sunny hostin, mark geragos, you can settle your wager afterwards. we don't like to encourage betting on the air. earlier tonight, we spoke with a close family friend of the shooting victims, chad and nicole oulson. he set up a fund on facebook, the chad oulson family fund. we'll put that on the bottom of our screen and ac360.com to help raise money for nicole and their young daughter, lexi. you can find more information at ac360.com. >>> up next tonight, despite predictions that his political career is over by a lot of tv pundits, governor chris christie may be surviving the george washington bridge scandal after all. we'll look at the newest polls. >>> also ahead, possible new developments in the case of madeleine mccann, little british girl who disappeared nearly seven years ago while on vacation with her family in portugal. >>> a special committee created by new jersey state assembly to investigate the george washington bridge scandal begins its work tomorrow armed with subpoena power, and we've learned the first subpoenas are already in the work

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and context is important. >> mark geragos, you completely disagree on this? >> i couldn't disagree more. i will give sunny this one issue. all this does, the fact that in fetal matter is now deformed, which to anybody at least who has any passing knowledge of the condition of this mother, who is now dead, would expect. all this does is give life to what this really is. this is nothing more than the abortion debate masquerading in the trojan horse of the right to life. this person is dead. she is dead under any jurisdiction in the united states. this is nothing more than the hospital playing games, and misreading the statute frankly, because the statute is clear that it's for life support. she's not in a vegetative state. >> sanjay, the hospital has not said she's brain dead. that's coming from the husband. the hospital isn't commenting. they say the husband hasn't signed the necessary forms to release that information. but in terms of, this is different than a woman being in a vegetative state. assuming she is brain dead, that is not a vegetative state. >> th

i don't believe had she had the decision to make, mark geragos -- >> mikayla? >> this is really fascinating. >> you have a uterus, too. >> and i love my uterus. but i don't think that you need a uterus to have an opinion on this. i do think this is abortion politics, but much more complicated than we've ever seen. this is the father now choosing -- because he's going to be the caretaker if that child gets to live. >> you do not get to choose -- >> let me finish. i do think that this is about a right to life with the parent. we've never seen this before where the mother is the one who is not able to say she wants an abortion or not. it's not cut and dry, this conversation. >> she was a paramedic. she faced on a daily basis life and death issues. she discussed this at length -- >> so she discussed this -- >> she did -- here the way the law is written, the law -- the hospital is interpreting the law that they have to keep her alive in spite of what the -- i will make a prediction. jeff is notoriously bad about predictions. but they now have lawyers. i believe thes

sunny hostin and mark geragos are completely divided on this. also ob/gyn dr. lisa masterson and also attorney and children's advocate areva martin. areva, this affidavit the husband filed with the court tonight, obviously incredibly emotional stuff. what effect could it actually have legally, if any? >> i think it's going to just bolster the argument from the husband that his wife has been determined brain-dead and to continue to force her to jestate this fetus is just cruel, not just to the wife, but the family as well, and i hope the court takes, you know, note of a 1999 case, anderson, a very similar situation. a 34-year-old woman in a tragic accident. her common law husband fought to keep her on a ventilator to allow a fetus to jestate, but once they were able to show that woman was brain-dead, the court ordered that the ventilator be turned off because you should not be maintaining the life, so to speak, of a corpse. and i hope in this tragic case that something very similar happens tomorrow at that court hearing. >> mark, when you hear details about the

drew pinsky and legal analyst mark geragos. >> dr.is a rich teenager acting like a teenager or is there something more serious going on? >> that has been the question all along. i'm concerned however as you mentioned something more serious might be going on. i don't know yet, but the fact we have a dui, driving under the influence which is not really a normal relationship with alcohol. he had substances in his car and perhaps abusive prescription medicines. we don't know what the prescription meds are. but he was using syrup with codeine which is an opiate. i'm concerned these may be opiates in the car. if that's the case this is beginning to come into focus as a substance use disorder. >> mark you've certainly had high profile clie wentz very public legal issues. how do you deal with something like this from a legal stand point? it's not just an issue of guilty or innocent when it's in the public eye like this. >> no, it isn't. because everybody's on high alert. and the way a case would normally get dealt wilt you don't get death wit

sonny hostin and mark geragos two legal professionals who do not see eye to eye on this one and dr. sanjay gupta. sonny, you said last night on this program that the issue were the rights of the fetus. the judge didn't say anything about the fetus here. he was talking about marlise, the woman here. and he said the issue here is simply settled by the fact that the hospital says she's brain-dead. >> yeah. and i think this was a real missed opportunity for this judge and for the court. i've said all along when looking at this case, the law is unclear. the law is murky. that's what you heard from the hospital's lawyers. there is no legislative history, because i looked for it. i researched to find out debate on the legislative floor. why did they put this in? there is no definition as to whether or not the intent, the legislative intertent intent is to protect the second patient the child. we're still in the same place, john. this happened in 1999 in texas and the judge also found that brain-dead woman was dead and that the fetus didn't have a e fetal heartbeat and the judge ruled she s

first to you mark geragos, this just streamed of a state case period. why am i wrong?ng, ashleigh. this is precisely why people think the criminal justice system lost it's mind. the idea these prosecutors are prosecuting this woman and she served six years for a violation of the chemical treaty, a u.s. treaty -- >> the implantation. let's be real clear, theres the treaty the issue with other countries and congress's effort to make the united states go along with the treaty, implantation act and that's what she's accused of violating. >> the idea of somehow this is going to reach the u.s. supreme court twice when they had at all times a state statute that they could have prosecuted her under is precisely -- if this is the law, the law is an [ bleep ]. >> i don't entirely agree with that -- >> as a former federal prosecutor, i'm surprised, jeff. >> but think about it. this woman could have killed he her romantic rival. >> but jeff -- >> let me finish. >> let me ask you one thing, in pennsylvania they have an at temped murder statute? she could have done harm. they could

sunny hostin, mark geragos, thank you. >>> up next, a possible break in the case of madeleine mccann, when she vanished during a family vacation. could there actually be a real break in it? that's ahead. >>> also ahead, did texting trigger a shooting inside a movie theater? >>> welcome back. for the parents of a little girl who disappeared during a family vacation, it's been a nearly seven-year quest for justice for madeleine mccann. she was 3 years old when she vanished from a portuguese resort, now there could be a break in the case. randi kaye has the latest. what do we know? >> anderson, this could be significant. on friday, british authorities sent what's called an international letter of request to law enforcement officials in portugal. scotland yard launched its own investigation into what happened to madeleine once portuguese police failed to make an arrest. she had not been detained, they didn't detain anybody, so, british police want to interview three individuals who abc news reports were burglars. those individuals, the officials say, have not been detained. it's not clear

a lot to talk about with our justice panel, sunny hostin and mark geragos.t do you make of this? is this the best thing for the mother and the child? >> i do. i think we need to remember that the mother is a child as well. she was only 17 years old. so to have them together and to not rip apart that part of the family i think is very important. in these kinds of cases, the issue is, what is in the best interests of the child. and you have two children here. so what is in the best interests of the mother and what is in the best interests of the 2-year-old. and i think this is probably the right way to go. >> mark, do you agree with that? you and sunny often disagree on this one. do you agree? >> well, this case, we agree on one thing, is that the police -- the only person who committed a felony here was the police union for being felony stupid. this is nothing more than a racist, clueless union, posting this thing to kind of, you know, resonate with racist overtones. and that's the thing that i take away from this. in terms of the people -- >> well, mark, let

. >> reporter: attorney mark geragos says prosecuting revenge porn website operators isn't easy becausebe to host other people's content. >> it's ironic that what he ultimately has been filed on here criminally is not what people find the most offensive, i suppose, which is running the site itself, but instead the kind of al capone treatment, which is the hacking or the identity theft. >> reporter: hunter moore, who used to love to talk, isn't saying much these days. when we last met, he still seemed to think public humiliation was a great business model. >> you think at some point when you get older you might look back at the person you are now -- >> of course. >> -- and have some regret? >> yeah. i'm going to grow and change as a person. but right now at this time i'm going to take full advantage of people's mistakes and what i've created. >> reporter: moore is due back in federal court next month. he faces up to five years in prison if convicted. i'm neal karlinsky for "nightline" in seattle. >> interesting to note that he's being charged for allegedly hacking but not for running the

sanjay gupta joins us with our -- mark geragos and sonny hostin.ly says she might have gone an hour or longer without oxygen after her collapse. she also underwent cardiac resuscitation with electricity. do we know what kind of damage that could have done to the fetus? could the fetus itself be brain-dead as well? >> that is a concern. i mean when you think about what happens in a situation like this, she had a pulmonary embolism, went to her lungs. that means that there wasn't enough oxygen in the blood that was moving around the body. that's why organs start to fail including the brain as you were just saying in the case of the mother. the concern is could that same thing have been happening to the placenta and the fetus obviously as well. i've talked to several experts about this over the last couple of days. this is an unusual situation as you know. as so no one can say for sure. but the idea this there was low blood flow to the brain. the brain is usually the organ that's preserved in the body. if there wasn't enough oxygen-rich blood get toge

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a lot to talk about with our justice panel, sunny hostin and mark geragos.ou make of this? is this the best thing for the mother and the child? >> i do. and we have to remember, the mother is a child as well. she was only 17 years old. so to have them together and to not rip apart that part of the family is very important. in these kinds of cases, the issue is, what is in the best interests of the child. and you have two children here. so what is in the best interests of the mother and what is in the best interests of the 2-year-old. and i think this is probably the right way to go. >> mark, do you agree with that? you and sunny often disagree on this one. do you agree? >> well, this case, we agree on one thing, is that the police -- the only person who committed a felony here was the police union for being felony stupid. this is nothing more than a racist, clueless union, posting this thing to kind of, you know, resonate with racist overtones. and that's the thing that i take away from this. in terms of the people -- >> well, mark, let me jump in on that, b

allegedly, i don't know what he did. >> somebody needs to egg sunny's house. >> thanks, geragos. >> thanks>>> as always you can find more on the story and other stories at cnn.com. >>> just ahead the fallout of a u.s. congressman's meltdown. take a look. >> representative michael grimm physically threatening a reporter for asking him a question he didn't like. he talked about tossing him off the balcony. also the family of marlise munoz is speaking out tonight on cnn sharing details about their battle, months-long battle to honor her wishes after she was declared brain-dead but was kept on a ventilator under a texas law because she was pregnant. ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ (dad) we lived... thanks to our subaru. ♪ (announcer) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. yeah. everybody knows that. did you know there is an oldest trick in the book? what? trick number one. look-est over there. ha ha. made-est thou look. so end-eth the trick. hey.... yes.... geico. fifteen minutes could save you... well, you

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brown's legal exposure in that case could be one of the reasons his celebrity lawyer, mark geragos rejected the dc prosecutor's offer of a plea deal to simple assault. >> why did you reject the plea deal. >> reporter: bruce leshan, wusa9. >>> always watching, always tracking. wusa9's first alert weather. >> temperatures are going in the right direction and i tell you what, by the weekend, this arctic outbreak will be a distant memory. a live look outside at the weather cam, down to 29 at the airport. relative humidity, 56%. a lot of clouds but radar is quiet and the winds are pretty much dead calm. satellite picture and radar combined, this is what we're tracking. right now, a little bit of a mix through northern arkansas. this will work its way northward into missouri tomorrow. high clouds are spreading into the metro area from the system but the precipitation will hold off until friday morning and therein lies the problem. not a big storm. kind of a nuisance storm, but it's friday morning just in time for the morning commute. in the meantime, clouds hold tough overnight. bust up temperatu

and she alleges that you, and/or mark geragos stole -- >> anyway. >> -- her necklace.w why you'd steal nancy grace's necklace. she's a nice lady. >> she's selling the necklaces on her website and here's a gift for you. >> is this a real live nancy grace -- >> you want to open? >> i'm so excited because i bet it didn't come from mike geragos. i like when she cut his mike. geragos, cut your mike. >> look what i got for kathy griffin right there. >> to and from nancy with love. >> a real nancy grace -- >> i'm very. >> -- handcuff necklace. >> hi friend how are you? hi friend do not make me unleash the lawyers. this has made my night. you can ask me my resolution it's to wear these every day. >> we're going to take a short break. if you want to join the conversation -- >> we're live tweeting. >> well yeah. >> i am. >> you're tweeting. >> yes, and is my mother. >> see if you got a response back from sea crest or rachael ray. >> i have a few more texts to send out on your behalf. >> tweet us your questions. we'll fry to answer as many as possible. use #cnnnye. also instagram

sanjay gupta joins us with our -- mark geragos and sonny hostin.t have gone an hour or longer without oxygen after her collapse. she also underwent cardiac resuscitation with electricity. do we know what kind of damage that could have done to the fetus? could the fetus itself be brain-dead as well? >> that is a concern. i mean when you think about what happens in a situation like this, she had a pulmonary embolism, went to her lungs. that means that there wasn't enough oxygen in the blood that was moving around the body. that's why organs start to fail including the brain as you were just saying in the case of the mother. the concern is could that same thing have been happening to the placenta and the fetus obviously as well. i've talked to several experts about this over the last couple of days. this is an unusual situation as you know. as so no one can say for sure. but the idea this there was low blood flow to the brain. the brain is usually the organ that's preserved in the body. if there wasn't enough oxygen-rich blood get together brain there

sunny hostin and mark geragos join us.we have this alleged assault on a limo driver in toronto. the dui and resisting arrest incidents in miami. the alleged egging in l.a. county of his neighbor's house. then this just a short time ago as he was about to turn himself in, he posted this photo. he just seems like he's out of control. as a lawyer, what do you do? >> as a lawyer, he's 19. i suppose i'm envious that he's the most famous pop star in the world and busted in a yellow lamborghini and he's got 29 million followers. i don't know that he's out of control. he's 19 with more money than he knows what to do with. most of these things are not the biggest deals in the world. this case is certainly doesn't rise to the level of what the mayor of toronto is involved in. so i can't imagine there will be much consequence to this. he's going to have to try a lot harder if he thinks he's going to get into trouble based on these. >> sunny, do you agree with these things? >> spoken like a true defense attorney. mark's attitude, and

i bet it didn't come from mark geragos. cut his mike.e my night. you can ask me my resolution. it's going to be to wear these every day. >> we're going to take a short break. if you want to join the conversation on twitter. >> we're live tweeting. >> you're tweeting. >> yes, as is my mother. >> see if you got any response back from see crest or rachael ray. >> i have a few more tweets to send out on your behalf. >> tweet us your questions. use #cnnnye. on instagram send us your photos of your party. >> send nudes. why not? just send material. >> follow me on twitter or whatever. you don't need to know about all that. whatever. >> you know what i love about this night? do you know how many tweets i've gotten from like religious people who say if we even do this you're going to hell? >> really? >> yes. there are a lot of people that tweet me i heart jesus. dear anderson cooper if you're with that heretic you're going to hell. >> your mom said that. >> i admit. >> it we're going to show you new year's celebrations around the united states,

medical ethics at new york city's langone medical center, and sunny hostin, former prosecutor, mark geragos, criminal defense attorney. you believe not only is the hospital making the wrong decision, but the law is ethically wrong. >> i think the law is completely wrong, anderson. it basically is saying an individual who has clear-cut values and choices, a paramedic, made it obvious that she didn't want to be on life support. her husband agrees with this. the fact that their family backs them up. the state of texas is basically saying, you know, we're going to treat her as an incubator. if she was awake, she certainly wouldn't have this happening to her. she could actually have an abortion at the age of this fetus. asleep, she's being ignored. it's unethical. the law also says anybody who's pregnant from one day pregnant all the way out to where she was when she had the incident at 14 weeks, today we're at 20, that law is just too broad. it's out of control. >> has your opinion changed now that the fetus is at 20 weeks and will be even older when the decision's made? >> it's a great questio

and i'll be joined by cnn legal analyst michael geragos.e stories at the top of the hour. don, back to you in the cold. >> every year i remember, i forget in the summer but i remember how hard it is to talk in freezing temperatures. i get all tongue tied. >> you need to do vocal exercises. >> thank you. see you in a bit. >>> we're following the massive nor'easter. the snowstorm that's threatening nearly 100 million people all across the east coast and the united states. alexandra steele in the cnn severe weather center. i've been watching you all day. you have been doing double, triple duty. give us, tell us what's going on. what can folks expect over the next few days? >> i was trying to prepare you. this is what we're seeing right now. the snow has made its way into new york and washington and boston. and we're going to see this come through the overnight at a rate of one or two inches an hour. a bull's-eye time frame between 9:00 tonight and 9:00 tomorrow morning. accumulation totals, 8 to 18 in boston. 6 to 8 in new york. albany, 8 to 1