howell howell jish the bill is expected to pass. >>> now just six days away from the super bowl in indianapolis. dan hellie and jim vance will be anchoring our coverage all ek. >> dan is there live outside lucas oil stadium tonight. hey, dan. >> and tomorrow perhaps the biggest circus you could say of super bowl week, rilts media y day, and for the first time ever, they're going to allow fans in to watch media day. tickets right now on stubhub, believe it, going for twooefr and you don't get to even ride the zip line. that's part of the nfl village area near lucas. i don't know if any of these folks will be at media day tomorrow, but i guarantee you, it's going to lost more than a lot of activities. over 4,000 people are estimated to be here in indianapolis for prosecute bowl week. which patriots' star did not practice today and may not practice the week? guys? >> and are you going to tell us what people are going to be able to -- >> they'll be able to see jim vance for the first time in a long time. he'll do interviews, asking questions, giving speeches. a good time had by all. >> thank you, d

jeremy howell, "bbc news." >> this is "newsday" on the bbc. i'm rico in singapore. >> i'm in london. good to have you with us. the headlines in this hour. the captain of the costa concordia has been accused of abandoning his post. his passengers on a stricken cruise liner are still being rescued. >> there are growing fears of more bloodshed in syria as arab league mission to monitor the uprising draws to a close. >> the co-founder of the yahoo! internet company has resigned from the board of directors. joey yang started the firm in 1995. his decision to step down comes a fortnight after the appointment of a new chief executive. our correspondent in los angeles gave us more details on this. >> it was a very polite and effective resignation letter that pointed out that jerry yang decided to move on to other things, and wishing the new chief executive all the best. but the fact that he came in just two weeks ago suggests that there is obviously changes afoot within yahoo!. and for the co-founder to leave the board after 17 years, came as somethin

. >> my husband was howell dean burchfield. he was known has hal or h.d. he was a very jovial, fun-loving guy. >> when i received the orders, anxiety hit me first because this is a serious thing and i had 16 months to go home. is it life or his life? and that's what is going on in my head. if i don't carry this assault out, then it's me. also the kite read that you would be receiving a fish line from above in a blue bag. everything that you need would be contained in that bag. double-edged cast iron knife with a double edge and it was tempered because it left no fingerprints. i waited like three days and when the line came down, that morning, i fished it in, took the blue bag off and i got the spear shaft from that off the fishing line and i waited. sergeant burchfield approached my cell with flashlight and he saw me standing there, he asked if i needed a light for my cigarette. i had a camel in my mouth. that's when he turned. when he turned into the cell, i hit him. i stabbed him, speared him one time. he turned around, grabbed his whistle, started blowi

i want to thank speaker howell for this effort. over $4 billion fund was put together to support funding. this has supported hundreds of projects in nearly $2 billion in new contracts in 2011. it is always made possible public/private partnerships like the tunnel on hampton roads, the coal fields expressway and the i-95 hov hot lanes in northern virginia. we created awarding new degrees to young people in important disciplines. i want to thank the leaders in the effort. kirk cox and rosyln dance. we were able to enroll 5,800 additional students this past fall. well done. [ applause ] >> together, we also created nearly $100 million in new economic development to promote job creation. companies like becktell and amazon and green mountain. albany are all coming to virginia. i want to thank lieutenant governor, our chief jobs director. over 64,000 jobs have been created in virginia since our first full term in office. [ applause ] >> overseas visitors are coming here at a record pace. $321 million in 2011. i was on hand this past year

george howell, cnn, atlanta. >> thank you, george. >>> one note on this story.on's school of florida a&m is not participating. the university is not allowed to compete by robert's murder investigation is ongoing. >>> a cute case of monkey see, monkey do. next on viral rewind. first, don lemon with a look it's a what coming up. >>> i'm don lemon. coming up tonight on cnn "weekend prime" inside japan's desolation zone. what it could look like the next 100 years. >>> plus, the rise ever the sugar mama. women willingly taking care of their men. or boys. that's tonight when you join us at 7:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern. , i've learned that when you ask someone in texas if they want "big" savings on car insurance, it's a bit like asking if they want a big hat... ...'scuse me... ...or a big steak... ...or big hair... i think we have our answer. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. . >>> fans ever the nbc comedy "the office" know actor rainn wilson, unlike his character, he's committed to helping others. in 2007 saw a story about

john howell, a physician at the pediatric emergency room said he expects flu cases to spike by the end of january. right now, though, he's seeing lots of kids coming in with bronchialites, an infection in the lungs that typically affects babies age 2 and under. >> the illness lasts usually up to about two weeks. it's cough, a little bit of wheezing, maybe some trouble breathing, runny nose, fever. >> reporter: he said he's seeing 15 cases of bronchialites a day in the pediatric e.r. in adults, doctors are seeing respiratory viruses that are leaving people coughing for weeks. >> there are viruses out there, especially adults can get them, the slow viruses that can last three, four weeks. again, there are no antibiotics for it. there's nothing to really do to stop it. there's no silver bullet. >> reporter: that means both children and adults who are sick with these viruses simply need to ride them out. lots of sleep and over-the-counter medications if needed is the best prescription. >> i get lost of rest, drink plenty of fluids and stay home. >> reporter: doreen genzler, news4. >> doree

there is no high speed rail system in this country so howell do they know -- >> but they are not politicians. >> they are not politicians. people with long transportation histories but maybe not high speed rail history. >> the legislature has a choice whether to approve the bond. >> right. >> congress has been making noises, republicans. >> uh-huh. >> seems like democrats are on one side, republicans are on the other. >> in congress too. >> oh, yes. the fear here on the part of the authority is that this sort of runs the risk of becoming really deeply election politics. obama came in as a big supporter for high speed rail, wanted to put $6 billion in the 2012 budget for high speed rail. republicans took that out. it is very much a political issue at the same time. this is money we either have or we don't. the big question is whether or not the state can break ground by october 2012 because that is the deadline to qualify. >> the voters did authorize $10 billion in bonds in 2008. >> yes. that money is contingent on having some kind of match fr from -- we lose that federal money if we don't ma

california state auditor elaine howell this morning called the project's financing, quote, increasingly risky. she also called the oversight for the project inadequate. this is just the latest in a series of critical reports about the project. governor brown is still pushing for $100 billion plan. >>> a virus outbreak in the north bay. the quarantines currently in effect at a preschool and two senior centers. >>> k-9 cops on campus. the controversial measure up for vote on some bay area schools. >>> the big names we are going to see on the oscar's red carpet next month. >>> we have partly cloudy skies out across the bay area today. by the end. week, we could see -- by the end. week we could see -- by the end of the week we could see above average temperatures. more coming up. whether to deploy drug-sniffing dogs. >>> tonight the pleasanton school district will likely decide whether to deploy drug- sniffing dogs. high school principals say the dogs will be use to feel create drug-free campuses there. three other school districts in the east bay already have police using dogs for that pur

seemed to have figured out a way to do that they're sort of por stray -- portraying him as thirston howell iii. when people here bank accounts in the kaman islands. he described his own speaking fees, which were over $300,000 as not that much. he had a story to tell last night at the debate on his tax returns but just didn't quite get it out. gwen: he doesn't seem comfortable about talking about money. >> i think that's right. his biggest argument overall is that listen, everyone, you may not be totally with me but i'm the strongest person to take on barack obama. well, now, some of his other rivals are going after that and saying are you really the most electable? i think that is perhaps the most -- if he goes out of south carolina wounded a little bit, he's going to have to repair this electability argument because that is his biggest sort of star, if you will, going forward. that's his biggest attribute. gwen: who else has an electability argument to make? do you think newt gingrich doesn't? >> he makes that argument all the time. gwen: well, he says he can debate. >> ronald reagan and

pretty well supported by howell prices so what the casual of us to should think about is that use this time it's a good opportunity to build a portfolio to build the names that are really attractive to take a bit of a longer term you're beyond the next eight to twelve weeks and if history is of any guidance then russia usually closes the gap to the what price the oil prices up to form since since august september the gap is what into what thirty percent so if they stayed a percent what about a close i think it could be a good indication and hopefully it's going to be at a closing up of all that's going to that is going to go down. russian energy majors gazprom and i holding have made a second attempt to join their electricity assets aiming to create the country's biggest power company in december and they pull back their application from the federal antimonopoly service saying the program winners of the deal had to be revised due to the regulators criticism now the companies hope to finalize the deal by the end of march. oil company rules petro became the first russian firm to offer ch

. >> reporter: george howell, cnn, atlanta. >>> we have more top stories at the top of the hour when cnn sunday morning continues, but, first, you don't want to miss sanjay gupta m.d. that starts now. >> oh, man, it's -- he is laid on the bed, and his head is swollen. he is not moving. he is nott talking. he needs help. breathing from this respirator. i just lost it. >> 10:50 a.m., less than 72 hours after his first concussion, 16-year-old jaquan waller died. ♪ the autopsy would reveal this. it could have been prevented. . >> hello, and thanks for joining us. that's a glimpse of the documentary "big hits, broken dreams." this morning we're talking about this fascinating topic, and all the latest findings on concussions. i think most importantly how to prevent them. what do young players, their parents, their coaches really need to know? by the way, it's not just football. it's other sports as well. in fact, not far behind football is soccer. there are more head injuries in girls. we invite brandy chastain, and she'll share what she teaches her players to keep safe. >>> there was a he

this was listed as extremism all right let's also talk about you know you brought up that george howell here was also prosecuted under the and animal terrorist excuse me animal enterprise terrorism act and there is this lawsuit that right now is going on for the center for constitutional rights it's not going anywhere do you have any updates on it i think it's a really positive exciting development i mean the basis for this lawsuit is that the head of the enterprise terrorism act has expressly outlawed first amendment activity but it's chilled it through examples like this and there are many many more that are much worse than anything that i've experienced personally it's made people worry about their personal safety and their right to express themselves and do things like undercover investigations which have been labeled by the f.b.i. as terrorism so the center for constitutional rights is saying this is unconstitutional because it's make people afraid of using their rights you know it remains to be seen in this but the national defense authorization act with f.b.i. documents like this

corporate corporations and potentially campaign donors the other unique thing about virginia is that bill howell who's the speaker of our house of delegates is a former national co-chair of alec and he sits on their national board and several legislators have told the press that speaker how has asked them specifically to enter duce pieces of alec model legislation what kind of legislation designed to put forward it really runs the gamut of everything that you can think of that would increase the corporation's bottom line there's been a number of bills that would prioritize corporations over consumers in health care including the i was to say is that a bad thing. well it's not necessarily but some of these bills i think do a real disservice to virginia taxpayers there's been a few bills that would allow health care insurers in virginia to offer for example health insurance plans that don't include the state mandated benefits so virginians think they're getting a really good deal but it turns out that those bills may not cover comprehensive care or those plans would not cover comprehensive care li

her then right-hand man jeffrey howell, whose resignation in 1990 played a big part in her downfall still says she was the right person for the job. >> the time we were elected in 1979 recognized that britain was in the last chance saloon. everyone had tried other methods. we decided there was no alternative to tough medicine that had to be sustain for some time. and it was accepted because there was no alternative. >> reporter: that alternative became known as thatcherism. she cut the effective 98% tax rate for top earners to 40%. she made it harder for trade unions to call strikes. she unleashed the so-called big bang which deregulated london's financial markets, creating a financial powerhouse to rival new york. she also privatized many companies with names that start with british, from airways to petroleum to telecom. private enterprise and competition would create wealth. thatcher's opposite for much of her premiership was neil kennic who says she hurt the economy in one important way, widening the gap between rich and poor. >> she widened and deepened the inequalities of income. it

john howell a physician at fairfax hospital's pediatric emergency room says he expects flu cases to spike by the end of january. right now, though, he's seeing lots of kids coming in with a viral infection in the lungs that typically affects babies ages 2 and under. >> the illness lasts up to about 2 weeks, and it's cough, a little bit of wheezing, maybe some trouble breathing, runny nose, fever. >> reporter: he's seeing 15 cases of bronchiolitis a day. in adults, there are respiratory viruss that are leaving people coughing for week. >> there's no antibiotics for it, there's no silver bullet to stop it. >> children and adults that are sick with these viruss need to ride them out. lots of sleep and over the counter medications if needed is the prescription. >> i get lots of rest, drink plenty of fluids and follow the doctor's orders and stay home. >> we all want a pill. nobody wants to hear, have you to ride it out. the best thing can you do is pry vent yourself from getting sick in the first place. the most important thing you can do to make that happen is keep watching your hands. >> an

. >> george howell is here live with me now. how emotional was it for the family to be there today? >> when you sit with them you feel the depth of what they're going through. they lost their son who would have loved to have participated in this event and he participated two years ago. they had trouble going to the event. but they it was important for them because they said it was important that the students saw them and got the message. >> florida a & m did not participate this year? >> the band is suspended as the investigation continues. we don't know when police will make arrests, how many people police will arrest. but the band was no there. >>> a good samaritan dies trying to protect a woman he did not know. would you risk your life for a stranger? wendy walsh on what makes someone run into a dangerous situation. that is next. >>> and a television news anchor accused of date rape. but does the evidence support the claim? what ? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it ? hello ? hello ?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real person 24/7, you need an ally. hello ? a

howell -- when you were there, and in school, where you vocal about how you felt about the issues, or did you feel conservative back then? >> i would not say i was a political child. i was aware of the issues in ways that i think, it was a political household in that my parents were very interested in the issues and were at loggerheads with their friends. i would not say i had a political childhood so much as an exposure to the issues that became quite fascinating to me as i grew older. >> and there is a paper that your columnist is publishing, the conservative paper. there was a list i was looking at, recently, of all of the celebrities who have come to town to lobby on the issues, with the environment, what is this and how do you describe hollywood today, and what kind of impact -- it did not change your views or those of michelle fields. >> it is the power of the image, the big image, the authority of mass media. this is principled in terms of its power. this is something that the early politicians, if they were communists or conservatives or whatever, there were quite aware of thi

jeffrey howell criticizes heley and saying being attacked by him is like being attacked by a savage sheep. can mitt romney throw a punch? can he hurt barack obama with a punch? >> i've been wondering who the dead sheep in this race is. let me clarify that for us. romney has a new debate coach. whatever they are paying him, they should double him. that was significant improvement. i suspect that newt was going to collapse under his own weight, if it's okay to say that. he clearly was throwing bombs every which way. it was hard to see how he was going to -- things were going to coalesce in his favor. i'm not sure it's so much romney's performance improving. >> dana, what about the history? we have written newt gingrich off for dead so many times. he seems to do so much better when we are writing him off. does he have another comeback in him? >> who knows. ultimately it's hard to see where he gets to the nomination. it's true, he is always better in opposition. he was good ousting the democrats for power in the house high pressu . he was better at that than leading the republicans. because h

george howell explains why the federal law is on his side. george? >> this story has generated a lot of responses from our viewers, some outraged by who has happened to the family. others concerned about 2-year-old veronica, who at this point is caught up in a custody tug of war. veronica, a toddler, adopted and raised by the couple she's known since birth, taken from them by a court order on new year's eve and turned over to the native american biological father she has never met. a family torn apart by a law designed to keep indian families together. >> matt said when we had to do the transfer, it was like he was failing her as a father to siene her off with people she didn't know, what she must think of us. >> the family says it was an open adoption. but when veronica was four months old, the biological father, dustin brown filed suit to get her back. he claimed he had been tricked into signing papers to give up his daughter. the law was designed to keep indian children and their families together. cnn legal analyst avery freedman says in this cas

george howell digging into this case for us. he joins us. explain how this girl's biological dad was able to do this after two years? >> dustin brown is the biological father and he used this law child the indian child welfare act. it's basically designed to keep indian families together, to keep them from being broken up. he is enrolled in the cherokee nation, his daughter, partially native american. so through the courts, he was able to get his daughter back from matt and melanie. as you can imagine, they didn't rell realize that this would happen a day sooner than they had predicted for it to happen. >> she's adorable, too. >> they raised her since her birth. they say this was an open adoption that. they know her biological mother. but given the court's decision, they had to basically transfer their daughter over to dustin brown. this happened, again, on new year's eve. they thought it would happen new year's day. we actually have an interview with the family that was taken just after that transfer happened from our affiliate wciv. take a

cnn's george howell has been following all the developments. george, why has had ruling -- first of all, how did it come about and why did it generate controversy. >> a controversial case with many sides to it. let's start first with adopted parents. they have known, been with their 2-year-old daughter, raised her since birth. they know the biological mother. they say this was an open adoption. now coming into play is the biological father. justin brown says it is his daughter, he's stepping in under a law called indian child welfare act to get his daughter back. he's enrolled in the cherokee nation, his daughter native american. under the law it's designed to preserve native american family. new year's eve the family had to turn their daughter over to mr. brown. he left charleston driving back to oklahoma with his daughter. take a listen. we just got some sound from the parents. >> said when we had to do the transfer, it was like he was failing her as a father to send her off with people she didn't know, what she must think of us. >> she had t

the state senator janet howell expressed her disdain with the idea and an amendment of her own. she proposed that man should have to undergo a rectal exam and cardiac stress test and calls it a simple matter of gender fairness. her amendment failed by two votes. >>> coming up, voters are making their voices heard in florida. the shift in strategy that is paying off for one presidential candidate. ♪ >>> plus, find out who is trying to pull the plug on one candidate's motivational music. >>> and comedienne steven cobair proves his political action committee is the real deal. >>> feeling like speak out there. we'll tell you how folks take advantage of today's warm weather. we'll be right back. on i'll be right back.  . >> mitt romney could be headed toward a big win tonight. the voters are casting their ballots in the florida primary. he's been showing new energy in his appearances and in the polls as he's been locked in an often bitter contest with former speaker newt gingrich. tom fitzgerald is following this one today. tom, it appears a shift in strategy is what is behi

howell called it an unnecessary medical procedure. the senate rejected her amendment, though. the abortion bill is expected to pass the general assembly. >>> prince harry is opening up about his grandmother, the queen, queen elizabeth of england. many wonder how she keeps up with her busy schedule. 2 prince says his grandmother's secret to success is prince if i am. harry says the fact his grandmother or grandfather is just there for the queen makes a difference. the prince does not think his grandmother could do it without his grandfather, her husband. the queen of 85 is 85 now and prince philip, 90. this summer the queen will celebrate 60 years on the throne. it is her diamond jubilee. >>> storm center 4 meteorologist tom kierein joins us now with a look at our very pleasant weather we have out there. >> it really is. a lot of e-mails i have been sending and getting out of office auto replies. i think a lot of people are enjoying this delightful day. they were paying attention to the forecast earlier this morning. indeed, we have been warming up quickly with the high clouds

cnn's george howell joins me now.rge, this is an emotional day, i would imagine, for the champion family. >> indeed it is. a very difficult day for them to be at this event, the first time to be there without their son, robert champion, who was killed in a hazing incident, but they tell me they are looking forward to being there. this is an event that draws tens of thousands of students and parents to see these bands participate. just a bit about the actual event itself. 45 bands participated in the actual competition. only eight were selected through online voting, and those eight bands will perform here in atlanta at the georgia dome, thousands of people watching them. the champions say that's why it's important for them to be there. to be there to focus on hazing, to focus on the issue and make sure people think twice about it. this family, though, the georgia dome is really just the start for them, gary. they have started their own online campaign. they are on facebook, on twitter, they started their own video, a

cnn's george howell has been following all the developments. george, this is certainly generating a lot of controversy. the family, the south carolina family is trying aggressively to get the child back. how will they do that? >> basically, right now, they are looking to file an appeal to the state supreme court to see if they can get their daughter back. at this point, we're talking about a family, matt and melanie, who raised this daughter -- their daughter, rather, since she was born, 2-year-old girl. they say this was an open adoption. but her biological father has stepped back into the picture, dustin brown, and because he is enrolled in a cherokee nation, his daughter then being native american, under the indian child welfare act, he was able to get his daughter back in court. so on new year's eve, this family thought that they'd have at least another day to prepare for this transfer. they didn't. that night, they actually had to hand veronica over to her biological father. and we actually got an interview with the family from our affilia

so i was going back and forth when i was reading howell was playing out in the courts. but that seems like it's a little bit more complicated. it's not a man wanting his mother's day bag. it could be that these things have a higher price and we don't know how to get rid of women getting paid less. we can talk about that and a direct attempt now about the walmart class-action suit. to lead ladies live for a little bit but it seems like a if we got rid of those kinds of things, the special treatment of women, we could then see what happens. maybe they wouldn't be the sense that they could be paid less because they are going to be treated all the time. >> i have my doubts that cause-and-effect would work in that way. [laughter] but seriously, it's important, if we keep our eye on the appropriate goal, i suspect that we would have better luck both in dealing with the wage gap between men and women while leaving these kind of trivial matters or perverse suits like ladies nights to decide. at least he wouldn't be wasting resources litigating cases that don't amount to much bu

. >> thanks so much, george howell. >> thank you. >>> all right. let's talk politics now. all eyes are on new hampshire in the final three days before the primaries there. the gop hopefuls fanned out across the granite state hoping to steal momentum from front-runner mitt romney in the latest nbc marist poll mitt romney has 42%, a 20-point advantage over ron paul with 22%, and santorum came in third with 13%, newt gingrich, jon huntsman, and newt gingrich are in last place. mitt romney is taking no chances in tuesday's primary. he's reminding his supporters that polls can change quickly. cnn's political director mark preston joining us now from manchester with an update on that. things can change on a dime. they have to be prepared for just that. >> that is absolutely right. we talk a lot about real politics, ground game, well, we've actually seen how the mitt romney campaign is into action. let's take a look. >> you've heard the phrase, well, if you want to see retail politics, you're going to see that here right now. we're in mitt romney's campaign headquarters. people a