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bowl carol. >> it certainly got a lot of people talking. i'm not sure in the right way but it got a lot of people talking. >> one of those all press is good press things. >> maybe so. we'll see. sorry we don't have more time. i had to get that johnny manziel news in there. thank you for joining me. i'm carol costello. the next hour of "newsroom" starts now. here we go again, folks. another monster storm barreling toward the northeast after leaving the midwest a mess and it's just getting started. we have our reporters out in it. an epic win for the new england patriots and epic defeat for the seattle seahawks and questions of what some are calling an epically play call that ended the game. was this the single worst super bowl decision in ptthe history of ever? >> whitney houston's daughter bobbi kristina clinging to life after she was found facedown in
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a bathtub full of water. a story similar to her mother's. the latest on her condition. cdc warns a nationwide measles outbreak. even if you are vaccinated you may still be at risk. details ahead. hello, everyone. i'm john berman. >> i'm kate bolduan. thanks for joining us today. it's groundhog day and it feels like groundhog day because they got hit hard once already and now they're getting it again. we're talking about the northeast getting socked with a second round of heavy snow and so many cities and states still have too much snow on the ground from last week to even deal with at this point. 25 million people in ten states are under a winter storm warning right now. it started off in the midwest overnight. detroit even broke a daily snow record set back in 1881. many schools are closed from
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michigan to massachusetts today. >> more than 2,000 flights have been canceled already today including the husband of kate bolduan. a snow emergency declared in boston expecting 10 to 14 inches of snow. that's more snow by the end of today on top of the two feet plus that is still being cleared out in last week's blizzard. we have reporters live on the ground in the snow in boston new york and cleveland with all of the latest conditions. >> let's get straight to them. new york city's biggest issue today will be the ice. up to a quarter inch in some places. think of what quarter inch of ice can do. that's what you think it will do. treacherous getting anywhere. chad myers is out on columbus circle. you've been out there all morning. you've been talking about how the temperatures have been dipping, which means the ice is going to set in. what are you seeing? where is the storm right now? >> reporter: this was on top of my camera until i picked it off. that's a chunk of ice. that's freezing rain that's falling. it's raining now and 29 degrees.
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it's been raining at laguardia, newark jfk. all of that starts to go downhill and after sunset this is going to be a treacherous place to walk or drive. the snow continues north of here. it has snowed across a lot of connecticut, massachusetts, and into maine, new hampshire, vermont, all morning long. we changed over to rain for a while. now we're raining and it's colder. 29 degrees. if you're farther out to the west, you are already done with it. buffalo, cleveland, detroit, toledo all of the way through south bend and chicago, all picked up their fair share for the entire month of february. thank you, punxsutawney phil i think. >> thanks for nothing. all right, chad myers. thanks so much. in boston right now it's snowing one to two inches per hour. that city is expecting a foot more of snow by the end of today. that's on top of the two feet that already fell during last week's blizzard. treacherous conditions on the
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road. one place that doesn't care about snow today, it's probably anywhere in new england where they are just staying inside sleeping off the joy of the super bowl. brian todd joins us live near andover, massachusetts. fun fact that's where i went to high school and bill belichick went to high school. it's fitting that you are there today. brian, how is andover coping with all of this snow and ice and awfulness? >> reporter: well john and kate they are coping pretty well but it's tough out here. what we can tell you is even though there's less snow coming down in this particular round than there was last week we had more than two feet in most places in massachusetts last week today 10 to 14 inches. even though it's less there's a lot less visibility out here. visibility is much worse. our photo journalist is going to switch from my camera to the dash camera looking at the front of this vehicle. we're behind a train of snowplows. about five of them. we just talked to several of these guys. they are up against it. they are working long hours. it's really tough. they have to deal with motorists out there.
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some of whom probably shouldn't be out on the roads. i talked to a state police official who said there's no travel ban and what worries them now is because there's no travel ban and people know there's less snow in this round there are going to be more vehicles on the road. already had reports of spinouts all over the place and people requiring removal from the roads. that makes it tougher for these guys in front of us here to do their jobs when these cars are spun out on the side of the road. so again, another problem later on is going to be the roads are going to be freezing. they are already starting to freeze so a lot of these roads will be much more slippery later on. john and kate? >> all right. brian todd in it for us. we were talking about how winds were bad with the last storm. ice this time that everyone is talking about. the midwest has experienced the worst of the storm but did they get it. this storm dropped 19 inches on chicago so far. the fifth largest snowstorm in the city's history. we're talking chicago here folks. detroit broke a more than 130-year-old snow record. not a record anyone wants to
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break. school of course canceled in those cities and ohio's three biggest school districts have canceled classes for the day. let's get to cleveland. that's where martin savidge is. i've been watching throughout the morning. it looks just brutal where you are. how's it going? >> reporter: you know what they say, kate it's not the heat it's the humidity. here it's the wind. it's absolutely brutal. the wind is just coming right out of the east and that means the storm is going away from us. that's good news. we're holding up traffic here. at the same time it is blowing and that brings a temperature down to below zero and that is just proving to be brutal for anybody who is out and about on the streets. streets are really tough to get by on. plows are doing the best they can. temperature is so cold drifting snow ice, salt not really working too well on its own. that's really a problem. you already pointed out most of the schools are closed. the airport is open. flights greatly delayed if they're not canceled and then on
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top of that a lot of businesses told people look come in late or don't bother coming in at all. power lines are down which is a problem back here and that's why the police are out on the streets. they have to direct traffic. standing in this brutal cold that's truly almost a dangerous occupation at this particular time. the worst has passed. the cold will stay. that means so is the snow. it's cleveland. it's winter. they know this is what to expect. still, it's miserable on a monday. i'll send it back to both of you, john and kate. >> appreciate the honesty. it's miserable where i am. still smiling. >> he always is. thank you, martin so much. go back in the car if you can. we're following a lot of news this morning. here's other headlines we're looking at. bobbi kristina brown remains hospitalized in a medically induced coma today. she's 21 years old. the 21-year-old daughter of whitney houston and bobby brown. she was found facedown and unresponsive in a bathtub full of water on saturday. a source tells cnn she's on a
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ventilator and the status of brain function will not be known until the sedatives are reduced. we'll have a live report from outside of the hospital with the latest on her condition later this hour. prime minister of japan is vowing revenge after video surfaced showing the apparent beheading of veteran war reporter kenji goto a week after the terror group is believed to have beheaded another japanese captive. jordan is renewing its offer to release a convicted terrorist in exchange for jordanian army pilot. he was not mentioned in the latest isis video. his fate is currently unknown. the measles outbreak first spotted at disneyland in southern california has spread across the united states. the cdc just put out its newest numbers moments ago and it says more than 102 confirmed cases now spread between 14 states. almost all of the new cases, the cdc is telling us are among people who have not been vaccinated and also largely
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linked to the outbreak in disneyland. coming up in about 30 minutes, we'll have much more on this growing threat to public health. what you need to know. that's going to come up later. coming up for us next a super stunning end to the super bowl. was it a super bad call? maybe the worst call in history that led to that play right there. we'll talk about the moment that everyone is discussing. also what everyone is talking about today, the snow making the skies not so friendly if you're traveling. we've got what you need to know about the delays and the cancellations including my poor dear husband. we'll be back. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like shopping hungry equals overshopping.
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new england patriots fans have a lot to celebrate this morning but they are also trying
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to get home from the super bowl if they were lucky enough to get to the game. you, unfortunately, were not. if they're trying to get home they're having trouble doing it. the winter storm sweeping across the northeast so far has caused more than 3,000 cancellations. a figure that will likely grow during the day. >> probably by a lot. jean casarez has been monitoring the situation for us at new york laguardia airport. jean how's it going there? >> reporter: it's not doing well let me tell you. the numbers are going up continually. 3,165 now flights that have been canceled around the country. of course chicago o'hare is the number one airport with cancellations. number two, newark. number three right here at laguardia. the passengers are starting to come to the airport. you see them here. this line here is for customer assistance. that's because even when flights do start taking off, they're full. they already have passengers and so all of the people that were canceled will need to be fit in.
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hopefully today. most likely tomorrow. everybody just wants a seat to get to their destinations and people i have talked to are missing business meetings because they were to fly away on this monday but they have to stay right here. >> it's only going to get worse throughout the day, right? we're talking 3,000 cancellations now. it will only get more and more throughout the day. >> reporter: laguardia is an important airport when it comes to national and domestic travel and changing airlines. i was just talking to an official with american airlines. they hope to get the first flight off the ground at 11:30, which is just in a few minutes. that's speculative. once again, all of the other passengers are stranded and still here. >> fingers crossed on that 11:30. may be overly optimistic given the weather outside. thanks so much. appreciate it. it was the play of super bowl xlix. was it the worst call of
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>> in the shotgun. quick throw. it's intercepted at the goal line. it's intercepted by butler. malcolm butler has intercepted russell wilson at the goal line. 20 seconds left. >> the sultry sounds of deliverance. with that one play the new england patriots clinched their fourth super bowl in 14 years winning super bowl xlix. >> you can feel the tension and the glee of fans after that.
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the game nearly over. the seahawks were one yard away from a win and then it happened. monday morning quarterbacks are wondering why with marshawn lynch in the backfield, why not hand him the ball? they passed. new england intercepts at the goal line and the haunting question why oh why, dear god, why? let's talk about it with our guests. >> wade since you are here. i want to start with you. you were tweeting last night during the football game amongst some other activities. you put up a blunt tweet after that interception. you said "and now a great game has been ruined by stupidity and ego aka fear." hashtag patriots win. you didn't think it was a good call did you? >> i wasn't. coaches get too cute. it's second down.
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you have beast mode in the backfield, give him the ball. >> marshawn lynch is the best running back on planet earth right now. >> the best running back on the field at that moment. in defense of pete marshawn was 1 for 5 historically on goal line carries this season. >> david, weigh in on this. to wade's point, was pete carroll being too cute? did he overthink it or over strategize? >> statistics mean nothing in that situation. you're three feet from history. you hand the ball off and you celebrate. that's all you need to do. marshawn lynch said you know the reason i'm here at a press conference. pete carroll forgot why marshawn lynch was there hand the ball to the most powerful running back in the nfl. you take the give me. >> let me take the other side of
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this argument here. as you said, there have been a hundred passes from the 1 yard line this season and none have been picked off and i can make the case that russell wilson did not throw a good ball and the receiver did not run a good route. russell wilson took some of the blame last night. let's listen to what russell wilson said. >> i put the blame on me. the guy made a play. i don't know what i could have done differently. i would have to see it. we were right there. i put the blame on me because i'm the one that gave him the ball in a way. >> everybody was taking the blame it seems after that. >> as an undrafted rookie free agent, i want to give butler credit. he made a great play. let's give this guy some credit. a rookie free agent doesn't make a play like that unless you are a baller. i'm praying the patriots pay him
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well. >> unless you are coached. dave this gets to how great bill belichick is. >> it does. >> malcolm butler said belichick walked him through that play this week. they practiced that play this week. butler says he didn't defend it well. belichick got on him so he learned how to get up there fast. >> he makes a play and we're talking about the legacy of bill belichick. that's what happens when the head coach gets paid what he does so when pete carroll makes that decision i don't care if russell wilson takes responsibility it's all about the head coach and falls at his shoulders. >> it's hard to criticize pete. >> let me put it this way, david. we say this every time. if they had made the catch, if lockett had -- if the play had been successful we'll call them genius. everyone thought you would go to marshawn lynch and you went this way. >> we would say they were lucky and got away with one. that's a low percentage call in
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a game where you just have to understand what's at stake there. i understand all of the statistics. that's going to be one that sticks with him the rest of his career no matter what else he accomplishes. >> it's hard to criticize pete. he's one of three coaches with a super bowl and national championship ring. come on. >> there are lots of things to criticize pete carroll about. we don't need to get into that. >> butler made an amazing play. >> a great play. anticipated so well. got there in a heartbeat. we've listening to him last night and today and he seems stunned about the whole thing. you have been in the league. when you make a play like that your whole life you wait for a moment like that. is it sometimes hard to take and accept that it happened? >> he will probably not understand the enormity of what he did for months honestly. i won an nfl europe championship and i played great. i still don't understand what that means. >> wade can speak to this. the great thing about the nfl is you have guys like malcolm butler and chris matthews who were undrafted.
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breaking news. live pictures of president obama at the department of homeland security at an event where he will lay out his $4 trillion budget proposal that he's unveiling today sending up to congress. let's listen to what the president has to say. >> in this new global economy. after a breakthrough year for america, at a time when our economy is growing and our businesses are creating jobs at the fastest his since the 1990s, and wages are starting to rise again, we have fundamental choices to make about the kind of country we want to be. will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well or build an economy where everyone who works hard has a chance to get ahead? that was the focus of my state of the union address a couple weeks ago when i called middle
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class economics. the idea that this country does best when everybody gets a fair shot. every is doing their fair share. everyone plays by the same set of rules. the budget the congress now has in its hands is built on those values. it helps working families paychecks go farther by treating likes like paid sick leave and child care as the economic priorities that they are. it gives americans of every age a chance to learn new skills to earn higher wages and includes my plan to make two years of community college free for responsible students. it let's us make new investments in research and infrastructure and manufacturing. as well as expanded access to faster internet and new markets for goods made in america.
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it's also a budget that recognizes that our economy flourishes when america is safe and secure. it invests in our i.t. networks to protect them from malicious actors. it supports our troops and strengthens our border security. and it gives us the resources to confront global challenges from isil to russian aggression. now, since i took office we have cut our deficits by about two-thirds. i'm going to repeat that as i always do when i mention this fact because the public often times if you ask them thinks the deficit has shot up. since i took office we have cut our deficits by about two-thirds. that's the fastest period of sustained deficit reduction since after the demobilization
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at the end of world war ii. so we can afford to make these investments while remaining fiscally responsible. in fact we cannot afford -- we would be making a critical error if we avoided making these investments. we can't afford not to. when the economy is doing well we're making investments. when we're growing, that's part of what keeps deficits low because the economy is doing well. we just have to be smarter about how we pay for our priorities and that's what my budget does. at the end of 2013 i signed a bipartisan budget agreement that helps us end some of the arbitrary cuts known in washington speak as sequestration. folks here at dhs know a little too much about sequestration.
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many of you had to deal with those cuts and uncertainty around them. it made it a lot harder for you to do your jobs. the 2013 agreement to reverse some of those cuts helped to boost our economic growth. part of the reason why we grew faster last year was we were no longer being burdened by mindless across the board cuts and we were more strategic about how we handled our federal budget. now we need to take the next step. so my budget will end sequestration and fully reverse the cuts to domestic priorities in 2016. it will match the investments that were made domestically dollar for dollar with increases in our defense funding. last week top military officials told congress that if congress does nothing to stop sequestration, there could be serious consequences for our national security.
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at a time when our military is stretched on a whole range of issues. that's why i want to work with congress to replace mindless austerity with smart investments that strengthen america and we can do so in a way that's fiscally responsible. i'm not going to accept a budget that locks in sequestration going forward. it would be bad for our security and bad for our growth. i will not accept a budget that severs the vital link between our national security and our economic security. there are some on capitol hill that would say we would be willing to increase defense spending but we're not going to increase investments in infrastructure or basic research. those two things go hand in hand. if we don't have a vital infrastructure if we don't have broadband lines across the country, if we don't have smart grid all that makes us more
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vulnerable. america can't afford being short sighted. i won't allow it. the budget i sent to congress today is fully paid for through a combination of smart spending cuts and tax reforms. let me give you an example. our tax code is full of loopholes for special interest like the trust fund loophole that allows the wealthiest americans to avoid paying taxes on their unearned income. i think we should fix that and use savings to cut taxes for middle class families. that would be good for our economy. i know there are republicans who disagree with my approach. i've said this before. if they have other ideas on this i welcome their ideas. but their numbers have to add
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up. what we can't do is play politics with folks' economic security or with our national security. you, better than anybody, know what the stakes are. the work you do hangs in the balance. just a few weeks from now funding for homeland security will run out. that's not because of anything this department did. it's because the republicans in congress who funded everything in government through september except for this department. they're now threatening to let homeland security funding expire because of their disagreement with my actions to make our immigration system smarter, fairer and safer. let's be clear. i think we can have a reasonable debate about immigration. i'm confident that what we're doing is the right thing. and the lawful thing. i understand they may have some disagreements with me on that
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although i should note that a large percentage of republicans agree we needed comprehensive immigration reform and were prepared to act in the senate and should have acted in the house. if they don't agree, that's fine. they usually don't. don't jeopardize our national security over this disagreement. if they let your funding run out, it's not the end of the world. that's what they said. well i guess literally that's true. it may not be the end of the world but until they pass a funding bill it's the end of a paycheck for tens of thousands of frontline workers who will continue to have to work without getting paid.
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over 40,000 border patrol and custom agents. over 50,000 airport screeners. over 13,000 immigration officers. over 40,000 men and women in the coast guard. these americans aren't just working to keep us safe. they have to take care of their own families. the notion that they would get caught up in a disagreement around policy that has nothing to do with them makes no sense. and if republicans let homeland security funding expire it's the end to any new initiatives in the event a new threat emerges. it's the end of grants to states and cities that improve local law enforcement and keep our communities safe. the men and women of homeland
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security apparatus, do a lot to protect us and the men and women of congress should not paylay politics with that. we need to fund the department. we have to put politics aside. pass a budget that funds our priorities at home and abroad and gives middle class families the security they need to get ahead in the new economy. this is one of our most basic and most important responsibilities as a government. i'm calling on congress to get this done. every day we count on people like you to keep america secure and you are counting on us as well to uphold our end of the bargain. you're counting on us to make sure we have resources to do our jobs safely and efficiently. and that you're able to look after your families while you are out there working really hard to keep us safe. we ask a lot of you. the least we can do is have your
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backs. that's what i'll keep on doing for as long as i have the honor of serving as your president. wile keep fighting to make sure you get resources you deserve and every american has a chance to not just share in success but contribute to america's success. that's what this budget is about. it reflects our values in making sure that we're making the investments we need to keep america safe to keep america growing, and to make sure that everybody is participating no matter what they look like where they come from no matter how they started in life they have a chance to get ahead in this great country of ours. that's what i believe. that's what you believe. let's get it done. thank you. god bless you. god bless the united states of america. >> you hear president obama right there laying out his now $4 trillion budget proposal he sent up to congress. this is for 2016 hitting on a lot of the high points that he says are priorities but he says very clearly in his speech right
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there that it's also he acknowledges a starting point if you will. he says this is part of a negotiation and this is kind of the opening item for the president. let's get into what's in this budget. let's bring in our senior white house correspondent, jim sciutto. we talk about the budget every year. this is multiple volumes thick as phone books. the president laying out the highlights. he would like to help the middle class through investments in various areas including infrastructure. how to pay for these proposals and initiatives, raise taxes on wealthier americans. that of course leads to my question of what are republicans saying about this already? >> right. well i think it's fitting that we're talking about this on groundhog day because it seems to happen every year. the president puts out a budget and republicans attack it up on capitol hill. both sides are at their starting points in the negotiations and
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that's where we are today. the president in addition to laying out what he's going to talk about in this budget offered a sharp attack on republicans over this department of homeland security. i'll mention that in a moment. let's walk through what this budget entails. $4 trillion in spending as you mention. this came out over the weekend. the president will call for $478 billion for new infrastructure projects paid for in part by a new tax on corporate profits overseas. they want to go after those oversea tax havens. the white house says $277 billion in tax relief for the middle class. i think this is also interesting. no balanced budget while the president is in office. in these remaining years of president obama's administration, the white house is not foreseeing a situation where the budget is brought into balance. contrast that when bill clinton was president during the 1990s. you'll remember when he drew that big zero here at the white house for when the budget was brought into balance. the president does not envision doing that. on this homeland security issue,
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you heard the president talking about that. the republicans insisted on a continuing resolution that expires at the end of this month funding the department of homeland security in protest of the president's executive action on immigration. the president is making it very clear he is not going to alter that executive action on immigration to win funding for the department of homeland security and so the white house was saying earlier this morning that thousands of border patrol agents secret service agents and so forth will be working without pay come the end of the month if that's not worked out. >> on the deficit the white house says as a percentage of gdp, the deficit as proposed right now is within that economically acceptable range. even so this is as much a political document as a policy one. not to say if it's good or bad but this is positioning this white house as the force that says it wants to help the middle class here. these proposals if enacted, not much of a chance that they will
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be how will they help the middle class? >> to your point the president is trying to force the republicans into a position where they are defending corporate america and wealthy americans at the expense of the middle class. he said that he has the back of the middle class. what he wants to do very clearly in this budget is make sure that the middle class can move from the middle to the top. the great american dream. he wants to enhance that mobility. he's going to give them every opportunity to do so. he talked a lot about education. he talked about skills training. making sure there's mobility. free tax credits for kids. i mean these are all policies that are very consistent with what he said in the past. he also says just before he came on they released talking points saying 600 extra dollars in the average american's pocket through these tax credits for extra earners. higher tax credits for children. >> thanks so much.
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just the beginning of the discussion. >> even before he announced it even before the president came out, we heard from top republicans like paul ryan the chairman of the house tax writing committee, he called it job killing proposals. he even said at one point yesterday on one of the sunday shows he's trying to exploit envy economics. it makes good politics. it doesn't make good economic growth. this is just the very beginning of that discussion. or some would argue a continuation from the past six years the conversations going on between the president and republicans. coming up next for us whitney houston's daughter bobbi kristina clinging to life almost three years to the day after her mother was found dead. later, the cdc warning of a possible nationwide measles outbreak. what you and your family need to know to stay safe. that's ahead.
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happening now, bobbi christina brown, the only child of the late whitney houston is in a medically induced coma, after being found facedown in a bathtub and unresponsive. >> family friends and all of the fans of both whitney houston and bobby brown are hoping she pulls through. we are outside the hospital where bobbi christina is being treated a the this point. what do we know, nick? >> john and kate we are about 45 minutes outside of atlanta, where, as you mentioned 21-year-old bobbi christina
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brown is being hospital iced. the hospital hajj released any information about her current condition, but according to media reports, the family is being told to prepare for the worst. one of the most outstanding questions here is just how long bobbi christina brown was facedown in that tub. of course, the longer she was there, the more difficult it will be for her to recover. it is unfortunate for us to today, but there's been a lot of speculation about her drug and alcohol abuse, concerns from inside the family which is why we asked a local police department if drugs or alcohol played any factor in this. they want on their initial sweep of the residence they didn't see any obvious signs of drugs or alcohol, but did carry out some search warrants. we are waiting to hear what resulted from that. one quick statement from bobby brown over the weekend, and of course that's her father saying the report that she has been taken to the hospital in atlanta is accurate. he goes on to say -- privacy is
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requested right now, please allow my family the time to heal and give my daughter the love and support she needs at this time. >> dib times, thanks so much. new number shows that the mealsles outbreak is grouse. what you need to know to protect your families. that's next. >>hump day! hummmp daaay! it's hump day! >>yeah! >>hey mike! mike mike mike mike mike! >>mike mike mike mike mike. hey! he knows! hey! guess what day it is! hey! camel! guess what day it is! >>it's not even wednesday. let it go, phil. if you're a camel, you put up with this all the time. it's what you do. (sigh) if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. ok...
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brand-new numbers from the centers for disease control. 102 confirmed cases of measles across the united states. since the outbreak was first reported in december the highly contagious virus has now spread to 14 states. >> measles was eliminated from the u.s. 15 years ago, thanks in
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large part for an aggressive vac nation program, but since then grows segments of the population have been turning away from getting vac nated, and public health officials say some are highly vulnerable. >> the concern, as you said correctly, is that it is spreading. the reason it is is because there's a group -- a percentage of the population of children who have not been vac nated, for a variety of reasons. we have a very effective measles vaccine, measles is a highly contagious infection, for different reasons that parents may give they're not getting their children vaccinated what we need to do is explain -- i don't think parents are trying to do anything bad, they just need to understand. >> they're joined by cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohens
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listens to government officials here, to me at least it sounds like there's an increasing degree of alarm at this outbreak spreads. >> right, when you see 102 cases after just what has it been not even two months yes, there is concern this will spread. we ahead dr. fauci says this is incredibly contagious. you just need to be in the same room as someone with measles. in fact you don't even have to be in the same room. if someone was in the room an hour before you who had measles, you can't get it too if you had not been vaccinated. >> we're seeing a certain number who have been vaccinated who are also getting measles, does that mean no one is really safe? >> there are certainly people who are safe. starting around 1990 the cdc set we they people need two
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doses, not just one. folks vaccinated since 1990 they're in good shape, pretty much -- you never say 100% sure thing, but there are those of us -- i was born before 1990. there are those of us who are older than 25 and we did not get two shots, we got one, so there is a chance we may be vulnerable to measles. if you have a question if you know people who have measles and you are concerned, you need to talk to your doctor about whether you need that second shot. >> you will hear people who are against the vaccine, or have concerns about the vaccine say measles, it's not so bad. healthy people can fight off measles. remind us what the symptoms are for measles and what the long-term health risks can be. >> i know that people say that. they say my grandma had measles, she was fine. well sures moth people do just fine, but you know what?
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there are those that don't. i don't know why you would want to take that risk and play that rue lest with your own child. i was reading an author whose child died of measles, and she seemed okay and 12 hours later she had encephalitis and 12 hours after that she was dead. so children do die of the measles. most children are okay but some did die. why would you want to play with those odds? >> cases of brain swelling 4,000 4,000, eleads bi thanks so much. >> you have to remember when you say most folks are fine most folks will be fine most people will be fine. most folks doesn't matter when it's your kid. it never did. head over to cnn.com/health for more information. you'll find a map also there with important information. you can still go there and check
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it out. that's all for us today. "legal view" with ash leigh banfield starts now. hello, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield. welcome to "legal view." it sure does field like groundhog day especially if you're in the northeast. in fact this is the second round of winter weather in a week. winter storm warnings in nine count them nine different states. boston is dec