david morrissey is with us this morning. >> not looking my best there, was i? >> why do you think a show about zombies is so wildly -- and i mean wildly -- popular? >> i think it's to do with it can focus our imagination to be in sort of a place with that type of danger. we like to be scared, don't we? i think that's the big thing. it's a bigger show than the zombies. it's about survival, human survival. it's about what we will go through. it's interesting showing that australian clip about what we will do in times of crisis. we never know ourselves until we're tested. we like to think of ourselves. >> tested all the time in this show. >> i watch "walking dead." that's exactly why i watch it. i would imagine some watch it for the many opportunities they have to kill zombieses or put themselves in that situation. it's essentially "lord of the flies." it's what happens if we're expected to start over from scratch. how would you react? >> are you good or bad? >> good or bad to whom? he's somebody who's really -- i think he's trying to protect his people, but safet

awards, they take place sunday night plus the hit amc show "the walking dead" david morrissey will join us to talk about that. remember the darth vader volkswagen ad, sneak peek at the ads for the super bowl. >>> "cnn newsroom" with carol costello right now. >> thank you, soledad. conservatives in charlotte with a sweeping message of change. >> we have to stop being the stupid party. we must quit big. we are not the party of big business, big banks, big wall street bailouts, big loopholes or big anything. >> governor bobby jindal and the importance of messaging. >>> the first u.s. president to support same-sex marriage in his inaugural address, this morning the head of the gay and lesbian task force is here to talk obama, defense of marriage act and gays in the workplace. >>> plus this -- >> i'm just calling to say good night, i love you. >> hear the late night voice mails that landed manti te'o in katie couric's chair and the question that has everyone talking this morning. >> are you gay? >> no, far from it, far from that. >> the hoax, the dead girlfriend, and the interview you got to