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say egypt to join the coalition or jord ton step up air strikes. the uae to get back into the fight. so more than 60 countries in all will be represented at the summit that starts today on countering violent extremism. we've heard the white house say that the focus on stopping violent ideologies is key to defeating isis long-term. at the same time this comes as domestically according to a new poll. we're seeing a growing disapproval with how the war against isis, how the war on terror are going. you look at the numbers, 57% disapprove of how the president is handling foreign policy overall. so the summit today is going to look at what is working nationally and internationally in countering violent extremism. chris? >> all right michelle we'll be watching that and also there are going to be events to weigh in on that, egypt believe they've
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been targeted by isis directly and are now taking their revenge in libya, where 21 christians were we bee headed. cnn's lee joins us from egypt. ian, what's the situation on the ground? >> as you can see, this isn't a wealthy village and won't find it on most maps. but 13 of those 21 men came from this small village that i'm in right now. they went to libya looking for decent wages to provide a better life for their families back here to create a better home. but they were brutally executed by isis militants. and now egypt is trying to seek retribution. this morning, egypt appearing to gear up for war against isis in libya. air strikes hitting ten targets, isis used for training and
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weapon depots up north according to the egyptian government. but islamist militias in the isis strongholds say they woke up to disaster and claim the bombings killed women and children cnn could not independently verify the claims. >> we hope the strikes were targeting specific installations and there has been no collateral damage. >> the strikes, egypt's immediate retall wrags over the slaughter of 21 egyptian christians. according to egyptians they have undertaken actions to restrict the militant group's finances. and the country preparing to ask the u.n. security council for more. >> the western board wer libya, we will not wait until they come next to our border and threatening our border or trying even to penetrate our border.
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>> isis, a growing threat as the brutal beheadings posted online rallies the nation. egypt's leading islamic institution issued a ruling prohibiting muslims from watching the video. this as egypt's president declared a week of mourning in the muslim majority country for the slain christians. a grand mukti, the leader responsible for religious edicts says the blood is the same as that which belongs to the egyptian nation. >> egypt seems content for air strikes for now, there's no plans of putting boots on the ground. alisyn? >> ian, thanks for the background. new information overnight about
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the shooter in denmark and his possible ties to islamic terrorism. he apparently swore alegion is alegion is to isis after a facebook post. denmark is on edge. cnn's senior international correspondent nic robertson is live in copenhagen with more. nic? >> alisyn the police brought in a army bomb disposal team looked at a package, took it aand decided it wasn't dangerous. it highlights the security concerns. in the city because of the possibility for other associates of this gunman more details coming to light about him in the hours before the attack. on his facebook page pledging alegion is toejgion answer to the isis leader. ball gami. he may have been radicalized in
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jail and he was only released from jail two weeks prior to the attack. in the last couple of hours we've heard from the danish intelligence authorities who say yes, while we were aware of his sort of changed circumstances, changed outlook in principle, they didn't believe that he was on the verge of coming out of jail and committing an attack like this. they essentially say they didn't see this coming chris? >> as you know, it's get so hard to see it coming because it could be coming from anywhere. thank you very much from the latest from the ground. let's get perspective on this isis fight, with bobby ghosh cnn gloeshl affairs analyst and lieutenant colonel james reese, former delta force commander and former and chairman of tiger swan. let's look at the state of play. let's begin there. all life matters, any time these murderers put somebody on video, and take their lives in any
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fashion, it's wrong. however, numbers sometimes count. they can exacerbate. 21 christians all right you're going want to talk about why they seem to be targeting enemies that technically they can't take on. the pope says the blood of these christians is crying out to be heard. you hear cardinal dolan, the big cardinal in the u.s. saying we stood up as catholic leaders 40 years ago in ireland and said this must stop. you're not catholic and today northern ireland is peaceful. the muslims must do the same. bobby, what do you see in isis targeting groups it seems, right going after the jordanians with what they did to their pilot. they had to know what the response would bebe. what they did with these christians they had to know what the response would be. what's the play on each side? >> it's terror and it comes from the knowledge that these countries, foreall their bombpast and the occasional jet that goes over and drops some bombs, are not going to put boots on the ground.
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they're confident of that. these arab countries have said over and over again, we're not going to put boots on the ground. that's going into the night with one hand tied behind your back. they feel isis does that they can get away with this and on the basis of the evidence so far -- they have. >> bobby says because they know that you won't put boots on the ground. so colonel, then we put up the poll number. and you know what he's right. americans don't want to put boots on the ground. however, you know that these numbers, polls are worth what they are, the numbers are moving closer and closer. you won't put boots on the ground you can't stop us without them. so deal with it. what do we do? >> i have a slightly different look than bobby does. the problem is we can't look at this isis issue as a singular focus. like iraq or now libya. there's five or six different
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fronts right now with isis. if you look at in iraq right now, we have boots on the ground supporting the iraqis libya, we don't have anything but the egyptians could, it's plausible the egyptians could do it if they decided to i've said for months the center of gravity on the entire piece is syria. the big issue is is if the home front for isis sits in syria, will any of the arab countries ever decide to literally go into syria syria, that has bashar al assad, and his army to go in and eradicate isis with boots on the ground? right now, i don't think so do i think the u.s. would put boots on the ground to support an arab push to eradicate isis? i do. but i think that's we're missing the political aspect what are wing did gg to do about the syrian home front for isis. >> i think egypt should put
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boots onned ground but most arab armies are not built to fight foreign enemies, they're built to fight domestic civilians, they are good at beating up on civilians trying to protest peacefully. egypt has been facing an insurgency in the sinai for months and months and years now and have done very very poorly there. so i'm not that confident that an egyptian army will a, go across the border into sib libia, and if they do will not be effective. >> and al sesi these are unstable places. and colonel, it comes down to the same problem, they're going to have this extremism summit down there in washington, d.c. to come up with a solution. i feel like we had this same conversation not you and i, but i was learning about it a decade
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ago, about al qaeda. so everybody is saying that just like this fool that we just had to deal with in copenhagen i did this for isis. i feel like we had this conversation before. did we find a way to stop it then? or is this the same iteration of the same problem? >> chris, you're right, we did have this conversation unfortunately for us it takes us a while to figure it out. and i, i think you'll agree, that with al qaeda, we started to figure it out. we started to really tip away at that and really at times, neutralize it in certain areas yes, they pop up the shadows and they try to make an effect, but we've done well against al qaeda. especially in the manhunting and the capture/kill missions around the world against al qaeda. think we'll have to learn the whole lesson with isis we'll been do it for eight, seven months, it will be interesting to see what we figure out the next step. >> so bobby life is cheap, when
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you're uneducated and disaffected and see no better path for yourself. you will be susceptible to doing ugly things. there's plenty of that in the world. what's the third factor? >> the rejeejs in these arab countries oppress their people and do not even try to give them another alternative route. >> which is a big region that the u.s. says it is a regional thing. you're creating the problem, so why not you create the solution. >> isis represents a greater existential threat to arab states i think than al qaeda did al qaeda used arab straits to recruit, to take money, to conceal themselves and attack the west. isis wants to take territory in arab land syria, iraq libya. so that represent as different threat. the hope is that the arab countries will take it more seriously. the discussion that takes place in washington has to be political and social. it's not going to be a military
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discussion about how we're going to fight these people. that discussion takes place behind closed doors. but there's got to be a discussion about socially how do you attack this problem. politically, how do you give these young men an alternative, a different way to express their dissatisfaction. >> bobby ghosh, lieutenant colonel reese, thank you very much for joining us. unfortunately, this conversation alisyn just keeps going because it's just too hard to find inroads to solutions. >> we'll see if the summit bears any fruit this week. meanwhile there are new developments this morning in eastern ukraine where the fragile cease-fire barely hangs on. clashes escalating between ukrainian forces and pro russian rebels. european leaders trying to salvage the deal. agreeing to concrete steps to fully implement the truce negotiated last week. cnn's senior correspondent nick walsh joins us with more. >> see if this sounds like a cease-fire. we just heard rocket launchers
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in the center of donetsk, the monitors all french german and russian leaders agree should be allowed to monitor the cease-fire that was agreed before the weekend's actual truce and still, artillery raining down around key towns. these ukrainian tanks have just come out of the besieged town of dabaltova. we're following an aid mission to civilians caught in the cease-fire. this is an artillery range. this formerly quiet town caught in the cross-fire even know with a supposed cease-fire people forced off the streets, underground, its homes reduced to rubble. yevgeny has brought red cross
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food. in the palace of culture, are those who have nowhere or way to run. the children show us in death. >> only knowing the bombs are landing when the walls shake. you can hear still in this town shelling in the distance unclear which way it's going, but definitely not the sound of a cease-fire. this used to be a hospital. now it's a woodshed. and shelters to the very youngest. like dennis who try the to use his fingers to show us he's two. it's scary. they all say. i want to go home sass dasha, it's cold and uncomfortable. dasha is a dance champion hip hop in fact. here they don't care who was shelling or why, just that it stopped. but on the highways above, hours
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away from when the heavy guns are meant to be withdrawing, we saw these ukrainian weapons headed the wrong way. ever louder the question -- what do you call a cease-fire when the fire hasn't stopped? nick paton walsh, cnn, eastern ukraine. you can hear behind me here an ambulance in the streets of donetsk, there's heavy fighting raging in the town now for the railway station, which the rebel separatists say they've taken. we are also of course concerned that the lack of heavy weapons being withdrawn, that was already supposed to be happening really in many ways how can the cease-fire still be that in anything other than name? given the violence swirling around the donetsk region. >> so important to see the human lives hanging in the balance, we so appreciate your reporting, nick excellent work thank you. back at home breaking overnight, a federal judge in texas has blocked president obama's executive action on immigration. the order is temporary, it gives
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26 states more time to press ahead with a lawsuit to stop the president's action entirely. first orders have been set to go into effect tomorrow. protecting people from deportation if they were brought illegally into the country as children. the justice department plans to appeal the decision. jurors in the american sniper trial hearing the taped confession of the suspect charged with killing chris kyle. in the 90-minute videotaped confession eddie ray routh answers several questions about what happened the day he shot and killed the former navy s.e.a.l. and a friend at the gun range. routh said he fled after killing the men, realizing that what he did was wrong. >> a little bit of an odd one, a moscow based software maker said it discovered a series of american spying operations including the hiding of spyware in the networks of 30 countries, including iran and china. it's supposedly been going on for two decades and the software is beyond the reach of anti-virus programs the software maker involved is
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called kaspersky and it appears to suggest the nsa is behind the program. >> hmmmm. bizarre to have the russians telling us about the u.s. spy program. and then reporting it on american television as the source. >> it's hard to follow the bouncing ball know. >> we know that the blame goes like this an odd way to learn about it. a pair of blasts in western virginia after a train derails. look at this explosion. what went wrong here and what's the damage? >> you know plus it's one thing for it to be cold -- the problem with the cold is that things freeze and and then we see this horrible. we've all seen it before. siphon it on you've seen it on the road and you hope to god it's not you. the outcome is worth seeing.
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parts of the midwest, the south and the east are dealing with unusual snowfall and bitter cold aets and it's not over. incredibly yet another arctic blast is coming. we're tracking every winter development for you, we've got
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our correspondents dispatched all over, we begin in d.c. >> michaela this is the most snow that washington has seen all season. i want to show awe little bit of the heavy accumulation that came in here overnight b. four inches as you can see here son this park bench in washington, six in the suburbs outside of d.c. this is the iconic view of the national mall the washington monument blanketed in snow. the federal government is shut down d.c. schools are closed. and even president obama himself was hit by the storm. he arrived back here in d.c. here's a little bit of the video arriving in d.c. and hit the cold and snow and he was forced to motorcade back to the white house instead of flying as he normally does in marine one, but the snow will continue later today, there's a winter storm warning remaining until noon? >> we're having a transmission
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issue. a winter storm warning until noon in the d.c. area. we're going to move to boston you should just add insult to injury. snowfall records have been shatter and more is on the way. brian young has been braving the bitter cold in sommerville. nothing summery about that place. >> there's good news this morning in fact it's 10 degrees, that's a lot warmer than it was yesterday. the wind chill is 1 and yesterday we dealt with wind chills at negative 25. we wanted to show you something. take a look at all of this behind me this is what's been collected over the last few weeks, it's a massive melt. more than 50 inches, you can see as we walk toward this mountain. it doesn't stop we could climb this. this is a total warehouse district where they're storing the snow there are issues here they're starting to run out of salt. you can see what they're going to start melting and what
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they've been carting around trying to get this off city streets. we passed places where it had been impassable for drivers on small streets, you can tell why they're tired of this and now you said it -- more snow is coming. you want to have some relief for these people it's so very cold. >> not quite yet, ryan no relief quite yet. it is relative 10 degrees today is much better than yesterday. we'll get back to you. thank you so much. even the south hasn't been spared. they've seen a mix of snow sleet and driving rain. a driver spinning out of control, hitting a car, skidding towards the tv camera just stopping in the nick of time. thank goodness our ana cabrera wasn't anywhere near where that hatch happened. she's in richmond virginia. >> it's slow going on the roads in richmond and the surrounding area the state police have
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responded to hundreds of accidents in the last several hours and you can see what a mess it is here on the roads. cars we've seen having trouble getting up this very slight incline. people are already at it. down the road here. where they're already shoveling out of this mess. about six inches of snow fell on richmond virginia overnight, that's more than half of what they usually see in the entire winter season so that gives you a sense of just how big of a storm impact this really has for these southerners. michaela? >> the winter of 2015 is definitely going down in the record books, ana, thank you so much. the relentless cold is now making more than 100 million people shiver winter storm warnings stretching from oklahoma to new jersey with much of the northeast in a deep freeze once again, our rosa flores has bundled up. she's outside our studio in new york where it is snowing once again. >> you know michaela take a look around me.
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take a look behind me and you'll see that it almost looks like christmas, let's remember today is actually fat tuesday, so happy mardi gras to everybody at home. now i want to share with you probably the best thermostat here in new york city. we're going to do an extreme tilt because this is the official cnn thermometer, folks, you can see it is 15 degrees in new york city. now, the city expecting one to two inches of snow today. in this area we're expecting two to four inches not much is going to stick, so take a look right now, very little snow at the time warner center but michaela if you look behind me this is central park. and let me just tell you, about 50 inches of snow last year about this time. this year michaela only about 22 inches so we have nothing to complain about my friends. >> okay. so officially i cannot complain.
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that's the word from our rosa flores thank you so much for that we appreciate it. the big question is -- how bad will this next arctic blast be? and how many days until spring? because that's what i'm doing. we're counting right? chad myers? how many days until spring? >> you know i keep hearing everyone talk about the next arctic blast i don't see this current one ending. i don't know when one starts and one ends because it never really warms up. the snow is about done for new york it's done for philadelphia kentucky picked up 18 inches of snow. not far south of richmond virginia picking up 11 inches if you get down where rosa was, there's a lot more snow there. and the cold just continues, it is cold all the way down to new orleans, it's cold in atlanta, where it's been freezing look
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at this the current wind chills it feels like 12 below in buffalo, 11 below in detroit. and the wave air we have now, it warms up a degree before the next cold wave comes by on saturday and the next one comes by on wednesday. it's one after the other. i looked it up today. i googled it because i can. when does spring start? about 31 days and 12 hours, so i'm not sure that that's a technical term. i don't think meteorologically it's anywhere near. >> did chad just say the cold is never going to stop? >> there's only two little slivers of green. florida and los angeles. >> that's it. >> the kids in disney it was in the 60s there, compared to this it's nirvana, but for florida, it's cold. i like to blame new general, but i don't. here's why, he's been
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consistent. you have all the people in the business who give you the false promises he doesn't do that i respect that. >> 31 days and 12 hours until spring. >> there could be one hour next tuesday, chris, maybe one. >> i would rather know don't give me any false hope. so we have this video that you showed earlier on that's worth showing again to understand why it happened. all right? the train derails in west virginia and then this -- what was in the train? why did this happen? we have the next ahead. and then would you think that homeland security would be among the last agencies to lose with all the terror and border issues but a shutdown does loom and no one in d.c. says they want it? who would be to blame? we have what you say in a new poll.
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investigators on scene of that west virginia train derailment this morning, it caused two big explosions. the train was carrying crude oil when 30 cars veered off the tracks in fayette county sending the oil into a river that is a source of drinking water. cnn's rene marsh joins us from washington with more. >> at this point, we know investigators, federal investigators are on their way to the scene in west virginia they're trying to get to the bottom of what caused this fiery explosion. >> we saw the train explode and it shot up a mushroom cloud about as high as the plume is now, like that. >> in just moments, west virginia resident alex fandor takes a step back as another giant fireball erupts into the sky. a train carrying crude oil derailing, causing multiple explosions on monday afternoon.
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the blasts continuing into the night. sending clouds of fire and smoke into the air. one home destroyed, one person injured. and around 1,000 people displaced. >> i consider myself lucky, because you know got somewhere to go anyway. we're going to make our way someway. >> west virginia earl ray tomlin issued a state of emergency for two counts residents urged to conserve water after oil from the train spilled into a nearby river, a source of drinking water. nearly 30 of the train's 100 cars ran off the tracks but authorities still aren't sure what caused the derailment. >> we've had some severe winter weather conditions here with significant snowfall. we don't yet know whether that's a factor in this. well firefighters are still working on the site they're trying to remove the unaffected rail cars from the scene. but they're really worried about a few potentially explosive cars
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that could still pose a risk. michaela? >> so not completely out of the woods yet, all right, rene thanks. leaders from around the world are searching for ways to curb ex-tariqism at the white house, the start of a summit on stopping home-grown radicalization. vice president addresses the group today. the president will speak tomorrow. all parties are said to be looking for a strategy to prevent terror groups recruiting or inspiring acts of violence. this comes amid recent terror attacks in paris and denmark. no question it's a good time for the summit. because you think the white house is off-base a new cnn/orc poll finds more than half of americans, 57% do not approve of the way the president is handling isis. a jump from 49% in september. and americans are hardening their resolve to fight. a strong majority says congress should approve president obama's request to use military force against the terrorists about 50/50, about boots on the ground, though that's a key one. so leaders lean hard on polls
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these days. we're going to give you the other key info in new numbers coming up. ten policemen are dead after four suicide attackers struck a police headquarters in afghanistan. according to "reuters," the attack happened east of kabul. there are reports that the suspects wearing police uniform uniforms, so far, no group has claimed responsibility. another black eye for lance armstrong, the disgraced cyclist has been ordered to pay $10 million to a sports insurance company that paid armstrong bonuses for winning the tour de france. an arbitration panel says armstrong lied under oath to secure millions of dollars in benefits after denying he used performance-enhancing drugs. >> he was on top of the world for so long. >> the cover-up is worse than the crime. >> it often ends up. too bad. all right moving on. tracking the latest developments in the american sniper trial. we'll tell you what the death, eddie ray routh, says about the murders.
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congress has just 11 days to
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approve funding for the department of homeland security before the department is forced to shut down. >> a new poll released shows that americans will blame the republicans in congress not president obama. if the shutdown actually comes to pass. why? let's discuss it. >> let's bring in cnn political commentator and democratic strategist paul begala and cnn political commentator and host of the "ben ferguson show" ben ferguson. thanks for being here. we just showed who the public would blame if the department of homeland security were to shut down and they would blame the gop in congress more than they would blame the president. 53% to 30%. ben, why then would republicans want to do something self-destructive? >> i don't think they look at it as self-destructive think they
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look at it as the president of the united states has overreached his powers a judge decided with more than 26 states saying executive action on amnesty for illegal immigrants the president probably overstepped his bounds. not only the american people are saying it a judge has backed them up. it's easy to hate on congress it's a local issue. if you're a congressman or a senator, can you defend this vote or this action? and the answer is many of them believe yes, they can. because they were sent to washington to do exactly this. to take the president on on something he overreached his powers on. something that the president even said he couldn't do multiple times, as president and then chose to do it. so i don't think they're worried about it it's easy to hate congress we have a new congress. and everybody still hates them. >> because they're still doing the same thing, my brother. you said shutdown is a mistake. i've heard you say it before it's a collective understanding and now you're using the same
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tactic to deal with something that has nothing to do with homeland security wixt are you doing the same thing now that you're in power? >> i don't think it's the same thing. i think it's pretty simple -- >> shutten down. >> if you shut it down. there's a couple of things the essential services are still going to move forward so let's not overstate how drastic this is not going to be. you're still going to have the core things it's only nonessentials that would not come to work. then second thing, you're going to get back-pay as well. the president of the united states overstepped his bounds when he refuses to play by the rules you have to take measures to fight back. and guess what republicans were sent there to do exactly this -- fight with the president on issues where he overstepped his legal bounds. a judge said so yesterday. >> paul let me show you the next poll. that sort of illustrates what ben is talking about in terms of it being essential or nonessential. the director of homeland security, jeh johnson said this would be a terrible disruption if the dhs were shut down. it would cause everyday
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americans to be hurting. well that's not necessarily what everyday americans think, 55% do believe it would be a major problem, 45% call it a minor problem or no problem. which is it paul? >> first off, the majority of americans will have before it's even happened think it's going to be a major problem or a crisis and they are right. ben is right that the vast majority of homeland security employees are essential in defending the homeland. they'll have to report it costs us more money, it will degrade morale. we'll lose a lot of supervisors and the big thing that will not happen is a lot of aid to states where a lot of this action is. it's a foolhardy move to shut down homeland security when we face real threats, just because the republicans don't like what the president has done on immigration, they could pass a law, fund homeland security and then pass a law that says we repeal the president's executive actions, we can fight about that without trying to shut down homeland security. because they hate what the president has done on immigration. it's bad policy and also bad
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politics. >> paul begala -- i need to insult myself i don't know if you watched the quiz show last night, but clearly, i know very little about presidential history. that's why i need to sit next to alisyn who was the big winner. but i did learn this if you don't know how to work with congress you will have nothing before trouble vlt before but trouble. the main focus should be legal status of immigrants 49%, border security 49%, the people want these things addressed and equal measure. the president has taken a very oppositional view. and now you will get nothing but opposition. he has to do better yes or no? ben, you can answer it. >> the answer is yes. and i think democrats in the senate real quick, one of the big things is they're the ones blocking an up or down vote on this. it's already gone to the democrats, they refuse to let it
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come to a vote. so let's not just blame the republicans for this. they could vote on this. if they had the votes to shut it down it's a big win for democrats, i don't think they have the votes which is why they're never going to allow it to come to vote. >> paul? >> look what the republicans are trying to do here is stop exactly what the american people want. the poll is right. the american people want better enforcement and they want normalization of folks who are already here. that's what the president's bill does now frankly i shouldn't call it will president's bill unless you talk about president george w. bush and john mccain. this is their bill barack obama embraced what used to be the republican approach. >> except the border security portion. the border security portion is equal, equal in terms of giving them a path to citizenship so that's not reflected in the president obama's take on it is it paul? >> well he has put more boots on the ground than any president
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on the border than any president since president roosevelt was chasing pancho villa. you remember pancho villa. woody wilson was chasing him around the mexico border. we have plenty of enforcement. the president wants more enforcement the bill that congress is blocking has enforcement and normalization. >> ben we've got to leave it there, ben ferguson paul begala we're out of time. thanks so much for the debate. great to see you guys. we've been following the "american sniper" trial closely. it's all about the video that just got played in court this is it. this is the "american sniper" defendant, eddie ray routh, confessing all right now was this so big? because it will show where his head was after the event. but here's the surprise -- it really can work for both sides. and we'll tell you why.
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key piece of evidence any way you look at it was introduced at the "american sniper" murder trial. jurors saw this video, judge says we can't let you listen to this. but you can see it. this is eddie ray routh's interrogation and confession routh just rambles on about the murder. not only does he give all the information, but it's how. he says that he knows what he did was wrong. now remember that we're going to tell you why. because that's going to loom very large here we're going to bring in paul callan he is not just a cnn legal analyst, a senior partner as a law firm and a former new york city prosecutor. joey jackson made it through the snow come on out. you cath stand next to me it's too prejudicial. we have joey jackson, thank you for making it in from the snow. you know the deal on all of this. you have to look at before during and after. that is the key components of this. all right now let's look at
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before all right? the first thing that the prosecution put up and paul you're going to tell us why they would put up all this stuff in a second. chris kyle's voicemails joey when hair them as the defense attorney what does routh sound like in those voicemails to chris kyle before any of this happened? >> what happened is that three of those calls are very innocuous, he's calling, leaving messages and you can't really determine anything from them. there's one call however, chris, that's quite disturbing. he's talking about the rain it's a sad day, it's a good day, it's a bad day. as a result of that you know that something is a bit amiss, think that's the call that the defense is going to use to have it work in their favor to show he didn't know right from wrong. >> why would you, mr. prosecutor put any of this on when on its face it doesn't seem good for you? >> it's called taking the sting out of bad evidence for you. the prosecutors know that defense attorneys, these are smart doer attorneys are going to be putting all of this stuff in front of the jury and they're trying to get it out so that
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they can explain it to the jury in their own way and present it in their own way. that's why prosecutors do this. >> into the mix doesn't get you out of a crime in texas or anywhere else but there is proof from routh himself, i was using marijuana, i used to smoke with this guy, i needed to take the edge off, i needed booze, it will go into the mix. no need for legal analysis. it's not an excuse under law. so then we get into what it was like at the scene. the officer is there and he's talking about routh's mood this is during the moment so we know beforehand he had these problems now he's there, what do you see there, joey about what the officer relays? >> the bottom line here is this, what you have an officer that approaches you have a compliant routh, gets out of the car. but he's not compliant initially. generally we have to go back because usually when you flee the scene, it shows consciousness of guilt. why are you leaving? because i know something is wrong. when he ultimately is caught up
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to. now you have ramblings, you have musings by someone who apparently is psychotic. i think the ramblings and musing musings is going to be used in the defense's favor. >> paul callan told me something that changes the analysis here. we've been talking about insanity is hard because people don't want to give it to you, you have to show nature appreciating nature and the consequence of your actions, not in texas, paul callan what do they need? >> in the aftermath of the john hinckley case when john hinckley shot president reagan. texas responded by enacting a law that is the most impossible insanity mountain to climb. it says only one thing. if you know the difference between right and wrong, you are not insane, and you're going to see them return to that theme time and time again in this case. >> here's why, let's set it up. his confession it's all in you
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would think for the defense, boy this poor guy, he is mentally ill. what he did is horrible he took two americans that were beloved, doing good things with their lives, he's careerly not right. he keeps saying again and again, i knew it was wrong but i had to do it. >> let's evaluate that in context, he does say, i knew what i was doing was wrong. he's rambling about pigs about the fact that i don't really know what i'm doing. why don't i know what i'm doing? he's making all of these statements that demonstrate he's not lucid, that he's not rational if i didn't take their souls, they would take my souls. he's admitting, i know right from wrong. but does he really? that's what we have to understand. >> the prosecution finishes with two big points this rambling may be related to drug and alcohol use, no defense in texas, okay? number two the one thing he
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always says is i know the difference between right and wrong. i knew it was wrong when i killed them. so prosecution puts some points on the board, even though it was kind of a bad day for them. >> also asks for his mother during the actual interrogation. and so i mean how many people are doing that at his age? i really think based upon the things that he was saying in the confession it really plays in the defense's favor. >> i'll tell you what not just because you made it through the snow joey but i am giving this day to the defense. because i believe this is as good as it gets. they only get one mark off from me on this day, which is they're very keen on using pts as this incendiary motivation to violence. pts, is not known for that we will have clinicians coming on to talk about what post-traumatic stress is, it does not make people violent, it makes people withdrawn. today we think that the defense is making its case a little stronger. thank you very much. now be sure to join us tomorrow
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night. we're going to show you blockbuster, that's the story behind the story of "american sniper." it will help you understand this case and who's involved a little bit better. that will be tomorrow at 9:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. this trial matters, there's a lot of news for you this morning, so please let's get to it. horrific scenes one after another. >> this is a cult. isis is clearly in communication with other who is have taken on the isis name and the isis brand. >> congress should give the president the authority in this fight. >> we're standing on the river bank when we saw the train explode. >> residents urged to conserve water. >> 1,000 people displaced. >> i'm trying to get home i just had a blow-out on the freeway, i was able to pull in here. >> even if i had to walk to work which i've done in the past, i will walk to work. >> trying to get out of here before it gets worse. this is "new day," with chris cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira.
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good morning, everyone. welcome back to "new day," officials from 60 countries descending on the white house to try to find a strategy to stop terrorism. the white house holding a summit with hopes of devising a way to deter radicalization and terror recruitment of young people around the world. >> it comes as a majority of americans lose confidence in the president's foreign policy. and his handling of isis. >> can the summit help or it frankly too late for this sort of approach. let's get to the white house and michelle kosinski. >> it is just a summit talking about countering violent extremism. this was planned for months ago originally and then was delayed. but the white house wants this to be practical and useful. for a long time we've heard them talk about how getting at the violent ideology is a key to ultimately defeating isis long-term. we're going to see more than 60 countries participate in this
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over three days' time. they're going to be looking at pilot programs in the u.s. in minneapolis, boston and l.a. getting a closer look at what is working, and what isn't. not only nationally but internationally, now as you mentioned, this comes at a time though when according to the new poll a majority of americans now say they feel that the war against isis is going badly. and this growing disapproval over how the president is handling terrorism. 57% responded that they disapprove of how he's handling foreign policy in general. it's not as if we're going to see the summit be some kind of turning point. but the white house says they want it to highlight action and be a catalyst for more. chris? >> michelle it's understandably you have the discontent. we keep hearing about more and more acts of terrorism. new details emerging about the denymarc shooter this as facebook is now posting, a facebook post appears to show him swearing an oath to isis let's bring in cnn senior
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international nic robertson in copenhagen with the latest. >> yeah chris, in the last few hours, we've heard from the danish intelligence service, p.e.t. saying they were aware of this man, the gunman but they didn't expect him to go on a killing rampage in the way that he did. now why does it appear that they're saying this right now? there are several factors. what we've heard from the danish ambassador to the united states in the past 24 hours is that it seems that the gunman omar abdul hamid el-hussein. was radicalized while he was in jail. he was in jail for a violent stabbing on a commuter train in 2013. in the hours before the attack he has posted to what appears to be his facebook page a line of support, a message of support to isis' leader al-baghdadi, so
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putting this together the danish intelligence service says he was on the radar, had been bout to our attention, but we didn't consider him likely to get into an attack of this kind. >> is let's look into who did it and why it may have been done. any word of accomplices? or is this guy standing out right now as someone who was self-radicalized or just self-motivated? >> you know there does appear to be accomplices. two men charged monday one 19 one 22. what the prosecutors are saying is they had a prior agreement with the gunman to hide him after the first attack. not only that prosecutors say that they actually had his weapon so they're now being charged as accomplices in the murder and attempted murders here. so concern, are there more accomplices, more people in that circle of knowledge? certainly the police so far believe they've identified two
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such people. chris? >> you cover very extensively the same die nannic with al qaeda. which is where bad guys just start reaching out to the brand of a terror network. and pledging allegiance maybe during or after they do something terrible like this. what are the indication here's about this guy who is in jail for what a stabbing? a garden variety thug. somehow became then into terrorism. what do they know? >> what we're learning here is he is a member of a gang there were violent gang wars in this city over the past five or six years, i he was the type of guy, i met somebody who knew him when he was in the gang. they had weapons in the gang they killed people as part of the gang warfare. the gangs called a truce, but he was such a violent member of the gang they pushed him out of the gang. he appears to have gravitated to another group, to radical
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islamists and coming more under their influence inside the jail. so it's not an unusual path here. he never went to iraq or syria, according to officials, got his gun and weapon skills here on the streets of copenhagen in the gangs, gets thrown out of the gangs, looks for another identity to cling on to his radical islam, comes out of jail and we know the rest of the story. >> nic robertson thanks for all of that background. isis appear to be expanding its global reach. despite coalition air strikes, including those from jordan and egypt. where are the terrorists growing? let's ask bobby ghosh, our cnn gloeshl affairs analyst and managing editor of "quartz." let's start with the areas that we know to be under isis control. we knows to be in iraq and in syria. the red there are the portions that we believe isis has taken control of. let's pivot to the next map -- because given what happened this weekend, with the isis tape released of the more than a
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dozen egyptian christians being beheaded in libya, what's happening with isis? is isis now in libya? >> well there's a group in libya that has essentially claimed that it is loyal now to isis. it has pledged allegiance. we saw this with al qaeda in the last decade, we now seeing it with isis. the more successful a terrorist group, you have groups around the world that say we want to be part of that. we want we want to pledge allegiance to the leader of this group. the leader of isis is calling itself a caliph. and so it's an appropriateation of the brand. they're learning the techniques the thing to worry about is they're not just embracing the idea, they're embracing the techniques the beheadings the burning aline, the videos parading people in yellow
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jumpsuits, this is the thing that's worrisome. there's a sense of wannabes here and the worry is each of these groups will try to outdo each other to prove we're badder than those guys. >> you think that the people behind the beheadings that we saw, those were wannabes in libya? >> and there has been a formal acceptance in this particular case isis has accepted them. the name of the group appears in isis online publications. so they're a little further down the road. but there are groups like this everywhere -- pakistan afghanistan, egypt. algeria algeria, and with individuals in paris, in copenhagen. >> you're making the point of our next map. and that is just the breadth and geographic scope of where these groups are now. so all of the red pockets are places that you just named. so the fact that they went after these egyptian christians is this a change in tactic for isis? or is this more of the same?
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to kill people for no other reason than they are christian? >> it's an opportunity. they had these coptic christians in libya. there's quite a lot of them they're very poor very vulnerable. local authorities don't recognize their existence, they don't get the police protection they need. isis this group saw the opportunity. it's an opportunity-grab if you like. they saw the opportunity, grabbed these most vulnerable people and then they went and killed them. >> i was troubled to read them the preinterview notes from you where you say that the air strikes you believe are only rattling the cage of isis. >> it is rattling the cage. i wouldn't say only. rattling the cage is important. the air strikes have worked in iraq, they've stopped substantially the spread of isis. >> so they are effective geographically. >> >> they certainly are. but that can only be one part of the scheme. there's got to be people on the ground fighting these people.
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who are those people going to be? americans seem to be coming around to the idea that this might be necessary. arab armies no the so interested. iraqi military. >> what about egypt now? now that they have crossed egypt in this way and egypt is launching the air strikes, what about them getting more involved and even leading part of the coalition? >> egypt is supposed to be part of the coalition, they also have a large insurgency within their own country and they've done a petty poor job of dealing with that the egyptian military is great at beating up on innocent civilians who don't have any arms and are pro testing for political freedoms they're not so great against fighting against an armed and dangerous terrorist group. this is true of all the arab armies. the syrian army was the largest, best-funded arab army in the world and they have essentially been fought to a standstill against isis on their own turf. i'm not wildly optimistic that the other arab armies can make a great contribution here. >> bobby ghosh, thanks so much
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for walking us through all of this. let's go back to chris. >> another situation equal problems -- cease-fire in ukraine. question mark. let's take you there right now. decide for yourself. cnn's senior international correspondent, nick paton walsh joins us from eastern ukraine. we understand you have new video that shows the reality on the ground. >> there's been so much debate is the cease-fire holding. you can see now some remarkable images shot by "reuters," it seems on the road down to debaltseve the key town that everybody is talking about, quite what the impact of shelling when it hits clearly there, a gas pipe really is. i think it takes moments like that where people really get brought home to how violence is continuing. when you see that flames there in that area which should be under a truce. we know in in debaltseve the rebels separatists claim to have taken the railway station, parts in the east of the city. they claim to have taken more of it in some pro russian media we're reading. the ukrainian government say they've lost five soldiers in the last 24 hours.
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the monitors are calling to be allowed in. that's being echoed by france germany, russia and ukraine. to be allowed them to actually monitor the cease-fire. well frankly, chris, moment by moment here the figure leaf of a truce is disappearing quickly. back to you. >> i'll take it here nick thanks. breaking overnight, president obama's executive action on immigration is on hold thanks to an order from a federal judge in texas. the order is temporary, but it gives 26 states more time to press ahead with a lawsuit to stop the president's action entirely. the first orders have been set to go into effect tomorrow. the justice department plans to appeal. four suicide attackers hitting a police station east of kabul in afghanistan. the death toll now 20. there are reports the suspects were wearing police uniforms. so far, no claim of responsibility. but it will be cowardly murder by any name. take a look at this incredible video from the austin marathon. the kenyan runner got wobbly,
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and fell with .2 of a mile to go oh my gosh. suffering from dangerously low blood sugar, oh my gosh but she managed to push and claw her way, crawling the last bit of the rarks finishing in third place. the marathon director said it was the bravest race he'd ever seen. >> she's made of stuff that very few people are, that's incredible. wow. >> exceptional drive. >> and that's why i don't work out. you never know when you're going to teeter over. >> blood sugar issue. >> i'll give you this -- >> there is a question of how much is too much. we love people who push past their limits, but sometimes there's a reason there are limits. and we hope that she's okay. sometimes the effects of something like that can be delayed. let us know what you think about that incredible finish. federal investigators are on the scene of this spectacular
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train derailment in west virginia. fire and smoke clouding the night sky. we'll tell you why drinking water could be in danger. and from the midwest to new england, yup, winter weather watch. nearly 200,000 people without power in the south. who's going to get the worst of the snow? how cold could it get? what can happen because of that? those are the questions, we have answers. the real question that needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that 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. whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cancer, that's what i'd like to do.
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. baby it is cold outside. at least for much of the nation. snowfall and bitter cold hitting most of the midwest, the south, even the east this morning. incredibly the big chill not over another arctic blast is coming. or if you ask our chad myers, it's still here we're tracking all the developments for you. we have a reporters dispatched around the states beginning with sunland surfi, which saw heavy snow overnight. we saw the mall starting to get a little sunlight on it not much sunlight. >> lots of snow here overnight. official here's in d.c. have just declared a snow emergency. want to show you some of the accumulation here. as you can see, about four five inches of snow. and this light fluffy snow that came in the kind that just sticks to the roads. take a look here behind me of the iconic national mall. just blanketed this morning with snow as people start to wake up. but this city really is a ghost town the d.c. federal government is closed. d.c. schools are closed.
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and president obama himself is not immune from the weather effects here. he landed take a look at the video last night. he landed on air force 1 in d.c. around 9:00 when the snow was just picking up. real heavy last night. he was forced to motorcade back to the white house instead of taking marine one. but here the weather is not expected to go above freezing all day. and michaela a winter weather advisory is still in effect. >> important to keep in mind. sunland, thank you so much for that let's turn to boston which keeps getting hammered snowfall records there have already been broken. even more snow sont way. ryan young man braving the bitter cold and has crimed to the top of his own mountain. >> yes, i have. i'm on top of the world. in fact this is one of the places where they store all the snow that they've been collecting. more than 50 inches has hit here. guess what yesterday it didn't snow which is good news but more snow is coming. where i'm standing as you look around this is more than two
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football fields worth of snow. it's a mountain that was hard to climb, it's more than ten feet high. and let me tell you something, it just expands all the way down. now they have snow melters in the area. that are constantly working to melt the snow. they have to get rid of it somehow. everywhere in this area they're also running low on salt. you know they need the salt to preserve the roads to keep them clear. people are trying to get back to work you can understand the frustrations of the area with snow like this and record snowfall you know the crews have been working extremely hard to keep the roadways clear and free for people to get around. michaela? >> ryan big shout-out to all the road crews around the northeast and the midwest who have been working overtight. they're weary, they're tired. don't think the south is getting spared we're getting word that almost 200,000 people power outages in north carolina south carolina and georgia. snow sleet and freezing rain may driving really treacherous, the driver of an suv lost
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control and almost hit a news crew but luckily they were out of harm's way, although they seemed right in the line of it ana cabrera is joining us in richmond virginia. we can see a vehicle taking its time. the roads look quite awful there. >> right. very very variable conditions here in the south. michaela. you mentioned the snow the sleet, the ice and so the roadways are extremely slippery behind me, you can see it's really piled up here. six inches of snow here in richmond alone. anticipated even more because of the sleet it helped to keep the snow levels down. still plenty of work for the crews out and about. they brought out the heavy equipment across the street to clear some of the sidewalks, they've got the bob cats multiple people shoveling, also working on de-icing using the sand and the salt. we know that state police have responded to more than 200 accidents since 2:00 or 4:00 yesterday afternoon and the
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storm isn't over yet. after the snow comes is the deep freeze we know temperatures going into negative degrees in the next 48 hours, it may not get above freezing for much of any time until this weekend. michaela so people are starting to hunker down and prepare for what could come. still, especially as you mentioned, the 200,000 power outages for folks here in the southern states where it's frigidly cold for them for this time of year. >> we've been mostly lucky, there haven't been more widespread power outages, i imagine folks are hoping they can catch their breath before the next one. to those of you watching at home. if you have any good videos or photos of the snow please share them with us tweet us @newday. and post them to our facebook page, using the #cnnsnow or
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snowverit. >> where are they going to put all of that snow? i have no idea. >> more of it on the way. how about this one? flames so bad all firefighters could do is watch them burn. why did a train turn into this? we have the story behind the video, ahead. and americans overwhelmingly are saying -- okay to using force to combat isis that according to a brand new cnn poll. john king will break down the numbers, "inside politics." thank you for being a sailor, and my daddy. thank you mom, for protecting my future. thank you for being my hero and my dad. military families are thankful for many things. the legacy of usaa auto insurance could be one of them. our world-class service earned usaa the top spot in a study of the most recommended large companies in america. if you're current or former military or their family, see if you're eligible to get an auto insurance quote.
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an explosion and fire so bad it's causing a state of emergency in west virginia. it all started with train carrying crude oil, it derailed and the situation just fireballs out of control from there. let's bring in cnn's rene marsh in washington with more. what's the latest? >> at this point, chris, this morning it is still a dangerous situation in west virginia people are still not being allowed to return to their homes and there's still great concern about the drinking water in this area. oil from the derailed train has
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spilled into a nearby river, a source of drinking water, the water we do know is being tested periodically of course this all started yesterday afternoon. a csx train hauling crude oil from north dakota to virginia derailed. that was followed by multiple explosions. you're looking at some video there. and blasts continued into the night. we do know one homeless destroyed, one person was injured and 1,000 displaced at this hour. emergency crews are telling us at this hour fire is still burning, it is still too hot for firefighters to get close to the epicenter of this explosion. chris? >> we know it's still burning and those who need to come and figure out what happened maybe how to stop it aren't even there yet. what are they looking at going forward? >> we do know that federal investigators this morning, we they are on their way to the crash site but when you look at the images there, it's clear to
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know that it will take a while for things to cool down. cool down enough so that it's safe enough for investigators to get close to start the process of piecing this all together figure og ut what caused this derailment. that's a mystery as we speak. they do not know what caused nearly 30 of the cars to derail. so that's going to be their image. that's going to be their mission as they arrive there. but the first part of this is securing the scene and that isn't fully done at this point. >> and obvious and big part of the challenge is that the fire has its own fuel source. so that's going to have to burn through. we'll stay on it thank you, rene appreciate it. >> well a host of international leaders heading to the white house for a summit focusing on the battle against extremism. president obama expected to address more than 400 officials and counterterrorism experts tomorrow. the goal is to find a strategy to prevent terror groups from recruiting and inspiring acts of violence. the gunman in the copenhagen
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attacks apparently swore loyalty to isis on his facebook page. and last year prison officials felt he was at risk for becoming radicalized. he served time for stabbing a man on a train and was released two weeks before the shootings. testimony resumes today in the so-called "american sniper" trial. monday was the biggest day yet. jurors heard eddie ray routh's taped confession. his attorneys say it shows the veteran suffered from mental illness when he killed littlefield and kyle. but the question for the jury will be whether routh knew what he was doing was wrong. the voice behind a teen classic has died. ♪ it's my party and i'll cry if i want to ♪ ♪ cry if i want to ♪ ♪ cry if i want to ♪ >> that one holds up it's so catchy. singer-songwriter leslie gore was just 17 years old when she topped the charts with "it's my
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party." among other hits the feminist anthem "you don't own me" she died of lung cancer at a new york hospital. on monday she was just 68 years old. >> too young, but what an impact impact. time for to us get "inside politics," he's left us john king is back in d.c. we thought you would be here to welcome chris back to the show after a long weekend. but you fled. >> they sent me back to shovel my driveway. >> it's a beautiful day. good morning to you guys in new york. let's begin side application, with me to share reporting and politics ed o'keefe and chris moody. we awake this morning to big court decision in texas. the president last year used executive power to change immigration laws or policy. he can't change the law. a federal judge in district district court judge in texas said you can't do that you can't stop deporting people. you can't decide who gets to stay. this is something republicans
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wanted in 26 states led by the republican governor of texas. the white house will appeal now to the court in new orleans. the court of appeals, here's what they said this morning. the department of justice legal scholars immigration experts and the district court in washington, d.c. have determined that the president's actions are well within the legal authority. the district court's decision wrongly prevents the lawful common-sense policies from taking effect and the department of justice has indicated it will repeal that decision so a victory for conservatives, the question is will a higher court uphold it. >> we should point out that the this obviously is a final ruling. what it does in the short-term is delay the start of the application process, which was supposed to begin today. so if you are someone you know was supposed to do this today, you might want to call ahead. it will go to the appeals court, i suspect this like so many other things that the obama administration has done will end up at the supreme court. that's exactly what republican governors and the attorneys general want. we see gop lawmakers heralding this decision immigration
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groups talking about activist judges. who are making these decisions. the roles have been reversed. >> we see gop lawmakers hailing this decision, we don't doe see them in this town. you see the building behind me which looks beautiful in the snow. the capital building they're off this week. i want to get do that in more detail in a moment. one of the things they're not here debating which they should be here debate sgt department of homeland security which enforces the immigration policies about to run out of money. they're not here. and if you look at our brand new poll out this morning, this is an interesting one. if had you a 21% approval rating 21% of your colleague and bosses approved of how you were doing your job, you'd be sulking, 21% approve, that's up from 13% last year. i guess the republicans can say our new congress son the right track. 21% approve. does the court decision give them an off-ramp one of the reasons they can't deal with homeland security funding is the
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fighting within the immigration policy. account leadership say can we please fund the department. can we please not have this fight and let's see what happens in the courts? >> i don't see them using it that explicitly. i think the decision is a reminder that the obama administration will not only have to fight this here in washington and in congress but also in states. more than half the states in the union have joined this lawsuit against the immigration action. so just like obamacare and several other policies that the president has pushed through in his administration he's going to have to fight this just beyond washington as well. and you're right, i'm shocked about 21% approval in congress i don't know if i've ever seen it that high. is that some kind of fluke with the weather that's happening? i can't understand it. >> maybe they won't come back. they've spent 24 days in session, the house, 26 days in session, the senate that's not so bad. the question is why not be here at this week. if you're dealing with the homeland security dpatment about to go down.
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the presidential aopponentes, trying to get to have a fresh start, why not work until you get the big things done and take break? >> because everything in life is like high school closer you are to the due date friday the 27th the faster they get their work done. they will come back from this in a week and they will probably either agree to fund it or set up a short-term continuing resolution to kick this fight a few more months. important to point out, republicans would point out, they went five weeks essentially from start of the year to this week. working straight. with only one day off from martin luther king jr. day. that's a departure from the past. but all they got done was approving a bill we know the president is going to veto. >> i think by comparing congress to high school you need to apologize to american high schoolers across the region. >> washington is like the fifth grade and every fifth grade is going to slew me for slander. will this impact the debate? maybe they can talk about the court decision we're winning in the courts right now, this is republicans, maybe we don't want to have this debate in congress. it could shut down a very
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important agency in the government. who would get the blame? a new poll says 30% of the people would blame president obama. 53% would blame the republicans in congress. 13% both. if your goal with the bigger house majority and the new senate majority is to prove to the american people you can be responsible partners in government, do you take this risk? >> i don't think so a this point, that's why you saw them last week so aggressively, chris, you heard this too, republicans repeatedly saying it's the democrats' fault. it's the democrats' fault, we're six votes short in the senate. it didn't work. because shutdown is synonymous with republicans, just as obamacare might be with the democrats. the idea that something is going to get shut down blame goes to the republicans, they can't beat it. >> so we had a shutdown in 2013 and 200,000 dhs employees still went to work because it's a matter of essential and nonessential employees, but the obama administration still found a way to cause pain to make
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people see there was a shut down. that back-fired on them as we saw with some of the memorials that were closed down. i can imagine that the administration would suggest maybe at the airports that the longer lines were the fault of a shutdown and if the, if the american people are blaming the republicans, that won't be a tough thing to do. >> we'll see who blinks because republicans did get the blame when it happened last time. however, then time passed and an election came and we did just fine in an election. we'll see whether the calculation kicks in and whether they think they can take the risk now, we'll watch it when the congress comes back. one more in the polling department on the authorization of military force, a huge question of war and peace. one of the reasons you say, you're right, they did work longer than normal and the beginning of the year why not stay one week more or two weeks more. start the debate. the president wants war powers against isis. the congress says the president should not.
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but eight in ten americans saying give the president these powers. do you put limitations what do you say about ground troops how long should it last? what about the next president? the interesting part is eight in ten americans say give the president this power and yet, do you approve of how the president is holding handling isis or disapprove about half 49% disapproved in september. that's up to 57%, the american people want to give the commander-in-chief war-fighting authority. but they're skeptical of how he's handling it. >> it speaks to seeing congress do its job. >> interesting if you dive deep near the poll. support for ground troops while still a minority percentage overall has climbed since the faum. that's going to be the hold-up mother than anything in this debate. do you authorize ground troops? where can they go? for how long can they go? democrats on the hill don't want it to happen. republicans are more open to it. if the numbers continue to head north, that will drive the debate more than anything. there's no doubt that both parties want to have this
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debate. they want to give them some kind of authority. but the details are going to hold this up. >> there's no doubt. we saw it dating back to the james foley beheading, sadly that the american people as they see the barbism of isis say we do have to open our mipds to more muscular policy. >> and they want to see something more restricted and the auf that was sent downing from congress was three or four years against isis and i think those restrictions will be what people want to see. and they want to see a debate in congress. they want congress to have a skin in the game. >> it will be a fascinate deeg bait when they go forward. that's the big debate in the town. they did start the year work morgue than they normally do. why do they disappear when they could have take an few more of these and run them out of the
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inbox and then gone home. >> that's a peculiar work ethic. we'll continue the conversation that you've just been having about terrorism. because the white house is trying to take on terrorists with a three-day summit on extremism. but there's already criticism about this plan. we'll bring you both sides.
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big day for the white house -- it is targeting terrorism. with the start of a three-day summit on extremism. the conference plans to focus on efforts to prevent extremists from radicalizing not only isis but in all forms, you've heard all the names. is this summit focused the way it should be? is it really going to be able to strategize in a way that it attacks the problem at its source or are we just too far into this the bat toll think we can start at the beginning? let's discuss with someone who knows. author of in the land of invisible women, dr. qanta ahmed. what's the central question? you know that the summit is based on these preparations in 2011 where they outlined where
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they want to, do we have a wholistic strategy we have al qaeda, aqap we have boko haram. you said don't get distracted by the many when you are dealing with one problem. why do you think that is and what is that? >> exactly. my hope is that this summit which is a move in the right direction, the white house is putting priority on something it identifies as a problem. will be looking a the ideology of islamism and in fact the 2011 document referred mainly to al qaeda and to a community-based approach in the united states. that's far too narrow. there's definite lay role for the muslim community in the united states but we're not going to be able to solve what is a global opponent. the opponent is in opposition is seeking to attack and dismantle secular pluralistic democracy. ky give you countless examples of that. and what i fear by labelling the conference extremism, the delegates there are going to miss the actual problem, which we are confronting a new
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warfare, the new warfare is jihadism jihadism is the violent version of islamism islamism can be nonviolent too, which is also not referred to in the 2011 document. but jihadism is not insurgency it is not terrorism tactics which are the language in which this has been discussed. jihadism is the motive of islamists in order to produce a sharia state which is directly opposed to our secular values isis has done just that. in front of our eyes. that's what we're confronting and that's what the summit should be about. >> the problem is subtlety. >> even though you would argue and have the on the show eloquently it's not subtlety, it's precision and accuracy. but to the uninitiated and politicians, it sounds like subtlety and what they deal with is how do we make people feel that we're dealing with the actions that they fear? put up the poll numbers.
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the americans aren't happy with what's going on here. they disapprove. what does that mean to the white house? we've got legacy concerns we've done well on the war in terror we killed osama bin laden, that's what they're thinking they have to deal with that find some of the other polls, what they're insightful about is the bar for americans is do we put our fighting men and women on the battlefield? you see there 50-47, almost back to half. that's the concern. i don't care what we call them i don't care what their philosophy is how do we kill them? how how do you take that and translate into a dialogue that's actually productive? >> with respect, i think the threats that we're facing is something that is not going to be a popularity contest, we elect leaders and we have confidence in them to make the very difficult decision that may seem unpopular. in the united states even evaluating this problem has been constricted by fears or blatant
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calls of islam phobia and i'm sure our president is sensitive to that and because of these calls of islam phobia evaluating these problems it's not just a concern about freedom of religious expression which is safeguarded in the states. there's a on finement on freedom of critical reasoning. our ability to critically reason this problem is limited because of a climate of fearing islam phobia. we didn't elect our national leaders to be afraid to tread on to tread lightly when we are -- >> but they are a political of political correctness. if you start talking about islamism. easy for to you say, you come from the faith and you're an academic. if i say it it is part of the faith, you start getting beaten up here. >> i want while the summit is going on for people at the summit in the united states to think -- this is not a problem to be solved looking at only one group. isis is one of many
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manifestations of violent islamism. which are geographically different, which are different in some of their associations but their objective is the same. we have been struggling to announce that the united states is in conflict with these groups these groups have had no difficulty launching their warfare on us. until we accept this is a new kind of warfare we're going to be misled into thinking we can somehow meet some social needs, employment needs, that's not going to work. we have to accept this is a new form of warfare and the summit should have been entitled "the white house summit on jihadism." that is not jihad. i'm a muslim and as a muslim i'm beholden to follow that which means number one, it means personal improvement. but number two, there is also the right for armed jihad, that muslims have. which means to defend the right to pursue their religious belief. it is if it is under violent
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assault. so that's very different. and it is subject to codes of conduct in warfare. the jihadists from islamism do not observe any of those codes of conduct. christian children elderly, unarmed men are all fair targets for them. >> and on one side the enemy. what you're dealing with in its manifestation of action in isis someone who ignores all the the rules and on the other side you have the summit where they're too caught up in how many rules they want to follow and the how they want to deal with it and the right thing to say. >> we're a civilized nation so we follow international rules of law, of course but we were remarking earlier. i'm very fearful that the verbal paralysis we have, not just while we're trying to talk about this but our political leaders, which are very much influencing mainstream media positions, i hope that that doesn't reflect a strategic paralysis. if i look back on what the last few years have revealed it
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certainly would seem that we're also strategically paralyzed. that's got that's good to change. >> thank you very much. we'll see what they do at the summit. >> thank you, chris. we'll bring you back in. >> my pleasure. >> as always. michaela. >> chris, thanks so much for your conversation there. the wicked winter weather, it is causing a lot more than headaches for millions of you. it's also causing a significant dent in your wallet. christine romans will explain. cold medicines open your nose over time, but add a breathe right strip and pow, it opens your nose up to 38% more. so you can breathe and do the one thing you want to do sleep. add breathe right to your cold medicine shut your mouth and sleep right. breathe right. and look for the calming scent of new breathe right lavender in the sleep aisle.
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horrific scene one after another. this is a cult that should give the president the authority to fight. >> only 30% of the public supports the president's handling of isis. >> eddie ray routh's interrogation and confession. the ramblesings is going to be
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used. >> if you know the difference between right and wrong, you are not insane. >> we're standing on the river bank where we saw the train explode. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira. good morning. welcome to your "new day." it's tuesday, february 17th, 8:00 in the east. government and business reps from 60 nations are heading to the white house all desperate for an answer to the problem of extreme jihadism. the truth is not in dispute. more and more terrorism is becoming a cause for angry, ignorant and disaffected young men and women all over the globe. >> this as new poll numbers show the president losing support on foreign policy and his strategy to destroy isis so can this summit help? let's get right to cnn's white house correspondent michelle kosinski. it sounds like pundants are already criticizing portions of the summit before it has gun, michelle. >> reporter: absolutely.
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there's back and forth on various aspects. we've heard the white house talk about the fight for isis is a regional fight because it poses an existential threat to countries in that region. lately it seems like it takes something like a brutal murder specific to a country in that region to see, say, egypt join the coalition or jordan step up with airstrikes the uae to get back to doing airstrikes. so we're going to see countries from that region take part in this three-day summit. in fact as you said more than 60 countries will. what they want to do is look at programs around the country and around the world and take a look at what is working and what is not working because we've also heard the white house focus many times on getting at the violent ideology is really key ultimately to defeating isis for the long term. the thing is this comes at a time when according to a new poll a majority of americans now say they feel the war against isis is going badly and is
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growing disapproval with how the president is handling terrorism. 57% responded that they disapprove of how he's handling foreign policy in general, but the white house wants this summit to highlight action that is ongoing as well as be a catalyst for more. >> michelle kosinski. thanks so much for the preview. meanwhile, egypt launching another round of airstrikes on isis following the beheadings of a dozen christians. we're in minya of most of the victims. ian. >> reporter: elor is a small port village. you won't find it on most maps but 13 of those men who were brutally executed by isis came from here. they went to libya looking for desent wages to create a better life back home but now this is a village in mourning while egypt is looking for revenge. this morning egypt appearing to gear up for war against isis in
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libya. airstrikes hitting ten targets isis used for training and weapon depots up north in derna according to the egyptian government but islamist militias in the isis strong hold say they quote, woke up to disaster and claim the bombings killed women and children. cnn could not independently verify these claims. >> we are hopeful that the strike was surgical with targeting specific installations and that there have been no collateral damage. >> reporter: the strikes, egypt's immediate retaliation over the slaughter of 21 egyptian christians. according to an egyptian official they have already taken activities to restrict their finance activities and recruit am. the country is preparing to ask the u.n. security council to treat the terror group's presence in libya as serious as isis in iraq and syria. >> this is definitely worth the
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border with libya. don't wait until they come next to our border and threaten our border or try to penetrate our border. >> reporter: isis a growing threat as the brutal beheadings posted online rallies the nation. al azhar, egypt's leading institution, issued a ruling prohibiting egyptians from watching the video. this as egypt's president declared a week of mourning in the muslim majority country for the slain christians. the state's authority responsible for religious edicts in egypt said in a statement, the blood of our christian brothers and children is the same of that blood of muslims which belongs to the egyptian nation. >> egypt seems fine with airstrikes. they don't want to put boots on the ground. it will likely remain like that. ian lee, cnn, alor egypt. ian, thank you.
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the grand mufti, head religious leader coming out condemning these actions early, even forbidding watching the video. the question becomes is the violence we're seeing a problem or the symptom of the problem. let's bring in a former member of the national security council under presidents george w. bush and president clinton. she's the author of "going to tehran why the united states must come to terms with the islamic republic." it's good to have you here as always. let's do this there's a debate going on. is this our problem, our being the united states or is this their problem? should the region take it? is it a good thing they have had a finger stuck in their eye to fight their own battle. your take on it is what? >> well it's our problem as far as we make it our problem, as far as we put ourselves in the cross hairs, and as far as we
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support, arm, fund and train governments that are perceived, there's a lot of objectivity about this but are perceived as essentially american puppets, doing the work of the american states and the so-called crusadeser west as we hear in the rhetoric of the islamic state. the facts are today, even with the beheadings in egypt, even with the horrific killing of the jordanian pilot last week there are more jordanians today fighting with and for isis than against it. more egyptians today fighting with and for isis than against it. >> right. >> that's true in all of our so-called allies from turkey saudi arabia turkey pakistan saudi arabia afghanistan. >> we're a news organization. i'm supposed to say we i'm supposed to say the u.s. >> right. >> it just doesn't work in this hypothetical. i'm playing the u.s. in this. >> right. >> what is the u.s. supposed to do if this problem is sourced there, which you ak nong and these societies are repressive which is a common trait of 3/4 of the -- you know the
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sovereigns in this world, don't we have to assist them in some way to get them to deal with the problem there? at least to keep it insulated? >> well there's a very pragmatic assumption particularly here in washington that there is something wrong with something pathological about islam which is generating these types of problems particularly in the middle east and in other parts of the muslim world. but there was nothing that we saw in this regard in the 1970s or the 1980s. there's something new. there's a new and very important element that we are so reluctant to come to terms with but is so important for the american public. >> what is it? >> u.s. policy. the u.s. policy since the 1990s of putting in deploying a million troops in 1990 hundreds of thousands of troops in the 2 2000s in iraq and afghanistan, trillions of dollars in arms sales, to both put ourselves on the ground as on the ground occupiers, perceived to and in fact responsible for the deaths
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of hundreds of thousands of muslims. this is what the islamic state and al qaeda before it has been able to use in the rhetoric. there are 90,000 social messages a day. all they have to do is put real footage of what the united states has done in iraq afghanistan, libya. >> how do you get the truth out, which is the iraq war was a bungled situation. america hasn't come to terms with why we went there, what was true what wasn't true but what should be universally true is that the problem is being incubated there. those are the oppressive regimes. the united states does not have this problem with muslims in this country. this is the land of opportunity still, so how is it that the u.s. is getting the black eye for what they are doing to their own there? >> well because the way that it is perceived, and i think genuinely felt by -- and we see this in polling data throughout the middle east and throughout the muslim world, is that these organizations rise up and gain support as resistance organizations, as resistance to
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in particular u.s. actions, u.s. invasions, occupations and killings. that is what they are doing. they're resisting that and they're resisting what they perceive as these american puppet regimes that just pile onto the american invasions with their policies on rendition, on torture. you know the american -- the egyptian government is seen in egypt by millions of people in egypt as an american puppet that overthrew their democratically elected moderate government. they don't see themselves as having another way to resist what they see, these massive attacks in the muslim world other than to join the strongest organization the islamic state, that can resist this continued onslaught onslaught. that's the message that works for them. >> the context about that perception isn't going to be helped by this latest poll obviously that americans want congress to authorize more military force in dealing with this question. you're saying we need a
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different solution. let's see what they come up with at this summit on extremism. it isn't the right word you shouldn't call it extremism, you should call it something else islamism something like that. we'll get into it. hillary, thank you so much as always. appreciate the perspective. >> thank you very much. the american sniper trial resumes in texas. on monday jurors heard eddie ray routh's taped confession. the 27-year-old veteran has pleaded not guilty to killing chris kyle by reason of insanlt insanity. >> reporter: eddie ray routh looks far different than he does today. it was recorded after he surrendered after a car chase. routh starts with a rambling and incoherent answer when he's asked what happened. he says i keep talking to chris. there's a few dozen chriss in my world and it's like every time i talk to another man named chris or get sent to another man named chris, it was like talking to the wolf you know?
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the ones in the sky are the ones that fly, you know what i sneen the pigs. the detectives ask, who did you shoot first? routh says the one i could clearly identify. he's talking about chris kyle here. i knew if i did not take out his soul he was coming to take mine next. >> he was in the middle of a psychosis, a psychosis so severe at that point in time that he did not know what he was doing was wrong. >> reporter: the investigator asked routh, after you killed them what did you do next? routh responds i fled. i didn't know what else to do. mia dren na lynn was so high. i department know what was right, i didn't know what was wrong. the detective then asks routh what he would like to tell the victim's families. i would tell them i'm sorry for what i've done. prosecutors say the tape proves routh knew what he was doing. >> even the ones that this
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defendant may have or may not have don't deprive people of the ability to be good citizens to know right from wrong. >> reporter: and back live in stevenville, texas, where court will resume again today in less than two hours and, alisyn this was really a significant moment in the trial. this was the first time this jury was able to hear directly from eddie ray routh as close to the moment of those murders as they will possibly see in this trial and judge for themselves his demeanor and state of mind. alisyn. >> that is a significant moment. ed thanks so much for telling us about it. we have some breaking news to get to. at least a dozen people are dead and 40 more injured after an accident at a carnival in haiti. we're told an electrical poll fell on to a float during a parade while people were celebrating mardi gras. we'll have more details on this as they come into our newsroom. breaking overnight, a federal judge in texas blocking president obama's federal action on immigration. the order is temporary but it does give 26 states time to press ahead with a lawsuit to
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stop the president's action entirely. the orders had been set to go into effect tomorrow. the justice department plans to appeal the decision. investigators are on the scene now in west virginia after a train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in fayette county. a second explosion shook the area around midnight. one of those burning train cars fell into a river and now officials are concerned that drinking water could be contaminated. they shut down two water treatment plants as a result. still not clear yet what caused the derailment but the obvious is the weather. >> so many things going on right now. my goodness. >> hopefully they can figure all of that out. there is another round of brutal weather bearing down on the country. once again, boston is the bull's eye. how much more snow can my beloved boston handle and your beloved boston right, michaela? we're going to ask the governor of massachusetts what they're doing.
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all right. there's gridlock in washington and we're not talking of the congressional sort. a snowstorm hitting the nation's capitol overnight. look at the shot from the white house. just beautiful. it is part of a wide swath of bitter bitter cold. winter weather hitting the midwest to new england. we have our reporters deployed from the nation. we'll begin with semlin in d.c. hi. >> reporter: definitely gridlock in washington.
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this is all but a ghost town. this is the most snow that washington has seen all winter. it is just declared a snow emergency by officials. show you a little bit of the accumulation here. about 4 to 5 inches but this sort of snow is that light, fluffy snow the kind of snow that sticks right to the pavement. why a lot of people are having trouble out on the roads this morning. dc as you can see is all but shut down. the federal government is closed. d.c. schools are closed. the white house briefing has been canceled for the day. people are trying to avoid being out on the streets. and even president obama, he encountered some travel problems with the weather last night. he arrived at andrews air force base coming back from california. he was hit himself by the snow and the bitter cold. that was about 9:00 last night. the snow lasted all night. he was forced to take motorcade back to the white house instead of marine 1. the good news is here for today in dc the snow is done for the day, but officials say to stay
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off the roads. it is still going to be below freezing here in d.c. because we're going to be dealing with this snow for some while. >> a different sort. we keep saying that. it is important for people to heed those warnings. stay off the roads and let the road crews work on clearing the snow. thanks so much sunlen. the south is not getting spared. we're getting word of 200,000 power outages in north carolina south carolina and georgia. snow sleet, freezing rain making driving dangerous. look at that mere disaster. the driver of an suv almost hits another car and almost a news crew. my goodness that was awfully close. anna cabrera is nowhere near that but she's live in georgia where getting around is a bit of a challenge. >> it's snowy, slippery choppy chunkie on the roadways. you can see hardly any cars now as a lot of people have chosen to travel by foot. we see this gentleman walking across the street. notice his feet. he doesn't have snow boots. we see a lot of that here. people in this part of the
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country aren't really used to this snow at least not this much snow. you take a look. we're talking about six inches here in richmond. of course this is piled up from all the great shoveling that's been done already here. this is a common sight all around this area where, again, they just don't see this amount of snow especially all at once. not just the snow but the very cold temperatures. temperatures in the teens today. we've been like that for the past couple of days here in the south and they aren't expecting temperatures to go above freezing until the weekend. and it's that extreme cold that has a lot of people worried, especially in the parts of georgia, north carolina south carolina where they saw all of that ice accumulation in the past 24 hours. that's going to be an issue with those 200,000 power outages so people are just trying to cope right now as we make it through this 2015 winter blast. michaela. >> the one that never seems to end. hopefully neighbors are helping neighbors, people are helping the elderly, the homeless.
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again, the power outage is what's adding a real degree of seriousness to all of that the snow and the cold. anna thank you so much for that. you're saying virginians aren't necessarily used to snow and cold. well our reporters are. we're going to head to boston where we find ryan young. we know snowfall records have already been broken. more of the same is coming. i don't know where they're going to put snow on top of the mountain that you're already standing on top of, mr. young. it's going to be an engineering fete there in boston. >> i mean this is unbelievable how big this is. talk about maybe four football fields worth of snow. i can tell you the heights back this direction are unbelievably high. in fact it's like boston is in a fight with old man winter. right now boston is not giving up. i can tell you we're likely not to get snow yesterday. if you look around look at the size of this going back this direction. you can see how they stacked it up high. they have a snow melter they're using in an effort to make sure they melt some of the snow.
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we have this at this point measure that we're going to try to use as i walk across this. maybe not. but essentially we have this pulled out at 117 height 11 feet 7. i use this and try to go all the way to the ground. it's something we've been working on for a while to see how massive this is. you can't see from my vantage point, but if you look back this direction, it is just huge. they're also running out of salt in this area and that's something they desperately need. they said more shipments are coming in. michaela. >> let's talk -- thank you so much ryan. let's talk about what's going on in massachusetts and boston. we have the governor joining us charlie baker. governor baker, how are you fairing? >> oh, we're having just a wonderful time up here. we're thrilled that we're breaking all kinds of records, but i'm not sure it's the records you necessarily want to break. >> it certainly isn't. obviously safety is the number one concern, the safety of the people in your state. we understand you've been telling folks to stay off the roads stopping short of having a
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travel ban officially in place. you think we're getting to the point with these -- these further storms set to hit your area? >> well we're -- i mean at this point we've had four major storms in the past three weeks so -- and for people to understand a major storm, i mean that means like at least a foot of snow. i think overall based on some of the visuals you folks have shown we're talking, you know eight or nine feet of snow in less than a month and we've been melting it using these snow and ice melters at literally hundreds of tongues an hour and yet anywhere you go in eastern massachusetts there's still a ton of snow around. i mean it's just been -- i will say this. i think people have worked enormously hard over the course of the past three or four weeks to sort of whittle it down and, frankly, people generally have been pretty patient about the consequences of all of this. i will say though it has been
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enormously difficult for local retailers and restaurants, folks who survive on main street traffic to maintain any sort of equilibrium from a business point of view. that's too bad. it's just a function of where we are. >> we're just watching some of the images of bulldozers and front end loaders loading snow on top of mounds. i mean it's just -- it's really incredible the vast amount of snow. you're talking about the local retailers there. you actually sent out a tweet yesterday declaring it unofficially valentine's week. i sense it's because you're not a hopeless romantic governor. you are looking to get relief from some of those mom and pop stores and businesses and restaurants. are folks, you getting the sense, heeding your call? >> well a lot of the local chambers and a lot of the restaurant groups small business groups took that valentine's week proclamation and ran with it with their own marketing proposals. it was our way of figuring out
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some kind of way to spread the warmth over the week. since it is school vacation week one of the thoughts we had was that you know people might have a little more time. they might be looking for things to do with their kids and if we could just remind folks that there's plenty to do nearby that might help. but, yeah -- and, by the way, it would also give us a chance to continue to move snow out from some of our main streets so that folks will be able to access some of these retailers and restaurants. >> that's the important part about getting business back to work is getting that snow removed, dealt with processed, however you want to put it but the fact is for example, the city of boston has already blown through $34 million this year. that's double their entire snow budget. is there going to be any relief? can the state help with some finances with resources, any relief in site for some of these communities that are dealing with the expensive cost of snow removal? >> that's been an issue for the state as well. we are certainly going to spend far more than we anticipated
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spending on snow removal. by the way, we've also asked for and received help much of which we pay for, from eight other states that have thankfully sent us manpower and equipment to help us with our snow removal efforts as well. we also bought a couple of snow melters and rented a couple to deal with this. and i think it's a question obviously, that we'll be talking to our colleagues in local government about as we get towards the end of the year here but certainly anybody's snow budget no matter how much they put in it this year has probably blown it at this point, in part because, you know the snow just keeps coming. the weather stays cold. there's no melt to speak of at all. the only way to remove it is literally to remove it physically and then dispose of it. >> mother nature has different plans for us. we will never forget this winter of 2015. governor charlie baker, thank you so much. stay warm. hunker down and we'll be talking to you again, i'm sure before this is all over. >> okay. thank you guys. take care. we have some incredible images emerging from the
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weather. these are from philadelphia. crews fighting a fire in west philadelphia monday. the water they used froze leaving the building -- it almost looks like a haunted mansion. there are concerns though serious concerns that the weight of that ice could collapse the building. it was 3 degrees at the time of the fire with the wind chill of 16 below. so just incredible images coming in. if you have any photos you've snapped on your phone or on your camera videos share them with us. tweet us. you can go to "new day" on facebook and twitter. use #cnnsnow. i'm canadian and i had never heard of snow melters and snow farms. there's like this whole business of snow removal. we just waited till april until it thawed. we can't. not in cities. >> you know it's shocked after what she grew up with in canada. >> i know. >> it's also just numbing, no pun intended. we just went to four different states the governor the same story. everybody is standing in the
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same conditions same problems same thing. it's tough. speaking of that same dynamic applies for what i'm about to tease. the white house is holding this summit to combat the wave of islamist terror or extreme jihad, whatever you want to call it. in fact they don't even know what to call it yet. the question is are they just too far behind the ball? is the time to talk over? we'll take you through it. in my world, wall isn't a street. return on investment isn't the only return i'm looking forward to. for some every dollar is earned with sweat, sacrifice, courage. which is why usaa is honored to help
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here it is the five things you need to know for your "new day." government and business representatives are heading to the white house for a summit on extremism in a hopes of stopping radical extremism in the west. president obama's executive action on immigration on hold after a federal judge issued a temporary block. the justice department plans to appeal. an environmental crisis could be brewing in west virginia. a train carrying crude oil exploded and derailed sending oil into one of the county rivers that is used for a source of drinking water. this bitter blast of winter weather is dragging on. yes, more ice, more snow along the east coast. temperatures in new england could actually climb into the
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30s. yet more snow is expected later this week. today is fat tuesday. the start of mardi gras. revellers have started. get the party going. lent begins tomorrow. visit new day cnn.com for the latest. time for today's impact your world. women everywhere are wearing red to raise awareness about heart disease, the number one killer of women. did you know that? i didn't know that until tv personality star jones told me. she fought and won her own battle against heart disease. take a look. >> reporter: star jones wears many hats, attorney author tv personality, but the one she takes most seriously is heart health advocate. >> heart disease is not an old white guy's disease. heart disease can affect any woman any time any race any size any age.
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>> reporter: a reality that slapped jones in the face after being morbidly obese for more than 20 years, she had gastric bypass surgery, changed her eating habits and started exercising. eventually she lost 160 pounds. >> i thought i had accomplished everything i needed to on the health front, and then i got diagnosed with heart disease. >> reporter: even though jones felt and looked great, she was getting lightheaded, experienced shortness of breath and was exhausted. >> those are classic symptoms of heart disease, especially when it comes to women. >> reporter: symptoms some women may just chalk up to their busy lives. >> women don't take care of our health in the same way we take care of our families. >> reporter: something jones vowed to change after she had open heart surgery. >> i sort of wear my heart scar as a badge of honor because it means i'm a survivor. >> and star's goal is for there to be many more women like her who have survived.
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of course you want to help. go to fight -- no don't go to fight, go to cnn.com/impact and then fight. >> that's a great reminder to hear her talk her personal story. the white house hosting a summit on extremism. as we've been telling you, this starts today. it's trying to fight radicalization but why are there such low expectations for this summit? we'll explore that. it's happened. cnn -- i added an n to that. crowns the winner of its very first quiz show. who knew the most about presidential trivia? that answer is ahead in case you missed it last night.
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jee gipt unleashing a second round of airstrikes against isis
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targets. retribution for the beheadings of more than a dozen christians. today the white house begins a summit aimed at countering terrorism. let's bring in mr. ross our counterterrorism expert and phillip mudd is our cnn counterterrorism analyst and former cia counterterrorism official. let's talk about the news of the day and happening that egypt is doing. phil i'll start with you. in the past 24 hours egypt has launched more airstrikes in libya on isis targets. do we know what they're hitting and if they're making a dent? >> no, i don't, but i look at what they talked at from the outset and it wasn't what i would expect to see if they were expecting to succeed. they talk about revenge. they talk about a campaign that will incapacitate isis. i don't have a lot of faith that the egyptians can do a lot of
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damage here. i think what they're doing is striking a few targets just to prove politically back home that they're going to avenge the loss of those 21 christians. >> the egyptians say they're doing more than hitting a couple of targets. last night the foreign minister was on cnn talking to erin burnett. let me play for what he says. they go beyond airstrikes. >> and we have undertaken activities related to restricting the finances and recruitment measures of isis. this is participation of a military nature and we will continue to support the coalition and be part of it in various degrees and to various measures. >> various measures he's saying in terms of financing, in terms of recruitment and military. are you hopeful about egypt's role? >> yes, i am. and part of the reason why is because isis really is not a major player in libya. they finally have a geographic strong hold in libya which they
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did not have before. they're able to take over the city of nafolia which, all of your viewers, i guarantee, would have to look it up on a map. i had to look it up and i follow libya day to day. this is a marginal town. after they tried to get a strong hold in derna and make in roads there and were less successful than people thought they conquered this out of the way town which didn't have other isis presence. there's the dignity coalition and don coalition. the don coalition contains a number of actors based upon geography but when the islamic state carried it out, the security forces that were against them were part of the don coalition, the coalition frequently thought of as an islamist leading coalition. there's a variety of actors. isis is not the big actor in libya. the other place where you have
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isis presence is in egypt sinai. the group recently back in november took a pledge of allegiance to isis. since then the egyptian state has also gone hard after that group and tried to restrict a lot of the movement of fighters and finances and weaponry into sinai. so i'm not saying that things are going to go great for egypt, but isis is in a much less strong position in north africa than it is in iraq and syria. >> bill any chance that egypt can play a larger role in the coalition? >> i think they can. if you look at central efforts, you see coalitions. there are conversations just this week among some of the african countries that border nigeria where boko haram has been such a skurge. you need a coalition approach to some of the expanding islamist groups. i think if the egyptians start
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talking to algerians and others and the americans how to sustain an effort over time this could be successful but the egyptians alone given the chaos we've seen in libya after the fall of gadhafi i don't think can resolve the problem there. >> debaveed, let's talk about this summit. they're saying it's about how to combat extremism. they're not calling it islamic extremism, they're just saying extremism. how do you feel about that? >> it's a matter of rhetoric. there are a variety of extremism. an apparent act of extremism in chapel hill north carolina. part of the question with respect to this problem of the growth of jihadism is it has grown massively over the past four years. it seems to be that the white house still doesn't have a good understanding as to why that's happening. we're 14 years in the global war
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on terrorism and you just had this ground breaking article in the "atlantic" arguing that we should take isis's threology seriously. the fact that it's 14 years into it indicates that we don't have a good understanding of the extent to which these groups are able to have their message permeate. >> phil we don't have much time. what do you want to see come out of this white house summit? >> what i want to see happen won't happen. if there are conversations about how to talk to kids at risk in major american cities i think those could be successful. sort of like gang intervention programs. i fear though that we're going to say we can counter message isis in a world that is the islamic world where we have no credibility. if i were at this conference i would be taking a nap. if that's the message, we don't have anywhere to go. >> phillip mudd always great to get your perspective on things. daveed thanks so much gentlemen. let's go back to chris. all right. so the game show thing happened
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alisyn and jake won answering ridiculously hard questions like who's on a $20 bill while others were asked to basically tell where millard philmore was at 7:00 a.m. on a tuesday. >> fair? >> some of have you to participate. of course you liked that. >> i was not asked. >> spoiler alert. >> we'll have them on.
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was richard nixon in a press conference in 1973 denying his involvement in the watergate coverup. the president resigned less than a year later. what was the name of the secret informant known as deep throat that worked with reporters to bring down the president? >> the name of deep throat that worked for reporters to bring down the president. okay. answer? >> who is mark felt. >> that is correct. let's take a look at how much you wagered. 400 points. that brings you 10 points above so you get it.alisyn you guys win. >> that was for the win! "new day's" own alisyn camerota her triumphant partner jake
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tapper. jake joins us this morning. almost carried into the studio on the shoulders of alisyn. >> what he was throughout the whole show i had to carry jake. >> we should mention the fact that chris cuomo also was on the show and his partner don lemon. >> chris and don were participants. >> i believe a competition that only involved three teams. >> i can't wait for you to do it mich. >> nothing to say there about that. jake first of all to you, because we heard this one panic. her process was one of anxiety. she said that you popped quizzes on her during the week. you were concerned about her cramming. were you a little worried going into this? >> i was a little -- we had some dress rehearsals and i'll admit during a few of the dress rehearsals i was a little concerned, but then you can tell what kind of student she was also. she studied the night before and she came in and she was a boss. >> she was a boss. >> she was a boss. >> i really only answered probably about three questions right on the show but i would
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not have gotten those three had jake not been a task master and forced me to study. >> but it's also about the strategery which is one of your words. >> his strategy was answer every question right before everybody. >> that was part of my strategy right. >> alisyn beat me in the face-off. that was all dirty tricks and chicanery. >> mesmerizing you with the eyes. >> the eyes the lip thing. very susceptible to it. >> in other words, you beat him? >> yes. like an egg. >> you've got to remember it was basically 2 to 1. got 2, he got 1 and there was a draw question. >> they took it from me. >> whatever he had, you had twice as much. >> ahhh. >> i like your stats. >> you won for your charity, home for the troops. >> home for the charity. amazing charity. if they should give they should build. they give specially designed mortgage free homes for disabled troops. we were talking. we couldn't tell them --
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>> they know now. >> we said just watch. just watch. >> great. that's fantastic. >> it was a nice thing to do. everybody is making it sound like that was a given that we'd play for charity. it wasn't a given. it was a good component of it and to raise money for these organizations. >> absolutely. >> we're usually a little handcuffed in doing that. we're not supposed to pick charities. jake does a ton of work for the veterans when he's not on camera. it was a nice opportunity to give back to the organizations we always want to help. >> it feels a bit like we let them down. >> not for them. >> berman's team lost by 10 points. >> this whole 10 point thing. we bet enough so that we would beat them by 10 points. >> we did the mast. that was jake's. we had done it in the dress rehearsal. we figured out it worked. we figured out how to win. >> berman didn't show up to work today. >> is that right? >> at least i'm here. >> do you think he's upset? >> there is a bit of controversy brewing. you heard about this. there's some people i'm not going to point fingers, that are saying that some teams got easier questions than others. >> the media is saying it
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online. they are like "the new york times." >> that has a chris cuomo bibyline. >> chris cuomo sucks. >> there were six categories. of those six categories in one of them they got a tough one. we got first ladies. that's not tough. >> i wasn't getting to the question of the first lady because don was making me guess the name of the president before we got there. >> strategery. >> we'll wrap it up by saying that this victorious team was so united. look at 9 fact that they're even dressing alike. you and jake matchy matchy. >> my game show wife. >> i'm telling you. >> we're one now. >> the crucible of the show. >> it's a specific kind of tv wife. >> jake, congratulations. alisyn well done. >> thank you. >> chris. >> i can't wait for mich to be up there.
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it's going to be a good day. coming up something you haven't seen from me in this particular segment. chivalry. it turns out shivchivalry is not dead. two high schoolers in two states who went crazy with valentine's day love but you're not going to see it coming and that's why it's the good stuff. >> yeah! th breather. a mouth breather! well, put on a breathe right strip and shut your mouth. cold medicines open your nose over time, but add a breathe right strip and pow, it opens your nose up to 38% more. so you can breathe and do the one thing you want to do sleep. add breathe right to your cold medicine shut your mouth and sleep right. breathe right. and look for the calming scent of new breathe right lavender in the sleep aisle. curling up in bed with a favorite book is nice. but i think women would rather curl up with their favorite man. but here's the thing: about half of men over 40 have some degree of erectile dysfunction. well, viagra helps guys with ed get and keep an erection.
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all right. how about a nice little double dose of the good stuff. valentine's day has passed. two young men, they're going to celebrate it in a way that will last for the aches. oklahoma city high schooler worked all summer. saves up his cash just so he could buy all 1100 girls in his school cards and candy. spreading the risk? no. romance was not his goal. credit was not his goal. in fact he tried to stay anonymous. so why did he do it? the answer. >> to know that somebody out there cares about them because that's one of the best feelings in the world, i think. >> all right. >> who's better than him? >> nobody. he's a rock star. >> this guy might be a tie. in utah a high schooler there,
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again with his own money, bought all 650 girls in his school balloons. >> that's so great! >> i'm going to bring something totally awesome for everyone to do and, you know i brought balloons. who doesn't like a balloon? >> right? >> romance again not the goal. making peers feel appreciated. >> i love it. >> good stuff. >> good kids good hearts. >> in no small irony they are now both fighting off the ladies i'm sure. all right. time for the news from the "newsroom" with ms. carol costello. everybody's favorite valentine. >> that's right. >> is it valentine's day still? >> every day. >> that's true. good. i like that. have a great day, guys. "newsroom" starts now. happening now in the "newsroom," america's message to congress authorize military force against isis. new poll numbers this morning as world leaders head to the white house

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