mike senior told carol's dad that carol had demanded he sign papers to sell their house and he didn'tumed she needed to get away for a few days, but as the days went on we got extremely worried. >> nearly a week after carol departed her red audi fox showed up in the parking lot of the red onion dusty, as if it had been there a while. >> i remember being upset about it. she was gone and i didn't know where she went. >> they drove around looking for her, went to bars. carol's picture in hand and -- >> nobody had seen her. >> what feeling was that? >> hopelessness. you know? where did she go? who did she see? >> the torrance police department opened a file, but they couldn't answer any of the questions, had she finally gotten fed up with mike and started a new life somewhere else or had she been in an accident or something worse? more than a week after carol disappeared there was still absolutely no sign of her and then something strange happened here at the house, something very strange. could it be that carol, unbeknownst to anyone sneaked back in here when nobody else was around? ♪ ♪

carol? >> casey wian reporting live from los angeles this morning. >>> gun loving rocker ted nugent famous or infamous for hurling insults at president obama? he will be attending the state of the union, but should he? it's our talk back question today, facebook.com/carolcnn or tweet me @carolcnn. it's marching to the beat of a different drum. and where beauty meets brains. it's big ideas with smaller footprints. and knowing there's always more in the world to see. it's the all-new lincoln mkz. there's nothing like our grilled lobster and lobster tacos. the bar harbor bake is really worth trying. [ male announcer ] get more during red lobster's lobsterfest. with the year's largest selection of mouth-watering lobster entrees. like our delicious lobster lover's dream, featuring two kinds of succulent lobster tails. or our savory, new grilled maine lobster and lobster tacos. it's back, but not for long. [ woman ] our guests go crazy for lobsterfest. my favorite entree is the lobster lover's dre

carol? >> okay so what other schools are on the list? >> so what "princeton review" did was separated the best value schools by public and private. public included university of virginia, uv led the list followed by the university of north carolina, the new college of florida, william and mary and ucla. as for the private schools, swarthmore topped the list, followed by harvard, williams, princeton and pomona in california. who knew, harvard? see you need to be smart enough to go. >> exactly and creative and all that kind of stuff. >> yes. >> alison kosik thanks so much. >>> our talk back question today could be an historic decision in texas tomorrow, should the boy scouts lift its ban on gay scout leaders and scouts? i'll be right back. [ female announcer ] what if the next big thing, isn't a thing at all? it's lots of things. all waking up. connecting to the global phenomenon we call the internet of everything. ♪ it's going to be amazing. and exciting. and maybe, most remarkably, not that

carol?do you have your flashlight and your toilet paper and your bread? >> reporter: oh, yeah, you know, speaking of long island, i live there and the gas lines are already there. it's reminiscent of hurricane sandy because after hurricane sandy we all went to rationing gas because of everybody thought there was a gas shortage. you see that mini panic going on, even on long island. people waiting in line for gas. cars, 20 cars deep lines, which is pretty startling and pretty unnerving because everybody is sort of running around trying to prepare. i even went to the grocery store. i got the last apple on the shelf, carol. >> thank god for that! alison kosik reporting live from new york city. >>> the big question on everyone's mind in the northeast, is who is going to get the worst of the storm. meteorologist jennifer delgado is at cnn with that side of the story. >> right now the calm before the storm, this is the time you really need to make sure you have everything prepared because conditio

carol? >> something else that's just eerie, breivik the mass murderer in norway says he trained for the attack playing the violent video game "call of duty." adam lanza was holed up with video games in his basement much of the time. did he play "call of duty" too? >> that's not something our sources are revealing to us. we do know and have reported that many of the violent games are found in the home and he had that room in the basement where he spent a lot of time. federal investigators have said that lanza and his mother went to gun ranges several times, final investigative report is expected by the summertime. remember that authorities are also trying to reach out to the online gaming community to see whether there was any communication between adam lanza and them, and they're still trying to piece together that computer hard drive, not sure whether they've had much success yet. >> adam lanza apparently described that before he went on his shooting rampage. susan candiotti thanks. >>> now

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i'm carol costello.hank you for being with us. neither rain, sleet, snow or hail will stop the post office from delivering your letters but the economy and e-mail will. starting in august the post office will no longer deliver letters and other first class mail to your home saturdays. you'll still receive packages. this is just the first of many deep cuts coming to the united states postal service. athena jones joins me. good morning. >> the packaging will continue, that's one area seen growth in recent years. people are now using e-mail to stay in touch, using the internet to pay bills and so the postal service has seen big declines in money that's coming in, so they defaulted on several loans last year, they exhausted a $15 billion line of credit from the treasury and so this is all part of cost-cutting measures to try to help put them back on track. they've already closed offices, they consolidated distribution centers, they've cut hours at offices. we understand that this move could save them around

i'm carol costello. we start with a shocking valentine's day tragedy, the world renowned olympian oscar pistorius has been charged with murder in the death of his girlfriend. his girlfriend model reeva steenkamp only 29 years old found dead at pistorius' home. joining us now is robyn curnow, in south africa. what is the latest, robyn? >> hi there. this much we know. oscar pistorious will be formally charged with murder on friday morning, tomorrow, south african time. he's going to spend the night in jail here after quite a tranlgic set of events today. what do we know, is that his girlfriend was shot dead, initial ll lly reports suggeste had mistaken her for being an intruder. the police recently come out and said they never said anything of the sort, that's not the line of questioning they're looking at and they've hinted at previous domestic disturbances at his house. either way, this is a tragedy, a 30-year-old model has lost her life and oscar pistorius, no doubt one of the most famous south africans

i'm carol costello. we begin this morning with new ripples of a sex scandal jolting the vatican and the final days of pope benedict's rule. this morning the vatican says he has accepted the resignation of scotland's archbishop. cardinal keith o'brien has been dogged by accusations he abused four men in the 1980s, all of those men studying to become priest. this as pope benedict delivered his final public prayer ceremony and accusation that a scandal may have prompted the first papal resignation in 600 years. cnn's ben wedeman looks at the explosive claims thundering through the vatican. >> reporter: reports broke in two leading italian publications suggests his reason for resigning was far more explosive. shock at the discovery of a network of gay priests at the vatican blackmailed by a network of male prostitutes. according to the reports, the results of an investigation by three cardinals assigned to look into wrongdoing at the vatican were submitted to pope benedict on december 17th last year. the rep

i'm carol costello. we begin with the shock and awe of a meteor shower, raining down on southern russia, nearly 1,000 people now reportedly injured. millions mesmerized by the incredible images now streaming in. watch as that fireball grows bigger and bigger as it races across the daytime sky and erupts into this blinding flash of light but it would take several seconds for the sound to catch up. >> like this -- [ speaking in foreign language ] >> unbelievable. witnesses say there were three separate explosions that ripped across the region and jolted buildings with a sudden and frightening violence. keep in mind no reports of anything actually hitting the ground. this damage is just from the shock wave from the meteor as it burned into the earth's atmosphere. this factory, a wall collapsed, the roof caved in, one of nearly 300 buildings damaged, including schools and hospitals across at least six towns, thousands and thousands of windows shattered, and the number of injured could very well climb. here's

and this from carol.ll be tried in the court of public opinion anyway. he already has been. keep the conversation going, facebook.com/carolcnn or tweet me @carolcnn. >>> and cnn is live in new orleans with our take on the biggest sporting event in the country. what it means to the city, how it became such a cultural phenomenon and so much more. join us for kickoff in new orleans. tomorrow afternoon, 4:00 p.m. eastern. i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining us today. happy super bowl sunday. i can't wait. "cnn newsroom" continues right now with ashleigh banfield. >>> that is one excited anchor, carol costello, i know you love your football. i'll be thinking about you on sunday. hi, everybody, it's good to have you with us. i want to take you straight to wall street. big, big story happening. stocks are surging. and i don't mean

carol?wian reporting live from kansas city this morning. >>> news the postal service is cutting saturday delivery sparked question about whether the 237-year-old institution should be privatized. critics including postal service workers, the union, says that's a bad idea but others say it's the best way to save an important agency that ended last year's $16 billion in the red. athena jones is in washington this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, carol. it's not just scholars and academics talking about whether the postal service should be privatized. people we spoke with, customers, people who are postal customers say if a private person ran this postal service like a business, it would do better. people who were pro-privatization say that this would spark innovation, it would free the u.s. postal service from government interference, they believe government makes it too difficult for the postal service to solve the problems that it has and doing so would allow them to cut cos

i'm carol costello. we begin in southern california where an accused killer ex-cop is believed dead, his reign of terror over. police say it will take days to confirm that a body found inside this cabin is actually christopher dorner, the former los angeles cop who had vowed deadly vengeance for his firing. this is video from outside the cabin from cbs. he was spotted yesterday near big bear lake. he crashed a stolen car and then carjacked another vehicle from a camp ranger who happened to be on the scene. >> he came up to me with his gun pointed at me and i stopped my truck, put it in park, raised my hands and he said "i don't want to hurt you. get out and start walking up the road and take your dog" which is what i did. >> that triggered a short chase to the cabin where he opened fire on deputies as they converged. listen to the ferocious shoot-out captured on a reporter's cell phone. [ gunfire ] once dorner was cornered, the expert marxman killed one deputy and wounding another, that follows the trail

i'm carol costello. oscar pistorius will have to wait at least one more day to learn if he will be granted bail. the hearing for the olympic sprinter adjourned a little more than an hour ago. diser toious faces a premeditated murder charge in the valentine's day killing of his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. the defense attorney gave a cross-examination of the police investigator who responded to the crime scene of the home. here are the key points, the officer conceded a substance found in the house may not have been tst testosterone as he previously testified. there was no sign of an assault on steenkamp's body. the investigator did not oppose bail for pistorius and did not establish who owned ammunition in pistorius' safe. pistorius said it belonged to his father. witnesses who heard sounds of arguing were more than 650 yards away and the investigator says he went into pistorius' home without protective foot covering. robyn curnow is covering the trial for us in pretoria, south africa. >> reporter: good m

carol?nee marsh reporting live from washington this morning. >>> police in the chicago area are questioning two people in the murder of jenae mcfarland. the 18-year-old was killed on friday just hours after her sister sat behind president obama during his speech about gun control. mcfarland was walking with friends in a chicago suburb shortly before midnight when she was shot. >> all this gun violence going on out here, you never think it will be your child. this is the hardest thing for me in my life. >> i felt like somebody took a knife and stabbed me in the heart and took a piece of my heart that i will never, ever in my life get back. >> so far, no charges have been filed. >>> new details this morning on the pope's declining health. pope benedict xvi may be blind in his left eye. that's according to a german journalist who's interviewed the pope several times, most recently in december. he tells the newspaper that the pope's hearing has also faded. and he said that the pope was so thin,

diplomatic mission has been attacked in turkey, carol.t, turkish authorities say this was a suicide bomber killing one turkish guard who worked at the embassy and wounding another turkish citizen. from the initial glances at this, it does look like the fortifications, the protective measures around the embassy did appear to work. it doesn't seem like the suicide bomber got beyond that first bunker-like structure that guests and diplomatic personnel have to go through to try to get into the embassy. the u.s. ambassador was unhurt. he's come out and given a statement praying for the speedy recovery of a turkish woman who was wounded and expressing remorse for the death of the turkish guard. this was in a very heavily protected area with a lot of security personnel, and there are a lot of questions going to be asked now, which group may have wanted to carry out this attack against the u.s. embassy. >> ivan watson reporting live this morning. back here at home in the united states, a hostage drama enters a fourth day in southeast, alabama. po

i'm carol costello in washington.ne thing for sure, we will not stop talking about super bowl xlvii for a very long time, along with its electric halftime show and its electric free nightmare, the blackout early in the third quarter, plunging the superdome into darkness. the nfl title game grinding to a halt for 34 agonizing minutes. the loss of power frustrating players and coaches forced to stay on the field. it turned out to be a huge turning point in the game. and there was also the social media flutter that followed the much hyped commercials, and beyonce's halftime spectacular and her outfit that turned quite a few heads. we have reporters from new orleans to new york covering all that is super bowl this morning. but we start with the most memorable moment, an image the nfl and new orleans want to forget, the power outage that stopped the super bowl. the third quarter off to a roaring start. baltimore returned the kickoff with a 108-yard jacoby jones touchdown. that put the ravens ahead 28-6. san francisco was o

joining us from chicago is carol roth wgn radio host, carol, what do you think about this?m completely outraged about this. people need to understand if you have a job, sometimes you go above and beyond. communication is part of the job these days and yes, it follows us home, but that is part of the deal. if you have a problem with this, sit down with your supervisor, say this is getting excessive, but you can't do it and then go back retroactively and demand to be paid. it just goes to show that we are becoming the entitled states of america and in my opinion that's a very bad thing. david: carol, you're in chicago and this happened in chicago, this blackberry thing. chicago is surrounded by farmers, i've got to think that that super bowl commercial that focused on farmers from the old paul harvey speech from years ago, said by the time tuesday rolls around they've done 40 hours and ready to put in another 70 more. that kind of work ethic has got to resonate in chicago against this blackberry one right. >> there's a bifurcation in chicago. most of the farmers are not in th

carol?rting live from the new york stock exchange. >>> a tu ba player at lsu really, really stood out in the student band. now he's a standout on the, can you spot who the basketball player it? we'll be right back. it's chevy truck month! silverado was also recognized for the lowest cost of ownership. hey, what are you gonna do with it? end table. oh. [ male announcer ] it's chevy truck month. now get 0% financing for 60 months, plus trade up to get $1,750 total allowance on a silverado all-star edition. or trade up and choose customer cash plus option package discount for a total value of $7,250. >>> 47 minutes past the hour, a little bit of what's going on in las vegas, a car-to-car shoot-out down las vegas boulevard, that's on the las vegas strip. we understand the shooting started in front of a casino in these two cars, one of which was a maserati. then the cars started driving down las vegas boulevard, the drivers were apparently shooting at one another. we know from klas there are repo

thank you board of education members, superintendent carranza, principal carol fong, the teachers who are here and the great community for this great honor and award and recognition. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. we also like to call to the podium our chief of early learning carla bryant and director of early education to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the san francisco unified school district early education department. [applause] >> turn this -- >> good evening superintendent, president norton, vice mayor president fewer and board commissioners. it gives me great honor to talk about the wonderful history of the program now known as the early education department. the program has been in the district for 70 years serving family children from low income and high risk communities. we would like to take time in our day to actually celebrate those 70 years by actually doing besides the resolution two events. one is that we're going to have a dinner that will actually bring back former administrators, former site administrators, former ed's to come and just let everyone

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frederick and carol caroll counties, two-hour delay. >>> an autopsy will be done to determine how an elderly man in alexandria died. >> police are only calling the 90-year-old man's death suspicious. a family member called for help after finding him dead in his home on holly street. officers we mained at the scene overnight collecting evidence inside the home. investigators will most likely wait for word from the medical examiner before deciding whether this is a murder case. however, police are asking anyone with information to give them a call. >>> the funeral for 7-month-old little girl who died while her 14-year-old brother was taken care of her, the funeral takes place tonight. visitation was last night. last thursday night her mom left for work for an overnight shift. when she got home the following morning, the baby was dead. her 14-year-old brother told investigators he hit the little girl and put his hand over her mouth and nose so he could stop her from crying. he's being charged as an adult in the case. >>> the man convicted in chandra levy's murder case is expected back i

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absolutely, carol.y activists have been asking the president to weigh in and to come to chicago to his home city and weigh in on this horrible violence problem which is taking the lives of so many young people he's expected to lay out things that he'll talk about in this state of the union address. 42 murder, the most in january since 2002. one of those deaths is the 15 yald girl who had everything coming in to her, going to a great school here in chicago, her life cut short. that death has really struck a nerve not only here in chicago, but across the country. people are saying enough is enough. we've got to save these kids. >> ted rowlands reporting live from chicago this morning. the president's trip comes on the heels of the much anticipated state of the union. tomorrow night's speech will focus on the economy and according to politico, the president is expected to use political capital to push republicans to raise taxes and to inflict fewer budget cuts. cnn will have 34r50complete cov tomorrow nigh

carol, you're expecting this correction. ralf, you still think this market goes higher here, what are you looking at that's different here? ralph, you first. >> i would like to ask carol when she's talking about a correction, is she talking short term? >> yes. >> from a perspective, carol, i'm really a long-term investor, so a 5% or 10% correction, he can, that's a $20 stock going to 19 or 18, on its way to 30, so i -- i could care less about that correction. >> well, i think it depends on your perspective. i personally tend to be a longer term investor as well, but there are a lot of people who aren't so you have to look at the short and long-term perspective, and frankly with the way the markets have been going, it's been very short-term oriented in terms of the mentality. i think that there's a bigger risk that some unknown quantity, and lord knows we have enough with the currency war potential, with north korea, something that's not being priced in today, something that happens that causes a blip here in the market and s

(applause) carol and i are heros today so are all the social workers of san francisco general and we continue to be inspired by the work they do today. nobody want to have cancer it's not part of the plan that we all have for our lives it's most likely that each person here today has been itemed by can retro a friend or family member and now imagine going through surgery and if you are knew to this country and don't speak english if you are a single mother with no church or do a minimum wage job with no health insurance if you loss your home last month due to the rents raise in san francisco and are sleepling on a couch and amendment shorn is nothing if you don't have a safe place to go to sleep at night or a our patients didn't on san francisco hospital foundation and individuals like you here today to help them travel this journey with a little bit of diggity and carol and i wake up everyday to do this job that is so hard first of all, because we have the support of our friend and family that are here today we we it's an amazing thing to touch the life of someone evidence. it's rea

good night, carol. promises promises, promises. it makes me angry when people don't do what they say they will do. i promise i won't do that with "word play." i think you should know, sir there are people outside... placing pieces of wood with stripes on them all over the street in front of your cafe. and i promise i will not make you late for the rest of the story. shall we go ? well, mr. councilman knock 'em dead. jess, jess, jess, jess ! my fellow citizens as we look ahead and prepare to confront the difficult issues that loom before us the stakes could not be higher. do we want our government to tie the hands of our business community... with unnecessary rules and regulations ? no. no. or do we want-- or do we want to give them the freedom they need to pump new economic blood-- into-- what is wrong ? i'm sorry. this is not me. - and this definitely is not me. - jess ! look, the only reason i ran for city council in the first place... was because i got a water bill for $30,000 and i couldn't find anybody to do anything about it.

i'm carol costello. we begin this morning with what's being called the deadliest hot air balloon accident in the world in at least 20 years. 14 tourists killed today when a balloon exploded in the southern egyptian city of luxor. it's the site of some of egypt's most famous ruins. these were shot just before the explosion. rez reza sayah joins us this morning. >> reporter: this hot air balloon dropped 1,000 feet, the empire state building is a little more than 1,200 feet so this was a lengthy drop, officials say at least 19 people were killed, this incident happening in the city of luxor in southern egypt, the site of some of the most famous ancient ruins. officials saying 21 people were on board, almost all of them with the exception of the pilot were tourists, among them hong kong nationals, japanese nationals, british, the french. the operator of this hot air balloon was sky cruise. obviously there's going to be a lot of questions asked of the owner of the company. the hot air balloon plummeted when a