i'm christine romans at thesk in new york. >> and i'm john berman. 30 minutes past the hour. i'm at the anchor desk on the las vegas strip outside the wynn las vegas. it has arrived. the first democratic presidential debate is behind me at the resort hotel. only on cnn. frontrunner hillary clinton center stage. bernie sanders leading in new hampshire, but can he convince a wider audience to feel the bern. martin o'malley and lincoln chaffee and jim webb trying to make an impression to break through. we had one surprise here in las vegas. hillary clinton made a cameo appearance at a union rally outside a donald trump hotel. she could bash the gop frontrunner and appeal to organized labor. this is a group she needs here, particularly in nevada, but also across the country. senior political correspondent brianna keilar has the story. >> reporter: good morning, john and christine. hillary clinton arrived in las vegas and went to where? the trump hotel. that's where she joined union workers picketing outside the hote

christine, john. >> just an awful story. >>> hillary clinton will release a new plan to curb gun violence today. the proposal that could draw the most discussion using executive action to close loopholes. she wants to label anyone selling a high number of guns in the business of firearms dealing and subject to the same regulations as relatailers. this closes the gun show loophole. she wanted to lead a quote national movement to counter the nra. >>> the race to replace john boehner as house speaker is getting interesting. jason chaffetz throwing his hat into the ring. chaffetz was recruited by 50 republicans. they will not back the majority leader kevin mccarthy. chaffetz wants to bridge the divide. john boehner is stepping down at the end of this month. >>> the group doctors without borders is demanding an investigation over the deadly bombing in the hospital in the city of kunduz. the pentagon acknowledging it may have didn'tly h accidentall facility. we have more from our correspondent for us. we know the pentagon has an i

christine? >> thank you, elise. >>> breaking overnight. paul ryan clear maid jor hurdle in his bid to become speaker of the house. last night, a supermajority voted to support ryan. they didn't give him quite enough votes for a formal endorsement. >> the freedom caucus supports him but didn't fully endorse him. what does that mean in practical terms? >> we couldn't get 80% as our rules require. we got more than two-thirds of our group saying they want to support paul for speaker. so if paul really has the votes that we all think he has in the other portions of our conference, he's got enough votes to be the speaker of the house. >> ryan said earlier a formal endorsement as a condition for his bid. he tweeted last night. i'm grateful for the support of a supermajority of the house freedom caucus. i believe this is a positive step toward a unified republican team. the other two groups are pretty thank you much a done deal. >> his financial condition also was work/life balance. does the speaker of the house ever have work/life balance? >> you

christine. >> kathy novak, thank you. any developments. >>> new this morning, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu threatening harsh terrorism. on saturday, a 17-year-old killed two israelis in a knife and gun attack in the old city of jerusalem. that makes four israeli fatal y fatalities in a matter of days. israeli police are barring palestinian men under 50 from prayer services at the compound. cnn's erin mclaughlin has more. good morning, erin. this is a tense situation getting worse by the minute. >> reporter: that is right, john. things in jerusalem are extre extremely tense. israeli authorities, according to media reports, are considering additional security measures in response to the violence. we are expecting a decision from a cabinet meeting to be held later in the evening after a bloody weekend. a palestinian entered the area and stabbed two according to israeli police and a woman and infant child before police shot the attacker dead. hours later, outside the old city, according to israeli police, they sh

christine and alison. >> fascinating. no matter what. >>> president obama says hillary clinton made a mistake by using a private e-mail server during her time as secretary of state. he said the private server did not pose a national security problem. he said it is important for clinton to answer the questions to the satisfaction of the american public. >> she made a mistake. she acknowledged it. i think the way it has been talked up has been due to politics. she is the first to acknowledge she could have handled the original decision better and the disclosures more quickly. >> what was your reaction when you found out about it? >> this is one of the issues that i think is legitimate, but the fact that for the last three months, this is all that's been spoken about is an indication that we're in presidential political season. >>> another blow this morning to the house investigation into the benghazi attacks. just weeks after house majority leader mccarthy credited the investigation with damaging hillary clinton, a former s

john and christine. >>> thank you.eteran new orleans police officer fighting for his life after being shot in the neck. he was off duty driving in an unmarked car when he was shot sunday night. the victim, lieutenant derrick frick in critical condition. >>> new york city police divers found a gun that investigators believe was used in the fatal shooting of officer randolph holder. the authorities say it will be tested for dna, prints and ballistics. the suspect, 30-year-old tyrone howard is charged with shooting him in the head. >>> hurricane patricia pounding the coast. look at this. a drive's car stuck in high water and went into the flooding to rescue his vehicle. never a good idea. you can see other cars in houston submerged. areas around houston saw 9 inches of rain. the suburbs saw more than a foot. all of this, john, moving and swamping louisiana. we will feel it up here. >> what is in store for today? let's bring in meteorologist pedram javaheri. >> good morning, john and christine. improving conditions across

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john and christine. >> thank you. a policeman hunt in new mexico for the suspect in a deadly road rage in albuquerque, authorities say two cars were traveling on interstate 40 when they fired, hitting a 4-year-old girl. >> we will confirm the four-year-old child has passed away. we are begging for the community's help. this should have never happened. this is a complete disrespect of human life. we are starting to see this throughout our nation. this is something that should not be happening. >> the child's parents were not injured. police have a description of the car driven by the shooter. >> that car has not yet been found. federal officials are looking for information leading to an arrest of an arson fire of six churchs in st. louis over the past weeks. each of the fires was set at the front doors. the six churches are within 3 miles of each other. no one luckily has been injured. >>> police are pushing for a reduction in the prison population. it includes bill bratton, members of the group are scheduled to meet w

i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman. the breaking news this morning, new information about the 26-year-old gunman who killed ten people, injured seven others in the bloody campus massacre in oregon. the police showed up at umpqua community college with body armor. according to a father of a wounded student, he entered the classroom and asked victims if they were christian during the killing spree as he opened fire. >> he came in and there was gunfire immediately and scattered the room and got everyone's attention. what she said is he shot the professor point blank. one shot. killed him. took him right out. others had been injured. this man had enough time -- i don't know how much time elapsed before he was able to stand there and start asking people one by one what their religion was. are you a christian, he would ask them. if you're christian, they would stand up. he said because you're christian, you will see god in one second. he kept going down the lining doing this. >> let's get the latest from john vause on the gro

christine waither lives in the same slum as monica. she and her son share a space 10 meters square, with no electricity and no running water. christine was thrown out by her mother when she was 12. christine: i was living with other girls down here and didn't know how to make money. they show you how to make money. so when i went there i met this cop. i can't talk about it. reporter: you don't have to talk about it. reporter: despite that trauma, she still works as a prostitute so her son can go to school, something she was unable to do. christine: this one, a chart for my son, to school. a for apple. you see, i want for him a better life. i don't want him to pass through what i did, what my mother did -- i don't want my children to be like this. but now i started having the child when i'm 15. i never wished to have them at that age. yeah. reporter: despite her misery, christine is trying to stay strong for her son. together with monica, she attends the self-help group in the neighboring district. here they share what they've learned w

hi, ian. >> reporter: good morning, christine. we are hearing from putin that he said that his main objective in syria is to ensure the stability of the regime of president bashar al assad. he promised there be no ground operations. it doesn't look like they need russia troops on the ground as the air strikes have been able to provide support for the regime fighters. also the lebanese fighters, hezbollah. talking to state media, putin gave other reasons why he is in syria. >> translator: of course, such dangers exist. they had existed. even without our active action in syria. in case we would not let them, pardon my bad manner, squirrel away to syria, all of those running away with kalashnikov rifles. now we are fighting them over there. >> reporter: christine, he is referring to russians who have gone to syria to fight. many of them from chechnya. he doesn't want to see these fightersrussia. the president gave a jab to the united states. the $500 million set aside to train fighters, eventually that program was suspended. putin sa

>> reporter: christine, the response is mixed.re are people who are outraged that oscar pistorius got out of jail just shy of a year in prison of the five-year sentence. he is now swapped his jail cell for a three-story mansion at his uncle's house in pretoria. his circumstances have changed. moments ago, the spokesperson on the pistorius family said it is not like he is led free. >> the family is happy oscar's home, but they want to make point the sentence continues. that is the key point here. his sentence is not shortened. he continues to serve his sentence as per the sentence handed down by the trial judge. >> reporter: christine, he will be in some form of house arrest for the next few years. we do not know what the conditions are. his movement will be restricted. he will have to do community service out in the part of south africa and he will have other conditions like not being able to access firearms. he will not be able to drink or use drugs. he will be closely monitored. there are some sections of society say because of

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alison and christine. >>> sunlen, thanks.s for the democrats, bernie sanders could be hitting a critical stretch. his campaign has been more aggressive in criticizing hillary clinton since the first debate. sanders met with vice president biden. he begins a two-day campaign string in new hampshire today. hillary clinton is working southern strategy speaking at an african-american rally today. >>> all right. friday edition. time for an early start on your money. asian stocks ended lower. european stocks and u.s. stock futures are higher. a slight pull back. gopro shares fell 15%. this time last year, stocks was soaring. harsh reality for gopro. that market might not be very big. sales are tumbling and gopro will contract during the holiday season. that chart looks like a video footage from a gopro camera. >>> foreign direct investment hit $200 billion in the first half of the year. investors optimistic about the u.s. economy as the global economy is weaker. foreign entities are moving overseas. >> you can run, but you can't hi

christine. >> phil black for us in jerusalem. for that. >>> this morning, the feud between donald trump and jeb bush taken to a new level. the two candidates are fighting over 9/11 and whether it could have been prevented. we have the latest next. >>> a new feud firing up on the campaign trail. donald trump and jeb bush fighting over the 9/11 terror attack. could it have been prevented? >>> the benghazi hearing people have been waiting for months. hillary clinton testifies on thursday. the chairman of the committee speaks out and says this is not just a political witch hunt. welcome back to "early start." i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. it is 30 minutes past the hour. new developments in the feud between donald trump and jeb bush. trump pinning some responsibility of 9/11 on george w. bush. jeb bush said his brother kept america safe. trump said you always have responsibility because you are the president. trump claimed his tough immigration policies would have stopped the 9/11 hijackers from ever boarding the planes. j

i'm back now with drew and christine, and christine, before the break you heard drew talk about someotections that are built into the websites. are they sufficient? >> yes, i think that it's instructive to look at the online gaming sites out of europe, for example. be-win party. harvard medical school did a really interesting study of they players, and they found that though they didn't find a high rate of problems among their subscribers, they did find that many of the -- the ability to limit your wagers, and the ability -- easy ability to opt out of the program really made a difference for some people. so i think we should probably look to that. of course that study did not include u.s. audiences, and therefore, might not be generalizable to the u.s. but i think it's worth looking at. >> isn't there a certain amount of self identification that goes on, and they can you questions, but it's really up to you to answer them honestly, before you can pass various thresholds in science. we would have to conclude that no high school boys are watching internet porn or playing poker online i

i'm christine romans. we may be days away from learning if joe biden will join the race for president. a senior democratic official telling cnn the word from biden's circle is he will decide by sunday. one says his family is totally on board with a run and he wants to do this. in the wake of the cnn democratic debate and solids performances from bernie sanders and hillary clinton, many are asking if there is room for him in the race. >> have you made your decision yet? >> i can't hear you. >> have you made your decision yet? is there still an opening for you in the race, sir? >> i'm here. i'll talk about that later. >> sources tell cnn that biden has personally been making calls in early primary states asking questions about how, but not whether to launch a 2016 bid. a senior official says those close to biden are giving no indication what his decision may be. with the official says there is growing i mpatience over the drawn out uncertainty. >>> hillary clinton with events in two cities. she was in texas

i'm christine romans.3 >> i'm alison kosik. breaking overnight. an iranian-american businessman identified as siamak namazi arrested in iran. he is the head of strategic companies. he was arrested by iranian security forces visiting family two weeks ago. this is complicating the peace talks under way in austria. let's bring in senior correspondent frederik pleitgen. what is the justification for arresting him and how much is this really complicating the already complicated talks going on about what to do with bashar al assad? >> reporter: so far, alison, it hasn't been a justification for why namazi has been detained. we have heard his passport was taken away before he was detained and taken to the prison which is also where jason rezaian has been sitting for more than 450 days. the washington post reporter apparently convicted of espionage. quite an inn transparent process. that is what we are seeing here. the forces that arrested mr. namazi or detained mr. namazi are part also of the hard line security forces that answer to iran's supreme leader

christine and alison. >> thank you. bernie sanders riding his momentum from the debate this morning. you know, his campaign now a shift in focus trying to pivot from a focus on building excitement with huge rallies. now the campaign is adding smaller events aimed at persuading voters he can win. he can make it all the way to the white house. cnn's sunlen serfaty is with the sanders campaign. she is at the white house with more. >> reporter: for the moment, bernie sanders is really trying to capitalize through momentum and money. he is building off that $2 million that his campaign is out touting they raised since the debate performance. here in los angeles, held a pair of fund-raisers with $150,000 additional for the campaign. and speaking out where he specifically went out of the way to reference the money erashe rd and the moment he spoke about hillary clinton's e-mails. >> i am tired of hillary's e-mails. let's talk about real issues. >> reporter: today, bernie sanders will make an attempt to show his softer side. we

i'm christine romans, u.s. stock futures are up a bit right now.g news will come from the federal reserve. no interest rate hike is expected. look for any clues about the fed's read of the u.s. economy this fall him any clues about whether there could be a december increase in interest rates only about 30% of market participants think the feds will raise rates, janet yellen said all year it will be appropriate to raise rates. big merger news driving stocks, walgreens wants to buy rite aid for $17.2 billion and three chinese firms want to buy starwood hotels. apple still booming with start-up like growth. look at this. profits jumped 31% last quarter. sales soared. apple sol 48 million iphones, a record 5.7 million max. the company also posted big growth in services like apple music in its other category that includes apple tv and watches. ipads, the biggest stocks here, apple sales doubled as the economy faces hurdles. a lot of folks watching apple in china. sales there doubled. it's not all rosie, twitter shares tanking before the bell jack dorsey

john, christine? >> thanks so much. >>> breaking overnight, congressman paul ryan cleared a pretty big hurdle in his bid to become the speaker of the house. overnight, a super majority of the house freedom caucus, the group of conservative republicans voted to back ryan. they say to support him. he didn't get fight enough support for a formal endorsement. >> the freedom caucus supports him but didn't fully endorse him. what does that mean in practical terms? >> it means we couldn't get 80% as our rules require but we got more than two-theirs of the group that said they wanted to support paul for speaker. if he has the votes that we all think that he has in other portions of our conference, he has enough votes to be the speaker of the house. >> paul ryan had earlier set a firmal endorsement as a condition by his bid. by last night, two-theirs with be that was enough for him. he put out a tweet, i'm grateful for the majority of the support from the house freedom caucus. i believe this is a positive step

i'm back with drew, and joining us from boston is christine riley, the senior research director from national center for responsible game of course, and christine, if you think about it, between lotteries and various kind of online games, and the multiplication from around the country, they can play games of chance. the opportunity seemed to be ubiquitous compared to a generation or two ago. is that fair. >> yes, yes. over the past 40 years there has been an expansion of illegal gambling, the ray for disordered gambling is relatively stable. so it's the assumption of the scientific community that the exposure has not made much difference in the rate, it's 1% of the population in the u.s. >> what is disorder gambling, what crosses the threshold? >> there's many criteria, a lot sound like drug and alcohol abuse. bsh the person may try to stop. and then get in trouble with work or family for trying to hide their debts. and try to recoup their losses, to try to make up for the losses. overall, it's like addiction, it's continuing to do something, in spite of adverse consequences. >> befo

i'm john berman. >> i'm christineinutes past the hour. let's show you the cell phone video of the classroom in south carolina. it shows a school resource officer body slamming a female student after she refused to get up from her chair. the officer dragging her across the room. the officer in the video identified at deputy ben fields. he has been placed on administrative leave while police investigate. police are still trying to investigate what led up to the incident. >> the student was asked to leave several times by the teacher. then the assistant principal was called to the scene. what we saw was a tid-bit of what that video showed. we will look at what led up to it and what happened afterwards. >> we are learning the officer in question, ben fields, is a question of two lawsuits in the past decade. >>> a major budget deal that could bring peace to washington for more than a years. an agreement was brought together. the deal is dividing republicans. some say house majority leader john boehner gave too much away an

john and christine?thank you, dana. the presidential candidates jumped on this testimony and blamed hillary clinton for the security lapses in benghazi. overnight marco rubio and jeb bush both talked about this. >> she has always felt and clintons have always felt they operate above the law. there's a set of rules for one group of people and a set of rules for them. >> she's not accepting responsibility. >> let's get more on the republicans from joe johns. >> john and christine, as hillary clinton testified in that marathon session on benghazi on capitol hill, some of the republican presidential candidates were following the proceedings with interest and weighing in on twitter, including south carolina senator lindsey graham, who tweeted, as threats increase, security decreased. hillary clinton is responsible above all others for this dynamic. graham also expressing support for trey gowdy, the republican chairman of the committee. he tweeted, for those who want to avoid responsibility for their actions r

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans.after a while watching tour boat capsized near the town of tofino. officials say 21 people were rescued. one remains missing. they say a search and rescue efforts have finished. the investigation is now a missing persons case. no word on the cause of the disaster. >>> this morning, donald trump on the attack. he is now running second to ben carson in iowa. over the weekend, trump raised carson's faith as an issue and raised stance on immigration and trade and super low energy level. as for ben carson, he spent the weekend ducking these punches. cnn's ryan noble has the latest from washington. >> reporter: trump will be in new hampshire after a weekend of tweaking his rival, ben carson. trump tout his presbyterian faith and said he did not know what a seventh day adventist is. carson is a seventh day adventist is. trump said that polls show him leading with evangelical voters, but a quinnipiac poll shows donald trump leading nationally. >> i think carson is a low energy person. i think

let's go live to christine romans backyard. >> let's go live to pedram javaheri. >> john and christine, good morning. yes, the cold air is felt across the country. a stretch of 1,100 miles from mississippi to new england seeing the frost advisories and freeze warnings in place across the region. temperatures about 10 to 13 degrees below normal. boston, 32. 45 is normal. new york city is 32. look how quickly the cold air departs. high pressure establishes itself. we have clear nights, but clear days. warm air developing over the region. we are talking about temperatures getting up quickly from 53 today in new york to 68 eventually. we get up to room temperature on wednesday afternoon. even d.c. out of the 50s into the mid-70s. in the midwest, temperatures warming up. 54 yesterday in milwaukee. should be close to 70 this afternoon. chicago also warming up to 73 by this afternoon with mild air looking to settle from wednesday to the latter portion of the week. guys. >>> pedram, thank you. big news overnight. not that. why are we showing that replay? that's dumb. that was dumb right there.

christine and alison. >> thanks for that. it appears that president obama is rethinking his plan for pulling almost all of the u.s. forces out of afghanistan by the end of the year next year. there are currently 10,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan. the president's original plan called for whittling down that number by 1,000 by the time he leaves office. now the administration is expected to keep 5,500 troops there by the end of 2016. that is because of the resurging taliban and growing threats from isis and al qaeda. >>> just last month, the taliban overran the city of kunduz. now officials are worried more cities could fall. taliban targeting the city of ghazni. >>> long lines and flight delays for millions of air travelers on wednesday. all caused by a glitch in the homeland security system. u.s. customs and border protection says the program that matches passenger name ws with terror watch list was down. it was down 90 minutes. it caused back ups in new york and boston and atlanta. >>> good start to stocks around the world.

john, christine. >> such a sat story.yone with no rain in the forecast nor the carolinas, the situation there still dangerous. i want to bring in our meteorologist. >> good morning, high pressure is back. that's the good news. we are getting dry conditions across parts of south carolina, columbia will drop off conditions, thunderstorms possible. generally beyond sales and marketing everything looks dry, an expansive area of dry pressure, we have cold temperatures in much of the northern tier of the country, the ice bongs of the u.s. international falls working their way north of minneapolis, st. cloud, seeing cold conditions. generally clear. temperatures warm up into the mid and upper 50s. a gorgeous perspective, if atlanta, we make it to 81 degrees, south carolina has had issues, southern california, the single driest location. half an inch came down. it doesn't sound like much. in columbia that occurred. that is 29% of their annual average, which is just shy of two inches. compare that to south carolina and substantial

christine. >>reporter: good morning. the winds are whipping us around, as you can see here in sea bright, new jersey. take a look behind me. we are standing on a berm, and this storm is battering the jersey shoreline. the waves slamming against the shore. but here in this town it's not so much the ocean that's threatening the community, but a river just a block away. rough surf, strong winds and steady rain that swelled up the shrewesbury river, causing flooding on streets in sea bright, new jersey, the town vulnerable because it's squeezed in between the river and the ocean. the high water is bringing back bad memories of another storm. >> it sent all of us into a bit of a panic because it brought back all of sandy and we heard sandy on the news and it kind of gets your heart racing. >>reporter: this small town still rebuilding after sandy is on edge. >> it's pretty bad. my mother-in-law lives in town, she was evacuated for a few weeks, so we're hoping not to have is a repeat of that. >>reporte

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. >> with two hours sleep, i'm christine romans. the accusations are flying after the prickly squirm in your seat debate. going after the media and going after each other. >> just resign and let someone else take the job. >> the only reason you are doing this now is because we are running for the same position. >> he was so nice. he was such a nice guy. he said i will never attack. then his poll numbers tanked. that's why he's on the end. >> the leading republican candidate when you look at the average polls is donald trump. when you look at him, do you see someone with the moral authority to unite the country? >> you know, the few questions i got, the last thing i need is to give him more time. i'm wearing a trump tie tonight. get over that one. >> to be fair, were you on the home page with the logo over your shoulder. >> if somebody put me on their home page, they did it without my permission. it speaks to the fact i don't know. >> we had $19 trillion in debt. we had people out of work. we have isis and al qaeda attacking us and w

i do not like your forecast. >> i like you, too, christine.e hope for the european model to take this offshore and this becomes a preparation. >> this is so recent from super storm sandy. that was disruptive and dangerous. it is not forecast to be anything like that. >> you know, christine, it is interesting. the last time we had a weather pattern and typically, you don't get hurricanes impacting this side of the country. they guide storms offshore. this trough is resembling what sandy did to try to guide the tropical feature to the northeast. the model despaisparity is larg right now. we are hoping that plays out here. >> thanks for that. >> i usually say i'm a fan of the european model for different reasons. thank you, pedram. >>> the eyes of the world are on syria, of course. the u.s. countering the russian claims that the air strikes targeted isis. the word first came when the russian appeared at the american embassy in baghdad with a note that warning the u.s. should stay out of the air space. barbara starr asked ash carter about the move

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as christine lagarde warns that low commodity prices could persist for long periods. and twitter chatter. shares spike on speculation that cofounder jack dorsey will be named permanent ceo. you are welcome to "the pulse" live from london. i am manus cranny. breaking news on the eurozone. the whole of the manufacturing for the eurozone comes in at 52. so that is a pulmonary reading. tha -- a preliminary reading. a little bit of a drop for spain. germany disappointed before he came to air. don't be fooled. analysts say it will make it to 1.20 by early next year. that is the state of play on the eurozone. manufacturing. let's talk about one other country -- it is china. more evidence this morning that china's stimulus measures may be working. the word is stability. figures show that manufacturing stabilized in the last month. $5 trillion wiped off the chinese stock markets. mark? mark: china closed for a week. the chinese stock market, still chinese data continuing to set the tone. is the chinese economy stabilizing? yes, the additional gauges below the 50 level but it w

i'm christine romans. >> i'm alison kosik. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. this morning, we may be just days away from learning whether joe biden will join the race for president. as senior democratic official tells cnn the world from biden's inner circle is he will likely decide by sunday. one top official says quote his family is totally on board with a run and that he wants to do this, but in the wake of the cnn democratic debate and solid performances from hillary clinton and bernie sanders, many are asking if there is room for biden in the race. >> have you made your decision yet? >> i can't hear you. >> have you made your decision yet? is there an opening for you in the race, sir? >> i'm here to brief the president. i'll talk to you about that later. >> i'll use that i can't hear you excuse when someone asks me a question. sources tell cnn that biden has personally been making calls to strategists in early primary states asking questions about how, but not whether to launch a 2016 bid. those close to biden are giving no indication what his decision cou

john, christine. >> but the search does go on.igh water in these conditions are still dangerous in south carolina, but relief is in sight. let's bring in our meteorologist. >> good morning to you guys, high pressure is back. we are finally getting dry conditions. an expansive area of high pressure will keep that it way. we have cold weather and an increase where you expect this the ice box international falls, working near st. cloud seeing cold conditions, generally clear over this region. temperatures dropping off into the mid-30s. they warm up across that region. gorgeous perspective in new york city. down in tlaernths we make it to 81 degrees, south carolina has had issues. southern california the driest location in north america, they had record rainfall. about a half an inch came down in 24 hours, which doesn't sound like much when you compare it to the 11 plus in columbia. but that is 29% of their annual average, just shy of two inches. compare that to south carolina, a much larger infrastructure and substantially more damag

john and christine. >> manu, thank you. donald trump will be in iowa trying to whip up support in sioux city. he has said he has work to do in his own words in iowa. a new poll finds trump second behind ben carson among iowa republicans. in the monmouth university poll, carson at 32%. trump at 18% and jeb bush at 8%. new details in the campaign. this is a rally for donors in houston. this is the first time jeb appeared on stage with his brother and also there is barbara and his father george h.w. bush. today, jeb bush arrives in colorado ahead of the republican debate in boulder. >>> and bernie sanders passed on a chance to take shots at hillary clinton. during a speech in iowa over the weekend. he portrayed clinton as a flip-flopper. given the same or worse on "the view," he changed the subject. he told rachel maddow says he wants to draw distinctions between the records. he says she has been rewriting history when talking about the 1996 defense of marriage act. >> all i criticized secretary clinton on is something that wa

i'm john berman. >> i'm christine romans. 4:31 in the east. a squirm in your seat republican debate. republicans sharpened attacks in boulder, colorado. candidates trained their sights on the media. >> just resign and let someone else take the job. >> the only reason you are doing this now is because we are running for the same position. >> he was so nice. he was such a nice guy. he said i'll never attack. then his poll numbers tanked. that's why he's on the end. >> leading republican candidate is donald trump. when you look at him, do you see someone with the moral authority to unite the country? >> you know, with the few questions i got, the last thing i need to do is give him more time. i'm wearing a trump tie tonight. >> you were on the home page with their logo over your shoulder. >> if someone put me on their home page, they did it without my permission. >> does that speak to your judgment or vetting process? >> we have people out of work. we have isis and al qaeda attacking us and we're talking about fantasy football? >> for the latest,

new jersey, christine sloan, >> thank you, christine. >>> in new york people on fire island spent the day preparing for the storm. cbs 2's vanessa murdoch live in robert moses state park with our mobile weather lab. vanessa. >> reporter: well, dana, it is not any better than it has been here all day. this has been the situation cold, windy, wet, unpleasant, to be precise. these are the conditions. it is 48-point -- [ inaudible ] [ [ signal breakup ] >> reporter: winds at 27.5 miles per hour. they have been over 30 as we measure them with the mobile weather lab. that means wind chills are down into the 30s for us. lonnie talked about the persistent northeast winds at issue is we have pounding surf and water is being pushed inland in places like lindenhurst. and in ocean beach where they don't need to see any more flooding they are trying to recover from sandy. but certainly we caught those roadways just completely covered with water today. in addition to that, waves as high as 10 feet persistently crashed upon the shore in a place where the beach is already compromised. downtown have b

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we are live in sea bright, new jersey, christine sloan, cbs 2 news. >> christine, thank you. >>> the storm also slammed parts of long island and staten island. cbs 2's allana gold joins us live from castleton corners on staten island with a look at the damage there. allana. >>reporter: diane, the storm has caused some big storms here on staten island. it took down dozens of trees and blew out several transformers. one of them was right here at this intersection, but the incident has since been resolved. we want to show you video of another incident. this was in great kills last night just off of windsor road. the wind took down power lines and you can see the fiery and smoky scene. but the storm has also taken a toll on suffolk county. this is video from lindenhurst on 9th street. this area was flooded during high tide, underneath several inches of water. the wind here caused some damage too, knocking out power and tearing down trees. this is just one of the trees that came crashing down in stoneybrook. it's at the corner of north country road and beacon hill drive. crews were on sce

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. >>> i am joined now by christine dennison, an ocean explorer. christine, you heard the captain from the coast guard just now. give us your take on what the rest of the crews are up against. >> i think captain fedor expressed exactly what the conditions are very clearly. they're up against really nasty storm, they're up against huge seas, up against bad weather, and that makes for a very complicated and difficult search pattern. they are following the storm, find thing life raft is a very good sign. at this point, all they can do is wait for the weather to calm down. >> you're familiar with the ocean. you're an ocean explorer. they went out on tuesday night. should they have known the dangers that they would be coming upon given the route they were taking? this isn't 1930. we have an idea, advanced notice of these kinds of storms. >> i agree with you. i know this area, having run several expeditions to this area, and you have water starting at 5,000 feet going down to 15,000 feet. very deep water. there's nowhere to run in this area. so i would l

i'm christine romans. >> i'm john berman, great to see you.reaking overnighting paul ryan says he will do it after saying no, no thanks, no way. the republican congressman from wisconsin who was the party's last nominee, he now says he is willing to be speaker of the house. he says it is my way or go have it imploding on your own. ryan is demanding unanimity, including law makers that forced out the current speaker, the heir apparent kevin mccarthy, once more, ryan set a deadline friday for everyone to see things his way. if life were only like this for me. let's go to cnn washington correspondent jeff zeleney. >> reporter: good morning, john, christine, congressman paul ryan the republican from wisconsin who served as mitt romney's running mate in 2012 has now agreed to serve as the next house speaker but only under the condition that fractured congressional republicans work together and present a unified front. now ryan met last night with republicans on capitol hill and issued what could be described a political pre nupttial agreement. he s