to worse in chicago's schools closing, a nightmare for cruise passengers and a 5k where peting krispy kremes is part of the finish. it is monday, january 27th, "early today" starts right now. >>> good morning. it's nice to see you, i'm veronica de la cruz. a shotgun you plenty of ammunition and a backpack filled with explosives. that's what officials say a gunman who opened fire at a maryland mall brought with him. police say 19-year-old darion aguilar took a shotgun with him. entered and went downstairs to a food court. he returned, left an hour later, and started shooting. shoppers barricaded themselves inside the mall. police say aguilar shot and killed two employees before taking his life. those victims identified as 21-year-old brianna benlollo and 25-year-old tyler johnson. >> right now, we don't have any type of known relationship between the shooter and our victims. not saying there's not one. we just haven't uncovered one. that's why our investigates are working very hard to uncover. >> police say they received a missing person's report from aguilar's mother two hours after the shoo

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they're currently 11 krispy kreme's in southern california.ance is in these stories. also dunkin donuts. moving to the west coast. we'll see more of them popping up and then a lot of the test markets from these fast food and junk food companies. it has a lot of new products. >> i think i see a lot of hypocritical rich folks. but the krispy kreme is a cash cow. right? >> i agree 100%. but you also have to wonder. we all of the goodie in america. after every meal my daughters they can we have a treat. and we will give them a goodie after dinner but not after every meal. look at americans and their waistlines. a great idea as far as marketing. but how long-terr sustainable is a? go figure. neil: that is very interesting. anyway, speaking of krispy kreme, here's tonight's nightcap. ♪ ♪ [inaudible] neil: that was an animation of the recent neil cavuto family reunion. what are you keeping an eye on, warren? >> this lovely weather. who is going to make it work. what were the lost productivity is. already about 500 airline cancellations for tomorrow a

. >>> and a 5k where eating a dozen krispy kremes is part of the race to the finish line. it is monday, january 27th. "early today" starts right now. >>> good morning, it is nice to see you. i'm veronica de la cruz. a shotgun, plenty of ammunition and a backpack filled with homemade explosives. that's what officials say a gunman who opened fire at a maryland mall brought with him. police say 19-year-old derian aguilar took a taxi to the mall in columbia in suburban baltimore. he had no criminal record. they say aguilar entered near the skateboard shop zumiez and went downstairs to a food court. returned less than an hour later, dumped his backpack in a dressing room and started shooting. shoppers fled in panic or barricaded themselves inside the mall. police say aguilar shot and killed two employees before taking his own life. those victims identified as 21-year-old brianna benlolo and 25-year-old tyler johnson. >> right now we don't have any type of known relationship between the shooter and our victims, nothing -- not one. we have a couple -- and that's what our investig

but the krispy kreme is a cash cow. right? >> i agree 100%. but you also have to wonder. america. after every meal my daughters they can we have a treat. and we will give them a goodie after dinner but not after every meal. look at americans and their waistlines. a great idea as far as marketing. but how long-terr sustainable is a? go figure. neil: that is very interesting. anyway, speaking of krispy kreme, here's tonight's nightcap. ♪ ♪ [inaudible] neil: that was an animation of the recent neil cavuto family reunion. what are you keeping an eye on, warren? >> this lovely weather. who is going to make it work. what were the lost productivity is. already about 500 airline cancellations for tomorrow already. neil: for tomorrow? >> yes. we're up to about 3000 i know. >> with the deep freeze in early january cost about $1.4 billion in lost productivity as far as airlines were concerned. we want mike, what are you watching? >> i'm watching america turn into a bunch of wimps. they are canceling everything. i'm supposed to go to go to a dinner tomorrow morning and they canceled

more than 500 took part in the krispy kreme dash. runners were asked to complete a 5 k run and eat a dozen donuts in an hour or less and all for a good cause. proceeds benefitted a local pediatric hospital, but i can't imagine what that feels like running with a dozen donuts in your stomach. >> one, maybe. >> no, no. >> two or three. >> 11 more. >> uncomfortable. >>> amelia, can you take us through a final look at weather? >> a final high of 37 around the midday hours, afternoon and everything hours, our temperatures plummet. 12 degrees for your tuesday morning, single digits in the suburbs. i think there will be school delays possibly on tuesday morning especially in the more rural areas. we could see the same thing wednesday emergency as the arctic blast hangs on strong. a high tuesday of 18, 24 on wednesday and then our temperatures start to improve a little bit. a high on thursday of 35 -- >> that's looking good. >> and next weekend, there you go, 42 and 44, not bad there. >> not too bad but the next couple days, 12, 13, 18. >> b

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it was all part of the fantasy chris dreamed up to stake out the krispy kreme donut factory where he and take his truck. >> then go around give away donuts. >> robin hood kind of thing stealing cholesterol from the rich giving to the poor. >> i was going to go to the nearest school, because once i knew -- >> this plan has some holes in it. i'm not speaking donuts. >> going to a school, here everybody, here is a bunch of donuts? >> yeah. now that you said that, probably wouldn't. >> not to mention the legal ramifications. >> one of the blessings of als, what are they going to do? >> chris has remarkable sense of humor about this. which is partly why when krispy kreme heard about his plotting they didn't threaten prosecution instead they offered transportation. specifically a bus. a bus stocked with donuts. and so for an entire day, chris, his family and friends went on this rolling sugar high. >> you had two donuts? >> joyfully delivering to city parks, cancer ward and children's hospitals. >> we're glad to make some people smile. >> the biggest smile of the day belonged to chris hims

their own communities oh my god newsflash you're right this is not national news yes governor krispy kreme may or may not be a bully and i'm not trying to downplay the fact that this political stunt shut down a bridge and ruin a perfectly good day for hundreds of people but look if we're going to start arresting peaceful protesters for shutting down bridges to prove a point of hockey player wall street then should we also rest public officials for doing the same thing more importantly though why is this the controversy about christie but the news chooses to latch on to where was the outrage when christie shelled out two billion dollars in corporate tax breaks to his rich friends all the while slashing public education by a billion dollars in new jersey but i digress my point is that we don't need to be seen the entire press conference on repeat the incessant coverage is distracting us from a much larger issue yes even bigger than chris christie himself the t.p. . the seawall. cameras ron christie the senate introduced fast track in the transpacific partnership with a t p yes it's happening

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check.s get a data dunkin' donuts, krispy kreme -- a straight data check. belowr yield, breaking 2.67%. a lot of them -- inflation dynamics in the debate over the weekend. the euro well under one point 36. the next screen showing emerging-market stability. -- ok, i will call it midpoint. weaker. is a and you can see the stability .gain and gold, stable we scour the papers this morning. the super bowl. his the front page good >> the front page story, the only one i am looking at on bloomberg.com is microsoft making its decision. at the board is expected to name satya nadella as the next ceo. he is an internal guy. he heads up enterprise and cloud at microsoft and has been with the company for more than two decades. the flipside to this is what happens to bill gates? he is chairman of the border right now. the board is reportedly discussing to replace him. he may take a more active role in the company, he may not. john thompson, believe independent -- >> thompson is an interesting guy, very much -- associated with symantec. >> bill gates also will still hold

--krispy kreme. >>: i have the pompoms. >>: we've talked before and i've been now side and got buy starbucksand gone on line. 12¢ coffee. it's been crazy here. but this is seahawks mania >>: yes and it's going to keep rolling this weekend. it's going to continue through the game. and then i know there's a little bit of frustration for san franciscans do to the ticket situation. >>: we have a ticket situation here to. the >>: 09 france we have a charter seats for the seahawks but the really want to have the opponents sitting right next to you cheering and yelling. that's maybe not the best thing. i can tell you there's been falling on the ground. i've been offered beads and so far i've resisted. i've kept my red jacket on as well. show them i'm from a little bit. otherwise we're surrounded. police their feeding you. thanks a lot the teams don't particularly like each other. and the coaches really don't like each other. but heading in to the game. they're down playing the rivalry that dates back to their college coaching days. >>: i think he's a tremendous coach. the taurus starts and stops an