a ring of steel around the games. this is "way too early." hey there, everybody. hope you had a great weekend. good morning, i'm thomas roberts. it is monday, january 27th. welcome to "way too early." the show where tailor swift's disappointment gets higher billing than the cruise ship. we start off with the grammys. daft punk took home album of the year, record of the year, and best pop performance. they also got best helmet award of the night. some of the other big winners, lorde won for best performance. macklemore and ryan lewis came away as winners. we have this mass on stage wedding that took place. we turn now to the news for you this monday morning. senator rand paul is trying to

reframe the context of the war on women and on "meet the press" he argued the narrative had been congress c concocted by americans. he took a shot at former president bill clinton. >> one of the workplace laws and rules that i think are good is that bosses shouldn't prey on young interns in their office, and i think really the media seems to have given president clinton a pass on this. he took advantage of a girl that was 20 years old and an intern in his office. there is no excuse for that, and that is predatory behavior. it should be something we shouldn't want to associate with people who would take advantage of a young girl in his office. this isn't having an affair. i mean, this isn't me saying oh, he's had an affair, we shouldn't talk to him. someone who takes advantage of a young girl in their office? i mean, really. and then they have the gal to stand up and say republicans are having a war on women. >> so "the new york times"

skries senator paul's tight roam rope as a mission that runs in the family. and also one that has drawn its fair share of criticism. ted cruz has described your strident libertarian nimp of your father as an issue that will always be a shadow over anything you try to do. >> you know, i think one of the things, and, you know, don't be trashing my dad too much. that's my dad, you know? but the thing is, is i would say that my dad was extraordinary in washington and then being genuine, being really liked by people on both sides. i would say i'm proud of my dad and what i would say i'm trying to do is to try to bring that message to an even bigger crowd. >> tomorrow night president obama will deliver his annual state of the union address as he looks to put a year of scandals and controversy behind him. the president has already made it clear that he intends 2014 to be a year of action. now it appears it will be a year

of executive action. jay carney says that president obama will make it clear in his speech that he will utilize his presidential authority as needed to move past the gridlock in washington. >> i think what we saw last year in 2013 was a washington that did not deliver for the american people and the president sees this as a year of action. to work with congress where he can and to bypass congress where necessary to lift folks who want to come up into the middle class. >> after the address, president obama will hit the road traveling to four states to highlight his economic recovery plan. he will also participate in a google plus hangout coming up on friday. barely five years after losing the presidency to barack obama senator john mccain is now officially not conservative enough in his own state of arizona. they've censured senator mccain claiming his voting record was disastrous and harmful. they will not seek further

action meaning that the voice votes serve no purpose beyond embarrassing senator mccain. john kyle defended the senator saying, quote, i've gone to dozens of these meetings. most people realize it does not represent the vast numbers of republicans. now mccain says he is currently seeking a sixth senate term. the u.s. state department now updating its advisory to u.s. citizens traveling to the olympics saying while there's no specific threat, americans should be cautious. meanwhile, top congressional members are saying they are not trying to be alarm mists about it, but the threat of terror feels very different than the games of the past. even the u.s. olympic team safety cannot be guaranteed. >> i cannot give them 100% guarantee. these are going to be very much threatened olympics, probably more than any we've had in our past, more than greece, certainly more than london or china. >> i would say the security threat to the olympics, this particular olympics, are the

greatest i think i've ever seen because of the proximity of the terrorists to the olympic village. there's never been this connection between pakistan, afghanistan and cheshian rebels. for the first time they're coming out and endorsing, blessing, and calling for this global jihad against the olympics? wow, that gives me great pause. >> congressman mike paul says russia is doing everything they can do to make the ring of steel impregnable. a texas woman who is brain dead and pregnant has been taken off life support following a judge's order and days of emotional debate of back and forth. she's been kept on a ventilator for two months after she was found collapsed in the kitchen with an apparent blood clot in her lung. despite her family's attempts to have her pronounced dead, they claimed that texas law required

them to first deliver the child using a caesarian section. the judge ruled munos is brain dead and legally dead and texas law requiring treatment to pregnant women did not reply. they're deciding not to repeal that decision. this morning police are still trying to figure out why a young man opened fire in a maryland mall. on saturday 19-year-old darion marcus aguilar walked into zumiez and fired. the victims are brianna benlolo and tyler johnson. he took his own life. they found the shooter's body next to a 12 gauge shotgun. they found a bag with homemade explosions. a woman who identified herself as aguilar's mother spoke to people by telephone. >> he's never, never had a gun before. never been interested in guns. never been interested in anything like that.

i don't know what happened. i just don't know what happened. i don't know what happened. i feel for those other parents, too. i do. >> police say that aguilar bought the gun legally in maryland last year. he did not have a criminal record and did leave behind a journal. the mall is expected to reopen for business coming up later today. all right. there is some more bad press for cruise ships out there. a royal caribbean trip will end early. this is after 600 people have shown symptoms of the neural virus on board. they departed on wednesday from new jersey. health officials boarded the ship on sunday. the ship will be sanitized before being redeployed. it is the explorer of the seas there. an oklahoma lawmaker is

pushing for a chance to keep same-sex marriage illegal. he's not sure that marriage needs to be regulated by the state at all. now the fight over oklahoma's ban on marriage equality is on its way to the court of appeals in denver. we wanted to get your take on this one. is this the best idea ever or an excuse for discrimination? what are your thoughts about no marriage at all in oklahoma? tweet us your best, most creative answers using #waytooearly. a symbolic gesture of peace went terribly wrong at the vatican yesterday. during his endless prayer pope francis released two doves. one was attacked by a siegel. the other was attacked by a black crow. the pope then embraced a young boy who joined him during that prayer while the other one next to him smiled i think in nervous laughter.

do we have that photo? that's it. okay. we don't have that picture. while you eat breakfast, we're going to show you the doves dieing. we don't know if they died. there could be a vatican vet that helped save them. still ahead on "way too early," did the pro bowl game gimmick work? more from jay leno on his exit from the "tonight show." how this is different than the last time. that and a check on weather when "way too early" comes back. stay with us. ♪ ♪ the accident happened at l.a. shrine auditorium during the film of a multi-million dollar soft drink commercial that included special effects. one of the sparks landed in jackson's hair. >> seemed like he didn't know what was happening, like something was in his hair and he started shaking it. ♪

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hey, look. i can spin around. >> no more cat food. star war typhoon. drunk all night. no more kung fu. they crushed his cape. >> is that the party? >> pretty hilarious i punched a high school kid in the knee. >> caaahhh. >> brother dez, there's a rat over there. did you hear what i snad. >> there's a rat over there. >> oh, i like that girl up there. >> wearing my glasses i look like another man. >> i will sing for you when you begged me and you will beg me. >> the best of bad lipreading people doing another great job spoofing the nfl. so we go to the nhl. grabbing some headlines by playing outdoor games. it was the rangers and devils at yankees stadium. >> looks cool. >> it was delayed, bill, by an hour because of -- >> weather. >> sun. >> sun glare.

>> off the ice. sunny day in new york. the game though, rangers trailing 3-2 in the second when mats zuccarello tips in the equalizer. three minutes later zuccarello, new york leading 4-3. the rangers score 6 unanswered goals, 7-3 victory over the devils. to hawaii for the first ever unconferenced pro bowl. this year's rosters were split up. >> neon bowl. >> get out your glow sticks. dioeion sanders and jerry rice split up the rosters. nick foles at quarterback for the sanders team. he finds jordan cameron in the end zone. hauls it in for 14 lead. alex smith to demarco murray. they decide from there to go to the conversion. i'm way behind, i'm way behind. team sanders get the final shot.

riesz seen smiling, 23-21. that's what happens if you don't pay attention to the clips. to daytona beach for the rolex 24. scary moment prior to the 3 hour mark. matteo munchelli on track with an engine issue. gidly suffering a broken back, injuries to his left arm and left leg. >> yeah, that's a mess. they're said to be awake and communicating. wow, what a crash there. we take you to tennis now. the upset that happened at the australian open. rafael nadal looked to make history by becoming the first person in the open era to win each grand slam more than once. he had lost all previous matches. >> i watched this live, by the way, 5:00 a.m. thanks to my daughter. >> you were giving us blister updates to nadal. nadal is showing the human side. >> it was sad.

>> wawrinka won his first grand slam title. >> nadal was half himself. >> on saturday, li na from china took the women's single topping the 20th seed. but it was her after speech that made this match so interesting. caught our attention. >> now i have to thank my team, max agent make me reach. thanks a lot. first, my husband, famous in china. thanks a lot. you are nice guy. and -- and also you are so lucky find me. >> i love her. >> she was really funny. >> so who would you rather be, the guy who made her rich or the nice guy husband? >> i don't know. they all win. she wins especially. speaking of winners, we have

to say good-bye to jenn who's going to sochi. >> poor jenn. nice. >> traveling off to sochi for the olympics. >> jenn, i want to give you this. it's a good luck fan. >> a good luck fan. >> you know i have heat issues. >> and they're making snow left and right in sochi for this. take this in case you get warm. >> i've got it. >> flip it out. >> like real housewives of atlanta style. >> nice. >> gone with the wind fabulous. >> there you go. >> hot stuff. hot stuff. >> look out, sochi. >> yes. i'll be checking her phone for certain apps coming up during weather. >> excellent. >> if that have the half that bottle is gone by the end of the show. >> we'll come back to you for another segment. >> they need that in the northern plains today, guys. something to keep warm. the wind chills this morning are just about as bad as it has gotten all winter long. right now we're at minus 39 in minneapolis. seems that we've done this all

month long. indianapolis, st. louis, buffalo, pittsburgh are going to tank. the big story today is what's going to happen in the south. i mean, they're freaking out. areas like mobile, new orleans, houston, wilmington, myrtle beach all getting a snow and iegs storm tomorrow into wednesday. it doesn't happen that often especially this wide of a coverage area, but even in eastern north carolina they have a chance of getting 4 to 8 inches of snow even on the outer banks they were talking about vacation spots. not a lot of snow from areas montgomery south of atlanta. maybe only one to three inches. they don't have plows or salt trucks, at least not widespread. that's why it could be a troublesome travel day on tuesday. how long is this latest arctic blast going to last. the white over the top into the u.s.a., that's the coldest of cold air into the hemisphere. thankfully as we head into super bowl sunday and by thursday the cold air finally retreats. we get a little bit of a january thaw as we head towards the upcoming weekend. no huge shot coming back down to

the u.s. we get a little bit of a break from all of this polar air we've been dealing with. >> we'd like a little break. >> we need it. just in time for the super bowl. if the super bowl had been in this type of weather that we're goings to have, it would have been horrible. thankfully it will be mid 30s. >> mid 30s, we will take it. keep practicing with the fan. >> a fan will really cool you down, trust me. i know these things. coming up at the top of the hour on "morning joe," senator rand paul's attempt to reframe the context of the war on women. the new strategy and whether it can actually change the conversation. then when we come back here, we'll huddle around the water cooler. daft punk and pharrell williams. we're talking about one hat in particular. we're back after this. ♪ ♪ i love that just washed freshness, but then it goes to the closet...to die. so try glow unstopables. they fill your closet with scents so fresh

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eye. so at the top of the show we talked about the grammy awards which were held in l.a. if you want to sound smart quincy jones racked up 79 nominations and 29 wins during his prestigious career. the most grammy awards was the conductor, george solti has won 31 times. i'm a left talker and i'm going to take left-hand talker. lewis is standing by around the

water cooler. >> stop knocking over things. >> let's go to music's biggest night. the big winners of the evening were daft punk who won album of the year and record of the year. literally casting a shadow was pharrell. get lucky. a tremendous hat. look at that thing. online it was drawing comparisons to smokey the bear. arby's took an opportunity to tweet, pharrell, can we have our hat back. the similarity is striking. >> roast beef sandwich over there. >> if pharrell is doing that, you know that it's cool. >> the sauce, that's the best by the way. >> i'm saying if pharrell does that, you know it's automatically cool. i've already ordered myself one online. don't judge me. >> never. >> macklemore and ryan lewis walked away with more. >> we are gathered here to celebrate love and harmony.

as i look out at this audience i'm delighted to see the faces of 33 couples who have chosen this moment to celebrate their vows here with us in los angeles and everyone watching around the world as witnesses. >> madonna joined queen latifah in the performance of "same love" as 34 couples were married on stage. it was incredible. paul mccartney and ringo starr took the stage together and it was incredible. ♪ cool to know which way to turn ♪ >> that was the first performance together -- their first performance together since 2009 performing one of mccartney's new songs. the most buzz worthy night of the year was when the album of the year was announced. >> the grammy goes to -- >> random access memories daft punk. >> check out taylor swift's reaction there. the internet are saying that she

must have felt random access memories was going to be the r. she looked pretty excited for a split second there. turns out she walked away grammiless. >> it was a great album. charlie got married. he was in teal. the camera had a shot of them. >> that was a nice teal suit. >> madonna. >> she had something in her mouth, too. grammys are strange. they're also a lot of fun. "saturday night live" was a pretty big one this past saturday night. jonah hill had some high profile company during his opening monolog. >> remember when we were on set and i would get nervous? >> yeah, yeah, yeah, i remember. >> can we do the thing this we did every day, the thing that made me feel safe? >> is it going to help you be less nervous? >> yeah. >> yeah, sure, we can do it. all right. >> thanks, man. ♪

♪ >> am i flying, jack? >> yes, rose, yes, you're flying. >> that's so funny. >> that is just too good. >> real quickly though, lewis, did you notice the cane madonna had? >> yes. i thought it reminded me of the guy from jurassic park? >> wonder what's in the top of madonna's cane? question to think about. >> maybe some tiger blood. you never know. >> blood of a young stud. lewis, thanks so much. still ahead on "way too early," oklahoma considering a bill that will ban all marriages. great idea or a transparent ploy. we have the most creative tweets when "morning joe" continues. ♪ ♪ i go to angie's list

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>> laura had a good one. i think my parents would be happy about this. i suppose the parents of the bride would be elated if they didn't have to flip the bill. >> weddings are expensive. >> best idea ever. oklahoma rejects all track up. there is a plan. >> i like that plan. can we show your ring finger really fast? she has a boo boo. >> i'm never getting married. >> not now anyway. "morning joe" starts right now. thanks. >> thanks. ♪ he's a people hey hey hey yeah woo ♪ ♪ who's got the ball it's in my pocket. very