precedent of bounty gate with the new orleans saints -- these are two different things. a lot of people are comparing what the saints did with bounty gate where players were offered cash to hurt other players, that's morally repugnant. this really isn't. this is a different animal. this reminds me of some of the things i would see people do. they would spray silicone on jerseys to people couldn't grab them and use cleats that are longer than normal. everyone always is looking for an edge but when the league finds out that people are doing it they have to take measures. they have to stop that behavior and eliminate it. they are going to hand out a punishment. it will be maybe to patriots in general. they may never find out exactly who did it. mark my words. someone did it. someone knows even though we may never find out. >> you were talking about people comparing this tim, to what happened with the new orleans saints. troy aikman is someone who has been making that comparison.

troy aikman says the punishment in this case should be even worse. let's listen to what the former dallas quarterback said. >> it's obvious that tom brady had something to do with this. for the balls to have been de deflate deflated that doesn't happen unless the quarterback wants that to happen. i can assure you of that. >> troy is awesome. great player. i couldn't disagree with him more. this is something that doesn't affect somebody's health and well-being. bounty gate really did. that's morally repugnant. this is not. >> i want to bring you in but there are people who say there are moral issues with cheating as well if that's what the patriots did. you are dealing with the issue of what is worse. we'll leave that to the nfl to decide. tom brady said something yesterday that was interesting.

he said the perfect football for him is at 12.5 psi. that's where it is perfect for him. he then went onto say he has no way of knowing how much pressure was in the balls when he was playing with them in that game. he knows enough to know that 12.5 psi is perfect but he doesn't know enough to know whether there was air in them or not? is that believable? >> yes, that's believable. that's 100% believable. when you're in the heat of the battle you're in the game you're focused on defense trying to figure out where to go with this football and where is the soft spot. brady is thinking of so many different things. he's not thinking is it 12.5 psi. he's worried about making sure he catches the ball and trying to get the ball to the right receiver and 300-pound men trying to rip his head off. he's not concerning himself with that. that's 100% believable. let me tell you something about tom brady. he's been in this league for a long time. he's a guy that we know.

we respect him. he's never come out and lied to us before. for him to go out there and say that he had nothing to do with this altering the footballs, he's putting himself on a ledge and basically saying i didn't have anything to do with this. he's not that dumb of a guy to know if he did have something to do with it i'll tell the world that i had nothing to do with it knowing the nfl is going to turn over every rock and look in every corner to figure out what's going on. he's not that stupid. he's not that type of guy. when he goes out and says he had nothing to do with altering the footballs, i can tell you i believe him. the troy aikman statement to compare deflating footballs with going out and physically hurting players, putting bounty on players, i put a bounty on a guy, $1,000 to hurt that player. for him to say that's the same thing and they deserve the same type of punishment is foolish. >> let me ask you the same question i asked tim. i think the nfl is having a hard time coming up with proof. it's taking a long period of

time for them to come forward and say anything. what if there is no magical videotape of someone deflating a football? should there be punishment at all? >> no there's no punishment. how can you punish somebody a team a player an organization when you have no proof. you have nothing. the only thing i know right now from the press conference is that bill belichick and tom brady and everything that's going on they came out and they gave their statements. their statements were we had nothing to do with this. tom brady said i didn't alter any football. bill belichick has no knowledge of what's going on. how can you punish an organization because without having any proof? you can't say they got in trouble for spygate so we'll have to punish them based on prior history. that's ludicrous to me. you have to have proof. you have to have something and with nfl not having anything and they come up with no answers, you can't levy down any type of

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cnn just learned that john kerry will visit nigeria in a couple of days. the secretary has been meeting all over the world with leaders talking about the issue of terrorism and how to battle terrorism in nigeria. there are so many problems right now. the terror group boko haram slaughtering thousands perhaps of people including children. now we have learned that the united states secretary of state john kerry will travel to that troubled nation. we'll have much more on that ahead. new information just into cnn, just what happened to airasia flight 8501 in minutes before it disappeared from radar. want to bring in rene marsh. we're also joined on the phone by cnn aviation analyst mary. >> things go wrong after the pilots ask for permission to climb to a higher altitude and turn left.

here's what the time line looks like. this is from indonesian transportation officials. they are not in charge of the investigation. they tell us that three minutes after they asked for that permission the plane does indeed turn left. six seconds later it makes a strong and quick climb of 1,400 feet and 40 seconds later the plane is at 37,600 feet. that means that the plane increased altitude a total of 6,000 feet all within a minute. the plane does disappear from primary radar and all of these events that you're looking at on your screen are all unfolding in a matter of about four minutes. however, it is worth noting that the airbus a-320 can fly up to 39,800 feet. that's the point that the plane -- the plane did not hit that ceiling. it can operate at that 37,600 feet that we have been talking

about here. however, you have to imagine if you are a passenger onboard when this was happening, they would experience the g-force and feel that pressure feeling them down on their seats as the plane made that sharp assent john. >> so what's this mean? i want to bring in mary right now. you just heard rene's report. you have seen the time line. the plane went more than 5,000 feet in one minute. how fast is that? is that something that commercial airliners normally do? >> no it's not what they normally do. this is three times the recommended crime rate particularly at this altitude. if the plane exceeded its altitude renee is right. it will continue to fly. what happens is tremendous stresses on the engine and sometimes you can have an engine flame out. so we're still left with the scenario where this exceeds capacity of the aircraft to climb. the airbus itself will not

permit this. it would have not allowed these inputs in controls. after the plane stalled and started falling, it looks like the plane was able to make a turn. whether that's because the rutter was still in the turn position or you had a problem with the plane, or maybe they had it partially under control and never regained control, those are messysteries still left to be stalled. >> after the flight went up that 5,000 plus feet in one minute one minute after that is when it disappeared from radar. what does that time line mean? >> at that point probably something happened to the plane itself as it was in the dive or was in the stall and it could be diving toward the ocean or what it looks like sometimes is that

it is falling like a fluttering leaf. something happened to that aircraft to stop the transmissions from the plane. could have lost antennas. could have lost communication capabilities or they could have been just above the ocean ready to hit it. there's no way to tell what happened. the cockpit voice recorder probably won't solve that mystery. the flight data recorder will. they will know when they lost communications and why and if it was at the point of impact or if something had come off the plane. >> thank you for being with us. new information about what happened to airasia flight 8501. divers did just enter the fuselage for the first time so there could be more information still ahead. they say a third time is the charm. will that be the case for mitt romney? there is a meeting, his aides are meeting in boston today. what exactly are they talking about? that's coming up.

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perhaps close to saying he is running for president. since he dropped that hint there's been a lot of blowback. do you get the sense -- i don't from talking to people i don't get the sense that deterred them at all at this point. >> it hasn't deterred them at all. i was just talking to somebody familiar with what's going on in the inner circle there. romney personally believes look he's been criticized before by media, by republicans who didn't think he could do it and his feeling is look around. i still believe i've got the best shot at it. and they're planning quite frankly is if he's actually going to get in. >> and that meeting yesterday between mitt romney and jeb bush. it had been on the books before mitt romney publicly said he's thinking once again about running for president and they went through with it. any sense of what they talked about? >> you know no. it's clear to me that they made a deal with each other that we

are not going to talk about this at all. so staffers on both sides are really mum about it. i would have to say these men are both well raised polite guys. there's a little bit of tension there obviously because the meeting was on the calendar before mitt romney indicated that he was thinking very seriously about getting into the race. there are some hot feelings on the romney side about bush because he didn't go all out. they don't believe for romney in 2008 2012 critical of the campaign. and clearly now these guys are likely to be running against each other. >> running against each other and pulling in from the same financial resources. >> same donors. >> it's a real problem there. >> same staff by the way. staff is shifting. i've got old e-mails of people that worked for romney that are now with jeb. i have to change my address book. >> the other thing that's

happened today is that marco rubio, senator from florida, news today that he's hired a finance director to help him raise money for a potential candidacy and has told staff according to abc news plan as if i am running. that if and of itself is not a change. it goes to show this field is getting enormous. i can't think of a time when we saw so many potential candidates and so many high level candidates too. >> there's going to be a lot of candidates. there's going to be establishment wing of the candidates. upstarts. new folks. you know, i think that what jeb bush did was get everybody thinking that they need to start organizing earlier because between jeb bush and mitt romney the money is going places. and unless marco rubio has a finance director that gets that in gear for him, they worry that he could have a potential problem. not that they would be drawing

money from the same people but you kind of never know. you got to get in gear. there's going to be competition dialing for those bucks. chris christie says he's still on the same time frame in the spring. you know money is money and there's not unlimited amounts of it. >> who benefits if there are 12 guys? i think we're still talking about 12 guys. is it the guys with names that bush romney big names with the established base already who benefit if the field is this huge? >> first of all, it's easier to raise money when you're well known. bush will have a problem because he's part of the bush dynasty and he's been around a while and romney 3.0 and he lost last time. and chris christie has had his own issues. i think that the debates are going to be very important because you're going to get to know all of these new candidates

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new this morning, disneyland is trying to reassure them that it's safe. so far at least 51 people have been affected since the exposure at the park at the disney adventure park in anaheim. cases also popped up in utah washington state and arizona. health officials say anyone who has been immunized from measles should not be concerned about the park but if you're not vaccinated they say stay away. so measles was all but eliminated in the united states. then all of a sudden a record-breaking number of cases, more than 600. our dr. sanjay gupta explains the risks and the reasons. >> reporter: remember that the threat of ebola captured the world's attention in part because there is novak seen or treatment. while outbreak of measles,

mumps, and whooping cough have returned and health experts say it's fueled by people not getting vaccinated. for example, in 17 states, less than 19% of children were vaccinated for measles in 2013 and that makes it less effective for everyone. >> we're all immune and then the weak are protected also because we surround them and the bad germs can't find them. we ward them off. >> reporter: so why the reluctance reluctance? well some parents believe that vaccines may be linked to autism. but rb the 1988 study that made dlam was discredited. others are concerned about the use of mercury. but that hasn't been used in child vaccines since 2001. there are also some who feel the cdc recommendations are motivated by the money it makes from vaccine manufacturers. the cdc says that is just

incorrect. some say that's too many shots so they choose a delayed schedule. >> some mothers are concerned doing all those vaccinations simultaneously won't that in some way harm the baby. the american pead yacht tricks the pediatricians who care for those children assure you they're safe and effective. >> reporter: in 2014 according to the cdc, there were 644 cases of measles in 27 states. that's the largest number since the year 2000 when the disease was considered eliminated. there were more than 48,000 cases of whooping cough in 2012 the highest reported since 1955. and last year there were more cases of mump double than the year before. it even sidelined 15 cases of

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