untreated roads causing hundreds of accidents and making a nightmare commute. in nashville forcing schools to close today. rene marsh live in arlington, virginia. what's it looking like, rene? >> reporter: well, it looks a lot better than last night. i can tell it you, trying to get home, after work commute was terrible. 15-minute took two hours. five hours for other people. several accidents on the roads because of slippery condition. that's just a preview. we're expecting the heavy stuff tomorrow. a crippling evening commute causinging a gridlock nightmare in the d.c. metro area. people stuck behind the wheel for hours. >> it was pretty rough driving home. took an hour to get four miles. >> reporter: as the snow on slick and untreated roads turned

to ice. sfwl >> it's terrible, especially if you don't have the right tires. >> reporter: only one inch of snow wreaking havoc, and it's only a preview of the potentially historic blizzard to come. the nation's capital could be in the bull's-eye for a record-breaking 30 inches of snow by sunday. this traffic app showing the accidents inside and outside of the d.c. beltway. an absolute mess. crashes snarling traffic for hours. forcing drivers to abandon their cars. pedestrians not spared from the hellish conditions including president obama nearly slipping as he exited air force one in d.c. the commander in chief's motor kade slipping and sliding on snow-glazed streets. taking motorcade drivers more than an hour to get back to the white house. snow crews in nearby virginia and maryland scrambling overnight. piling up salt and positioning plows to prepare for the wintry

onslaught. the expected blizzard dredging up memories of d.c.'s carmageddon in 2011. knocking down trees and cutting out power to hundreds of thousands on the east coast. >> still bad in new york. it was already pretty bad up there. >> reporter: and it is frigid again this morning, so we know when the snow does come through, it will stick. as far as air travel you can all but guarantee if all of these forecasts are true, airport operations in this area will at some point come to a complete stop. back to you, michaela. >> you might be wise to call ahead and see if maybe you can reschedule. let's talk about the timing now. we'll take a look at the system. when it's going to move. how much is going to fall. senior meteorologist chad myers

working your night crunching all. forecast models. what is it looking like for us, chad? >> again, d.c. and baltimore in the biggest part of the cone. what we would consider to be the bull's-eye of the snow. i mean, we're going to get blizzard warnings in d.c., island, and awful lot of snow and ice through d.c. and kentucky and the carolinas. is it sets up across the south this morning. moves into mississippi and atlanta as rain. snow and ice into the carolinas snow into virginia, west virginia, where you may see 36 inches of snow in some of those west virginia high country locations. other than that, ice, ice, charlotte, asheville, greenville, knoxville, lexington. big cities with big problems maybe even power lines coming down because of the ice that's accumulated. we go back to friday. moving ahead. the snow gets into new york city. this is a fine line. michaela, i'm telling you, westchester may get two inches

and the points south of sandy hook may get 20. that's how quickly it will change. i'm going to slide that up and down a little bit but i still think new york city 6 to 8. or other areas 8 to 12. that's why blizzard warnings are in effect, not because of the wind but heavy falling snow and very low visibility, guys. >> that's the variable, right? depending on which way it moves, depending on which way it shifts, i think we batten down the hatches and prepare for. >> we're all going to be together friday for our holiday party. you don't mind staying for the weekend? >> no, bring your sleeping bag and you bring pajamas, please. >> this one -- >> i have a new pair with footies. let's go from the cold to the couple now heating it up on the political scene. the it couple of the moment.

sarah palin and donald trump took their show on the road, targeting some of the most conservative politics. it comes as a cnn poll. still ahead, and then ted cruz is trying to remain momentum. sumlin, what is it like up there? >> reporter: well, chris, this has been certainly a rough 48 hours' stretch for ted cruz as he really fights to gain any traction here in new hampshire. the center of the attention on the campaign trail is focused squarely on trump and palin. sarah palin wasting no time rallying trump supporters in oklahoma. the two packing a double dose of star power, taking aim at the gop establishment. >> our candidate is ballsy enough to get out there and put those issues on the table. >> reporter: when serving up red meat for the conservative crowd. >> we got a redhead from the big

red apple running for president. and yet, the gop machine all of a sudden, they're saying we're not red enough. we're not conservative enough. >> reporter: and in talking about her 26-year-old son's arrest on domestic violence charges, taking a jab at the president in the process. >> i can certainly relate with other families who will kind of feel these ramifications of some ptsd. it is now or never, for the sake of america's finest that we have that commander in chief who will respect them and honor them. >> reporter: those comments making headlines on the heels of her major trump endorsement. >> every one of the candidates wanted the her endorsement, in particular ted cruz. >> reporter: ted cruz fighting to gain momentum after palin

ma. and bob dole warning that cataclysmic and wholesale losses. >> mr. trump is welcoming the establishment, indeed mr. trump said they should support him because he said, ted won't go along to get along. he won't make deals with the democrats. >> reporter: and now, as ted cruz there really trying his best to reshape the narrative in his favor. trying to fin his establishment label on donald trump to present himself as the true anti-establishment and outer choice. alisyn. >> sumlin, thanks for that. what does donald trump think sarah palin will do for his campaign. we asked what trump wants and also about say are rah palin. >> what was it like? >> we had to send away 5,000

people. i think you saw the arena today. i hope you saw the arena. it was massive. >> there was for negotiating over whether she would join your campaign? >> with the campaign, in terms would i win, would she want a job, zero. absolutely hasn't not discussed it. every one of the candidates wanted her endorsement, in particular ted cruz who right now is having tremendous difficulty. he's got a loan problem, as you know on his financial disclosure form he didn't list that he borrowed a lot of money from goldman sachs and citibank. that's a big thing. this country needs leadership and needs it fast. and ted is not the right guy. look, everybody dislikes him. i mean, he's a nasty guy that everybody dislikes. he's got another problem that you haven't mentioned yet, but

he was born in canada. >> this is showing up in the polling, mr. trump. this is the new monmouth poll. shows you with a big national lead, 37% to 17%. >> wow, you tell me about polls i don't even know about. >> but there's another interesting result that goes along with what you're saying. a third of republican voters, a third of them are questioning ted cruz's eligibility for president. do you think that's due to the issue? >> i understand why they would. >> by the way, this is a question posed to me -- >> by "the washington post." >> -- by "the washington post," do i think, and i said, i don't know. that's a big problem when you say i don't know. we will find out some day. as you know, it's been untested. no one really knows and that's a problem. >> you said this was a question from the "washington post" but you said you care about him, and that's why you don't want there

to be any question -- >> i don't care about hill. i care about the country. i also care about the party. many people are saying that is a problem. you're leading on this, you have been front and center on this public discussion about it. >> no, because i'm not making it opinion. i'm not saying he's right or wrong or he has the right to do it or not to do. i'm just saying it's something that's going to be -- it's untested. >> i want to talk about you again. you mentioned oklahoma and sarah palin. you said today she had a great reception. in tulsa this afternoon she spoke about her son's domestic violence arrest on monday night. gluing that it might have something to do with his combat-related trauma. and she criticized the president's policy. did you ask her to address her son's arrest? >> i think it's fine. there's tremendous press. i think it's very important to discuss, not only for her son but so many other sons and

daughters that are coming back from the middle east where they have, you know, traumatic problems. they have tremendous problems. i told her, i actually suggested it. >> do you think it's fair to link the president with her son's issues? >> oh, i think so. look, everything starts at the top. he's the president. i think you can certainly do that from what i understand. and all you have to do is look at the veterans administration. look at the bad -- the horrible care. one of the many things i'm going to do is i'm going to straighten that mess out. you take a look at the phoenix veterans administration in phoenix, arizona. it's a disgrace. it's a cesspool. it's dishonest. it's corrupt. it's incompetent. frankly, i think it's more dishonest than incompetent. you look at this, this is true all over the country. i think this is a good thing. you have to say ultimately it's the president's charge. it's the president's responsibility. >> all right. so, here's donald trump talking about things.

and look, bottom line is, the polls show that ted cruz has taken a hit box of all of this birther talk and eligibility talk. and donald trump can explain it any way he wants. and it's made an impact. what will be the impact of palin's endorsement. we have political editor of time warner news, errol louis. and jackie kessenich. can can-g to see you both. still considering, leaning toward, definitely decided poll. i think it tells the picture why everybody is so excited about new hampshire. 43%, errol, still considering. only a third definitely decided. that is a big degree of randomness. that means anybody's got an opportunity. what do you see in that? >> yeah, you can throw in other random factors as well, as being one of the states where you don't necessarily have to be an

enrolled republican to show up at the polls. there's lots of things that could happen. a big debate coming up. of course, what's happened in iowa which greatly influences and all of the media storm that follows it. much too early to sort of close the book on new hampshire that's why so many of these candidates are polling in single digits. the chris christies, jeb bushes and john kasiches, they're hanging on. they know there's room and time. it's not even a hail mary pass. we're not nearly at the end of this. >> hey, jackie, i want to talk about what palin did by bringing her her son, track, on the campaign trail. and how don lemon admitted that trump encouraged it, because he thought it was an issue that could have universal sort of res unanimous with people. is that not the illustration that makes donald trump a brilliant politician. other politicians would say, no,

children are off limits. just move on. he said, go there. address it. head on. that's different than the instincts of other people would do. how did you see it? >> well, you know, palin has been forthcoming things with their family. remember, her daughter, when she was running and she was pregnant. they made it an issue. saying, look, she's may the right decision. you would think she would turn the conversation into ptsd to help veterans who have this. rather than shifting blame. i felt like she could have been less negative. >> maybe, she thinks she is talking about how to help them, which is donald trump. >> right, there's that. >> that was outrageous, to tell you the truth. this happened not anywhere. this happened at her house where she lives. there's a young woman cowering under the bed. the police have to be called because she's been brutalized

and she's in fear. and apparently, there's a gun involved. this is not a time to point the finger at the white house. this is a time for her to explain what's going on in her own house. the only thing she can say is it's obama's fault. not only is that outrageous. you got to remind them that the stuff about personal falls to all of us. >> you think that children should be off-limits. should she turn him into a case study? >> well, i think what errol is pointing to, she's got bad facts. it's not like she's talking about a serviceman or woman who came back from abroad who is having trouble with work. >> she is turning it to that. >> i know. those aren't the facts. we know there's an ugly domestic incident and she's blaming president obama. the question is, does it work. jackie, i would suggest the

answer to that is a big fat yes because this is a hugely negative environment and donald trump cultivates more than anybody. what is being revealed and what alisyn is equcalling his genius. you don't see a number one. you see that man or woman who calls down the phone and says, it's really obama's fault with ptsd. that's what they say. you never hear from the cndidate. he split that script in a negative environment, it's paying off. >> i just don't think he's changing any minds. i think if you're predisposed to disliking the president you're probably going to agree. i don't think someone who is watching who might be an independent in new hampshire is going to say, you know what, i'm going to vote for donald trump because i heard that. and he's kind of reinforcing. and maybe people will get out to vote more because they agree with him. maybe he's bolstering his base yet with comments like this. >> one thing we haven't heard in

him yet on the trail which is interesting, you do not know one person who can identify specific things he's going to do to make your life better. he's an articulator of the problem. he's changed the race, where ted cruz who wanted to spend a lot of time, jeb bush, christie, kasich, talking about what they're going to do. they have been cornered by this dialogue of trump. nobody talks about hetheir plan. >> it's a real problem. they say it's going to cost $9.5 trillion. tis is crazy town as far as future deficits. and that can't get any traction. it's driving them crazy. especially the ones hoomp governors, the christies and kasiches and bushes who have actually had to balance budgets. who have looked at this talk and said i've done this i i can do

this. i want to have a conversation. >> to be honest, that's why alisyn and i invite them on the show all the time. errol, thank you very much. jackie, as always. so, we're going to talk the talk about issues matter around people should be able to talk about their lives. how about we walk that walk. that's exactly what we're going to do, monday night in iowa. one week before iowa chooses. you've got bernie sanders, hillary clinton and martin o'malley, they're going to go face-to-face with the people who matter the most. you, the voters in iowa. a cnn town hall live from des moines. i'm going to moderate. it is the final pitch for all the democratic candidates before the first votes are cast. listen to people who are living real situations and want real answers. iowans will ask the questions. only on cnn. breaking this morning, a detailed spy concluding that he

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"quest means business." try to suck it up even more, richard quest. the red line is oil, christine. anybody can read this, graphics going down. the question is why? >> because there's tons of oil, the biggest importer of oil, china, the economy is slowing. this looks like a big chart going down, $103 a barrel to $27 a barrel. quickly it's destabilizing. very destabilizing. great for your gas prices. >> ooh, gas prices, you tell us to light when oil goes down, romance, you're making me crazy. >> this is like a tax cut for consumers. $1.86 right now. if you tap over there, chris, you can see it seven years ago. this is a good thing for consumers, is this good. but -- >> it's coming out of my 401(k). >> exactly.

exactly. most people don't feel bad for bankers and oil companies but bankers and oil companies when oil prices fall so quickly, it starts to disrupt their financing. it disrupts their projects. >> all right. here's the big point that we also want to bring richard in on, it's not just us, all right? all across the world we're seeing it, how so? >> the red here is bear market. april 20% cutback. look at these countries in the bear market. look at these countries in correction. that's down 10%. this shows you a kol drun of fear and uncertainty. you've got a housing market back to 2006 levels. gas prices. auto sales strong. but, at what point does all of this come back and start to hurt the american economy? that's the question. >> richard quest, if you can't see, christine romans all

dressed in black referred to a coldrun of fear. >> it's exactly what's happening at the moment. you're talking about the u.s. the u.s. is the best performing it's got the strongest economy and lowest employment of the major economies that came out of the great recession. so, you muput the u.s. to one side, particularly with a very strong dollar at the moment that might be hurting exporters but is absolutely brilliant for american tourists going overseas. on the other side, let's look at the rest of the world, europe, slow, sluggish, not much growth in terms of unemployment. asia deeply worried. deeply worried about the effects of china. japan, terribly worried about economics not working.

brazil, latin america. what i'm saying there are real genuine and fundamental fears about the strength of the global economy, and although some people may be using the "r" word, recession, at least for the time being, caution is the word. >> to be fair, christine, you've been used the word "correction" also. >> right. >> stocks have been trading up for months and months. >> seven years. for six years, stocks have gone straight up. straight up. so a pullback box of all of this international fear i don't think is unwarranted. the question is, is it overdone. >> especially on a day like yesterday. we both have a lot of friends who work on the street. what happens r, the market is dn 565. and all of a sudden, you turn your tv on, and it's come back up. you know what that is? guys in the game buying in. there is a little bit of a casino effect, christine.

and quest doesn't like it, he's smiling but that doesn't mean he's happy. am i wrong, in terms of who is buying it up, when this happens? >> not necessarily, chris, if we look at what happened yesterday. there wasn't much institutional activity that took place in the market. it was a knee jerk reaction that unwound itself at the end of the day. your point is that basically those on the inside were making out like bandits. i don't think we can say that about yesterday's trading. i think yesterday was a fear-driven market. and what we're looking for now is any form of reason. and until oil hits. christine has hit it bang on the nail, until we get stability in oil, so that everybody from manufacturing, from transport, from airlines, everybody gets some idea of budgets and future profits and losses, because of fuel, we're going to see this volatility. and the chinese, by the way, the chinese top regulators told me here yesterday in davos, get used to china's volatility. it's here to stay.

>> all right. let's see what happens in the corporate earnings come back and companies start announcing stock buybacks again. >> i'll tell, the biggest buyers in august when the marketing fell, didn't have a chance to buy stocks before. >> they'll have a chance now. everything is on sale. >> thank you. just released e-mails on the flint water crisis leading to more questions of missteps at the state level. including why one of the governor's e-mails had to be completely redacted. we have a live report ahead for you. diabetes, steady is exciting.

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a one-two punch unfolding in michigan this morning. new e-mails reveal missteps in the months leading up to the water crisis in flint. meanwhile, teachers in detroit threatening another mass sickout to protest conditions there. all of this with the president with his visit to detroit. jean casarez has more for us. jean. >> reporter: good morning, michaela, you may remember that the president of this country actually declared a a ed an eme because of the flint water crisis. everyone was expecting his visit. he first went to the auto show. and then went to speak to autoworkers at the general motors center. he started out, though, by talking about flint.

listen to this. >> i know if i was a parent up there, i would be beside myself that my kids' health could be at risk. >> reporter: he then went on to say that you just cannot short-change essentials in local government because you are harming the safety of the people. now, while the president was right here in detroit, in lansing, the legislature voted unanimously for emergency funding for the flint water crisis, $28 million. the critics are saying that is not nearly enough money needed for this. others saying well, is this a start. we had to do something and we had to start the process along. the governor yesterday, true to his word because in the state of the state saying he would release all of his e-mails. he did yesterday. we want to show you one from september 2015 released. it's an e-mail to governor rick

snyder and it says, i can't figure out why the state is responsible except that then treasurer andy dillon did make the ultimate decision to switch water sources so we're not able to avoid the subject. "one month later is when the governor made the decision to switch back over to detroit water. now, here's another e-mail from january 2014. you notice, it is completely redacted. and it's actually the first e-mail that was released. but there was also a note from the governor's office that this also involved a case and there is attorney-client privileged information. and that is why they had to redact that part of the e-mail, michaela. meanwhile, detroit schools are open. we'll have more on that coming up. a lot of polls. a lot of talk about polls leading to the first 2016 votes in iowa and new hampshire. but how much do the early polls really tell us about the eventual party nominee.

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why don't you feel that the polls are a good reflection of what's going to happen in the caucus? >> because they're so unpredictable. and it's got increasely difficult to poll. i think you would have to add a degree of difficulty for polling for a caucus. >> all right. less than two weeks until the iowa caucus on february 1st. right now, polls in iowa have ted cruz and hillary clinton narrowly winning over their rivals. how good are the polls?

mark reston is the cnn politics editor. he breaks everything down. mark, great to see you. before we get to the numbers is hillary clinton right that it's got increasingly tough to do polling? >> well, let's take out the word "increasingly." it's always difficult to do polling in a state like iowa which is not a primary. it's basically trying to get your supporters out to an event for three hours at night, on a night that is very, very cold. so, she's absolutely right about that. increasingly, maybe because of cell phones and the fact that we're moving away from land line phones. hillary clinton and they are policy have been adamant about pushing back on the polls because they're not showing good news for her. if they were showing good news about her, i'm sure she'd say good things about it. >> mark, let's look at where polls have led us astray. let's call out a cnn poll at the top. in 2012, this was two weeks before the iowa caucus, okay?

they are mitt romney winning at 25%. and ron paul at 22%. who actually won, mark? >> if we go back to that crazy caucus night back in 2012 where mitt romney was named as the winner but a couple days later safer polled, it was rick santorum at the top. this is from the cnn entrance poll of the voters heading into the polls that night. this will tell you why rick santorum won. amazing that, as far as voters, when they finally made their decision, it was 46%. look at those numbers. 18% of voters, 2 in 10 basically on of the caucus made their decision. but when you look at the last few days, it was almost half of caucus who made their decision on who to vote. >> there you go, mark. the point is two weeks out.

we think, well, it's only two weeks away. people are not making their decision until really three days beforehand. and some people are making it before they walk into the caucus. >> correct. but polls are a snapshot in time. right now, the state of the current rate shows what it shows. are the polls off? yes, it will be off a little bit. are there a lot of polls out there? yes, there are. you have to be careful at what polls you look at. that's why you will see campaigns, it's not just news media. every campaign has a pollster. >> i'm not saying polls are useless. i think they're fascinating to look at as a snapshot. but they're not predictive. let me show you another example. 2008, another cnn poll, this one showed that barack obama would win new hampshire. that's not what happened, mark. >> that's not what happened. and it wasn't even cnn at that point. almost every pollster at that point had barack obama coming

out of the iowa caucus going into new hampshire. we had him with a nine-point lead. some people had him more. the reason being, let's look at the cnn exit poll from that primary. you'll find out when voters made their decision. take a look, in the last few days, you had 38% decided who they were going to vote for. but if you said the last week after the iowa caucus, again, you had half. voters in new hampshire, that's when they made their decision in the democratic primary. i will tell you, alisyn, i was up in new hampshire last week. and new hampshire voters are very fickle as iowa voters. unlike other states, these are voters who get to see these candidates. who get to talk to these candidates, touch these candidates not once, not twice, but sometimes as much as five. >> this is likely republican voters, new hampshire, trump has 34% to his closest rival ted cruz, 14%. is there any a poll could get us

that wrong? in other words, he has such a big lead, wouldn't it be a shock if anyone other than trump would win this in new hampshire? >> let me answer this two ways, those numbers based on conversations i had with folks in new hampshire saying it it's donald trump to lose new hampshire. we'll see what happens in iowa. see if ted cruz eclipses him in iowa. however, with donald trump, the big question is he has the support in the sense people like his message. however, he doesn't have the the organization. we'll see that in a few weeks. >> mark, it's fun to look back and get your take on this. great to see you. once again, over 50% of people still undecided in new hampshire. so it's anybody's race. all right. what we know also, it is a scary possibility going on right now for the rest you is this epic winter storm watch going on in the d.c. area. already socked by snow and ice. it wasn't even that much. we have the latest forecast on what could be an historic snowmaker ad.

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the governor of michigan making good on his promise to release e-mails linked to the water crisis that is plaguing flint. this, a day after he apologized to the city's residents. now, it is believes that more than 8,000 children were exposed to lead from the toxic tap situation. let us talk to someone who was actually ahead of the curve in sounding the alarm. she is dr. mona hanna, a teacher. she's the director of pediatrics and the first to sound the alarm

the alarm on lead levels in children. dr. mona, thank you for joining us and tell us what were you seeing? >> well, in late august, we were hearing there was lead in the water. and that's when we started the research to see if the lead in the water was getting into the bodies of children. what we found was alarming but not surprising knowing what was going on in the water without control. we saw in comparison to every national and city trend our lead levels were rising. in the city of flint, the led poisoning doubled and in some neighborhoods it actually tripled. and it was directly correlated with lead levels. >> how sure are you of that, and this isn't a by-product of many risks that are inherent in life in a lot of lower socioeconomic conditions? >> yeah, nothing else was going on in the city. we looked that the there there

were no demolition projects nothing in the city. this was a huge jump. and it was directly correlated with where the water lead levels were the highest. that was the only thing that happened. >> is there any chance, in what you saw in your research, that it was just a pocket of the community? it wasn't that widespread? that this wasn't something that is being described as a pandemic? >> no, the entire city was exposed. every neighborhood had high water lead levels. and every neighborhood had children with high blood lead levels. in our research and the state's data really underestimates the exposure. because the half life of lead is short. it only lasts in your body, half of it goes away in about 20 to 30 days. when we were screening children at the ages of 1 and 3, that's when they're at risk for household lead exposure like lead point and soil. but lead in water attacks a vulnerable group.

it's fetuses and babies on formula. so they could have had a peak level at 4 months or 5 months and when we screened them at week two that level was no longer elevatored. this grossly underestimates the population exposure. >> help us understand just because the lead level disapates quickly than doesn't mean that the impact does the same. explain? >> once it's in your blood, it causes that neurotauox sisty. >> and a lawmaker saying this a total epidemic going on, yeah, the water is not great but it's not making all of these horrible things, it's not widespread, greatly exaggerated. you can refute that not just with personal opinion but with data? >> yeah, i reached out to him. i am more than happy to share

the scientific numbers with him. share what was go on in the water. general motors stopped using this water in october because it was corroding their motors. imagine with the water pipes. >> what happened? >> when we shared with our colleagues in the greater flint community, it was embraced. and we kind of called to arms that things be changed. you don't mess around with lead. lead is a driven potent neurotoxin. when we shared it with the state, we were told it was wrong and not consistent with our data. >> when was that? >> september 24th, we released our data at a press conference. you don't usually release data in a press conference. it's supposed to be in published journals which is now. but we were wanting to have the

community -- >> imagine if you hadn't. dr. mona, thank you for staying on the story. i want you to check on with you to see if you're seeing an improvement or diminishment in the numbers on your side, especially with the kids. thank you. >> thanks for having me. what's going on in flint, big headline, big splpolitical s and a storm coming. record snowfall will be measured by feet. >> gridlock nightmare in the d.c. area. >> 18,000 tons of salt ready to roll out first. here we got a redhead from the big red apple. running for president. >> and it got really tough to clinton about her e-mails to say how would you have been so stupid to have done such a thing. >> i know what it's like to be knocked down but not knocked out. >> e-mails showing that they did

have concerns about water infrastructure. >> experiencing hair loss, weight loss. loss of appetite. >> i would be besides myself if my kid's health could be at risk. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira. good morning. welcome back to "new day." a potentially dangerous new snowstorm is taking aim at the east coast. the snowfall could smash records. the bull's-eye of this storm could see totals as high as 3 feet by the weekend. >> before the big snow arrives, ice and light snow already wreaking havoc in our nation's capital. hundreds of car accidents, literally hundreds, in the d.c. area making it difficult for officials to treat the roads. the big question is, how bad will it get? we have complete coverage. let's start with rene marsh, live in arlington, virginia.

renay, not bad yet. it was bad last night. >> reporter: you are right. i was talking with my photographer here. it took us hours to get home. we're not the only ones. lots of people driving in the d.c. area, they were stuck in traffic for hours. this morning, we saw people with gas cans. they had to abandon their vehicles because they simply ran out of gas. as you mentioned, chris that was just the preview. a crippling evening commute causing a gridlock nightmare in the d.c. metro area. people stuck behind the wheel for hours. >> it was pretty rough coming home. took an hour to get four miles. >> reporter: as the snow on slick untreated roads turneded to ice. >> it usually takes 20 to 25 minutes. i've been on the road close to five hours now. >> reporter: causing more than 160 crashes including one fate

fat fatality in virginia. only one inch of snow wreaking havoc and it's only a preview of what's to come. the nation's capital could be in the bull's-eye for record snow country. this traffic app showing it inside and outside of the d.c. beltway. an absolute mess. snarling traffic for hours. forcing drivers to abandon their cars. pedestrians not spared from the hellish conditions including president obama nearly slips as he exited air force one, the commander in chief, slipping and sliding on snow-glazed streets. taking the motorcade nearly an hour to get back to the white house. snow crews scrambling overnight, plowing up salt and positioning plows to prepare for winter onslaught. the expected winter dredging up memories of d.c.'s carmageddon

in 2011 when heavy snow fell fast across the region, knocking down trees an cutting power to hundreds of thousands along the east coast. >> still better than new york. i was living in new york this time last year, and was already pretty bad up there. >> reporter: all right. well, we are not far from reagan national airport. we are seeing flights take off and land here. not seeing a whole lot of cancellations. but of course, all of that could change within a matter of hours because of what airlines want to do is precancel those flights ahead of the storm. because what they don't want is aircraft stuck and they as don't want the passengers stuck. >> i can see you're adding layers each time you do a hit with us. the cold is coming, renay, thank you so much for that. how much snow is going to fall and when. let's talk about it with meteorologist chad myers crunching the forecast models for us. look, it's real. it's coming. >> it is.

it's absolutely coming. we've known about this storm for three days. i am really surprised at how well the models have reacted to this and how consistent they've been for three solid days. two feet for d.c. two feet for baltimore. 18 inches probably around philadelphia. maybe 6 to new york city. that slides a little farther to the north, new york city is going to get a little more. right now, they're on the top edge. we have ice and snow all the way from almost louisiana, arkansas, mississippi all the way into virginia and into north carolina. this is where the ice storm will be. power lines coming down. trees coming down. a lot of people without power in that area. then we'll talk about the snow. because the snow develops as the low gets off the coast. snow for pennsylvania, west virginia, virginia. into d.c., baltimore. that's where the bull's-eye to be. that would be the middle of the target of an archery ring. that would be the middle. baltimore and d.c. gaithersburg, rockville. all the way up the rockville pike. that's where the big snows will

be and big wind. we'll have wind of up to 45 miles per hour. even if you get two feet of snow, you'll never see it. it will just blow around. today is the day to get gas. obviously, you'll try to get gas. but gas in the car. if you ever do get stuck, you're going to need that gas for at least a little reprieve from the cold. new york city, weather models, 6 inches for you. farther down in philadelphia. 9 and 12. especially out towards king of prussia, maybe higher than that. d.c. will go all the way from 19 to 23. those are the official models. and they have. they have looked like this for days which is truly amazing for this big of an epic storm. charlottesville and d.c. richmond and fredericksburg, i'm on my way up to new york city to help cover it up there. we will have cover all up and down the east coast this historic storm. >> put on your parka, chad.

we look forward to seeing you here. donald trump and the new admitted rogue warrior. and the new cnn/wmun poll shows trump with a 34% lead in new hampshire. ted cruz looking to get back. sumlin serfaty is live in new hampshire with more. welcome, sumlin. >> reporter: good morning, what has been a tough few days for ted cruz, while he's really trying to fight for attention, the center of attention is focused on sarah palin and donald trump. >> reporter: sarah palin waste nothing tile rallying supporters in oklahoma. the two with a double dose of power. taking aim at the gop establishment. >> our candidate is ballsy enough to get out there and put those issues on the table.

>> reporter: palin serving up red meat for the conservative crowd. >> we've got a redhead from the big red apple running for president. and yet, the gop machine, all of a sudden, they're saying we're not red enough. we're not conservative enough. >> reporter: in talking about her 26-year-old's son's arrest on domestic violence charges. taking a jab at the president in the process. >> i can certainly relate with other families who kind of feel the ramifications of some ptsd. it is now or never. for the sake of america's finest that we have that commander in chief who will respect them and honor them. >> reporter: those comments making headlines on the heels of her major trump endorsement. >> every one of the candidates wanted her endorsement. and in particular, ted cruz, who right now is having tremendous difficulty. >> reporter: in new hampshire, ted cruz fighting to regain momentum after palin made the case that trump is the one with

the conservative cred. >> are you ready to stump for trump? >> reporter: and the latest from senate majority leader bob dole warning of cataclysmic and wholesale losses if trump pre-sales. >> will trump is be ing the establishment. indeed, mr. trump said that they should support him because he said, ted won't go along to get along. he won't make deals with the democrats. >> reporter: that was ted cruz there really trying to reshape the narrative around his campaign right now. trying to pin the establishment level right on donald trump and present himself in contrast as a true anti-establishment candidate, chris. >> establishment, the new dirty word. thank you very much. donald trump is not holding back against democratic rivals especially hillary clinton and bernie sanders. trump also passing the blame on his bible gaffe. >> watch this.

>> other polls out now, it's a matchup between hillary clinton and the other candidates. hillary clinton and bernie sanders. again, this is survey is of new hampshire voters, mr. trump. you lose to both of them, though. you really lose to hillary clinton. i'm sure you don't like that very much. what's your reaction to that. >> in the fox poll, i beat her very easily by a lot-that came out a couple weeks ago in the fox poll. and in a couple of other polls i beat her. i haven't even focused on that, don. what i'm focusing on, bernie sanders, the guy's a wacko. i can't imagine that he wins. i'm not sure he's allowed to run based on all that's going on with the e-mails, everything that's happened especially the last couple of weeks. >> hillary clinton's e-mail are in the news, because you said she's trying to avoid the clink. that was your word. and that bernie sanders is say

wacko. what would you say to sanders and clinton? >> i would talk to clinton about her e-mails saying how can you be so stupid to have done such a thing. this shows such bad judgment how can a person wanting to be president show this judgment. historically, she's had this judgment, whether it's white water, you know, it's always something traumatic with judgment. with bernie sanders, i'd say did you make a mistake when you so easily in order to give a good sound bitegy up on e-mails. he made a very serious mistake. really a big mistake. >> you think there's some there-there with the e-mails? >> oh, i think most people do. i think these far more guilty than petraeus that have had their lives. i hope they leave petraeus alone. i hope they're not going to

damage him any more than he's damaged. they're talking about reducing his status. >> demoting him. >> i really think, don, he's had enough and he suffered enough. he's gone through the mill. >> you've gotten a lot of guff for this. i've had supporters who say oh, my gosh, it's a screw up. you said two corinthians than second corinthians and you also head hell. >> my mother is from scotland and europe and scotland and uk, they say 2, they say 2 corinthians. a number of people have pointed this out. it's not a big deal. it's a very small deal. a lot of people in different sections of the world say 2. i've had many, many people say that to me. my mother, as you know, was from

sko scotland. and they would have said 2. tony perkins wrote that out for me, because tony thought that would be great. >> let's talk about all of this as trump's adviser sam clovis. hi, sam. >> good to see you. >> good to see you as well. let's talk about ted cruz, he is donald trump's closest rival until iowa. at the moment, ted cruz is beating donald trump in iowa. now, in the past, he has called -- trump has called cruz likable. he likes him. he respects him. but in the past few days he's begun calling ted cruz a nasty guy. which one is it? does he think that ted cruz is respectable or nasty? >> well, i think the interaction between mr. trump and senator cruz is still there. i think that the interaction -- there say levis a level of resp. but mr. trump is passing on what

other people are saying about ted cruz. these aren't coming -- i would never put words in mr. trump's mouth but what he's saying are what other people are saying and how people relate to ted cruz. the inside the beltway stuff i think is really fascinating when you start to seat interactions inside the united states senate. and who is able to get along and who is not. and i think this is where those comments come from. people who work with senator cruz inside the senate. and those who -- that's the word that gets out on the street. all mr. trump is doing is passing on what other people are saying about ted cruz. >> well, it's not what rush limbaugh is saying. knack, rush limbaugh is saying that donald trump is wrong to be called ted cruz nasty. listen to what rush limbaugh just said. >> i think trump, going after cruz, is quite normal. it's understandable. but i think he's making a tactical error the way he's doing it. whatever you want to say cruz is not a fastest guy.

when you get into criticism, it better be believable." >> is rush limbaugh wrong? >> no, i think rush limbaugh has a job to do as well. i have a little bit of experience in talk radio. i kind of know how that works. rush limbaugh is the absolute master of that. rush limbaugh has 20 million people who listens to him. he carries a lot of sway in the conservative and republican party in america. what he's out there doing in a person who appears to be pu purictannical conservative. the whole issue is that rush is defending someone who he thinks a lot of. but from the political perspective, a tactical error. all he's do, mr. trump, is passing on what other people inside the beltway say about ted cruz. >> i want to talk about

something that donald trump revealed in his interview with don lemon that is very revealing. he talks about how it was he made his faux pas about the 2 corinthians krer s versus secon. he said tony perkins wrote that out for me. he knew high was going to liberty. he wrote that out for me. basically, sam, he's admitting that he had a cheat sheet. does that show that donald trump is not familiar with the bible and he can't quote passages from the bible and he was pandering there. >> i want you to give me some time on this. i think it's important what i'm going to say, donald trump is a person who -- i want to address this to everybody who has this notion that he's not a person of faith. i work with him. i'm around him. i spend a lot of time with him. he's a person of deep faith. he's just not a person who puts

it on his sleeve and enunciates that. he reminds me a lot of my father. my father, a person who fought in two wars. a person who probably had the deepest faith of any person i know. and spiritual life is a journey. it's not a destination. spiritual life is about coming to grips with things. and it comes over time. i think as donald trumped has transitioned from being so deeply involved in his business to the fact that he has grown children who are successful. he has grandchildren that are now coming into the world. he has seen the world differently. and i think his spiritual journey is one where he is internalizing this as he goes forward. >> yeah. >> i'm very confident that donald trump is a person of faith. and i love being around him. in fact, a couple of us there, we often sit down and talk about these very issues with mr. trump. i'm not in any doubt about the depth of donald trump's faith. >> sam, i don't want to question anybody's internal faith. >> you brought it up, alisyn.

>> well, because he's admitting that he used a cheat sheet from tony perkins who wrote out those words which is why it doesn't sound authentic. >> oh, my god, a politician taking a sheet of paper up on the stage with notes on it. oh, that's revealing about everything. >> it is revealing. you're calling a politician, number one that she can't like to be called but it's not about faith. but trying to sound as though he knows the bible, that frabrand eadvanta evangelical '. >> you're saying -- >> you tell me. >> the question here is is he a person of faith or not of faith. if a person that goes up on stage is allowed to take notes that's probably it. let's talk about notes and let's talk about people that can't go

up on stage without a teleprompter, i'll talk about that. >> oh, sam, i hear you. we've run out the clock, sam. >> that's okay, that's fine, alisyn. >> you hate when that happens. >> i love talking to you. >> thank you, you, too. >> thanks, we'll see you. we want to let you know about a very big event coming up. this monday night in iowa. exactly one week before iowa, bernie sanders, hillary clinton and martin o'malley will go face-to-face with the voters. it's live from des moines. chris will be moderating it. next monday night, 9:00 p.m. eastern live here on cnn. stock futures are pointing to a slightly lower open after another brutal day on wall street. the dow closing down 249 points wednesday. a relative rebound after plummeting 565 points earlier in the day. partially fueled by dropping oil prices. market watchers are hoping that the u.s. markets can steady the

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thedown to the iowa caucuses and new hampshire primary well under way. in new hampshire, hillary clinton did trail senator bernie sanders no matter what poll you look at. many are saying, therefore, iowa say must-win for her campaign. let's discuss with former senior adviser to president obama, david axelrod. good to see you, my friend. >> great to be here. >> the poll number that in my mind is most troubling for the campaign right now is the least honest one, right? which is a nice way to put the question if you think about it, assumes everybody is honest. you have secretary clinton's numbers have been going the wrong way for a while. you then match that up with the

latest reckoning about what was in the e-mails. and you have what the secretary had to say about it out on the stump. here's what she said about the recent. >> this seems to me to be, you know, another effort to inject this into the campaign. it's another leak. i'm just going to leave it up to the professionals at the justice department. because nothing that this says changes the fact that i never sent or received material marked classified. >> that is the word that you will hear from the entire team. they'll say there is no indictment. you show us the there-there, in terms of anything it was wrong. but it does seem to be affecting the credibility, though, doesn't itty. >> it may affect that in terms of whether that's driving the numbers or not. i think that if they've made a mistake politically, the mistake has been that they didn't set expectations right in the beginning. iowa, there was a poll last week from the des moines republic

sister in which 43% of iowans voting in the democratic caulk cause identified themselves with the word socialists. this is a good base for bernie. this is a good electorate there. it was always going to be tough. she had a tough time eight years ago. i always say that iowa to her is what chinatown was to jake gidus. nothing happened great in iowa. i think it's still going to be close. i still think she can win iowa. beyond new hampshire, she still has an advantage. they've lost the sort of narrative to the race here. the e-mail thing is a distraction. i think it's going to be an ongoing distraction. and i think republicans will make sure it's an ongoing distraction. but i don't think it's central to what's going on here. >> i want to talk about the e-mails a little more. we had clinton's press secretary

on yesterday. he told us something about the campaign. he tolds that you the inspector general investigating all of this is cahoots with republicans in congress. how do we know that to be true? do we believe that? and is that the right pushback for them? >> well, it's not unheard of that there are politics in these inspector general reports and in these relationships. >> but is that a cheap from president obama in 2001. and now working in cahoots with the republicans smacks some of as made up? >> well, i think i've got to stick to the bottom line point that hillary clinton was making which is did she knowingly transmit information that she knew to be classified. and i think that's sort of home base for them. because that's likely to be -- the answer to that is likely to be no. >> right. >> yes. but they say it's she should have known that the content was

hot. >> i think it's been said by her and others that the whole notion of having all of your communications on private e-mail on your own server was not good judgment. i think that's a fair critique. whether this is a fair critique, i think, will unfold as she says, as the justice department looks at it. >> you also have the politics of this. i think there's no indictment. you have to deal with it through the lens of political ramifications, right. that's just the sum and substance of it. until that changes you do look at it politically. instead of the stock line of "i didn't do anything wrong" there is the "i know what it's like to be attacked." it's not new for her team to feel this is contrived. this is what she said about in terms of a personal level. >> i know what it's like to be knocked down but not knocked out. i've had a few hard times.

i don't know anybody in this audience who hasn't had their own share. but i've learned and i give my mom the credit for this, it's not whether you get knocked down. it's whether you get back up. >> access to her as a person. and how important that is for her as voters. and second of all how important a credential that is overlooked in a candidate. what you've been through in your life. as you know very well, once you get into that office you'll never have seen the hurt that you're going to be dealing with over those four years. >> ie think tenacity is a qualiy in someone running for president. it's one of her strengths. i think the challenge for her is to make this less about her and more about them. to communicate how her tenacity benefits the people. the benefits for bernie now, it's simple and colleagues and it seems more about the experience that people are going through. she's offering a lot of prescriptions that will speak to

people's struggles. but the campaign always seems to come back to her. the other element is, you know, a wise man once said you campaign in poetry and govern in poems. a wise man you knew very well. >> that was my line. >> that was a great one. >> why did he not credit you with that? but the truth is, she's not good at the poetry of politics. she's good at the mechanics of governing. she's good at the details. she masters the details. she struggles with the poetry of campaigning and it shows up at times like this. >> david axelrod, always great to get your take. there's anger in flint, michigan, over the water contamination crisis. there is one former state lawmaker, though, that isn't sold. we're going to ask him why he thinks the situation is ov overblown. and why he's questioning the

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outrage over the flint water crisis is growing across the

country. but here's a provocative question. is it overblown? bill balonger. he worked for the ford administration in the area, dealing with the environment, he lives in flint. he says he bathes and drinks the water and says he has not been poisoned. he joins us now. thank you, first of all, for taking the time. thank you for standing outside to do it. i know it's not that hospitable weather. but it's an important conversation. why do you believe that the situation in flint is overblown? >> the publicity about it is overblown. look. there is a problem with the water in flint, or there has been. but for parts of the last decade, flint has been number one in crime. number one in murder. number one in poverty in the country and flint has been pounded. it's lost half its population. this is terrible publicity for flint. it's vastly exaggerated. the percentage of children and

people affected in these tests is probably less than 2%. there are 500,000 people in this country, children under age 6, with elevated lead levels in their blood right now. flint has only 43 that have been demonstrated. >> but you have so much counter indicated data today. you have dr. mona who brought it out because she and her colleagues were seeing such off-the-charts lead numbers in dwru young kids. you have the state itself. they tracked it back to their inability to treat the water correctly. maybe it was ph level for something else but it corroded the pipes and lead leached. everybody gets that. flint is going through a hard time on other levels but why mig mitigate this when it's life and death for people. >> i'm not mitigating, chris.

what you just said now exaggerated things. >> how so? >> go to the kettering report. mary barra, you're well aware of her. it just came out with a nine-page report it's on the web. everybody should read that. it puts everything in perspective about flint. the current crisis, the history, the demography of flint. the questions of when the alleged poisoning, if that's the word we want to use, have occurred in flint. and what's being done to rectify it. people have got to stop pointing fingers ablame. and assigning culpability to public figures and concentrate on solving the problem. >> well, i'm with you on that. i think there's way too much energy on the politicizing of it because that's easier. frankly, it's easier for politicians to deal with even if it's pointing the fingers at them than fixing it. i'm with you that.

you get an amen. gm stopped used the water because it was rusting their parts. and they got put on a different water line while the rest of the population was told was safe. what do you say to those families as a forerepresentative who is saying my kid's been poisoned. my water, i can feel it, i can see it, i can taste it. you're telling them they're wrong? >> i'm not telling them they're wrong. i think mistakes were made in the way the switch was made to the flint river to use that as a source of water and to keep the water clean. mistakes were made. and everything you just described about general motors and its plant is true. so, let's go forward, let's see what needs to be done. let's gather information which is not as much in evidence as you're describing. you seem to think it's a settled case that everybody in flint is poisoned. and this is the reputation that flint has nationally. how would any business or enterprise want to locate in flint which is trying to get

back on its feet economically, with stories like this making the rounds which are inaccurate. >> but you don't want to hide from the truth either. it doesn't make you look better by hiding from something that is so desperate for so many people. you talk about 43 people. even if you just looked at the legionnaires' disease. you know, which can be deadly, but usually is not, you have twice as many as that, and they saw numbers that they never see with legionnaires' disease. that alone they had almost 90 people, after they started monitoring the water levels. the problem should be obvious to everybody. >> there is no evidence that the legionnaires' disease in genesee county which is the county surrounding flint has any connection with the flint river water ma so far. none. and the minute governor -- >> revealed saturday 87 people diagnosed with legionnaires' disease. the city's toxic water floated into the homes of those same

people for 18 months. 10 of which were sickened and died. >> most of the people in genesee county do not get any water, drinking water, from the flint river. only the city of flint does. many of these legionnaires' disease case over half, occurred outside of the bounttdary of flint. look, the governor acknowledged his administration made mistakes in monitoring the water quality in flint. he said, i am sorry, we're doing everything we can to rectify it. and look i'm a water bill payer in flint. a property owner. if they want to compensate me for my water bill for the past 20 years, i guess i should be happy, right? and i will be. but i'll be very unhappy if i

live in the state of michigan, 10 million people and i know only flint is given aid for elevated lead levels. i can tell you right now, in detroit, rapid city, other cities there are children with elevated levels. >> there's reason to believe that lots of kids have lead levels but it's worse to believe it's related to flint and the water. dr. mona wants to talk to you. she reached out to you. let's see if we can facilitate that exchange of information. i'd like to have you on again, mr. ballenger. thank you. it was the prisoner swap that almost never happened. and christiane amanpour spoke with the prime minister in a cnn exclusive. she joins us with what he has to say.

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i'm happy for all the families. i'm happy for the family of jason and the family of others who now have been with their

loved ones. we believe they have committed acts for the families. i'm happy for their families. all of them and the iranian and american families. >> the iranian prisoner speaking out for the first time since the sanctions against his country were lifted. in an exclusive interview with cnn's chief international correspondent christiane amanpour he discussed the prisoner exchange which almost didn't happen. christiane, great to see you, you look beautiful there with the backdrop in davos. tell us about the interview with the foreign minister, and did he talk about how it almost didn't happen? >> yes, he did. and it is beautiful here and a very important time. one of the big issues is iran. kind of a dominating issue in the new emerging market since the release of sanctions at least the nuclear deal has put

them on more or less a level playing field. so i asked him about that hiccup when it look like the prisoner from iran would be delayed. it turned out to be that jason rezaian's wife and mother were not allowed on the plane. he said he received a call from secretary of state john kerry who said is this part of the teal? he said, yes, this is part of the deal. he said, fine, let me tell those people this is part of the deal and it will happen. he described it like that. one faction didn't know that the wife and mother of jason rezaian were to get on the same plane. so, that's that. as for the bigger picture here, the big poicture for the region is the fight, the tension between the big sunni power which is saudi arabia. when he was sitting on the stage here in davos, zarif basically said the global message that we

can achieve is that diplomacy works. he said if we can come to an agreement, surely we can resolve our differences. this is what he said about saudi arabia. >> unfarortunateunfortunately, instability in our region is caused by panic in saudi arabia. iran and saudi arabia can be important who can complement each other in the region. we don't expect or we're not interested, even, in pushing saudi arabia out of the region. because saudi arabia is an important player in this region. >> reporter: so, with the remarks towards saudi arabia, he again condemned that storming of the saudi embassy in tehran. remined the world that he and his president had condemned it and sent for the arrest of the

perpetrat perpetrators. and obviously, there's the whole syria issue discussed as well. to that end, secretary of state john kerry is here in davos too, alisyn. >> believing that they can co-exist there in saudi arabia. i know that you just sat down with the afghan president. tell us about that interview. >> reporter: yes. well, that also incredibly important because there's a resurgence of al qaeda, imagine that, in afghanistan. the president told me that we thought overly optimistically at the beginning of 2015 that al qaeda had been competed and of course, it has not been. couple that with isis which is a real worry these are issues that we need help with. he said his country needs more air power which is also what general petraeus has said. there needs to be more air strikes. and he also praised was very pleased about president obama's announcement that forces can now

go after isis. here's days, daesh in the province is on the run. we are already starting to drive them out. and this -- we welcome this and it is a very, very good decision. >> so there you hear the president of afghanistan saying that it has made a fundamental difference on the ground this, new authority by u.s. troops to go after isis, actually proacti proactively. >> two very big interviews. thanks so much for sharing them with us this morning. see you soon. michaela. >> postcard backdrop where she is. beautiful. something you might not have heard of. the zika virus. not well known. it is having a big impact around the world. we're going tell you what pregnant women should know, next. (air horn, trap door opening) rootmetrics, in the nation's largest independent study, tested wireless performance across the country.

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important health alert for pregnant women who travel. the mosquito born zika virus has

now hit the u.s. how serious is this? dr. anthony fouchchy here a familiar face on the show. what exactly is this zika virus and why are we particularly concerned about pregnant women. >> zika is a virus transmitted by mosquitos. it was generally thought of and is for people who are not pregnant an inconsequential virus it. gives symptoms of arthralgia, rash, fever, conjunctivitis or redding in eyes and then it goes away as the mild illness. the problem we're dealing with right now is that in brazil and in other countries in south america and the caribbean, it is clear that there is now an association in pregnant women

who get infected during the pregnancy, namely, who get bitten by a mosquito who transmits the zika virus, that there is an alarming incidence of what we call microcephaly in the fetus or baby. and that is developmental abnormality of small brain. and many of these children die or if they are born they have a difficult time following birth with a lot of impairment. so that is the concern. >> that is the concern. >> not zika as infection, if i got infected. >> you would be fine. >> it would a mild illness. >> i want to bring up the map. you know well that the cd c is now urging pregnant women who have been traveling to be screened if they have traveled to the areas that are effected by the virus. you can see the areas in yellow. some of the countries are small enough you won't be able to see them so well. brazil has been incredibly hard hit. having a real problem. add to that, sir, we've got brazil hosting the olympic games

this summer. how big of a concern that? >> well what the brazilian authorities are going to try to do is put a lid on that as much as they can. one of the major ways do that is by mosquito control. and two ways you address it. mosquito avoidance by making sure the way you dress or what kind of mo skooet repellant. but the other is mosquito elimination either by insecondsides or releasing a type of mosquito into the environment that would actually create a situation where they would not be able to reproduce. the male would mate but the female would not be able to continue to propagate. so they are really jumping on this as best they can but as the serious problem. >> do people have to travel

specifically one of those countries to get to the virus? for example if a mo skooet bit me and that had the disease and then bit someone -- or if i had the disease, bit me and then bit someone else skrks that person get the disease. can it move interest from one person to another. >> sure. and let me tell you there will be cases reported in the united states and there already have been. >> in hawaii. >> in hawaii in certain states of people returning who have been bitten and who have symptoms and are infected. so you shouldn't confuse that with it being spread within the united states. you will ask the possibility, can it ultimately if someone comes back start to have what we call primary spread within the united states? that is possible. we've seen that with dengue that is a similar virus in south america and the caribbean.

and we've had over the years many little transmissions within the united states. in florida, the florida keys and dade county and in texas but that's been something very well controlled. the idea of our having a major outbreak the way they are in brazil is extraordinarily unlikely. but we shouldn't be surprised if we continue to hear reports. >> okay. >> of people who are coming back from that area and coming into the united states. and you should not confuse that with an outbreak in the united states. >> an outbreak here. okay. that is an important piece of information to get across. dr. fauci, always appreciate it. we'll be talking with you in the coming weeks i'm sure. we're following a lot of news let's get to it. the snow storm of potentially historic proportions is heading for the east coast. >> a wind that could guest u gust 45 hoff 55 miles per hour. >> record breaking 30 inches of

snow. >> rough driving home. >> trying to stay off the road. stay warm. >> my son like so many others, they come back a bit different. they come back hardened. >> her endorsement is a very powerful endorsement, especially in certain areas like iowa. >> the russian establishment is rushing over to support donald trump. >> white house and state department officials have said they believe levinson is no longer in iran. >> i just know in my heart that he is alive. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo, alison camerota and michaela prayer. >> the calm before the storm. >> thinking the same thing. >> thursday january 21st, 8:00 in the east and we're being told a snow storm of potentially historic proportions is bearing down on the east coast. two to three feet of snow could fall in and around d.c. by the end of the weekend. tens of millions along the i-95

corridor are weaking up to blizzard and winter storm warnings and advisories. >> icy conditions already wreaking havoc in the capital. and schools are closed today in cities like nashville because of the treacherous conditions. live in arlington, virginia, what is the latest renee? >> reporter: i can tell you firsthand, just to travel few miles it took several hours. we weren't the only ones trying to get out of d.c. or just traveling within the d.c./virginia/maryland area. they were struck in traffic five hours, sometimes more. some people this morning walking with gas tanks because they had to abandon their vehicles. they ran out of gas. and that was all just a result of one inch of snow. just the preview. we're supposed to get more on friday. a crippling evening commute

causing a grid locke nightmare in the d.c. metro area. stuck behind the wheel for hours. >> took him an hour to get four miles. >> as the snow on slick, untreated roads turned to ice. >> usually about 25 minutes. i've been on the road close to five hours now. >> causing more than 160 crashes, including one fatality in virginia. only one inch of snow wreaking havoc. and it is only a preview of the potentially historic blizzard to come. the nation's capital could be in the bull's eye for a record breaking 30 inches by sunday. this traffic app showing the accidents inside and outside of the d.c. beltway. an absolute mess. crashes snarling traffic for hours. forcing drivers to abandon their cars. pedestrians not spared from the hellish conditions. including president obama nearly slipping as he exited air force

one, the commander in chief's motorcade slipping and sliding on snow glazed streets taking motorcade drivers more than an hour to get back to white house. crews in nearby virginia and maryland scrambling over night, piling up salt and positioning plows for the onslaught. the expected blizzard drudging up memories of d.c.'s carpal geden in 2003 1 1 when heavy snow fell fast knocking down trees and cutting power to hundreds of thousands along the east coast. >> better than new york still. i was living in new york this time last year and it was already pretty bad up there. >> we are still seeing flights take off and land. so no major consolations at this hour. we know the airlines are still watching the forecast closely. however in a matter of hours that could all change. i can tell you if there is 30 inches of snow in this dmv,

d.c./maryland/virginia area, you can almost guarantee that the airports will have to shut down and other airports will be severly impacted as well. >> the keyword is, yet. so let's talk about the timing renee. timing of that snow. how much is going to fall. the man with the numbers, chad meyers krumpbling the forecast for us on what to expect and be prepared for. >> high micha-- hi michaela. it is going to be messy in d.c. winds may approach 70 miles per hour. winter weather all the way back into arkansas. this is going to be ice. it's storm for charlotte, asheville, columbia, raleigh do you remember. snow in richmond virginia, d.c. and up into new york. d.c. it starts about 6:00

tomorrow night. new york city is later than that because it is on its way up here. probably doesn't start until after midnight friday night. but then it snows for hours and it blows for hours. winds are going to be 50 in new york city and the winds and snow are going to be coming down at the same time. so there is always a postpartum we talk about. when we sit back and say what did we mess up and how did we get it wrong? well the only way we decide this forecast wrong right now is if ice, sleet mixes in with the snow forecast. so if the numbers don't turn out to where they are here. in d.c. 30 inches possible. that would happen if it's all snow. annapolis, you are probably going to get ten inches because there is going to be sleet and freezing rain and snow so it is not going to pile up as much. so it depends on where you are. and new york city the bust is

this. i can see this storm if it moves a little farther to the north, like 15 miles, new york city you get 10. if it goes to the south 15 more miles you get two. there is not a forecast that says 2-10. you can't make that. so we're going who ten. i think that is a decent number here. new york city 6-10. westchester you might get two. towards the ambois 14. philadelphia, you could get 14. down further south, d.c., baltimo baltimore, 20-30 inches. richmond virginia we know you are going to mix in. 10 inches of snow. . but then ice comes on top of that. and charlotte a quarter to a half inch of ice. this could be a devastating ice

storm in parts of the southeast. >> that is the mixture that's really dangerous. snow and the vast amounts falling all at once is a big issue of course but that ice. >> unpleasant luckily he's keeping an eye minute by minute for us. >> and he's going to be here tomorrow so we can have help to wade through it, if you will. >> very good. meanwhile to politics. donald trump campaigns in las vegas today solo after sarah palin fired up the troops in oklahoma. a new cnn poll shows trump with a 20 point lead in new hampshire. meanwhile his closest challenger ted cruz is trying to regain momentum after absorbing some political body blows. sunland with the latest. >> a tough stretch for ted cruz, 48 hour stretch while he fights for traction here in new hampshire the center of

attention is still focused squarely on donald trump and sarah palin. >> sarah palin and donald trump packing a double koes of star power, taking aim at the gop establishment. >> our candidate is ballsy enough to get out there and put those issues on the table. >> palin serving up red meat for the conservative crowd. >> we got a red head from the big red apple running for president and yet the gop machine all of a sudden they're saying we're not red enough. we're not conservative enough. and talking about her 26-year-old's son on domestic violence charges. taking a jab at the president in the process. >> i can certainly relate with other families who fill these ramifications of some ptsd. it is now or never for the sake of americas finest that we have that commander in chief who will respect them and honor them.

>> reporter: those comments on the heels of her major trump endorsement. >> every one of candidates wanted her endorsement, in particular ted cruz who right now is having tremendous difficulty. >> ted cruz fighting to regain momentum after palin makes the case that trump's the one for the red. and warning of the cataclysmic and wholesale losses if cruz prevails. >> indeed mr. trump said they should support him because he said ted won't go along to get along. he won't make deals with the democrats. >> and ted cruz they ae really trying to reshape the narrative surrounding his campaign right now. really trying to pin the establishment label right on donald trump of course to present himself in contrast as a

true antiestablishment choice. >> here is a provocative question in politics this morning. why did sarah palin abandon candidates that line up much more on positions to go with trump? did trump work a deal? trump talked to don lemon and offered answers on that. and a new assessment of what kind of person his biggest rival ted cruz is. here it is. >> what was it like with sarah palin on the campaign trail for the first time? >>ed with ha send away 5,000 people. you saw the arena today. i hope you saw the arena. >> i did. it was full. >> it was massive. it was like a -- incredible. >> there was no negotiating over, you know, if she would join your campaign, nothing. >> she'll work with the campaign probably. but in terms of if i win will she want a job or some kind of thing, zero. absolutely not even discussed and it's frankly very impressive that she doesn't discuss it. but every one of the candidates wanted her endorsement. and in particular ted cruz who right now is having tremendous

difficulty. he's got a loan problem, where as you know he didn't on his financial disclosure form he didn't list that he borrowed a lot of money from goldman sachs and from citi bank. that's a big thing. this country needs help. and leadership and needs it fast and ted is not the right guy. hasn't got the temperament. everybody dislikes him. i mean he's a nasty guy that everybody dislikes. and he's got a another problem now that you haven't mentioned yet. >> this is showing up in the polling mr. trump. and this is in the new monomonth university poll,. >> tell me about polls i don't even know about. that just came out. >> but there is another interesting thing that goes along with what you are saying a third of voters are questioning his ability to run for president. >> i understand that. >> do you think that is to

eoyour conversation on this issue. >> i understand why they would. this is posed to me by the washington post. it was one of ten questions. and i said i don't know. and that is a big problem when you say you don't know. we will find out someday. as you know it's been untested. nobody really knows and that is the problem. >> you said this was a question from the washington post but you have been and as you said you care about him and that is why you don't want there to be any question about whether he's eligible to be president. >> i don't care about him. i care about the country. >> okay. >> i also care about the party. and he's going to have to clear that up. and many people right now -- many, many people are saying that is a problem. >> you are leading on this that you have been front and center on this public discussion about it. >> no, i'm not making an opinion. i'm not saying he's right or wrong or has the right to do or not to do it. i'm just saying it is untested. >> let's move on and talk about you again.

you mention oklahoma and sarah palin. you said today she had a great reception. in tulsa this afternoon she spoke about her son track's domestic violence arrest that it might have something to do with his combat related trauma. did you ask her to address her son's arrest? >> i told her it would be absolutely fine. i thought it would be appropriate. there was tremendous press and i think it is something that's very important to discuss. not even for her son but for so many other sons and daughters that are coming back from the middle east where they have, you know, traumatic problems. they have tremendous problems. and i told her, i actually suggested it. i said to her i think -- >> do you think it is fair to link the president with her son's issues? >> oh i think so. look everything starts at the top. he's the president and i think you could certainly do that. from what i understand they just -- and all you have to do is look at the veterans administration. look at the bad, the horrible care our vets get.

one of the many things i'm going to do is i'm going to straighten that mess out: you take a look at the phoenix veterans administration in phoenix arizona. it is a disgrace. as the cesspool. it is dishonest. it is corrupt in every way. it is incompetent. but more i think frankly i think it is more dishonest than incompetent. look at this, this is true all other the country. and i think it is a good thing. and ultimately you have to say it is the president's charge. the president's responsibility. >> joining us now is the national spokesperson for the cruz for president campaign rick tyler to talk about all of this. hi rick. >> good morning, how are you? >> i'm well. i think we all know that whatever the bromance was between ted cruz and donald trump has now turned into a bit of a battle. and i want to play one more portion of donald trump talking last night because he went right at senator cruz and then get you to respond to it. listen to this from last night.

>> it needs leadership done and it needs it fast. and ted is not the right guy. hasn't got the temperament. look, everybody dislikes him. he's a nasty guy. that everybody dislikes. >> so rick, donald trump is now saying that he's a nasty guy that everybody dislikes. and the reason that we play this is because it does play into a larger impression of senator cruz. that even bob dole yesterday talked about. which is that he can't get along with his colleagues. and as president you need to get along with your colleagues even those you disagree with. what is the response. >> if you want to continue to get along with your colleagues and continue to bankrupt the country and the fund planned parenthood and continue to drive the country in the wrong direction then that is what you are going to do with ted cruz. the reasonable donald trump gets along with washington is because they know that he wouldn't change anything. that he's a deal maker and that

he will compromise. he'll compromise and we'll end up with no change. american people want change. that is actually the reason they chose donald trump to begin with. now they are beginning to understand that donald trump is really the pay master for the cartel. he is not an outsider. he in fact has been writing checks to the insiders for a long time. and mostly democrats. he's given money to the clinton foundation. mayor emanuel of chicago. given money to anthony wehner. to andrew cuomo. >> just because he gives money doesn't mean he's foofrt inside establishment. sarah palin and donald trump are seen as the outsiders in this race. that is what their title is in this race. >> but what's happening. you will see in the polls is the establishment now, who you are right, doesn't like ted cruz, is rallying behind donald trump. the establishment has now chosen their candidate. they are abandoned marco rubio

and abandon jeb bush and chosen donald trump. so the race comes down to a conservative ted cruz and a moderate liberal donald trump, which is fitting because donald trump has had liberal views, progressive liberal views almost all his entire life and now all of a sudden he's a conservative. and by the way the voters like ted cruz. and we've got lots to prove that. a gallup poll a national poll showed that ted cruz was the most likable, most favorable politician running in 2016. and by the way donald trump is not very liked by the voters. so while he may like the people on the inside and the people on the inside who he writes checks to may like him, that is the whole problem. washington doesn't need another insider pay master making deals and compromising. they need an outsider who's been proven. and that's ted cruz.

>> except the critics of president obama say he did not work the republicans in congress and did too much by executive action. what i hear you saying that senator cruz has no plans toe compromise, so he too would have to rely on executive action. the voters might want to choose something different than that plan. >> no. in fact on day one which will occur a year from yesterday, senator cruz will rip up every unconstitutional legal exhibitionive action this president took. but that is now how. that is how we got welfare reform back in 1995. that is how we got a balanced budget back in 1995. that democrats didn't want to pass that. they were forced to because the

american people rose up and said you make these changes, you will be the change. so that's what will happen. ted cruz, it is an old margaret thatcher itch. first win the argument this then the vote. is government is we the people. not we the lobbyists. we the insiders. when we the people rise up look you either change washington and get the country back on track, create jobs, get out of way on small business, washington will react. if they don't react they get replaced. ted cruz will be a great president who would lead the country and rally the people behind the him to get the right kind of changes so we can return to a safe country that is prosperous. >> rick before we go i want to ask about this spat that you seem to have started, accidentally i think with bristol palin. you were on "new day" on tuesday and said you hoped palin wouldn't endorse trump because

she would be --. it incensed bristol palin. cruz's flip-flop shows he's a typical politician. how rude that he's setting up a false narrative about her. the audacity that because she chooses one over the other should somehow damage her just shows arrogance. >> i was deeply disappointed that sarah palin chose trump and i am because sarah palin is a conservative. and in no way did i disparage bristol's mom. i have the greatest respect for her mom. she is a conservative. in fact ted cruz would not be in the senate today --. we're still ab underdog and we're fiting to win. i didn't disrespect sarah palin. i never would. i have great admiration and respect for her. i've met her many times. you know,s it is just not true that i have disrespect and i'm

sorry she took that impression. i certainly didn't mean any offense by it. >> rick tyler thanks so much. we also want to let everyone know about this big event in monday night in iowa. bernie sanders, hillary clinton and martin o'malley will go face-to-face with voters in iowa. a cnn town hall, chris will moderate. next monday night only here on cnn. now to the mystery surrounding robert levinson. fbi revealing they think he is in iran if he is still alive. levinson has been missing nine years now. was not part of the prisoner swap with a iran. even perez is live with more. his family is in agony trying to figure out what happened. >> absolutely. experts believe if he is still alive he's being held in iran. and that is in contrast to comments we've heard from the white house and state department saying that levinson is no

longer believed to be there. it shows there is a behind the scenes dispute in the u.s. government about his fate. and this is very upsetting news for the levinson family. they released this statement. take a look. if this is true it is outrageous that after nine years members of the u.s. government are still not on the same page about getting bob home. this confirms our belief that some in fact administration have not made bob a priority and that is why he's still a hostage. as you mentioned lechbs season a former fbi agent and at the time he disappeared in 2007 he was working at the cia contractorer. his family has been highly critical of the prison swap last weekend in which the u.s. releases citizens. the levinson last are received proof of life in 2010/2011. and there is one thing that there is agreement among officials. no matter which agency you talk

to. the distinct possibility that levinson died in captivity years ago, chris. >> also new this morning. a detailed u.k. inquiry concluding former russian spy alexander litvinenko was probably murdered on personal orders of russian president of vladimir putin. the investigation finding there is a strong probability that two russian agents poisoned the former spy in a hotel in 2006 on orders of russia's service. spy litvinenko died at a london hospital from radioactive poisoning. russia's foreign ministry dismissed the inquiry as politically motivated. >> making a bold prediction. death proof car bis the year 2020. they say they are combining crash safety features with lots of technology, including collision avoidance, adaptive cruise control and pedestrian protection. but volvo says they cannot

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to this bill debate get that much attention but it deserved it. it was going to tighten screening procedures of syrian and other refugees. the house approved it in the but democrats insisted a amendment

be added. joining us now. independent senator from maine angus king. always a pleasure. >> nice to see you chris. is it over, this question of whether or not the united states will let in syrian and iraqi refugees in a meaningful way? >> i think the answer as you put nit your intro, the question is are we going to tighten the requirements? or are we going to eliminate allowing these folks in all together and that was really what the vote yesterday was about. i believe we should tighten the requirements. i believe there should be extra vetting of people coming from a region with so much instability and so much terrorism activity. but the question is how to do it in such a way. for example, we need to be certainlying social media. we need to have access to databases other than the ones we have. i think that is reasonable. the bill yesterday that came up really effectively cut it off

all together. everybody knew that was what it was all about. i didn't think that was the way the to for a couple of reasons. national security is one. we had testimony from a distinguished former ambassador that to that region who said this would be essentially a gift to isis. they want to see us close our borders. they want to convert this whole struggle into the west versus islam and this would have been exactly playing in. plus how can we talk about europeans taking in these gees and yet we're not going to do it. >> if you are going the let them in at the same time the vetting isn't sufficient, that doesn't seem productive. >> well i asked for a half a day

meeting on the subject is just to determine how to process works. if you were a terrorist in the middle east and wanted to get into the u.s., the last path you would take would be for a refugee. for one there is a screening process at the u.n. and then once you get through and approved as a refugee by the u.n. you don't know where you are going to be sent. you could be sent to sweden or venezuela or the u.s., it is not sure you are going to come here. it is a tough process. i think it could be strength thnd. but as i said the bill yesterday was essentially shutting the door. and i think that would not be in the national interest. and i'm willing to continue to work to tighten up. i'd be delighted to to so. the other thing chris is, it's the wrong target. the real issue i believe is the visa waiver program and abuses

to the visa program. 20 million come in under the waiver program. 2,000 syrian refugees. we did some work on the waiver program before christmas but 40% of the illegal aliens in the u.s. are here because they are overstaying visas and we don't have a very effective process of keeping track of them. so there is plenty of work but all of this focus on the very limited number of refugees from syria hr freeing horrible situations i believe is misplaced and doesn't really protect the country. >> well then take it a step further in terms of where the source of this problem is. which is what you're doing in the war against isis. there is confusion about whether or not you can pursue them into the afghanistan legally. but seems like the brothers and sisters down there are ignoring the reason is you won't take a vote and the president is still operating on off a 2001

authorization. why doesn't congress own it? >> we've been talking about this other a year. i totally agree. tim cain and i and a group of others have made ourselves obnoxious on this issue which somebody told me the other day i'm very well equipped to do. by saying it is time to step up and meet constitutional responsibility and to find what it is the president can do, how far -- >> the democrats don't want to do it either. the presumption is the republicans don't want it because they get to have it both ways, but there are a lot of democrats who don't want this vote either. >> this is an equal opportunity ployer this avoidance situation. i agree with that. and something nobody wants to do. everybody has to take a vote. we really are great at standing on the side lines and criticizing. and criticizing what the president does or doesn't do but we're not willing to take the responsibility ourselves.

and like i say. i've been pushing this for a long time. tim cain of virginia virginia has been the real leader on this. and it is absolutely something we ought to do. the president submitted a proposed authorization i think it was 11 months ago. and nothing's happened. so yeah you were absolutely right on that. it's something we ought to do but it is not high on folks' agenda because they don't want to take that vote they are going to have to answer for five years from now. >> i would call out the people that don't want to have the vote and just expose the process for what it is. be like one of those lobsters on that tie today senator. a very day nod to you. thank you for being with us. >> very little gets by you, cuomo. it is amazing. we've all seen the brown color water and heard the outrage from flint. up ahead you are going to hear from a resident who says she and

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here are the five things to know for your "new day." a snow storm potential blizzard approaching the east coast. the washington area could break records with as much as 30 inches by the weekend. >> sarah palin firing up the troops for donald trump. the two hitting the campaign trail together in oklahoma on the heels of palin's raucous indorris of the republican front runner. >> detroit teachers are back in the classroom this morning after holding their latest sick out over building conditions. school officials want a court

action to prevent further walk -- work stoppages. >> stock futures up this morning on a heels of another terrible day. the dow closing down 249 wednesday. you can always get more on the five things by visiting "new day" cnn.com. this morning despite an apology over the water crisis in flint, many residents still want him held accountable. one resident says she's developed out immune disorders and the health of her children is deteriorating. she's one of the class action lawsuits filed over this matter. thank you for being here on "new day." and can you tell us what is the status of your family's health? >> my youngest is having -- he basically has no immune system. he white blood cell count is four. my middle child has bone pain.

he wakes up crying his arm bone, leg bones hurt. and there is nothing you can do. and the oldest teeth are crumbling and they are not baby teeth anymore. so we're not sure what to do. >> how long did it take to get to this position? >> in january 2015 we received a notice that they said for the past nine months we were drinking and showering in poisoned water. we knew it wasn't just hard water. because that is what they had been telling us. that it was a serious serious contamination issue and we had to do something. >> before did you notice something was wrong. >> definitely. the smell was terrible. sometimes blue, green, brownish colors. it would smell awful. we developed rash, hair loss. all five of us. even our cat was losing clumps of hair. and we just figured we're getting sick, we're tired. maybe it is stress. because they said the water was

safe. >> when you read the timeline of how we got to this point, it just reads like a laundry list of errors made by various city officials all along the way. people tried to raise the alarm. we've had the doctor on here who tried to send out this clarion call that something was terribly wrong. who do you blame the most? >> i blame the officials tatamimy department of environmental quality. this was their one job. to ensure we had safe water and treating it properly and testing it properly. and that is one of the lawsuits. we have to demand they stop this. if they are going to continue to be this incompetent it is going to be the entire state of michigan. so i blame them. i blame the emergency management system by the government because we had no voice and neither did the officials and ultimately the governor. >> that is who you hold individually responsible? >> yes. >> what do you want to see. >> i want to see him fix that.

we're not just beg for bottled water. we want our pipes replaced. we want the truth exposed and ult ma ultimately i would like too see him in jail. not a position of power. to be responsible for anyone else ever again. >> you want to see him in jail. >> yes. >> we just had a person on who said these claims were vastly exaggerated. let me play what he said on our air this morning. >> this is terrible publicity for flint. its vastly exaggerated the percentage of children and people effected in these tests is probably less than 2%. people have got to stop pointing fingers of blame and assigning culpability to public figures and concentrating on solving the problem. >> what do you want too respond? >> i was told in january 2015 when we contacted aaron

brokovich and she started helping us that i have put a black eye on the city of flint. that to keep this quiet. apparently poisoning children is okay. the people like us, paying $200 per month for water we cannot use. afraid to be shut off because we'll lose our kids. none of that is overblown. you cannot get medical help. you can't afford it on top of all this and the people who need it the most don't get it. >> he said it is probably less than 2% of the people. is it possible your family is just this very unfortunate fraction of the people in flint? >> i'd like to think that. i wish that was true but we have meetings consistently and constantly. people contact me through facebook. they are having the same symptoms. bone pain, muscle pain, seizure, tremors. >> all of these things to pop up in different age, different background, no it is not just a

coincide. we just happen to be the most vocal about it. and most people they can't afford to go to the doctor so they just don't know yet. >> what are you seeking in your lawsuit? >> we're seeking becaus we want new pipes because it doesn't look like the governor is going to give us that just out of demands and we need reprieve from these bills. we shouldn't have to pay for a product that is poisoning us and we need medical help and damages. our home, our water heaters, all damaged or destroyed. >> thanks so much forring wi ib here. you can tweet us or post your comment facebook.com. >> a powerful voice. all right. so we've been getting personal this week. cog coming up you are going to hear about the person that changed don lemon's life.

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it's been a special week here at cnn. we've been sharing stories about the people who had an incredible impact or influence on our lives. it culminates in a two hour special this sunday in a ghostey anderson cooper and myself. andky not wait to hear this story. >> we're going to church. we're going to church. sometimes in life you go through some things. and i went through some things.

and i am a loner. chris knows. >> you're social butterfly. >> no i am. i'm pretty much a loner. ive been a loaner most of thely might have. and the person changed my life. and i didn't even really know him personally. so here it is. >> it might sound strange, maybe even impossible but the person who changed my life is someone i've never even met. >> hallelujah hallelujah -- >> through the power of his voice and his message bishop jakes pulled me out of his message more than a decade ago. and i wouldn't be where i am today if i hadn't been for his words. >> i hear it in my spirit. you should hear things in your spirit that contradict what you hear with your natural ears. you have got to be willing to be

criticized because you are hearing on a level that other people don't hear and you are seeing on a level that they don't see and you are building for things that they don't even understand because it hasn't appeared yet. but y'all hear what i'm saying? >> do you know how much i listen to you? >> no. i'm shocked. >> you are the voice in my head. you are the voice in my head. in many ways you have changed my life. >> wow. when i got the letter that you could have picked anybody as a hero, as a mentor and that you chose me i was like -- i thought it was a joke. but what i am so grateful for is that i could say anything that may anybody's life better, you know. that i could do something that other people would find useful. because i grew up not thinking that i had anything at all to offer to anybody.

>> this is a story about dreams. for as long as i can remember my dream was to be a journalist. so i worked my way up, all the way to nbc news in new york city. >> it was very exciting. but i was never at home. so i took a chance. i believe in taking chances. i took chance for my big network gig. and i went to chicago to become a local news anchor. they told me when i came there i would do the big stories and specials and that i would be the anchor. and then i ended up knocking on people's doors and doing local how -- how do you feel about your child who's dead? and i said i don't want to do this. i took a stand for myself. and i got suspended and almost got fired. so i went to this really low place. and i a had to reach and find something to keep me alive. and at that low point i found td

jakes. >> look at your neighbor and say, neighbor, you don't have to believe, in my dream. >> it was a sermon that resonates with me that saved my life. i could probably repeat it by heart. yeah. >> wow. you probably do it better than i do. >> but it's called my dream. >> to all of you that have a dream that's bigger than you. to all of you who have a dream and it looks like the people don't want to get with the program, i want you to say, say hey neighbor. >> hey neighbor. >> you don't have to believe, in my dream. >> you don't have to believe in my dream. >> wow. >> and i do that in the gym. i look at people on the next machine. >> oh really. >> they're going to lock us both up. >> and i look at them and they look at me and laugh. and and i just keep moving. >> look at me, say i don't have time to wait. i don't have time to figure who

i really am, what i really meant, understand my true heart, take into account how i was raised whether i been through, by the time you get through all that i'll be an old man and i'll be dead. >> that was all i needed to hear. he had me right there. so my dream wasn't to go to a poor mother's house and say how do you feel about your kid who's dead. my dream was to make people better through my work. how do you do it? you have or the fearless. i think you just do it one step at a time. when i went through what i went thank you in chicago when i would run on that path i would just say one foot in front of the other. >> you thought i wasn't gonna survive? ha ha ha, girl please. >> listening to td jakes i came to realize that i had the power to change my situation.

>> -- because i got something. i'm not intimidated by any man because i got something. >> that we all have the power to control our own lives. >> the difference between negativity and positivity is just. [ snaps ] -- that. you helped switch that switch for me. how do you do that. >> if it means something i have been down. i've been broke, i've been suicidal. i had my car repossessed. i had my utilities turned off. i know what it is to use my neighbors phone. when you see life from down under and you finally get up over where you can talk the fuel that pushes me comes from where i came from not where i'm going to. >> after i came to cnn, i interviewed bishop jakes about his works, his book and the news of the day. but i never told him how much he

inspires me or what he means to my life. >> most of my adult life, the father figure i've had in my head is you. >> that's amazing to me. >> so thank you for the tough love, the inspiration, for understanding me when i didn't even know you and now that i know you for understanding me even more. >> to know that i am helping you gives my life meaning. my destiny is to help you reach yours. and the one thing that i know for sure, when you started talking a moment ago, i heard your heart speak. >> and hearts don't l s -- an don't lie, hearts really don't lie. ♪ ♪ open the eyes of my heart ♪ i want it ♪ i want to see you

♪ >> when someone changes your being, and the way you look at the world and life, that is invaluable. ♪ oh lord i wanna see you ♪ >> hearts do not lie don lemon. he was a light a beacon in your life. you're a mess over there. aren't you. >> yeah. >> that's why i carry the handkerchief. >> thank you chris. yes. he makes everyone feel as if he's speaking just. >> to them. >> to them. >> and it comes through from the television doesn't it. >> he -- here is the thing i want everyone to know. people wonder why i do what i do and i give the commentary that i give and i have the point of view that i have. i came from nothing. nothing. and if i can do it, you can little block boy or little black girl at home can do it as well. there are no excuses of where you came from. and so if i can do it.

you can do it. we all can do it. and then i said the difference between positivity and negativity is that. it is all how you look at your particular situation and how you react to it. >> but it also sometimes take somebody else. >> somebody else. >> yes. >> to lead the way and sometimes it comes off, they don't understand. think they you're judging or something. sometimes people say i think that i'm white. i know who i am. i'm a black boy from louisiana. who had big teeth and big ears who grew into it thankfully. and with a single mom. who she would tell me quite honestly, if this person can do it. you can do it. if that white kid can do it. you can do it. you just work your ass off she says. and that is how you are going to do it. and don't let anyone tell you who you are, you decide who you are. you are not the "n" word.

>> that's why this has been such an interesting process for all of us. it's been revealing to each one of us but also for you at home. and you can get more on some of our pictures. you will see some video, you will see some bad hairdos. go to cnn.com/life changers. and you can tell us who changed your life. catch anderson and i this sunday. as the two hour special, all the pieces together. bring your kleenex pbox. >> and thank you bishop jax. thank you so much. >> up next, guess who? >> ms. costello. >> yes. because she's going to share sher story

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