from the cnn center, this is cnn sunday morning. great to see you. it is february 5th. a special good morning to our men and women watching around the world on the american forces network. i'm susan hendricks. >> this is not the first time you gave me your vote of confidence, and this time i got to take it to the white house. [ cheering ] yes, you can officially call him the frontrunner. mitt romney came away with a dominating victory in the nevada caucuses, but despite a second place finish, newt gingrich says, don't count me out. yes, today is super bowl sunday.

111 million viewers will be glued to the tv tonight. will you? also, 111 million viewers are snacking. can you guess the top three foods that go hand in hand with the fwam? we'll tell you about them. we start with mitt romney. he is waking up a very happy man this morning, you could say. the republican presidential candidate is the winner of the nevada caucuses. it was predicted yesterday. 43% of the vote, he got. romney is leading by 33%. newt gingrich with 25% followed with ron paul with 19%. now, mitt romney is the first one of them to score back to back victories. this is big. he rallied his supporters in vegas last night after the fact. >> our mission is to increase the freedom and opportunity of the american people and our blueprint is the constitution of the united states. we're going to build an america are hope is a new job with a paycheck.

not a word on an old bumper sticker. >> newt gingrich says he vows he is not going anywhere. he will stay in the fight. it is 3:00 in the morning in oakland where just four hours ago occupy protesters ended a march through downtown. take a look. a small fraction of the protesters vowed militant action. many of them were dressed in all black with their faces covered. they said it was time to rise up against authorities and plus repression, but it was mostly a peaceful one last week. more than 400 people, you may remember, were arrested in a violent occupy oakland demonstration. [ [ bleep ] ] >> a much different scene here. things were not as peaceful. this is the nation's capital. eight people were arrested when police clashed with occupy d.c. protesters. this happened just blocks from the white house. officers made the arrest after people violated the no camping

laws. as you see, police are dressed in riot gear. one officer was injured after being hit in the head with a brick. this morning the u.s. is strongly condemning russia and china for blocking a u.n. security council effort to put pressure on syria to end the violence there. brutal violence we have been hearing about. cnn spoke exclusively with u.n. ambassador susan rice. >> disgusted, but that's not the point. the point is that the people of syria have yet again been abandoned by this council and by the international community. >> analyst saz both china and russia have their reasons to maintain good relations with syria. for one thing, russia is one of syria's biggest arms supplier, and china ranked a serious third largest importer back in 2010. this is all according to data from the european commission. opposition activists say more than 7,300 people have been killed in the 11-month brutal

crackdown in syria, including children as well. some strong words towards russian leaders also coming from inside the country. thousands of demonstrators gathered in moscow to rally against prime minister vladimir putin. they are demanding changes in the wake of the disputed elections that took place in december. there was also a pro-putin rally. these demonstrations are seen as a test for vladimir putin with just with a monthing to to go until he runs for president. the cuban leader unveiled his 1,000 page memoir on friday. do not expect to read about the cuban missile crisis or his decades in power. the two volume memoirs only cover his life from birth to the eve of the revolution in 1958. now back to politics. the nevada caucuses, as you know, were held last night. the first western contest has produced the same results as the biggest eastern primary. here is cnn's political editor

paul steinhauser. >> another big night for mitt romney. >> romney, romney, romney! >> reporter: mitt romney does what no other candidate has been able to do so far this year. win two in a row. less than a week after his big victory in florida's primary, the former massachusetts governor won nevada's caucuses by a landslide. >> this is want the first time you gave me your vote of confidence, and this time i'm going take it to the he white house. >> reporter: the victory wasn't a surprise. nevada is romney country. next to the state's largest mormon population, his big win in the caucuses four years ago and his strong organization in the state. romney used most of his victory speech to talk about president barack obama rather than his republican rivals. >> i have walked in nevada neighborhoods blighted by abandoned homes wondering why mr. obama failed them. nevada has had enough of your kind of help. >> reporter: despite another disappointing finish former

house speaker newt gingrich vowed to carry on. >> there's one story that came out today somewhere that i just want to put to rest hopefully for the next few months. i am a candidate for president of the united states. i will be a candidate for president of the united states. >> reporter: for ron paul a stronger finish than four years ago. the congressman from texas spent caucus night in one of the next states to volt. rick santorum spent the night in colorado, which also votes tuesday, and the former senator from pennsylvania didn't let a fourth place finish get him down. >> as i said before, this race will come towards us. we're the candidate that provides a real best perspective of beating barack obama. >> reporter: as the race for the republican presidential nomination moves east, the field of four remains intact. susan. >> all right, paul. thank you so much for that wrap-up. meanwhile, we go to europe where they are in the grip of a deadly deep freeze. more than 120 people have frozen to death in the ukraine.

another 29 people died in poland. we have also been seeing unusually heavy snows across the region. this picture is from rome, and, get this, they haven't had snow there since 1985. military helicopters are being used to evacuate people from a helicopter in australia. it is being threatened by what could be record breaking flooding. thousands of people in queensland and eastern australia are being warned they should evacuate, get out fast if they can. food is also being flown in some areas being cut off by flooding. heavy rains have caused rivers in the area to overflow their banks. back here in the u.s. a cold snowy day in parts of the country. wet and soggy in other areas on this super bowl sunday. meteorologist reynolds wolf is at our weather center. the giants and patriots are playing at a dome, but we're talking about the tailgaters, if they notice the weather there. how is it looking in indianapolis? >> well, it's kind of interesting. it's good that you bring up the tailgaters because that's a whole different game within itself. sure you have the game on the

field, but then you have the people milling about outside the stadium. it's going to be interesting. it's going to be a little chilly, but in terms of precipitation, i would expect not much else. a nice day across the midwest. of course, including indianapolis. that's not to say there isn't rough weather. heavy rain continues to fall in texas. also, some issues with fog. we're going to give you the whole weather burr ito coming up in a few moments. back over to you. >> looking forward to that burrito. reynolds, thanks. if you or someone you know collects unemployment benefits, you may be surprised about what you don't know when filing your tax returns. we're going to tell you just ahead. speaking of the super bowl, putting some flash into it, one group is strutting their stuff for the football fans. we will show you their moves. stay with us. [ mom ] i think it's fine. it's the new element from at&t so it's w-a-t-e-r proof. cool. what else does it d-o? it's fast. it's 4g lte.

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♪ we believe in you ♪ you can't give up >> that is the song "you were born to win," but will it be the giants or the patriots? good morning to you. it is nine minutes past the hour. live picture from where the super bowl xlvi will be held tonight. indianapolis, music by brian courtney. again, keep pressing on. "you were born to win" is the theme of the song. meteorologist reynolds wolf is at our weather center. what's coming up? it looks pretty nice in indy. >> it does. i'm going to pick up right where you left off and get right to the forecast and give you more of the specifics of what all our friends outside the stadium can expect today. there are people that go to the super bowl. they don't have a ticket, but they go because they like the spirit. the all beanswer. well, the ambience is going to be great. it's going to be between 68 to 72 degrees. nice and beautiful. outside with the kickoff we expect the conditions to be fairly dry for the most part,

but around kickoff 40 degrees, wind out of the north. let me show you what else you can be wise be. your travel may be compromised in places like houston, minneapolis, and miami. mainly due to a mix of showers and fog. in orlando near the mouse house along i-4 it's going to be a day where you are going to see plenty of rainfall, but i'm telling you, the heaviest rainfall as you go south towards miami, it's going to get steadily more intense. as intense as what you'll see in houston or places like south padre island or corpus christi. we'll see the rain through a good part of the day. it's a trailing end of a cold front that actually circles back all the way on the eastern seaboard. we're seeing rain this morning in raleigh and back on parts of 64, and then north of washington we see light snow. heavy accumulation. not in the cards, but we still have a light dusting of that wintry precip as we make our way through the rest of sunday. in terms of the action for the central plains, in terms of rough weather, we're not going to see it because this area of high pressure is going to keep all precipitation limited for the most part keeping it to the

east or the south. as we take a look in terms of visibility, it will be bad in a few spots. especially not far at all from, say, chicago over near the campus of notre dame. in south bent e bend, expect the fog to be strong. pretty intense fog in places like the florida panhandle and the i-10 corridor. even back in the northern plains low visibility and fog will give you an issue. we're not talking about rain at all. we're talking about just very, very foggy conditions on those spots. in terms of your high temperatures, take a look. kansas city, 47 degrees. 50s from seattle to portland. 65 in san francisco. back out towards the east we go with 52 in memphis. 49 in washington d.c. 47 in new york. 69 in atlanta. 67, new orleans, and 80 in miami. there you go, you're up to speed with the forecast. susan, it's now your turn. i'll hand it off to you. >> who are you picking? giants or the patriots? >> i'm going with the bears. >> so am i. >> i think this is going to be the year for the bears. it will be fine.

>> i honestly don't have a favorite. there are a lot of people i like on both steams. a lot of great players. i like man, but i also like -- i like everybody. >> i like everyone as well. erlich coming back from cancer. have you ever been involved in a flash mob? >> no. >> that's a good thing. i was hoping you would say no. as you know, the patriots and giants are facing off. we're going to show you a flash mob. some fans gather there. they couldn't wait to get into the action. look at this. it is a super bowl flash mob. a bunch of indy locals dreamed up this dance to show off for out of towners. looks like a lot of work, a lot of practice. >> it looks like something. i mean, it is just kind of like one of those things that just kind of started. now it's this craze. now everyone does it. it's kind of like the flash -- the flash of the flash mob is starting to dim, don't you think? >> i do. according to us because we don't want to practice. >> nothing against it. it looks great. i'm not dising the people who did it, but -- >> if you don't already know it, the super bowl -- it's not just a game. it's about the food. when you think about all the

parties you can go to. >> i can smell the food right now. >> if you are like the rest of america, there are things that are number one on the list. chips and dip. sals yash the most popular of the dips. if you don't know that, you do now. number two, a new harris interactive poll. there's a poll about this. chicken wings is number two. the national chicken council expects fans to eat more than a billion wings today, and number three, pizza. something about the chicken wings, though, that you like. you have to dip them, and the celery. >> we've seen a great winner. you need to got a pizza crust, and then you put some sauce on top, and then you put the chicken wings and the chips and the salsa on top of it, and you combine the top three together. i mean, to me it's pure bliss. >> then you have face paint and say go bears, right? >> you basically do your flash mob dance. >> and no one invites you to their party. >> go, bears. >> if you are collecting unemployment benefits, there are still things you can write off. want to tell you about this. but you still have to pay your taxes. helpful hints ahead. inner,

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options, financial analyst collide erickson is here to help you out. he has tax tips for those collecting unemployment benefits. >> there are things you can write off that people aren't aware of. the coaching, maybe a job search site that you have to pay for, the phone uses, the mileage, the printing of the resumes. all those things. >> if you are unemployed and looking for a job -- >> yeah. >> -- those steps that you are taking to look for a job could be written off. >> there you go. >> you have some coaching, your cell phone, you were mentioning. >> as long as you're using them to get it that job, you can write them off. if you do get a job and they make you relocate, the moving expenses can be deducted as well, or if you move 50 miles away from your new job, they can deduct the mileage as well. >> when you think about the stress, we know the numbers of unemployment. they are up there. it's the number one issue during the presidential caucuses, debates. what will you do for us financially? so many people out of a job, and if you think about the stress, can you actually file for an extension if you are unemployed? >> yes. you still can find for an

extension. just like your normal taxes. a lot of people think of government benefits, but it's a wage replacement. there are wages that you are earning, so it's a wage replacement. that's why you are paying tacks on them. you can do the same thing you do with regular income. >> it's very easy, collide, to get down when you think about it. people, they're out of a job, they get discouraged. what advice do you have for them in terms of just continue to keep looking. >> you've got to keep going and keep pushing. right now it's just what i call the new normal. it's different. it's interesting out here. you have to keep pushing. you also have to try other things. maybe this is not the field, and you may explore a new field. there's also credits out there that you can apply for life-long learning credits and things that you can debt deducks on as well if you learn a new skill or get continued education. learn more and just keep pushing. i know it's hard, but you got to keep pushing. >> if it's your field you are used to, you may want to branch out. you can also write that off. >> you can write that off as well. those are wonderful things, and a lot of people are exploring entrepreneurship right now.

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welcome back. 6:22 here in atlanta. it is time to check the stories across the country. utah's governor was recently put on lockdown after his life was threatened. police arrested brian biff baker

after learning the 52-year-old allegedly plotted to assassinate governor gary herbert. according to a probable cause statement, baker said he had firearms and other fireworks in his car and had hidden behind bushes to kill the governor. police say baker threatened to use explosives to blow up the governor's mansion. the governor's office was aware of the plot, but had no further comment. check out this rescue from gold beach, oregon. local police called the u.s. coast guard after it was unable to find three hikers who had been missing for six days. the hikers were found and airlifted to safety and taken to the hospital. all three were suffering from hypothermia. an amazing story from nazareth, pennsylvania. 26-year-old andy weaver is about to take his first steps ever. >> andy, andy, andy! [ cheering ] >> doctors told weaver, who has

cerebral palacy, that he would never be able to do this, walking half the length of the gym, but only after six months of hard core therapy, he was able to stand on his own. pretty amazing, isn't it? well, this week we start to meet the first cnn heroes of 2012, but before we roll them out, we want to catch you up with a william who you voted for as 2010 hero of the year. her name is robin lynn. she's doing amazing things. here she is with anderson cooper. >> congratulations. how do you feel? >> full of gratitude. >> did you think you might have a chance at winning? >> of course not. we've helped so many people since 2005. almost 113,000 people got free medical care and medicine. >> what does too tha feel like to start with one person and then slowly start to build the organization? >> i found that if you have a good idea and you do it with love, a lot of people want to help you. >> it was a very personal loss

that got you involved in this. >> my sister died. she was pregnant. this was 21 years ago. >> what was your sister's name? >> her name is christine. i feel like she really helps me. >> you carry her with you still? >> yeah, and i think i carry her baby too. >> what kind of an impact do you think this will have? >> the clinic we have in the tsunami zone, that one is really safe, but the clinic in bali is falling apart. it's too small for our patient care. >> you're hoping to maybe rebuild the clinic? >> we've been saving money for years, and we did get a piece of land right in our village, so we're ready to build, and now we have money to begin. >> you have $250,000 plus $50,000, so $300,000. >> yes. that goes a long way in indonesia. >> what keeps you going? in those dark days when you don't have money and when you don't have support? >> some days i don't have money, but i always have support. just when you think how are we going to play an electric bill, there's always an e-mail that

says we're sending money. it's a miracle every day. just like birth. >> congratulations. i'm so happy for you and for the work you're going to do and the lives you're going to save. thank you. >> thank you. >> someone who inspires others like robin ling, tell us their story. we would love to hear from you. help us find the next hero of the year. go to cnnheroes.com to find out more. yes, today is super bowl sunday. maybe you're thinking about what parties you're going to, the halftime show with madonna, but if you think the nfl is all fun and games, think again. after the break, why hundreds of former players are suing the league. don't go anywhere. also, last night mitt romney dominated the field in nevada, but was it a big enough win to silence his rivals? we'll check it out.

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good sunday morning to you. i'm susan hendricks. it is 29 minutes past the hour. we are checking top stories now. hundreds of former players are suing the nfl for alleged negligence. they claim the league didn't do enough to mitigate the risks of head injuries or even misrepresented evidence on its effects. the league is denying those claims, releasing a statement saying this. "the nfl has never misled players with respect to the risks associated with playing football. any suggestion to the contrary has no merit." to the crisis in syria now. the u.s. is strongly condemning russia and china for blocking a u.n. security council effort to put more pressure on syria to stop the violence there. the violence as being described by a witness there is horrific. it includes women and children. cnn spoke exclusively with u.n. ambassador susan rice. take a look. >> disgusted, richard. but that's not the point. the point is that the people of syria have yet again been

abandoned by this council and by the international community. >> the veto by russia and china is seen as a major diplomatic setback for countries like the u.s., which was hoping to send a unified message to the syrian government to stop those deadly crackdowns on it's citizens there. >> you know, this is not the first time you gave me your vote of confidence, and this time i got to take it to the white house. >> yes. mitt romney is celebrating this morning after winning the nevada caucuses. in the process he became the first gop candidate to score back to back victories in the campaign. newt gingrich, ron paul, and rick santorum all vow to remain in the race. they say they're not going anywhere. so mitt romney is on a winning streak, but was his win in nevada big enough? joining me now, patricia murphy, founder and editor of citizen jane politics and contributor for "the daily beast." romney won, and we kind of expected this, right? we did. no surprises here. what does that tell us, though,

that he still didn't top the 50% mark? >> it tells us that, yes, it's true majority of republicans aren't that excited about mitt romney. what i do think was very good news for mitt romney last night that we didn't quite expect was that he won among people who called themselves very conservative, and he won among tea party supporters, and people who are strongly supportive of the tea party. i think that is the area that he needed to start showing real improvement, and he did show real improvement. he won across every single group. it wasn't maybe as big a victory as he would have liked. he loves to run up the score, but in terms of the people that he needed to get on his side, he showed improvement in the areas that his supporters wanted him to run up some scores. >> because newt gingrich has even called him, i believe, a liberal in the past and saying the only way to beat obama is with a conservative, so with a conservative vote, it looks like mitt romney has a good play against newt gingrich, but he says he is not going anywhere. >> newt gingrich had a press

conference last night. he was surrounded by reporters, which is not really where any candidate wants to spend election night. newt gingrich, you can just feel it inside of him. he is not going anywhere. if he can continue to raise just enough money to keep going, he is not going anywhere. he believes in his heart that mitt romney is not conservative enough. he believes that he is conservative enough. if he continues to lose one and another and another and another, it's going to be very hard for him to say, yes, i can beat mitt romney because at this point he can't beat mitt romney. >> i think americans overall, whether they're democrats, republicans, they want a positive leader, and i got the sense from newt gingrich listening to that speech that he was very negative. i said i'm not ouflt race. it is romney's fantasy that i will be out of the race. he said that nevada, the only reason why he won was because of the mormon vote there. >> yes. >> he is kind of negative, and i think that americans really want to rally around someone who is going to lead them in a good direction. >> yes. and the people in the electorate who most want a positive leader are women.

women voters. gingrich has a massive deficit among women voters. i think this is his biggest problem right now. 36 point loss last night to mitt romney. you're not going to win this race without more support from women, and i have talked to some of gingrich's staff, and they said we know that women aren't responding to this message. they had wanted him to be more positive already. is he going to be able to be more positive? that's what they want him to do. obviously, newt gingrich is going to do what he wants to do wresh has to be more positive and present a message that women are going to respond to. much, much better than he has so far. >> we've seen ron paul time and time again. he continues to, you know, come in third or fourth, but it doesn't stop him in terms of his message. he really stays on point, and i believe he stays positive, so i don't count ron paul out at this point. do you? >> i do not count ron paul out. i don't think ron paul is going to win this nomination. he is not really cracking the 25 point mark yet. you're not going to win the no, ma'am face if you're losing 75% of your republican base voters, but ron paul does have this core group of people who are so

brutally loyal to him. they're not going to go anywhere. ron paul is able to say to anybody who is the nominee, you need to bring me along. you need to bring my supporters along or else you're not going to win in november. if ron paul mounted a third party bid against the republican and president obama, that could very easily upset the republican in the race. >> that could be really bad. great points. patricia murphy, great to see you. >> great to see you. >> thaijs. coming up, we want to talk about weather now. it is snow out west, rain in the east. your super bowl sunday, travel forecast is next. stay with us. hello, how can i deliver world-class service

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i know you are thinking about mark erlich, one of the players there who overcame cancer. you are listening to music by brian courtney wilson singing "so proud." >> how is it looking there in indy? they're under a dome when watching the game, though, right? if you are attending the super bowl. >> you're not going to have any problems there. outside the stadium, if you are planning on doing tailgating, it's going to be kind of chilly. highs 40 degrees or so. it's not going to be super warm. trying to fly out of new york will not be an issue. these places, you might have back-ups. mainly referring to houston, minneapolis, miami, and orlando. and the reason is very simple. it's either showers or fog or a combination of the two. what we're seeing heavy rainfall this morning, mainly two spots. one spot will be along parts of the outer banks, north carolina. in washington d.c. not really rain, but rather some light snow that's moving through. no, you're not going to see several feet of snow.

there's several inches of a light dusting. south text tx, it's all rain. no snow there to speak of, and some of the rain fairly heavy. thankfully the heaviest moving off shore away from houston. corpus christi, you still have another hour or so with the heavy rain. as far south as south padre island, you've been seeing the scattered showers and storms. what we can anticipate for the rest of the day is really not a lot of action for the central plains, and here is the reason why. big area of high pressure. we've heard this is a dome because, well, in an atmospheric sense, it's kind of like a dome. it's almost like a jinlt lid that you put on top of a pot or something. it's going to limit any of your deep, deep convection. you're not going to see much in terms of precipitation at all anywhere in the central plains, southern plains. obviously, the frontal boundary. the situation is going to be altogether different. what about temperatures? what can you xep today? well, as we take the next 30 seconds or so, you can expect a high of 50 degrees for our friends in billings, montana. 55 in seattle. 54 in portland. 65 in san francisco. mid to low 70s around los angeles and south points like san diego.

denver, 33 degrees. 47 in kansas city. el paso. 40 in minneapolis. 49 in washington d.c. 52 in memphis. 67 in new orleans. 80 in miami, and boston home of the red sox, you can expect your temperatures -- get out of there. there we go. temperatures mainly in the 30s. let's send it back to you. >> we're going from traveling to fishing. if you love it, you know how exciting it can be to reel the big one in, and reynolds, you did just that. kind of big, right? >> definitely. it's a little bit of fly fishing in parts of colorado. it seems like it would be sort of unusual this time of year. seems like a spring sport, a summer sport, thing you do in the fall, but proof positive, you can have a lot of fun fly fishing in the winter. look. >> when most people think about winter sports in colorado, they think about skiing, snowboarding, even snow mobiling. fly fishing right here on the blue river. scott knows this area well, and he is sharing some of his favorite fishing holes with me. >> it's kind of deep out here,

right? >> yeah. the last little snowstorm sure did help. >> it appears that way. on his first cast he snags a rainbow trout and allowses me to bring it in. >> okay. come on, guy. unbelievable. >> nice fish. >> beautiful. absolutely beautiful. >> rainbow. >> the blue is a catch and release river. >> she's ready. she's ready. >> bye, sweetie. >> though it looks easy, it isn't. trout can be extremely picky, deciding which of these tiny flies to use can make all of the difference. >> well, for one thing, trout, what is the most important aspect? is it the kror or the profile? >> they both matter. i would say that the most important thing is probably profile. color second. >> there you go. you had him. >> shoot. >> even with the right fly, success is never guaranteed. especially in winter conditions.

when temperatures in the 20s and ice flowing down river, the water feels surprisingly warm compared to the air, and the trout still difficult to catch. suddenly i got lucky. >> magnificent. beautiful. unreal. come on. let's get you breathing again. there you go. >> see you later. >> thanks, chief. >> just to keep in mind, it's a catch and release river. that's the way that i like to fish also. >> i like that. >> the hooks are also nonbarbed so it's easy to take it out of the fish and release the fish. the idea is to let them swim and find another day. actually, when finish fishing, earlier this week it was in staem boat springs and when fishing in the river with a dear friend and producer alicia egan. take a look at these pictures that we have for you. we have one shot of a fish that i caught. i think we have the still shot. do we have the still shot? there it is right there.

yeah. alicia, that was the first time she went fly fishing in her life. it looks bigger in person than what you see right there, but it's a trophy, trophy fish. it's an amazing rainbow. she put it back. >> reynolds is not too proud to show that. >> yeah, really. yeah. >> we like you even more, reynolds. >> it's a humbling event. truly is. >> thanks for sharing it. >> an iraq war vet offers his thoughts on president obama's plan to help fellow service members find jobs when they return from the battlefield. stay with us.

welcome back on this sunday morning. with the encouraging news on the

overall jobs market, president obama is unveiling a plan he hopes will help one specific group of unemployed americans. veterans, we're talking about. >> our veterans are some of the most highly trained, highly educated, highly skilled workers that we've got. these are americans that every business should be competing to attract. we're going to do everything we can to make sure that when our troops come home, they come home to new jobs and new opportunities, and new ways to search their country. >> now, the veterans job core initiative will help. an estimated cost of $5 billion will help a lot of people. it will offer community grants for hiring former svrs members. it targets also the first responders and law enforcement fields and proposes $1 million for the creation of tourism-related jobs. >> preferences will be given to the communities that are postdate 3.

who can be opposed that? joining me from washington is tom terrintino in iraq. he is an iraq war veteran. he is in washington d.c. and also a senior legislative associate for iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. the mission is to improve the lives of iraq and afghanistan veterans and their families. tom, i want to ask you, what do you think of this from president obama? is the timing suspect at all to you? are you for it altogether? >> i mean, this isn't suspect at all. this is actually part of something that the administration has been doing for the last several years, which is working out ways to help veterans transition from being in the military to getting a civilian job. you know, the interesting thing about this particular program is that it's actually helping keep the investment that we've made in these men and women. we spend billions and billions of dollars and countless man hours training our military to be the most highly educated, highly proficient military we've err had. for some reason we're okay

losing that investment when they go into the work force, and they've been working on various programs to help veterans translate their jobs skills into something in the civilian world, and this is right in line. veterans work great as first responders. helping veterans start small businesses is just a natural fit, and it's a continued investment in these men and women. >> tom, that is what president obama said. he said these men and women risk their lives for our country. we should help them out as well. if you are a veteran in your home watching, what should you do to take advantage of this program? of what president obama is proposing? >> there's a lot of things can you do to go to the department of labor's website. it's the dol vets website, and there you can find particularly job training, job training information. you can find information on a veterans job bank where you can find jobs. you can go to iava.org combat

career website. we can, you know, help you find resources and job -- you know, job skills there. veterans basically what we need to do is go to school or go get training if we need to. we can use our post-9/11 g.i. bill and retrain for the work force, but, you know, keep at it. it's getting better. businesses want to hire you. what we need to do is bridge that gap. this is the first generation of business leaders that is largely not served in the military. while they want to hire vets, we need to make an effort to educate them on what skills men and women who are in the military can bring into their work force. >> another key component is owning our own business, becoming an entrepreneur. president obama is backing where you, that's what you would like do do as well. tom tarn tino, thank you. >> thank you very much. so you think you're throwing a big super bowl party. wait until we show you how big and bright and colorful the celebration is gearing up for

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as america gets ready for their super bowl party, nadia, have you to hear the story of how brazil and trinidad are getting ready for an entirely different kind of celebration. nadia has the shoes for the celebration. they are so tall. we've been admiring them. great shoes. >> all colorful, aren't they? madonna told anderson cooper the super bowl was the greatest show on earth. well, that is exactly what brazil calls its mardi gras of carnivale. the word carnivale -- you say that so beautifully -- is without meat because it takes place in the period before ash wednesday and lent where you're not supposed to have meat. it's in preparation for that period of abstinence. it's quite beautiful. look at the costumes and the detail and the oppulence, and what happens is they're actually organized into schools so people get together and whether it's their neighbors or an actual dance school and they work in groups, and look at those feathers. that green and just absolutely quite exquiz it, and i love the

themes. the themes are sometimes movie themes or mythical figures. how is this one? the enchanted island of witches and dreams come to those who dream. >> we're looking at the streets there. when i think of carnivale, i think of rio, which we're showing here. how many tourists show up here? >> literally millions of people, and for the one in trinidad, that is the second biggest carnivale in the world, about a million will show up in 2012 this month for carnivale. interesting, you are see rio still, look at that particular one. just the magnificent jewels. they can cost anywhere between $150 and $ ,000 or more per costume. >> this is part of a competition. people actually compete here. >> yes. you are looking now at the one in trinidad, and the trinidad has a strong african influence from the slaves that were in trinidad and tobago. when they were emanslaughter pated in 1833, they, in fact, became a greater part of the

carnivale, but just the color and oppulence. i wanted to show you some of the upcoming costumes for this year in trinidad. they are so exquiz it. this is one that's going to be featured this year, and, again, anywhere between $150 to $1,000. they say the average person spends about $600, $700 on their costume for carnivale, the greatest show on earth. >> what's the macy's day parade to shame after seeing those costumes. >> you said you once went to one when you were a little girl? >> i was in brazil when i was 14 and saw the costumes and saw the great event. it's a sight to see. certainly, you see why millions of people gather there. >> an opportunity to celebrate, which, let's face it, we can't have enough of it. >> thank you. we're talking pets again today. a lot of you responding to this. is your pet overweight? josh lev talks about the growing epidemic of pet obesity and how to get your dog or cat's weight under control and why it

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it is an epidemic in the u.s. obesity, but we're talking about pets here. a brand new study shows just how

bad it's gotten and what can be done about it. josh levs is here with more. josh, we talked about it yesterday. >> right. >> we got a huge response. >> everyone is talking about it. more people talk about it today because of the super bowl ad. take a look at this. this is what we're going to be sooel seeing on super bowl today. this ad from volkswagen. doggy can't get out the door to go get in the car. doggy starts a little exercise regiment. it's great. people will be talking about this, but we have a new study that shows that obesity among pets in america is a major growing problem. we want you to know what to do. take a look. >> this is dodger, a micked breed rescue dog, and this is his owner, kim stevens, and talk to me about him. what's his weight right now? >> his weight is about 82 pounds right now, and he should be 62 pounds. >> so that's a lot of extra weight. >> that's obese. >> how does this happen? how does a dog become so fat? >> too much food, not enough exercise. >> what do you think? do you think you should eat

less? do you think you should get more exercise? what do you think? so we're now going to talk to a vet who is an expert at this and get some advice for kim. okay. this is ernie ward. he is a veterinarian and head of association for pet obesity prevention, and he is going to talk to us about what's going on with dodger here. >> this is a case where they're deceptively obese. he is a big dog to start with, but the fact is he is carrying a lot of extra fat here in his abdomen. it's the belly fat that's the most dangerous because that's the type of fat that secretes all those harmful chemicals. the foods that we're eating today are so different than what we ate 40, 50 years ago, certainly what we fed our pets. they've got more calories in a smaller amount, and the other part of the equation is we think exercise. gosh, let's go walk dodger for 30 minutes. that will burn off all that extra energy. well, the problem is output does not beat input when it comes to losing weight. you are not going to get this n this type of shape if you just go exercise every day. it has to be what you eated. >> what about treats during the day or the dog learns a trick,

you want to give it a little treat? what's the right way to reward a pet? >> you know what i call treats. these are calorie grenades. they just blow up in excess weight. we have to be careful. think about single ingredient treats. crunchy vegetables like baby carrots, broccoli, asparagus. we have to calculate out the number of calories and then we'll gradually reduce those calories so dodger -- diet is not about starvation or deprivation. it's about a gradual, safe weight loss. i want you to commit, both of you to commit, to a 30 minute brisk walk per day. if you can do that, you'll see dodger lose weight. you'll be fitter, for sure. >> in the end what do you think will be your motivation? what will motivate you to help him turn around? >> well, i need to turn myself around too, so we'll work together as a team. you know, just because he is a really awesome dog, and i don't want to lose him. i love you. >> and we have a lot more info for all of you pet owners on cnn.com.

slook. everything you need to know help get those pets in shape. >> loving dodger. looks good to me. >> great boy. >> thanks. from the cnn center, this is "cnn sunday morning." it is february 5th, 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. great to see you. i'm susan hendricks. big back to back wins for mitt romney. did you watch it last night? well, the republican presidential candidate is now celebrating after taking the first western contest. just how big of a win is it? here is cnn political editor paul steinhauzer, the hardest working person oit there. did you get much sleep last night? >> romney, romney, romney! >> reporter: mitt romney does what no other republican presidential candidate has been able to do so far this year. win two in a row. less than a week after his big victory in florida's primary, the former massachusetts governor won nevada's caucuses

by the landslide. >> this is not the first time you gave me your vote of confidence, and this time i got to take it to the white house. >> the victory wasn't a surprise. nevada is romney country. thanks to the large mormon population, his big win in the caucuses four years ago and his strong organization in the state. romney used most of his victory speech to talk about president barack obama rather than his republican rivals. >> i walked in nevada neighborhoods blighted by abandoned homes where people wonder why barack obama failed them. well, mr. president, nevada has had enough of your kind of help. >> reporter: despite another disappointing finish former house speaker newt gingrich vowed carry on. >> there's one story that came out today that i just want to put to rest hopefully for the next few months. i am a candidate for president of the united states. i will be a candidate for president of the united states. >> reporter: for ron paul a stronger finish than four years ago. the congressman from texas spent caucus night in one of the next states to vote. >> sounds like the revolution

has already come to minnesota. >> reporter: rick santorum spent the night in colorado, which also votes tuesday and the former senator from pennsylvania didn't let a fourth place finish get him down. >> as i said before, this race will come toward us. we're the candidate that provides the real best perspective of beating barack obama. >> reporter: now the road for the republican presidential nomination moves east, and it does with a field of four. we still have four candidates remaining. susan. >> paul, there you are. one of the hardest working guys in the business. staying up late for us. or early, i should say. what should we look for in the come weeks in super tuesday, paul? >> reporter: well, here's how the calendar lays out. on tuesday we've got three states. we've got missouri, which is holding a nonbinding primary, and then caucuses in minnesota and colorado. we saw ron paul and rick santorum already there. you'll see romney and gingrich campaigning those states over the next two or three days. then there's a little bit of a downtime, i guess you could say. nothing really until the 22nd of

the month. that's our planned cnn presidential debate out in arizona, and then at the end of the month arizona and michigan hold primary contests, and both of those seem to favor romney a little bit. remember, he was born in michigan. his father was the popular governor there, and he has a lot have support in arizona as well. he has the backing of senator john mccain out there, and his stance on immigration may be more friendly to republicans in arizona. newt gingrich, he is looking ahead to super tuesday. he has ten states voting, including southern states like georgia and tennessee, where he thinks he can do better. susan. >> and as you said, it seems like mitt romney focused really when he won on president obama and not his opponents. it seemed like newt gingrich was really focussing on mitt romney, so it seems like romney is kind of pulling ahead and thinking ahead to battling the president for the white house. >> reporter: yeah. oh, exactly. a great point. that's what we saw last year for a while when romney was a

frontrunner, but then when gingrich surged romney had to turn his attention to newt gingrich. that's where we saw romney go on the offense against gingrich in florida, but here in nevada it was a different story and very much last night maybe a taste of things to come for mitt romney if newt gingrich doesn't catch up. susan. >> when talking about the economy, you said obama should not be celebrating just yet. paul, thank you. want to take you to oakland now. just a few hours ago occupy oakland protesters ended a march through downtown. a small faction of the protesters vowed militant action. many of them were dressed in all black with their faces k06rd. they said it was time to rise up against authorities and police repression, but it was mostly peaceful manner. last week more than 400 people were arrested in violent occupy oakland demonstrations. [ bleep ] >> things were not as peaceful in the nation's captain. eight people were arrested when police crash clashed with occupy d.c. protesters. this happened just blocks from the white house, by the way.

officers made the arrest after people violated the no camping laws. police dressed in riot gear. they took away their tents and their bedding. one officer was injured after being hit in the head with a brick. this morning the u.s. is strongly condemning russia and china for blocking a u.n. security council effort to put more pressure on syria to end the violence there. cnn spoke exclusively with u.n. ambassador susan rice. >> disgusted, richard, but that's not the point. the point is that the people of syria have yet again been abandoned by this council and by the international community. >> susan rice not minutesing words saying she is disgusted. analysts say both china and russia have their reasons to maintain good relations with syria. for one thing, russia is one of syria's biggest arms supplier and china ranked as syria's third largest importer in 2010. this is according to data from the european commission. opposition activists say more

than 7,300 people have been killed in the 11-month brutal crackdown in syria. 7,300. strong words towards russian leaders also coming from inside the country. thousands of demonstrators gathered in moscow to rally against prime minister vladimir putinin. they are demanding changes in the wake of disputed elections that took place in december. there was also a pro-putin rally. these demonstrations are seen as a test for putin, with just about a month to go until he runs for president. how about this? fidel castro has written his life story. at least part of it. the 85-year-old former cuban leader unveiled his 1,000 page memoir on friday. don't expect to read about the cuban missile cries crisis, though, or his decades in power. the two-volume memoirs only cover his life from birth to the eve of the revolution in 1958. to europe now where they are in the grip of a deadly deep freeze. more than 120 people have frozen to death in ukraine. another 29 people have died in

poland. we have also been seeing unusually heavy snows across that area. this picture is from rome. they have not seen snow since 1985. military helicopters are being used to evacuate people from a hospital. this is australia. it is being threatened by what could be record breaking flooding. thousands of people in queensland and eastern australia are being warned they should evacuate if they can. food is also being flown into this areas cut off by the flooding. heavy rains have caused rivers in the area to overflow their banks. one of the highlights of super bowl week is the election of new members to the pro-football hall of fame. here they are. former patriots and jets running back curtis martin got in. there were four linemen on the list as well. steelers, demonty dawson, and willy roaf, and jack butler. the super bowl is more than just a game to a lot of people. it's also time to eat, right?

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looks like it won't abe storm where i weekend across the south. plus, what giants and patriots, reynolds, can expect in indianapolis if they're there for the super bowl. >> absolutely. let's get to the good thing first. we'll talk about some of the stormy weather in parts of the south and along the east coast. first, let's pick up where you left off. the super bowl. for people going to the game inside it's going to be great, but outside the stadium if you are walking around enjoying the tailgating scene, and trust me, super bowl it's not. skies mostly clear to partly cloudy. temperatures by kickoff at 40 degrees. it might be cooler during parts of the day, but you'll want to bring a jacket out. wind in the north at 5 to 10. inside 68 to 72. it's a controlled environment. should be beautiful for that. in terms of the rougher weather, we do have a bit of that to talk about, and we're seeing some scattered showers. a few thunderstorms right along virginia beach, southward to the outer banks, and places like you can expect the rain to continue for the next hour or so. farther north you go, up towards pittsburgh. we're seeing a little bit of cold air at the surface, but the

moimp means, yes, you have some snow. in texas certainly snow in the forecast, and rain. some of this especially. we have you south of houston near galveston. clear down to, say, places like corpus christi and even into south padre island. that's going to stick around for a couple of hours before the frontal boundary drives out to sea. now, for the rest of the nation, though, which will be just a beautiful day, a few snows as we mention -- back towards miami and even orlando due to the shower, and a few scattered showers and then back up into minneapolis, mainly the fog. for the center of the u.s., not a problem at all. high pressure will be your dominating feature of that. not much in terms of precipitation for the central plains and outside pretty nice. plenty of sunshine in california. east coast from about the mid atlantic southward you have a shot of rainfall from points northward back up to new york. we're looking at some -- high temperature, east coast is first. working east to west. boston, 36. new york, 47 degrees. 70 in atlanta. 53 in memphis. 47 in kansas city. s 33 in denver. 41 in stlax. 50s from seattle to portland,

san francisco, and l.a. into the 60s and 70s. you did it again. let me get this thing out of there. and there we go. all right. let's send it back to you, susan. >> reynolds, thank you. they're expected to be around 111 million people watching the super bowl today. it seems that a majority will have their mouths full. the super bowl ranks as the second biggest eating day of the u.s. behind thanksgiving, believe it or not. of course, we're eating wings today instead of turkey. we're also eating chips and dip. around 14,000 tons of the stuff. nearly 70 million pounds of avocados for guacamole. zirjts two wins for mitt romney last night. plans to end the u.s. combat mission in afghanistan sooner. a lot has happen happened in this past week. maybe you missed a little. up next, we'll take a look back at the week that was with comedian pete dominik. ry ! specialists, lots of doctors, lots of advice... and my hands were full. i couldn't sort through it all. with unitedhealthcare, it's different. we have access to great specialists,

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7:18 in boston this morning. good morning to you. i know you are looking forward to the big game today. go, patriots. go, tom brady. we know you're saying that if you are from boston. what a week it has been. it has been five days since mitt romney took florida. three days since defense secretary leon pin edda announced plans to end the combat role in afghanistan by 2013. less than 12 hours since mitt romney won nevada. wheel more than 50 years since my next guest, football team won the super bowl, who we talking about here? comedian and serious xm political radio show host dominik joins me now. >> i wasn't ready for that. good to see you too, but, yes, i'm a jets fan, and i'm only 36

years old, so, sadly, i have never seen them win. >> there's always next year, right? >> we jets fans say that every year, and we're torn with who to root for tonight, but let's take a look back at this beak and specifically starting with mitt romney's week. what a roller coaster week for hit romney who sings, wins, and fumbles. he can't get enough of this one. singing "america the beautiful" in florida on the day of the vote. on tuesday. ♪ o, beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain ♪ ♪ for purple mountain's magesty above the fruited plain ♪ >> all right. well, listen, susan, clearly he is not running to win "american idol," but, nonetheless, did he get his frontrunner status back when he won big-time in florida, but then the very next day everybody knows, he comes on

starting point with our own soledad o'brien and fumbles the ball big-time with his not being concerned about the poor comment. walks it back and said he misspoke later on this week, but a roller coaster week for mitt romney, who, again, won big last night in nevada. i want to mention two other stories from this week that maybe didn't get as much coverage as the facebook ipo, the deaths in egypt, and the suz komen-planned parenthood drama which the sfat senate actually voted to pass marriage equality which will go to the assembly and then the governor. look for that. the other big story. we always bash congress, susan. this week the senate got something done. they passed the insider trading ban, and that will go to the house this coming week. representatives. they look like they're going to sign it. let's give the senate some credit and, of course, groundhog day, susan, i don't know how it is in atlanta, but unseasonably warm here in new york. i'll have to ask reynolds wolf to explain what the groundhog was saying to my daughters,

because i can't figure this out. finally, we end -- >> there's the map for you. >> we end the -- there you go. we end the week on a high note with another, the incumbent president, who we've also seen president. >> my favorite. >> everybody loves this. we've got a clp of him sing, but this was not him singing this week, but i'm sure he was again because those job numbers, 243,000. they're great for the country, but they're certainly great for the democrats, and, lastly, susan, if anybody is up right now, they're only up because they're getting ready for what the super bowl and you have not committed to who you are rooting for. i heard you earlier. come on. >> come on. i'm from new jersey. i have to go with the giants. don't judge. >> all right. and do you agree with so many of our viewers who have been tweeting, except for the part where they haven't, that i look exactly like tom brady?

yes or no? >> i would say yes to that, and i would like to hear a sound of obama singing "let's stay together" from al green. >> do we have that? oh, great. let's listen to that. >> do we have it, guys? >> do you want to hear it one more time. >> if we don't, we'll have it soon. ♪ i -- >> oh, there it is. ♪ so in love with you >> we can't get enough of that, can we? >> no, we can't, but i'll tell you what, i think if we are going to vote for the -- who the better singer is, it's going to be -- it's not going to be much of a toss-up here between romney and obama, but hopefully they'll both stop singing and they'll continue to campaign. we know that. >> all right. go giants. >> maybe that will be -- >> and jets. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> thanks, susan. fidel castro's life in 1,000 pages, believe it or not. we'll tell you what is in his memoir next.

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checking the top stories for you this morning. u.s. republican presidential candidates placed their bets in nevada. mitt romney, the winner, 43% of the vote last night. romney is out front with 43. newt gingrich, 25. ron paul with 19%. rick santorum in fourth with 12%. next up, caucuses in minnesota and colorado and a nonbinding primary in missouri on tuesday. libya now says sayif qadhafi could go on trial within the next few weeks. muammar gadhafi's son has been held. the international criminal court wanted to try gadhafi on charges related to his father's attempt to put down the refrl use, but the new libyan government wants him tried in libya. former cuban leader fidel castro has released his memoirs. the two volume set is 1,000 pages long. castillo's memoirs only cover his life from birth to the eve of the refrl use in 1958. fidel katz row was president until 2008.

that's when the job was turned over to his brother, raul. las vegas is buzzing kr super bowl fans today. last night they got a taste of politics instead. here's a quick look at what happened. >> this is not the first time you gave me your vote of confidence, and this time i'm going to take it to the white house. >> we just have to wait and see how these numbers come in and see if we do have a good second place coming up. >> i am a candidate for president of the united states. i will be a candidate for president of the united states. >> you may be able to win a nomination, but that's not what republican voters are looking for. >> i didn't have any good mechanic nimpls to turn to somebody who has been blatantly dishonest as a candidate for president. >> this election we must fight for the america we love. thank you so much and god bless

us. thank you. thank you. >> that was mitt romney last night. newt gingrich says i'm not quitting, but the folks at saturday night live have a different idea for him based on the moon base plan that he unveiled in florida. >> hello, moon president, gingrich. >> what do you do, little girl? >> i go to school. >> when you're not at school? >> i work as a janitor in the school per your moon decree. sdmru know, on either they thought the idea of the student janitors was crazy. i guess that's why they didn't want me to be their president. >> the people of south carolina wanted you to be president. >> not all of america is as forward-thinking as south carolina. >> a good moon to you. >> and may divorce be with you. >> mr. moon president. >> vice admiral herman cain. >> blast off. >> may divorce be with you, he said. more top stories at the top of th