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parking lot in a condominium complex. so even the parking lots are not safe. >> brian todd thank you very much. that does it for us. thanks for watching. cnn tonight starts now. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> hello, this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. boston breaks a record for daily snowfall. 15.9 inches and counting. even the patriots' victory parade has been postponed because of snow. a fitting end to a season full of problems the domestic violence allegations, the murder trial of a former patriots' star and a hall of famer arrested for soliciting a prostitute just hours after the super bowl not to meangz deflate gate. this play called the worst in super bowl history and this commercial that falls under that same heading. we'll have the latest also on whitney houston's daughter, bobbi kristina brown. a source said she opened and
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closed her eyes a few times today, but doctors warned the family not to read too much into that. we have a lot to get to this evening, beginning with a deadly storm with the northeast in its icy grip. in boston, they broke a snowfall record today. jennifer tens of millions affected by this storm. what's it like where you are? >> reporter: well the snow is still falling. it's been falling since yesterday evening and you're right about the records. it's now been the snowiest seven-day stretch ever here in boston. it's been the snowiest february 2nd here in boston. and since january 1st we've received more snow than we typically get in an entire year. so even for boston standards, this is a lot of snow. just look behind me, the plows have been out. very busy over the past week or so, trying to get all of this snow out of here. they've used front-end loaders, put it in trucks hauled it out
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of the city. they have three snow farms where they put it. they'll also have big machines to melt the snow and put it in the drains that go underground. so they've really been trying hard and it's been a race against time. of course that parade, as you mentioned, postponed until wednesday. not only people in boston but people around new england. the mayor said it's not safe. we need one more day before people start filing sbooe ging into the city. it's a slushy mess. the windchill will be anywhere from 10 to 20 degrees below zero. so all of this is going to freeze. it is going to make the morning commute extremely dangerous. not only here in boston, but even in new york city, they're worried about that flash freezing as well. you can see the flous coming up right there. they've been coming one right after another, trying to get it clear before the morning
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commute. >> when will the storm let up jennifer? >> well the snow is ending now, but the temperatures are going to stay very, very cold. so that's it for the snow for the next couple days. we'll just be left with the cold temperatures tomorrow and also on wednesday. by thursday though we could see a little bit more snow. lot of uncertainty on that forecast now, but we'll be watching for thursday. the good news is the snow for now is letting up tonight. >> stay warm jennifer. now we'll turn to the other story everybody is talking about tonight. that unsettling super bowl ad from nationwide insurance. i want you to take a look at what i mean. >> hey, wait! wait! wait! >> i'll never learn to ride a bike. or get cooties. i'll never learn to fly. or travel the world with my best friend.
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and i won't ever get married. i couldn't grow up because i died from an accident. >> at nationwide we believe in protecting what matters most -- your kids. together we can make safe happen. >> so it's definitely a powerful message, but it's got people talking in a way that nationwide may not have intended them to be talking. joining me now, cnn and turner sports anchor rachel nichols, and the ceo of new york advertising agency nsg swat and frank bruney. hello to all of you. did that commercial bother you? >> i just thought it was the wrong way to deliver a good message. >> it was buzz kill. >> what do you mean? >> i thought it was an odd commercial. it was confusing. i'm not sure what you're supposed to go out and buy that prevents a childhood accident. >> it's a weighty issue, but
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it's not something i would have recommended. >> is this a case of what were they thinking? >> i think so. it's a very tough situation to be in when you do something like that and the reaction is so negative. >> but there are ways to tackle social issues during the super bowl. this is the most people watching the television at once. anything else that goes on so it's a good time to get people's attention with social issues. but if you look at the always commercial throw like a girl run like a girl that's a great way to get people talking about something that's very important, but in a way that sort of blends with the super bowl a little bit better. >> i don't know why everyone's assuming it's a net loss for nationwide. how many times have we said nationwide right here? so i wonder did they anticipate this could be one of the reactions. in politics you see it all the time. campaigns make ads they never expect to have long tv lives, but they expect everyone to talk about them. >> being in the agency business i don't agree.
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it's a very bad pr move for them. >> they said the ad wasn't about selling insurance. it was about starting a conversation. and if indeed it is if you're going to spend millions on an ad for the super bowl -- >> but you can start that conversation without people be upset with you. like with the always doing a positive way to start the conversation. >> the conversation is very important. but one has to remember while they tested it or not, the super bowl is about entertainment. so people want to be entertained. and this was a very sobering message. >> over even the commercial with the psa against domestic violence. that was a sobering ad. >> we'll talk about that later in the show but we kind of warm people up to that. >> and that ad is not a bait and switch. it doesn't begin one way and then -- >> exactly. there's ways to present serious themes about loving your dad and families that were part of these commercials. >> i don't know we're having a serious conversation about keeping the bathtub level low.
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>> maybe didn't strike me, it was a little serious, but i'm not a parent. i thought maybe it was a good message for parent. >> when silence descended over the game for people and that's a really hard thing. >> 114.4 million people watched the game last night. that's a lot of people watching watching the shark forget its dance moves. >> i'm team left shark. are you team right or left? >> i didn't think it was that bad. but what was it like? >> you didn't answer the question. >> i didn't hear you. >> are you team left shark or right shark? >> i'm team both sharks. that didn't look easy. >> like being a republican and a democrat. >> one can be that. you can have some conservative values and some liberal values. but what was it like for the game and the half-time show? >> for the half-time show there's a lot of expectation. i've been to a lot of them i will say, watching prince in the rain in miami is sort of the benchmark for a lot of us who go to repeat super bowls. beyonce did a blow-out show. so i think katy perry sort of
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fell a little bit short of shows, but certainly there was a big push when missy elliott took the stage. and then the dancing sharks was pretty exciting for those of us who are team left shark. >> and 114.4 million people watching nationwide wasn't the only ad with a serious tone. there was the how girls throw. rachel mentioned that that dove took on fatherhood. the nissan commercial featuring a race car driving father who couldn't be with his family. take a look. ♪ ♪ when you coming home dad ♪ ♪ i don't know when ♪ ♪ but we'll get together then ♪ ♪ you know we'll have a good time then ♪ >> what happened to the commercials where we were like, oh yeah that commercial was great! >> the butt wiser frog?
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>> yeah. [ all speak at once ] >> i think we had that this year. we're not mentioning kim kardashian. i mean like people love that. we underestimate what an incredible internet celebrity she is. let's not underestimate her. >> let's listen to your favorite commercial. >> hi i'm kim. each month millions of gigs of unused data are taken back by wireless companies. tragic. data you paid for, that could be used to see my makeup my backhand my outfits, my vacations, and my outfits. sadly, all lost. please help save the data. >> i think she was so great. she was a 10. she's a 10. she was brilliant. and i was really impressed by the commercial. i think it's going to do amazing. >> i'm sure a lot of people were impressed by some things in that commercial. i'm stunned every time i see it.
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>> revealing. >> it's huge. [ laughter ] >> ginormous. >> anyway -- >> but there were six million likes, i believe, before the commercial even ran. and that's what the super bowl is about today. >> but i want to get back you don't think that madison avenue has ceded creativity because you don't have the talking frogs? >> but that's an example. kim went on conan and introduced the commercial. it was a pre-super bowl launch and she did a brilliant job at it. then it went all over social media. so i think, in my mind it's one of the greatest successes. >> we certainly see these rollouts before -- [ all speak at once ] [ laughter ] >> what did strike me this crop of super bowl ads versus previous ones. the most celebrity heavy, celebrity dense. think about the roll call. pierce brosnan, liam neeson --
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it felt like the oscars. >> and sitting in the stadium, we don't see the commercials, but you're on your phone, following on twitter. and the nationwide commercial got such a huge reaction online. but that's the only one i was really aware of before i walked out of the building. people then making fun of nationwide making fun of gee thanks for the dead kid. julia roberts voices those commercials,ible i believe. i don't know if she voiced that one, but people were upset with her. i personally didn't hear that much about kim kardashian's assets. >> do we read too much into that? twitter is there just for reaction whether positive or negative. >> yeah, people got on twitter, but people are waiting forto get on twitter. >> that's what it's there for. >> social media goes both ways. that's what's different today.
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>> thank you, guys. appreciate it. see you later on in the show. and you guys as well. you're going to stick around too. we have a lot more to come from the worst commercial to the worst play. what was seahawks' head coach pete carroll thinking? i could not believe this play. that's the question that everyone is asking tonight. but is it just because we all love to whine? i'm going to ask the man who says we're in danger of becoming a nation of complainers. and he's sitting right here on this set. the future of the market is never clear. but at t. rowe price we can help guide your retirement savings. our experience is one reason 100% of our retirement funds beat their 10-year lipper averages. so wherever your long-term goals take you we can help you feel confident. request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment information, risks, fees and expenses to read and consider carefully before investing. call us or your advisor. t. rowe price. invest with confidence.
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tough times for the nfl. before the super bowl was even over coach pete carroll's decision to pass on the 1 yard line was blasted. some people saying it was the worst play in super bowl history. and even the patriots' win came in the wake of the deflate gate. rachel nichols back with me now. we'll talk about that play. >> okay. >> but the patriots have returned to gillette stadium. i'm wondering if the deflate gate controversy has gone away now, as that victory has taken the heat off. >> i would say the opposite. now you have the super bowl champions, who are under suspicion of possibly cheating the game. not playing with integrity. this is going to be a bigger problem for the nfl now and a dicier investigation, because the pressure has now ratcheted it up. how did they get there, to be raising that trophy? did they bend the rules? >> i want to listen now to some
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of your one-on-one interview with patriots owner robert kraft. let's take a listen. >> how did all the accusations about the footballs and deflate gate affect this team and how did it influence how this win feels? >> i'm pretty proud, especially i'm proud of brady and belichick and the way they've handled themselves. people can throw anything out there and leak anything and then you folks in the media take that as fact. it's hard to compete with that. that's why, if you hear the statement that i spoke when i got here monday that says exactly how i feel. >> so you say the nfl has more explaining to do. but what about the patriots themselves? have they vindicated themselves publicly? >> to their fans. their fans now say, hey, look people who said we had to cheat just to win a football game we won the super bowl without cheating because those footballs were under the control of the nfl and we can win anything and we're the best team in the world. however, for people who love to hate the patriots and there's certainly a lot of those in
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football america, it's actually made them feel like they got it unfairly and we think they're less of a champion because of it. i do want to point you to robert kraft in the interview, he was angry and uncomfortable. it wasn't with me. it was commissioner roger goodell. he didn't acknowledge him during the trophy ceremony. >> what's up? >> there's a real conflict here. there are people on one side who think that the closeness of robert kraft and roger goodell, a recent article calls the patriots owner the assistant commissioner they were so close, is going to impede this investigation. and robert kraft and the patriots are upset there even is an investigation because they have been so close. so he's like i'm your buddy, i'm your pal, why are you investigating me? and also when he talked about the leaks and the people in the media, the patriots think that the nfl has purposely leaked information to make the patriots look bad. this is shaping up into a real battle. >> and i'm sure robert kraft
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loved this play. what were the seahawks saying about this play? >> pete carroll, the seahawks' coach said he did not have the correct personnel match-up when that ball was snapped, so basically that he could not run marshawn lynch because there was too much run defense there, and that his idea was to throw the ball at best to get a touchdown, at worst, an interception. for the people who say, no no -- a mean, at worst you get an incompletion. no at worst, it's an interception. he says i trust my players. but let's trust the best guy to run the ball. >> i want to get your opinion on johnny manziel. >> johnny manziel clearly has had issues through his rookie year. everybody should applaud him for taking a step to make himself better. if he ignored this it would be more of a problem. the fact that he is going to get help. warren sapp this is not his
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first strike and i'm not surprised as an nfl employee remember the nfl network is owned by the nfl, talk about one of their employees soliciting a prostitute at the super bowl. i'm not surprised they let him go. >> bob, what's your reaction in seattle? what's your reaction to that final play where quarterback russell wilson decided not to pass it off to marshawn lynch? instead threw the ball from the 1 yard line for an interception. that's got to be what everybody's talking about. >> it's all we talked about all day. it's all you're going to hear about for the next week. i mean everybody seemed to have the same reaction. there was a lot of anger and confusion. i was dumb founded. i was sitting there watching this game with a bunch of friends. i felt like one of those people that had been in a car accident and you're in a state of shock and you don't realize how hurt you actually are. i really didn't have a reaction because it was so surreal.
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you're on the 1 yard line. you are the best rushing offense in the nfl with the best and most unstoppable running back in the nfl and you elect to pass the ball in a heavily congested area on a slant route to probably your fourth or fifth option as a receiver in ricardo lockette with all due respect to him. the play made no sense. >> they had two more chances. >> it didn't make any sense. >> nobody understood that -- or still understands it. seattle seahawks coach pete carroll, you heard rachel talk about it a little bit. refuted multiple reports that he changed that interception play to pass after another -- after seahawks offensive coordinator darrell bevell called a running play. what are you hearing there in seattle? who made that call and who is to blame for this? >> well listen everybody's taking ownership of it. after the game darryl bevel said it was my call. pete carroll has the opportunity and obviously the right to overrule me. pete carroll said nope i said
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go ahead and throw it. i was on board. i think it was the right call. the offensive line coach, they're all on the head sets when that call is being made so if they viewed it the way we in seattle, everybody else around the country, former players currently players, if they thought it was as ridiculous as everybody else thought, somebody had the opportunity to step up and say wait a minute. what are you talking about throwing the ball? we've got beast mode we got marshawn lynch and we're three feet away from taking the lead with 20 seconds left in this game. >> and he was having a great game. go ahead. >> if there's any solace for seattle fans and there might not be but to your point, everybody took responsibility. russell wilson said it was his fault. the receiver said it was his fault. that shows you this just might not be the kind of thing that could destroy this team. because it certainly could. you could have it rip apart the locker room as you go into next season. you're talking about a team that's a potential dynasty and maybe they will be able to move
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forward from this but man, it's going to be hard. >> and russell wilson, all of the commentators, everyone around me, talking, saying oh my gosh this guy's underrated. he's quiet, gets the job done. everybody's talking about tom brady, but not about him. and all of that in one fell swoop is out. >> and that great catch on the play before that could have been the best catch in super bowl history and now we're not going to even remember it. >> there it is. look at that. >> this is amazing. this is a thing of beauty. and it was wasted. >> bob, you hosted a three-hour show today. what were fans saying? >> they were mad. they were disappointed. there was anger. there was sorrow. you had a couple of people trying to put a positive spin on it with, hey, we had a great season and they got back to the super bowl. let's look at the bright side. but the day after a play like that that is being deemed the worst call in the history of the super bowl that's a tough day
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to come back and go, hey, guys it's okay because look at all the good things that happened. it doesn't work that way. people are going to dwell on this. no matter what happens moving forward, the seahawks could go to the super bowl next year and win and people will still reflect on this one moment and talk about, yeah we've won 2 out of three but we had a chance for a three-peat if not for this ridiculous play call that nobody can seem to truly justify and make sense of. >> they beat themselves. they really did. >> everyone loves a redemption story. the spurs let ray allen take the shot in game 6, that everyone thought was won for san antonio. heat went to win the nba finals it it took themselves months to collect themselves again. but they worked through and got the chance to face that team again and thrashed them and said that victory was even more sweet because of what happened the year before. it takes a while to get to that point, i don't think the fans or the players are there yet, but i'll throw in with some of your callers. there's a little hope but god,
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it's hard to talk about right now. >> i wonder what the call-out sick rate was. or how many people just got hammered. >> drinking all day. >> thank you very much. coming up parents and politicians go head to head over kids' health. should families' rights take a back seat when it comes to measles? ♪ go! go! go! he's challenging the very fabric of society. in a post cannonball world! was it grilled cheese? guilty!
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amid growing concern about the measles outbreak in the united states two republicans who are expected to run for the white house in 2016 took the issue of vaccinations into the political arena. today new jersey governor chris christie and kentucky senator rand paul both said that vaccinating children should sometimes be done on a voluntary basis. here's cnn's jake tapper. >> all i can say is that we vaccinated ours. but i also understand that parents need to have some issue m of choice. >> today potential 2016 contender chris christie entered the fray of the raging debate over the childhood measles vaccine. >> i didn't say i believe in people having the option. i said you have to have that balance in considering parental
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concerns. >> he made his concerns in london about whether parents can choose to not vaccinate their children. also senator rand paul threw his opinion into the ring saying most vaccines should be voluntary. >> while i think it's a good idea to take the vaccine i think that's a personal decision for individuals to take. >> reporter: both statements seemed in contrast with president obama on nbc, who minced so words. >> there is every reason to get vaccinated. there aren't reasons to not get vaccinated. >> the medical community says that the question of whether or not parents should vaccinate their children is not up for political debate. it is better left to science, and the science is clear. getting your children vaccinated prevents disease. according to the centers for disease control, among children in the u.s. age 2 to 21 vaccination will prevent an
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estimated 322 million illnesses and 732,000 deaths. >> i believe vaccinations triggered evan's autism. >> but some high profile spokespeople have launched a public movement against childhood vaccinations based on the false and discredited theory that vaccines in some way caused autism. >> we deserve safe shots and a safer schedule. >> the medical and scientific communities are very clear on this. there are no links, they say. >> there have been rumors. there have been concerns. there have been questions. there's a huge evidence base now that the mmr vaccine is not linked to autism. >> reporter: but the quackery built on the tragedy of a rise in autism diagnoses has propelled an anti-vaccination movement one that is now linked to the spread of preventable
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contagious diseases that can kill. >> choosing not to vaccinate your child, also endangers the health of others in your community. a recent outbreak at disneyland now accounts for most of the 102 measles cases spreading across more than a dozen states, putting the most vulnerable at risk. those kids too young or too sick to get immunized are the most in danger. the science and medicine on childhood vaccines recommended by the cdc is settled, but the presidential contest may inject into this important public health issue. >> one additional note from jake tapper. he's seen a list of required immunizations to governor chris christie and the list to senator rand paul in kentucky and asked each man which should be made voluntary if any. he did not hear back from either governor christie or senator
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>> measles was declared eliminated in the united states in 2000 but now it's back with a vengeance and frank bruiny is back with me now. let's talk about the numbers, 102 cases in 14 states just in the first month of this year despite the growing numbers we heard what chris christie had to say about parents having a choice. rand paul also said this. i want you to listen to it. >> i've heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines. >> i'm really glad you played that clip because we've been talking about christie and rand paul in the same breath. both of them i have issues with what they said. what rand paul said was infinitely more responsible.
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>> why is it infinitely more irresponsible? >> because chris christie was trying to say, i'm not sure what he was trying to do -- >> he was trying to have it both ways. >> he said about the measles vaccination vaccination, vaccinate your kids. and i vaccinated my kids. the president was in the right place. rand paul brought to you, i've seen kids get the vaccines and turn into zombies, is what it sounded like. the number of cases where that happens are so small. there's no proven link between the vaccine and what happens to the kids that he's thinking of. if you talk to responsible doctors about this a lot of bad stuff happens to kids at a young age. some of it happens right after they got vaccinated. do we know the vaccine is the cause? no we know the vaccine isn't the cause. >> when i was a kid, you could not go to school without your
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shots. i'm not a parent, so i don't know what it's like nowadays. but the fact that it's a choice is mind-boggling. >> it's somewhere between a choice and a mandate. there are two states that limit it if your immune system is compromised, mississippi and west virginia. and it's odd to have a conversation in which we're holding them up as progressive on this issue. >> is this going to matter in 2016 and we run to the presidential election? >> depends on the size and the duration of this outbreak. >> what do you think about the spread of the disease in such a short time, 102 cases of measles in just the first month of this year? >> last year we had somewhere in the mid 600s, so we're on pace to well exceed that. here's what's scary. the fatality rate is 1 in 1,000. we're on pace to have more than a thousand cases this year. i hope we don't see a measles death, a preventable measles
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death. >> you were surprised because rand paul is a doctor? >> last time i checked. >> and you write about this, it's called the vaccine lunacy. you said what's in play is more than one affliction's resurgence. the size and the sway of the anti-vaccine movement reflect a chilling disregard for science or at least a pick and choose cafeteria approach to it. that's also efvent for example, in many americans' refusal to recognize climate change. you think these are the natural people who are promoting this and people of privilege? >> you mentioned this i think a lot of anti-vaccine people probably would hate to hear themselves lumped in with the climate-change deniers, but they're doing the same thing from different places on the spectrum. they're saying when my gut or what i want to believe is different from science, i'm going to go with my gut or what i want to believe over science. it happens across a spectrum of
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issues. >> when you think of the natural crowd, wouldn't you think these are more learned people? maybe i'm wrong. >> some of them are. they may be packed full of a lot of information. they may not be that bright about the way they process it. you used the phrase all natural. if they really want to live all natural, are they getting dentistry? if you go back we were dying at 30 and 40. i don't think we want to live all natural. >> yeah interesting. chris christie now. let's listen. >> all i can say is we vaccinated ours. so that's the best expression i can give you on my opinion. it's much more important on what you think as a parent than what you think as a public official. and that's what we do. but i also understand that parents need to have some measure of choice in things as well. that's the balance that the government has to decide. >> the question of choice has become the presidential question
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of the year. it is certainly the question right now. >> we don't know what's going to happen with this outbreak. you see how quickly we move from one issue to another. very, very quickly. listening to him talk about it i got the impression of a politician who hadn't really caught up to speed on this. i got the feeling he didn't know what to say or what he wanted to say because the story has exploded so quickly over the last couple days. he didn't feel prepped. >> i want to talk to you about real outrage and faux outrage, do you think the outrage some people see around this particular issue, that people are just taking science and throwing it out the window? do you think they have every right to be outraged by this? especially if your child has to be in school or in close proximity? >> yes, because those people who aren't getting their kids vaccinated they're endangering everyone's kids. so this is a public health matter. when you decide not to vaccinate
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your child, you are -- if enough people do that that could affect any of everyone's children. it's not just a personal choice. there are all sorts of things in society where we limit personnel choice when it has potential a severe public impact. >> i was at a place the other day, and the person said which one would you like? and the person said it's your choice and your brain works. and i said i just wanted to know which one they liked better. whatever they said, i was going to eat it. about but i'm wondering if there's a cache that goes around not getting your child vaccinated and it's just the wrong information? >> i think there's a little bit of i'm smarter than the others. everybody else is blindly following the herd and i'm thinking for myself. but the people who are not having their kids vaccinated. they're not thinking for themselves. they're getting a lot of this
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from internet sites. the internet is a problem, because it allows everybody to be their own researcher. it brings you to sites that are there in afept bundance whether they have any merit at all. so there's a lot of self-education going on here that's dangerous. >> get your child vaccinated? >> get your child vaccinated. >> thank you, frank. up next two pediatricians go head to head on vaccinations for children, coming up. my name is michael. i'm 55 years old and i have diabetic nerve pain. the pain was terrible. my feet hurt so bad.
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welcome back everyone. last year there were more than of 600 cases of measles in the u.s. the highest number since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000. but today a cdc official expressed concern that we have 102 cases of it and we're only one month in to 2015. here to talk about it two doctors. good evening, doctors. parents come to you for advice about vaccinating their children. you know that study after study has been done finding the
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evidence to suggest that vaccines are dangerous, are connected to no evidence connected to autism. why do you continue to tell parents it's okay to vaccinate or delay it when there's no evidence showing that? >> don, as you know every parent wants to do what's best for their child. parents on both sides of the issue, they love their children. for me in my office it's not so much about vaccines and autism parents just don't want to see their babies suffer any sort of bad vaccine reaction. frankly, the vaccine reactions are rare but when they do happen, parents are afraid that their baby will be one of those statistics. and when they're not afraid of the disease, like measles, which hasn't been around much a lot of my parents actually opt out of the mmr vaccine, because they haven't seen measles as much of a threat until recently. >> is it still a choice though
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doctor when your child has to be around other children especially in a public school situation? >> well don, i think one of the most important things we have in medicine is what's called informed consent. if for any medical procedure, you have to inform the patient, whether it's surgery, the medication or vaccination, you have to inform them of the pros and the cons. what could the side effects be what could the harm be from this treatment, and what are the benefits of this treatment? and because every single vaccine has a very small potential to cause harm i think parents do have the right to receive informed consent and to make that educated decision for their child. >> but dr. carp again, there's no scientific evidence of this. what's your response? >> no, no, it's just nonsense to be honest with you. of course there can be a small risk one thing or other. there's a bigger risk of driving in your car. we don't have patients going i'm not going to drive in my car, because that's a risk on my
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child's life today. parents have a tough job. i agree with dr. sears on that. they're trying to make their best choices, but as doctors, we know more than just living in the moment. we've lived over decades. we've learned about these epidemics. we're seeing it with whooping cough and with measles. the only reason that we're not seeing a lot of illness is because the parents before us and the parents before them were thrilled to get their kids i'm munized. that's the reason why the diseases are gone. and if parents no longer feel that sense of responsibility if we don't encourage them and say, hey, you need to do this not just to protect your child, but what about that kid in preschool and your next-door neighbor's baby and your cousin's baby? we're all in this together. we don't live in a bubble. >> is it irresponsible to delay that vaccination process? >> i think it's irresponsible to avoid vaccines. we have a set schedule because it gets very complicated. do this one now and that one then and then doctors forget and
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the patients forget. and what happens then is that babies don't get their full vaccinations. so we do a schedule so it allows us to give the most vulnerable kids the protection they need and so we can be organized in it. and that's the big reason. so is it irresponsible? it's irresponsible not to get your kid the right vaccines. some of the vaccines, you know if you don't want to give your child a tetanus shot, that's okay. your child is the only one to suffer from that. no one else will suffer from that. but to not give your child a whooping cough vaccine or a measles vaccine, that's going to make other children suffer and ultimately kids are going to die. >> hillary clinton tweeted, the skeabs is clear, the earth is round, the sky is blue, and vaccinations work. let's protect all our kids. it says grandmothers know best. she became a grandmother last year. but there you go. hillary clinton is tweeting this
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first. i want to get your response dr. sheers and dr. carp. >> of course vaccines work. they work and they work very well. some work 99%. some not so much. but i think, don, ultimately it does come down to the fact that no matter how much everyone wants to try to ignore it vaccines can cause severe reactions. every year in the united states between 3,000 and 4,500 severe vaccine reactions are reported to the centers for disease control. not mild reactions. severe reactions that land somebody in the hospital the intensive care unit or cause a permanent disability or death. now i agree that the diseases also pose a risk. there's risks no matter what you do. and i think one side can't ignore the other side's worry. we all have to come together on this. >> reaction dr. carp?
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>> yeah number one, many of those side effects are not related to the vaccines except that they happen after the child gets the vaccine. so they're not vaccine side effects as much being reported after the vaccines. what we know for sure before we had the measles vaccination, children were dying. there were thousands of children hospitalized and dying from measles. it's not just a mild illness. it's a severe problem. >> since you're saying that and you can continue with that but let me put this up from the cdc. among children ages 2 to 21, vax nations will prevent 322 million illnesses, it says. 21 million hospitalizations. 732,000 deaths during their lifetime. >> it's a no-brainer. don, it's a no-brainer. and even dr. sears will say, this is a huge blessing. vaccines have saved millions of lives and incredible suffering. he probably remembers, i certainly remember kids with
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meningitis kids with blindness, kids who died in my practice who now kids are protected because we have vaccines against those. and they're incredibly safe, a thousand times safer than getting the illness. >> the l.a. times quotes you, i do not think -- i do think that the disease danger is low enough where i think you can safely raise an unvaccinated child in today's society. it may not be good for the public health but for your individual child, i think it is a safe enough choice. you said i do think the disease danger is low enough where i think you can safely raise an unvaccinated child in today's society. do you stand by those words? >> yes, don. and i would still hold to that that some parents do have the freedom in america to make this choice because we shouldn't force medical care on anybody. but i have to acknowledge, you know harvey is right, dr. carp
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is right, vaccines have brought us to this tremendous place where we can live almost disease-free. you have to acknowledge that vaccines are largely responsible for that. now that the diseases are so rare that parents can feel somewhat safe -- >> but they're rare but they can come right back. they're rare but they can come back. >> you're right. >> i would just say public health means the health of the child next door instead of the health of your child. we need to be concerned about the whole community. because it's going to be your next child who will catch it from the next-door neighbor if people stop getting vaccinated. >> thank you, doctors. we'll be right back. >> thank you.
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11:00 p.m. on the east coast, in the middle of a second winter blast of snow ice, and bitter cold. we'll tell you just how bad it's going to get. plus another tragedy for the family of whitney houston. her 21-year-old daughter bobby christine brown, fighting for her life tonight. she was found face down and unresponsive in a bathtub full of water over the weekend. now a source says she opened and closed her eyes today, but doctors warned the family not to read too much into that. is it a case of like mother like daughter? we'll talk about that. and when it comes to the nfl behaving badly, who are you going to call? i want you to meet the olivia
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pope of pro sports. what would she do to get america's game back on track? but first, jennifer gray in boston brian todd in massachusetts and jason carol at new york's laguardia airport. temperatures are expected to drop sharply tonight. i understand flash freezing is a concern in lots of areas. >> reporter: yeah big time. anywhere from new york city all the way up here to boston. in fact windchills are expected to be 10 to 20 degrees below zero by tomorrow morning. i can tell you, the snow has stopped and the skies are clearing. we can see the moon now. the skies cleared fast and the temperatures are going to drop quite a bit. of course you mentioned that the parade has been postponed until wednesday. that's because crews have been out here 24 hours a day, trying to remove the snow. but when you look at the snow from just a couple days ago, and
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on top of that the fresh snow. you can see the snow mountains that are just all over the city. it's actually incredible. the plows have been out, but the roads are still going to be slushy. the flash freeze is expected by tomorrow morning and as the cars go it's just a soggy mess. we have set records across the board. this has been the snowiest seven-day stretch on record. the snowiest february 2nd on record and we received more snowfall since january 1st than they should receive in the entire year. so it has been absolutely insane here in boston as far as the snowfall goes. i want to get to my forecast maps. the snow is clearly pushed out. we are going to see improving conditions as far as sky conditions. temperatures are really going to drop. earlier this afternoon, temperatures dropped about 20 degrees in just a couple of hours. went from 30 degrees to about 10 just in four hours or so. so the temperatures are going to continue to drop as we go through the overnight hours. single digits feeling well
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below zero. and then in the next couple days, we could see a little bit more snow. of course uncertainty still on that by thursday. quiet weather, don, tomorrow and wednesday for the parade but it will be very cold. temperatures in the single digits for all the spectators coming out. the roads should be in better shape. that's one of the reasons they postponed it. people all over new england wanting to come to the parade so the roads needed to be in better shape than they are now. >> cold and icy. be careful, thank you very much jennifer. i want to go to brian todd in andover, massachusetts. what's it like where you are right now? >> reporter: well don, as jennifer mentioned, the storm has passed the skies are clear where we are in andover. no flurries left and that's a welcome relief for people in this part of mautchedz, because they've just endured a second round of this as we all know the second round in less than a
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week. and it's just been devastating. it's impacted two rush hours. and as jennifer mentioned, with the dipping temperatures it's about to impact a third rush hour. the temperatures have frozen the roads already. we'll switch to our dash camera here as we head over interstate 93. we're not on the interstate but just over it here on this overpass. and you can see out our dash cam that the roads are frozen. these temperatures dipped very, very fast. you guys mentioned flash freezing earlier. that is going to be a huge factor again, as we head into the overnight hours and the rush hour. this was a storm that was really only as we know half as big in volume as the last one. the last one dumped about two and a half feet to most parts of massachusetts. this one was only maybe half as much maybe a little bit more than half as big as that one, but it seemed from our vantage point to impact this area in a much worse way because of a couple of factors. as i jump out of our vehicle,
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i'm going from my camera to the dash cam camera and then we'll switch over to my photo journalist's camera. this impacted the area in worse ways because of the visibility factor. it was whiteout conditions everywhere we went today and the visibility was almost nil for much of the day. also as we look at these guys the real heroes of this the snowplows, the spreaders, the salt trucks they've been out almost 24 hours, trying to get ahead of this storm. for much of the day they couldn't because of the rate of snowfall. now that the snow is over they can really get out in earnest. they couldn't do the salt for a lot of the day because we were told that when the road conditions get very, very cold the salt is not as effective. but you see them all staging over here. they are about to deploy. these guys have been working tirelessly and they'll be
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working throughout the night, don, to get these roads ready for the morning rush hour which again, is going to be pretty complicated. >> brian todd out in one of our mobile units. brian, thank you very much. jason at laguardia, you have been tracking flight delays and cancellations all day. that's some tough work. what's the very latest? >> yeah it has not been good for the folks out here. we were talking to one woman and her daughter from toronto. they had all the energy in the world. they said our flight's going to leave on time. they got to the gate only to find out that their flight like so many had been canceled. we've been watching the board all day long updating viewers all day about the cancellations. actually we're seeing most of the cancellations still at chicago, o'hair they're topping the numbers still at 538, at last check, laguardia at 451, boston at 328. newark at 312 cancellations and
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jfk at 177. just with all the cancellations, doesn't mean there wasn't some humor there. i want to bring up a quick picture from one jetblue worker. and he was out there on the runway and i don't know if you can make it out in that picture there, but he scrawled in the snow. hello, i'm cold. so that brought a little bit of humor to some of the passengers who were there. also jetblue, speaking of jetblue, they took to the internet to apologize for the weather-related delays. they weren't the only airline that did that. so did american and delta as well. the big problem now, don, are those people who had their flights canceled and didn't have money for a hotel. in the back part of the airport, over in that direction over there, you know way down in there, there are a number of people who have started to camp out. the bar over there now is open. they've decided to stay open a little bit longer to help out and bring some spirits to some of those people who can't seem
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to get out of the airport right now. laguardia for a lot of people has become hotel laguardia until tomorrow morning. >> spirits they're serving up for people this evening. [ laughter ] i'm sure brian todd is out there scrolling hello, i'm cold in andover, massachusetts. thank you very much. when we come back the 21-year-old daughter of whitney houston, fighting for her life tonight. we have the latest on her condition. plus tough times for the nfl. meet the league's fixer. you could call her the olivia pope of pro sports. houston, fighting for her life
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some breaking news tonight to report to you. whitney houston's daughter bobbi kristina brown open and closed her eyes several times today. according to a source close to the family. he's been in a medically induced coma after being found face down in a bathtub of water at her home in georgia. circumstances eerily similar to the death of whitney houston almost three years ago. i want to bring in cnn's victor blackwell. you're at the hospital. bobbi kristina according to a
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statement is quote, fighting for her life. what are you hearing there this evening? >> well according to sources, the family has also been told to prepare for the worst, but continue to pray for a miracle. those sources say that not only did bobbi kristina brown open and close her eyes today, but she also suffered several seizures today. doctors considered briefly reducing the sedatives in her brain to test for brain function, but they've decided for the moment to leave her in that coma. as you said she's been in this medically induced coma since she was found face down in that tub of water. cpr efforts were attempted at the home but failed and she was brought here to the hospital and she's been here ever since. >> what does that mean when they say she was found unresponsive? do you know what that means? was she breathing? did she have a heart beat? >> well according to the law enforcement sources who briefed
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cnn on what happened. she was not breathing. she did not have a heart beat. i went back and watched -- i don't know if you remember, the 2012 lifetime series the houstons on our own. bobbi kristina brown, actually in that series described a similar incident that happened in 2012 in which she said her then boyfriend, now husband, nick gordon, found her, she was not breathing in 2012 did not have a heart beat. she said she believed it was a seizure. although in that series they didn't go into any other details. so reportedly this has happened before. >> did investigators find anything to indicate any sort of -- like what would have happened? was it an attempt of some sort? were there any drugs or alcohol use involved in any of this? >> no they tell us they found no drugs or challenge inside the home. right now they're considering this to be a medical incident. the questions that we're still trying to get answers to were
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the two men, nick gordon her husband, and the other man, who found bobbi kristina brown in that bathtub, were they there the entire night and the morning, saturday morning right before they found her? or did they come home and find her? and exactly, of course why did she end up there? how did she end up there? >> victor thank you very much for that. i want to turn to howard samuels, clinical psychologist and founder and ceo of the hills treatment center. dr. samuels, you're the founder and kerry of the hills treatment center. this is what bobbi kristina said months after her mother's death on the lifetime reality show the houstons on our own. take a listen. >> we feel mom hard. like, big time for some reason. it feels so different. it feels so different without mom. i was sitting there like why, like why. i just i want to sleep. that's all i want to do. >> well the similarities to her
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mother whitney houston's death, found in a bathtub, nearly three years ago and now bobbi kristina face down and unresponsive in a tub but with water. what do you think is going on here? >> well first of all, very spooky circumstances, that it would be the same type of situation. i don't really think -- i'd be shocked if they didn't find drugs or alcohol in her system. she has a history of you know reports of cocaine use, alcohol abuse, smorking weed very strange twitter and instagram comments. i don't think there's a question that she is an addict alcoholic. it runs in the family. her father has reports of being an alcoholic addict obviously whitney. it's a family disease. i'm sober 30 years, and alcohol and drug addiction runs in my family. and so you know it's very
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unfortunate and what i think is really key here don, i don't think it had to get this far. i really don't believe the family was as aggressive as they should have been in being able to get this girl some help. >> yeah. that has not been confirmed, but we've seen reports, we've seen the behavior we've seen her parents' behavior even on the "being bobby brown" show. and in public very pretty faced, very pretty girl. and then she instragrammed she's so thin that she's barely recognizable. she's been in the public eye her entire life for good or for bad. outside of her home and then inside of her home. does she have a fighting chance here having been in the spotlight so long? >> oh absolutely. there are a ton of rich and
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famous people here in hollywood, celebrities that are sober and that are living recovering lives. but she has to have a leader within that family. there has to be a member in that family who has to lead her on that path and i just don't see it. britney spears was -- the reason she's alive today and doing well is because her family saved her life. her family went out and got a conservatorship where her family took control. the same thing has not happened in this case. >> yeah. when we saw her parents, many times, they were supposed to be raising her, they needed some raising themselves if you really look at it. the evidence is out there. the relationship between she and her father is strained. this is the statement that bobby brown released today. he said please allow for my family to deal with this matter and give my daughter the love and support she needs at the time.
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family is very important when it comes to getting over these situations. but there's also again, a family history of abuse here. bobby brown has said he's been clean and sober when it comes to drugs and alcohol for over 14 years now. the mother wasn't. she was very close to her mom, but family is very important here. can her grandmother come in and do what they did for britney spears? can her father do it? who can do it at this point? >> well the father has to take the lead role. the mean the grandmother too. i mean family is the only thing that is going to save the addict alcoholic. it's the family. my family intervened on me and stopped the money flow and actually saved my life 30 years ago and got me into treatment and saved my life. >> she just inherited over a million dollars from her mother's estate. she's 21. when she turns 30 she's going to inherit $12 million, probably
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more by then because that's going to go up. so she needs someone who is looking out for her and not looking at the dollar signs that she's going to inherit. >> that's where the conservatorship is. you go to the courts you go to the judge, you ask for control over this person's life because she cannot control it on her own. exactly what they did with brittany. it's the same type of situation. >> we're certainly hoping for the best for her. 21 years old is still very young, still a child in many people's eyes. thank you very much. >> absolutely. thank you. >> even on the nfl's biggest night, there was plenty of controversy on and off the field, including big trouble for a hall of famer and a former super bowl winner. more on that next. is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day.
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>> turner owns the cartoon network too, maybe we can get a show on there as well. >> i would love to be in animated. >> let's talk after the show. >> all right. deflate gate did it become more loaded considering the outcome of the game? >> absolutely. now you have the team that won the super bowl. so there are questions, this is not just a team that played in the super bowl they're holding the trophy. a lot of people want to know about the integrity issues and i think there will be increased pressure on the nfl investigators. what's interesting, going forward, the group going forward, they haven't even spoken to tom brady yet, not spoken to bill belichick first. i'm sure it's on purpose. they are marshalling all the other conversations and evidence before they go to them. but there are people who are wondering what is taking so long. and the patriots they want this
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over with. >> everyone is saying they won, they have been vindicated. you say no way. >> there's certainly patriots fans who feel, hey, in this game where all of the footballs were held on to by the league they were the better team the team that won. so that says something. i think they're right about that. but the investigation is still going to go on. so you were in the stadium. during the last play was it like aaah! >> i don't know if you can have 70,000-plus people both yelling, screaming, crying and going silent all at once. it was a pro-seahawks crowd. i'm watching it on the monitor. look at richard sherman's face. what is going on? tom brady was crying. they had made tom brady cry. >> he had acknowledged later, he thought the game was over. this is just -- come on. everybody is wondering why do you not run marshawn lynch, the best running back in the game the toughest guy to take down. why don't you just run him on the goal line there.
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>> he got them there, why wouldn't he be able to carry it all the way in? >> pete carroll's explanation was they didn't have the personnel to match up with the patriots' personnel out there. he thought, throw the ball almost waste a down. if it didn't become a touchdown. he wasn't counting on it becoming an interception, but maybe you want to account for that. maybe. just maybe. >> how is russell wilson doing? >> you know i have a lot of admiration for russell wilson. he came out right after the game. he said this is my fault. he said that anybody else who wants to take responsibility they have to look at me. and along the day, he sent some tweets talking about the fact that he's not going to let one play define his career or his life. he said i'm 26 years old. which i think is a good way to look at it. he said i'm always getting better. change is coming we're going to get through this. you got to admire that attitude right? >> rachel nichols, yes, turner sports cnn, the cartoon network. >> nba tv.
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all-star joe johnson, denise white handles everything from dog walking to endorsement deals. >> definitely i come to her with all my problems man. she helps me solve them. >> reporter: for others the flight to success, a bit more turbulent. she says she spends more time to crisis management these days. she's been called a fixer cleaner, scrubber polisher, whatever it takes to whip a pro-athlete into shape, making them marketable. >> i'm not always the most popular person. because i'll go up against someone that has done by athlete wrong or is trying to. i'm a fighter. >> take the case of now redskin white receiver and part-time rapper desean jackson. white has repped jackson for four years. last year a story that rocked the sporting world, suggesting jackson was in a gang. the eagles unceremoniously cut the pro-bowler his career
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wobbled. jackson and white said gang? >> absolutely not. i'm worked with desean for years. you had a couple journalists who took pieces of stories and combined them together and made him look like something that he wasn't. >> today jackson has a multi-year multimillion dollar deal with the redskins. his endorsement deals solid. even making thousands just for a tweet. from career turbulence to blue skies. >> he bounced back gracefully. i think he's a better person for it. >> imagine what white could do with the nfl scandal du jour. >> this is the end of this subject for me for a long time. >> and some less than choice moments. >> is tom brady a cheater? >> i don't believe so. >> today white's eag represents dozens of athletes and celebrities winding their way through media, business and the occasional call in the middle of the night crisis.
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>> if the person is you know has been arrested for whatever it may be you know have you called your attorney first? then you call me let me see what i can do to help out the situation, whether it's publicly with the media or get you help before it reaches the media. so how is it a former beauty queen, miss oregon has found success in the mail dominated sports business world? >> i wasn't your typical beauty queen girl. >> she says with a smile. confidence she got from a tough upbringing in the ultra competitive beauty queen circuit. >> i learned to fight at a really young age. and i've kept it going for many years. >> reporter: and with it has grown a major league business. >> there we go. that's what i'm talking about! >> reporter: when she talks, the sporting set listens. >> don't underestimate beauty queens. up next i'm going to talk to denise white and get her take on some of the scandals this season. ter who you are, if you have type 2 diabetes,
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super bowl xlix now in the history books as a tumultuous nfl season ends with more than its share of scandals. my next guest represents athletes who find themselves in the wrong kind of spotlight. joining me now denise white, the ceo -- i'll say that again. denise white the ceo of eag sports management. thank you for joining us. you were supposed to come here last week. you weren't feeling well. are you feeling better? >> i am i'm fighting a touch of walking pneumonia and bronchitis but i couldn't leaving you hanging don. >> well you look like a million bucks. people always underestimate beauty queens and they shouldn't. before we get to the reputations and all of that. what did you think of that last play of the game? >> that was a hard pill to swallow. we represent somebody on the seattle seahawks so i was excited. i was home in bed, feeling under the weather.
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but it was just unfortunate. i just don't know how you call a play like that on a second down with one yard to go and you have money lynch and you do not give him the ball. it was really a tough pill to swallow. and unfortunately something pete carroll is going to have to live down for a really long time. >> i'm just here so i won't get fined. [ laughter ] but the patriots are the champions. tom brady won his record tying third super bowl mvp. but will deflate gate always be a footnote on this super bowl win for the patriots? >> i think it will be. it's unfortunate that the patriots have a history in not always abiding by the rules. so i think america in general, they want to find out what happened. the nfl investigation is still going on. rachel alluded to it earlier, that both tom brady and bill belichick have yet to be questioned about it but unfortunately, you know it is a little it's something that people are going to wonder
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about. and once it does get, once they do figure out exactly what happened and who knows what that will be but i think we all have an idea then there's going to be an asterisk next to the super bowl win for them. >> how would you advise them? >> unfortunately, with their issues that they've had in the past it's something that i think, if i had been tom brady, i would have said just come clean. it's something that -- it's known around the league sometimes guys do deflate their balls, not under regulation but to the point where they're comfortable with them. and maybe that was something that tom brady -- and again, i'm not accusing anyone. if in fact this happens, maybe he decided he wanted the balls less inflated. so -- >> so you're saying coming clean is the best thing. >> come clean. yeah my motto is always tell the truth. >> how would you write the press release, if i was at a press
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conference when they ask you this what would you tell him to say? >> say, well unfortunately i have you know those balls were directed by me to the ball boy to deflate those balls because that's my comfort level in throwing them. and if they went under regulation on accident or on purpose, i'm sorry that happened. it will not happen again. i apologize to my teammates, i apologize to the league and i apologize to the fans if that did happen. >> i'm in the studio with a bunch of nfl fans. what do you think? would you buy that? no? well she's not saying that they did. but would you buy it? >> no. >> no? all right. i would buy it. because i would say, at least the guy's being honest. >> honesty is the best policy when something like that happens. >> absolutely. >> and i think in his press conference he alluded to everything but telling the truth
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and i think everybody kind of knows the truth at this point. >> can we talk about warren sapp now? >> oh warren sapp. >> hall of fame -- let me tell the viewers. i'm sure most of them know. warren sapp arrested for soliciting a prostitute and two counts of assault. he was in phoenix covering the super bowl for the nfl network. with all that is going on with the nfl, it's still surprising. what do you think of this? >> well he is retired. that doesn't give him any excuse though. because he was there on behalf of nfl network, which is owned by the league. so he does have -- he does have things that he needs to pay attention to when it comes to still representing the league as a past player and a current analyst for nfl network. it's unfortunate. this isn't warren sapp's first brush with the law and unfortunately he found himself in a precarious situation this morning. and the alleged incident i still like to say alleged, because he hasn't been found guilty of anything yet.
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although he did admit this morning to police that he did have sexual relations with one of the prostitutes. so unfortunately, this is something that the league has to look at. and more importantly, the nfl network has to look at. and i'm sure by now, if they haven't already, he won't be working with them any longer. the league has a lot that they're working on to make the shield a little brighter than it has been this past year and things like that are not going to be tolerated anymore. if you're going to be a broadcaster or an athlete with the league, you're going to have to you know pay attention. >> the reports are that he's not working with the nfl anymore. so none of the several nfl scandals this past year from domestic abuse, the murder trial, none of it stopped fans from watching the game. record numbers, 114 million-plus viewers. so what pressure does the nfl really feel to clean up its image? >> i think they feel a lot of pressure especially from the women's rights groups. i don't think that there's any
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less pressure than there was, just because we had record-breaking ratings with the super bowl. i mean america loves football. they're not going to stop watching that. they proved that regardless of what happens. but women's groups and domestic violence groups are going to make sure that the league pays attention and it does what it needs to do to rectify the situations that we've had this past season. so i don't think it lessens the impact at all, and i think it actually brings more awareness. look how many people watched the super bowl yesterday. look at the couple ads they had regarding domestic violence and domestic abuse. so i think it's bringing a lot more awareness, quite honestly. >> all right, thank you. glad you feel better. >> thanks for having me. i appreciate it. >> see you soon. coming up, it's not just a super bowl's fantastic ending that everyone is talking about. the nfl unveiled a powerful public service announcement on domestic violence. we'll get reactions to that ad next.
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>> i'd like to order a pizza for delivery. >> ma'am, you've reached 911. this is an emergency line. >> a large with pepperoni and mushroom. >> you know you've called 911. >> do you know how long it will be? >> is everything okay over there? do you have an emergency or not? >> yes. >> and you're unable to talk because -- >> right, right. >> is there someone in the room with you? just say yes or no? >> yes. >> okay. it looks like i have an officer about a mile from your location. are there any weapons in your house? >> no. >> can you stay on the phone with me? >> no. see you soon, thank you. >> it is very powerful. as we said joining me kim goldman, sister of ron goldman, and author of "can't forgive," all director of the national
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latino network. and roxanne jones, founding editor of espn the magazine. what did you think of the ad roxanne? >> i thought it was a good start, don. i watched it with a lot of people across generations. the younger women thought it got buried during the half-time. i agree with them. it's the bathroom break time. the older crowd, dead silence. the men did not like it. very uncomfortable. even their wives are like we don't talk about this stuff. but the fortunate stuff, the younger women loved it. they wanted more attention for that ad. they wanted to see it again. >> juan carlos? >> well it's good to hear that younger people are paying more attention to this issue. from our perspective, it was a touchdown completely. people were talking about it all over the place. 16 million tweets. >> wow. >> more than 5.5 million views of the youtube ad.
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the domestic violence hotline went 25% in terms of calls perform. >> so you liked the ad? >> yes, i'm part of the organization that produced it. >> kim, what did you think? >> i thought it was great. i agree that i do think the timing of it was poor. people get up to go to the rest room during half-time. that was unfortunate. but i did think it sparked some dialogue. i got some great messages about people that it helped them open dialogue with their children and that's always going to be a plus when we get to have conversation about real issues. >> so open dialogue. do you think it will help stop abuse? >> i don't know if it will help stop. i think it will help like i said educate and empower young people to make healthier decisions, so they don't engage in behaviors that may lead to this or end up in an unhealthy relationship. but i definitely think we keep that train moving in the right
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direction. >> there are some domestic abuse survivors who worry that the ads will give away a secret. a woman calling to order a pizza when they're calling 911. do you believe that? >> well i think it's a rare occasion that someone would use exactly that scenario. >> but that ad was based on real 911 calls. >> yes. but i don't think that's a super-spread tactic. there's millions of calls to 911. >> and people do order pizza. the one thing i would say, the younger women and the younger boys i watched the game with they thought the ad was too subtle. they started out saying i wasn't sure what was going on. they don't read the hype like we do. >> that's what i said were you happy with it? because you talked about placement. and we discussed this before whether it went over and people's heads. >> too abstract. one of the women said you know this is an ugly issue. we thought it was building up to we would see some of that
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ugliness. she was ready to talk about it wanted to talk about it but she did say that you know it should have been more impactful. there were other ads, like the throw like a girl. that touched me that grabbed me. this one was too soft. >> i thought it's interesting. kim, you disagree. at least you did when last we spoke, because you thought the ad was very powerful in its abstractness. you thought that you didn't have to show everything? >> because i sometimes think that people assume that if you have a bright purple bruise, therefore that means there's domestic violence. but there are other hidden things that pertain to violence and sexual assault that sometimes are not so obvious. so i kind of like the fact that there was some subtlety to it. it did generate some conversation because people were confused by it. you got to talk about the shame that's associated with sexual assault and domestic violence. so people are talking about it and i give it an a-plus in that
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regard. >> it was a smart move? because there have been so many players associated with domestic abuse charges in the nfl. >> i'm a talker i run a non-profit that works with teens. so as far as i'm concerned, any opportunity you can to give kids the tools to make healthier decisions is a good one. when you look at the nfl, these are role models. our kids are emulating these players. i think you have to be very responsible when you're a professional athlete or any kind of professional that what you do out there, impacts young people. >> you mentioned the amount of tweets and the amount of attention. but what about the amount of calls, did this generate more calls? >> it generated 25% more calls to the domestic violence hotline. i agree, starting the conversation will not stop violence but it's the first step towards stopping it. >> ray rice's suspension overturned. he became a free agent. do you think fans will welcome
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him back on the field? >> i would hope not. i would hope a team wouldn't welcome him back. >> like today? it just happened yesterday. >> you don't think he deserves a second chance? >> i believe in second chances. but i don't believe in yesterday you were wrong and today we forgive you. no. he needs to go away work out his relationship and his issues or do something. but i'm not ready to take him back as a football fan, as a woman, as anything. and i would hope that he can't get a job for a while. he has some work to do and that was a very serious -- outside of football that was a very serious abuse case i think. >> do you agree? >> absolutely. i agree. >> do you think that we are, meaning the american public and maybe the league, are too quick to forgive sports figures with a history of domestic abuse? >> being that my brother was murdered by one, i would say yes. i think that we are a culture that is very quick to forgive someone who is a public figure
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on the big screen, entertaining us. i think we should hold people more accountable. we are fans. we are paying and we should be holding them to a different standard. and i think ray rice and other men that follow suit have a little bit of repentance they need to be doing. >> kim, roxanne, carlos, thank you very much. we'll be right back. >> thank you. ng to need you on the runway later don't let a severe cold hold you back. get theraflu. it has the power of three medicines to take on your worst pain and fever, cough and nasal congestion. theraflu breaks you free from your toughest cold and flu symptoms. so you never miss a day. theraflu. serious power.
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>> storm achktffecting a lot of people. want to bring you up to date. cnn's jennifer gray live for us to boston. people are going to wake up to freezing temperatures and going to be slip-sliding around. >> reporter: oh yeah you bet. temperatures are going to be very cold. windchill dipping well below zero. 10 to 20 degrees below zero. that's very cold. that's why there's concern for that flash freeze. we just have a slushy mess on the roads right now. with temperatures dropping so cold that flash freeze is definitely a concern. the plows have been out here. the salt trucks have been out here. temperatures dropped 20 degrees in just about two hours. we were out earlier this afternoon. the winds really picked up. but thankfully the snow has stopped and now we're just dealing with very cold temperatures. the parade that was supposed to happen tomorrow for the super bowl champions was moved to wednesday because they haven't had time to keep up with it
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snowing like it was all day today. the plows really couldn't get out there like they wanted to. and so now they're playing catch-up. race against time trying to get the streets plowed. you see all the snow mounds. this is from that snow we saw a couple days ago, combined with today's snowfall. it's just incredible to see this around the city. they hauled off a lot of snow over the weekend and now with the next snowstorm back in it is just really piling up. we set a lot of records. we set the daily snowfall record for february 2nd. the seven-day snowiest stretch ever in boston. and we've also received more snowfall since january 1st than they received in the entire year don. and just to think of it we could see a couple more inches later in the week. of course models are disagreeing on that as always. we'll continue to watch it. in the meantime just very cold for tomorrow and wednesday.
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>> more maybe in the middle of the week let's hope not. people stuck in the airport. thank you. i'm don lemon. thank you so much for joining us. our coverage continues with john vause and rosemary church at the cnn center in atlanta. goodnight. hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i'm john vause. >> and i'm rosemary church. coming up this hour violence exploding in ukraine as the u.s. considers sending arms to the region. measles outbreak the head scratching decision not to vaccinate children. plus frozen and slippery in the northeastern united states. the united states is now considering providing weapons from the ukrainian troops battling pro-russians in
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