pizza, no-show jobs, a vague chemical smell and forget about it. >> chris christie roasted on snl over bridgegate. after hoboken's mayor makes some shocking new allegations. sochi security remains an issue for the olympics after a terrorist group releases new video promising more mayhem and violence ahead of the games. how is vladimir putin pushing back. the die is cast. peyton manning, the hall-of-famer, against russell wilson, the up and comer. place your bets now for super bowl xlviii, this is "way too early." that's right. place your bets. jenn is in the corner taking your money. i'm thomas roberts, monday, january the 20th. it's martin luther king jr. welcome to "way too early."

if you're a first-timer, this is the show where we're proud to talk about international politics and we fill you in on justin bieber in the same half hour. yes. we begin this morning, new allegations of corruption from within chris christie's office. hoboken mayor dawn zimmer met with u.s. attorneys after she accused the governor's office of using hurricane sandy funds. she was told by kim o'donnell that unless she supported a real estate project in hoboken, the city would not receive federal storm aid. she spoke to steve korniaki about those allegations. >> the fact is that the lieutenant governor came to hoboken, she pulled me aside in the parking lot and she said, i know it's not right. i know these things should not be connected but they are and if you tell anyone, i'll deny it. i mean, the bottom line is it's not fair for the governor to hold sandy funds hostage for the city of hoboken because he wants

me to give back to one private developer. i cannot give a windfall to one property owner because the governor wants me to in exchange for the sandy funds. so i'll tell you, i feel like i'm literally between a rock and a hard place. >> why come forward now and not before now? >> i probably should have come forward then. this is probably the hardest thing that i've ever done so i probably should have come forward, but i literally -- you know, i literally feel like we -- i have to act in the best interests of hoboken. we are still at risk of not getting -- there's another tranche of funding coming through and we're not going to get it unless i move forward with the rockefeller plan. mayor zimmer said she requested $127 million of hurricane sandy funds but received just 1% of that request. the state of new jersey received a total of $14 billion in requests for the funds out of a total of 300 million available but the governor's office

refutes those claims that there was any political favor. the city of hoboken has received $70 million of funding. democrats in new jersey are rallying around zimmer. loretta wineberg says these disclosures are revealing ana because of government responsibility. a possible misuse of public resources and the betrayal of trust. it was last week that zimmer also said that she was concerned relief funds would be withheld. rudy giuliani said this is nothing more than democrats looking to hurt the potential 2016 run for president. >> he should not be handling this investigation. it gives it no essentially credibility and it clearly is a partisan witch hunt. clearly this is a very, very well orchestrated democratic organizational effort to hurt governor christie who after all

is the only republican who was beating hillary clinton in any poll at any time. >> yesterday christie deflected any 2016 chatter at a fund-raiser held at a booster for ken langone. he told the top donors that his ambitions for the white house were on hold saying come see me next year. president obama's plans to shake up the nsa were a big talk on the sunday talk shows. one key issue of whether the government should control the database. leaders of both parties raised doubts about shifting control away from the government. >> i think that's a very difficult thing because the whole purpose of this program is to provide instantaneous information to be able to disrupt any plot that may be taking place. >> we know that the private people don't want to handle this now. i think that's going to be a real issue in terms of who has the capability other than nsa to

handle this information and particularly given the fact of the people don't want this. >> president obama is calling for a committee to look at the issue and make a recommendation in two months. the former deputy director of the cia rejected claims there was systematic abuse at the nsa. there has been a handful of case, literally a handful, where nsa employees have looked into the database inappropriately, looked at boyfriends be or girlfriends. in everyone of those cases they were dealt with appropriately and i believe actually some of them may have been fired. >> when it comes to the leak of that classified information there is new speculation that edward snowden had help from russia. house intelligence committee chairman mike rogers is one of the people who believes it might be true. two of the reasons, snowden had his travel plans booked before he left the u.s. and he used very advanced technology. >> i believe there's a reason he ended up in the hands, the loving arms of an fsb agent in

moscow. i don't think that's a coincidence. number one. number two dnchts do you think the russians helped ed snowden? >> i think there are questions to be answered there. i don't think it was a gee whiz good luck. >> government investigators tell nbc news there is no evidence to suggest snowden had help from another country. a disturbing new video is raising concerns about security for the winter olympics in sochi. it features two men from an islamic extremist group who warns of a tablgs during the winter games. he said there will be presents for tourists. the men who appear to be making explosive devices claim responsibility for a pair of suicide bombings last year that left 35 people dead. now u.s. military people are drawing up rescue plans for americans in case there is ana take during the olympics but that would depend on russia allowing foreign troops into the country, something moscow has been reluctant to do in the past. meanwhile, president putin says

he wants gay athletes and fans to feel okay at the olympics. putin defended the country's controversial anti-gay law that bans information about nontraditional sexual information around minors. the so-called propaganda can influence a child's sexual orientation and in putin's words, the country needs to cleanse itself of homosexuality to increase the birth rate. putin says, we aren't banning anything. we aren't rounding up anyone. we have no criminal punishment for such relations unlike any other countries. please leave the children in peace. ukraine's president is scheduled to meet with opposition leaders today. the protests were a reaction to tough antiprotest legislation. a group of mass demonstrators attacked police with sticks and tried to overturn a bus blocking

their way to the parliament building. he says the president agreed to set up a committee to settle the crisis. the rally is a cycle in the former soviet republic. the country dramatically changed its politics away from the e.u. and toward russia. it's going to be a long wait for the millions of americans who need to speak with the internal revenue service if they get through at all. a new government report showing the customer service at the agency may get worse in the coming months. that's due in part to the recently passed spending bill that another round of budget cuts is coming for the i.r.s. only 61% of customer service calls were answered last year and the average wait time was 18 minutes. back in 2004 nearly 90% of calls were answered in a much quicker fashion. now because of the budget cuts the irs says it will only answer, quote, basic tax questions and stop helping disabled and elderly americans

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all right. let's get you caught up. time now for sports. the super bowl match-up is set for february 2nd. we start with the later game, 49ers at seahawks. san francisco will quiet them pretty early on. colin kaepernick under pressure. he slips out of the pocket. takes off evading defenders. running for 58 yards before getting tackled. it would set that up for a touchdown. san fran up by 7 into the half. then in the third, seahawks answer back. marshawn lynch up the middle. bounces off his own teammate scrambling 40 yards for the touchdown. that ties the game 10-10. we skip ahead to the fourth. seattle down by four. wilson airs it out to jermaine kearse. take on a field goal, seattle takes on a six-point lead. kaepernick with one last chance with cornerback richard sherman

is there breaking up the pass to michael crabtree. after the game here it gets good. aaron andrews catches up to sherman and then this happened. >> let's send you down to the field and aaron andrews. >> joerks thank you so much. richard, let me ask you the final play, take me through it. >> well, i'm the best corner in the game. when you try me with a sorry receiver like crabtree, that's the result you going to get. don't you ever talk about me. >> who was talking about you? >> crabtree. don't you open your mouth about the best or i'm going to shut it for you real quick. >> all right. and, joe, back over to you. >> lob. you know what lob is? >> no. >> legion of boo. >> nice. anyway -- >> do you have to do the dip with the knees with that? >> everything. how low can you go? so seattle heads to its second super bowl. anyway, in franchise history

there's going to be -- i really did, i hurt my back the other day. there's going to be a future hall-of-famer. that fs a mistake on my part. would it be tom brady or peyton manning. manning gets help from knowshon moreno and takes it 28 yards. that would set up this touchdown from peyton manning to his tight end, jacob tammie. there you have it. the broncos roll to a 26-16 victory. now on february 2nd the broncos will face the seahawks at met life stadium in east rutter ford, new jersey. the number one ranked offense against the number one ranked defense. peyton manning's third trip to the super bowl. don't expect to be going yourself unless you are independently wealthy. tickets on stub hub are ranging from $2500 for the cheapest seats to over 800 grand for the most expensivexpensive. yeah. that's a lot of money. while we're on the topic of

football, he was speaking about football. i would not let my son play pro football. these guys know what they're doing, they know what they're buying into. it's no longer a secret. it's sort of my feeling about smokers. this isn't the first time that president obama has voiced his concern about the violence in the sport. the nfl involved in a $765 million lawsuit settlement. switching gears to weather. good news/bad news. the good news, the last remaining residents evacuated from their homes due to the colby fire returned home this weekend. it's burned more than 1900 acres. it's 61% contained. they expect to have it fully under control by tuesday. for the bad news, california is in the midst of the severe drought. the emergency that it's facing, they've never seen in decades. they're urging californians to reduce by 21% voluntarily. get a check of the weather

with nbc meteorologist bill karen. good news/bad news. 61%. under control. >> bad fire. there will be many more. this is the wet season. it hasn't rain. we go into the dry season, i can only imagine what that means. here's a stat. one number from san francisco. over the weekend, they had a record high seven days in a row, i mean, can you imagine that, almost like a sum 34er heat wave lasting seven days being off the chart top heat wave. yesterday was 80 in l.a. they still are dealing with well above average conditions. no rain in sight. now for the eastern half of the country it will be cold and snowy over the next week, maybe two weeks. this is a return to winter. snow this morning. that is in north dakota. heading for the east. we have winter storm watches that go from southern new england all the way down i-95 through new york city, philadelphia, down through baltimore, washington, dc, to richmond. anywhere in the shading you have a good chance to get enough snow to plow, shovel, cause you concerns. this is tuesday. begins tuesday morning.

ending late tuesday night. out of the big cities probably by midnight, 2:00 a.m. it will be exiting out cape cod and boston. so the timing of the snow, it moves in stymied morning around washington, d.c., baltimore. philadelphia sometime around noon. new york city sometime around noonish. about 2:00 p.m. and then the majority of the snow falls tuesday afternoon and then it begins to exit by about 9:00 p.m. the last spot it will exit will be in boston, cape cod early wednesday morning. a lot of people shoveling late tuesday night before you go to bed to clear the snow. how much snow? this is a storm for you. also coastal new jersey you'll get more. the big cities, right around 3 to 6, 2 to 4. the worst part, it will be bitterly cold. wind chills zero to ten. >> is it correct to say this is polar vortex 2.0 or is that liberal media spin. >> it's -- polar vortex is a

term that describes what happens up in the arctic. it's polar air. leave it at that. >> if we hear people say polar vortex, don't believe them? >> they'll say polar vortex part 2, don't buy that. coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe," a bombshell into chris christie's political retributions. steve korniaki broke this story. we'll see why the mayor of hoboken waited to tell her story. then we'll huddle around the water cooler and see a justin bieber impersonation. the snl cast member who absolutely nails it. that and more when "way too early" comes back. ♪ ♪ is this the bacon and cheese diet? this is the creamy chicken corn chowder. i mean, look at it. so indulgent. did i tell you i am on the... [ both ] chicken pot pie diet! me too!

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it was earlier in the show that we talked about the seattle seahawks and the denver broncos facing up for super bowl xlviii. if you want to sound smart today say peyton manning has almost twice the yards as peyton manning, but when it comes to running wilson has him beat giving 600 more yards whose rushing yards are in the red this season. enough of the real news and huddle around the water cooler. jimmy fallon is getting closer to his debut of the host of the

"tonight show." this week he revealed that will smith will be his first guest as he takes the landmark show back to new york city. as far as his first musical guest, that will be a band that he has imitated at least once. ♪ do you know you are an inspiration ♪ ♪ you rock snl and a sarah palin impersonation ♪ ♪ you wrote your own drills, you wrote all of my jokes, too ♪ ♪ you were born in 1970 -- i mean 1982 ♪ >> all right. so that's a clip there of fallen doing his performance that he honored tina fey's mark twain prize for humor. no word if he plans to hop on

the stage with u 2. "saturday night live", the new cast member made her first appearance. she impersonated a prefamed rihanna in the barbados review of "blossom". >> before rihanna was an international star, here are the opening credits of blossom. ♪ don't know about the beat, it's anybody's game, and no reason for getting there ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ zamata is snl's first black cast member and she was well sprinkled throughout the show. one of the best moments from snl came from a sketch on justin

bieber's alleged involvement in this egging in his neighborhood. >> justin, why on earth would you throw eggs at your neighbor's house? >> it's like -- it's a tradition in canada. >> throwing eggs? >> i mean, no, like i thought my neighbor was a chicken, right, so i was just returning his kids. >> i'm sorry, you were, what? >> look at that. all right. so if you did a double take, you're not alone. his imitation is spot on. got his moves and swagger. to space it's been years where scientists have heard from the rosetta spacecraft. as they get into position to orbit around the comment. i don't know why this makes me

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i worked at a tech support center and an older man thought his disk drive was a cup holder. did john powell write that? yeah. he might have. >> he is checking his parger ovr there. >> that is the end of "way too early." "morning joe" starts right now. >> great to be here and i would just like to sincerely apologize to the people in new jersey for this entire incident and also, it's every, so shut up! >> governor, you claim you had no knowledge of these traffic jams in ft. lee. how is that possible? >> i'm a busy man, peters. i got budget to balance and teachers to yell on out and i got to work out five times a year. i can't keep track of every friggin' idiot i'm trying to screw over. >> are you concerned this will overshot the rest of