fsu is up 24-0.wonderful panel now to debate how hometown authorities handled rape allegations against the fsu where the back, heisman candidate jameis winston. both wendy and mark are good friends. former texas prosecutor wendy murphy. rape survivor katie costner. >> it's actually katie kessner. >> thank you. founder of take back the night and rape survivor jessica brown. your reaction to attorney tim jansen's interview. wendy, how did you see it? >> look, did he not tell the truth consistently at all. and i think it was pretty shocking, frankly, to hear him misstate such important evidence. let me say one simple thing. i've been doing this work for decades. when someone reports that a serious crime happened and there is no motive to lie, which apparently everybody agrees is true here -- there's no motive for the victim to lie -- and she reports it right away and the perpetrator takes the fifth, i would say already we've got a big thumb on the scale in favor of the victim. what we also have here, as

fresh from the fsu victory that's sending his team to the national championship, jameis winston reacts to news that he won't face sexual assault charges. >> everybody had my back. >>> and where is everybody? the man who got left on a plane. >> i woke up. and, uh -- the lights were out. i was like, what's going on? >> cabin doors locked tight. what he did next and what the airline is saying about the whole thing. >>> and good morning, america. on a very busy sunday morning. >> i was going to say, you have to be a really heavy sleeper to sleep through landing and they clear the plane and drag the plane away. >> it's still not his fault. how did he -- he wasn't a tiny guy. how did they not see him? >> fair enough. fair enough. >> that's one of the stories we want to get to. we have a very busy morning. >>> we want to begin with the deadly winter blast that's left thousands in a deep freeze all across the country. >> frigid temperatures, ice, and snow. from california to new york. we want to welcome wabc's chief meteorologist lee goldberg. who is tracking all of the extreme weather for us.

an fsu student accusing 19-year-old superstar quarterback jameis winston of sexual assault.h his life, career and even the heisman trophy on the line, prosecutors said thursday he would not be charged. and then last night, winston helped fsu win that all-important acc championship against duke and spoke out during a live post-game interview here on abc. >> we came together, everybody had my back. >> reporter: especially, he says, fsu head coach jimbo fisher. >> how much did that trust from your head coach help you? >> i love him. i love him. we got to have that. that is how you have a successful team, that's how you do what we did today. we are trying to make history. we got to keep going. >> reporter: it was a year ago that the accuser told police winston raped her after a night out with friends. winston's attorney says it was consensual sex, and the state attorney said there was not enough evidence to charge him. >> what did you learn during the investigation? >> i learned i got to get more mature. i got to get better at everything i do. >> reporter: after the fourth quest

and miggs, that state attorney, an fsu grad and undergraduate and an fsu grad in law school, a big boosters? come on, this is an old boys network. and what happened to that woman is outrageous! i'm telling you, this is something -- this is football, not just -- >> if this ever happens to anybody or anybody's daughter or anybody, anything like that, go to the hospital, go to the hospital. that's the advice. get examined, because -- >> oh, she did have a rape kit. she had a rape kit. the interview first, then the rape kit, so eventually, they did. so, there is great documentary evidence. we know she had sex with that guy that night -- >> right, we just don't know it it was forced all right, another situation involving football players, the university of north carolina. we only have 90 seconds. a professor has been charged with a felony for doing what? >> he created a class. the chairman of the department of afro studies and african-american studies created a class, a lecture series attended by 18 of the university of north carolina at chapel hill football players and a retired football playe

but fsu comes into this game a 30-point favorite.le are looking at fsu as being the most dominant team in college football. if fsu wins, it's simple. they're in the national championship game. if duke wins, if they somehow pull off the biggesty up set of the year, that would mean the s.e.c. champ would slide into the national championship game, and then you've got at 8:00 p.m. eastern tonight, the same time as the s.e.c. championship, you have the big ten championship game. and number 2 ohio state wins, they're in the national championship. this game against michigan state is the most probable game for an upset. i'm calling michigan state potentially upsets ohio state in this game, and that would open the door wide open for the s.e.c. champ to get in. you know, when you talk about the s.e.c., the conference of college football, think of this. if florida state loses somehow tonight, and if ohio state somehow loses tonight, that opens the door for alabama to get into the national championship game, to play the s.e.c. champs. so how abo

now, fsu, the number one team in college football will play at the bcs national championship againstn next month. the heisman finalists will be announced tonight at 6:00 p.m. eastern on her sister network, espn. >> i guess we'll find out if christine brennan is right. >> it will be landslide. your vote? >> yeah. >>> back to ginger zee. the new snow coming our way tonight? tomorrow? >> yes. we have to get through the slick roads of this morning. and then yes, another storm. let me get straight to it. to show you what you're going to expect here. this is tonight through early tomorrow, and it's going to be up to a half foot of snow in some places. we're getting blast after blast of winter. look at that 4 for d.c. one of the models, almost 2 1/2 for new york city itself. and behind it, yeah, it stays cold. look at all of that cold air, even colder than we have been, slipping below freezing for most of the week. in new york city. washington, d.c. staying right there. thursday, 29. your local forecast coming up. >> there is one warm spot on the map. it's florida. i'll tell you if they sta

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>>> some other news this off the field, florida state jameis winston will not face charges after an fsutudent accused him of sexual assault last december. yesterday the state attorney said there is not enough evidence to file charges. the decision now clears the way for the heisman trophy candidate to finish the season with the top ranked seminoles and they play duke of all teams in the acc championship game on saturday. >>> let's go to bill karins. obviously dealing with some major weather going into the weekend. travel could be snarled but i mean maybe not a lot of people need to go anywhere. >> hopefully not. i've read i think 1200 flights have been canceled in the last two days alone and on the east coast it's weird this morning, almost 70 in atlanta to start the morning and in new york city it's 61 degrees. >> foggy coming in. >> very foggy. new england be careful driving out there. the big story is the ice storm and the people that are in arkansas and tennessee, they're losing power at this hour because of the tree limbs falling down. the storm yesterday rolled into oklahoma towar

this is fsu quarterback jameis winston, so he had been accused of raping a young woman, the incident apparently taking place about a year ago. so we had just been waiting for the big moment, which has now happened in florida. florida state attorney willy mags officially announcing moments ago that winston would not be facing charges. in case you missed it, let me play that for you first. >> i know there's been a lot of concern about the length of time that we've taken to complete our investigation. but i want to assure you that our timing should not and has not been driven by any heisman demands or football schedule. as we do with every case that comes before us, we wanted to be confident in the decision we make and make sure we make the right decision. i have been in law enforcement nearly 50 years. and my prosecution experience has taught me that we need to handle each case equally and fairly. and it's a search for the truth. we did so in this case. our city has two universities, major universities here. and we have dealt with athletes on prior occasions, and made decisions at some

he'll lead fsu against auburn for college football's national title on january 6th. >>> parts of theiconic houston astrodome have been reduced to rubble. >> one, fire in the hole. [ explosion ] >> three giant ramp towers were demolished last night in a matter of seconds. they had been added in the late '80s. the implosion was part of an asbestos removal project. the fate of the rest of the astrodome remains in limbo after a plan to save it was rejected. >>> tonight's monday night football matchup pits the cowboys against the bears. it's happening in chicago. >> as for yesterday's snow-filled day in the nfl, we get details now from espn. >>> good morning, america. welcome to "sportscenter." i'm steve levy. do you like snow with your football? perfect. we have got highlights for you. let's start in baltimore. whole lot of white stuff. the vikings taking on the ravens. fans out braving the elements. got plows on the field. ten seconds left. ravens down, 26-22. joe flacco, back of the end zone, a marlon brown. just barely keeps his feet in. ravens win, 29-26. john harbaugh relieved. they

here he is walking to practice hours after the state attorney announced the fsu quarterback would notcharges. >> we will not follow charge if we do not feel we have sufficient evidence to make the charge. >> nearly a year ago another fsu student accused him of assaulting her after a night out drinking with friends. she said she had five to six shots of alcohol and tried to fight him off in an apartment. winston's attorney saying, nonsense >> this was a consensual encounter. we believed it then. we believe it now. >> reporter: the state attorney estimating thursday that her blood alcohol was a 0.10, slightly above florida's legal driving limit at the time of the incident. and the witnesses who say it appeared consensual. >> there were several people in the room when this event occurred. >> reporter: but the investigation was mired in controversy. the accuser's attorney claimed cops told her, tallahassee was a big football town. that her client needs to think long and hard before accusing winston because her life would be made miserable. police say she chose not to prosecute. the case w

controversy continues to swirl around fsu's star quarterback, jamus winston. mentality we created. it's easier we are hungry. it's not like all, man two game as

he was the boyfriend of the 19-year-old accuser who is not a member of the fsu football team. >> theice department had this case for a long time and they got ridden on the rails out of town by people on social media. people were giving it to them. >> it's unusual both sides were criticizing the police department for their delay. it was a year old case and just got dna from winston three weeks ago. the accuser's family has come out strong against the police department, saying they actively discouraged her from per suing this case. one detective, saying tallahassee was a big football town, and that her life would be miserable if she decided to go ahead with it, even more accusations today on social media, a lot of people on twitter saying, the tone of this press conference, which concerns a potential sexual assault, was simply inappropriate, with a lot of joking and laughter behind the podium. shepard. >> steve, thanks very much. >> the handling of this case is raising all sorts of questions. why did the investigation take so long? almost a year. why make this announcement today, just

if fsu wins, it's simple, they are in.r two ohio state wins, they beat michigan state, they're in. so it's very simple for them. but watch out for that ohio state/michigan state game, because that one smells like an upset. >> ooh. >> a little baseball news. jay-z, you know the rap mogul turned sports agent, he hit a home run yesterday for robin cano, the former yankee is headed to seattle, the mariners reportedly signed a 10-year deal, $240 million, and the third-richest deal in baseball history. only albert pujols and a. rod have signed bigger contracts. but out here live, out in front of the georgia dome, where we're awaiting the missouri/auburn game, and we'll find out who will play in the national championship game in pasadena, so that will be determined. also, no more bcs standings. this is the last year a computer would determine who plays. next year, of course, college football goes to a playoff system. fredricka? >> ooh, okay. jam packed. thank you so much, joe carter. appreciate it. and the trains there going by,

also making headlines in a few hours, florida prosecutors are set to announce whether or not the star fsuuarterback jamison winston will face rape charges. fellow student says the heisman trophy favorite raped her at an off-campus party last december. we'll bring you that conference right here on cnn. >>> toronto's crack-smoking mayor. you thought he was out of the news? beg to differ. he cannot get out of hot water. new court documents suggest he might have tried to buy back that incriminating video allegedly showing him to buy back a crackpipe. his rebuttal to that next. a m. but jim has afib, atrial fibrillation -- an irregular heartbeat, not caused by a heart valve problem. that puts jim at a greater risk of stroke. for years, jim's medicine tied him to a monthly trip to the clinic to get his blood tested. but now, with once-a-day xarelto®, jim's on the move. jim's doctor recommended xarelto®. like warfarin, xarelto® is proven effective to reduce afib-related stroke risk. but xarelto® is the first and only once-a-day prescription blood thinner for patients with afib not caused by a he

if fsu wins tonight, they are in. no problem. if duke win, the world will fall off its axis. wins, they are in the national championship game. if ohio state loses, they are out and michigan state plays in some sugar bowl. there is a slim chance if ohio state still wins tonight, but they barely beat michigan state, an sec champ would jump and slide into the title game. it is possible, but not probable. to make it more confusing for those that are having a hard time following. >> please. >> if ohio state loses and florida state loses, alabama has a good chance of getting in to the national championship. >> they are not playing today. >> i think alabama is a better team than ohio state. >> this coming from the lsu fan. >> anybody who beats alabama, i am rooting for. auburn. >> some people will say teams that come off huge wins, auburn has two, have a tendency of a hangover. >> meantime, duke, not just a great basketball school. >> they are in the first acc championship game. duke, one of the schools has had one five-star recruit in five years. florida state has had 50. it is dav

fresh from the fsu victory that's sending his team to the national championship, jameis winston reactss that he won't face sexual assault charges. >> everybody had my back. >>> and where is everybody? the man who got left on a plane. >> i woke up.

controversy continues to swirl around fsu's star quarterback, jameis winston. >> you become hungry forkadaisical and like, oh, you're almost there. it's definitely a mentality we created this year. it's easy, because we're hungry. it's not, oh, man, two games away. it's like, let's get it. >> we

this is fsu quarterback jameis winston, so he had been accused of raping a young woman, the incidentt been waiting for the big moment, which has now happened in florida. florida state attorney willy mags officially announcing moments ago that winston would not be facing charges. in case you missed it, let me play that for you first. >> i know there's been a lot of concern about the length of time that we've taken to complete our investigation. but i want to assure you that our timing should not and has not been driven by any heisman demands or football schedule. as we do with every case that comes before us, we wanted to be confident in the decision we make and make sure we make

after prosecutors decided last week not to charge the florida quarterback -- when i say florida, i mean fsuut this -- in a sexual assault case. now, other contenders for the award include last year's winner, texas a&m quarterback johnny manziel. or alabama's quarterback a.j. mccarron. >> even if mccarron never stepped on a football field again, he'd still be a hero in alabama. >> not because of the two national titles he's won back-to-back -- or not as back-to-back, but as quarterback. but one reason is for his special bond with a fellow classmate. >> i always remember him watching football through the cracks of our fence just so he could see a glimpse of the team standing in rain and, you know, cold weather, whatever it was, just because he wanted to be around the game. we had gotten done with pract e practice, and i saw two buses starting to pull away. i saw a.j. i could tell, you know, he had some type of disorder and tried to, like, raise his hand at the bus -- at the two buses, and they just pulled off. and it was starting to rain. and so, i just felt bad. >> i hear someone say, hey, m

fsu quarterback. second straight freshman to win the award.xual assault but last week they said no charges would be filed. winston's top ranked seminoles will face auburn in the national championship game on january 6th. >> freshman. wow. >> very, very cool. >> he towns play there. >>> another winter storm bringing freezing rain and a lot of snow. it all slammed into the midwest and northeast last night. some areas got up to a foot. this morning nearly 1,000 flights have been delayed and close to 300 have been canceled. snow causing traffic nightmares. janice dean has all the details and the forecast. janice? >> take a look at the map here. i mean, if you like snow, half the country is covered in snow and for this time of year, this is a little bit rare to see the incredible amounts of snow especially towards new england. i'm sure the ski areas are excited about it. rain, sleet, freezing rain and snow was brought to the northeast. this is the fourth storm system we've seen in a matter of weeks. a lot of people are kind of saying, when can i ge

. >> reporter: fsu police, how may i help you? >> hi. i'm -- and i think we need to get over here. >> reporter: for the first time, we're hearing details of what jameis winston's accuser thinks happen happened. >> she's very shaken up. she said she got hurt. she got hit. >> she got hit? does she know what she got hit with? >> no. she says she like kept blacking out. she keeps trying to tell me the story. but it's very in pieces. >> and you say she was raped? >> yeah. >> okay. so, she did not know the person? >> no. >> reporter: police say it took her a month to identify that person as the heisman hopeful and then, only in sketchy detail, but winston's person questioned by police say they walked in while the two were having sex. >> we walked in and she said what are you doing? she said get out. >> was there anything that she said or you saw her do that made you think that she was -- she didn't want to have sex? >> no. >> reporter: the eyewitnesses telling police, winston took the girl home a few minutes later and quickly returned. the new

that's why i believe this is hard if you're an fsu fan. >> reporter: >> according to a police reportays land. she identified him as winston. the tallahassee police indicated the case as inactive. in a statement the woman's family accused police of mishandling the case saying a detective warned that quote, tallahassee was a big football town and the victim needs to think long and hard before proceeding against winston because she will be raked over the coals and her life will be made miserable. last month police referred the case to attorney willy meis after an incident report. >> should i believe they should be charged? no. >> he's denied the allegation saying the consent between his client and the alleged victim was consensual. >> either we're going to get ready for a trial or this cloud is going to be lifted and people can move on. >> now, it is unusual to announce a press conference if you're planning to arrest someone for a violent crime and that's being widely interpreted in florida a sign the state attorney is not going to be filing charges. charlie and norah, no one knows. of

there's going to be an indictment and that's the real question. 2:00 this afternoon you can bet that fsu fans are going to be on the edge of their seat, many people will be on the edge of their seat, that is when we find out if in fact there will be any charges against jameis winston. if he gets a felony charming against him as you pointed out he will not be going to the big game this weekend, also the heisman trophy is up, he's considered a front-runner to receive that. vote something going on right now. how is all of that being impacted and of course there is the young woman who made the allegations that says her case has not been taken seriously. it has been reported that dna evidence does link winston to this woman, her allegation is that almost exactly a year ago she was raped by him. authorities say they investigated but that not long after the investigation began she "broke off contact" with them. i'm not sure exactly what that means and the attorney for winston later said he thought the case was going nowhere, in other words there wouldn't be any charges. today we'll find out if

fsu's freshman quarterback jameis winston is favored to win but his reputation tarnished by sexual assault of all of those charges. rachel nichols joins me live from new york to talk more about this. good morning. >> good morning. carol, it's interesting. i know on cnn we don't call elections until the day of the election, but i can pretty much do this early for you. gannett surveyed the voter, found out 45% of them plan to vote for jaime us winston. the next player down, a.j. mccarron from alabama, he only had 15% of the vote so that's pretty much as sure a thing as we can get but this situation is still developing. within the next hour, we expect to hear a news conference from the lawyer of the accuser in that sexual assault case you referenced. we have to stress, the district attorney in that case said there was not enough evidence to charge winston, but we are going to hear the lawyer speak today and while that is not going to change tomorrow's voting and that tomorrow's results the voting is closed, the polls are closed, nothing anybody can to it may change the demeanor of the ceremon

if winston is charged with a felony, fsu rules require that the heisman trophy frontrunner be suspendedannouncement when it comes in. patti ann browne, thank you. >> thanks. jenna: sharp criticism for the obama's administration newly-released regulatory agenda packed with federal rules that will touch every corner of americans lives including, well, how much it is costing us. the agenda will cost $1.8 trillion annually, a cost critics say will trickle down to you the consumer. shannon bream live from washington with more. >> most of the pending regulations not surprisingly come from obama care. department of health and human services says the regulatory plans are framed strengthening health care for americans. according to the competitive enterprise institute, the new regulatory plan from hhs comes with a price tag of nearly $190 billion. wayne cruise says the overall prize of for regulatory agenda for the administration will top $1.8 trillion a year. >> back in the '90s the federal budget itself was not even 1.8 trillion. now we have this entire $1.8 trillion hidden tax you could say o

. >> alabama and fsu -- >> the average ticket price of the secondary market was over $800 for some ofa&m. they're leaving a lot of money on the table. the small schools, yes, their football programs -- i'm talking about the top schools that compete for the championship, they're leaving a lot of money on the table. >> and here is the rub for all of this. i've said this about sports in general, across our society, from youth sports all the way up to the nfl, is that people are expecting sports to do something today that was never expected to do. it wasn't expected to raise kids and build character and integrity, and all those things. those are byproducts. sports and higher education was never meant to be a revenue generator, and in a nonprofit academic institution. and the other side of the conversation that has not been expressed in this conversation is the academic side. and as soon as you get to those kinds of gaudy numbers, asoon as you get to start changing the system, and the way this college athletics operates and whatever is -- people start to really understand what football is

i would take off the war eagle audience and fsu is unbeatable. i would love to see it.ight out of the movies and the alabama game. teams like that. >> i was on my way. they are pretty weak this year and auburn has week in and week out. >> we shall see. thank you so much. keep it right here on "morning joe." all we do is go out to dinner. that's it? i mean, he picks up the tab every time, which is great... he's using you. he probably has a citi thankyou card and gets 2x the points at restaurants huh the citi thankyou preferred card. now earn 2x the points on entertainment, with no annual fee. go to citi.com/thankyoucards so when my moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis them. was also on display, i'd had it. i finally had a serious talk with my dermatologist. this time, he prescribed humira-adalimumab. humira helps to clear the surface of my skin by actually working inside my body. in clinical trials, most adults with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis saw 75% skin clearance. and the majority of people were clear or almost clear in just 4 months. humira can lower y

>> i want your pick on fsu/auburn. >> you know what? i thought florida state gag was going to hammer them, but bossty was in saying the florida state schedule was so much easier than auburn. i don't know. florida state, i have not seen any weakness. >> i like florida state. i lived in tallahassee for a while. but i'm thinking that the s.e.c. is a forge that makes a team -- >> i think so, too. i think that's a good way of putting it. and auburn might pull something out of its hat -- huh? huh? might pull something out of its hat again like the last two games. >> but they looked unstoppable in the last three games. >> we introduced this segment as a budget segment. >> andrew is so bored with this. it's the oblong one, not the round one. no, no, it has like pigskin, first down. >> as long as we're not talking about the redskins, i'm happy. >> in nine innings in that game? >> is there anything other than to say that the budget, they did do it, right? >> well, they haven't passed it, but they will. >> and steny hoyer was saying there's guys i